Patents by Inventor Marcel Bruno

Marcel Bruno has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Safety system at sea for accurately locating a shipwrecked navigator
    Patent number: 7176832
    Abstract: The invention concerns a safety system on board a ship for facilitating rescue of a person having fallen overboard whereby each navigator on board is equipped with an individual portable radio transmitter apparatus and regular links are established between each apparatus and a centralized monitoring radio device, that is a device for receiving radio signals from each individual portable apparatus (even querying them one by one by radio transmission) and in spotting the absence of any apparatus which would indicate the loss of a navigator overboard, by monitoring the regular reception of radio signals emitted by each apparatus and by detecting any absence of reception from the portable apparatus of a navigator to launch in that case a rescue operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2007
    Inventors: Marcel Bruno, Patrick Pilard, Patrick Potiron, Jean-Claude Valentino
  • Safety system at sea for accurately locating a shipwrecked navigator
    Publication number: 20050040987
    Abstract: The invention concerns a safety system on board a ship for facilitating rescue of a person having fallen overboard whereby each navigator on board is equipped with an individual portable radio transmitter apparatus and regular links are established between each apparatus and a centralized monitoring radio device, that is a device for receiving radio signals from each individual portable apparatus (even querying them one by one by radio transmission) and in spotting the absence of any apparatus which would indicate the loss of a navigator overboard, by monitoring the regular reception of radio signals emitted by each apparatus and by detecting any absence of reception from the portable apparatus of a navigator to launch in that case a rescue operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2002
    Publication date: February 24, 2005
    Inventors: Marcel Bruno, Patrick Pilard, Patrick Potiron, Jean-Claude Valentino
  • Device for altering the course of a boat
    Patent number: 6304195
    Abstract: A device alters a course of a watercraft including an automatic pilot with a magnetic compass. The device includes at least two coils positioned adjacent the magnetic compass, and an excitation circuit for exciting each of the two coils. The device further includes a control circuit for controlling the excitation circuit as a function of a course signal and a boat list signal so that the magnetic compass is rotated counter-clockwise to a predetermined direction when a listing of the watercraft is to starboard, and is rotated clockwise to the predetermined position when the listing of the watercraft is to portside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Inventor: Marcel Bruno