Patents by Inventor Mark Robert Cravatts

Mark Robert Cravatts 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).

  • Bar code decoder for a lightpen
    Patent number: 5952643
    Abstract: A decoding facility for decoding signal samples characterizing symbols forming a particular pattern. The decoding facility, more particularly, forms the signal samples into groups and each group is decoded into a known symbol. This is done by matching a group of samples with each of a plurality of known symbols and selecting and outputting as the decoded symbol that one of the known symbols that is the closest match to the group of signals being processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1999
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Robert Cravatts
  • Wireless adapter architecture for mobile computing
    Patent number: 5889816
    Abstract: A adapter for wireless networking provides for reconfigerable media access control and data packet formats. The flexible adapter comprises a modem interface for controlling an RF modem for transmitting data signals to and receiving data signals from another RF modem; a media access control circuit; and a computer system interface circuit. The computer system interface circuit provides an interface between a host computer system, the modem interface circuit and the media access control circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Prathima Agrawal, Mark Robert Cravatts, John Andrew Trotter, Mani Bhushan Srivastava