Patents by Inventor Nicholas E. Longinow

Nicholas E. Longinow 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).

  • Using infrared imaging to monitor and control welding
    Patent number: 4877940
    Abstract: The technique and arrangement of distributed, real time, intelligent control of welding including IR detection and measurement of process conditions, and controlling process parameters in view of a knowledge base including a predetermined rule set for interpreting the results of IR detection. The arrangement includes a multilevel communication scheme internally and between hardware nodes of the arrangement, and the data-driven scheduling of inference processes under direction of a semantic network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1989
    Assignee: IIT Research Institute
    Inventors: Edmund R. Bangs, Nicholas E. Longinow, James R. Blaha