Patents by Inventor O. D. Parham

O. D. Parham 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).

  • Patent number: 5731745
    Abstract: The high frequency circuit includes an oscillator connected in a Colpitts configuration. Negative feedback to the oscillator is applied through an amplifier, both to stabilize the circuit and to permit frequency modulation of the carrier signal generated by the circuit. This feedback incorporates a capacitance to neutralize the Miller effect, thereby enabling it to operate at exceedingly high carrier frequencies. A variation of the circuit permits it to be simultaneously controlled by both a voltage and a current control signal. Also, by applying a frequency modulated carrier signal at a particular node of the oscillator, a demodulated output signal may be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1998
    Assignee: PSI Electronics, LLC
    Inventor: O. D. Parham
  • Patent number: 4896162
    Abstract: An antenna employing a first capacitor formed by a conductive segment disposed above a ground plane and serially connected adjacent capacitors formed over the ground plane. The adjacent capacitors are connected to the ground plane by tuned circuits, resulting in additive coupling of the E fields across the first and adjacent capacitors and the prevention of E field shunting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1990
    Assignee: Hughes Aircraft Company
    Inventor: O. D. Parham
  • Patent number: 4159448
    Abstract: A pulse modulation system in which both ends of the pulses of a train can be modulated in time relative to time marker signals, permits establishment of a four-channel, time division, duplex communication system on a single radio frequency carrier. The modulation technique permits pulse width modulation of signals whose band width exceeds the pulse repetition rate.Such a system can provide relatively narrow band, low noise, communication, and it is applicable to transmission and reception of high quality stereo signals. Moreover, it can provide private, secure radio communication between two stations, one of which transmits a train of pulses one edge of each of which is unmodulated to form time marker signals. The formation of the other edge of the pulses of the train is modulated in time with some variable information, or data, but only if the pulse train received from the other station has one edge of its pulses modulated with an identification signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1977
    Date of Patent: June 26, 1979
    Assignee: Rath Western Corporation
    Inventor: O. D. Parham