Patents by Inventor Paul G. Goodwin

Paul G. Goodwin 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).

  • Spacecraft autonomous redundancy control
    Patent number: 4654846
    Abstract: The spacecraft system has automatic fault detection and autonomous reconfiguration of redundant hardware and software to correct that fault without ground station intervention. The spacecraft has redundant processors, sensors, control systems and buses. When a unit is believed to have failed as detected by the satellite processor unit, it switches to a backup unit. If the symptom persists after the unit is switched, the processor unit switches to a different bus. If the fault still exists, a new processor unit is switched in and the entire checking and switching repeats.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1987
    Assignee: RCA Corporation
    Inventors: Paul G. Goodwin, Michael B. Silverman, George A. Beck