Patents by Inventor Richard Edward Martinson

Richard Edward Martinson 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: 6430227
    Abstract: This invention provides a method of broadcasting including the steps of providing a broadcast signal in a central frequency band of an FM radio channel; providing a first plurality of sub-carriers in an upper sideband of the FM radio channel; providing a second plurality of sub-carriers in a lower sideband of the FM radio channel; modulating a first group of the first plurality of sub-carriers with a complementary punctured convolution coded encoded version of program material; modulating a first group of the second plurality of sub-carriers with the complementary punctured convolution coded version of the program material; and transmitting the broadcast signal, the first group of the first plurality of sub-carriers and the first group of the second plurality of sub-carriers. In an all-digital version of the invention, the central frequency band may include a plurality of sub-carriers transmitted at a lower power level than that of the sub-carriers in the upper and lower sidebands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2002
    Assignee: Ibiquity Digital Corporation
    Inventors: Brian William Kroeger, Denise Maureen Cammarata, Richard Edward Martinson, Jeffrey Scott Baird, Paul James Peyla, E. Glynn Walden