Patents by Inventor Robert Bruce Malcolm

Robert Bruce Malcolm 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).

  • Self-erecting, hemispherically directional buoy antenna
    Patent number: 4053896
    Abstract: A buoyant body having one end of a plurality of elongated electrically conductive spring members affixed thereto with the other end of the spring members attached to a movable member, which is in turn affixed to the body and movable with relation thereto, said movable member being held in a first or stored position and biased by the spring members to a second or erected position wherein the spring members define spaced apart arcuate portions of a sphere and are connected as elements of the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1977
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Raymond Bitter, Jr., Robert Bruce Malcolm