Patents by Inventor Robert Engle

Robert Engle 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).

  • Publication number: 20250240626
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and computer program product are provided for performing automated eavesdropping detection and remediation. A distance between a first and second wireless client device is determined with reference to a wireless access point based on wireless signals transmitted by the devices. A first and second signal loss are determined with reference to the first and second wireless client devices and the wireless access point. Material properties for any physical structures between the first and second wireless client devices are derived based on the signal losses. A sound attenuation is determined between the first and second wireless client devices based on the material properties. It is determined whether a first user of the first wireless client device can hear audio of a second user of the second wireless client device based on the sound attenuation determined between the first wireless client device and the second wireless client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2024
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Inventors: Derek William Engi, Matthew David Barber, Thomas E. Fincher, Marianna Pittokopiti, Matthew Robert Engle, Joseph Michael Clarke
  • Publication number: 20060179340
    Abstract: A method (and system) for detecting at least one faulty object in a system including a plurality of objects in communication with each other in an n-dimensional architecture, includes probing a first plane of objects in the n-dimensional architecture and probing at least one other plane of objects in the n-dimensional architecture which would result in identifying a faulty object in the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2005
    Publication date: August 10, 2006
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John Gunnels, Fred Gustavson, Robert Engle
  • Publication number: 20060072868
    Abstract: A pressure sensor includes an optical transmitter transmitting a dispersive light toward two optical receivers, all carried in a housing. Pressure changes on the housing cause the light beam to be deflected with the amount of deflection measured by the difference in light received by each of the two receivers. A processor operable with the receivers provides a pressure measurement responsive to the light beam deflection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2005
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Inventors: David Bateman, Todd Bullock, Robert Engle
  • Patent number: 6947958
    Abstract: A process is provided for documenting the contents of at least one version of a plurality of data products stored in a database, at least one of the products being a composite product having at least a portion of at least one of the data products included therein. The process includes the steps of: creating a state file to be associated with a version of a composite product to be created, the state file specifying a selected version of at least one selected data product to be used in creating the composite product; using the state file to access the selected version of the selected product from the database; creating the version of the composite product by including therein at least a portion of the selected version of the selected product; and generating a state history file associated with the version of the composite product, the state history file indicating that at least a portion of the selected version of the selected product is included within the version of the composite product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2005
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Alan L. Davidson, Amit Agrawal, James Berney, John McLaughlin, Robert Engle
  • Publication number: 20030055845
    Abstract: A process is provided for documenting the contents of at least one version of a plurality of data products stored in a database, at least one of the products being a composite product having at least a portion of at least one of the data products included therein. The process includes the steps of: creating a state file to be associated with a version of a composite product to be created, the state file specifying a selected version of at least one selected data product to be used in creating the composite product; using the state file to access the selected version of the selected product from the database; creating the version of the composite product by including therein at least a portion of the selected version of the selected product; and generating a state history file associated with the version of the composite product, the state history file indicating that at least a portion of the selected version of the selected product is included within the version of the composite product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2001
    Publication date: March 20, 2003
    Inventors: Alan L. Davidson, Amit Agrawal, James Berney, John McLaughlin, Robert Engle
  • Patent number: 5768774
    Abstract: A thermally enhanced ball grid array package for electronic components, with an electronic and a plurality of ceramic component carriers bonded to a metal heat sink, enhances thermal performance, reduces solder ball fatigue and reduces stresses between the ceramic component carriers and the heat sink. Bonding the ceramic component carriers to the heat sink reduces expansion induced stresses of the solder balls on the carriers. Plural ceramic component carriers, smaller than a single carrier would have to be for the same package, reduce stresses at the interfaces between the ceramic component carriers and the heat sink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1998
    Assignee: International Business Machines
    Inventors: James Warren Wilson, Stephen Robert Engle, Scott Preston Moore