Patents by Inventor Robert O. Groover

Robert O. Groover 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).

  • LOW-BANDWIDTH CROWD-SYNCHRONIZATION OF PLAYBACK INFORMATION
    Publication number: 20140324775
    Abstract: A portable media player which broadcasts synchronization data, but not streaming media content, for a media file which is currently being played. The media players are programmed, user-selectably, to synchronize to other media players which are already playing a desirable track.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventor: Robert O. Groover, III
  • Intermittenly wetted sliding amusement ride
    Patent number: 6413165
    Abstract: A water slide in which the slide surface is not continuously wetted, but is only intermittently wetted (preferably by a water spray). Since the volume of water flowing down the ride is less smaller, riders are not splashed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Inventors: Bill A. Crandall, Robert O. Groover
  • Composite power transistor structures using semiconductor materials with different bandgaps
    Patent number: 5637889
    Abstract: A power device structure which is formed of two merged device structures: an FET control device is located in a surface layer of narrower-bandgap material, and a blocking device which provides high-voltage-withstand capability is located deeper in the device, in a substrate of wider-bandgap material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1997
    Assignee: SGS-Thomson Microelectronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert O. Groover, Richard A. Blanchard