Patents by Inventor Robert P. Gibson

Robert P. Gibson 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: 9441965
    Abstract: An apparatus collects data along water columns. A telescoping shell has an outer cylinder and an inner cylinder. An expansible chamber is defined within the outer cylinder. A fluid flow path is formed between the expansible chamber and the outer cylinder's open end. A gas source is vented to the expansible chamber. Sensors, including a pressure sensor, are coupled to the shell such that they are exposed to an ambient water environment when the apparatus is deployed therein. A vent mounted in the outer cylinder vents the expansible chamber to the ambient water environment. A controller controls the gas source and vent based on sensed pressure of the ambient water environment such that water from the ambient water environment is admitted to or expelled from the expansible chamber via the fluid flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Robert P. Gibson, Joshua A. Lappen, Amanda Mackintosh, Jessica Haig, Robert S. Pagliari, Richard F. Paradis
  • Patent number: 4866714
    Abstract: An installation for the dynamic burn-in testing of a plurality of digital circuits, and/or microcomputer-controlled circuits, mounted in a burn-in chamber for testing includes a personal computer; power supply for the digital circuits, and a bilateral line of communication between the PC computer and each of the digital circuits; the PC computer interrogating separately, and at will, any of the digital circuits as to their status and capability of changing status while retrieving any indication of a critical testing condition from any digital circuit, to determine a failure-free burn-in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1989
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.
    Inventors: Jerry G. Adams, Robert P. Gibson, Denis A. Mueller