Patents by Inventor Robert Petrie

Robert Petrie 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).

  • Optimized flight plan management system
    Patent number: 9208457
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for flight planning. Routes from a start point to an end point are identified for a flight of an aircraft from a database of routes. A plurality of different types of routes is present in the database of routes. A number of characteristics of the aircraft are applied to the routes to identify a performance of the aircraft for the routes using a number of weather conditions for the flight. The routes are ranked based on the performance of the aircraft on the routes in meeting a number of goals for the flight to form ranked routes. A portion of the ranked routes are displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Rajat Agrawal, Robert A. Petrie, Jr., Jason J. Long
  • Optimized Flight Plan Management System
    Publication number: 20140081569
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for flight planning. Routes from a start point to an end point are identified for a flight of an aircraft from a database of routes. A plurality of different types of routes is present in the database of routes. A number of characteristics of the aircraft are applied to the routes to identify a performance of the aircraft for the routes using a number of weather conditions for the flight. The routes are ranked based on the performance of the aircraft on the routes in meeting a number of goals for the flight to form ranked routes. A portion of the ranked routes are displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Rajat Agrawal, Robert A. Petrie, JR., Jason J. Long
  • Chemical promotion of nucleic acid hybridization
    Patent number: 5853986
    Abstract: An improved method is described for increasing the rate and specificity of hybridization of target polynucleotide sequences with complementary probes. The method uses amphipathic hydrocarbon polymers (AHP), exemplified by polyvinyl sulfonic acid or polystyrene sulfonic acid, to effect the improved hybridization characteristics. The method may be used in solution phase, solid phase, or in situ hybridization formats.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1998
    Assignee: Becton Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Charles Robert Petrie, III, Lisa Marie Rutledge, Jerold Randall Morgan
  • Sheet separating apparatus for removing sheets one-by-one from at least one stack of sheets
    Patent number: 5657981
    Abstract: In a sheet separating apparatus, for example an automated teller machine (ATM) in which banknotes are removed one by one from a stack (12) of banknotes, includes a vacuum pump (32), and suction unit (10A,B,C,D) connectable alternately between a vacuum enable port (30) of the vacuum pump (32) when a note is picked from the stack (12), and a vacuum release port (42) of the pump (32), when the note is released from the suction unit. Pre-filtered air from the vacuum pump (32) is therefore partially recycled, and dust is substantially excluded from the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1997
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth Kelly, Adam J. Crighton, George Petrie, Robert J. Suttie, Robert Petrie, Alistair Ballantyne, Thomas Gow