Patents by Inventor Robert R. Covington

Robert R. Covington 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: 7877645
    Abstract: The use of operational configuration parameters to predict digital system failures is described herein. At least some illustrative embodiments include a method that includes initializing a digital system (the initializing comprising determining an operational configuration of at least part of the digital system), saving the operational configuration to a database stored on the digital system, reading the operational configuration from the database and comparing the operational configuration to a reference configuration, and identifying the digital system as being at risk of a future failure if at least one parameter of the operational configuration differs from the at least one same parameter of the reference configuration by more than a tolerance value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: John E. Meyer, Mark A. Wade, Robert R. Covington, Joseph P. Miller
  • Publication number: 20090037777
    Abstract: The use of operational configuration parameters to predict digital system failures is described herein. At least some illustrative embodiments include a method that includes initializing a digital system (the initializing comprising determining an operational configuration of at least part of the digital system), saving the operational configuration to a database stored on the digital system, reading the operational configuration from the database and comparing the operational configuration to a reference configuration, and identifying the digital system as being at risk of a future failure if at least one parameter of the operational configuration differs from the at least one same parameter of the reference configuration by more than a tolerance value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2007
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Inventors: John E. MEYER, Mark A. Wade, Robert R. Covington, Joseph P. Miller
  • Patent number: 7098679
    Abstract: A printed circuit board comprises a plurality of inner and outer holes. An electrically conductive barrel may be disposed in each outer hole, and an electrically conductive barrel and a probe may be disposed in each inner hole. The electrically conductive barrels may protrude from the bottom of the interface board at substantially similar fixed heights. Transfer paths may couple at least some of the barrels in the outer holes to selected barrels in the inner holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Compnay, L.P.
    Inventors: Kevin R. Dick, Walter J. Belmore, III, Rodney E. Thomsen, Robert R. Covington
  • Patent number: 4491587
    Abstract: 6-(1H-Tetrazol-5-yl)thiazolo[3,2-a]pyrimidin-5-ones, 3-(1H-tetrazol-5-yl)-4H-pyrimido[2,1-b]benzothiazol-4-ones, and the corresponding imidazo- and triazolo- pyrimidines, thiones, and imines are useful as antiallergy and antiasthmatic compounds by virtue of their inhibitory action on the immediate hypersensitivity reaction in mammals and relaxant action on the tracheal muscle. Intermediates in the synthesis of these substances from 2-aminoazoles and ethoxymethylene malononitrile also have smooth muscle relaxant and immediate hypersensitivity reaction inhibitory activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1980
    Date of Patent: January 1, 1985
    Assignee: Mead Johnson & Company
    Inventors: Robert R. Covington, Davis L. Temple, Jr., Joseph P. Yevich
  • Patent number: 4223031
    Abstract: 6-(1H-Tetrazol-5-yl)thiozolo[3,2-a]pyrimidin-5-ones, 3-(1H-tetrazol-5-yl)-4H-pyrimido[2,1-b]benzothiazol-4-ones, and the corresponding imidazo- and triazolo-pyrimidines, thiones, and imines are useful as antiallergy and antiasthmatic compounds by virtue of their inhibitory action on the immediate hypersensitivity reaction in mammals and relaxant action on the tracheal muscle. Intermediates in the synthesis of these substances from 2-aminoazoles and ethoxy-methylene malononitrile also have smooth muscle relaxant and immediate hypersensitivity reaction inhibitory activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1980
    Assignee: Mead Johnson & Company
    Inventors: Robert R. Covington, Davis L. Temple, Jr., Joseph P. Yevich