Patents by Inventor Roe E. English

Roe E. English 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).

  • Automated diagnostic system
    Patent number: 4967337
    Abstract: Artificial intelligence diagnostic expert system software is used to interrogate and monitor etcher machine state by directly accessing vital hardware/process sensors. Sensor values and `recipe` variables are analyzed to determine cause of failures and recommend repair strategies, realtime monitoring and analysis of these values allows the expert system to predict failures prior to occurrence and show cause of impending failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 30, 1990
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Roe E. English, Michael A. Kilgore, Jerry A. Crone