Patents by Inventor Roland L. Bowles

Roland L. Bowles 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).

  • Transmission, receipt, and presentation of vehicle specific environmental conditions and hazards information
    Patent number: 6917860
    Abstract: A method for transmitting environmental conditions information, which includes receiving at least some environmental conditions information, scaling the received information such that a scaled environmental conditions value is determined for a particular vehicle, receiving an environmental conditions threshold value, comparing the scaled value to the received threshold value, determining whether the scaled value is greater than the received threshold value, and transmitting, if the scaled value is greater than the received threshold value, at least some of the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2005
    Assignee: Aerotech Research (USA), Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Aaron Robinson, Roland L. Bowles
  • Estimation, transmission, receipt, and presentation of vehicle specific environmental conditions and hazards information
    Patent number: 6650972
    Abstract: This invention combines meteorological, environmental, or dynamic vehicle data with data specific to a particular craft or vehicle, such as, for example, the weight, speed, acceleration, response characteristics, propulsion, mode of propulsion, and configuration, of a particular aircraft, and produces a simplified display map showing environmental conditions data as the environmental conditions data relates to that specific vehicle. The environmental conditions data is presented on the display map in the form of environmental condition annotations that have different coloring, shading, and/or iconization as determined by the type, severity, and area of the various environmental conditions relative to the vehicle. This invention separately provides travel route optimization for a particular craft or vehicle based on the combination of meteorological and other environmental data with data specific to the particular craft or vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2003
    Assignee: AeroTech Research (U.S.A.), Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Aaron Robinson, Roland L. Bowles
  • Vehicle specific hazard estimation, presentation, and route planning based on meteorological and other environmental data
    Patent number: 6381538
    Abstract: This invention combines meteorological and other environmental data with data specific to a particular craft or vehicle, such as, for example, the weight, speed, response characteristics, propulsion, mode of propulsion, and configuration, of a particular aircraft, and produces a simplified display map showing environmental conditions data as the environmental conditions data relates to that specific vehicle. The environmental conditions data is presented on the display map in the form of environmental condition annotations that have different coloring, shading, and/or iconization as determined by the type, severity, and area of the various environmental conditions relative to the vehicle. This invention separately provides travel route optimization for a particular craft or vehicle based on the combination of meteorological and other environmental data with data specific to the particular craft or vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Assignee: AeroTech Research (U.S.A.), Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Aaron Robinson, Roland L. Bowles