Patents by Inventor Samuel M. Segner

Samuel M. Segner 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).

  • Multiple access, time-division multiplex, satellite communications system
    Patent number: 4287588
    Abstract: A multiple-access, time-division multiplex, satellite communications system n which the uplink and downlink frequencies are the same.In each ground station, the outgoing information (be it data, encoded data or digitized samples of the voice frequency signals) are assembled into a sequence of pulses to be transmitted as a burst in the time slot assigned to that particular earth station. If there are n ground stations in the system, n.gtoreq.2, then the duration of each ground station sequence is, on the average, 1/2n times the duration of a complete frame or epoch, because for half of the epoch the satellite is in the receiving mode and the other half of the epoch the satellite is in the transmitting mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1981
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventor: Samuel M. Segner