Patents by Inventor Thomas A. Satko

Thomas A. Satko 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: 5734894
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for preventing the loss and/or corruption of process data stored by data collection and/or test instruments (referred to hereinafter collectively as "recording instruments"), which may otherwise result from events such as the removal of aforementioned storage media while data transfer operations are in progress; loss of power to the recording instrument while data transfer operations are in progress; and/or the execution of internal CPU traps or other CPU reset conditions while data transfer operations are in progress. The methods and apparatus contemplated by the invention also provide for the recovery of process data which has been corrupted during a power loss or CPU reset when normal operation of a recording instrument resumes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1998
    Assignee: Honeywell Inc.
    Inventors: John R. Adamson, Scott L. Kern, Thomas A. Satko, Ellyse E. Smolenak
  • Patent number: 5243696
    Abstract: A multipoint, multiple function recorder which can record, display, and process up to 135 input/output data points, either analog or discrete, in various combinations. A strip chart recorder is provided for permanently recording input and output data points and, in conjunction with the chart recorder, a separate programmable dot matrix display is provided, such display being responsive to the same input/output data points and operable for displaying data in both alphanumeric and graphic form, the display being independently operable from said chart recorder, such that said input/output points are displayable at different times from the times when they are being printed on the chart recorder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1993
    Assignee: General Signal Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel J. Carr, Charles R. Scally, Michael D. Carney, Scott L. Kern, Thomas A. Satko, James W. Zecca