Patents by Inventor Virgil E. Thomas

Virgil E. Thomas 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).

  • Digital bus adaptor
    Patent number: 4586159
    Abstract: A bus adaptor is a circuit which interconnects incompatible digital systems hat are asynchronous to each other, through alteration of bit order arrangement and composition, time frame, speed and shape of signals which involve data signals being superimposed with a clock signal and smoothed and vice versa. The adaptor circuit handles intersystem signals that enter and leave via separate parallel paths of one system and enter and leave via a single bidirectional path of another system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1983
    Date of Patent: April 29, 1986
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Virgil E. Thomas, Charles R. Jones