Bruce Alfred Thompson

6667659, Dec 23, 2003

Feb 28, 2002

10/085544

Robert Stengel - Pompano Beach FL
Bruce Thompson - Boca Raton FL

Motorola, Inc. - Schaumburg IL

H03F 360

330286, 330295

A distributed amplifier arrangement ( ) is provided in which a plurality of input signals (S (t),. . . S (t)) are separately controlled by a drive generator circuit ( ) to produce modulation of a virtual load impedance at each amplifier stage. This permits each stage ( ) of the distributed amplifier ( ) to operate at maximum efficiency by permitting the stage to produce an output voltage that approaches the supply voltage. As the output power is reduced, efficiency is maintained by systematically reducing the number of stages contributing to the output to the load.

6819181, Nov 16, 2004

Dec 21, 2001

10/036550

Robert E. Stengel - Pompano Beach FL
Bruce M. Thompson - Boca Raton FL

Motorola, Inc. - Schaumburg IL

H03F 360

330286, 330295

A structure and method for the improvement of interference isolation using distributed broadband technology. This structure uses signal processing across a distributed network in order to optimize the isolation of a signal of interest when noise, interference and crosstalk signal sources are present. The structure is designed so that a signal arrives at a node in the network via more than one path and is summed in a correlated or in-phase manner. Each signal path is designed so that the signal phase may be modulated to create the in-phase summing. Noise sources that arrive at the network node are added in an uncorrelated or out-of-phase manner. Therefore, the combination of the signal adding coherently and the interference adding with an uncorrelated phase improves the signal to interference ratio. This type of structure may be applied in an RF power amplifier application in order to provide an improved interference or crosstalk signal ratio.

7233207, Jun 19, 2007

May 6, 2005

11/123309

Bruce M. Thompson - Boca Raton FL, US
Robert E. Stengel - Pompano Beach FL, US

Motorola, Inc. - Schaumburg IL

H03F 3/60

330286, 330 54, 330295

A system and a method for providing an input to a distributed power amplifying system are provided. In an embodiment, a distributed power amplifying system includes a plurality of amplifying sections (, and ) and a plurality of drivers (, and ). Each of the plurality of drivers receives a common transmit signal () and an individual control signal (, and ). Each of the plurality of drivers independently preconditions the common transmit signal, to provide a transmit output signal (, and ) to each of the plurality of amplifying sections. The common transmit signal provided to each of the plurality of drivers is preconditioned, based on the individual control signal.

7471156, Dec 30, 2008

Sep 29, 2006

11/537231

Bruce M. Thompson - Boca Raton FL, US
Robert E. Stengel - Pompano Beach FL, US

Motorola, Inc - Schaumburg IL

H03F 3/45

330301, 330276

An apparatus and method for eliminating unwanted signal power dissipation in balanced amplifier circuits and for prohibiting unwanted signal power from appearing at the balanced amplifier load is presented. Load impedances to the amplifier power output transistors are maintained very low at unwanted frequencies, and are at an operational impedance level at the fundamental frequency. An impedance network control concept is presented, which may be either manually or automatically implemented.

8094028, Jan 10, 2012

Dec 23, 2008

12/342749

Patrick Braun - Pittsburgh PA, US
Manoj Wangu - Wexford PA, US
Bruce Thompson - Pittsburgh PA, US

McKesson Automation, Inc. - Cranberry PA

G08B 13/14

3405728, 3405721, 206467

A carrier apparatus is provided that includes a body and a fastener configured to affix the body to a product. The body includes a radio frequency (RF) transponder tag, or marker for directing inclusion of an RF transponder tag, at a designated location on the body. The apparatus of this aspect further includes a positioning feature configured to position the body, RF transponder tag and affixed product relative to an RF antenna separate from the RF transponder tag. This positioning feature may be configured to position the body, RF transponder tag and affixed product in a manner ensuring approximately at least a predetermined spatial relationship between the RF transponder tag and the antenna or one or more other RF transponder tags located proximate the RF transponder tag. A carriage apparatus and method of storing a product are also provided.

8334906, Dec 18, 2012

May 4, 2007

11/744353

Alan J. Lipton - Herndon VA, US
Bruce Thompson - Great Falls VA, US
John I. W. Clark - Leesburg VA, US
Peter L. Venetianer - McLean VA, US
Zhong Zhang - Herndon VA, US
Li Yu - Herndon VA, US
Wei Hong Yin - Herndon VA, US
Steve Titus - Herndon VA, US
Amit Mistry - Reston VA, US
James Morris - Herndon VA, US

ObjectVideo, Inc. - Reston VA

H04N 5/225
H04N 7/18

348169, 348143, 348155, 34821199

A sensing device includes: a video imager to obtain video of an area; a processing unit to receive and process the video from the video imager to identify one of an event or a datum of interest; and a communication channel to output a non-imagery signal representing the event or datum.

8644982, Feb 4, 2014

Sep 30, 2009

12/570472

Shawn Greyshock - Tarentum PA, US
Bruce Thompson - Pittsburgh PA, US

McKesson Automation Inc. - Cranberry PA

G06F 7/00

700216

A unit dose package is provided that facilitates the automated picking of the package. The unit dose package includes a plurality of individually packaged unit dose medications separated by perforations. The unit dose package also defines a hole that may be located along at least one perforation, such as at an intersection of at least two perforations, to permit the package to be stored by being suspended by a rod. A robotic dispensing system and method are also provided that facilitate the selective dispensation of unit dose packages having different numbers of individually packaged unit dose medications. The system includes first and second storage locations for storing first and second unit dose packages which have different numbers of individually packaged unit dose medication(s). The system also includes a controller to direct picking of the first or second unit dose packages dependant upon a requested number of individually packaged unit dose medication(s).

20070023512, Feb 1, 2007

Jun 9, 2006

11/423326

Richard Miller - Pittsburgh PA, US
Manoj Wangu - Wexford PA, US
Bruce Thompson - Pittsburgh PA, US
Patrick Braun - Pittsburgh PA, US
Russell Gadagno - Harrison City PA, US
Robert Meek - Pittsburgh PA, US

MCKESSON AUTOMATION INC. - Cranberry PA

G06Q 30/00

235385000

An inventory management system is provided that utilizes radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to drive RFID tags to provide a notification signal, such as by illuminating light emitting diodes (LEDs) embodied by the RFID tags. The RFID tags may be placed on medication bins within a pharmacy pick-station in order to indicate which medication to select for processing an order or in which medication bin to place a particular medication being restocked. A method and computer program product for managing inventory, as well as an automated dispensing cabinet are further provided.