BRIAN JOHNSON, M.D.
Psychiatric at Adams St, Syracuse, NY

4493032, Jan 8, 1985

Sep 7, 1982

6/415745

Brian C. Johnson - Syracuse NY

General Electric Company - Charlottesville VA

G05B 1925

364169

A method and apparatus are disclosed for providing very precise incremental motion of a numerically controlled machine tool, or other similarly controlled object, along a circularly arced path. For a mutually perpendicular X and Y coordinate system, X and Y indices are determined based on certain prescribed input information related to the parameters of the circular path and the relative rate of motion between the machine tool and the workpiece, and on immediate, continuously recomputed, coordinates of the tool or object. The indices are each scaled by a modulus related to the radius of the arc to generate incremental distances. DELTA. X and. DELTA. Y according to which the next move is to be made. The process is reiterated until the desired circular path is complete. In both method and apparatus, only integer values of. DELTA. X and. DELTA.

4542407, Sep 17, 1985

Jun 10, 1983

6/503208

Jeffrey L. Cooper - Syracuse NY
Brian C. Johnson - Syracuse NY

North American Philips Corporation - New York NY

H04N 716

358120

A method for scrambling and descrambling television programs in which the horizontal synchronizing information is suppressed at a CATV supplier's head-end and then regenerated at the subscriber's converter. The pulse frequency is multiplied by a factor N/M, in which N and M are integers thereby generating a synthesized pulse stream which is, in turn, encoded with data identifying the values for N and M. This encoded pulse stream is modulated onto the audio subcarrier wave in the TV video signal and transmitted to the converter. The converter then demodulates and recovers the encoded pulse stream, decodes the same to recover the identifying data, using this data to obtain the correct values for N and M which have been transmitted separately on a digital data channel. The converter then multiplies the synthesized pulse stream by M/N regenerating the horizontal synchronizing pulse stream and inserts the same into the TV video signal at the proper phase.

4465970, Aug 14, 1984

Feb 10, 1984

6/578315

Donald V. DiMassimo - Liverpool NY
John B. May - Liverpool NY
Brian C. Johnson - Syracuse NY
Jeffrey L. Cooper - Liverpool NY

General Electric Company - Somersworth NH

G01R 1508, G01R 1164, G06F 1520

324116

A programmable time-of-use metering system is disclosed for metering electrical energy consumption at multiple rates depending on the time of day, time of week and time of year in which the energy is being consumed. A method for registering total energy consumed by a metered system as well as energy consumed during preselected time intervals is also disclosed.

4393501, Jul 12, 1983

Feb 26, 1981

6/238205

Richard A. Kellogg - Syracuse NY
John B. May - Liverpool NY
Brian C. Johnson - Syracuse NY

General Electric Company - Somersworth NH

G06F 1110

371 33

In a communication system, a line protocol format with a variable bit rate and low bit overhead provides for the high integrity, synchronous exchange of digital signal information between master and slave processing units, with master processing unit controlling the line protocol.