Patents & Signals
Patent
“Methods and apparatus for adaptive source electromagnetic surveying”
A granted patent — a signal of novel engineering contribution reviewed and accepted through formal patent examination.
Engineer note: Patents signal that the work involved a novel approach vetted by independent examiners. Requires clear documentation and defensible claims.
Industry Contribution
Developed an SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) implementation as part of proprietary embedded telecom software at Artesyn.
Engineer note: Protocol-level development in embedded telecom requires correctness, reliability, and standards adherence — where bugs have real consequences. This was proprietary work, not open source.
What is a patent?
A patent is a legal grant recognising a novel invention. In engineering, it signals that someone identified a genuinely new approach to a problem, documented it precisely enough to pass examination by independent patent reviewers, and demonstrated its utility. It is one of the few formal, externally-verified markers of original engineering contribution.