Patents Assigned to PHYSICAL DEVICES, LLC
  • Patent number: 9866267
    Abstract: Devices and methods for providing enhanced diversity reception and cosite cancellation are disclosed. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a device for providing enhanced diversity reception and cosite cancellation. The device includes a transmit chain connected to a circulator further connected to first antenna and to a combiner. The combiner is connected to anti-cosite circuitry and to first detector. The anti-cosite circuitry is further connected to a secondary antenna. The first detector is further connected to a receive chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: PHYSICAL DEVICES, LLC
    Inventor: Frederick Vosburgh
  • Patent number: 9800278
    Abstract: Tunable filters, cancellers, and duplexers based on passive mixers. A tunable delay cell includes passive mixers electrically coupled together for receiving an input signal and outputting a delayed signal, each passive mixer comprising a plurality of mixer switches. The tunable delay includes a control circuit for providing, to each passive mixer, a respective plurality of local oscillator (LO) signals, one to each mixer switch of each passive mixer. The control circuit is configured to vary the LO signals to cause a target frequency band of the input signal to be delayed by a target delay time in propagating through the passive mixers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignees: North Carolina State University, Physical Devices, LLC
    Inventors: Brian Allan Floyd, Charley Theodore Wilson, III, Jeffrey Franklin Bonner-Stewart, Frederick Vosburgh
  • Patent number: 9735758
    Abstract: Analog interference filter devices and methods for isolation of desirable portions of a radio frequency signal. Signal compensation is used to provide desirable center frequency, passband width, ripple, rolloff, stopband and distortion performance. The filter is implemented with passive and/or active components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: PHYSICAL DEVICES, LLC
    Inventor: Jonathan Ryan Wilkerson
  • Patent number: 9519062
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for mitigation of interference of GPS signals are disclosed providing selective mitigation of in-band interference implementing deterministic phase control. In one embodiment, a system for mitigating interference of GPS signals includes a pair of antennas, each receiving GPS signals that include both a desired signal component and a jammer signal component. The signal from one antenna is phase-shifted as needed to make it anti-phase with the signal from the other antenna, so that when the two signals are combined, the jammer signal components substantially cancel each other, leaving the desired signal components. Determining the phase shift required involves deterministically calculating the phase shift based on the amplitudes of the two input signals and the amplitude of the combined signal instead of the iterative techniques used in conventional systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Physical Devices, LLC
    Inventors: Frederick Vosburgh, Charley Theodore Wilson, III
  • Patent number: 9450625
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for wideband frequency and bandwidth tunable filtering are disclosed. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a wideband frequency and bandwidth tunable filter that splits a filter input signal into first and second input signals, modifies the first input signal to produce a first output signal, modifies the second input signal to produce a second output signal having an intermediate frequency response, and combines the first and second output signals while adjusting their relative phases and/or amplitudes to produce a filter output signal with the target frequency response. Adjustment includes splitting the second input signal into third and fourth input signals, which are modified and then combined to produce the second output signal having the intermediate frequency response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: PHYSICAL DEVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Frederick Vosburgh, Charley Theodore Wilson, III, Jonathan Ryan Wilkerson
  • Patent number: 9350401
    Abstract: Analog interference filter devices and methods for isolation of desirable portions of a radio frequency signal. Signal compensation is used to provide desirable center frequency, passband width, ripple, rolloff, stopband and distortion performance. The filter is implemented with passive and/or active components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: PHYSICAL DEVICES, LLC
    Inventor: Jonathan Ryan Wilkerson
  • Patent number: 9243915
    Abstract: Devices and methods are disclosed for determining position and controlling navigation by sensing movement through the Earth's magnetic field. Change in position is determined by integrating velocity which has been normalized for spatial and temporal field variation. Position is registered with respect to starting point and/or subsequently detected environmental feature. Signals are provided to actuator for guidance, navigation and control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Physical Devices, LLC
    Inventors: Walter C. Hernandez, Frederick Vosburgh
  • Patent number: 9203461
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for wideband frequency and bandwidth tunable filtering are disclosed. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a wideband frequency and bandwidth tunable filter that splits a filter input signal into first and second input signals, modifies the first input signal to produce a first output signal, modifies the second input signal to produce a second output signal having an intermediate frequency response, and combines the first and second output signals while adjusting their relative phases and/or amplitudes to produce a filter output signal with the target frequency response. Adjustment includes splitting the second input signal into third and fourth input signals, which are modified and then combined to produce the second output signal having the intermediate frequency response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: PHYSICAL DEVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Frederick Vosburgh, Charley Theodore Wilson, III, Jonathan Ryan Wilkerson
  • Patent number: 9042857
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for wideband frequency and bandwidth tunable filtering are disclosed. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a wideband frequency and bandwidth tunable filter that splits a filter input signal into first and second input signals, modifies the first input signal to produce a first output signal, modifies the second input signal to produce a second output signal having an intermediate frequency response, and combines the first and second output signals while adjusting their relative phases and/or amplitudes to produce a filter output signal with the target frequency response. Adjustment includes splitting the second input signal into third and fourth input signals, which are modified and then combined to produce the second output signal having the intermediate frequency response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: PHYSICAL DEVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Frederick Vosburgh, Charley Theodore Wilson, III, Jonathan Ryan Wilkerson
  • Patent number: 8965319
    Abstract: Devices and methods for selectively reducing interference in wireless signals through field nulling and signal cancelling by signal agnostic, intrinsically stable, analytic means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Physical Devices, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Ryan Wilkerson, Frederick Vosburgh
  • Publication number: 20140235190
    Abstract: Devices and methods for selectively reducing interference in wireless signals through field nulling and signal cancelling by signal agnostic, intrinsically stable, analytic means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: PHYSICAL DEVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Ryan Wilkerson, Frederick Vosburgh
  • Publication number: 20140199956
    Abstract: Analog interference filter devices and methods for isolation of desirable portions of a radio frequency signal. Signal compensation is used to provide desirable center frequency, passband width, ripple, rolloff, stopband and distortion performance. The filter is implemented with passive and/or active components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: PHYSICAL DEVICES, LLC
    Inventor: Jonathan Ryan Wilkerson
  • Publication number: 20140073266
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for wideband frequency and bandwidth tunable filtering are disclosed. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a wideband frequency and bandwidth tunable filter that splits a filter input signal into first and second input signals, modifies the first input signal to produce a first output signal, modifies the second input signal to produce a second output signal having an intermediate frequency response, and combines the first and second output signals while adjusting their relative phases and/or amplitudes to produce a filter output signal with the target frequency response. Adjustment includes splitting the second input signal into third and fourth input signals, which are modified and then combined to produce the second output signal having the intermediate frequency response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: PHYSICAL DEVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Frederick Vosburgh, Charley Theodore Wilson, III, Jonathan Ryan Wilkerson
  • Patent number: 8666347
    Abstract: Devices and methods for selectively reducing interference in wireless signals through field nulling and signal cancelling by signal agnostic, intrinsically stable, analytic means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Physical Devices, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Ryan Wilkerson, Frederick Vosburgh
  • Publication number: 20130225099
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for wideband frequency and bandwidth tunable filtering are disclosed. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a wideband frequency and bandwidth tunable filter that splits a filter input signal into first and second input signals, modifies the first input signal to produce a first output signal, modifies the second input signal to produce a second output signal having an intermediate frequency response, and combines the first and second output signals while adjusting their relative phases and/or amplitudes to produce a filter output signal with the target frequency response. Adjustment includes splitting the second input signal into third and fourth input signals, which are modified and then combined to produce the second output signal having the intermediate frequency response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: PHYSICAL DEVICES, LLC
    Inventor: PHYSICAL DEVICES, LLC