Patents by Inventor Andrew R. Beckett

Andrew R. Beckett 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).

  • Guidance system
    Patent number: 7537181
    Abstract: There is provided a guidance system for allowing an air vehicle to guide a moving object, comprising a Synthetic Aperture Radar located on the air vehicle, and a means of communication for allowing the air vehicle to communicate with the moving object, wherein the Synthetic Aperture Radar is capable of determining the position and orientation of the air vehicle relative to a desired location, and information provided by the Synthetic Aperture Radar is used, via the means of communication, to guide the moving object towards the desired location. A guidance system wherein a seeker is utilised on the moving object is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: MBDA UK Limited
    Inventors: Geoffrey L Owens, Andrew R Beckett
  • Guidance system
    Publication number: 20080012751
    Abstract: There is provided a guidance system for allowing an air vehicle to guide a moving object, comprising a Synthetic Aperture Radar located on the air vehicle, and a means of communication for allowing the air vehicle to communicate with the moving object, wherein the Synthetic Aperture Radar is capable of determining the position and orientation of the air vehicle relative to a desired location, and information provided by the Synthetic Aperture Radar is used, via the means of communication, to guide the moving object towards the desired location. A guidance system wherein a seeker is utilised on the moving object is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2002
    Publication date: January 17, 2008
    Inventors: Geoffrey L Owens, Andrew R. Beckett
  • Signal processing and radio ranging system
    Patent number: 4887088
    Abstract: A radio slant ranging system having a bank of range gates producing outputs X.sub.I to X.sub.N which comprise ground clutter components on a thermal noise pedestal. The clutter components are regarded as defining a single sinusoidal ripple envelope on the noise pedestal and a clutter centroid tracking signal is derived by using a digital filter to calculate the real and imaginary components A.sub.1R and A.sub.1I of the transform: ##EQU1## and then forming the arctangent of A.sub.1I /-A.sub.1R. The signal processing method used in the system may have general application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 12, 1989
    Assignee: British Aerospace Public Limited Company
    Inventor: Andrew R. Beckett