Patents by Inventor Arnold Kravitz
Arnold Kravitz 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).
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Patent number: 10833629Abstract: An improved interface for renewable energy systems is disclosed for interconnecting a plurality of power sources such as photovoltaic solar panels, windmills, standby generators and the like. The improved interface for renewable energy systems includes a multi-channel micro-inverter having novel heat dissipation, novel mountings, electronic redundancy and remote communication systems. The improved interface for renewable energy systems is capable of automatic switching between a grid-tied operation, an off grid operation or an emergency power operation. The interface provides for monitoring and for detecting performance and/or faults in power sources such as photovoltaic solar panels.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: Technology Research, LLCInventors: Aldo P Della Sera, Arnold Kravitz
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Patent number: 10193346Abstract: An improved interface for renewable energy systems is disclosed for interconnecting a plurality of power sources such as photovoltaic solar panels, windmills, standby generators and the like. The improved interface for renewable energy systems includes a multi-channel micro-inverter having novel heat dissipation, novel mountings, electronic redundancy and remote communication systems. The improved interface for renewable enemy systems is capable of automatic switching between a grid-tied operation, an off grid operation or an emergency power operation.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2017Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: Technology Research, LLCInventors: Aldo P. Della Sera, Arnold Kravitz, Luis Acosta
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Patent number: 9876360Abstract: An improved micro-inverter apparatus is disclosed for intelligently controlling energy harvest from photovoltaic solar panels based on one or more adjustable, user-defined variables. The improved micro-inverter apparatus may include a microcontroller configured to monitor the operating temperature of its micro-inverter and control the power harvested from associated solar panels in order to ensure the operating temperature of the micro-inverter does not approach a level that would damage the micro-inverter's circuitry or other components. Similarly, the micro-inverter apparatuses' microcontroller may be configured to monitor the total harmonic distortion of the micro-inverter's AC power output and control the power harvested from associated solar panels in order to ensure the total harmonic distortion of the AC power output does not exceed a threshold level.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2015Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: Technology Research, LLCInventors: Arnold Kravitz, Aldo P. Della Sera
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Publication number: 20170149248Abstract: An improved interface for renewable energy systems is disclosed for interconnecting a plurality of power sources such as photovoltaic solar panels, windmills, standby generators and the like. The improved interface for renewable energy systems includes a multi-channel micro-inverter having novel heat dissipation, novel mountings, electronic redundancy and remote communication systems. The improved interface for renewable enemy systems is capable of automatic switching between a grid-tied operation, an off grid operation or an emergency power operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2017Publication date: May 25, 2017Inventors: Aldo P. Della Sera, Arnold Kravitz, Luis Acosta
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Patent number: 9564756Abstract: An improved interface for renewable energy systems is disclosed for interconnecting a plurality of power sources such as photovoltaic solar panels, windmills, standby generators and the like. The improved interface for renewable energy systems includes a multi-channel micro-inverter having novel heat dissipation, novel mountings, electronic redundancy and remote communication systems. The improved interface for renewable energy systems is capable of automatic switching between a grid-tied operation, an off grid operation or an emergency power operation.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2013Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: Technology Research, LLCInventors: Aldo P Della Sera, Arnold Kravitz, Luis Acosta
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Publication number: 20140266289Abstract: An improved interface for renewable energy systems is disclosed for interconnecting a plurality of power sources such as photovoltaic solar panels, windmills, standby generators and the like. The improved interface for renewable energy systems includes a multi-channel micro-inverter having novel heat dissipation, novel mountings, electronic redundancy and remote communication systems. The improved interface for renewable energy systems is capable of automatic switching between a grid-tied operation, an off grid operation or an emergency power operation. The interface provides for monitoring and for detecting performance and/or faults in power sources such as photovoltaic solar panels.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Technology Research CorporationInventors: Aldo P. Della Sera, Arnold Kravitz
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Publication number: 20140265585Abstract: An improved interface for renewable energy systems is disclosed for interconnecting a plurality of power sources such as photovoltaic solar panels, windmills, standby generators and the like. The improved interface for renewable energy systems includes a multi-channel micro-inverter having novel heat dissipation, novel mountings, electronic redundancy and remote communication systems. The improved interface for renewable energy systems is capable of automatic switching between a grid-tied operation, an off grid operation or an emergency power operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Technology Research CorporationInventors: Aldo P. Della Sera, Arnold Kravitz, Luis Acosta
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Patent number: 8544375Abstract: A system and method capable of providing a cooperative network for applying countermeasures to airborne threats is provided. The system contains at least one aircraft having an airborne countermeasures system (ACS) capable of controlling deployment of countermeasures located on the aircraft. The system also contains a central countermeasures management system (CCMS) capable of communicating with the ACS to control the ACS in deployment of the countermeasures located on the aircraft. The aircraft may be one of a series of aircrafts, where each aircraft within the series of aircrafts has a separate ACS thereon, and where each separate ACS is capable of controlling deployment of countermeasures located on an aircraft within the series of aircrafts on which the separate ACS is located. When multiple aircrafts are within the network, the CCMS is capable of communicating with each separate ACS in response to the airborne threat, to control deployment of the countermeasures.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2004Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.Inventor: Arnold Kravitz
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Patent number: 8537222Abstract: A method for finding the launch of a ManPADS missile comprising the steps of installing a network of electro optical (EO) and infrared (IR) cameras with a triggering receiver and pointing the EO and IR cameras in the direction of a suspicious emission, wherein the EO camera provides high resolution video and the IR camera finds the ManPADS and tracks its user.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2009Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.Inventors: Jonathan L. Weber, Arnold Kravitz
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Patent number: 8326142Abstract: The present invention is an optical image system having at least a first camera including a first lens and at least a second sensor including a second lens. The system also includes at least one beam splitter for transmitting an incoming beam of electromagnetic radiation of at least a first band of wavelength to a focal plane array of the first camera and reflecting an incoming beam of electromagnetic radiation of at least a second band of wavelength to a focal plane array of the second camera. The first lens is positioned behind the beam splitter for focusing the beam of the first band of wavelength onto an image at the focal plane array of the first camera and the second lens is positioned behind the beam splitter for focusing the beam of the second band of wavelength onto the image at the focal plane array of the second camera.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2010Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: SRI InternationalInventors: Arnold Kravitz, Jongjin George Kim, Sergey Gershtein
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Patent number: 8212996Abstract: A centroiding method is provided for an optical tracking system including a laser used for countermeasuring purposes in which a pencil thin laser beam is accurately positioned onto a target through the use of centroiding techniques for ascertaining the position not only of the target but also the laser beam, with the centroiding techniques resulting in a sub-pixel level resolution. The sub-pixel resolution permits utilization of smaller cost-effective focal plane arrays by giving the small focal plane array a resolution associated with much larger focal plane arrays.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2011Date of Patent: July 3, 2012Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.Inventors: Anuradha Bhargava, Harold T. Wright, Kazimierz T. Grzeslak, Arnold Kravitz
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Patent number: 8179288Abstract: An automatic system is provided for alerting ground personnel as to the existence of a threat to commercial aircraft in which the threat is determined by a classified system, but in which the local area network employed by the military missile warning is isolated from an unclassified local network coupled to the aircraft's transponder which transmits the threat existence and status to ground personnel. The barrier to transmitting classified information involves both filtering between the classified LAN and unclassified LAN, the use of only discrete signaling lines in the classified LAN isolated by opto-electronics to provide physical separation between the two local area networks, and communications formatting which precludes the transmission of classified information across the barrier between the classified local area network and the unclassified local area network.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2008Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.Inventors: Arnold Kravitz, Jason Stockwell, Edward Zablocki, George Clemence
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Publication number: 20120033084Abstract: A centroiding method is provided for an optical tracking system including a laser used for countermeasuring purposes in which a pencil thin laser beam is accurately positioned onto a target through the use of centroiding techniques for ascertaining the position not only of the target but also the laser beam, with the centroiding techniques resulting in a sub-pixel level resolution. The sub-pixel resolution permits utilization of smaller cost-effective focal plane arrays by giving the small focal plane array a resolution associated with much larger focal plane arrays.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2011Publication date: February 9, 2012Applicant: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.Inventors: Anuradha Bhargava, Harold T. Wright, Kazimierz T. Grzeslak, Arnold Kravitz
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Patent number: 8068214Abstract: A centroiding method is provided for an optical tracking system including a laser used for countermeasuring purposes in which a pencil thin laser beam is accurately positioned onto a target through the use of centroiding techniques for ascertaining the position not only of the target but also the laser beam, with the centroiding techniques resulting in a sub-pixel level resolution. The sub-pixel resolution permits utilization of smaller cost-effective focal plane arrays by giving the small focal plane array a resolution associated with much larger focal plane arrays.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2008Date of Patent: November 29, 2011Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.Inventors: Anuradha Bhargava, Harold T. Wright, Kazimierz T. Grzeslak, Arnold Kravitz
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Publication number: 20110200319Abstract: The present invention is an optical image system having at least a first camera including a first lens and at least a second sensor including a second lens. The system also includes at least one beam splitter for transmitting an incoming beam of electromagnetic radiation of at least a first band of wavelength to a focal plane array of the first camera and reflecting an incoming beam of electromagnetic radiation of at least a second band of wavelength to a focal plane array of the second camera. The first lens is positioned behind the beam splitter for focusing the beam of the first band of wavelength onto an image at the focal plane array of the first camera and the second lens is positioned behind the beam splitter for focusing the beam of the second band of wavelength onto the image at the focal plane array of the second camera.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2010Publication date: August 18, 2011Inventors: Arnold Kravitz, Jongjin George Kim, Sergey Gershtein
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Publication number: 20110069145Abstract: A method for finding the launch of a ManPADS missile comprising the steps of installing a network of electro optical (EO) and infrared (IR) cameras with a triggering receiver and pointing the EO and IR cameras in the direction of a suspicious emission, wherein the EO camera provides high resolution video and the IR camera finds the ManPADS and tracks its user.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2009Publication date: March 24, 2011Inventors: Jonathan L. Weber, Arnold Kravitz
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Patent number: 7590475Abstract: A system and method for providing a covert warning notification of a hazard to an aircraft is provided. Generally, the system contains a detection system capable of detecting the hazard, and a transceiver capable of allowing the system to provide the covert warning to a location external from the aircraft. A memory and a processor are also provided within the system, where the processor is configured by the memory to perform the steps of: determining a category of radar system associated with a received signal; determining a modulation scheme, based on the determined category of radar system, for displaying an array of icons on the location external from the aircraft, the array of icons providing the covert warning; and using the received signal to provide the array of icons.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2004Date of Patent: September 15, 2009Assignee: BAE Systems Information And Electronic Systems Integration Inc.Inventor: Arnold Kravitz
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Publication number: 20090189785Abstract: An automatic system is provided for alerting ground personnel as to the existence of a threat to commercial aircraft in which the threat is determined by a classified system, but in which the local area network employed by the military missile warning is isolated from an unclassified local network coupled to the aircraft's transponder which transmits the threat existence and status to ground personnel. The barrier to transmitting classified information involves both filtering between the classified LAN and unclassified LAN, the use of only discrete signaling lines in the classified LAN isolated by opto-electronics to provide physical separation between the two local area networks, and communications formatting which precludes the transmission of classified information across the barrier between the classified local area network and the unclassified local area network.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2008Publication date: July 30, 2009Inventors: Arnold Kravitz, Jason Stockwell, Edward Zablocki, George Clemence
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Publication number: 20090173822Abstract: A distributed aircraft defense system involving infrared countermeasures is installed in a distributive fashion for commercial aircraft, typically fixed wing aircraft, in which maintenance downtime is minimized due to the ability to access, remove, test, fix and/or replace individual modules within the distributed system.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2008Publication date: July 9, 2009Inventors: Arnold Kravitz, George J. Hoff, Martin Raab, Donald K. Smith, James Rusch, John Ferrari, Christopher L. Chew
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Publication number: 20080062412Abstract: A method for identifying hostile missile launch locations is disclosed. In response to a receipt of a message containing information regarding a hostile missile had been launched at an aircraft, a determination is made as to whether or not a tail number contained within the message is a valid tail number for the aircraft. If the tail number contained within the message is a valid tail number for the aircraft, another determination is made as to whether or not the aircraft was at a valid location at the time the message was sent. If the aircraft was at a valid location at the time said message was sent, pertinent information are retrieved from the message in order to identify the exact launch location of the hostile missile.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2006Publication date: March 13, 2008Inventor: Arnold Kravitz