Patents by Inventor Cristina Laura Harko

Cristina Laura Harko 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).

  • System and method for model-free position estimation and tracking
    Patent number: 8089407
    Abstract: A system for, and method of, position estimation of, or tracking, an object. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a map generator configured to create, without requiring a propagation model, a mean map for the region and (2) a measurement matching engine associated with the map generator and configured to match received measurements regarding the object to a number of nearest neighboring grid points in the mean map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Aiyou Chen, Cristina Laura Harko, Diane Lambert, Philip A. Whiting