Patents by Inventor David L. Nail

David L. Nail 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).

  • Patent number: 5604504
    Abstract: In an air traffic advisory system for determining the bearing of an intruder aircraft relative to a protected aircraft, the preferred apparatus determines a corrected bearing to compensate for bearing errors caused by intruder signal reflections. More particularly, the preferred apparatus uses a hybrid combiner to produce a sum, delta one and delta two signals, and determines the phase relationship between the sum signal and each of the delta signals, the two phase relationships being subject to at least partially offsetting errors due to intruder signal reflections. The apparatus determines an uncorrected intruder bearing from each phase relationship and then averages the uncorrected bearings to produce a corrected intruder bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1997
    Assignee: AlliedSignal Inc.
    Inventor: David L. Nail