Patents by Inventor Gerald C. DiPiazza

Gerald C. DiPiazza 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: 8078161
    Abstract: A communication system includes a first communication module, and a second communication module. The first communication module may receive a first type of communication signal (e.g. a mobile telephone signal) and convert it into a second-type of communication signal (e.g., a millimeter wave radio signal). The first type of communication signal may be a mobile telephone signal from a first fire fighter's mobile telephone who is located outside of the building. The first communication module may transmit the second-type of communication signal to the second communication module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Pine Valley Investments, Inc.
    Inventor: Gerald C. DiPiazza
  • Publication number: 20100227547
    Abstract: A communication system includes a first communication module, and a second communication module. The first communication module may receive a first type of communication signal (e.g. a mobile telephone signal) and convert it into a second-type of communication signal (e.g., a millimeter wave radio signal). The first type of communication signal may be a mobile telephone signal from a first fire fighter's mobile telephone who is located outside of the building. The first communication module may transmit the second-type of communication signal to the second communication module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2010
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Applicant: PINE VALLEY INVESTMENTS, INC. a Delaware corporation.
    Inventor: Gerald C. DiPiazza
  • Patent number: 7697929
    Abstract: A communication system includes a first communication module, and a second communication module. The first communication module may receive a first type of communication signal (e.g. a mobile telephone signal) and convert it into a second-type of communication signal (e.g., a millimeter wave radio signal). The first type of communication signal may be a mobile telephone signal from a first fire fighter's mobile telephone who is located outside of the building. The first communication module may transmit the second-type of communication signal to the second communication module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Pine Valley Investments, Inc.
    Inventor: Gerald C. DiPiazza
  • Patent number: 6141557
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a millimeter-wave communication system for one-way and/or two-way video, voice and data services that leverages cell-site diversity, subscriber-unit adaptability and a reflection dominated propagation model. To this end, a variety of omni-directional and directional antenna plans, cell-site structures and adaptive reception/transmission plans are envisioned in the present invention. Cell-site diversity is employed and permits shadowed subscriber units to be serviced from the best choice of the surrounding cell-sites based upon millimeter-wave propagation efficiency and not geometric convenience. Cell-site diversity is used to mitigate the ill-effects of environmental and atmospheric factors. Finally, the present plan reduces the reliance on repeaters by using statistically optimal conditions for cell-site selection with reflection based models rather than line-of-sight models, as relied upon in the prior art.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Assignee: The Whitaker Corporation
    Inventor: Gerald C. Dipiazza
  • Patent number: 5101173
    Abstract: A stored program amplifier compensation apparatus utilizing sensing elements to provide the operational states of an RF power amplifier to a controller processor unit which utilizes the operational data to provide a bias control signal to the RF power amplifier. Look-up tables which are stored in the controlled processor unit, contain a bias control signal for all the possible operational combinations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1992
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: Gerald C. DiPiazza, Mark J. Peterson