Patents by Inventor Gerard A. Desjardins

Gerard A. Desjardins 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: 6882936
    Abstract: A user set determines a location of an interference signal by receiving a satellite signal and an interference signal and increasing the interference signal-to-noise ratio to produce a first output signal and by increasing the satellite signal-to-noise ratio to produce a second output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventor: Gerard A. Desjardins
  • Publication number: 20040176909
    Abstract: A user set determines a location of an interference signal by receiving a satellite signal and an interference signal and increasing the interference signal-to-noise ratio to produce a first output signal and by increasing the satellite signal-to-noise ratio to produce a second output signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2003
    Publication date: September 9, 2004
    Applicant: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventor: Gerard A. Desjardins
  • Patent number: 6600444
    Abstract: Navigation information for a first navigation system is computed based on interference signals and satellite signals. The first navigation system comprises means for receiving N satellite signals capable of being processed and at least M interference signals, where M=K−N and K equals the minimum number of satellites required to be tracked for unambiguously determining navigation information for the first navigation system. Based on the at least M interference signals and the N satellite signals received and capable of being processed, the navigation system computes navigation information for the first navigation system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventor: Gerard A. Desjardins
  • Publication number: 20020118133
    Abstract: Navigation information for a first navigation system is computed based on interference signals and satellite signals. The first navigation system comprises means for receiving N satellite signals capable of being processed and at least M interference signals, where M=K−N and K equals the minimum number of satellites required to be tracked for unambiguously determining navigation information for the first navigation system. Based on the at least M interference signals and the N satellite signals received and capable of being processed, the navigation system computes navigation information for the first navigation system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2002
    Publication date: August 29, 2002
    Inventor: Gerard A. Desjardins
  • Patent number: 5936571
    Abstract: A Global Navigation Satellite System having user sets for computing position, velocity and time at each user set includes an arrangement for sampling and filtering an interfering signal or other signal of interest at each user set, a communication link to another user set to carry time-stamped signals representing filtered samples of the signal of interest together with position and velocity information of the user set and an arrangement for computing the location of the source of the signal of interest preferably contained in each user set from the transmitted information and similar locally developed information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1999
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventor: Gerard A. Desjardins
  • Patent number: 5570099
    Abstract: A process for locating a transmitter in which the signal is received by first and second receivers and then processed by respective analog to digital converters and filtered to yield first and second digital signals. There is relative motion between at least one of the receivers and the transmitter. A compression process local to the first receiver compresses the first digital signal. The result of the compression process is transmitted to a cross-correlation unit which is local to the second receiver and coupled also to receive the second digital signal. Locally to the first receiver, correction factors for the solution to the cross-correlation function are determined and transmitted to a correction unit at the second receiver site which applies the correction factors to the solution of the cross-correlation function. The location of the transmitter is determined based on time difference of arrival and frequency difference of arrival results output from the correction unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 29, 1996
    Assignee: Loral Federal Systems Company
    Inventor: Gerard A. DesJardins