Patents by Inventor Ira Ekhaus

Ira Ekhaus 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: 10698103
    Abstract: A system and method for generating high-resolution imagery using electromagnetic signals includes a moveable vehicle and a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar system carried by the vehicle. The MIMO radar system includes an antenna array having a plurality of antenna elements. One or more of the antenna elements transmits electromagnetic signals towards a target area and one or more of the antenna elements receives back-scattered electromagnetic signals reflected from the target area. The system generates high-resolution three-dimensional imagery based on back-scattered electromagnetic signal data with system performance characterized by: (a) down range resolution ?R; (b) cross-range resolution ?X; and (c) vertical resolution ?H. The system exploits effective synthetic apertures to improve cross-range resolution ?X and vertical resolution ?H based on, at least in part, the movement of the vehicle along the trajectory and a width and height of the antenna array relative to the target area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Peter B. Weichman, Ira Ekhaus
  • Publication number: 20190033440
    Abstract: The system and method of radar tracking using orthogonal interferometry for multiple object tracking and more particularly to the use of multiple, coordinated, scanning radar systems and orthogonal interferometry techniques to increase the precision and accuracy of time-space-position information (ISM in military airborne object testing applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Timothy BOOLOS, Michael KURECKI, Ira EKHAUS
  • Publication number: 20180364351
    Abstract: A system and method for generating high-resolution imagery using electromagnetic signals includes a moveable vehicle and a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar system carried by the vehicle. The MIMO radar system includes an antenna array having a plurality of antenna elements. One or more of the antenna elements transmits electromagnetic signals towards a target area and one or more of the antenna elements receives back-scattered electromagnetic signals reflected from the target area. The system generates high-resolution three-dimensional imagery based on back-scattered electromagnetic signal data with system performance characterized by: (a) down range resolution ?R; (b) cross-range resolution ?X; and (c) vertical resolution ?H. The system exploits effective synthetic apertures to improve cross-range resolution ?X and vertical resolution ?H based on, at least in part, the movement of the vehicle along the trajectory and a width and height of the antenna array relative to the target area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Peter B. Weichman, Ira Ekhaus
  • Patent number: 7052445
    Abstract: This invention pertains to an improved adjustable kettlebell that has a stack of standard weight plates, a rounded grip section, a support bar serving to hold the weight stack, and flexible attachment members with cutouts for the support bar. The flexible attachment members provide a mechanically compliant clamping arrangement to accommodate weight stack of varying widths, and the cutouts allowing adjustment to the relative distance between the grip axis and the support bar axis. The improved adjustable kettlebell of the current invention serves as a close physical approximation to a solid cast kettlebell with a wide combination of standard weight plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Inventor: Ira Ekhaus
  • Publication number: 20060035767
    Abstract: This invention pertains to an improved adjustable kettlebell that has a stack of standard weight plates, a rounded grip section, a support bar serving to hold the weight stack, and flexible attachment members with cutouts for the support bar. The flexible attachment members provide a mechanically compliant clamping arrangement to accommodate weight stack of varying widths, and the cutouts allowing adjustment to the relative distance between the grip axis and the support bar axis. The improved adjustable kettlebell of the current invention serves as a close physical approximation to a solid cast kettlebell with a wide combination of standard weight plates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2004
    Publication date: February 16, 2006
    Inventor: Ira Ekhaus
  • Patent number: 6448488
    Abstract: A system and a method of measuring, decomposing, processing and uniquely recombining forces and vibrations acting on stringed musical instruments (SMI). The system utilizes a digital signal processor and reproduces the musical sound characteristics of an acoustic instrument into high fidelity electrical signals for amplification, processing and/or filtering and reproduction of musical sounds by uniquely exploiting, through measurements and subsequent signal processing, the vector nature of string excitation forces (SEF) and body vibrations of stringed musical instruments. A signal processing system of the current invention also utilizes a plurality of sensors, each responsive to at least one of force, displacement, velocity or acceleration indicative of the vibrational energy of the strings, to produce a sensor signal vector, which is then processed and transformed by a plurality of re-creation filters into a transformed signal vector, and then resynthesized into an output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Assignee: Fishman Transducers, Inc.
    Inventors: Ira Ekhaus, Lawrence Fishman