Patents by Inventor Kenneth Mulvaney

Kenneth Mulvaney 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: 8324962
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for demodulation are provided. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an input signal having a frequency that varies in relation to a state of the signal, calculating a sine and cosine of a phase control signal, generating a first signal proportional to the sine of a product of a first quantity and the frequency of the input signal, generating a second signal proportional to the cosine of a product of the first quantity and the frequency of the input signal, and summing a product of the first signal and the cosine of the phase control signal with a product of the second signal and the sine of the phase control signal to generate a demodulator output for resolving the state of the input signal. In certain implementations, the phase control signal is controlled so as to reduce a frequency error of the input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth Mulvaney
  • Publication number: 20120200348
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for demodulation are provided. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an input signal having a frequency that varies in relation to a state of the signal, calculating a sine and cosine of a phase control signal, generating a first signal proportional to the sine of a product of a first quantity and the frequency of the input signal, generating a second signal proportional to the cosine of a product of the first quantity and the frequency of the input signal, and summing a product of the first signal and the cosine of the phase control signal with a product of the second signal and the sine of the phase control signal to generate a demodulator output for resolving the state of the input signal. In certain implementations, the phase control signal is controlled so as to reduce a frequency error of the input signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2011
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: ANALOG DEVICES, INC.
    Inventor: Kenneth Mulvaney
  • Publication number: 20050137815
    Abstract: A digital frequency measurement system including first and second digital differentiators responsive to first and second digital quadrature signals representative of first and second quadrature modulated input signals that represent binary data having a center frequency equal to a predetermined IF frequency for generating first and second differentiated signals, first and second processing circuits responsive to the first and second digital quadrature signals representative of the modulated input signals and the first and second differentiated signals for multiplying the first differentiated signal by the second quadrature digital representation of the input signals and multiplying the second differentiated signal by the first quadrature digital representation of the input signals to provide first and second multiplied signals, a combining circuit responsive to the first and second multiplied signals for generating a density signal having a pulse density proportional to the frequency of the input signals, a d
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2004
    Publication date: June 23, 2005
    Inventors: Philip Quinlan, Kenneth Mulvaney, Patrick Crowley, William Hunt
  • Publication number: 20050089120
    Abstract: An FSK demodulator system with tunable spectral shaping including a pair of quadri-correlators responsive to first and second quadrature signals, one of the pair deriving first and second signals representative of the frequency deviation of the quadrature signals at even integer multiples of the frequency deviation and for resolving the modulated FSK data represented by the quadrature signals and the other of the pair deriving first and second signals representative of the frequency deviation of the quadrature signals at odd integer multiples of the deviation frequency and for resolving the modulated FSK data represented by the quadrature signals, and a delay control circuit for setting a delay to each of the pair of quadri-correlators to control the first and second signals representative of the frequency deviation of the quadrature signals derived by each of the pair of quadri-correlators and generate a tuned spectral response at both even and odd integer multiples of the frequency deviation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2004
    Publication date: April 28, 2005
    Inventors: Philip Quinlan, Kenneth Mulvaney, Patrick Crowley, William Hunt