Patents by Inventor Peter F. Barbella

Peter F. Barbella 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: 6828929
    Abstract: A method for processing pulsed-Doppler radar signals to detect a target includes transmitting radar signals from a radar system according to a predetermined frequency technique including signals having frequency diversity, receiving signals within a frequency band, including a target return signal having a frequency indicative of the velocity of the target, and transforming the target return signal using a Fourier Transform having a variable frequency scale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Peter F. Barbella, Tamara L. Franz, Barbara E. Pauplis
  • Publication number: 20040150552
    Abstract: A method for processing pulsed-Doppler radar signals to detect a target includes transmitting radar signals from a radar system according to a predetermined frequency technique including signals having frequency diversity, receiving signals within a frequency band, including a target return signal having a frequency indicative of the velocity of the target, and transforming the target return signal using a Fourier Transform having a variable frequency scale.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Peter F. Barbella, Tamara L. Franz, Barbara E. Pauplis
  • Patent number: 5808578
    Abstract: A method for calibrating the radar system includes the steps of: replacing stored statistically generated "average" error correction coefficients with error correction coefficients personal to a missile under test. More particularly, stored in the missile's memory are: (a) first personalized error correction coefficients generated in response to test signals produced internal to the missile and injected into a monopulse arithmetic unit for the missile's receiver/processor; and (b) a second set of personalized error coefficients generated in response to test signals external to the missile and injected through the missile's antenna to the receiver/processor. The missile includes a radio frequency (R.F.) energy test signal generator for performing a test during the missile's flight to determine "in-flight" personalized error correction coefficients. The test is performed in-flight by injecting the R.F.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1998
    Inventors: Peter F. Barbella, Malcolm F. Crawford, William M. Kaupinis, Jeffrey E. Carmella, Michael A. Davis
  • Patent number: 4599616
    Abstract: A radar fuzing system for use in a guided missile wherein the system is tuned in accordance with the estimated intercept closing velocity to permit the use of narrower bandpass filters and thereby reduce the probability of detecting pulse repetition frequency lines and very low Doppler returns from chaff bundles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1986
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: Peter F. Barbella, Ronald A. Wagner