Patents by Inventor Peter M. Buerger

Peter M. Buerger 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: 4885587
    Abstract: A decorrelated spur digital radio frequency memory (DRFM) system stores incoming radio frequency (RF) signals in a digital memory and at some later time replicates these RF signals at the output. The input RF signal to be stored is mixed with a local oscillator (LO) signal, which is coded with a decorrelation waveform, to produce an intermediate frequency (IF) signal which is next digitized with a multibit analog-to-digital (A/D) converter. This data is stored in a digital memory and is later retrieved from the memory and converted back to an analog IF signal. The IF signal is then mixed with the coded LO to produce a replica of the original RF signal. The code on the LO is the same decorrelation waveform used to produce the input IF signal. The resultant RF output spectrum can be made to be spectrally clean, i.e., containing no spurious harmonic signals arising from the signal's quantization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1989
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.
    Inventors: Richard J. Wiegand, Peter M. Buerger, Richard E. Marinaccio