Patents by Inventor Robert Daniel Kossler

Robert Daniel Kossler 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: 10804952
    Abstract: Systems and methods for improving isolation between a cosite transmitter-receiver system. The transmitter may send a first plurality of transmit signals from multiple transmit ports. The first plurality of transmit signals may be related to one another by a first set of complex weights. The receiver may detect channel-impaired versions of the first plurality of transmit signals at one or more receive ports. The receiver may analyze channel-impaired versions of the first plurality of transmit signals to estimate channel state information. The transmitter may use the channel state information to determine a second set of complex weights which will reduce the power received at one or more ports of the receiver when applied to a second plurality of transmit signals. The second set of complex weights may vary with frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC
    Inventors: Thomas G. Pratt, Robert Daniel Kossler
  • Patent number: 10707975
    Abstract: A signal source association method and receiver. A receiver can be used to detect a plurality of signals transmitted from a plurality of transmission sources. The receiver can determine amplitude and phase information for a plurality of frequency components of each of the plurality of signals. The receiver can also determine a set of comparison values by comparing the respective amplitude and phase information from one or more pairs of the plurality of signals. Finally, the receiver can associate one of the signals with one of the plurality of transmission sources using the set of comparison values. The comparison values can comprise Stokes parameters and the one or more pairs of the plurality of signals can comprise a pair of orthogonally polarized signals or a pair of signals detected from spatially-separated antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC
    Inventors: Thomas G. Pratt, Robert Daniel Kossler, Jeffrey G. Mueller, Joseph Lawrence Loof
  • Patent number: 10630510
    Abstract: Methods and systems relating to topics in space-polarization modulated communications. The topics include: adaptive space-polarization modulated communications using channel state information at the transmitter; adaptive decision boundaries at the receiver; carrier frequency offset estimation for multi-carrier modulation schemes; transmission of analog images using polarization and coherence dispersion information; and reduction of peak-to-average power ratio in multi-carrier modulation schemes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC
    Inventors: Thomas Pratt, Robert Daniel Kossler, Benjamin Strycker, Jeffrey G. Mueller
  • Patent number: 10623075
    Abstract: A multi-port transmitter can synthesize and send a first plurality of transmit signals having a separability characteristic which permits them to be differentiated from one another. A receiver can then detect one or more receiver signals which include one or more combinations of received versions of the first plurality of transmit signals. The receiver may use the separability characteristic to determine the received versions of the first plurality of transmit signals from the one or more receiver signals. Then, the receiver may determine an estimated signal corresponding to the estimated receiver response to a second plurality of virtual transmit signals which comprise a combination of the first plurality of transmit signals. Determining the estimated signal may include forming a combination of the received versions of the first plurality of transmit signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC
    Inventors: Thomas G. Pratt, Robert Daniel Kossler, Jeffrey G. Mueller
  • Publication number: 20170353210
    Abstract: Systems and methods for improving isolation between a cosite transmitter-receiver system. The transmitter may send a first plurality of transmit signals from multiple transmit ports. The first plurality of transmit signals may be related to one another by a first set of complex weights. The receiver may detect channel-impaired versions of the first plurality of transmit signals at one or more receive ports. The receiver may analyze channel-impaired versions of the first plurality of transmit signals to estimate channel state information. The transmitter may use the channel state information to determine a second set of complex weights which will reduce the power received at one or more ports of the receiver when applied to a second plurality of transmit signals. The second set of complex weights may vary with frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventors: Thomas G. Pratt, Robert Daniel Kossler
  • Publication number: 20170338874
    Abstract: A multi-port transmitter can synthesize and send a first plurality of transmit signals having a separability characteristic which permits them to be differentiated from one another. A receiver can then detect one or more receiver signals which include one or more combinations of received versions of the first plurality of transmit signals. The receiver may use the separability characteristic to determine the received versions of the first plurality of transmit signals from the one or more receiver signals. Then, the receiver may determine an estimated signal corresponding to the estimated receiver response to a second plurality of virtual transmit signals which comprise a combination of the first plurality of transmit signals. Determining the estimated signal may include forming a combination of the received versions of the first plurality of transmit signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Thomas G. Pratt, Robert Daniel Kossler, Jeffrey G. Mueller
  • Publication number: 20170054583
    Abstract: Methods and systems relating to topics in space-polarization modulated communications. The topics include: adaptive space-polarization modulated communications using channel state information at the transmitter; adaptive decision boundaries at the receiver; carrier frequency offset estimation for multi-carrier modulation schemes; transmission of analog images using polarization and coherence dispersion information; and reduction of peak-to-average power ratio in multi-carrier modulation schemes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Inventors: Thomas Pratt, Xiaobin Wu, Thomas E. Fuja, Robert Daniel Kossler, Benjamin Strycker, Jeffrey G. Mueller
  • Publication number: 20170019193
    Abstract: A signal source association method and receiver. A receiver can be used to detect a plurality of signals transmitted from a plurality of transmission sources. The receiver can determine amplitude and phase information for a plurality of frequency components of each of the plurality of signals. The receiver can also determine a set of comparison values by comparing the respective amplitude and phase information from one or more pairs of the plurality of signals. Finally, the receiver can associate one of the signals with one of the plurality of transmission sources using the set of comparison values. The comparison values can comprise Stokes parameters and the one or more pairs of the plurality of signals can comprise a pair of orthogonally polarized signals or a pair of signals detected from spatially-separated antennas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Thomas G. Pratt, Robert Daniel Kossler, Jeffrey G. Mueller, Joseph Lawrence Loof