Ecm (electronic Countermeasures, I.e., Jamming) Patents (Class 342/14)
  • Patent number: 11700079
    Abstract: An optronic system (100) for a countermeasure unit (10) to optically communicate with another communication terminal is disclosed. The countermeasure unit (10) comprises a laser beam source (12) and a directing device (14) for a laser beam (15) of the laser beam source (12) and is configured to dazzle or to jam an object of threat (50). The optronic system (100) comprising: a detector (110), a modulation unit (120), and a control unit (130). The detector (110) is configured to detect an incoming communication in an incoming signal (25). The modulation unit (120) is configured to demodulate the incoming signal (25) or cause a modulation of an outgoing laser beam (15). The control unit (130) is configured, in response to the detected incoming communication, to control the modulation unit (120) to demodulate the incoming signal (25) or to modulate the outgoing laser beam (15) to enable an optical communication via the laser beam source (12) of the countermeasure unit (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignees: HENSOLDT SENSORS GMBH, FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG
    Inventors: Oliver Rudow, Marc Eichhorn, Christelle Kieleck
  • Patent number: 11644285
    Abstract: An active countermeasure for military rotorcraft against a heat-seeking missile threat involves one or more telescoping booms or poles that are articulated at their proximal end to the fuselage of the rotorcraft and have an IR-radiating decoy mounted on their distal tip. When a missile launch is detected the missile flight path is computed and one or more of the booms are extended and swung out to place the decoy on the shot line of the missile. The decoy is then switched on and lures the missile away from the vulnerable components of the craft, such as the engine, rotors, and fuselage so as to cause a miss or failing that a detonation away from the rotorcraft. The countermeasures are stored compactly against or within the tail when not deployed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Inventor: Mark A. Pfluger
  • Patent number: 11632187
    Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) jamming device includes a differential segmented aperture (DSA), a jammer source outputting a jamming signal at one or more frequencies or frequency bands to be jammed, and RF electronics that amplify and feed the jamming signal to the DSA so as to emit a jamming beam. The DSA includes an array of electrically conductive tapered projections, and the RF electronics comprise power splitters configured to split the jamming signal to aperture pixels of the DSA. The aperture pixels comprise pairs of electrically conductive tapered projections of the array of electrically conductive tapered projections. The RF electronics further comprise pixel power amplifiers, each connected to amplify the jamming signal fed to a single corresponding aperture pixel of the DSA. The RF jamming device may include a rifle-shaped housing, with the DSA mounted at a distal end of the barrel of the rifle-shaped housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Battelle Memorial Institute
    Inventor: Raphael Joseph Welsh
  • Patent number: 11622555
    Abstract: Optical remote sensing systems for quantifying aerial or aquatic fauna with respect to number of living organisms, such as animals, such as insects, birds, bats or aquatic organisms, and to biological specificity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: FaunaPhotonics Agriculture & Environmental A/S
    Inventor: Mikkel Brydegaard Sørensen
  • Patent number: 11555885
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention is a method of transmitting a multibeam jamming signal of an array antenna and including: a signal receiving operation of receiving a radar signal from a plurality of radars; a signal analysis operation of analyzing the received radar signal and identifying an angle and frequency of the signal; a control phase value calculating operation of calculating a control phase value of each array path of the array antenna for each of the identified angles; and a multibeam jamming signal transmission operation of calculating a multibeam jamming signal based on the calculated control phase value and transmitting the multibeam jamming signal for each identified frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT
    Inventors: Yeon Soo Jang, In Seon Kim, Sang Won Kim, Beom Jun Park, Un Seob Jeong
  • Patent number: 11520008
    Abstract: A method of testing vehicular radar includes acquiring binary phase codes of transmitters in a radar DUT; acquiring desired FOVs and desired angular resolutions of the transmitters to determine target angles of emulated targets; calculating far field phases of a PMCW signal for binary phase states of the transmit array at each of the target angles to determine resultant phase symbol streams; calculating excess roundtrip time delay for each emulation delay, between the DUT and the emulated targets, and each setup delay between the DUT and each emulator receiver; time-shifting the resultant phase symbol streams by the excess roundtrip time delays; subtracting the time-shifted resultant phase symbol streams from the resultant phase symbol streams to obtain difference phase symbol streams; modulating a PMCW signal transmitted by the DUT by the difference phase symbol streams; and emulating the echo signals at the target angles in response to the modulated PMCW signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Keysight Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Gregory S. Lee
  • Patent number: 11502772
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of producing an output signal from a signal generator, comprising: determining a driving input to the signal generator, the driving input for driving the signal generator to provide a predetermined output signal, wherein the output signal includes at least one frame, the at least one frame comprising an active period and a dummy period and wherein the active period and dummy period are determined by the driving input. Also disclosed is a method of producing an output signal from a signal generator, comprising: receiving a synchronisation signal; obtaining an input signal for controlling the signal generator to generate an output signal comprising at least one frame wherein the at least one frame comprises at least one active period and at least one dummy period; producing the output signal comprising a series of frames; and, synchronising the output signal with the synchronisation signal by varying a duration of the at least one of the dummy period or active period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: KIRINTEC LIMITED
    Inventors: Richard Harrison, Paul Hill
  • Patent number: 11432732
    Abstract: A detection device for detecting and characterizing biological energy fields emitted by biological specimens is configured to collect and analyze an electromagnetic signal that includes millimeter-length waves generated by the interaction of atmospheric plasma with torsion waves of the biological energy field. The device performs spectral analysis on the millimeter waves to determine characteristics of the corresponding torsion waves that generated them. An array of several hundred non-thermal plasma plumes are placed directly in front of a circular horn. A switchable circular polarizer is used to select left hand circular, linear or right hand circular polarization. A low noise frequency converter allows a noise temperature of less than 1150 K. A frequency scan and averaging algorithm is developed to characterize noise temperature versus frequency, comparing signal and noise levels between plasma on and plasma off, and switching polarization sense.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: ChiScan Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Bryon K. Eckert, Bradley N. Eckert, Huan Truong
  • Patent number: 11411670
    Abstract: A chirp noise generation device for a compressed pulse signal includes: a receiving antenna; a signal analysis unit configured to determine whether to perform an electronic attack by analyzing a receipt signal that is inputted through the receiving antenna; and a digital frequency storage configured to store the receipt signal that is inputted through the receiving antenna, to generate a chirp noise by using the receipt signal, to generate a jamming signal by synthesizing the receipt signal and the chirp noise, and to transmit the jamming signal when a control command indicating that the electronic attack needs to be performed is received from the signal analysis unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT
    Inventors: Junghoon Lee, Jeil Jo
  • Patent number: 11411671
    Abstract: Systems and methods for disrupting unauthorized communication in low frequency radio communication devices are provided. Traditional systems and methods may fail to provide for disrupting unauthorized communications by generating low frequency signals in the same band as the low frequency bands of the low frequency radio communication devices. Embodiments of the present disclosure provides for overcoming the limitations faced by the traditional systems and methods by generating, via a square wave generator and a device coil of a low frequency radio communication device, low frequency signals; integrating the low frequency signals on a computing device by implementing a power controlling technique; and disrupting, via the integrated low frequency signals on the computing device, unauthorized communications in the low frequency radio communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: Viral Prakash Shah, Rishi Setiya, Gurjeet Singh Sohal, Fahim Khan
  • Patent number: 11378361
    Abstract: A system and method that uses one or more jet engines to remove unmanned aircraft from restricted airspace. Generally, the force created by a jet engine can be used to remove drones or other unwanted objects from the restricted airspace. Once the system determines the presence of an unauthorized aircraft or object within the restricted airspace, the jet engine(s) can be activated and used to pull the drone or flying object towards the jet engine though the force created by the intake of the jet engine(s), or to expel the drone or object from the restricted area through the force created by the exhaust of the jet engine(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: COLLATERAL OPPORTUNITIES, LLC
    Inventor: Bruce Howard Kusens
  • Patent number: 11300657
    Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for generating a jamming signal for deceiving a transmission/reception device. The apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive a signal transmitted from the transmission/reception device and a determination unit configured to determine whether or not the received signal is a pulse compression signal. The apparatus further includes a generation unit configured to determine, when the received signal is a pulse compression signal, a deception frequency based on a frequency bandwidth and a pulse width of the received pulse compression signal and generate the jamming signal based on the determined deception frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENT
    Inventors: Jung Hoon Lee, Jeil Jo
  • Patent number: 11243418
    Abstract: An RF frequency tuning-in-silicon photoconductive-switch-based high power microwave system including a cradle; a transmission line proximate the cradle; a photosensitive silicon material switch component also proximate the cradle; a laser light source having a varied illumination incidence location on the photosensitive material; and a laser alignment component providing the location of the illumination incidence location on the photosensitive material; whereby the inductance of the switch varies as a function of the incidence location of the illumination on the photosensitive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventor: John E. McGeehan
  • Patent number: 11196507
    Abstract: Disclosed is an anti-eavesdropping method for the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) based on intermittent cooperative jamming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: CHANGSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Xiaoshuang Xing, Gaofei Sun
  • Patent number: 11171514
    Abstract: A wireless power transmission system includes a power-supplying device including an electronic oscillator that generates electric power having a frequency of 1 MHz or more and 5 MHz or less, and a power-supplying coil member in which the electric power flows; and a power-receiving device including a power-receiving coil member that is capable of generating electric power based on the magnetic field generating from the power-supplying coil member, wherein the power-receiving coil member is a sheet coil including an insulating layer and a first coil pattern disposed at one side of the insulating layer, the first coil pattern is composed of wires, and the wires are disposed in spaced apart relation from each other with a predetermined space provided therebetween in the radial direction of the first coil pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taiki Sueyoshi, Masami Inoue, Hisashi Tsuda, Takashi Oda, Kaoru Ito, Hideshi Yamakawa, Daigo Tsubai, Toru Mizutani, Yasuyuki Ota
  • Patent number: 11171934
    Abstract: A process of hiding a key or data inside of random noise is introduced, whose purpose is to protect the privacy of the key or data. In some embodiments, the random noise is produced by quantum randomness, using photonic emission with a light emitting diode. When the data or key generation and random noise have the same probability distributions, and the key size is fixed, the security of the hiding can be made arbitrarily close to perfect secrecy, by increasing the noise size. The hiding process is practical in terms of infrastructure and cost, utilizing the existing TCP/IP infrastructure as a transmission medium, and using light emitting diode(s) and a photodetector in the random noise generator. In some embodiments, symmetric cryptography encrypts the data before the encrypted data is hidden in random noise, which substantially amplifies the computational complexity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Fiske Software LLC
    Inventor: Michael Stephen Fiske
  • Patent number: 11171736
    Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) jamming device includes a differential segmented aperture (DSA), a jammer source outputting a jamming signal at one or more frequencies or frequency bands to be jammed, and RF electronics that amplify and feed the jamming signal to the DSA so as to emit a jamming beam. The DSA includes an array of electrically conductive tapered projections, and the RF electronics comprise power splitters configured to split the jamming signal to aperture pixels of the DSA. The aperture pixels comprise pairs of electrically conductive tapered projections of the array of electrically conductive tapered projections. The RF electronics further comprise pixel power amplifiers, each connected to amplify the jamming signal fed to a single corresponding aperture pixel of the DSA. The RF jamming device may include a rifle-shaped housing, with the DSA mounted at a distal end of the barrel of the rifle-shaped housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE
    Inventor: Raphael Joseph Welsh
  • Patent number: 11067696
    Abstract: A defense system that receives information regarding an incoming object(s), then automatically coordinates spoofing or jamming of SATNAV signals potentially used by the incoming object(s) while also informing friendly systems of the spoofing or jamming of SATNAV signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: COUNTER ECHO SOLUTIONS LLC
    Inventors: Andrew H. Fink, William A. Wilson, IV, Ryan Thomas Holte
  • Patent number: 11031688
    Abstract: A wireless adapter front end system and method for an information handling system including a wireless adapter for communicating on a plurality antenna systems for connection to a plurality of wireless links and an antenna configurable to have a plurality of antenna radiation patterns via an antenna pattern steering control interface, wherein the antenna is operating in a first antenna radiation pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Suresh K. Ramasamy, Youngsoo Cho, Adolfo S. Montero, Ching Wei Chang, Ricardo R. Velasco, Geroncio O. Tan, Lars Fredrik Proejts, Jian Xin Guo, Stephen Shiao, Wei-Chia Huang
  • Patent number: 10969467
    Abstract: The invention relates to a portable electronic signal generator, and in particular a programmable multi-waveform radiofrequency generator for use as battlefield decoy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: KWESST INC.
    Inventor: Jeffrey M. Dunn
  • Patent number: 10876820
    Abstract: A system and method that uses one or more jet engines to remove unmanned aircraft from restricted airspace. Generally, the force created by a jet engine can be used to remove drones or other unwanted objects from the restricted airspace. Once the system determines the presence of an unauthorized aircraft or object within the restricted airspace, the jet engine(s) can be activated and used to pull the drone or flying object towards the jet engine though the force created by the intake of the jet engine(s), or to expel the drone or object from the restricted area through the force created by the exhaust of the jet engine(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Inventor: Bruce Kusens
  • Patent number: 10826644
    Abstract: Jamming systems uses wireless signals (e.g., radio waves) to deliberately prevent a target from accurately receiving desired wireless signals. The examples herein disclose an anti-jamming system that mitigates an effect that jamming signals have on a radio receiver. To do so, the anti-jamming system generates a plasma shield in a region of space between the target and the jamming system. Plasma is opaque to electromagnetic energy meaning that radio signals, lasers, microwave energy, and the like are unable to pass through the plasma, and instead, are absorbed by the plasma. As such, the jamming signals emitted by the jamming system are absorbed by the plasma shield and do not interfere with the target's radio receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventor: Jeffrey H. Hunt
  • Patent number: 10643153
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training and deploying machine-learned identification of radio frequency (RF) signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc.
    Inventor: Timothy James O'Shea
  • Patent number: 10585170
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining misalignment of a radar sensor unit mounted to a vehicle includes providing targets on an alignment apparatus. A vehicle is located at predetermined location on a test station an exact given distance from the alignment apparatus. The actual locations and distances of the targets from each other and from radar sensor unit of the vehicle at the test station are known and pre-stored. At least one target is a greater distance from the vehicle than the other targets. The targets receive and return a radar wave from the radar sensor unit. The radar sensor unit determines locations and distances of the targets and compares with the given or actual locations and distances of the targets to determine misalignment of the radar sensor unit. A calibration program automatically calibrates azimuth and elevation to adjust for misalignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GbmH
    Inventors: Raphael Hellinger, Oliver F. Schwindt
  • Patent number: 10564286
    Abstract: A defense system that receives information regarding an incoming object(s), then automatically coordinates spoofing or jamming of SATNAV signals potentially used by the incoming object(s) while also informing friendly systems of the spoofing or jamming of SATNAV signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: COUNTER ECHO SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew H. Fink, William A. Wilson, IV, Ryan Thomas Holte
  • Patent number: 10502818
    Abstract: A system for interacting with a thermal detector includes at least one unmanned aerial vehicle and a sensor mounted to the at least one unmanned aerial vehicle. The sensor is configured to determine the presence of a component of the thermal detector and to generate a signal indicative of the presence of the component. The system also includes a beam emitter mounted to the at least one unmanned vehicle and in communication with the sensor. The beam emitter includes a beam source configured to direct a beam of thermal radiation to the thermal detector in response to the signal from the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: LMD Power of Light Corporation
    Inventors: Susan Houde-Walter, Christopher Gagliano
  • Patent number: 10404211
    Abstract: A spot noise generator includes a mask component, a polyphase synthesizer, a first signal channel and second signal channel. The mask component has a narrowband noise input, a desired frequency channels word input, a first channel output and a second channel output. The narrowband noise input signal is a digital narrowband noise signal sampled approximately at the Nyquist rate. The desired frequency channels word selects one of the group consisting of the first channel output, the second channel output and a combination of the first channel output and the second channel output. The polyphase synthesizer synthesizes the first channel output signal, synthesizes the second channel output signal and outputs a desired noise signal based on the synthesized first channel output signal and the synthesized second channel output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Michael Civerolo, Nicholas Johnson, Nicholas A. Lumsden, Christopher L. Lichtenberg
  • Patent number: 10371799
    Abstract: A radar apparatus is calibrated while operating in a configuration such that the receiver obtains substantially no reflection from the transmitter. The resultant received signal is written into the compensation signal memory for use during normal operation. The calibration environment is achieved by operating the radar apparatus in a quiet environment or by operating a quieting switch within the radar apparatus to quiet the reflected radar signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Delta Mobile Systems, Inc
    Inventors: James C Graves, Jr., Debra A Jones
  • Patent number: 10338226
    Abstract: A defense system that receives information regarding an incoming object(s), then automatically coordinates spoofing or jamming of SATNAV signals potentially used by the incoming object(s) while also informing friendly systems of the spoofing or jamming of SATNAV signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: COUNTER ECHO SOLUTIONS LLC
    Inventors: Andrew H. Fink, William A. Wilson, IV, Ryan Thomas Holte
  • Patent number: 10296831
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a storage medium, for processing radio signals. In once aspect, a system is disclosed that includes a processor and a storage device storing computer code that includes operations. The operations may include obtaining first output data generated by a first neural network based on the first neural network processing a received radio signal, receiving, by a signal transformer, a second set of input data that includes (i) the received radio signal and (ii) the first output data, generating, by the signal transformer, data representing a transformed radio signal by applying one or more transforms to the received radio signal, providing the data representing the transformed radio signal to a second neural network, obtaining second output data generated by the second neural network, and determining based on the second output data a set of information describing the received radio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc.
    Inventor: Timothy James O'Shea
  • Patent number: 10257727
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing at least one report relating to a wireless communications spectrum. At least one device is operable for wideband scan; to detect and measure at least one signal transmitted from at least one signal emitting device autonomously, thereby creating signal data; to analyze the signal data in near real-time, thereby creating analyzed data; generate the at least one report in near real-time; and to communicate at least a portion of the at least one report over a network to at least one remote device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: DGS GLOBAL SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Ronald C. Dzierwa, Daniel Carbajal
  • Patent number: 10257728
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices enable spectrum management by identifying, classifying, and cataloging signals of interest based on radio frequency measurements. Signal data is compared with stored data to identify the signal of interest. Signal degradation data is calculated based on noise figure parameters, hardware parameters and environment parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: DGS GLOBAL SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Ronald C. Dzierwa, Gabriel R. Garcia, Daniel Carbajal
  • Patent number: 10257729
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided for automated identification of baseline data and changes in state in a wireless communications spectrum, by identifying sources of signal emission in the spectrum by automatically detecting signals, analyzing signals, comparing signal data to historical and reference data, creating corresponding signal profiles, and determining information about the baseline data and changes in state based upon the measured and analyzed data in near real time, which is stored on each apparatus or device and/or on a remote server computer that aggregates data from each apparatus or device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: DGS GLOBAL SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel Carbajal, Ronald C. Dzierwa
  • Patent number: 10231206
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for identifying a wireless signal-emitting device are disclosed. The apparatus is configured to sense and measure wireless communication signals from signal-emitting devices in a spectrum. The apparatus is operable to automatically detect a signal of interest from the wireless signal-emitting device and create a signal profile of the signal of interest; compare the signal profile with stored device signal profiles for identification of the wireless signal-emitting device; and calculate signal degradation data for the signal of interest based on information associated with the signal of interest in a static database including noise figure parameters of a wireless signal-emitting device outputting the signal of interest. The signal profile of the signal of interest, profile comparison result, and signal degradation data are stored in the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: DGS GLOBAL SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Ronald C. Dzierwa, Daniel Carbajal, David William Kleinbeck
  • Patent number: 10219163
    Abstract: Devices and methods enable optimizing a signal of interest based on identifying and analyzing the signal of interest based on radio frequency energy measurements. Signal data is compared with stored data to identify the signal of interest. Signal degradation data is calculated based on noise figure parameters, hardware parameters and environment parameters. The signal of interest is optimized based on the signal degradation data. Terrain data may also be used for optimizing the signal of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: DGS GLOBAL SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Ronald C. Dzierwa, Gabriel R. Garcia, Daniel Carbajal
  • Patent number: 10148421
    Abstract: A device is provided for jamming electromagnetic radiation liable to be emitted by at least one portion of an interconnect region located above at least one zone of an integrated electronic circuit produced in and on a semiconductor substrate. The device includes an antenna located above the at least one zone of the circuit and generating circuit coupled to the antenna and configured to generate an electrical signal having at least one pseudo-random property to pass through the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS
    Inventors: Thomas Ordas, Alexandre Sarafianos, Stephane Chesnais, Fabrice Marinet
  • Patent number: 10128976
    Abstract: A radio wave jamming system (1) comprises a plurality of radio transmitters (10) that are adapted to transmit respective jamming signals (11) including substantially the same frequency. The plurality of radio transmitters (10) are further adapted to temporally change at least one of the transmission phases of the jamming signals (11), which are to be transmitted from the plurality of radio transmitters (10), so as to temporally change the phase differences among the jamming signals (11) when the jamming signals (11) transmitted from the plurality of radio transmitters (10) arrive at a particular site (50). Thus, for example, a radio wave jamming system that can be constituted by small-output radio devices can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideto Shibohta, Shigeru Asai, Kenji Wakafuji, Masakazu Ono, Shingo Watanabe, Masato Kudou
  • Patent number: 10122479
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus for automatic signal detection with temporal feature extraction in an RF environment are disclosed. An apparatus learns the RF environment in a predetermined period based on statistical learning techniques, thereby creating learning data. A knowledge map is formed based on the learning data. The apparatus automatically extracts temporal features of the RF environment from the knowledge map. A real-time spectral sweep is scrubbed against the knowledge map. The apparatus is operable to detect a signal in the RF environment, which has a low power level or is a narrowband signal buried in a wideband signal, and which cannot be identified otherwise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: DGS GLOBAL SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventor: Ronald C. Dzierwa
  • Patent number: 9965267
    Abstract: An electronic warfare (EW) devices and a method of providing jamming techniques are generally described. Firmware is updated by eliminating an existing jamming technique, adding a new technique and/or changing parameters of one of the techniques in the firmware. Changing the technique parameters includes adding a new parameter, deleting an existing parameter, changing the range of values for an existing parameter and changing the order of the parameters to be transmitted by an Operational Flight Program (OFP) to the firmware to generate the technique. The OFP reads a published a register mapping specifying parameters to use in generating the jamming techniques in the EW firmware, a range of the parameters and an order of the parameters. The jamming techniques are generated using parameters transmitted by the OFP to the firmware. The same OFP is used to trigger generation of jamming techniques prior to and after the updating of the firmware.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Harry B. Marr, Jr., Jeffrey Jay Logan, Daniel Thompson
  • Patent number: 9812132
    Abstract: Provided is a system where users performing a coordinated process are localized in a complex environment based upon audio input. Audio commands are detected and executed based on system user vocalization. Available commands are limited by user status, location, process type and process progress. Command execution is limited by the presence and locations of system users, non-users, or extraneous equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Stéphane Vandroux, Mireille Haddad, Patrice Riou
  • Patent number: 9621300
    Abstract: A communications system comprising an ECM signal transmission arrangement for generating and transmitting an ECM signal, a first controller operable to control the ECM transmission arrangement such that the transmitted signal takes a pulsed form including a plurality of first periods in which the ECM signal is transmitted separated by second periods in which the ECM signal is not transmitted, a radio signal receiver arrangement forming or including a bandpass filter and arranged to receive a radio signal, and a second controller operable to control the signal received by the receiver arrangement to take a pulsed form including a plurality of third periods in which the radio signal is received by the receiver arrangement separated by fourth periods in which the radio receiver does not receive the radio signal, wherein the first and second controllers are synchronised such that the second periods are synchronised with the third periods, at the radio signal receiver arrangement such that the pulsed signal receiv
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Kirintec Limited
    Inventor: Roy Peter Peers-Smith
  • Patent number: 9584350
    Abstract: An electronic jamming circuit and method used to place a protective area around a person or vehicle so that an explosive device cannot be triggered are described. A wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) device in proximity to an explosive device is prevented from being triggered by a WCDMA communication by disruption of the ability of the WCDMA device to synchronize with, and thus cannot decipher, the communication. The jammer device may operate by forcing timing circuits in the WCDMA device to lock onto a jamming signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Liberty University
    Inventors: Michael Anthony Maiuzzo, Ronald Sones
  • Patent number: 9533760
    Abstract: This invention relates to capturing and displaying images and/or data received from a manned, or, more typically, an unmanned aerial drone. More particularly, the invention relates to a system of sensors mounted on an aerial drone and display systems in addition to transmission and reception components associated with the sensors and display systems respectively whereby images and/or data captured by the sensors can be transmitted to, received by, and viewed on single and multiple monitor display systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: CRANE-COHASSET HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventor: David Wagreich
  • Patent number: 9525466
    Abstract: A method of cancelling interference of a terminal is disclosed. The method includes receiving interference parameter configuration information including a transmission timing of interference parameter information indicating a restricted set of a plurality of interference parameters to be used by one or more interference base stations associated with the terminal and interference parameter release information including a transmission timing of an indicator indicating release of the interference parameter information, receiving the interference parameter information according to the interference parameter configuration information, performing interference cancellation using the received interference parameter information, attempting detection of the indicator according to the interference parameter release information, and performing the interference cancellation without the received interference parameter information or suspending the interference cancellation when the indicator is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kunil Yum, Hyungtae Kim, Hyunho Lee
  • Patent number: 9473268
    Abstract: A transmission frame generating device includes a control information signal generator and a frame former. The control information signal generator generates a modulation method information signal indicating a modulation method of a data signal and an error correction method information signal indicating an error correction method of the data signal. The frame former forms the transmission frame by repeating and discretely arranging the same modulation method information signal on a first multiple of a plurality of subcarriers on a frequency axis and by repeating and discretely arranging the same error correction method information signal on a second multiple of the plurality of the subcarriers on the frequency axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Katsuaki Abe, Masayuki Orihashi, Akihiko Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 9166732
    Abstract: One or more femto cell access points (FAPs) are employed to facilitate provisioning of security. A signal indicative of an intrusion in an area associated with an FAP can be received, and, based on receiving the signal, an identifier associated with a device in a range of the FAP can be determined. One or more frequencies in the range of the femto cell access point can be jammed, an attachment attempt emitted from the device in response to jamming the frequencies can be detected, and a telephone number of the device can be identified based, at least, on detecting the attachment attempt from the device. Warnings can also be sent to the device and/or tracking of the device can be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventors: Mark Causey, Arthur Richard Brisebois, Adrianne Binh Luu
  • Patent number: 9154466
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for introducing variation in sub-system output signals to prevent device fingerprinting may include (1) intercepting, on a computing device, an output signal sent from a sub-system device on a computing device to a software component on the computing device, (2) identifying a margin of error for the output signal, (3), creating a modified output signal by introducing variation into the output signal in such a way that (a) the variation does not exceed the margin of error for the output signal and (b) the modified output signal cannot be used to identify the computing device, and (4) sending the modified output signal to the software component. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Symantec Corporation
    Inventors: William E. Sobel, Bruce McCorkendale
  • Patent number: 9146303
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for producing and/or optimizing jamming codes for use in directional infrared countermeasures (DIRCM) systems. In some embodiments, Fourier analysis may be implemented to produce jamming codes which more efficiently (e.g., time efficient, power efficient) and/or more reliably (e.g., no frequency gaps) achieve optical break-lock (OBL) of infrared (IR)-seeking missiles/threats over a broad range of frequencies (e.g., short-wavelength IR, mid-wavelength IR), as compared to heritage jamming code methodologies. Some embodiments may be implemented in military/defense applications (e.g., protection of military/tactical aircraft or other vehicles); some other embodiments may be implemented in non-military/commercial applications (e.g., protection of domestic, civilian, and/or commercial aircraft or other vehicles).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Jordan S. Chabinsky, Jeffrey L. Jew
  • Patent number: 9020343
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention relate to pre-jam waveforms for enhanced optical break lock jamming effects. In various examples, pre-jam waveforms for enhanced optical break lock jamming effects may be implemented in the context of systems, methods, computer program products and/or algorithms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Jordan Chabinsky, Jeffrey Jew, Philip Soletsky, David E. Lindenbaum
  • Publication number: 20150015430
    Abstract: A radio signal jamming device for preventing mobile phone use by a driver when a vehicle is in operation includes a radio signal jammer capable of interfering with the normal operation of a mobile communication device, a controller, and a vehicular interface. The radio signal jamming device is activated when the vehicle is moving and thus preventing the mobile phone carried by the driver from sending and receiving mobile phone calls or text messages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventor: Li K. Wang