Patents Assigned to Nokomis, Inc.
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Patent number: 12638499Abstract: A device and method to test microelectronic parts to determine whether the parts are compromised by active illumination in a testing fixture by analysis of emission metrics.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2024Date of Patent: May 26, 2026Assignee: Nokomis, Inc.Inventors: Todd Eric Chornenky, James Robert Uplinger, II, Andrew Richard Portune, Walter J. Keller, III
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Publication number: 20260081386Abstract: An apparatus configured to acquire unintended emissions from a conductor passed through an opening in a toroid and electrically and mechanically connected to at least one connector. The apparatus includes an enclosure for RF shielding or physical protection of the ether. An RF connector is electrically and mechanically connected to ends of the toroid winding to carry a voltage from the electromagnetic field generated at the core. Connectors facilitate easy and secure connections with electrical devices and RF analysis equipment.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2025Publication date: March 19, 2026Applicant: Nokomis, Inc.Inventors: Walter J. Keller, III, VINCENT FENG, TODD ERIC CHORNENKY
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Publication number: 20260063700Abstract: Specific algorithmic methods are disclosed herein whereby the accumulated degradation or Remaining Useful Life (RUL) of an electrical semiconductor-based device or subsystem may be determined based on examining unintended RF emissions from the device or a subsystem while it is operating on a periodic, sporadic, or one-time basis. The methods may be then preferably combined to provide an accurate assessment and prediction of degree of its degradation or RUL. These assessments or predictions may be practical for more accurately allocating maintenance or replacement practices, especially for safety-critical systems. These assessments or predictions may be presented in an understandable, useful, comprehensive, more definitive, more detailed, or alternatively simpler format depending on the user's needs.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2024Publication date: March 5, 2026Applicant: Nokomis, Inc.Inventors: Walter J. Keller, III, Kenneth H. Munson, Jr.
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Patent number: 12445461Abstract: A method for detecting, in a real-time manner, a presence or an absence of a an anomaly in or a cyber attack onto a medical apparatus comprises the steps of capturing, with an antenna, one or more emissions of electromagnetic energy from the processing devices within medical apparatus; converting, with a receiver coupled to the antenna, the one or more emissions from an analog to a digital form; generating, with a controller, a digital signal in a time domain; converting, the digital signal from the time domain to a frequency domain, the digital signal containing a signature of cross modulation products from the non-linear attachments; processing, in the frequency domain, the signature of cross modulation products to determine mixing characteristics of the cross modulation products; and detecting, based on the mixing characteristics, the absence or the presence of the anomaly or the cyber attack.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2022Date of Patent: October 14, 2025Assignee: NOKOMIS, INC.Inventors: James Robert Uplinger, II, Walter J. Keller, III, Adam Brant
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Patent number: 12379329Abstract: A rapid virus and pathogen detector using RF and Dielectric Spectroscopy. The targeted virus or pathogen is identified by active illumination by RF energy and analysis of the response RF signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2020Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: Nokomis, Inc.Inventors: Walter J Keller, III, James Robert Uplinger, II, Vladimir Makarenko
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Publication number: 20250244107Abstract: A flexible multi-layered film with a printed deceptive image that mimics in the visual and infrared spectrum a landscape and/or an object. The image layer has an edge portion that has an irregularly cut pattern, that is lightened, and made transparent to blend into the surrounding environment and eliminate shadows. The image layer also has a variable concentration of a metal or high emissivity ink image and a color ink image. The film base layer is a thermal emitter and the intermediate layer has thermally conductive properties. The infrared radiation is transmitted or conducted to the metal or high emissivity ink image to provide a deceptive thermal signature.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2025Publication date: July 31, 2025Applicant: NOKOMIS, INC.Inventor: Joel B. Rovner
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Publication number: 20250052810Abstract: A method includes the steps of energizing, in a test fixture with a combination of a power signal and a clock signal, an electrical device selected from a plurality of electrical devices, measuring a first value of a parameter of the electrical device in a first emission of an electromagnetic energy in a radio frequency (RF) spectrum emitted from energized electrical device, irradiating the electrical device, irradiating the electrical device with a radiation dose in a radiation type, measuring a second value of the parameter in the second emission of the electromagnetic energy in the RF spectrum emitted from the energized and irradiated electrical device, measuring a difference between the first value and the second value, and determining a condition of the electrical device based on a measured difference.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2024Publication date: February 13, 2025Applicant: Nokomis, Inc.Inventors: Walter J. Keller, III, Kenneth H. Munson, JR., Anastazia Polakovsky
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Publication number: 20250007160Abstract: A sensor configured to determine a condition of an electrical device may include an antenna, a receiver and a controller designed to implement a method. The method of determining a condition of an electrical device may include selecting a plurality of singular dimensional components of a multi-dimensional signal of a radio frequency (RF) emission from an electrical device, extracting singular dimensional components individually or as a combination, inputting each individual extracted singular dimensional component or the combination of the components into a neural network (NN), and analyzing, with NN, outputs from the inputted singular dimensional component(s). Singular-spectrum analysis (SSA) and/or wavelet transform may be used to select components.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2024Publication date: January 2, 2025Applicant: Nokomis, Inc.Inventors: KAREN HEIKE SPIELER CANNE, JENNTING TIMOTHY HSU, VLADIMIR MAKARENKO
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Publication number: 20240410940Abstract: A device and method to test microelectronic parts to determine whether the parts are compromised by active illumination in a testing fixture by analysis of emission metrics.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2024Publication date: December 12, 2024Applicant: NOKOMIS, INC.Inventors: TODD Eric Chornenky, JAMES ROBERT UPLINGER, II, ANDREW RICHARD PORTUNE, WALTER J. KELLER, III
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Publication number: 20240356196Abstract: A diagnostic apparatus for analysis, testing, inspecting and/or screening an integrated and assembled electrically powered equipment rack and its populated cards and devices for measurement of degree of device aging, improper operation, degradation, condition, and/or Remaining Useful Life (RUL). The device includes an antenna card with a detachably attachable antenna module that can be positioned at a distance from the electrically devices under test and a signal receiver or sensor for examining a signal from the electrically powered device, but especially applied to rackmount supported electronics and/or chassis based electronics. The receiver or sensor collects unintended and/or intended RF energy components emitted by the electrically powered device and performs the above analysis in a response to the acquired signal input while the electrically powered device is active or powered.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2024Publication date: October 24, 2024Applicant: Nokomis, Inc.Inventor: Walter J. Keller, III
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Publication number: 20240353463Abstract: An apparatus configured to assess health of electronic components in vehicles. This may be achieved by simply driving a vehicle into or through a physical device or over a physical device and determining the health of the vehicle. The apparatus may be comprised of a physical enclosure with antennas and a RF emission or other electromagnetic emission signature analyzer. The antennas capture unintended electronic emissions from the vehicle which provide the electromagnetic signatures of the electronic component to the signature analyzer. The evolution of the unintended electromagnetic emissions signature as the electronics ages is measured and evaluated, providing a measure of the health of the electronics within the vehicle. The apparatus may have an ultra-sensitive RF collection portion with a sensitivity preferably of at least ?150 dBm. The RF collection portion may measure bandwidths of at least 100 MHz and may have a frequency resolution of 1 Hz or better.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2024Publication date: October 24, 2024Applicant: Nokomis, Inc.Inventor: Alexander Keller
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Patent number: 12117476Abstract: An apparatus for detecting a condition or authenticity of one or more electronic devices includes an enclosure having an antenna integrated therewithin, a fixture mounted within a hollow interior of the enclosure, the fixture being configured to receive the one or more electronic devices and connect one or more signals to each of the one or more electronic devices and a sensor and controller assembly connected to the antenna and configured to process a signature of an emission of a radiofrequency (RF) energy from of one or more electronic devices having the one or more signals connected thereto.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2023Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Nokomis, Inc.Inventors: Walter J. Keller, III, Andrew Richard Portune, Todd Eric Chornenky, William Anthony Davis
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Patent number: 12068544Abstract: A sensor configured to determine a condition of an electrical device may include an antenna, a receiver and a controller designed to implement a method. The method of determining a condition of an electrical device may include selecting a plurality of singular dimensional components of a multi-dimensional signal of a radio frequency (RF) emission from an electrical device, extracting singular dimensional components individually or as a combination, inputting each individual extracted singular dimensional component or the combination of the components into a neural network (NN), and analyzing, with NN, outputs from the inputted singular dimensional component (s). Singular-spectrum analysis (SSA) and/or wavelet transform may be used to select components.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: NOKOMIS, INC.Inventors: Karen Heike Spieler Canne, Jennting Timothy Hsu, Vladimir Makarenko
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Patent number: 12050242Abstract: An apparatus configured to assess health of electronic components in vehicles. This may be achieved by simply driving a vehicle into or through a physical device or over a physical device and determining the health of the vehicle. The apparatus may be comprised of a physical enclosure with antennas and a RF emission or other electromagnetic emission signature analyzer. The antennas capture unintended electronic emissions from the vehicle which provide the electromagnetic signatures of the electronic component to the signature analyzer. The evolution of the unintended electromagnetic emissions signature as the electronics ages is measured and evaluated, providing a measure of the health of the electronics within the vehicle. The apparatus may have an ultra-sensitive RF collection portion with a sensitivity preferably of at least ?150 dBm. The RF collection portion may measure bandwidths of at least 100 MHz and may have a frequency resolution of 1 Hz or better.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2021Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Nokomis, Inc.Inventor: Alexander Keller
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Patent number: 12040531Abstract: A diagnostic apparatus for analysis, testing, inspecting and/or screening an integrated and assembled electrically powered equipment rack and its populated cards and devices for measurement of degree of device aging, improper operation, degradation, condition, and/or Remaining Useful Life (RUL). The device includes an antenna card with a detachably attachable antenna module that can be positioned at a distance from the electrically devices under test and a signal receiver or sensor for examining a signal from the electrically powered device, but especially applied to rackmount supported electronics and/or chassis based electronics. The receiver or sensor collects unintended and/or intended RF energy components emitted by the electrically powered device and performs the above analysis in a response to the acquired signal input while the electrically powered device is active or powered.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2021Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: NOKOMIS, INC.Inventor: Walter J. Keller, III
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Patent number: 11936766Abstract: A receiver includes a circuit designed to process, based on a plurality of timed waveform reference locations, a waveform signal, the waveform signal comprising a message. The circuit may include a clock source, an input configured to receive the waveform signal, a time location reference circuit coupled to the clock source, the time location reference circuit designed to output the plurality of timed waveform reference locations, each timed waveform reference location being set by the clock, and a signal processing circuit coupled to the time location reference circuit, the signal processing circuit designed to generate an output voltage in a response to the waveform signal being inputted into the signal processing circuit through the input and processed at each timed waveform reference location from the series of timed waveform reference locations. A transmitter that generates the waveform signal can be also provided where the clocks are matched.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: NOKOMIS, INC.Inventor: Todd Eric Chornenky
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Publication number: 20240044963Abstract: An apparatus for detecting a condition or authenticity of one or more electronic devices includes an enclosure having an antenna integrated therewithin, a fixture mounted within a hollow interior of the enclosure, the fixture being configured to receive the one or more electronic devices and connect one or more signals to each of the one or more electronic devices and a sensor and controller assembly connected to the antenna and configured to process a signature of an emission of a radiofrequency (RF) energy from of one or more electronic devices having the one or more signals connected thereto.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: Nokomis, Inc.Inventors: Walter J. Keller, III, Andrew Richard Portune, Todd Eric Chornenky, William Anthony Davis
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Patent number: 11879935Abstract: A device and method to test microelectronic parts to determine whether the parts are compromised by active illumination in a testing fixture within a shielded enclosure by analysis of emission metrics. The testing fixture can include a first layer with a capacitive member and a second layer with a cavity to receive a microelectronic part. A filter in a transmission chain can pass a high power signal to the fixture. A filter in a receving chain can pass a low power signal to the analysis unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2020Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: NOKOMIS, INC.Inventors: Todd Eric Chornenky, James Robert Uplinger, II, Andrew Richard Portune, Walter J Keller, III
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Patent number: 11733283Abstract: An apparatus for detecting a condition or authenticity of one or more electronic devices includes an enclosure having an antenna integrated therewithin, a fixture mounted within a hollow interior of the enclosure, the fixture being configured to receive the one or more electronic devices and connect one or more signals to each of the one or more electronic devices and a sensor and controller assembly connected to the antenna and configured to process a signature of an emission of a radiofrequency (RF) energy from of one or more electronic devices having the one or more signals connected thereto.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Nokomis, Inc.Inventors: Walter John Keller, III, Andrew Richard Portune, Todd Eric Chornenky, William Anthony Davis
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Publication number: 20230097993Abstract: A method for detecting, in a real-time manner, a presence or an absence of a an anomaly in or a cyber attack onto a medical apparatus comprises the steps of capturing, with an antenna, one or more emissions of electromagnetic energy from the processing devices within medical apparatus; converting, with a receiver coupled to the antenna, the one or more emissions from an analog to a digital form; generating, with a controller, a digital signal in a time domain; converting, the digital signal from the time domain to a frequency domain, the digital signal containing a signature of cross modulation products from the non-linear attachments; processing, in the frequency domain, the signature of cross modulation products to determine mixing characteristics of the cross modulation products; and detecting, based on the mixing characteristics, the absence or the presence of the anomaly or the cyber attack.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: NOKOMIS, INC.Inventors: JAMES ROBERT UPLINGER, II, WALTER J. KELLER, III, ADAM BRANT