Patents Assigned to Nottingham Scientific Limited
  • Patent number: 11150356
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for generating a test signal for a PNT configuration, and for testing a PNT configuration are disclosed. One such method comprises the steps of using one or more GNSS jamming signal detectors (100) to detect at least three different types of threat signal, each being an RF-based man-made GNSS jamming signal, and recording, to a database, information for the threat signals; receiving, from the database, information for at least one of the threat signals; generating a corresponding threat signal from the received information; and combining the corresponding threat signal with a PNT signal via a signal combiner to generate the test signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: NOTTINGHAM SCIENTIFIC LIMITED
    Inventors: Timothy Christopher Whitworth, Yeqiu Ying, Mark Dumville, John Pottle, Guy Buesnel
  • Patent number: 10545245
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for detecting, geo-locating and/or classifying a GPS or GNSS jamming signal are disclosed. One such method comprises the steps of analysing a spectrogram of the jamming signal using a tree-based decision process and as a result, then selecting one of a number of types of jamming signal, wherein one of the decisions (1103) in the tree is whether the spectrogram has spectral periodicity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Nottingham Scientific Limited
    Inventors: Yeqiu Ying, Timothy Christopher Whitworth, Kevin Sheridan
  • Publication number: 20170261615
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for detecting, geo-locating and/or classifying a GPS or GNSS jamming signal are disclosed. One such method comprises the steps of analysing a spectrogram of the jamming signal using a tree-based decision process and as a result, then selecting one of a number of types of jamming signal, wherein one of the decisions (1103) in the tree is whether the spectrogram has spectral periodicity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: Nottingham Scientific Limited
    Inventors: Yeqiu YING, Timothy Christopher WHITWORTH, Kevin SHERIDAN