Patents Assigned to Quasar Federal Systems
  • Patent number: 11294020
    Abstract: A radio receiver is made much more immune to jamming signals. A vector EM sensor, in a 2-dimensional (3-axis sensor) or 3-dimensional (6-axis sensor) sensor configuration, is combined with a unique digital rotation to a preferred direction to create a new reference channel and, using an advanced frequency domain noise mitigation algorithm or other noise cancellation algorithm, can effectively reject jamming and other interference signals and improve the signal-to-noise ratio (20-40 dB) and the receiving performance of the receiver. The method can cancel both near-field and far-field interference and improve accuracy for various applications concerned with establishing the direction, or bearing, to a source. A communication receiver with the vector sensor and the cancellation algorithm has unique anti-jamming capabilities even for multiple jamming sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: QUASAR FEDERAL SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Yongming Zhang, Robert Dickey
  • Patent number: 10184968
    Abstract: A system and method use electric potential measurements to locate and characterize passing projectiles, including advanced data processing methods to reject background noise and determine projectile speed, preferentially incorporating acoustic-based measurements to provide additional benefits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Quasar Federal Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Yongming Zhang
  • Patent number: 10082546
    Abstract: An underwater EM measurement system, which is substantially smaller, much simpler to use, and more robust than prior systems, is formed as a sensor package integrated into a single pressure vessel includes two magnetic sensors including induction coils disposed substantially horizontally so as to measure fields in orthogonal directions. The package also includes two electric field sensors including electric potential antennas adapted to couple to a water potential via a capacitive electrode having a conducting material and an electrically insulative layer formed of an insulating material. The capacitive electrode has a capacitance to the medium of greater than 1 mF. Preferably, the insulating material is a metal oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Quasar Federal Systems
    Inventors: Andrew D. Hibbs, Thomas Kurt Nielsen
  • Publication number: 20180003756
    Abstract: A system and method use electric potential measurements to locate and characterize passing projectiles, including advanced data processing methods to reject background noise and determine projectile speed, preferentially incorporating acoustic-based measurements to provide additional benefits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: Quasar Federal Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Yongming ZHANG
  • Patent number: 7391210
    Abstract: An integrated fluxgate-induction sensor is formed of a combined fluxgate sensor and induction sensor using a common core. The sensor may be in serial operation where it switches between a fluxgate mode for measuring static magnetic fields and an induction mode for measuring alternating magnetic fields. Additionally, the sensor may be used in an interleaved operation where the sensor operates from the fluxgate mode during the transition period where its core is changing from a high permeability state to a low permeability state or vice versa, while the sensor operates in the induction mode when the core is in its high permeability state. The resulting sensor provides for a compact magnetic sensor system capable of sensing magnetic fields which oscillate from zero frequency to 10 kHz and higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Assignee: QUASAR Federal Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Yongming Zhang, Andrew D. Hibbs, Robert Earl Grimm
  • Patent number: 7141968
    Abstract: A compact sensor system integrates electric and/or magnetic field sensors to accurately measure, with a high level of sensitivity, one or more electric and magnetic vector components of fields. The electric and magnetic field data can be utilized separately or combined. The sensor system is self-contained so as to include a built-in power source, as well as data storage and/or transmission capability. The integrated sensor system also preferably includes a global positioning system (GPS) to provide timing and position information, a sensor unit which can determine the orientation and tilt of the sensor system, and self-calibrating structure which produces local electric and/or magnetic fields used to calibrate the sensor system following deployment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2006
    Assignee: Quasar Federal Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew D. Hibbs, Robert Matthews, David Matthew Jabson