Patents Assigned to The United State of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
  • Publication number: 20230401358
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for improving wireless power system design and analysis using a System-of-Systems (SoS) approach. The SoS approach includes multiple systems for analyzing, modeling, and simulating various aspects of wireless power system, particular for wireless power systems for unmanned aerial vehicles. The multiple systems include using a multiphysics approach that accounts for electromagnetic, thermal, and structural aspects of a wireless power system, such as for a rectenna design. The SoS approach further includes allowing selection and/or input of various variables such as diode selection, geographic/atmospheric, and other measured data/information to more closely model and simulate real world conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Corey Bergsrud, Alex Lynne Zellner, Bradley T Sutton, Alexander Canady
  • Publication number: 20230400289
    Abstract: Provided is a multi-configuration transportable demolition pouch that includes a cruciform shaped section of fabric with a central explosive containing area and four trimmable flaps, a fastener on each of the flaps, a strap accepting slit, a first and a second strap, a fabric lid and priming hole, and one or more energetic device that can be selected based on desired blast footprint. The pouch can be trimmed when using smaller quantities of explosives to reduce its footprint and facilitate ease of carrying and emplacement. The device has attachment features to aid in transport and to provide proper spacing and attachment points for demolitions and breeching techniques involving multiple charges. The pouch provides components to allow for blast footprint alteration and for water tamping to reduce blast effects to nearby personnel, as well as to increase the efficiency of the explosive charge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: Clayton Andrew Thompson
  • Patent number: 11843421
    Abstract: A communication system utilizes acoustic helical waves to transmit and receive information. The acoustic communication system can communicate securely underwater or in fluids and may be used to communicate with underwater vehicles or in medical settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: Grant Eastland
  • Patent number: 11841338
    Abstract: Optical and electronic detection of chemicals, and particularly strong electron-donors, by 2H to 1T phase-based transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) films, detection apparatus incorporating the TMD films, methods for forming the detection apparatus, and detection systems and methods based on the TMD films are provided. The detection apparatus includes a 2H phase TMD film that transitions to the 1T phase under exposure to strong electron donors. After exposure, the phase state can be determined to assess whether all or a portion of the TMD has undergone a transition from the 2H phase to the 1T phase. Following detection, TMD films in the 1T phase can be converted back to the 2H phase, resulting in a reusable chemical sensor that is selective for strong electron donors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Adam L. Friedman, F. Keith Perkins, James C. Culbertson, Aubrey T. Hanbicki, Paul M. Campbell
  • Patent number: 11841215
    Abstract: Provided is a modular directional charge system that can be assembled in different configurations depending on the target. The system includes a removable energetic material, a molded plastic shell comprising a main body and a front cover, a removable fragmentation insert, a removable breaching insert, an initiator well insert, and initiator adapter nuts. The main body comprises an internal energetic material receiving compartment, a first and second tripod mount, a threaded adapter, and a pair of pin receivers, while the front cover comprises an internal removable insert compartment. The main body and front cover are held together with a multi-position adjustable toothed locking interface that adjustably permits the cover to intimately contact the energetic material when the internal removable insert compartment contains a fragmentation insert, a breaching insert, or no insert at all. A method of use is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Lucas Allison, Michael H. Jones, Calvin Lawson, Lucius A. Taylor, IV
  • Publication number: 20230393051
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for automated corrosion testing are disclosed. The apparatus and methods afford an integrated corrosion testing system that allows input of testing parameters for testing of specimen including temperature, pH, salinity, and/or chemical composition of a testing solution (e.g., a customizable testing solution), flow rates of the solution, parameters for cyclic immersion of the specimen into the testing solution, and time of testing. The system is automated to perform corrosion testing according to the input parameter including constant monitoring of the system to ensure the parameters are met including ensuring the desired testing solution characteristics are maintained with little or no user input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: Armen Kvryan
  • Publication number: 20230394771
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method for augmented reality tracking of unmanned systems using multimodal input processing, comprising receiving multimodal inputs, calculating unmanned vehicle positions, providing identifiers associated with the unmanned vehicles location, and superimposing the indicators on an augmented reality display. Furthermore, this may include providing an operator/pilot with telemetry information pertaining to unmanned vehicles, task or assignment information, and more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Mark Bilinski, Shibin Parameswaran, Martin Thomas Jaszewski, Daniel Sean Jennings
  • Publication number: 20230391992
    Abstract: A method of restoring an elastomer by providing an article containing a first elastomer and having a surface, contacting the surface with a layer conformal to the surface, and applying heat and pressure to the layer. The layer contains a second elastomer and a solute. The heat and pressure induce a transfer of the solute from the layer to the article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Peter H. Mott, Howard L. Schrader, Nickolaus K. Weise
  • Patent number: 11835640
    Abstract: An apparatus and method identify emitters. The apparatus includes a receiver, a parameter estimator, a database, and a correlator. The receiver receives an electromagnetic signal from an emitter and measures actual values of observed parameters of the electromagnetic signal. The parameter estimator surmises surmised values of unobserved parameters from the actual values of the observed parameters. The actual values of the observed parameters and the surmised values of the unobserved parameters characterize the emitter. The database stores one or more entries for each emitter. Each entry specifies an identifier of an emitter and exemplary values of the observed and unobserved parameters. The correlator matches the actual values of the observed parameters and the surmised values of the unobserved parameters with the exemplary values of one of the entries of the emitter from which the receiver receives the electromagnetic signal. The correlator outputs the identifier from this entry in the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Gregory Knowles Fleizach, Christopher C. Pelham, Mark William Owen
  • Patent number: 11834179
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to releasing smaller unmanned aerial vehicles from larger unmanned aerial vehicles. Apparatus and system embodiments are disclosed for physically retaining and ejecting the smaller unmanned aerial vehicles, including the communication networks associated with the command and control of both the smaller unmanned aerial vehicles and the larger unmanned aerial vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Nicholas H. Albrecht, Vincent R. Schuetz, Pavel K. Rybakov, Chase A. York, Scott D Slaughter, Derek A. Hamel
  • Patent number: 11833373
    Abstract: An articulated oxygen candle furnace basket is provided with a hinged assembly allowing opening and closing of the basket for simple insertion of fresh oxygen candles, and efficient removal of exhausted candles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: Benjamin E. Letter
  • Publication number: 20230383691
    Abstract: A rotary pump is provided for fluid transfer. The pump includes a planar housing, an elongated rotor, a pair of double-concave blades, fore and aft cover plates, and a gear box. The housing has a circular center cavity, and a pair of circular lateral cavities overlapping the center cavity and disposed along a longitudinal axis. The rotor is disposed on a rotor shaft along a rotation axis perpendicular to the longitudinal axis within the center cavity. The blades flank the rotor and are disposed within their corresponding lateral cavity and turn on corresponding blade shafts parallel to the rotor shaft. The fore and aft cover plates flank the housing along the rotation axis to cover the center and lateral cavities. The blades turn opposite from the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: William Gregory BUCHANAN
  • Publication number: 20230387877
    Abstract: Method for forming an integrated acoustic device. A thin film piezoelectric acoustic transducer is epitaxially formed on a host substrate and is then transferred to a functional target substrate wherein physical phenomena from the piezoelectric transducer and the arbitrary functional substrate interact to form a hybrid acoustic microsystem comprising the piezoelectric transducer and the arbitrary functional substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Vikrant J. GOKHALE, Brian P. DOWNEY, Shawn C. MACK, D. Scott KATZER, David J. MEYER, Pallavi DHAGAT, Albrecht JANDER
  • Publication number: 20230388707
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods utilize networked speaker arrays and audio waveform shaping using interferometric feedback of sound transmitted by the speaker arrays. In further aspects, the systems and method employ an intelligently controlled acoustic device that can focus sound at specific locations and record the acoustic environment/reflected sound to self-calibrate for improved performance. Moreover, the device is modular and scalable with the ability to network distributed speakers to enhance the audio performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Scott J. Henderson, Ryan J. Dowd, Corey A.M Bergsrud
  • Publication number: 20230382500
    Abstract: A benthic lander can include a frame structure that comprises a plurality of frames, wherein each frame is formed with a central aperture, and a first plurality of coupling structures coupling adjacent frames of the plurality of frames. The benthic lander can also include at least one pressure vessel formed with an interior cavity comprising electronics disposed within the interior cavity. Each pressure vessel can be disposed within the central aperture of at least one frame of the plurality of frames such that the at least one frame holds the pressure vessel in place. A weight structure can be disposed underneath the frame structure, wherein the weight structure is removably coupled to the frame structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Yolanda Meriah Arias-Thode, David B Chadwick, Kevin Hardy, Alexander Stevens-Bracy, Gregory Wayne Anderson, Matthew Lanford Bond
  • Publication number: 20230387956
    Abstract: A backpackable electronic warfare system includes a backplane, one or more radioheads, one or more systems on a chip, a single board computer, a position, navigation, and timing module, a power management device, a thermal management device, and one or more batteries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY
    Inventors: Andrew Lee Stubbs, Laura Catherine Tolliver, Kevin Paul Votapka, Wilmot S Gilland, IV, Tyler Austin Brant, Ian McLean Christine, Hunter J Smith
  • Patent number: 11827674
    Abstract: Peptides that form adhesive bonds, even in aqueous and/or saline environments, are disclosed. When aggregated, the peptides may be used in methods for producing hydrogels and/or adhesive materials. Synthetic peptide analogs are provided that are designed based on protein sequences found in barnacle adhesive, and may optionally be augmented with chemistry from other organisms that secrete proteins that adhere to substrates. The peptides may be used, for example, in biomedical and aqueous applications. Methods of using the aggregated peptides as adhesives are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Christopher R. So, Kathryn J. Wahl
  • Patent number: 11826823
    Abstract: The invention is a system for the in-situ monitoring of additive manufacturing. The system, without pre-calibration of a test sample, utilizes ultrasonic waves to conduct a layer-by-layer analysis of a three-dimensional component as it is being developed on a build plate. Resonant frequencies for each layer is measured and the difference between the resonant frequencies of consecutive layers are calculated to define a baseline frequency. Similarities or differences in baseline frequencies are used to validate the integrity of the layers of the component, and also to determine if structural inconsistencies exists. Based on these determinations, the system decides whether to continue printing or to halt printing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Charles Nguyen, Scott Ziv
  • Patent number: 11827008
    Abstract: A method for bonding infrared transparent materials by placing a polymer comprising at least one chalcogenide element and crosslinking moieties between infrared-transparent optical elements and applying heat, pressure, or both. The crosslinking moieties may be organic, inorganic, or both. Also disclosed is the related bonded assembly comprising infrared transparent optical elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Darryl A. Boyd, Jason D. Myers, Vinh Q. Nguyen, Daniel J. Gibson, Colin C. Baker, Woohong Kim, Jasbinder S. Sanghera
  • Patent number: 11831295
    Abstract: Acoustic wave devices based on epitaxially grown heterostructures comprising appropriate combinations of epitaxially grown metallic transition metal nitride (TMN) layers, epitaxially grown Group III-nitride (III-N) piezoelectric semiconductor thin film layers, and epitaxially grown perovskite oxide (PO) layers. The devices can include bulk acoustic wave (BAW) devices, surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices, high overtone bulk acoustic resonator (HBAR) devices, and composite devices comprising HBAR devices integrated with high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Vikrant J. Gokhale, Brian P. Downey, Matthew T. Hardy, Eric N. Jin, Neeraj Nepal, D. Scott Katzer, David J. Meyer