Patents Examined by Erin F Heard
  • Patent number: 11150340
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device adapted to inspect the leg of an individual, and comprises a support base (110) adapted to receive a foot of an individual, two lateral panels (120) adapted to be placed on either side of the leg of an individual, positioning means (112, 114, 142) of the foot and of the leg relative to the support base (110) and to the panels (120), microwave receiver/sender transducer means (200) arranged on each lateral panel (120) opposite the lateral panel which is facing it, and analysis means (300) of signals detected on the microwave receivers (200) corresponding to the signals transmitted from a panel (120) to the opposite panel and to the signals reflected from a panel (120) towards this same panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Inventor: Alessandro Manneschi
  • Patent number: 11143764
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for adapting to malware activity on a compromised computer system by detecting timing anomalies between timing signals. An embodiment operates by analyzing first timing data accessed from a validated source and second timing data accessed from an unvalidated receiver source in order to compute a threat detection value, which is utilized to determine if there is a discrepancy or anomaly in the timing or frequency of either the validated and unvalidated sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: The MITRE Corporation
    Inventors: Darrow Paine Leibner, Alessandro Paolo Cerruti
  • Patent number: 11142340
    Abstract: An apparatus interfaces with a light stanchion associated with a runway. The apparatus can include a first interface for attaching to the light stanchion, second interface for attaching to runway light, and a radar reflective member. The radar reflective member can be a corner reflector. The radar reflector can be part of set of reflectors arranged in accordance with visual approach slope indications or precision approach path indications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Carlo L. Tiana, Robert B. Wood, David L. Flanders, Lu Bai
  • Patent number: 11143744
    Abstract: A method for attenuating a leakage signal in an FMCW radar system and a radar system thereof are provided. The method includes concentrating a phase noise of the leakage signal on a stationary point and attenuating the phase noise based on the concentration of the phase noise on the stationary point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: SeongOok Park, Junhyeong Park
  • Patent number: 11137476
    Abstract: A frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar system is provided that includes a receiver configured to generate a digital intermediate frequency (IF) signal, and an interference monitoring component coupled to the receiver to receive the digital IF signal, in which the interference monitoring component is configured to monitor at least one sub-band in the digital IF signal for interference, in which the at least one sub-band does not include a radar signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Brian Paul Ginsburg, Karthik Subburaj, Karthik Ramasubramanian, Sachin Bhardwaj, Sriram Murali, Sandeep Rao
  • Patent number: 11131748
    Abstract: A method for detecting at least one radar transmitter in an environment, the method being implemented by a device including a calculating unit and an antenna array including at least one antenna able to make acquisitions of the environment as acquisition signals and to receive and transmit the acquisition signals in a digital form to the calculating unit, the calculating unit being able to make processing on digitised signals, the method including receiving and digitising the acquisition signals as digitised signals and transmitting the digitised signals to the calculating unit; cutting off the digitised signals into pulses, characterising each pulse to obtain primary characteristics and secondary characteristics; gathering the pulses into pulse blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: AVANTIX
    Inventor: Loic Chefson
  • Patent number: 11129312
    Abstract: An electronic module that comprises a housing; a cover that is disposed over the housing to define an interior; and one or more electronic components positioned within the interior is provided. At least a portion of the housing, cover, or both contain a polymer composition that exhibits an in-plane thermal conductivity of about 1 W/m-K or more as determined in accordance with ASTM E 1461-13 and an electromagnetic shielding effectiveness of about 20 dB or more as determined at a frequency of 1 GHz in accordance with EM 2107A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Ticona LLC
    Inventor: Darin Grinsteinner
  • Patent number: 11125871
    Abstract: In an azimuth estimation device, a center generation unit configured to generate, for each peak bin extracted by the extraction unit, a center matrix which is a correlation matrix obtained using values of the same peak bin collected from all of transmitting/receiving channels. A surrounding generation unit is configured to generate, for each of one or more surrounding bins of each of the peak bins, a surrounding matrix which is a correlation matrix obtained using values of the same surrounding bin collected from all of the transmitting/receiving channels. An integration unit is configured to generate, for each peak bin, an integrated matrix which is a correlation matrix obtained by weighting and adding the center matrix and the one or more surrounding matrices. An estimation unit is configured to execute an azimuth estimation calculation using the integrated matrix generated by the integration unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takayuki Kitamura
  • Patent number: 11119180
    Abstract: A method of estimating the location of a signal source comprises, by a processing unit: determining ???m,n which represents a difference between accumulated phases of signals, Sm and Sn, received by at least one pair of the receivers, determining a first estimate of the location of said signal source based on position data and ???m,n of at least one pair of receivers, said first estimate being associated with an accuracy area, determining data representative of difference in times of arrival of modulation patterns of the signals Sm, Sn, wherein said data comprise an ambiguity, and for said at least one pair of receivers, using at least said data representative of difference in times of arrival of the modulation patterns of the signals, ???m,n, and said accuracy area, to obtain second estimates êSrck of the source location, at least some of them being located within the accuracy area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: ELTA SYSTEMS LTD.
    Inventors: Aharon Razon, Moshe Fireaizen
  • Patent number: 11119206
    Abstract: Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses systems and/or methods of Collaborative Time of Arrival (CToA). For example, an apparatus may include circuitry and logic configured to cause a CToA broadcasting wireless communication station (STA) (bSTA) to broadcast an announcement frame to announce a ranging-to-self sequence of a CToA measurement protocol; to broadcast a first ranging measurement frame of the ranging-to-self sequence subsequent to the announcement frame; to broadcast a second ranging measurement frame of the ranging-to-self sequence subsequent to the first ranging measurement frame; and to broadcast a Location Measurement Report (LMR) frame of the ranging-to-self sequence subsequent to the second ranging measurement frame, the LMR frame including a Time of Departure (ToD) of the first ranging measurement frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuval Amizur, Ofer Bar-Shalom, Leor Banin, Nir Dvorecki
  • Patent number: 11119178
    Abstract: According to examples of the presently disclosed subject matter, there is provided a system for estimating a source location of a projectile, comprising an optics an optics subsystem, a radar subsystem and a processor. The processor is adapted to use range and velocity measurements obtained from data provided by the radar subsystem, a source direction and an event start time obtained from data provided by the optical subsystem and a predefined kinematic model for the projectile for estimating a range to a source location of the projectile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: ELTA SYSTEMS LTD.
    Inventor: Gil Tidhar
  • Patent number: 11119208
    Abstract: An echo image generating device may be provided, which includes a signal acquiring module, a sensitivity setting module, and a screen generating module. The signal acquiring module may acquire an echo signal from a target object around a ship. The sensitivity setting module may perform a first sensitivity setting for the echo signal in a first range, and a second sensitivity setting for the echo signal in a second range without including the first range, the second sensitivity setting being different from the first sensitivity setting. The screen generating module may generate an echo image of the first range based on the first sensitivity setting, and generate an echo image of the second range based on the second sensitivity setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: FURUNO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masahiro Nakahama
  • Patent number: 11115864
    Abstract: A communication device can be configured to detect radar signals within an operating channel. The communication device can include a mixer, filter, scanning and spreading circuit and a radar signal detector. The mixer can be configured to modulate a received communication signal based on an oscillating signal to generate a modulated signal. The filter can have a first bandwidth and be configured to filter the modulated signal. The scanning and spreading circuit can be configured to control the oscillating signal to scan an operating channel having a second bandwidth. The second bandwidth can be greater than the first bandwidth. The radar signal detector can be configured to detect a radar signal within the scanned operating channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Javier Perez-Ramirez, Minyoung Park, Richard D. Roberts
  • Patent number: 11112489
    Abstract: Radar circuitry can include an isolator and a mixer. The isolator can isolate a transmission signal path and a reception signal path from each other, and generate a mixing (e.g. oscillation) signal based on a transmission signal. The isolator can be coupled to the mixer such that the drive signal drives the mixer (e.g. serves as the local oscillation signal of the mixer). The mixer mixes a received signal and the drive signal to generate a converted signal (e.g. a down-converted signal). The isolator can be a hybrid transformer or electrically balanced duplexer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Woorim Shin, Christopher Hull, Stefano Pellerano
  • Patent number: 11105930
    Abstract: A self-contained satellite-navigation-based (SatNav-based) method and micro system is disclosed, wherein SatNav-derived (e.g., GPS-derived) position and velocity measurements are obtained and processed to achieve a low cost, micro size, real-time solution for the position and velocity of the carrier relative to a vertical and/or horizontal plane of previously measured location and heading, and for the slant range from a fixed position located on said vertical or horizontal plane. The method includes two parts: 1) a method for defining both the spatial orientation of the vertical and/or horizontal plane of interest, along with a selected fixed position of interest on one of those planes, and 2) a method for obtaining the real-time relative position and velocity of the carrier relative to the plane(s) of interest, and its position relative to the fixed position of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: D.K. SCHMIDT & ASSOCIATES LLC
    Inventor: David K. Schmidt
  • Patent number: 11099269
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a radar device for a vehicle, enabling to determine a target satisfying a pairing condition for finding an intersection point by using a combination of a pair of up-chirp and down-chirp signals with an added down-chirp signal, without an additional hardware resource. The radar device includes at least: a transmission unit configured to transmit, through the transmission antenna, a transmission signal including a pair of up-chirp and down-chirp signals having predetermined slopes, and an added chirp signal having a slope different from the slopes; a reception unit configured to receive, through the reception antenna, a reception signal that is the transmission signal reflected on the target located before the vehicle; and a signal processing unit configured to determine the target satisfying the pairing condition for finding an intersection point through a combination of at least one of a pair of the up-chirp and down-chirp signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: MANDO CORPORATION
    Inventors: HaeSueng Lim, JaeEun Lee, Seong Hee Jeong
  • Patent number: 11099266
    Abstract: Using a distance sensor, a set of distances to a target object is measured, a distance in the set being measured at a time. From the set of distances and corresponding times, a trajectory of the target object is predicted. Based on receiving a signal identifying a friendly device, a correlation of the trajectory with a trajectory of the friendly device is determined. Responsive to the trajectory being predicted to intercept a defined volume around the distance sensor and responsive to the correlation being above a threshold degree of correlation, the target object is classified as a threat. Responsive to the trajectory being predicted to intercept a defined volume around the distance sensor and responsive to the correlation being below a threshold degree of correlation, a threat level corresponding to the target object is identified based on the trajectory of the target object and trajectory of the friendly device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yun Zhai, Peter Alan Coldicott
  • Patent number: 11099051
    Abstract: A method for determining the fill level of a medium involves continuous wave radar measurement and a corresponding fill level measuring device. A coded transmit signal is emitted by a transmitter, reflected at the medium, and received by a receiver as a reflection signal. The reflection signal and a signal derived from the transmit signal are subjected to a correlation analysis, and a correlation outcome results. A control and evaluation unit determines the time offset of the correlated signals with the correlation outcome, and uses it to determine the fill level of the medium. The reflection signal and the derived signal are mixed with the analog mixer into a mixer output signal that is sampled and quantized to a digital mixer output signal. The correlator has a digital integrator with which a sequence of digital mixer output signals is digitally integrated into the correlation outcome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: KROHNE S.A.S.
    Inventors: Michael Vogt, Robert Storch, Gordon Notzon
  • Patent number: 11086004
    Abstract: Radar frequency range signals (e.g., 1 to 100 gigahertz) are often generated by upconverting a reference frequency to a transmission frequency, and a received signal may be downconverted to analyze information encoded on the transmission via modulation. Modulation may be achieved via a fractional frequency divider in a phase-locked loop, but fractional spurs may reduce the signal-to-noise ratio. Additionally, the ramp slope may vary due to phase-locked loop momentum. Instead, a clock generator may generate clock signals for a digital front end comprising a digital signal modulator that generates modulated digital values comprising quadrature representations of a radar modulation signal, which are encoded by a radiofrequency digital-to-analog converter (RF-DAC). The RF-DAC analog signal may be upconverted to a radar frequency and transmitted. A receiver may receive, downconvert, and analyze a reflection of the radar transmission, e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG
    Inventors: Niels Christoffers, Sanaz Hadipour Abkenar, Soumya Krishnapuram Sireesh, Christoph Wagner
  • Patent number: 11079493
    Abstract: A system and method for testing the integrity of signals incoming to a satellite navigation system. The method is implemented with an array of antenna elements, and a receiver connected to each antenna element. The receivers simultaneously and continuously make measurements on all tracked signals. Each receiver measures the carrier phase of an incoming signal. Based on the carrier phase differences between antenna elements and the distance between them, the azimuth and elevation of the signal source can be calculated. This measured angle of arrival can then be compared to an expected angle of arrival to determine if the signal source is legitimate. The system and method can be also applied to determining the angle of arrival of sources of interference, and to mitigating the effects of both illegitimate and interfering signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignees: UHU Technologies, Southwest Research Institute
    Inventor: Thomas Howard Jaeckle