Patents by Inventor Akbar Muhammad Sayeed

Akbar Muhammad Sayeed has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9763216
    Abstract: A method of locating a radiator is provided. A channel measurement vector is defined that includes a signal value measured at each of a plurality of antennas in response to a signal transmitted from a radiator. (a) A cell covariance matrix of a first cell from a plurality of cells defined for a region in which the radiator is located is selected. (b) A likelihood value that the radiator is located in the first cell is calculated using the selected cell covariance matrix and the defined channel measurement vector. (a) and (b) are repeated with each cell of the plurality of cells as the first cell. A cell location of the radiator is selected based on the calculated likelihood value for each cell of the plurality of cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventor: Akbar Muhammad Sayeed
  • Publication number: 20160365904
    Abstract: A method of locating a radiator is provided. A channel measurement vector is defined that includes a signal value measured at each of a plurality of antennas in response to a signal transmitted from a radiator. (a) A cell covariance matrix of a first cell from a plurality of cells defined for a region in which the radiator is located is selected. (b) A likelihood value that the radiator is located in the first cell is calculated using the selected cell covariance matrix and the defined channel measurement vector. (a) and (b) are repeated with each cell of the plurality of cells as the first cell. A cell location of the radiator is selected based on the calculated likelihood value for each cell of the plurality of cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Inventor: Akbar Muhammad Sayeed
  • Patent number: 8320489
    Abstract: A device, method, and computer-readable medium are provided. The device includes, but is not limited to, an antenna configured to receive a multipath signal and a processor operably coupled to the antenna to receive the multipath signal. The processor is configured to determine a training signal transmitted from a second device to create the received multipath signal; sample the received multipath signal; and determine channel coefficients based on the sampled multipath signal and the determined training signal using a mixed-norm convex optimization process, wherein the channel coefficients characterize a channel associated with the multipath signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Waheed Uz Zaman Bajwa, Akbar Muhammad Sayeed, Robert David Nowak, Jarvis Haupt
  • Publication number: 20100215081
    Abstract: A device, method, and computer-readable medium are provided. The device includes, but is not limited to, an antenna configured to receive a multipath signal and a processor operably coupled to the antenna to receive the multipath signal. The processor is configured to determine a training signal transmitted from a second device to create the received multipath signal; sample the received multipath signal; and determine channel coefficients based on the sampled multipath signal and the determined training signal using a mixed-norm convex optimization process, wherein the channel coefficients characterize a channel associated with the multipath signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Inventors: Waheed Uz Zaman BAJWA, Akbar Muhammad Sayeed, Robert David Nowak, Jarvis Haupt
  • Patent number: 7218906
    Abstract: A system and method for performing extended space-time processing. An improved symbol decision is generated of a desired sub-channel of the signal vector by first generating a baseline decision for the sub-channel. A contribution of a strongest sub-channel is subtracted from the signal vector to generate a modified signal vector. The modified signal vector is multiplied by a unitary matrix generated from a QR decomposition of another channel matrix. Channel interference of the remaining sub-channels of the modified signal vector is cancelled from a remaining sub-channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Akbar Muhammad Sayeed, Ke Liu
  • Patent number: 7110378
    Abstract: A method and system is described for more optimally managing the usage of a wideband space-time multipath channel. The wideband space-time multipath channel is decomposed into a plurality of orthogonal sub-channels, where the orthogonal sub-channels having the best signaling characteristics are used for transmitting one or more signal streams. For purposes of decomposing the wideband space-time multipath channel into a plurality of orthogonal sub-channels, channel estimates are determined for each signal propagation path. A closed-form singular value decomposition of the channel corresponding to each receive antenna before coherent combining is utilized to obtain an orthogonal decomposition of the overall effective space-time channel after coherent combining. By using the overall effective space-time channel after coherent combining rather than before coherent combining, the complexity and correspondingly the resources required for obtaining the orthogonal sub-channels is significantly reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Eko Nugroho Onggosanusi, Barry Dean Van Veen, Akbar Muhammad Sayeed
  • Publication number: 20030068994
    Abstract: A system and method for performing extended space-time processing. An improved symbol decision is generated of a desired sub-channel of the signal vector by first generating a baseline decision for the sub-channel. A contribution of a strongest sub-channel is subtracted from the signal vector to generate a modified signal vector. The modified signal vector is multiplied by a unitary matrix generated from a QR decomposition of another channel matrix. Channel interference of the remaining sub-channels of the modified signal vector is cancelled from a remaining sub-channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2001
    Publication date: April 10, 2003
    Inventors: Akbar Muhammad Sayeed, Ke Liu
  • Publication number: 20020114269
    Abstract: A method and system is described for more optimally managing the usage of a wideband space-time multipath channel. The wideband space-time multipath channel is decomposed into a plurality of orthogonal sub-channels, where the orthogonal sub-channels having the best signaling characteristics are used for transmitting one or more signal streams. For purposes of decomposing the wideband space-time multipath channel into a plurality of orthogonal sub-channels, channel estimates are determined for each signal propagation path. A closed-form singular value decomposition of the channel corresponding to each receive antenna before coherent combining is utilized to obtain an orthogonal decomposition of the overall effective space-time channel after coherent combining. By using the overall effective space-time channel after coherent combining rather than before coherent combining, the complexity and correspondingly the resources required for obtaining the orthogonal sub-channels is significantly reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2001
    Publication date: August 22, 2002
    Inventors: Eko Nugroho Onggosanusi, Barry Dean Van Veen, Akbar Muhammad Sayeed