Patents by Inventor Ali Broumandan

Ali Broumandan 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: 11921223
    Abstract: A system and method for detecting spoofing of a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) system using a plurality of antennas. Signals received by at least two of the plurality of antennas are authentication by use of one or more of a carrier phase authentication procedure, a signal power authentication procedure, and/or a channel distortion authentication procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: NovAtel Inc.
    Inventor: Ali Broumandan
  • Patent number: 11906633
    Abstract: A system and method for detecting spoofing of a navigation system (NS) using a plurality of antennas. Carrier phase and CN0 measurements are obtains of a plurality of signals. The measurements are then double differenced and compared to predefined thresholds to determine whether a signal is authentic or not. Once sufficient authentic signals are identified, position and time is determined using the authenticated signals. Residuals are estimated for all signals. An average value of the residuals or the authenticated signals is calculated and is then removed from the residuals of the unauthenticated signals. Should the remainder exceed a predefined threshold, the signal is deemed to be spoofed. Otherwise, the signal is deemed to be authentic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: NovAtel Inc.
    Inventors: Ali Broumandan, Thomas Taylor
  • Patent number: 11906634
    Abstract: A system and method for detecting spoofing of a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) system using a plurality of antennas. Signals received by at least two of the plurality of antennas are authentication by use of one or more of a carrier phase authentication procedure, a signal power authentication procedure, and/or a channel distortion authentication procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: NovAtel Inc.
    Inventor: Ali Broumandan
  • Publication number: 20230142516
    Abstract: A system and method for detecting spoofing of a navigation system (NS) using a plurality of antennas. Carrier phase and CN0 measurements are obtains of a plurality of signals. The measurements are then double differenced and compared to predefined thresholds to determine whether a signal is authentic or not. Once sufficient authentic signals are identified, position and time is determined using the authenticated signals. Residuals are estimated for all signals. An average value of the residuals or the authenticated signals is calculated and is then removed from the residuals of the unauthenticated signals. Should the remainder exceed a predefined threshold, the signal is deemed to be spoofed. Otherwise, the signal is deemed to be authentic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Ali Broumandan, Thomas Taylor
  • Patent number: 11573330
    Abstract: A system and method for detecting spoofing of global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signals using a single antenna is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: NovAtel Inc.
    Inventor: Ali Broumandan
  • Publication number: 20230003899
    Abstract: A system and method for detecting spoofing of a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) system using a plurality of antennas. Signals received by at least two of the plurality of antennas are authentication by use of one or more of a carrier phase authentication procedure, a signal power authentication procedure, and/or a channel distortion authentication procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventor: Ali Broumandan
  • Publication number: 20230003900
    Abstract: A system and method for detecting spoofing of a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) system using a plurality of antennas. Signals received by at least two of the plurality of antennas are authentication by use of one or more of a carrier phase authentication procedure, a signal power authentication procedure, and/or a channel distortion authentication procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventor: Ali Broumandan
  • Patent number: 11525925
    Abstract: A system and method for detecting spoofing of a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) system using a plurality of antennas. Signals received by at least two of the plurality of antennas are authentication by use of one or more of a carrier phase authentication procedure, a signal power authentication procedure, and/or a channel distortion authentication procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: NovAtel Inc.
    Inventor: Ali Broumandan
  • Patent number: 11506794
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for GNSS carrier phase multipath mitigation using a blanked correlator in conjunction with a full correlator. A tracking loop may track a carrier of the GNSS signal utilizing the full correlator. A chip-edge accumulation (CEA) unit of the tracking loop may accumulate chip edges of a ranging code to generate CEA output. A blanked correlator may receive the CEA output to generate blanked correlator values. A running-sum filter may utilize the blanked correlator values to generate a running-sum value. A phase estimate may utilize the running-sum value to generate phase estimator output. In an exemplary embodiment, the blanked correlator operates as a monitoring correlator and the phases estimator output is the estimated carrier phase multipath error. In an exemplary embodiment, the blanked correlator provides input to the tracking loop and discriminator output is subtracted from the phase estimator output to generate the estimated carrier phase multipath error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: NovAtel Inc.
    Inventor: Ali Broumandan
  • Patent number: 11391847
    Abstract: Structures and techniques are disclosed that can be used to reduce or remove code multipath error in GNSS receivers by implementing one or more monitoring correlators in a multipath-error estimation and correction (MEC) module. The MEC module detects and provides for correction of correlation peak distortion. In exemplary embodiments, a code tracking loop integrates all-chip-edges of a PRN, and a narrow-correlator is used to update the tracking loop rate while a multipath estimation module implements a blanked correlator to estimate and remove the multipath bias from the code tracking loop measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: NovAtel Inc.
    Inventor: Ali Broumandan
  • Publication number: 20210341627
    Abstract: A system and method for detecting spoofing of a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) system using a plurality of antennas. Signals received by at least two of the plurality of antennas are authentication by use of one or more of a carrier phase authentication procedure, a signal power authentication procedure, and/or a channel distortion authentication procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventor: Ali Broumandan
  • Publication number: 20210325545
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for GNSS carrier phase multipath mitigation using a blanked correlator in conjunction with a full correlator. A tracking loop may track a carrier of the GNSS signal utilizing the full correlator. A chip-edge accumulation (CEA) unit of the tracking loop may accumulate chip edges of a ranging code to generate CEA output. A blanked correlator may receive the CEA output to generate blanked correlator values. A running-sum filter may utilize the blanked correlator values to generate a running-sum value. A phase estimate may utilize the running-sum value to generate phase estimator output. In an exemplary embodiment, the blanked correlator operates as a monitoring correlator and the phases estimator output is the estimated carrier phase multipath error. In an exemplary embodiment, the blanked correlator provides input to the tracking loop and discriminator output is subtracted from the phase estimator output to generate the estimated carrier phase multipath error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventor: Ali Broumandan
  • Publication number: 20210263161
    Abstract: Structures and techniques are disclosed that can be used to reduce or remove code multipath error in GNSS receivers by implementing one or more monitoring correlators in a multipath-error estimation and correction (MEC) module. The MEC module detects and provides for correction of correlation peak distortion. In exemplary embodiments, a code tracking loop integrates all-chip-edges of a PRN, and a narrow-correlator is used to update the tracking loop rate while a multipath estimation module implements a blanked correlator to estimate and remove the multipath bias from the code tracking loop measurements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventor: Ali Broumandan
  • Publication number: 20210255331
    Abstract: A system and method for detecting spoofing of global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signals using a single antenna is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventor: Ali Broumandan
  • Patent number: 11002858
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting spoofed or illegitimate GNSS signals. A processor receives GNSS data and processes this data to extract acceleration, angular velocity, and height or altitude variation data. For the same time period, sensor data from IMU (inertial measurement unit) sensors and from a barometer are received by the processor. From the sensor data, the processor extracts similar acceleration, angular velocity, and height variation data. These two sets of data are then correlated and correlation coefficients are calculated. These correlation coefficients are then used to calculate a decision statistic. The decision statistic is compared with a predetermined value and, if the decision statistic is below a predetermined value, then the GNSS data is considered to be illegitimate or spoofed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: UTI Limited Partnership
    Inventors: Ali Broumandan, Gérard Lachapelle, James T. Curran
  • Publication number: 20190179031
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting spoofed or illegitimate GNSS signals. A processor receives GNSS data and processes this data to extract acceleration, angular velocity, and height or altitude variation data. For the same time period, sensor data from IMU (inertial measurement unit) sensors and from a barometer are received by the processor. From the sensor data, the processor extracts similar acceleration, angular velocity, and height variation data. These two sets of data are then correlated and correlation coefficients are calculated. These correlation coefficients are then used to calculate a decision statistic. The decision statistic is compared with a predetermined value and, if the decision statistic is below a predetermined value, then the GNSS data is considered to be illegitimate or spoofed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Ali BROUMANDAN, Gérard LACHAPELLE, James T. CURRAN
  • Publication number: 20140247186
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to GNSS anti-interference using array processing. In one embodiment, a device may be configured to receive signals GNSS signals. In one embodiment, the signals may include a superposition of GNSS signals from independent transmitter sources and a spoofing signal. The spoofing signal may include several pseudo random noise (PRN) codes originating from a single transmitter source. In a one embodiment, the device may include multiple radio frequency (RF) inputs connected to multiple antennas and may use a combining algorithm to produce a weighted sum of the antenna outputs. The resultant sum may be passed through an output port of the device that is configured to be coupled to an RF input port of a GNSS receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: UTI LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
    Inventors: Saeed Daneshmand, Ali Jafarnia-Jahromi, Ali Broumandan, John Nielsen, Gérard Lachapelle
  • Patent number: 8494569
    Abstract: Systems and methods related to the detection of incoming wireless signals. An antenna array is synthesized by having a single antenna, coupled to a receiver, spatially translated along an arbitrary trajectory. As the antenna is being spatially translated, a data processing means samples the incoming signal based on a clock signal provided by a system clock. By sampling the incoming signal at different times at different spatial locations on the arbitrary trajectory, the system acts as a synthetic antenna array. The different samplings of the incoming signal at different times and positions provide signal diversity gain as well as different readings which can be used to detect an incoming signal. The invention is applicable to detecting a wireless communications signal or a GNSS signal under various conditions. The system may include at least one sensor which can provide data for use in calculating data related to the arbitrary trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Her Majesty the Queen in right of Canada, as represented by the Minister of National Defence
    Inventors: John Nielsen, Gerard Lachapelle, Ali Broumandan
  • Patent number: 8340588
    Abstract: A system for estimating parameters of an incoming signal is provided. At least one antenna is coupled to at least one suitable receiver. The antenna(s) are spatially translated in an arbitrary trajectory. As the antenna(s) is being spatially translated, a data processing means samples the incoming signal at set intervals based on a clock signal provided by a system clock. By sampling the incoming signal at different times at different spatial locations on the arbitrary trajectory, the system acts as a synthetic antenna array. The different samplings of the incoming signal at different times and positions provide signal diversity gain as well as different readings which can be used to estimate and/or calculate various parameters of the incoming signal. The different samplings can be used to detect the incoming signal, estimate its angle of arrival, estimate its time of arrival, as well as other parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Her Majesty the Queen in right of Canada as Represented by the Minister of National Defence
    Inventors: John Nielsen, Gerard Lachapelle, Ali Broumandan
  • Patent number: 7952519
    Abstract: Methods and systems for detecting GNSS signals originating from an inauthentic source. A synthetic array using a receiver antenna which is randomly spatially translated may be used to gather alleged GNSS signals. The signals are then processed to determine the spatial correlation between them. A high spatial correlation between the signals indicates a probable inauthentic source for the GNSS signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Inventors: John Nielsen, Ali Broumandan, Gerard LaChapelle