Patents by Inventor Andres I. Vila Casado

Andres I. Vila Casado 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: 11212015
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products are described for automatically reducing interference within received signals. A first radio frequency (RF) signal having (i) a desired component and (ii) an interference component with a noise component and a jammed component is received. A trained machine learning (ML) model extracts, from the RF signal, the jammed component and a portion of the noise component. The trained ML model generates and outputs a second RF signal comprising the desired component and a reduced noise component. The reduced noise component has the portion of the noise component removed. The jammed component is removed from the second RF signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: THE AEROSPACE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Phillip B. Hess, Andres I. Vila Casado, Aidan Wilson
  • Publication number: 20210367681
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products are described for automatically reducing interference within received signals. A first radio frequency (RF) signal having (i) a desired component and (ii) an interference component with a noise component and a jammed component is received. A trained machine learning (ML) model extracts, from the RF signal, the jammed component and a portion of the noise component. The trained ML model generates and outputs a second RF signal comprising the desired component and a reduced noise component. The reduced noise component has the portion of the noise component removed. The jammed component is removed from the second RF signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Phillip B. Hess, Andres I. Vila Casado, Aidan Wilson
  • Publication number: 20190129022
    Abstract: RFID systems for locating RFID tags utilizing phased array antennas and compressed sensing processing techniques in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, an RFID system includes at least one exciter that includes at least one transmit antenna, a phased antenna array that includes a plurality of receive antennas, and an RFID receiver system configured to communicate with the at least one exciter and connected to the phased antenna array, where the RFID receiver system is configured to locate an RFID tag by performing reads of the RFD tag at multiple frequencies, generating a measurement matrix, and determining a line of sight (LOS) distance between the activated RFID tag and each of the plurality of receive antennas by eliminating bases from the measurement matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: Mojix, Inc.
    Inventors: Ramin Sadr, Andreas Mantik Ali, Andres I. Vila Casado, Christopher Jones
  • Patent number: 9983299
    Abstract: RFID systems for locating RFID tags utilizing phased array antennas and compressed sensing processing techniques in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, an RFID system includes at least one exciter that includes at least one transmit antenna, a phased antenna array that includes a plurality of receive antennas, and an RFID receiver system configured to communicate with the at least one exciter and connected to the phased antenna array, where the RFID receiver system is configured to locate an RFID tag by performing reads of the RFD tag at multiple frequencies, generating a measurement matrix, and determining a line of sight (LOS) distance between the activated RFID tag and each of the plurality of receive antennas by eliminating bases from the measurement matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Mojix, Inc.
    Inventors: Ramin Sadr, Andreas Mantik Ali, Andres I. Vila Casado, Christopher Jones
  • Publication number: 20150316643
    Abstract: RFID systems for locating RFID tags utilizing phased array antennas and compressed sensing processing techniques in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, an RFID system includes at least one exciter that includes at least one transmit antenna, a phased antenna array that includes a plurality of receive antennas, and an RFID receiver system configured to communicate with the at least one exciter and connected to the phased antenna array, where the RFID receiver system is configured to locate an RFID tag by performing reads of the RFD tag at multiple frequencies, generating a measurement matrix, and determining a line of sight (LOS) distance between the activated RFID tag and each of the plurality of receive antennas by eliminating bases from the measurement matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Inventors: Ramin Sadr, Andreas Mantik Ali, Andres I. Vila Casado, Christopher Jones
  • Patent number: 9111156
    Abstract: RFID systems for locating RFID tags utilizing phased array antennas and compressed sensing processing techniques in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, an RFID system includes at least one exciter that includes at least one transmit antenna, a phased antenna array that includes a plurality of receive antennas, and an RFID receiver system configured to communicate with the at least one exciter and connected to the phased antenna array, where the RFID receiver system is configured to locate an RFID tag by performing reads of the RFD tag at multiple frequencies, generating a measurement matrix, and determining a line of sight (LOS) distance between the activated RFID tag and each of the plurality of receive antennas by eliminating bases from the measurement matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Mojix, Inc.
    Inventors: Ramin Sadr, Andreas Mantik Ali, Andres I. Vila Casado, Christopher Jones
  • Patent number: 8489957
    Abstract: Low density parity check (LDPC) decoders are described utilizing a sequential schedule called Zigzag LBP (Z-LBP), for a layered belief propagation (LBP) architecture. Z-LBP has a lower computational complexity per iteration than variable-node-centric LBP (V-LBP), while being simpler than flooding and check-node-centric LBP (C-LBP). For QC-LDPC codes where the sub-matrices can have at most one “1” per column and one “1” per row, Z-LBP can perform partially-parallel decoding with the same performance as C-LBP. The decoder comprises a control circuit and memory coupled to a parity check matrix. Message passage is performed within Z-LBP in a first direction on odd iterations, and in a second direction on even iterations. As a result, a smaller parity check matrix can be utilized, while convergence can be more readily attained. The inventive method and apparatus can also be implemented for partially-parallel architectures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Richard Wesel, Mau-Chung Frank Chang, Yuan-Mao Chang, Andres I. Vila Casado
  • Publication number: 20110179333
    Abstract: Low density parity check (LDPC) decoders are described utilizing a sequential schedule called Zigzag LBP (Z-LBP), for a layered belief propagation (LBP) architecture. Z-LBP has a lower computational complexity per iteration than variable-node-centric LBP (V-LBP), while being simpler than flooding and check-node-centric LBP (C-LBP). For QC-LDPC codes where the sub-matrices can have at most one “1” per column and one “1” per row, Z-LBP can perform partially-parallel decoding with the same performance as C-LBP. The decoder comprises a control circuit and memory coupled to a parity check matrix. Message passage is performed within Z-LBP in a first direction on odd iterations, and in a second direction on even iterations. As a result, a smaller parity check matrix can be utilized, while convergence can be more readily attained. The inventive method and apparatus can also be implemented for partially-parallel architectures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2010
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Applicant: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: Richard Wesel, Mau-Chung Frank Chang, Yuan-Mao Chang, Andres I. Vila Casado
  • Patent number: 7802172
    Abstract: Low density parity check (LDPC) codes (LDPCCs) have an identical code blocklength and different code rates. At least one of the rows of a higher-rate LDPC matrix is obtained by combining a plurality of rows of a lower-rate LDPC matrix with the identical code blocklength as the higher-rate LDPC matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignees: STMicroelectronics, Inc., STMicroelectronics S.r.l., The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Andres I. Vila Casado, Wen-Yen Weng, Richard D. Wesel, Nicola Moschini, Massimiliano Siti, Stefano Valle, Engling Yeo