Patents by Inventor Arnaud LILBERT

Arnaud LILBERT 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).

  • Publication number: 20260163234
    Abstract: The invention relates to an anti-jamming antenna device comprising: an antenna having a uniform radiation pattern; a mesh structure (3) covering the antenna, said mesh structure being configured to modify the radiation pattern of the antenna so as to generate and to orient at least one lobe and/or gain slot in at least one direction of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Publication date: June 11, 2026
    Applicant: Safran Electronics & Defense
    Inventors: Alain Michel CHIODINI, Arnaud LILBERT
  • Patent number: 12332358
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for processing a radionavigation signal generated by a satellite (SAT), said method comprising the following steps implemented in a processing unit of a radionavigation receiver: converting (102) the radionavigation signal into the frequency domain by means of a complex Fourier transform so as to obtain a frequency-domain radionavigation signal comprising a real part I and an imaginary part Q, the real part I having an amplitude I2 associated with one frequency; determining (103) a distribution law of the amplitude I2 of the real component I of the frequency-domain radionavigation signal; determining (104) an amplitude of the real component for which the distribution function is zero, said amplitude defining a threshold; processing (105) the frequency-domain radionavigation signal so as to filter components the amplitude of which is higher than the determined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE
    Inventor: Arnaud Lilbert
  • Publication number: 20250060446
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for estimating the direction of arrival of an electromagnetic wave at an antenna array (2), comprising the steps of: —estimating (202) a covariance matrix of signals acquired by the antenna array (2); —calculating (204) a normalised eigenvector of the covariance matrix; —correlating (205) the normalised eigenvector with a first reference table and a second reference table so as to produce a first correlation spectrum and a second correlation spectrum comprising correlation indices associated, respectively, with different directions of arrival; —constructing (312) a third reference table by linear combination of the first reference table and the second reference table with a polarisation component of the electromagnetic wave in the first direction and the second direction, respectively; —correlating (314) the normalised eigenvector with the third reference table so as to produce a third correlation spectrum comprising correlation indices associated with different directions of
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE
    Inventors: Pierre-Antoine GARCIA, Arnaud LILBERT, Alain Michel CHIODINI
  • Publication number: 20240413923
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for processing a radio navigation signal originating from a satellite (SAT) and received by a radio navigation receiver comprising a plurality of receive antennas, each antenna being configured to receive signals originating from a satellite of interest (SAT), from at least one jammer and possibly from at least one other satellite (SAT?) in given directions, the method comprising the following steps: detecting (E1), on the basis of the signal received by each antenna, at least one direction of a jamming signal; attenuating (E2, E2?) the detected jamming signal in the detected direction; in which method detecting (E1) the direction of a jamming signal is based on determining a covariance matrix dependent on the signals received by each antenna given by (i), where Z is a matrix of size N×M in which each column corresponds to the signal received by each antenna, N denoting the number of samples acquired during a fixed period ?T and M being the number of antennas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicant: Safran Electronics & Defense
    Inventors: Alain Michel CHIODINI, Arnaud LILBERT
  • Publication number: 20230258816
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for processing a radionavigation signal generated by a satellite (SAT), said method comprising the following steps implemented in a processing unit of a radionavigation receiver: converting (102) the radionavigation signal into the frequency domain by means of a complex Fourier transform so as to obtain a frequency-domain radionavigation signal comprising a real part I and an imaginary part Q, the real part I having an amplitude I2 associated with one frequency; determining (103) a distribution law of the amplitude I2 of the real component I of the frequency-domain radionavigation signal; determining (104) an amplitude of the real component for which the distribution function is zero, said amplitude defining a threshold; processing (105) the frequency-domain radionavigation signal so as to filter components the amplitude of which is higher than the determined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE
    Inventor: Arnaud LILBERT
  • Patent number: 11329736
    Abstract: An equipment comprising an array of radio antennas and a switching device placed as a cutoff between the antennas and the associated reception channels, the switching device comprising a first so-called operational operating mode wherein each input interface is then connected directly to a different output interface so as to connect each antenna with at least the associated reception channel thereof, and a second so-called calibration operating mode, wherein an input interface corresponding to a predetermined antenna is then connected to all the output interfaces so as to transmit the electrical signal coming from the predetermined antenna to all the reception channels, the equipment being adapted for implementing a method for autocalibration of the reception channels when the switching device is in the second operating mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE
    Inventor: Arnaud Lilbert
  • Publication number: 20210384992
    Abstract: An equipment comprising an array of radio antennas and a switching device placed as a cutoff between the antennas and the associated reception channels, the switching device comprising a first so-called operational operating mode wherein each input interface is then connected directly to a different output interface so as to connect each antenna with at least the associated reception channel thereof, and a second so-called calibration operating mode, wherein an input interface corresponding to a predetermined antenna is then connected to all the output interfaces so as to transmit the electrical signal coming from the predetermined antenna to all the reception channels, the equipment being adapted for implementing a method for autocalibration of the reception channels when the switching device is in the second operating mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE
    Inventor: Arnaud LILBERT