Patents by Inventor B. Rama Rao

B. Rama Rao 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: 6856287
    Abstract: The antenna includes four elements excited with equal amplitudes but with a relative phase difference of 0°, ?90°, ?180°, and ?270°. Each element includes a vertical and horizontal portion. An RF trap filter is located within the horizontal portion so that the antenna provides good gain coverage at all three frequency bands of a modernized global positioning system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2005
    Assignee: The Mitre Corporation
    Inventors: B. Rama Rao, Michael Smolinski, Cuong Quach, Eddie N. Rosario
  • Publication number: 20040233106
    Abstract: The antenna includes four elements excited with equal amplitudes but with a relative phase difference of 0°, −90°, −180°, and −270°. Each element includes a vertical and horizontal portion. An RF trap filter is located within the horizontal portion so that the antenna provides good gain coverage at all three frequency bands of a modernized global positioning system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2003
    Publication date: November 25, 2004
    Inventors: B. Rama Rao, Michael Smolinski, C. Quach, Eddie N. Rosario
  • Patent number: 4489601
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for measuring the height of a liquid above a reference level in which short pulses of subnanosecond duration are coupled to a dual-mode transmission line immersed in a liquid to propagate thereon in a plurality of modes. A surface wave propagating on the outer conductor is reflected from the surface of the liquid, and coaxial-mode propagating within the transmission line is reflected from the reference level. These reflected pulses propagate back along the transmission line, coupled to a receiver for detection, the detected pulses processed to determine the liquid height above a reference level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1983
    Date of Patent: December 25, 1984
    Assignee: Sperry Corporation
    Inventors: B. Rama Rao, Kenneth W. Robbins
  • Patent number: 4456913
    Abstract: A dome antenna with cross polarization compensation for reducing cross polarization induced monopulse tracking errors controls the polarization at the elements of the feed array to reduce the cross-polarization component in a far field radiation pattern of the antenna. Cross-polarization components at each element in the feed array for a linearly polarized plane wave incident at a predetermined direction to the dome are determined and each element is oriented to be polarized orthogonally to the cross-polarized component at that element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 26, 1984
    Assignee: Sperry Corporation
    Inventors: B. Rama Rao, Leon Susman