Patents by Inventor Benjamin F. Pierce, III

Benjamin F. Pierce, III 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).

  • Methods and apparatus for multipath mitigation
    Patent number: 8462861
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for mitigating multipath signal interference comprising transmitting a first signal and second signal that is a copy of the first signal, transmitting the first signal centered at a first frequency, transmitting the second signal centered at a second frequency separated from the first frequency by a selected distance, receiving at a receiving node the first and second signals, estimating a signal quality of the received first and second signals, and decoding a first one of the received first and second signals based upon the estimated signal qualities of the received first and second signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Thomas P. Zahm, Benjamin F. Pierce, III, James E. Hardin
  • METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MULTIPATH MITIGATION
    Publication number: 20110142105
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for mitigating multipath signal interference comprising transmitting a first signal and second signal that is a copy of the first signal, transmitting the first signal centered at a first frequency, transmitting the second signal centered at a second frequency separated from the first frequency by a selected distance, receiving at a receiving node the first and second signals, estimating a signal quality of the received first and second signals, and decoding a first one of the received first and second signals based upon the estimated signal qualities of the received first and second signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Applicant: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Thomas P. Zahm, Benjamin F. Pierce, III, James E. Hardin