Patents by Inventor Bernard A. Kuhl

Bernard A. Kuhl 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: 20180227073
    Abstract: A technique for adaptively disrupting UAVs detects a target UAV using a camera, monitors the target UAV's communications using a directional antenna aligned with the camera, and attempts to communicate with the target UAV to request that it land, fly away, or return to launch. With the camera trained on the UAV, the directional antenna detects down-link signals from the UAV, which the UAV may employ to communicate with a ground-based controller. Control circuitry analyzes the down-link signals and generates a disrupting signal based thereon. The disrupting signal shares characteristics with the down-link signal, such as its protocol, bit rate, and/or packet length. The directional antenna transmits the disrupting signal back toward the UAV to affect the UAV's flight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Brian Adam Hetsko, John Bernard Kuhl, Robert Johns, David Barone
  • Patent number: 10044465
    Abstract: A technique for adaptively disrupting UAVs detects a target UAV using a camera, monitors the target UAV's communications using a directional antenna aligned with the camera, and attempts to communicate with the target UAV to request that it land, fly away, or return to launch. With the camera trained on the UAV, the directional antenna detects down-link signals from the UAV, which the UAV may employ to communicate with a ground-based controller. Control circuitry analyzes the down-link signals and generates a disrupting signal based thereon. The disrupting signal shares characteristics with the down-link signal, such as its protocol, bit rate, and/or packet length. The directional antenna transmits the disrupting signal back toward the UAV to affect the UAV's flight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: AAI Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Adam Hetsko, John Bernard Kuhl, Robert Johns, David Barone
  • Patent number: 3995383
    Abstract: A scraper bowl having a movable bottom floor section that is supported at each side thereof by a carriage that is actuated by a horizontally oriented hydraulic cylinder mounted on the side wall of the scraper bowl and located forwardly of the floor section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1976
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Richard C. Breitenstein, Bernard A. Kuhl