Patents by Inventor Dean Thelen

Dean Thelen 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: 7058377
    Abstract: A dual channel downconverter that includes a two-channel heterodyne receiver architecture for downconverting two frequency-agile, pulsed RF signals to identical fixed IF signals without the use of a tunable local oscillator. This accomplishes downconversion while preserving, in the IF output signals, any amplitude modulations present in the RF signals. The device also preserves phase difference changes present in the RF signals while rejecting the phase modulations common to those input signals. The present device facilitates complex response measurements of pulsed two-port RF devices while operating in a target system such as a radar transmitter, including insertion gain, insertion phase, residual phase noise, error vector magnitude, AM noise, and group delay, all with increased accuracy, good repeatability, good dynamic range, and decreased measurement time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Kenneth Bryan Mitsdarffer, Lowell Roy Hoover, Dean Thelen