Patents by Inventor Edward F. Toohey

Edward F. Toohey 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).

  • Method for passive “360-degree coverage” tactical fighter target tracking incorporating adaptive pilot maneuver cue processing
    Patent number: 6822583
    Abstract: A method and system to rapidly, passively, estimate target range, speed and heading for non-maneuvering and maneuvering radio frequency airborne emitters (enemy targets and threats) for tactical fighters using batch based recursive estimators for track initialization and track maintenance that includes providing information processing that operates on interferometer cosine (cone angle) measurements, and estimated SNR (signal-to-noise ratio) data, threat database, and feedback information from pilot maneuver cue algorithm. The present method will initialize airborne tracks using varying degrees of real time and a priori information to quickly estimate coarse airborne emitter heading using real time interferometer cosine (cone angle) measurements and provide pilot aircraft maneuver cues that will accelerate passive range (target speed and heading estimates) convergence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald M. Yannone, Edward F. Toohey, Melvin Carroll
  • Method for passive "360-degree coverage" tactical fighter target tracking incorporating adaptive pilot maneuver cue processing
    Publication number: 20040027257
    Abstract: A method and system to rapidly, passively, estimate target range, speed and heading for non-maneuvering and maneuvering radio frequency airborne emitters (enemy targets and threats) for tactical fighters using batch based recursive estimators for track initialization and track maintenance that includes providing information processing that operates on interferometer cosine (cone angle) measurements, and estimated SNR (signal-to-noise ratio) data, threat database, and feedback information from pilot maneuver cue algorithm. The present method will initialize airborne tracks using varying degrees of real time and a priori information to quickly estimate coarse airborne emitter heading using real time interferometer cosine (cone angle) measurements and provide pilot aircraft maneuver cues that will accelerate passive range (target speed and heading estimates) convergence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2002
    Publication date: February 12, 2004
    Inventors: Ronald M. Yannone, Edward F. Toohey, Melvin Carroll