Patents by Inventor Finbarr Joseph McGrath

Finbarr Joseph McGrath 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).

  • Apparatus, methods and articles of manufacture for linear signal modification
    Patent number: 7526260
    Abstract: Apparatus, method and article of manufacture are shown for linear signal modification. An input signal is modified by providing one or more non-linear current sources and regulating at least one of the one or more current sources to output a signal based on one or more of the input signal characteristics. The modification of the output signal includes both amplification and attenuation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2009
    Assignees: M/A-Com Eurotec, B.V., M/A-Com, Inc.
    Inventors: Finbarr Joseph McGrath, Pierce Joseph Nagle
  • Apparatus, methods and articles of manufacture for electromagnetic processing
    Patent number: 6891432
    Abstract: Apparatus, methods and articles of manufacture are shown for modifying electromagnetic waves. Through using various wave characteristics such as amplitude to regulate a current source, a current is output that may be used in any number of ways, such as driving an antenna or other load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2005
    Assignees: Mia-Com, Inc., Mia Com Eurotec, B.V.
    Inventors: Pierce Joseph Nagle, Finbarr Joseph McGrath
  • System and method for transmitting digital information using interleaved delta modulation
    Patent number: 6813319
    Abstract: A transmitter for directly modulating an RF carrier with a complex baseband waveform comprises a programmable device adapted to generate amplitude and phase information collectively corresponding to a complex baseband waveform, a signal generator adapted to generate an RF carrier whose phase is responsive to phase information generated by the programmable device, a plurality of delta modulators, and an amplifier coupled to the signal generator and receiving the RF carrier with phase information. Each delta modulator is operative to sample an error signal at a time period offset from all other delta modulators to thereby generate streams of pulses collectively approximating the amplitude information. The supply voltage of the amplifier is adjusted in accordance with approximated amplitude information represented by the streams of pulses generated by the delta modulators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2004
    Assignee: M/A-Com Eurotec
    Inventors: Pierce Joseph Nagle, Finbarr Joseph McGrath, Eugene Patrick Heaney, David Philip Burton
  • Apparatus, methods and articles of manufacture for electromagnetic processing
    Publication number: 20040095191
    Abstract: Apparatus, methods and articles of manufacture are shown for modifying electromagnetic waves. Through using various wave characteristics such as amplitude to regulate a current source, a current is output that may be used in any number of ways, such as driving an antenna or other load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2002
    Publication date: May 20, 2004
    Applicant: Tyco Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Pierce Joseph Nagle, Finbarr Joseph McGrath
  • Apparatus, methods and articles of manufacture for linear signal modification
    Publication number: 20040097213
    Abstract: Apparatus, method and article of manufacture are shown for linear signal modification. An input signal is modified by providing one or more non-linear current sources and regulating at least one of the one or more current sources to output a signal based on one or more of the input signal characteristics. The modification of the output signal includes both amplification and attenuation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2002
    Publication date: May 20, 2004
    Inventors: Pierce Joseph Nagle, Finbarr Joseph McGrath