Patents by Inventor Greg A. Nease

Greg A. Nease 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: 8195094
    Abstract: A modulator includes input paths for audio information from an electronic audio channel; output paths for transmitting said audio information over a frequency-modulated radio frequency signal to a FM broadcast receiver; and one or more programs for measuring or estimating the spectrum environment of the frequency-modulated RF signal bearing the audio information through sampling and analysis to select an optimum radio signal level and signal transmission mode for transmission to the FM receiver in a near interference free manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Sirius XM Radio, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Briskman, Greg A. Nease, Nenad Popovic
  • Patent number: 4964138
    Abstract: A spread spectrum communications system includes an encoder for differentially encoding a spread spectrum spreading code sequence in accordance with an input data signal. Each chip of the spreading code sequence is inverted, or not inverted, relative to the polarity of a corresponding chip of the spreading code sequence a fixed time delay previously, depending on whether the input data is a logic one or zero, respectively. At the receiver, the data is recovered in a differential data decoder wherein the presently received chip of the spread spectrum signal and a corresponding previously received chip of spread spectrum signal, received a fixed time delay previously, are compared one chip at a time. Since it is the spreading code sequence that is differentially encoded and differentially decoded, there is no need for a synchronized code sequence generator at the receiver, and data synchronization is achieved after one cycle time of the received spread spectrum spreading code sequence has elapsed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 16, 1990
    Assignee: Agilis Corporation
    Inventors: Greg A. Nease, Peter K. Cripps
  • Patent number: 4942591
    Abstract: A multiple phase PSK demodulator for use in a spread spectrum communication system includes a plurality of baseband frequency converters coupled to a corresponding plurality of differential decoders in order to directly recover the encoded PSK data. The logic outputs of the plurality of differential data decoders are coupled to a majority vote logic circuit for determining the correct logic level output signal of the plurality of differential data decoders. In another embodiment, a three phase resistive network is used to convert the two phase quadrature output of two baseband frequency converters to plural phase outputs coupled to the inputs of a corresponding plurality of differential data decoders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 17, 1990
    Assignee: Agilis Corporation
    Inventors: Greg A. Nease, Peter K. Cripps