Patents by Inventor Hal L Levitt

Hal L Levitt 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: 6501258
    Abstract: A signal processing apparatus for providing electrical frequency measurements of input signals. In one embodiment, a power splitter divides an RF input signal into first and second input signals. An RF channelizer having a filter bank receives the first input signal and determines a coarse frequency measurement. An optical modulator modulates an optical carrier signal with the second input signal, and a beam splitter divides the modulated carrier signal into a plurality of optical signals that each feed into one of a plurality of optical frequency discriminators (“OFD”). Each OFD uses a fiber optic delay line and spatial domain sampling techniques to extract a phase measurement. An ambiguity resolver receives the phase measurement from each OFD and determines a single, absolute phase measurement, which is translated to a fine frequency measurement. A frequency encoder combines the coarse and fine frequency measurements to produce a final frequency measurement having increased resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Hal L Levitt, Sokhom Kith, Dale L. Reynolds