Patents by Inventor Jeffrey A. Gregory
Jeffrey A. Gregory 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).
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Patent number: 12261687Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods for modulating a downlink signals representative of a communication signal are provided herein. An example method comprises receiving an input signal; in a first one or more processing blocks in a one or more processors, performing a first modulation operation on first data packets of the input signal based on a modulation scheme for a receiver of the downlink signal; in a second one or more processing blocks in the one or more processors in parallel with the first one or more processing blocks, performing a second modulation operation on second data packets of the input signal based on the modulation scheme; and generating a waveform as the downlink signal based on performing the first and second modulation operations.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2021Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: KRATOS INTEGRAL HOLDINGS, LLCInventors: Jeffrey David Jarriel, Daniel Joseph Sutton, Matthew James Stoltenberg, Brandon Gregory King
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Patent number: 12261677Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods for combining downlink signals representative of a communication signal are provided herein. An example method comprises receiving the downlink signals from antenna feeds. In a first processing block(s) in a processor(s), performing a first blind detection operation on first packets of a first signal, and performing a first doppler compensation operation on the first packets. In a second processing block(s) in the processor(s) in parallel with the first processing block(s), performing a second blind detection operation on second packets of a second signal, and performing a second doppler compensation operation on the second packets. The method also comprises combining the first signal and the second signal based on (i) aligning the first data packets with the second data packets and (ii) performing a weighted combiner operation that applies scaling to the first and second packets based on corresponding signal quality.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2020Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: KRATOS INTEGRAL HOLDINGS, LLCInventors: Brandon Gregory King, Jeffrey David Jarriel, Matthew James Stoltenberg, Daniel Joseph Sutton
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Patent number: 12255412Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for a digital beamformed phased array feed. The system may include a radome configured to allow electromagnetic waves to propagate; a multi-band software defined antenna array tile; a power and clock management subsystem configured to manage power and time of operation; a thermal management subsystem configured to dissipate heat generated by the multi-band software defined antenna array tile; and an enclosure assembly. The multi-band software defined antenna array tile may include a plurality of coupled dipole array antenna elements; a plurality of frequency converters; and a plurality of digital beamformers.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2024Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: BlueHalo, LLCInventors: Michael Thomas Pace, David Gregory Baur, Theodore Lyman Schuler-Sandy, William Kennedy, Jeffrey Gerard Micono, William Louis Walker, Garrett James Newell
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Publication number: 20250083903Abstract: System and method are provided for automation of placing and transporting of parcels or packages in containers. Aspects of disclosure provide automation for filling and manipulation of containers, and closure of filled containers, in systems where materials, products, packages, and other items may require containerization. Other aspects of disclosure provide automation for transport of one or more empty and/or filled containers from/to various staging areas of such systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2024Publication date: March 13, 2025Applicant: Aegis Sortation, LLCInventors: Anthony J. Young, Jeffrey Paul Henley, Kevin Raney, Robert Browder, Marvin Gregory Whitlock, Scott Crance, Ken Ice, Michael Karaglanis, Brian Yount, Barry Sweatt, Thomas M. Phillips, Logan Young, Derek Robert Strum, David Wesley Caldwell, II, James Thomas Hind
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Publication number: 20250084602Abstract: A snow and ice control spreader and sprayer comprises a granular material hopper, a granular material delivery system, at least first and second liquid tanks mounted on both sides of the hopper, the first tank having a first volume and the second tank having a second volume, the first volume being greater than the second volume, a liquid delivery system, and a manifold.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2023Publication date: March 13, 2025Inventors: Glenn Beck, Matthew Lynn Breckenfelder, Mark Gregory Jackson, Jeffrey Michael Krogmann, Christoper Steven Maury, James Henry Willey
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Publication number: 20250077431Abstract: An apparatus includes at least one processing device configured to receive, at a gateway device deployed in an information technology (IT) infrastructure environment from a given IT asset, a request for software code. The processing device is also configured to download the requested software code from a backend server responsive to determining that it is not cached locally in a software cache of the gateway device, and to provide the requested software code to the given IT asset. The processing device is further configured to determine, utilizing one or more machine learning algorithms, a priority of the requested software code relative to other software code cached locally in the software cache. The processing device is further configured to implement a cache replacement algorithm for the software cache of the gateway device based at least in part on the determined priority of the requested software code.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2023Publication date: March 6, 2025Inventors: Jeffrey Teel Glenn, Matthew Gregory Puerkel, Sheetal Kuber Pattankude
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Patent number: 12244078Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for a digital beamformed phased array feed. The system may include a radome configured to allow electromagnetic waves to propagate; a multi-band software defined antenna array tile; a power and clock management subsystem configured to manage power and time of operation; a thermal management subsystem configured to dissipate heat generated by the multi-band software defined antenna array tile; and an enclosure assembly. The multi-band software defined antenna array tile may include a plurality of coupled dipole array antenna elements; a plurality of frequency converters; and a plurality of digital beamformers.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2024Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: BlueHalo, LLCInventors: Michael Thomas Pace, David Gregory Baur, Theodore Lyman Schuler-Sandy, William Kennedy, Jeffrey Gerard Micono, William Louis Walker, Garrett James Newell
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Publication number: 20250070861Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods for managing channel bandwidth of signals are provided herein. Example method include receiving signals from one or more antenna feeds, each signal having a first bandwidth. Some example methods include, in a plurality of processing blocks operating in parallel in one or more processors, performing one or more channelizer operations on portions of the signals, each channelizer operation creates a plurality of channels having a bandwidth smaller than the first bandwidth. Some methods may include, in a plurality of processing blocks in the one or more processors, performing one or more combiner operations on the channels, each operation combines the bandwidth of a subset of the channels into a combined channel, the plurality of processing blocks operating in parallel. The method then outputs the combined channel to a network.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2024Publication date: February 27, 2025Inventors: Brandon Gregory King, Jeffrey David Jarriel, Matthew James Stoltenberg, Daniel Joseph Sutton
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Publication number: 20250055525Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for a digital beamformed phased array feed. The system may include a radome configured to allow electromagnetic waves to propagate; a multi-band software defined antenna array tile; a power and clock management subsystem configured to manage power and time of operation; a thermal management subsystem configured to dissipate heat generated by the multi-band software defined antenna array tile; and an enclosure assembly. The multi-band software defined antenna array tile may include a plurality of coupled dipole array antenna elements; a plurality of frequency converters; and a plurality of digital beamformers.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2024Publication date: February 13, 2025Inventors: Michael Thomas Pace, David Gregory Baur, Theodore Lyman Schuler-Sandy, William Kennedy, Jeffrey Gerard Micono, William Louis Walker, Garrett James Newell
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Patent number: 12222302Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for allowing users to safely and efficiently conduct repeatable dynamic experiments involving coordinated applications of force, motion, pressure, temperature, flow, dispersion and other physical events via a testing fixture positioned within an imaging environment.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2023Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: SAEC/Kinetic Vision, Inc.Inventors: James Anthony Topich, Alexander Gregory Doukas, Geoffrey Allen King, Jeffrey Allen Hatton
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Patent number: 12212079Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for a digital beamformed phased array feed. The system may include a radome configured to allow electromagnetic waves to propagate; a multi-band software defined antenna array tile; a power and clock management subsystem configured to manage power and time of operation; a thermal management subsystem configured to dissipate heat generated by the multi-band software defined antenna array tile; and an enclosure assembly. The multi-band software defined antenna array tile may include a plurality of coupled dipole array antenna elements; a plurality of frequency converters; and a plurality of digital beamformers.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2024Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: BlueHalo, LLCInventors: Michael Thomas Pace, David Gregory Baur, Theodore Lyman Schuler-Sandy, William Kennedy, Jeffrey Gerard Micono, William Louis Walker, Garrett James Newell
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Publication number: 20250025918Abstract: System and method are provided where parcels or packages are associated or grouped, into logical group or logical containerization of parcels or packages, without need for physical container, such that parcels or packages can be tracked as a group, for example with a unique group ID. Logical group may be tracked within a specified logical zone, transported, sorted and/or otherwise processed as unique logical group in container, or without need to be contained in physical container. System and method for automated sortation can accumulate set number or set volume of packages, and then process the accumulated set number or volume of packages.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2024Publication date: January 23, 2025Applicant: Aegis Sortation, LLCInventors: Anthony J. Young, Jeffrey Paul Henley, Kevin Raney, Robert Browder, Marvin Gregory Whitlock, Scott Crance, Ken Ice, Michael Karaglanis, Brian Yount, Barry Sweatt, Thomas M. Phillips, Logan Young
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Patent number: 11774244Abstract: Columnar multi-axis microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) devices (such as gyroscopes) balanced against undesired linear and angular vibration are described herein. In some embodiments, the columnar MEMS device may comprise at least two multiple-mass columns, each having at least three proof masses and being configured to sense rotation about a respective axis. The motion and mass of the proof masses may be controlled to achieve linear and rotational balancing of the MEMS device. The columnar MEMS device may further comprise one or more modular drive structures disposed alongside each multiple-mass column to facilitate displacement of the proof masses of a respective column. The MEMS devices described herein may be used to sense roll, yaw, and pitch angular rates.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey A. Gregory, Charles Blackmer, Tyler Adam Dunn, Eugene Oh Hwang, Jinbo Kuang, Kemiao Jia, Laura Cornelia Popa, Igor P. Prikhodko, Erdinc Tatar
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Patent number: 11746004Abstract: Microelectromechanical system (MEMS) inertial sensors exhibiting reduced parasitic capacitance are described. The reduction in the parasitic capacitance may be achieved by forming localized regions of thick dielectric material. These localized regions may be formed inside trenches. Formation of trenches enables an increase in the vertical separation between a sense capacitor and the substrate, thereby reducing the parasitic capacitance in this region. The stationary electrode of the sense capacitor may be placed between the proof mass and the trench. The trench may be filled with a dielectric material. Part of the trench may be filled with air, in some circumstances, thereby further reducing the parasitic capacitance. These MEMS inertial sensors may serve, among other types of inertial sensors, as accelerometers and/or gyroscopes. Fabrication of these trenches may involve lateral oxidation, whereby columns of semiconductor material are oxidized.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2022Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.Inventors: Charles Blackmer, Jeffrey A. Gregory, Nikolay Pokrovskiy, Bradley C. Kaanta
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Publication number: 20230144398Abstract: A hair collection apparatus that is configured to be releasably secured to a support surface in a bathroom wherein the present invention receives and retains hair strands for subsequent disposal. The present invention includes a body having at least one wall forming an interior volume. The body includes an opening proximate the lower end thereof. Releasably secured to the opening is a cap member. The cap member is removable so as to disposed of contents within the interior volume of the body. A keeper is secured to the cap member that is operable to secured the apparatus to a desired location. The body includes an upper portion integrally formed proximate the upper end of the body. The upper portion includes a receiving aperture wherein the receiving aperture further includes a plurality of retention members. The retention members are adjacent each other and separate by slits.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2021Publication date: May 11, 2023Inventors: Patricia Lynn McLeod, Jeffrey Gregory McLeod
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Patent number: 11519726Abstract: Couplers for selectively coupling in-plane and out-of-plane motion between moving masses are provided herein. In particular, aspects of the present application provide for a coupler configured to couple in-plane motion between moving masses while decoupling out-of-plane motion between the moving masses. The selective couplers as described herein may be used in a device, such as a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) inertial sensor. In some embodiments, a MEMS inertial sensor comprises a first mass configured to move in-plane, a second mass configured to move in-plane and out-of-plane, and a coupler coupling the first and second masses and comprising two levers coupled to an anchor point by respective tethers and coupled to each other by a spring.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2020Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey A. Gregory, Laura Cornelia Popa
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Publication number: 20220162059Abstract: Microelectromechanical system (MEMS) inertial sensors exhibiting reduced parasitic capacitance are described. The reduction in the parasitic capacitance may be achieved by forming localized regions of thick dielectric material. These localized regions may be formed inside trenches. Formation of trenches enables an increase in the vertical separation between a sense capacitor and the substrate, thereby reducing the parasitic capacitance in this region. The stationary electrode of the sense capacitor may be placed between the proof mass and the trench. The trench may be filled with a dielectric material. Part of the trench may be filled with air, in some circumstances, thereby further reducing the parasitic capacitance. These MEMS inertial sensors may serve, among other types of inertial sensors, as accelerometers and/or gyroscopes. Fabrication of these trenches may involve lateral oxidation, whereby columns of semiconductor material are oxidized.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2022Publication date: May 26, 2022Applicant: Analog Devices, Inc.Inventors: Charles Blackmer, Jeffrey A. Gregory, Nikolay Pokrovskiy, Bradley C. Kaanta
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Patent number: 11279614Abstract: Microelectromechanical system (MEMS) inertial sensors exhibiting reduced parasitic capacitance are described. The reduction in the parasitic capacitance may be achieved by forming localized regions of thick dielectric material. These localized regions may be formed inside trenches. Formation of trenches enables an increase in the vertical separation between a sense capacitor and the substrate, thereby reducing the parasitic capacitance in this region. The stationary electrode of the sense capacitor may be placed between the proof mass and the trench. The trench may be filled with a dielectric material. Part of the trench may be filled with air, in some circumstances, thereby further reducing the parasitic capacitance. These MEMS inertial sensors may serve, among other types of inertial sensors, as accelerometers and/or gyroscopes. Fabrication of these trenches may involve lateral oxidation, whereby columns of semiconductor material are oxidized.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.Inventors: Charles Blackmer, Jeffrey A. Gregory, Nikolay Pokrovskiy, Bradley C. Kaanta
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Publication number: 20220057210Abstract: Columnar multi-axis microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) devices (such as gyroscopes) balanced against undesired linear and angular vibration are described herein. In some embodiments, the columnar MEMS device may comprise at least two multiple-mass columns, each having at least three proof masses and being configured to sense rotation about a respective axis. The motion and mass of the proof masses may be controlled to achieve linear and rotational balancing of the MEMS device. The columnar MEMS device may further comprise one or more modular drive structures disposed alongside each multiple-mass column to facilitate displacement of the proof masses of a respective column. The MEMS devices described herein may be used to sense roll, yaw, and pitch angular rates.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2021Publication date: February 24, 2022Applicant: Analog Devices, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey A. Gregory, Charles Blackmer, Tyler Adam Dunn, Eugene Oh Hwang, Jinbo Kuang, Kemiao Jia, Laura Cornelia Popa, Igor P. Prikhodko, Erdinc Tatar
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Publication number: 20210396520Abstract: Couplers for selectively coupling in-plane and out-of-plane motion between moving masses are provided herein. In particular, aspects of the present application provide for a coupler configured to couple in-plane motion between moving masses while decoupling out-of-plane motion between the moving masses. The selective couplers as described herein may be used in a device, such as a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) inertial sensor. In some embodiments, a MEMS inertial sensor comprises a first mass configured to move in-plane, a second mass configured to move in-plane and out-of-plane, and a coupler coupling the first and second masses and comprising two levers coupled to an anchor point by respective tethers and coupled to each other by a spring.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2020Publication date: December 23, 2021Applicant: Analog Devices, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey A. Gregory, Laura Cornelia Popa