Patents by Inventor Jeffrey A. Paul

Jeffrey A. Paul 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: 10422644
    Abstract: A method for improving target location accuracy in direction finding systems is disclosed. A target search region is identified based on a set of received signals, and the target search region is projected onto the earth's surface. An initial search grid, which is smaller than the target search region, is placed within the target search region. Next, the initial search grid is expanded to a full search grid by using an optimum number of virtual grid points in order to cover the entire target search region. The correlation coefficients at the virtual grid points between the estimated phases of emitted signals and the estimated phases of the received signals are then calculated. A target is designated as being at a location associated with the highest correlation coefficient. At this point, a new travel path can be initiated to engage or avoid the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Richard E. Clymer, Jeffrey A. Paul, Dean C. Slocum
  • Patent number: 6072991
    Abstract: An integrated point-to-point microwave radio frequency unit/antenna has a housing, a microwave antenna affixed to the front face of the housing, and a microwave radio frequency transceiver electronics package within the housing. The transceiver electronics package includes a circuit board having transmitter and receiver intermediate frequency processors. The transceiver electronics package further includes a microwave transmitter and a microwave receiver, each utilizing monolithic microwave integrated circuit architecture. The signals of the microwave transmitter and microwave receiver are preferably of different frequencies and are diplexed for communication with the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2000
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. Paul, Raymond Santos, Jr., Chaim Warzman, Roy Wien, Steve Blacketer, Richard T. Hennegan, Richard P. Mintzlaff
  • Patent number: 6034647
    Abstract: An inverted boxhorn antenna array comprising a power divider that is constructed from a single metal piece and a flat metal sheet that is fastened to a rear surface of the power divider. The power divider is fabricated using a variety of waveguide junctions coupled between substantially identical inverted boxhorn subarrays. The junctions includes a central magic tee junction for coupling energy from an input port into the power divider. Alternating folded shunt and folded series tee junctions are used to transfer power coupled by way of the central series junction to the inverted boxhorn subarrays. Specially dimensioned folded shunt and series tee junctions are used in the inverted boxhorn subarrays. Waveguide matched loads are bonded in waveguides between each of the inverted boxhorn radiators of the subarrays. A fully functional antenna assembly includes a radome cover, a quadrature correction plate 18a, and a twist polarizer disposed in front of radiating elements of the inverted boxhorn antenna array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2000
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. Paul, Raymond Santos, John M. Seavey
  • Patent number: 5924021
    Abstract: A frequency upconversion circuit in a millimeter wave radio transmitter uses a low frequency synthesizer and a parallel frequency mixing and multiplication network for converting a low frequency signal to a millimeter wave radio frequency (RF) signal. A frequency downconversion circuit in a millimeter wave radio receiver uses a low frequency synthesizer and a parallel frequency mixing and multiplication network for converting a millimeter wave RF signal to a low frequency signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1999
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. Paul, Chaim Warzman, Raymond Santos, Jr., Richard T. Hennegan, Steve Blacketer
  • Patent number: 5864321
    Abstract: The radio frequency unit of a millimeter wave terrestrial radio includes a housing with a front face and a back face, a microwave radio frequency transceiver electronics package within the housing, an antenna affixed to the front face of the housing, and appropriate signal connections and feeds. One portion of a dovetail support structure, preferably the male dovetail fitting, is affixed to the back face of the housing. The other portion of the dovetail support structure, preferably the female dovetail fitting, is mounted to a mounting structure. The dovetail support structure allows the radio frequency unit to be readily mounted to and demounted from the mounting structure. A reference plane defined between the radio frequency unit and the mounting structure allows the radio frequency unit to be precisely oriented relative to the mounting structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1999
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. Paul, Roy Wien, Richard P. Mintzlaff
  • Patent number: 5835068
    Abstract: An integrated point-to-point microwave radio frequency unit/antenna system includes a microwave transceiver/antenna unit, a housing support element affixed to the microwave transceiver/antenna unit, and a mounting structure support element engaged to the housing support element. The mounting structure support element includes a fixedly adjustable ball-and-socket element, with either the ball or the socket affixed to the housing support element and the other affixed to an attachment structure. The mounting structure support element permits the microwave transceiver/antenna unit to be adjusted in three degrees of freedom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1998
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. Paul, Roy Wien, Douglas Klebe, Sergio Garcia, Richard P. Mintzlaff
  • Patent number: 5786739
    Abstract: A waveguide evanescent mode filter is integrated with a monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) by forming both the MMIC circuitry and the waveguide filter on a single substrate that forms a common ground plane for both elements. The waveguide has a superstructure with an interior recess that is contoured to provide a desired cutoff frequency. The underlying portion of the ground plane can form the lower portion of the waveguide itself, and can also be contoured to define the cutoff frequency. Adjustable attenuation is provided by a resistive card that can be inserted by different amounts into the waveguide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1998
    Assignee: Hughes Electronics
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. Paul, Chaim Warzman, Roy Wien, Richard T. Hennegan
  • Patent number: 4491977
    Abstract: A millimeter-wave, planar, balanced mixer having optical means for coupling radio frequency waves to the mixer circuit. The optical coupling means may comprise a dielectric lens and particularly a spherical dielectric lens. The spherical lens not only provides a gain for the radio frequency energy but overcomes the severe tolerance requirements and size restrictions encountered in fabrication of conventional waveguides for millimeter waves in the range of 100 to 300 GHz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 1, 1985
    Assignee: Hughes Aircraft Company
    Inventor: Jeffrey A. Paul
  • Patent number: 4215313
    Abstract: The specification describes a dielectric image guide harmonic pumped mixer circuit wherein two dielectric image guide strips of different chosen cross-sectional configurations are mounted on a metallic substrate which forms the image plane for the mixer circuit. These image guide strips have impedance matching tapered ends which extend into a central mixer cavity region on the substrate. A pair of reverse poled mixer diodes are mounted in the central cavity region to receive respectively RF incoming signals from one dielectric image guide and local oscillator signals from the other dielectric image guide. Differential currents generated in the two diodes cause the second harmonic of the local oscillator signal frequency to mix with the incoming RF signal frequency. An intermediate frequency (IF) signal current produced thereby is conductively coupled from the mixer cavity into IF signal processing electronics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 29, 1980
    Assignee: Hughes Aircraft Company
    Inventors: Yu-Wen Chang, Jeffrey A. Paul
  • Patent number: 4172663
    Abstract: In an optical wavelength meter, the wavelength of light to be measured, such as that obtained from a CW or pulsed laser, is directed through a tunable grating monochromator, serving as a bandpass filter, for passing light within the selected bandpass and determining, to the lowest degree of resolution, the wavelength of the light to be measured. Thence, the light is directed sequentially through a plurality of Fabry-Perot etalon interferometers of increasing degree of resolution. The interference patterns are sequentially directed onto a spatial detector. The radii of the first and second rings of the respective interference patterns are measured to derive fractional fringe order measurements of successively higher resolution, such that the wavelength of the light to be measured is determined in successively increasing steps of higher resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 30, 1979
    Assignee: Board of Trustees Leland Stanford Jr., University
    Inventors: Robert L. Byer, Jeffrey A. Paul
  • Patent number: D341538
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1993
    Assignee: Jeffrey A. Paul
    Inventor: Jeffrey A. Paul