Patents by Inventor Jerry T. Kim

Jerry T. Kim 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: 10560192
    Abstract: In certain embodiments, a system for transmitting (electromagnetic or acoustic) wave-based signals towards a target includes a plurality of transceivers and a controller. Each transceiver transmits a probe signal towards the target and receives an associated backscatter signal corresponding to reflection of the probe signals from the target. The controller determines, for each transceiver, a Doppler frequency shift and a time delay, modifies each associated backscatter signal based on the corresponding Doppler frequency shift and time delay to generate an associated motion-compensated backscatter signal, and applies time reversal (TR) processing to each motion-compensated backscatter signal to generate an associated motion-compensated TR signal. Each transceiver transmits towards the target a transmission signal based the associated motion-compensated TR signal. In communications systems, the transmission signals are data-modulated versions of the motion-compensated TR signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Jerry T. Kim, Margaret Cheney
  • Patent number: 10361688
    Abstract: A method of generating a high-power Radio-Frequency ultrashort waveform comprising the steps of generating an input waveform at a relatively low power level from an impulse response characteristic of a reverberant cavity via one-bit quantization and time reversal; generating an amplified input waveform of a power higher than the input waveform via feeding the input waveform into one or more amplifiers; generating a compressed ultrashort pulse having a high power relative to the amplified input waveform via feeding the amplified input waveform into the reverberant cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Victor M. Mendez, Sun K. Hong, Jerry T. Kim
  • Publication number: 20180269982
    Abstract: In certain embodiments, a system for transmitting (electromagnetic or acoustic) wave-based signals towards a target includes a plurality of transceivers and a controller. Each transceiver transmits a probe signal towards the target and receives an associated backscatter signal corresponding to reflection of the probe signals from the target. The controller determines, for each transceiver, a Doppler frequency shift and a time delay, modifies each associated backscatter signal based on the corresponding Doppler frequency shift and time delay to generate an associated motion-compensated backscatter signal, and applies time reversal (TR) processing to each motion-compensated backscatter signal to generate an associated motion-compensated TR signal. Each transceiver transmits towards the target a transmission signal based the associated motion-compensated TR signal. In communications systems, the transmission signals are data-modulated versions of the motion-compensated TR signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Jerry T. Kim, Margaret Cheney
  • Publication number: 20170257084
    Abstract: A method of generating a high-power Radio-Frequency ultrashort waveform comprising the steps of generating an input waveform at a relatively low power level from an impulse response characteristic of a reverberant cavity via one-bit quantization and time reversal; generating an amplified input waveform of a power higher than the input waveform via feeding the input waveform into one or more amplifiers; generating a compressed ultrashort pulse having a high power relative to the amplified input waveform via feeding the amplified input waveform into the reverberant cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Victor M. Mendez, Sun K. Hong, Jerry T. Kim