Patents by Inventor John James Degnan, III

John James Degnan, III 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: 10474970
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a self consistent system for generation and adaptive implementation of overflying multi sensor measurements and derivation of actionable aggregants pertinent to determination of status and proactive management models of distributed resource. The system includes at least one set of calibrated overflying multisensor detectors arranged for detecting signals from electromagnetic radiation redirected by a plurality of underlying structures having a combination of features having variable scale lengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Sigma Space Commercial Holdings LLC
    Inventors: John James Degnan, III, Jacobo Marcos Sirota, Kathleen Marie Fitzsimmons, Christopher Treadwell Field, Miodrag Cekic
  • Patent number: 8493445
    Abstract: An optical scanner system for contiguous three-dimensional topographic or volumetric imaging of a surface from an aircraft or spacecraft is disclosed. A servo controller synchronizes the rotation rates of a pair of wedge scanners with high precision to the multi-kilohertz laser fire rate producing an infinite variety of well-controlled scan patterns. This causes the beam pattern to be laid down in precisely the same way on each scan cycle, eliminating the need to record the orientations of the wedges accurately on every laser fire, thereby reducing ancillary data storage or transmission requirements by two to three orders of magnitude and greatly simplifying data preprocessing and analysis. The described system also uses a holographic element to split the laser beam into an array that is then scanned in an arbitrary pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Sigma Space Corp
    Inventors: John James Degnan, III, David Nelson Wells
  • Patent number: 8144312
    Abstract: A telescope with internal scanner utilizing either a single optical wedge scanner or a dual optical wedge scanner and a controller arranged to control a synchronous rotation of the first and/or second optical wedges, the wedges constructed and arranged to scan light redirected by topological surfaces and/or volumetric scatterers. The telescope with internal scanner further incorporates a first converging optical element that receives the redirected light and transmits the redirected light to the scanner, and a second converging optical element within the light path between the first optical element and the scanner arranged to reduce an area of impact on the scanner of the beam collected by the first optical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Sigma Space Corporation
    Inventors: John James Degnan, III, Yunhui Zheng
  • Publication number: 20110051121
    Abstract: A telescope with internal scanner utilizing either a single optical wedge scanner or a dual optical wedge scanner and a controller arranged to control a synchronous rotation of the first and/or second optical wedges, the wedges constructed and arranged to scan light redirected by topological surfaces and/or volumetric scatterers. The telescope with internal scanner further incorporates a first converging optical element that receives the redirected light and transmits the redirected light to the scanner, and a second converging optical element within the light path between the first optical element and the scanner arranged to reduce an area of impact on the scanner of the beam collected by the first optical element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2009
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: SIGMA SPACE CORPORATION
    Inventors: John James Degnan, III, Yunhui Zheng