Patents by Inventor Jonathan Wolff

Jonathan Wolff 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).

  • System and method for identifying and distinguishing spacecraft appendages from the spacecraft body
    Patent number: 12330818
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling docking with a spacecraft includes at least one camera for generating at least one image pixel stream of the spacecraft. A field programmable gate array (FPGA) receives the at least one image pixel stream from the at least one camera, compresses a dynamic range of the at least one image pixel stream and detects a sub-region from the at least one image pixel stream having a compressed dynamic range, processes the at least one image pixel stream to generate at least one texture map for the at least one image pixel stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Falcon Exodynamics, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Klug, Joseph Vermeersch, Matthew Banfield, Adriel Bustamante, Jonathan Wolff
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING AND DISTINGUISHING SPACECRAFT APPENDAGES FROM THE SPACECRAFT BODY
    Publication number: 20250058903
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling docking with a spacecraft includes at least one camera for generating at least one image pixel stream of the spacecraft. A field programmable gate array (FPGA) receives the at least one image pixel stream from the at least one camera, compresses a dynamic range of the at least one image pixel stream and detects a sub-region from the at least one image pixel stream having a compressed dynamic range, processes the at least one image pixel stream to generate at least one texture map for the at least one image pixel stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Michael Klug, Joseph Vermeersch, Matthew Banfield, Adriel Bustamante, Jonathan Wolff
  • System and method for identifying and distinguishing spacecraft appendages from the spacecraft body
    Patent number: 11945609
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling docking with a spacecraft includes at least one camera for generating at least one image pixel stream of the spacecraft. A field programmable gate array (FPGA) receives the at least one image pixel stream from the at least one camera. The FPGA texture processes the at least one pixel stream to generate at least one texture map for the at least one image pixel stream. A processor receives the at least one texture map from the FPGA and calculates texture map statistics responsive to the generated at least one texture map, generates thresholding results for the at least one pixel image stream responsive to the generated at least one texture map, determines a bus centroid of the spacecraft responsive to the generated thresholding results and outputs the determined bus centroid of the spacecraft. A docking controller controls docking of with the spacecraft responsive to the determined bus centroid of the spacecraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: FALCON EXODYNAMICS, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Klug, Joseph Vermeersch, Matthew Banfield, Adriel Bustamante, Jonathan Wolff