Patents by Inventor Karl D. Brommer

Karl D. Brommer 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).

  • Publication number: 20110148580
    Abstract: A tag operates in an environment where transmitted interrogators are not possible or desired. High-efficiency diode rectifiers and low-power oscillators are used in combination with an energy storage element and hysteretic switch. The combination of multi-diode rectifier, low power tunnel diode oscillator, energy storage element and hysteretic switch allow for nanowatt levels of received RF power to be stored to produce micro-watts of RF transmit power. The device trickle charges off of ambient RF radiation until enough energy is stored for transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: BAE SYSTEMS Information & Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Karl D. Brommer, Candice L. Brittain, Eldon M. Sutphin
  • Publication number: 20110093540
    Abstract: A method and system for communicating a message are disclosed. An exemplary system includes plural nodes and an exemplary information transmitter that includes a processor. The processor can detect a number of the nodes within communication range of the information transmitter as helper nodes. The processor can process a message into a number of portions as a function of the number of helper nodes detected. The processor can transmit at least one of the portions of the message to at least one of the helper nodes for wireless communication of at least one portion by the at least one helper node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Applicant: BAE SYSTEMS INFORMATION AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS INTEGRATION INC.
    Inventors: Yiftach Eisenberg, Rachel E. Learned, Karl D. Brommer
  • Publication number: 20100302038
    Abstract: Multiple RFID integrated circuit microradio chips are located at the feed point of an RFID tag antenna for greater, reliability, elimination of testing and to take advantage of coherent microradio operation for increased gain and power, better signal-to-noise ratios, improved range and low bit error rates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Karl D. Brommer, Kenneth R. Erikson, Timothy P. Butler
  • Publication number: 20100231389
    Abstract: Stolen or lost explosives are detected by fixing micro RF transmitters in the form of RFID tags to the explosive packaging or embedding them in the explosive material itself. Moreover, the subject microradio transponders may be contained in an adhesive binder or slurry. The identity of the explosive, its place of manufacture and ownership is detectable by RFID tag interrogators strategically located along commonly used roads or railways in which the RFID tags scavenge energy from interrogation beams, with the RFID tags indicating the identity of the explosive and its origin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2009
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Paul A. Zank, David W. Buchanan, Jason C. Julien, Karl D. Brommer, Walter J. Fredette, JR.
  • Patent number: 7777626
    Abstract: Multiple RFID integrated circuit microradio chips are located at the feed point of an RFID tag antenna for greater reliability, elimination of testing and to take advantage of coherent microradio operation for increased gain and power, better signal-to-noise ratios, improved range and low bit error rates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems, Integration, Inc.
    Inventors: Karl D. Brommer, Kenneth R. Erikson, Timothy P. Butler
  • Publication number: 20100188211
    Abstract: A convenient handheld locator is provided for locating an item in an urban environment in which the locator is programmed to search for and locate specific items, with the detected item being displayed on the locator as to its identity or name, also displaying where the item is relative to the locator, as to position and range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2009
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Karl D. Brommer, Court E. Rossman, Cedric L. Logan, Paul E. Gili
  • Publication number: 20090310619
    Abstract: A modem that provides efficient use of wireless network bandwidth in the presence of multiuser interference and noise is disclosed. The modem design provides for compatibility with existing network hardware and protocols so that new efficient modems may be added to the network without removing installed hardware and software.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2009
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Applicant: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventor: Karl D. BROMMER
  • Publication number: 20090303014
    Abstract: An RFID tag (10), containing at least two independent microscopic RFID chips (16) or microradios is programmed with the same unique identifier for each chip. The unique identifier is used in the RFID chips (16) to key the RFID chip (16) transmitting to produce outputs in the same time slot so that the outputs add coherently, thus to create an output that is identical to that of a conventional tag containing only one such chip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2006
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Inventors: Karl D. Brommer, Kenneth R. Erikson
  • Publication number: 20090284351
    Abstract: RFID tag designs and sensors are disclosed that include a dispersive antenna and exhibit greater detection ranges relative to conventional designs. The designs include, for example a transponder having including a rectifier, a radio-frequency identification (RFID) circuit for receiving and responding to interrogation signals, and a frequency dispersion element for receiving a multi-phase input signal and creating a pulse therefrom for input to the rectifier. Frequency-dispersive elements (e.g., antennas) and compatible interrogation waveforms can be used so that the rectifying diodes receive high peak voltage levels relative to the average voltage levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Applicant: BAE SYSTEM Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Court Rossman, John T. Apostolos, Karl D. Brommer
  • Patent number: 7599346
    Abstract: A modem that provides efficient use of wireless network bandwidth in the presence of multi-user interference and noise comprising a multi-user detection module (115), a data formatting module (120), a control processor (125) and a demultiplexer (135).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventor: Karl D Brommer
  • Publication number: 20090072950
    Abstract: A coherent RFID tag design having no internal power source is disclosed. The design exhibits a longer detection range and less interference relative to conventional tag designs. The coherent RFID tag design operates in a locked or stabilized fashion, in that the frequency at which energy is parasitically coupled to the RFID tag (via its antenna) is the same as the frequency at which the RFID tag transmits information utilizing the same antenna. The RFID tag design allows a greater number of RFID tags to be deployed, without causing cross-tag interference issues and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Applicant: BAE SYSTEMS Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Paul E. Gili, Karl D. Brommer
  • Patent number: 7486722
    Abstract: A MUD enabled cable modem that provides efficient use of cable television network bandwidth in the presence of interference and noise is disclosed. The modem design provides for compatibility with existing network hardware and protocols so that bandwidth efficient modems configured in accordance with the principles of the present invention may be added to the network without removing installed hardware and software. A bandwidth efficient modem in the cable network head-end increases reverse link capacity from the terminals to the head end, while bandwidth efficient modems in cable network terminals increases forward link capacity from the head end to the terminals. Bidirectional bandwidth efficiency is thereby enabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: Bae Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Karl D Brommer, Edward D Russell
  • Patent number: 7233620
    Abstract: Wireless communication network dynamically assigning communicators to allocated channels by considering the interference and noise environment to maximize the number of communicators and effective bandwidth of the channel. The present invention provides a digital wireless modem capable of measuring interference and noise in a channel, signaling the information on a control channel, accepting dynamic channel assignments from a controlling element and demodulating signals in the presence of interference and noise. The modem uses a demodulator capable of recovering information from data signals in the presence of noise and interference stronger than the primary signal, and there is a controlling element for transmitting noise and interference measurements to a central network controller and a controlling element for determining channel assignments with the central network controller and setting the modem to the correct transmission and reception channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2007
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventor: Karl D Brommer
  • Patent number: 7092452
    Abstract: A digital receiver automatically detects and non-coherently demodulates a multiplicity of interfering digitally modulated signals transmitted simultaneously at approximately the same carrier frequency. The receiver includes one or more antenna inputs (e.g., polarization and/or space diverse), a parameter estimator module, and a multiuser detector for estimating the data transmitted by each interfering signals and adapted to operate with at least one of a MUD algorithm with partially quantized prior information and a MUD algorithm based on prewhitened data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: Bae Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration INC
    Inventors: Matthew A Taylor, Robert B MacLeod, Rachel E Learned, Joshua D Niedzwiecki, Karl D Brommer, Thomas P McElwain
  • Publication number: 20040244044
    Abstract: A MUD enabled cable modem that provides efficient use of cable television network bandwidth in the presence of interference and noise is disclosed. The modem design provides for compatibility with existing network hardware and protocols so that bandwidth efficient modems configured in accordance with the principles of the present invention may be added to the network without removing installed hardware and software. A bandwidth efficient modem in the cable network head-end increases reverse link capacity from the terminals to the head end, while bandwidth efficient modems in cable network terminals increases forward link capacity from the head end to the terminals. Bidirectional bandwidth efficiency is thereby enabled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2004
    Publication date: December 2, 2004
    Inventor: Karl D Brommer
  • Patent number: 6826140
    Abstract: A processing scheme for digital storage media using multi-user detection to separate tracks of data or remove interference from neighboring tracks. In one embodiment, data is written on a plurality of tracks positioned sufficiently close together so that multiple tracks are detected simultaneously by the read access sensor. Upon scanning the surface for data, the read element simultaneously receives the data signals from a plurality of tracks. Joint detection signal processing resolves the interference and data bits from the multiple sensed tracks, enabling closer packing of data with minimal guard space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2004
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration INC
    Inventors: Karl D. Brommer, Robert B. MacLeod, Michael P. Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20040037202
    Abstract: A processing scheme for digital storage media using multi-user detection to separate tracks of data or remove interference from neighboring tracks. In one embodiment, data is written on a plurality of tracks positioned sufficiently close together so that multiple tracks are detected simultaneously by the read access sensor. Upon scanning the surface for data, the read element simultaneously receives the data signals from a plurality of tracks. Joint detection signal processing resolves the interference and data bits from the multiple sensed tracks, enabling closer packing of data with minimal guard space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2002
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventors: Karl D. Brommer, Robert B. MacLeod, Michael P. Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20030198305
    Abstract: A digital receiver automatically detects and non-coherently demodulates a multiplicity of interfering digitally modulated signals transmitted simultaneously at approximately the same carrier frequency. The receiver includes one or more antenna inputs (e.g., polarization and/or space diverse), a parameter estimator module, and a multiuser detector for estimating the data transmitted by each interfering signals and adapted to operate with at least one of a MUD algorithm with partially quantized prior information and a MUD algorithm based on prewhitened data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2003
    Publication date: October 23, 2003
    Inventors: Matthew A. Taylor, Robert B. MacLeod, Rachel E. Learned, Joshua D. Niedzwiecki, Karl D. Brommer, Thomas P. McElwain
  • Publication number: 20030026356
    Abstract: Wireless communication network dynamically assigning communicators to allocated channels by considering the interference and noise environment to maximize the number of communicators and effective bandwidth of the channel. The present invention provides a digital wireless modem capable of measuring interference and noise in a channel, signaling the information on a control channel, accepting dynamic channel assignments from a controlling element and demodulating signals in the presence of interference and noise. The modem uses a demodulator capable of recovering information from data signals in the presence of noise and interference stronger than the primary signal, and there is a controlling element for transmitting noise and interference measurements to a central network controller and a controlling element for determining channel assignments with the central network controller and setting the modem to the correct transmission and reception channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Inventor: Karl D. Brommer
  • Patent number: 6233443
    Abstract: An apparatus and method reducing interference between multiple frequency modulated, FM, voice transmissions present in the same frequency bandwidth by receiving a radio signal which includes a first FM voice signal to be demodulated along with one or more additional FM voice signals which are present within a modulation bandwidth of the first FM voice signal, detecting the presence of a carrier frequency signal of the first FM signal and determining a lack of modulation of the detected carrier frequency signal by a voice signal, and squelching the received signal when the carrier signal is unmodulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2001
    Assignee: Transcept, Inc.
    Inventor: Karl D. Brommer