Patents by Inventor Katherine A. Tieszen

Katherine A. Tieszen 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: 5426438
    Abstract: A system and method for obtaining the bearing angle of radio frequency is utilized in a direction finding system to determine the signal of interest. The system utilized an adaptive interferometric processor to null out modulation occurring due to commutation between the antenna elements. Through this system the bearing angle can be determined accurately and efficiently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 20, 1995
    Assignee: Delfin Systems
    Inventors: David L. Peavey, Katherine A. Tieszen, Timothy D. Stephens, Fred E. Schader, Nicholas Cianos, John R. Conkle
  • Patent number: 5412390
    Abstract: A system for reducing co-channel interference includes a power spectrum analyzer which provides a spectral signal representative of an intermediate frequency signal from the receiver of a direction finding system. The system further includes threshold/window logic that, responsive to the comparison of threshold levels and spectral windows to the interfering signals, will provide stop and continue signals to an integrator. The integrator receives signals from the direction finding system and stops and starts integration of the output signal responsive to the threshold logic. In so doing, co-channel interference is substantially reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1995
    Assignee: Delfin Systems
    Inventors: David L. Peavey, Katherine A. Tieszen, Kristina Pagnini, Fred E. Schader, Timothy D. Stephens, Nicholas Cianos, John R. Conkle
  • Patent number: 5323167
    Abstract: An antenna configuration system for determining the bearing angle of a radio frequency signal includes a plurality of loop antennas and at least one sense antenna. Through the utilization of combining networks with the loop antennas, in-phase and out-of-phase output signals are summed with the signal from the one sense antenna. The summed signal is sent to an adaptive processing system to allow for the determination the bearing angle of the radio frequency signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1994
    Assignee: Delfin Systems
    Inventors: David L. Peavey, Katherine A. Tieszen, Timothy D. Stephens, Thomas J. Birnbaum, Fred E. Schader, Nicholas Cianos, John R. Conkle