Patents by Inventor Kenneth Joseph Doerr

Kenneth Joseph Doerr 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).

  • Method and apparatus for steering mobile platform beams
    Patent number: 6535734
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for steering beams modulated from a mobile platform in a manner that reduces overall platform payload processing, and therefore payload weight and power requirements. According to the present invention, a beam steering data calculator (64) generates a table of beam steering data sets (60a, 60b), with each data set corresponding to a specific beam-pointing angle mapped to a corresponding cell on the surface of the earth. A data set that corresponds to a received downlink cell address (22a-22e) is read out from the table and mapped to the downlink address, and an output angle of a modulated vehicle beam (16a-16e) that transmits a data packet to the cell address is corrected to correspond to the beam-pointing angle of the read-out data set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2003
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Karl Eric Miller, Price Andrew D'Antonio, Curtis Alan Provance, Kenneth Joseph Doerr, Steven Brian Leeland