Patents by Inventor Kevin M. Cuomo

Kevin M. Cuomo 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: 20220091245
    Abstract: System and methods for implementing a vector sensor array surface wave radar is provided. In one or more examples, the system can include a vector sensor array antenna that includes electromagnetic elements collectively configured to receive surface wave reflections generated by radar transmit antenna waves reflecting back from targets of interest. Once received by the vector sensor array, in one or more examples, the system can further include components that can process the incoming signal and use the incoming single to determine the location of one or more targets. In one or more examples, the vector surface array antenna can include three separate loop antennas that are arranged orthogonally to one another, and three dipole antennas that are arranged orthogonally to one another. In one or more examples, the vector surface array antenna can be configured to receive signals in the high frequency (HF) band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: The MITRE Corporation
    Inventors: Nicholas E. DESTEFANO, Janet L. WERTH, Cecelia R. FRANZINI, Kevin M. CUOMO
  • Patent number: 11194030
    Abstract: System and methods for implementing a vector sensor array surface wave radar is provided. In one or more examples, the system can include a vector sensor array antenna that includes electromagnetic elements collectively configured to receive surface wave reflections generated by radar transmit antenna waves reflecting back from targets of interest. Once received by the vector sensor array, in one or more examples, the system can further include components that can process the incoming signal and use the incoming single to determine the location of one or more targets. In one or more examples, the vector surface array antenna can include three separate loop antennas that are arranged orthogonally to one another, and three dipole antennas that are arranged orthogonally to one another. In one or more examples, the vector surface array antenna can be configured to receive signals in the high frequency (HF) band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Inventors: Nicholas E. Destefano, Janet L. Werth, Cecelia R. Franzini, Kevin M. Cuomo
  • Publication number: 20210096231
    Abstract: System and methods for implementing a vector sensor array surface wave radar is provided. In one or more examples, the system can include a vector sensor array antenna that includes electromagnetic elements collectively configured to receive surface wave reflections generated by radar transmit antenna waves reflecting back from targets of interest. Once received by the vector sensor array, in one or more examples, the system can further include components that can process the incoming signal and use the incoming single to determine the location of one or more targets. In one or more examples, the vector surface array antenna can include three separate loop antennas that are arranged orthogonally to one another, and three dipole antennas that are arranged orthogonally to one another. In one or more examples, the vector surface array antenna can be configured to receive signals in the high frequency (HF) band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: The MITRE Corporation
    Inventors: Nicholas E. DESTEFANO, Janet L. WERTH, Cecelia R. FRANZINI, Kevin M. CUOMO
  • Publication number: 20140242935
    Abstract: A signal canceller includes a dual-drive electro-optic modulator having separate first and second electrical inputs. The first electrical input is coupled to a first portion of a first signal and the second electrical input is coupled to a second signal and to a second portion of the first signal. A laser generates an optical beam that propagates from the optical input to an optical output of the electro-optic modulator. The dual-drive electro-optic modulator modulates the optical beam with the first and second portions of the first signal and with the second signal. The modulation cancels at least some the first signal and generates a modulation signal with reduced first signal modulation component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: PHOTONIC SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Charles H. Cox, Kevin M. Cuomo
  • Patent number: 8755750
    Abstract: A signal canceller includes a dual-drive electro-optic modulator having separate first and second electrical inputs. The first electrical input is coupled to a first portion of a first signal and the second electrical input is coupled to a second signal and to a second portion of the first signal. A laser generates an optical beam that propagates from the optical input to an optical output of the electro-optic modulator. The dual-drive electro-optic modulator modulates the optical beam with the first and second portions of the first signal and with the second signal. The modulation cancels at least some the first signal and generates a modulation signal with reduced first signal modulation component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Photonic Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles H. Cox, Kevin M. Cuomo
  • Publication number: 20140141712
    Abstract: An electromagnetic reflector includes an antenna that receives an incoming signal and that transmits an outgoing signal. A three-port device, such as a circulator, has a first port electromagnetically coupled to the antenna. An RF circuit has an input that is electromagnetically coupled to the second port of the three-port device and an output that is electromagnetically coupled to the third port of the three-port device. The RF circuit changes at least one of a gain and a phase of the incoming signal to generate a desired outgoing signal that passes through the three-port device to the antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: Photonic Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: David Paul Maunder, Charles H. Cox, David Morgan Kettner, Kevin M. Cuomo
  • Patent number: 8674870
    Abstract: An electromagnetic reflector includes an antenna that receives an incoming signal and that transmits an outgoing signal. A three-port device, such as a circulator, has a first port electromagnetically coupled to the antenna. An RF circuit has an input that is electromagnetically coupled to the second port of the three-port device and an output that is electromagnetically coupled to the third port of the three-port device. The RF circuit changes at least one of a gain and a phase of the incoming signal to generate a desired outgoing signal that passes through the three-port device to the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Photonic Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: David Paul Maunder, Charles H. Cox, III, David Morgan Kettner, Kevin M. Cuomo
  • Publication number: 20120182176
    Abstract: An electromagnetic reflector includes an antenna that receives an incoming signal and that transmits an outgoing signal. A three-port device, such as a circulator, has a first port electromagnetically coupled to the antenna. An RF circuit has an input that is electromagnetically coupled to the second port of the three-port device and an output that is electromagnetically coupled to the third port of the three-port device. The RF circuit changes at least one of a gain and a phase of the incoming signal to generate a desired outgoing signal that passes through the three-port device to the antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicant: PHOTONIC SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: David Paul Maunder, Charles H. Cox, III, David Morgan Kettner, Kevin M. Cuomo
  • Publication number: 20110287720
    Abstract: A signal canceller includes a dual-drive electro-optic modulator having separate first and second electrical inputs. The first electrical input is coupled to a first portion of a first signal and the second electrical input is coupled to a second signal and to a second portion of the first signal. A laser generates an optical beam that propagates from the optical input to an optical output of the electro-optic modulator. The dual-drive electro-optic modulator modulates the optical beam with the first and second portions of the first signal and with the second signal. The modulation cancels at least some the first signal and generates a modulation signal with reduced first signal modulation component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2010
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: PHOTONIC SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Charles Cox, Kevin M. Cuomo
  • Patent number: 5945940
    Abstract: A radar system coherently combines signals from independent upper- and lower-sub-band radars, mutually coheres the sub-band radar signals, and performs model fitting and parameter estimation to obtain ultra-wideband data signatures from a target. Signal processing models are used to compensate for potential lack of mutual coherence between the various sub-bands. An ultra-wideband signal model is fitted to the sparse sub-band measurements to accurately characterize ultra-wideband target scattering and provide for meaningful interpolations or extrapolations outside of the measurement sub-bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1999
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventor: Kevin M. Cuomo
  • Patent number: 5291555
    Abstract: A chaotic transmitter (100) operates according to preselected chaotic protocols, such as a set of Lorenz equations. Modulation is accomplished by modifying a predetermined parameter of the set of chaotic Lorenz equations with a message signal, thereby producing a spread spectrum chaotic transmitted signal. A corresponding receiver (200) reconstructs a synchronizing drive signal, which is used by a demodulator (412) of the receiver (200) to detect the message signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1994
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Kevin M. Cuomo, Alan V. Oppenheim