Patents by Inventor Mark Dumville

Mark Dumville 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: 11150356
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for generating a test signal for a PNT configuration, and for testing a PNT configuration are disclosed. One such method comprises the steps of using one or more GNSS jamming signal detectors (100) to detect at least three different types of threat signal, each being an RF-based man-made GNSS jamming signal, and recording, to a database, information for the threat signals; receiving, from the database, information for at least one of the threat signals; generating a corresponding threat signal from the received information; and combining the corresponding threat signal with a PNT signal via a signal combiner to generate the test signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: NOTTINGHAM SCIENTIFIC LIMITED
    Inventors: Timothy Christopher Whitworth, Yeqiu Ying, Mark Dumville, John Pottle, Guy Buesnel
  • Patent number: 10254411
    Abstract: A ground-based source of a jamming signal capable of disrupting a GNSS satellite-based navigation system, for example a GPS jammer, is located with a detector carried by a suitable platform, for example an airborne UAV or missile. The detector, when the platform is at a first location, measures a characteristic of the jamming signal. The platform and its detector are then moved to a chosen second location, from which a further measurement of the jamming signal is made. The measurements made by the detector are then used to determine the location of the source of the jamming signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: MBDA UK LIMITED
    Inventors: Colin Aaron Littlefield, Timothy Whitworth, Yeqiu Ying, Graham Patrick Wallis, Mark Dumville
  • Patent number: 10180500
    Abstract: A method of processing signal data including an unencrypted portion and an encrypted portion, the method including: receiving, at a receiver, the signal data; processing a sample of the signal data to provide a processed signal sample including data relating to the encrypted portion of the signal data and data relating to the unencrypted portion of the signal data, comparing the unencrypted signal data with at least one reference signal to determine information including at least one of (i) the time at which the signal was sent from the source and (ii) the identity of the source; requesting, based on the determined information, and from a source remote to the receiver, a set of encrypted reference signal samples; comparing, on a processing device remote to the receiver, the set of encrypted reference signal samples with the received encrypted signal data to identify any matching signal samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: QINETIQ LIMITED
    Inventors: Nigel Clement Davies, Richard Edward Bowden, Mark Dumville, Ben Peter Wales, Luis Enrique Aguado, Thomas Andrew Evans
  • Publication number: 20180188379
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for generating a test signal for a PNT configuration, and for testing a PNT configuration are disclosed. One such method comprises the steps of using one or more GNSS jamming signal detectors (100) to detect at least three different types of threat signal, each being an RF-based man-made GNSS jamming signal, and recording, to a database, information for the threat signals; receiving, from the database, information for at least one of the threat signals; generating a corresponding threat signal from the received information; and combining the corresponding threat signal with a PNT signal via a signal combiner to generate the test signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Timothy Christopher WHITWORTH, Yeqiu YING, Mark DUMVILLE, John POTTLE, Guy BUESNEL
  • Publication number: 20160349375
    Abstract: A ground-based source of a jamming signal capable of disrupting a GNSS satellite-based navigation system, for example a GPS jammer, is located with a detector carried by a suitable platform, for example an airborne UAV or missile. The detector, when the platform is at a first location, measures a characteristic of the jamming signal. The platform and its detector are then moved to a chosen second location, from which a further measurement of the jamming signal is made. The measurements made by the detector are then used to determine the location of the source of the jamming signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Applicant: MBDA UK LIMITED
    Inventors: Colin Aaron LITTLEFIELD, Timothy WHITWORTH, Yeqiu YING, Graham Patrick WALLIS, Mark DUMVILLE
  • Publication number: 20160146947
    Abstract: A method of processing signal data including an unencrypted portion and an encrypted portion, the method including: receiving, at a receiver, the signal data; processing a sample of the signal data to provide a processed signal sample including data relating to the encrypted portion of the signal data and data relating to the unencrypted portion of the signal data, comparing the unencrypted signal data with at least one reference signal to determine information including at least one of (i) the time at which the signal was sent from the source and (ii) the identity of the source; requesting, based on the determined information, and from a source remote to the receiver, a set of encrypted reference signal samples; comparing, on a processing device remote to the receiver, the set of encrypted reference signal samples with the received encrypted signal data to identify any matching signal samples.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Applicant: QINETIQ LIMITED
    Inventors: Nigel Clement DAVIES, Richard Edward BOWDEN, Mark DUMVILLE, Ben Peter WALES, Luis Enrique AGUADO, Thomas Andrew EVANS
  • Publication number: 20140009332
    Abstract: A receiver is configured to receive signals wirelessly from a plurality of pseudolites, each signal including information defining a pseudolite from which the signal was transmitted. The receiver is configured to determine an estimated location based on which combination of two or more pseudolites the receiver is currently within range of. The receiver may determine the estimated location independently of a time taken for each one of the signals to reach the receiver from the two or more pseudolites. The signals may be formatted according to a global navigation satellite system GNSS specification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: ASTRIUM LIMITED
    Inventors: Russell MORRISON, Charles Dixon, Mark Dumville, William Roberts