Patents by Inventor Massimiliano PIERACCINI

Massimiliano PIERACCINI 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: 11150334
    Abstract: Bistatic interferometric terrestrial radar comprising: a main radar unit (2) provided with ground fixing means (6) and provided with at least one transmitting unit (3) and at least one receiving unit (4); at least one amplifier transponder (5, 50) placed far away from said main unit (2), provided with ground fixing means (9) and provided with a receiving antenna (7) and a transmitting antenna (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI FIRENZE
    Inventor: Massimiliano Pieraccini
  • Publication number: 20210278528
    Abstract: Ground radar apparatus comprising: at least a main radar unit (U) provided with at least a transmitting unit (TX) and at least a receiving unit (RX); two parallel linear guides G1 and G2 with antenna securing systems; NTX antennas connected to the transmitting unit TX; NRX antennas connected to the RX transmitting unit. This radar is a MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) that operates as an interferometric GBSAR (Ground Based Synthetic Aperture Radar) exploiting a particular implementation of the processing technique called Compressive Sensing (CS). In a further configuration of the same radar the parallel linear guides are three, in this way it is possible to acquire two different interferograms of the same scenario that allow to calculate two different components of the possible displacement of the targets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Massimiliano PIERACCINI, Lapo MICCINESI, Neda ROJHANI
  • Publication number: 20200379097
    Abstract: Bistatic interferometric terrestrial radar comprising: a main radar unit (2) provided with ground fixing means (6) and provided with at least one transmitting unit (3) and at least one receiving unit (4); at least one amplifier transponder (5, 50) placed far away from said main unit (2), provided with ground fixing means (9) and provided with a receiving antenna (7) and a transmitting antenna (11)
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventor: Massimiliano PIERACCINI
  • Patent number: 10768296
    Abstract: An interferometric radar comprising an arm (2), which rotates with respect to an axis (z) of a plane (zx) orthogonal to an axis of rotation (y), a system of linear-polarization antennas (1), which is fixed to said arm (2) for describing complete revolutions along a circular path (c) about said axis (y) and is oriented in a direction of sight (a) parallel to the axis (y), motor-drive means (3) for driving the arm (2), a data-acquisition and processing unit (10) operatively connected to said antenna (1) for acquiring a succession of images detected by the antenna during its revolution about the axis (y) and making differential interferometric calculations for measuring at least one component of the displacement of one or more targets in the field of view, or else for measuring the digital elevation map (DEM) of the scenario in the field of view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI FIRENZE
    Inventor: Massimiliano Pieraccini
  • Patent number: 10690768
    Abstract: An interferometric radar comprising an arm (2), which rotates with respect to an axis (z) of a plane (zx) orthogonal to an axis of rotation (y), a system of antennas (1), which are fixed to said arm (2), are able both to move along the arm and to describe complete revolutions along a circular path about said axis (y), and are oriented in a direction of sight (a) parallel to the axis (y), motor-drive means (3) for driving the arm (2) and the system of antennas along the arm, a data-acquisition and processing unit (10) operatively connected to said antenna (1) for acquiring a succession of images detected by the antenna during its revolution about the axis (y) and making differential interferometric calculations for measuring at least one component of the displacement of one or more targets in the field of view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI FIRENZE
    Inventor: Massimiliano Pieraccini
  • Publication number: 20180224541
    Abstract: An interferometric radar comprising an arm (2), which rotates with respect to an axis (z) of a plane (zx) orthogonal to an axis of rotation (y), a system of antennas (1), which are fixed to said arm (2), are able both to move along the arm and to describe complete revolutions along a circular path about said axis (y), and are oriented in a direction of sight (a) parallel to the axis (y), motor-drive means (3) for driving the arm (2) and the system of antennas along the arm, a data-acquisition and processing unit (10) operatively connected to said antenna (1) for acquiring a succession of images detected by the antenna during its revolution about the axis (y) and making differential interferometric calculations for measuring at least one component of the displacement of one or more targets in the field of view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventor: Massimiliano PIERACCINI
  • Publication number: 20180217253
    Abstract: An interferometric radar comprising an arm (2), which rotates with respect to an axis (z) of a plane (zx) orthogonal to an axis of rotation (y), a system of linear-polarization antennas (1), which is fixed to said arm (2) for describing complete revolutions along a circular path (c) about said axis (y) and is oriented in a direction of sight (a) parallel to the axis (y), motor-drive means (3) for driving the arm (2), a data-acquisition and processing unit (10) operatively connected to said antenna (1) for acquiring a succession of images detected by the antenna during its revolution about the axis (y) and making differential interferometric calculations for measuring at least one component of the displacement of one or more targets in the field of view, or else for measuring the digital elevation map (DEM) of the scenario in the field of view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventor: Massimiliano PIERACCINI