Patents by Inventor Matthew W. Ganz
Matthew W. Ganz 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).
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Publication number: 20110257818Abstract: A method for monitoring for turbulence. Data is received from a motion sensor system in a portable data processing system in an aircraft while the aircraft is in operation. The portable data processing system is configured to be moved by a single person. A number of pieces of data is identified in the data received from the motion sensor system in which the number of pieces of data indicates a presence of turbulence encountered. Turbulence information is generated using the number of pieces of data. The turbulence information identified is sent to a remote data processing system outside of the aircraft.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2010Publication date: October 20, 2011Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: Matthew W. Ganz, Charles B. Spinelli
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Patent number: 7965220Abstract: A chaff element for interfering with radar signals. The chaff element has a dielectric substrate and a pair of elongate electrically conductive elements, having a total length of approximately one-half wavelength of the radar signals or otherwise tuned to the radar signals, disposed on the dielectric substrate. A switch is arranged to electrically couple the pair of elongate elements together in response to a control signal generated by an oscillator circuit and a battery. The chaff element can be used in a method of providing a countermeasure against radar signals. A plurality of chaff elements can be deployed in an airspace above a radar unit emitting a radar signal and interfere with the radar signal by opening and closing the switches of the chaff elements while deployed in said airspace above the radar unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2009Date of Patent: June 21, 2011Assignee: HRL Laboratories, LLCInventors: Matthew W. Ganz, James H. Schaffner, Daniel F. Sievenpiper, Richard P. Berg
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Patent number: 7830310Abstract: An artificial impedance structure and a method for manufacturing same. The structure contains a dielectric layer having generally opposed first and second surfaces, a conductive layer disposed on the first surface, and a plurality of conductive structures disposed on the second surface to provide a preselected impedance profile along the second surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2005Date of Patent: November 9, 2010Assignee: HRL Laboratories, LLCInventors: Daniel F. Sievenpiper, Joseph S. Colburn, Bryan Ho Lim Fong, Matthew W. Ganz, Mark F. Gyure, Jonathan J. Lynch, John Ottusch, John L. Visher
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Publication number: 20090189799Abstract: A chaff element for interfering with radar signals. The chaff element has a dielectric substrate and a pair of elongate electrically conductive elements, having a total length of approximately one-half wavelength of the radar signals or otherwise tuned to the radar signals, disposed on the dielectric substrate. A switch is arranged to electrically couple the pair of elongate elements together in response to a control signal generated by an oscillator circuit and a battery. The chaff element can be used in a method of providing a countermeasure against radar signals. A plurality of chaff elements can be deployed in an airspace above a radar unit emitting a radar signal and interfere with the radar signal by opening and closing the switches of the chaff elements while deployed in said airspace above the radar unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2009Publication date: July 30, 2009Applicant: HRL LABORATORIES, LLCInventors: Matthew W. Ganz, James H. Schaffner, Daniel F. Sievenpiper, Richard P. Berg
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Patent number: 7533615Abstract: A chaff element for interfering with radar signals. The chaff element has a dielectric substrate and a pair of elongate electrically conductive elements, having a total length of approximately one-half wavelength of the radar signals or otherwise tuned to the radar signals, disposed on the dielectric substrate. A switch is arranged to electrically couple the pair of elongate elements together in response to a control signal generated by an oscillator circuit and a battery. The chaff element can be used in a method of providing a countermeasure against radar signals. A plurality of chaff elements can be deployed in an airspace above a radar unit emitting a radar signal and interfere with the radar signal by opening and closing the switches of the chaff elements while deployed in said airspace above the radar unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2007Date of Patent: May 19, 2009Assignee: HRL Laboratories, LLCInventors: Matthew W. Ganz, James H. Schaffner, Daniel F. Sievenpiper, Richard P. Berg
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Patent number: 7369081Abstract: A chaff element for interfering with radar signals. The chaff element has a dielectric substrate and a pair of elongate electrically conductive elements, having a total length of approximately one-half wavelength of the radar signals or otherwise tuned to the radar signals, disposed on the dielectric substrate. A switch is arranged to electrically couple the pair of elongate elements together in response to a control signal generated by an oscillator circuit and a battery. The chaff element can be used in a method of providing a countermeasure against radar signals. A plurality of chaff elements can be deployed in an airspace above a radar unit emitting a radar signal and interfere with the radar signal by opening and closing the switches of the chaff elements while deployed in said airspace above the radar unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2005Date of Patent: May 6, 2008Assignee: HRL Laboratories, LLCInventors: Matthew W. Ganz, James H. Schaffner, Daniel F. Sievenpiper, Richard P. Berg
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Patent number: 7218281Abstract: A method for guiding waves over objects, a method for improving a performance of an antenna, and a method for improving a performance of a radar are disclosed. The methods disclosed teach how an impedance structure can be used to guide waves over objects.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2005Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: HRL Laboratories, LLCInventors: Daniel F. Sievenpiper, Joseph S. Colburn, Bryan Ho Lim Fong, Matthew W. Ganz, Mark F. Gyure, Jonathan J. Lynch, John Ottusch, John L. Visher
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Patent number: 4959653Abstract: An adaptive sidelobe blanker uses the covariance matrix used to form an adaptively nulled main channel to generate an adaptively nulled version of an omnidirectional antenna pattern. Individual antenna control includes sampling, digitizing, and storage of an antenna signal. Complex antenna weights manipulate the antenna signals in both the main channel and the blanker channel to provide desired steering of the antenna nulls. The adaptively nulled blanker channel is compared to the adaptively mulled main channel to determine if a received target return is a main beam target or a sidelobe target.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 1989Date of Patent: September 25, 1990Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventor: Matthew W. Ganz