Patents by Inventor Michael S. Mitchener

Michael S. Mitchener 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: 10225230
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, at a field programmable gate array (FPGA), one or more Ethernet packets of a message including control or status information associated with the FPGA. The method also includes determining, by the FPGA, a payload of each packet by removing at least one Ethernet header from the packet. The method further includes removing, by the FPGA, a User Datagram Protocol (UDP) header from each packet and determining UDP header metadata. The method also includes converting, by the FPGA based on the UDP header metadata, the packets to a read or write message associated with one or more registers of the FPGA. In addition, the method includes performing, by the FPGA, a read or write of the one or more registers of the FPGA according to the read or write message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Brandon H. Daugherty, Jason B. Emery, Brian D. Sirois, Bradley D. Staal, Paul J. Lewis, Michael S. Mitchener
  • Publication number: 20180234383
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, at a field programmable gate array (FPGA), one or more Ethernet packets of a message including control or status information associated with the FPGA. The method also includes determining, by the FPGA, a payload of each packet by removing at least one Ethernet header from the packet. The method further includes removing, by the FPGA, a User Datagram Protocol (UDP) header from each packet and determining UDP header metadata. The method also includes converting, by the FPGA based on the UDP header metadata, the packets to a read or write message associated with one or more registers of the FPGA. In addition, the method includes performing, by the FPGA, a read or write of the one or more registers of the FPGA according to the read or write message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Brandon H. Daugherty, Jason B. Emery, Brian D. Sirois, Bradley D. Staal, Paul J. Lewis, Michael S. Mitchener
  • Patent number: 9461701
    Abstract: Systems and methods to provide fast time acquisition in a frequency-hopped communication link by taking advantage of the fact that a modem receive path has an instantaneous bandwidth that can span multiple discrete frequencies used by the frequency-hopped link. The systems and methods take advantage of the probabilistic frequency locality of time hypotheses to find a set of time hypotheses that can be searched simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventor: Michael S. Mitchener