Patents by Inventor Patrick FERRARA

Patrick FERRARA 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).

  • Sonar system with curved antenna or antenna configured to transmit the same transmission pattern as the curved antenna
    Patent number: 10061022
    Abstract: A sonar system to image the seabed, comprises at least one emission antenna to emit an acoustic beam covering a useful angular sector delimited by a first direction and a second direction, the distance between the antenna and the seabed being more significant in the first direction than in the second direction. The emission device is configured to form an emission pattern whose maximum is situated substantially in the first direction and which decreases from the first direction to the second direction and from the first direction in the sense opposite to the second direction, the energy attenuation being faster in the sense opposite to the second direction than toward the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: Pierre Guthmann, Nicolas Mandelert, Patrick Ferrara
  • SONAR SYSTEM WITH CURVED ANTENNA OR ANTENNA CONFIGURED TO TRANSMIT THE SAME TRANSMISSION PATTERN AS THE CURVED ANTENNA
    Publication number: 20160170012
    Abstract: A sonar system to image the seabed, comprises at least one emission antenna to emit an acoustic beam covering a useful angular sector delimited by a first direction and a second direction, the distance between the antenna and the seabed being more significant in the first direction than in the second direction. The emission device is configured to form an emission pattern whose maximum is situated substantially in the first direction and which decreases from the first direction to the second direction and from the first direction in the sense opposite to the second direction, the energy attenuation being faster in the sense opposite to the second direction than toward the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Pierre GUTHMANN, Nicolas MANDELERT, Patrick FERRARA