Patents by Inventor Paul G. Crete

Paul G. Crete 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: 7696460
    Abstract: A circuit for compensating for frequency modulation on a radar signal is disclosed. The disclosed circuit includes an adaptive narrow band filter in the feedback path of a phase-locked detector, such filter having a bandwidth which is narrower than the frequency range of the signal being compensated, and means for detecting the amplitude of such signal. The invention herein described was made in the course of, or under a contract or subcontract thereunder, with the Department of Defense.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1978
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: George R. Spencer, James Williamson, Paul G. Crete
  • Patent number: 4435847
    Abstract: Automatic control circuitry for maintaining the frequency of a first local oscillator in a radar receiver at a predetermined offset frequency with respect to the frequency of either transmitted signals from a radar transmitter or echo signals from a target is disclosed. The disclosed circuitry operates as a discriminator when the frequency of the first local oscillator is different from the predetermined offset frequency and as a "phase lock" loop when the frequency of the first local oscillator is the same as the predetermined offset frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1976
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1984
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: James Williamson, Paul G. Crete
  • Patent number: 4228434
    Abstract: An improved automatic frequency control arrangement for a missile-borne inverse receiver is shown to include a reference oscillator and a voltage-controlled oscillator with control means for the latter, such means including a frequency-to-voltage converter responsive to the difference frequency between the two oscillators so that the latter may produce a signal representative of the Doppler shift frequency of a target. A starting circuit is also shown to ensure that the frequency of the reference oscillator is always lower than the frequency of the voltage-controlled oscillator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1978
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1980
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: James Williamson, Paul G. Crete
  • Patent number: 4185251
    Abstract: Circuitry for compensating for the effects of changes in ambient temperature on an automatic gain control arrangement in a missile-borne receiver is shown to include an operational amplifier responsive only to the level of the output signal from an automatic gain detector and amplifier, such end being effected by using temperature sensitive elements in the input and feedback circuits of the operational amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 22, 1980
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: William C. Brown, Jr., Paul G. Crete, Philip L. Sullivan, James Williamson