Patents by Inventor Paul Zank

Paul Zank 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: 8132491
    Abstract: The present invention is an apparatus for detecting and disabling a human eye or optical device used in the fire control of a weapon. This apparatus comprises a prism having a plurality of peripheral reflective surface. This prism has a longitudinal axis and rotating about said longitudinal axis. An infrared (IR) laser directs an infrared laser beam toward the prism side that the laser beam is reflected toward the human eye or optical device, such that the IR laser beam is retroreflected to the prism. There is also an infrared IR detector which detects the IR retroreflected laser beam reflected from the prism. A visible light wavelength laser which produces a visible light wavelength laser beam which is reflected from the prism to the human eye or optical device to disable the human eye or optical device to prevent use of the weapon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Edward C. Real, Paul D. Zemany, Paul A. Zank
  • Patent number: 8089033
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for attacking a plurality of dispersed targets are herein presented. In particular, the method and apparatus herein presented allow the user to upload target data onto a pod mounted on a host aircraft. Upon reaching the pre loaded target location, the pod releases a plurality of individually targeted Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs), thereby allowing the user to attack a plurality of dispersed targets from a single aircraft standing off at a significant distance from the target area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Paul A. Zank, Paul D. Zemany
  • Patent number: 8072337
    Abstract: Stolen or lost explosives are detected by fixing micro RF transmitters in the form of RFID tags to the explosive packaging or embedding them in the explosive material itself. Moreover, the subject microradio transponders may be contained in an adhesive binder or slurry. The identity of the explosive, its place of manufacture and ownership is detectable by RFID tag interrogators strategically located along commonly used roads or railways in which the RFID tags scavenge energy from interrogation beams, with the RFID tags indicating the identity of the explosive and its origin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Paul A. Zank, David W. Buchanan, Jason C. Julien, Karl D. Brommer, Walter J Fredette, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20110283877
    Abstract: A method of providing a defense against a shaped charge uses an outer and an inner armor layer provided with a medial space between these outer and inner armor layers. One or more defensive shaped charges are positioned in the medial space. If the outer armor layer is attacked by ordnance having an offensive shaped charge, one or more of the defensive shaped charges positioned in the medial space is detonated so as to degrade the effectiveness of the offensive shaped charge and prevent penetration of the inner armor layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2011
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Paul A. Zank, Daniel J. Long
  • Patent number: 8006608
    Abstract: A method of providing a defense against a shaped charge. An outer and an inner armor layer are provided with a medial space between these outer and inner armor layers. One or more defensive shaped charges are positioned in the medial space. If the outer armor layer is attacked by ordnance having an offensive shaped charge, one or more of the defensive shaped charges positioned in the medial space is detonated so as to degrade the effectiveness of the offensive shaped charge and prevent penetration of the inner armor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Paul A. Zank, Daniel J. Long
  • Publication number: 20110187363
    Abstract: Stimulated emissions due to nuclear quadropole resonance are detected utilizing a terminated balanced transmission line and a directional coupler for the detection of explosives, contraband, narcotics and the like that exist between the transmission lines, with either a stepped frequency generator utilized to scan between 100 KHz and 10 MHz, or wherein parallel fixed frequency sources are coupled to the transmission line, thereby to permit correlation with expected lines, with the frequency sources being low power so as to not create a safety hazard and so as not to interfere with radiation sensitive devices such as film or electronic circuits that are in the vicinity of the balanced transmission line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2010
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Paul A. ZANK, John T. APOSTOLOS
  • Publication number: 20100231389
    Abstract: Stolen or lost explosives are detected by fixing micro RF transmitters in the form of RFID tags to the explosive packaging or embedding them in the explosive material itself. Moreover, the subject microradio transponders may be contained in an adhesive binder or slurry. The identity of the explosive, its place of manufacture and ownership is detectable by RFID tag interrogators strategically located along commonly used roads or railways in which the RFID tags scavenge energy from interrogation beams, with the RFID tags indicating the identity of the explosive and its origin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2009
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Paul A. Zank, David W. Buchanan, Jason C. Julien, Karl D. Brommer, Walter J. Fredette, JR.
  • Patent number: 7765083
    Abstract: What is provided is the use of an array of E-field sensors to detect the closest approach of incoming projectiles and to determine through time difference of arrival the bearing of the incoming projectile, thus to identify the bearing of the source of the projectile. dE/dT processing of the individual outputs of the E-field sensors indicates by the zero crossing the peak of the E-field disturbance and thus the instance of time of the closest approach of the projectiles to a sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Paul A. Zank, Michael Mercier
  • Publication number: 20090308970
    Abstract: A method for attacking dispersed targets from a single aircraft standing off at a significant distance from the target area, wherein pods of individually targeted UAVs are carried in lieu of a bomb on a conventional bomb rack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2008
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Inventors: Paul A. Zank, Paul D. Zemany
  • Publication number: 20090178550
    Abstract: A method of providing a defense against a shaped charge. An outer and an inner armor layer are provided with a medial space between these outer and inner armor layers. One or more defensive shaped charges are positioned in the medial space. If the outer armor layer is attacked by ordnance having an offensive shaped charge, one or more of the defensive shaped charges positioned in the medial space is detonated so as to degrade the effectiveness of the offensive shaped charge and prevent penetration of the inner armor layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2008
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Inventors: Paul A. Zank, Daniel J. Long
  • Publication number: 20090146864
    Abstract: A system is provided for underground mapping, location determination and communications utilizing existing LORAN transmitters and a subterranean H-field antenna coupled to a conventional LORAN receiver. The result is an underground LORAN grid from which mapping and location can be ascertained as well as terrestrial-to-subterranean communications using the LORAN bit streams. Subterranean-to-terrestrial communication is established by a low-frequency handheld transmitter using repeat processing to transmit digital data from the subterranean location to the surface of the earth using modulated H-field waves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2006
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Inventors: Paul A. Zank, David W. Buchanan
  • Publication number: 20080295677
    Abstract: The present invention is an apparatus for detecting and disabling a human eye or optical device used in the fire control of a weapon. This apparatus comprises a prism having a plurality of peripheral reflective surface. This prism has a longitudinal axis and rotating about said longitudinal axis. An infrared (IR) laser directs an infrared laser beam toward the prism side that the laser beam is reflected toward the human eye or optical device, such that the IR laser beam is retroreflected to the prism. There is also an infrared IR detector which detects the IR retroreflected laser beam reflected from the prism. A visible light wavelength laser which produces a visible light wavelength laser beam which is reflected from the prism to the human eye or optical device to disable the human eye or optical device to prevent use of the weapon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2006
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Inventors: Edward C. Real, Paul D. Zemany, Paul A. Zank
  • Patent number: 7424845
    Abstract: An active armor system which includes an outer and an inner armor layer with a medial space between these inner and outer armor layers layer. One or more relatively small shaped charges are positioned on the inner armor layer in the medial space. If the outer armor layer is struck by a projectile having a shaped charge, one or more of the small shaped charges positioned in the medial space near where the projectile has struck the outer armor layer are detonated. The small shaped charges in the medial space are positioned so that when they are detonated, their jets will tend to intersect with or be oppositely directed to the jet from the shaped charge on the projectile so as to disrupt the jet from the projectile and prevent the penetration of the inner armor layer. The small shaped charges in the medial space may be detonated by an electrical current produced when a piezoelectric material, an electrostrictive material, or a magnetostrictive material in the outer armor layer is struck by the projectile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2008
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Paul A. Zank, Daniel J. Long
  • Publication number: 20080167835
    Abstract: What is provided is the use of an array of E-field sensors to detect the closest approach of incoming projectiles and to determine through time difference of arrival the bearing of the incoming projectile, thus to identify the bearing of the source of the projectile. dE/dT processing of the individual outputs of the E-field sensors indicates by the zero crossing the peak of the E-field disturbance and thus the instance of time of the closest approach of the projectiles to a sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2005
    Publication date: July 10, 2008
    Applicant: BAE Systems Information And Electronic Systems Intergration Inc.
    Inventors: Paul A. Zank, Michael Mercier
  • Patent number: 7397351
    Abstract: E-field sensors are used to establish a protection zone around a vehicle so as to detect the presence of objects within the protection zone, be they other vehicles or individuals. In one embodiment the direction to the intruding object is established by virtue of the use of pairs of E-field sensors. In a further embodiment the range of the E-field sensors determines the limited protection zone around the vehicle. Because of the limited protection zone, false alarms are greatly reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information And Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Eugene S. Rubin, Paul A. Zank, Paul D. Zemany, Eldon M. Sutphin
  • Publication number: 20070248247
    Abstract: A method for determining whether a disputed electronic signature is that of a purported signator includes the steps of (a) creating in a single step an ink on paper signature and an identical electronic signature of the purported signator; (b) verifying that the ink on paper signature is consistent with known ink on paper signatures of the purported signator; and (c) comparing the disputed electronic signature with the electronic signature of the purported signature to determine whether the disputed electronic signature is that of the purported signator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2005
    Publication date: October 25, 2007
    Applicant: TOPAZ SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Anthony Zank, Paul Zank
  • Patent number: 7286912
    Abstract: An E-field sensing system is provided to detect the presence of obstacles, including wires, power lines or trip wires, as well as towers, guy wires, buildings and elevated terrain, in which a variation or tilt of the iso-potential electrostatic field adjacent the obstacle is detected. In one embodiment the bearing to the obstacle is ascertained. The result is the detection of power lines from as far away as at least 1,000 feet and unpowered wires from as far away as at least 100 feet, thus reducing pilot anxiety for low level missions as well as providing for wire strike avoidance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Eugene S. Rubin, Paul A. Zank
  • Patent number: 7219612
    Abstract: A method for defeating or reducing the effectiveness of efforts to detect, track or target a naval vessel by means of its characteristic underwater and electrical fields. In this method, a wave form which mimics the characteristic electrical field produced by a particular type of naval vessel is first ascertained. A decoy which is able to produce, amplify and transmit this wave form which mimics the characteristic electrical field produced by said particular type of naval vessel is then deployed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information And Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventor: Paul A. Zank
  • Publication number: 20070017361
    Abstract: An active armor system which includes an outer and an inner armor layer with a medial space between these inner and outer armor layers layer. One or more relatively small shaped charges are positioned on the inner armor layer in the medial space. If the outer armor layer is struck by a projectile having a shaped charge, one or more of the small shaped charges positioned in the medial space near where the projectile has struck the outer armor layer are detonated. The small shaped charges in the medial space are positioned so that when they are detonated, their jets will tend to intersect with or be oppositely directed to the jet from the shaped charge on the projectile so as to disrupt the jet from the projectile and prevent the penetration of the inner armor layer. The small shaped charges in the medial space may be detonated by an electrical current produced when a piezoelectric material, an electrostrictive material, or a magnetostrictive material in the outer armor layer is struck by the projectile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2005
    Publication date: January 25, 2007
    Inventors: Paul Zank, Daniel Long
  • Patent number: 7154275
    Abstract: A robust, easily deployable, covert, passive intrusion detection system uses one or more E-field sensors to detect the presence of a moving individual and to provide an indication of the presence of the individual adjacent the sensor based on E-field distortion produced by the individual. Single-ended and differential E-field sensors with noise canceling and a guarding circuit provide sufficient sensitivity, with filtering from 0.5 Hz to 8.0 Hz selecting only human intruders. Either visible or invisible flashing light sources at the sensor indicate the presence of a moving individual at the sensor, thus to provide intruder location without the necessity of providing a geolocation system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Assignee: Bae Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Paul A. Zank, Eldon M. Sutphin, David W. Buchanan, George P. Succi