Patents by Inventor Peter Edward Goettle, JR.

Peter Edward Goettle, JR. 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).

  • Digital payload with variable high power amplifiers
    Patent number: 10312995
    Abstract: A spacecraft includes a payload subsystem including a plurality of transmit antenna feeds, a digital channelizer, and a power amplification arrangement including a plurality of power amplifiers. The power amplification arrangement has at least one input communicatively coupled with an output of the digital channelizer and at least one output communicatively coupled with at least one of the plurality of transmit antenna feeds. A processor is configured to control the digital channelizer, and to adjust a saturated output power of at least one power amplifier of the plurality of power amplifiers in the power amplification arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Space Systems/Loral, LLC
    Inventors: Peter Edward Goettle, Jr., Chris Hoeber, William Stiles, Douglas G. Burr, Kathy Shockey
  • DIGITAL PAYLOAD WITH VARIABLE HIGH POWER AMPLIFIERS
    Publication number: 20170041065
    Abstract: A spacecraft includes a payload subsystem including a plurality of transmit antenna feeds, a digital channelizer, and a power amplification arrangement including a plurality of power amplifiers. The power amplification arrangement has at least one input communicatively coupled with an output of the digital channelizer and at least one output communicatively coupled with at least one of the plurality of transmit antenna feeds. A processor is configured to control the digital channelizer, and to adjust a saturated output power of at least one power amplifier of the plurality of power amplifiers in the power amplification arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventors: Peter Edward Goettle, JR., Chris Hoeber, William Stiles, Douglas G. Burr, Kathy Shockey