Patents by Inventor Raffaele Derrico

Raffaele Derrico 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).

  • Localization method and system using non-regenerative UWB relays
    Patent number: 9311798
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a system for determining the position of an object which can be a passive or an active tag (140). The system comprises a plurality of anchor nodes (111,112) and a plurality of non-regenerative relays (121,122,123) of known positions. In case of an active tag, a UWB pulse signal is emitted by the tag and received by the anchor nodes either directly or via a relay. In case of a passive tag, UWB pulse signals are sent by the anchors nodes and reflected back, either way being either a LOS path or a relayed path. A processing node (130) collects the signals received by the anchor nodes (111,112) to estimate the position of the tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignees: Commissariat à l'énergie et aux énergies alternatives, CONSORZIO NAZI INTERUNIV PER LE TELECOMUNICAZIONI (CNIT)
    Inventors: Raffaele Derrico, Andrea Conti, Davide Dardari, Alain Sibille