Patents by Inventor Richard D. Ridenour
Richard D. Ridenour 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).
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Patent number: 11482115Abstract: A system is delineated comprising a processor, a transceiver coupled to the processor, and memory including instructions for execution by the processor to send with the transceiver meteorological data, 4-D position data, velocity data, and time and configuration data to a provided ATC ground station.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2010Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: AVIATION COMMUNIATION & SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS LLCInventors: Gregory T. Stayton, Peter J. Bobrowitz, Charles C. Manberg, Richard D. Ridenour, II
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Patent number: 11049407Abstract: A method according to the present invention includes calculating, based on a reported position of a vehicle, a probability that an actual position of the vehicle is within a region of interest. The method further includes determining whether a threat of a collision exists between the vehicle and an object based on the probability that the actual position of the vehicle is within the region of interest and a reported position of the object. The method further includes generating an alert if it is determined a threat of a collision exists between the vehicle and the object.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2020Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: AVIATION COMMUNICATION & SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS LLCInventor: Richard D. Ridenour
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Patent number: 10991256Abstract: Various navigation and other instrumentation systems may benefit from appropriate methods for display of traffic. For example, certain avionics systems may benefit from systems and methods for providing an ADS-B In display and control system. A system can include a traffic computer, such as a Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) computer. The system can also include a TCAS traffic display, the traffic computer is configured to display Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) In information on the TCAS traffic display. Optionally, the system can further include a graphical ADS-B In Guidance Display (AGD) operationally connected to the traffic computer. The system can additionally include a Multi-Purpose Control Display Unit (MCDU) operationally connected to the traffic computer. The TCAS traffic display and MCDU, and optionally the graphical AGD, can be configured to substitute for a Cockpit Display of Traffic Information (CDTI).Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2020Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: AVIATION COMMUNICATION & SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS, LLCInventors: Charles C. Manberg, Richard D. Ridenour
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Publication number: 20200312160Abstract: Various navigation and other instrumentation systems may benefit from appropriate methods for display of traffic. For example, certain avionics systems may benefit from systems and methods for providing an ADS-B In display and control system. A system can include a traffic computer, such as a Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) computer. The system can also include a TCAS traffic display, the traffic computer is configured to display Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) In information on the TCAS traffic display. Optionally, the system can further include a graphical ADS-B In Guidance Display (AGD) operationally connected to the traffic computer. The system can additionally include a Multi-Purpose Control Display Unit (MCDU) operationally connected to the traffic computer. The TCAS traffic display and MCDU, and optionally the graphical AGD, can be configured to substitute for a Cockpit Display of Traffic Information (CDTI).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2020Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventors: Charles C. Manberg, Richard D. Ridenour
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Publication number: 20200184837Abstract: A method according to the present invention includes calculating, based on a reported position of a vehicle, a probability that an actual position of the vehicle is within a region of interest. The method further includes determining whether a threat of a collision exists between the vehicle and an object based on the probability that the actual position of the vehicle is within the region of interest and a reported position of the object. The method further includes generating an alert if it is determined a threat of a collision exists between the vehicle and the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2020Publication date: June 11, 2020Inventor: Richard D. Ridenour
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Patent number: 10665113Abstract: Various navigation and other instrumentation systems may benefit from appropriate methods for display of traffic. For example, certain avionics systems may benefit from systems and methods for providing an ADS-B In display and control system. A system can include a traffic computer, such as a Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) computer. The system can also include a TCAS traffic display, the traffic computer is configured to display Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) In information on the TCAS traffic display. Optionally, the system can further include a graphical ADS-B In Guidance Display (AGD) operationally connected to the traffic computer. The system can additionally include a Multi-Purpose Control Display Unit (MCDU) operationally connected to the traffic computer. The TCAS traffic display and MCDU, and optionally the graphical AGD, can be configured to substitute for a Cockpit Display of Traffic Information (CDTI).Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2019Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: AVIATION COMMUNICATION & SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS, LLCInventors: Charles C. Manberg, Richard D. Ridenour
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Patent number: 10535275Abstract: A method according to the present invention includes calculating, based on a reported position of a vehicle, a probability that an actual position of the vehicle is within a region of interest. The method further includes determining whether a threat of a collision exists between the vehicle and an object based on the probability that the actual position of the vehicle is within the region of interest and a reported position of the object. The method further includes generating an alert if it is determined a threat of a collision exists between the vehicle and the object.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2009Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: AVIATION COMMUNICATION & SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS LLCInventor: Richard D. Ridenour
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Publication number: 20190340936Abstract: Various navigation and other instrumentation systems may benefit from appropriate methods for display of traffic. For example, certain avionics systems may benefit from systems and methods for providing an ADS-B In display and control system. A system can include a traffic computer, such as a Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) computer. The system can also include a TCAS traffic display, the traffic computer is configured to display Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) In information on the TCAS traffic display. Optionally, the system can further include a graphical ADS-B In Guidance Display (AGD) operationally connected to the traffic computer. The system can additionally include a Multi-Purpose Control Display Unit (MCDU) operationally connected to the traffic computer. The TCAS traffic display and MCDU, and optionally the graphical AGD, can be configured to substitute for a Cockpit Display of Traffic Information (CDTI).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2019Publication date: November 7, 2019Inventors: Charles C. Manberg, Richard D. Ridenour
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Patent number: 10347138Abstract: Various navigation and other instrumentation systems may benefit from appropriate methods for display of traffic. For example, certain avionics systems may benefit from systems and methods for providing an ADS-B In display and control system. A system can include a traffic computer, such as a Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) computer. The system can also include a TCAS traffic display, the traffic computer is configured to display Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) In information on the TCAS traffic display. Optionally, the system can further include a graphical ADS-B In Guidance Display (AGD) operationally connected to the traffic computer. The system can additionally include a Multi-Purpose Control Display Unit (MCDU) operationally connected to the traffic computer. The TCAS traffic display and MCDU, and optionally the graphical AGD, can be configured to substitute for a Cockpit Display of Traffic Information (CDTI).Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2017Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: AVIATION COMMUNICATION & SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS LLCInventors: Charles C. Manberg, Richard D. Ridenour, II
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Patent number: 9842506Abstract: Systems and methods are delineated in which dynamic thresholds may be employed to detect and provide alerts for potential conflicts between a vehicle and another vehicle, an object or a person in an aircraft environment. Current systems for airport conflict detection and alerting consider one or more alerting boundaries which are independent of the amount of traffic present at any one time or over the course of time. Because nuisance alerts rates depend to a large extent on the amount of traffic, and because alert detection thresholds are often set based on a desire to limit nuisance alerts to a specific threshold, adapting those thresholds based on, among other things, the amount of traffic can result in earlier alerting in some crash scenarios and can even result in providing an alert in a crash scenario where no alert would have otherwise been generated.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2011Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Assignee: Aviation Communication & Surveillance Systems LLCInventor: Richard D. Ridenour, II
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Patent number: 9530324Abstract: A system is delineated comprising a display and a receiver coupled to the display for receiving data for presenting on the display, the data representing spoken VHF messages.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2010Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: Aviation Communication & Surveillance Systems LLCInventors: Gregory T. Stayton, Peter J. Bobrowitz, Charles C. Manberg, Richard D. Ridenour, II
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Patent number: 8847793Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to avionics systems, and more particularly, to collision avoidance systems. In one embodiment, a system is delineated comprising a plurality of detection zones for a plurality of aircraft and means for issuing a report based on one or more of the plurality of detection zones.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2010Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Aviation Communication & Surveillance Systems LLCInventors: Richard D. Ridenour, Robert G. Brewer, Christopher W. Lowe
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Patent number: 8335638Abstract: A system according to aspects of the present invention includes a processor, a user interface (including a display) in communication with the processor, and a memory in communication with the processor. The processor executes instructions stored in the memory to present a first symbol on the display of the user interface that indicates the bearing to an off-scale vehicle, and to present a second symbol on the display that indicates the path of travel of the off-scale vehicle. The present invention provides a more accurate representation of the bearing and track of off-scale traffic compared to conventional traffic display systems.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2010Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Aviation Communication & Surveillance Systems LLCInventors: Richard D. Ridenour, Peter Bobrowitz
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Patent number: 8120525Abstract: Systems and methods are delineated that may provide for a system for use in a merging and spacing application for an aircraft. An exemplary system may comprise a TCAS and a processor for executing the merging and spacing application using ADS-B data and data received by the aircraft in response to an interrogation of another aircraft from the TCAS. In a disclosed embodiment, a lead aircraft responds to the TCAS interrogation from a following aircraft to provide EHS heading and/or speed of the lead aircraft to the following aircraft, which uses the received EHS data as well as ADS-B data to determine merging and spacing control parameters for the following aircraft.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2009Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: Aviation Communication&Surveillance Systems LLCInventors: Richard D. Ridenour, Charles C. Manberg
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Publication number: 20110231096Abstract: Systems and methods are delineated in which dynamic thresholds may be employed to detect and provide alerts for potential conflicts between a vehicle and another vehicle, an object or a person in an aircraft environment. Current systems for airport conflict detection and alerting consider one or more alerting boundaries which are independent of the amount of traffic present at any one time or over the course of time. Because nuisance alerts rates depend to a large extent on the amount of traffic, and because alert detection thresholds are often set based on a desire to limit nuisance alerts to a specific threshold, adapting those thresholds based on, among other things, the amount of traffic can result in earlier alerting in some crash scenarios and can even result in providing an alert in a crash scenario where no alert would have otherwise been generated.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2011Publication date: September 22, 2011Inventor: Richard D. Ridenour, II
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Patent number: 7963618Abstract: There is presented a system and method for providing aircraft runway guidance. One delineated runway alert system for a host aircraft comprises: a processor for executing one or more instructions that implement one or more functions of the runway alert system; a data storage device including geographical runway information; a receiver for obtaining current location data of the host aircraft; an apparatus to provide a current heading of the host aircraft; a data entry device for receiving data indicating a desired runway; memory for storing the one or more instructions for execution by the processor to implement the one or more functions of the runway alert system to: receive the identity of the desired runway; provide an indicia of: the desired runway; and the position of the host aircraft in relation to the desired runway.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2007Date of Patent: June 21, 2011Assignee: Aviation Communication & Surveillance Systems LLCInventors: Cyro A. Stone, Richard D. Ridenour, Charles C. Manberg, Gregory T. Stayton
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Publication number: 20110109481Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to avionics systems, and more particularly, to collision avoidance systems. In one embodiment, a system is delineated comprising a plurality of detection zones for a plurality of aircraft and means for issuing a report based on one or more of the plurality of detection zones.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2010Publication date: May 12, 2011Inventors: Richard D. Ridenour, Robert G. Brewer, Christopher W. Lowe
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Patent number: 7912593Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer programs, and apparatus for adjusting a speed target of an aircraft. In particular, the adjustment of the speed target of the aircraft may allow that aircraft to maintain merging and spacing constraints with respect to a leading aircraft. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the speed target of an aircraft may be adjusted by obtaining a speed target, obtaining own ship track data for the aircraft, obtaining lead ship track data for a leading aircraft, and calculating a speed target adjustment based on the speed target, the own ship track data, the lead ship track data and merging and spacing constraints.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2007Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignee: Aviation Communication & Surveillance Systems, LLCInventor: Richard D. Ridenour
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Publication number: 20110029225Abstract: A system is delineated comprising a display and a receiver coupled to the display for receiving data for presenting on the display, the data representing spoken VHF messages.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2010Publication date: February 3, 2011Inventors: Gregory T. Stayton, Peter J. Bobrowitz, Charles C. Manberg, Richard D. Ridenour, II
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Publication number: 20110010036Abstract: In one exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a medium stores instructions that, when executed by a provided processor, cause the processor to perform a method. The method includes: (a) receiving a reported position for an aircraft; (b) determining, based on the reported position for the aircraft, a minimum position and a maximum position for the aircraft along a first axis; (c) determining, based on the reported position for the aircraft, a minimum position and a maximum position for the aircraft along a second axis, the second axis perpendicular to the first axis; (d) receiving reported speed information for the aircraft; (e) determining a minimum possible speed and a maximum possible speed for the aircraft along the first axis; (f) determining a minimum possible speed and a maximum possible speed for the aircraft along the second axis; and (g) providing an alert if the reported speed information exceeds the minimum or maximum speeds along either the first axis or the second axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2010Publication date: January 13, 2011Inventors: Richard D. Ridenour, II, Jeffrey A. Weeldreyer