Patents by Inventor Robert Rylander

Robert Rylander 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: 8456176
    Abstract: This invention relates to a hybrid passive agent system impedance monitoring station and method. The method of monitoring impedance of an electrical system includes the steps of providing an impedance monitoring station adapted to test and monitor system impedance, solving for system impedance in a time domain, solving for system impedance in a frequency domain, and determining a time domain driving point impedance and a frequency domain driving point impedance to identify the impedance of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Robert Rylander, William Mack Grady, Arshad Mansoor, Frederic Gorgette
  • Patent number: 8344934
    Abstract: One embodiment of the invention includes a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system including a receiver configured to receive a plurality of reflected radar pulses corresponding to a plurality of radar transmission pulses having been reflected from a target region. A processing controller divides the target region into a plurality of tiles at a highest data layer and each of the plurality of tiles into a plurality of sub-tiles corresponding to one of a plurality of data layers and iteratively processes a portion of pulse data corresponding to a given tile associated with a higher data layer to generate pulse data corresponding to a given sub-tile in a lower data layer. An image processor is configured to generate a radar image of the target region based on the pulse data corresponding to each of the plurality of sub-tiles associated with a lowest data layer of the plurality of data layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation
    Inventor: Robert Ryland
  • Publication number: 20120105276
    Abstract: One embodiment of the invention includes a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system including a receiver configured to receive a plurality of reflected radar pulses corresponding to a plurality of radar transmission pulses having been reflected from a target region. A processing controller divides the target region into a plurality of tiles at a highest data layer and each of the plurality of tiles into a plurality of sub-tiles corresponding to one of a plurality of data layers and iteratively processes a portion of pulse data corresponding to a given tile associated with a higher data layer to generate pulse data corresponding to a given sub-tile in a lower data layer. An image processor is configured to generate a radar image of the target region based on the pulse data corresponding to each of the plurality of sub-tiles associated with a lowest data layer of the plurality of data layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Inventor: Robert Ryland
  • Publication number: 20100085065
    Abstract: This invention relates to a hybrid passive agent system impedance monitoring station and method. The method of monitoring impedance of an electrical system includes the steps of providing an impedance monitoring station adapted to test and monitor system impedance, solving for system impedance in a time domain, solving for system impedance in a frequency domain, and determining a time domain driving point impedance and a frequency domain driving point impedance to identify the impedance of the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2009
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Applicant: Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Robert Rylander, William Mack Grady, Arshad Mansoor, Frederic Gorgette
  • Publication number: 20070081772
    Abstract: In fusion splicing ends of two optical fibers an electric discharge between two electrodes is used for heating the ends. In a simple method that can be implemented in automatic fusion splicers, an optimal fusion current that is to pass between the electrodes to give an optimal heating for ambient conditions is determined by first, in a calibration procedure in the factory, determining an optimal current for splicing ends of some test optical fibers. Then a value of the intensity of light emitted from the ends of the test optical fibers is determined when they are spliced using the optimal parameters. In the field, in generally ambient conditions different from those in the factory, a value of the current required to heat a piece of the test fibers to emit light of an intensity agreeing with that determined for the test fibers in the factory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2004
    Publication date: April 12, 2007
    Applicant: Future Instrument Fiber Optics AB
    Inventors: Richard Mendel, Robert Rylander