Patents by Inventor Ronald Buratti

Ronald Buratti 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).

  • System and method for depth determination of an impulse acoustic source by cepstral analysis
    Patent number: 8264909
    Abstract: A system and method for making an accurate estimate of the activation depth for an impulse acoustic source includes recording sounds produced by the activation of the underwater impulse acoustic source over a time period sufficient to capture reverberation, performing a cepstral scan of the recording to determine a quefrequency corresponding to the impulse from the underwater impulse acoustic source and deriving a depth estimate from the quefrequency corresponding to the impulse from the underwater impulse acoustic source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Donato M. Russo, Ronald Buratti
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEPTH DETERMINATION OF AN IMPULSE ACOUSTIC SOURCE
    Publication number: 20110188350
    Abstract: A system and method for making an accurate estimate of the activation depth for an impulse acoustic source includes recording sounds produced by the activation of the underwater impulse acoustic source over a time period sufficient to capture reverberation, performing a cepstral scan of the recording to determine a quefrequency corresponding to the impulse from the underwater impulse acoustic source and deriving a depth estimate from the quefrequency corresponding to the impulse from the underwater impulse acoustic source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2010
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Inventors: Donato M. Russo, Ronald Buratti
  • Reception of uplink data from sonobuoys
    Patent number: 7986585
    Abstract: A method for improving the bit error rate in digital transmissions of sonobuoy sensor data from a sonobuoy to a receiver platform includes computing a send checksum on a frame of sonobuoy sensor data, copying the frame of data and checksum into a plurality of subframes, delaying one of the plurality of subframes for a predetermined period, multiplexing the delayed subframe with the plurality of subframes into a transmit frame; and transmitting the transmit frame. The invention is particularly suited to improving the reception of legacy sonobuoy receivers in littoral waters where radio frequency interference and signal propagation is a severe problem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Donato M. Russo, Ronald Buratti
  • RECEPTION OF UPLINK DATA FROM SONOBUOYS
    Publication number: 20100110828
    Abstract: A method for improving the bit error rate in digital transmissions of sonobuoy sensor data from a sonobuoy to a receiver platform includes computing a send checksum on a frame of sonobuoy sensor data, copying the frame of data and checksum into a plurality of subframes, delaying one of the plurality of subframes for a predetermined period, multiplexing the delayed subframe with the plurality of subframes into a transmit frame; and transmitting the transmit frame. The invention is particularly suited to improving the reception of legacy sonobuoy receivers in littoral waters where radio frequency interference and signal propagation is a severe problem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Inventors: Donato M. Russo, Ronald Buratti