Patents by Inventor Ronald S. LeFever

Ronald S. LeFever 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).

  • Publication number: 20100052990
    Abstract: Iterative geolocation of a stationary RF emitter through the use of TDOA may include the use of a single portable geolocation (e.g., TDOA) sensor, a pair of portable geolocation sensors and three of more portable geolocation sensors. Adding portable geolocation sensors to the iterative process reduces the constraints on the signals to be located as well as providing a reduction in the number of iterations required to obtain improved location accuracy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2009
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicant: TRUEPOSITION, INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey F. Bull, Robert J. Anderson, Ronald S. Lefever
  • Patent number: 7616155
    Abstract: Iterative geolocation of a stationary RF emitter through the use of TDOA may include the use of a single portable geolocation (e.g., TDOA) sensor, a pair of portable geolocation sensors and three of more portable geolocation sensors. Adding portable geolocation sensors to the iterative process reduces the constraints on the signals to be located as well as providing a reduction in the number of iterations required to obtain improved location accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2009
    Inventors: Jeffrey F. Bull, Robert J. Anderson, Ronald S. Lefever
  • Publication number: 20080158059
    Abstract: Iterative geolocation of a stationary RF emitter through the use of TDOA may include the use of a single portable geolocation (e.g., TDOA) sensor, a pair of portable geolocation sensors and three of more portable geolocation sensors. Adding portable geolocation sensors to the iterative process reduces the constraints on the signals to be located as well as providing a reduction in the number of iterations required to obtain improved location accuracy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2006
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Applicant: TruePosition, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey F. Bull, Robert J. Anderson, Ronald S. Lefever
  • Patent number: 4599732
    Abstract: A signal processing scheme through which the receiver may, at any time, synchronize or resynchronize itself to the transmitted data signals that are received over a dynamic dispersive channel. At the transmitter, bursts or sequences of known symbols are interleaved with unknown data. At the receiver incoming frames of signals (containing interleaved bursts of known data and unknown data) are processed in a manner similar to the processing of spread spectrum encoded data. A replica (or respective replicas) of the known signal burst(s) is (complex) correlated with the incoming signal to locate and lock onto a known (PN) reference symbol burst. Once a known symbol block has been located, a symbol rate clock (bit sync) is adjusted to track out any offset in the timing used for sampling the received data. This is followed by coarse and fine frequency offset adjustments to enable the local oscillator to lock onto the transmitted frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1986
    Assignee: Harris Corporation
    Inventor: Ronald S. LeFever