Patents by Inventor Samuel E. Parker

Samuel E. Parker 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: 10714828
    Abstract: A system for transmitting and receiving electromagnetic waves simultaneously. A portion of a signal to be transmitted through a transmitting antenna element is diverted from a transmit signal path, processed by an adjustable filter, and coupled into receive signal path. The adjustable filter is adjusted to approximate the channel that the leakage signals go through to get from the transmitter to the receiver so that the signal coupled into the receiving path through the filter partially cancels the parasitic leakage from the transmit signal path to the receive signal path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: RAYTHEON COMPANY
    Inventors: Samuel E. Parker, John P. Gianvittorio
  • Patent number: 10498415
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein are directed towards an active electronically scanned array (AESA) that can perform both frequency division duplexing (FDD) operations and time division duplexing (TDD) operations. The AESA includes a switch network having one or more switching stages coupled between a transceiver and one or more array elements to switch the AESA between FDD operation and TDD operations, modify a function of one or more of the array elements in the AESA and/or swap portions of the AESA between different functions. The switch network can be disposed in a feed portion of the AESA. Thus, functions of each of the array elements or subarrays of multiple array elements in the AESA can be modified at a feed portion of the AESA. The array elements can be configured for TDD operations and FDD operations and can be configured as a transmit elements, receive elements or isolation elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Samuel E. Parker, Scott E. Adcook
  • Patent number: 10393859
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for leakage signal cancellation in a simultaneous transmit and receive RF system includes: generating a digital transmit signal for transmission from the system; receiving a receive signal produced by reflection of the transmit signal from an object or generated by a second RF system; adaptively filtering the transmit signal by an adaptive finite input response (FIR) filter; calculating filter coefficients for the adaptive FIR filter in real-time at a different sampling rate; adaptively inputting the calculated filter coefficients to the adaptive FIR filter to generate a cancellation signal in real-time; and applying the cancellation signal to the receive signal to cancel leakage in the receive signal to generate an optimum receive signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: RAYTHEON COMPANY
    Inventors: Harry B. Marr, John P. Gianvittorio, Jeffrey Caldwell, Samuel E. Parker, John Cangeme
  • Publication number: 20180248261
    Abstract: A system for transmitting and receiving electromagnetic waves simultaneously. A portion of a signal to be transmitted through a transmitting antenna element is diverted from a transmit signal path, processed by an adjustable filter, and coupled into receive signal path. The adjustable filter is adjusted to approximate the channel that the leakage signals go through to get from the transmitter to the receiver so that the signal coupled into the receiving path through the filter partially cancels the parasitic leakage from the transmit signal path to the receive signal path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Samuel E. Parker, John P. Gianvittorio
  • Publication number: 20180175920
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein are directed towards an active electronically scanned array (AESA) that can perform both frequency division duplexing (FDD) operations and time division duplexing (TDD) operations. The AESA includes a switch network having one or more switching stages coupled between a transceiver and one or more array elements to switch the AESA between FDD operation and TDD operations, modify a function of one or more of the array elements in the AESA and/or swap portions of the AESA between different functions. The switch network can be disposed in a feed portion of the AESA. Thus, functions of each of the array elements or subarrays of multiple array elements in the AESA can be modified at a feed portion of the AESA. The array elements can be configured for TDD operations and FDD operations and can be configured as a transmit elements, receive elements or isolation elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Samuel E. Parker, Scott E. Adcook
  • Publication number: 20180106884
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for leakage signal cancellation in a simultaneous transmit and receive RF system includes: generating a digital transmit signal for transmission from the system; receiving a receive signal produced by reflection of the transmit signal from an object or generated by a second RF system; adaptively filtering the transmit signal by an adaptive finite input response (FIR) filter; calculating filter coefficients for the adaptive FIR filter in real-time at a different sampling rate; adaptively inputting the calculated filter coefficients to the adaptive FIR filter to generate a cancellation signal in real-time; and applying the cancellation signal to the receive signal to cancel leakage in the receive signal to generate an optimum receive signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Harry B. Marr, John P. Gianvittorio, Jeffrey Caldwell, Samuel E. Parker, John Cangeme