Patents by Inventor Scott A. Cooper

Scott A. Cooper 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).

  • RFID SYSTEM COMPONENTS IMPLEMENTING ADJUSTED BACKSCATTER CALCULATIONS AND METHODS
    Publication number: 20080006702
    Abstract: RFID system components, such as readers and tags, communicate by a reader transmitting waveforms that encode a calibration symbol and a divide ratio. Tags include a processor to determine a backscatter link period result by dividing a count value representing the calibration symbol by the divide ratio and adding an adjustment. Tags modulate a backscatter waveform that includes symbols using a link period determined from the result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2005
    Publication date: January 10, 2008
    Applicant: Impinj, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Diorio, Kurt Sundstrom, Scott Cooper, Todd Humes
  • RFID READERS SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HOPPING AWAY FROM A FREQUENCY CHANNEL WITH RF INTERFERENCE
    Publication number: 20070296590
    Abstract: RFID readers, systems, and methods are provided for overcoming the effects of RF interference. While a system is communicating in a channel, RF interference is monitored. If it is low, then the next channel to be hopped onto is chosen in an unbiased manner. But if interference is high, then the next channel to be hopped onto is chosen in a biased manner that disfavors at least one channel over another, in view of the detected interference. The choice of the next channel can thus result in diminishing communication in channels with a lot of RF interference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventors: Christopher Diorio, Aanand Esterberg, Thomas Anderl, Scott Cooper
  • RFID READERS SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EARLY HOPPING OUT OF A FREQUENCY CHANNEL IN THE PRESENCE OF RF INTERFERENCE
    Publication number: 20070296603
    Abstract: RFID readers, systems, and methods are provided for overcoming the effects of RF interference. While a system is communicating in a channel, RF interference is monitored. If it is low, then hopping to another channel is performed according to an ordinary decision. But if interference is high, then hopping out to another channel can be earlier than would be dictated by the ordinary decision under the same circumstances. The earlier hopping out can result in diminishing communication in channels with a lot of RF interference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventors: Christopher Diorio, Thomas Anderl, Scott Cooper, Aanand Esterberg
  • RFID SYSTEM COMPONENTS IMPLEMENTING ADJUSTED BACKSCATTER CALCULATIONS AND METHODS
    Publication number: 20070221737
    Abstract: RFID system components, such as readers and tags, communicate by a reader transmitting waveforms that encode a calibration symbol and a divide ratio. Tags include a processor to determine a backscatter link period result by dividing a count value representing the calibration symbol by the divide ratio and adding an adjustment. Tags modulate a backscatter waveform that includes symbols using a link period determined from the result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2005
    Publication date: September 27, 2007
    Applicant: Impinj, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Diorio, Kurt Sundstrom, Scott Cooper, Todd Humes
  • RFID READER Q-PARAMETER AIDED BY RF POWER MEASUREMENT
    Publication number: 20070164851
    Abstract: RFID tag responses are detected by an RFID reader system. The tag response may be detected based on a reference measurement during a tag silent period and another one during the tag response. This helps determine whether a slot is empty or occupied, in a slotted aloha algorithm. The result is reported to the Q-algorithm for a better decision.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2007
    Publication date: July 19, 2007
    Inventor: Scott Cooper
  • RFID READER SYSTEMS DETECTING PILOT TONE
    Publication number: 20070109129
    Abstract: RFID tags are commanded to generate a pilot tone in their backscatter. When the backscattered pilot tone is received in the reader, the pilot tone is used to estimate the tag period/frequency. Then, the estimate is used to seed and lock a symbol timing recovery loop, which provides a detected signal to one or more correlators for detecting the tag preamble. A delayed version of the received tag signal is compared against a baseline signal threshold established from the received signal to detect the pilot tone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2007
    Publication date: May 17, 2007
    Inventors: Kurt Sundstrom, Scott Cooper, Amir Sarajedini, Aanand Esterberg, Todd Humes, Christopher Diorio
  • Use of analog-valued floating-gate transistors for parallel and serial signal processing
    Patent number: 7199663
    Abstract: Analog-valued floating-gate transistors are used as trimmable circuit components for modifying and/or controlling the gain, phase, offset, frequency response, current consumption, and/or transfer function of signal pathways in parallel and/or serial processing circuits in radio frequency, analog, or mixed-signal integrated circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignee: IMPINJ, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher J. Diorio, Todd E. Humes, Ronald A. Oliver, William T. Colleran, Scott A. Cooper
  • Use of analog-valued floating-gate transistors for parallel and serial signal processing
    Patent number: 7187237
    Abstract: Analog-valued floating-gate transistors are used as trimmable circuit components for modifying and/or controlling the gain, phase, offset, frequency response, current consumption, and/or transfer function of signal pathways in parallel and/or serial processing circuits in radio frequency, analog, or mixed-signal integrated circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Assignee: Impinj, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher J. Diorio, Todd E. Humes, Ronald A. Oliver, William T. Colleran, Scott A. Cooper
  • Local processing of received RFID tag responses
    Publication number: 20070046432
    Abstract: Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags selected for inventorying using combination of preselect and/or post select criteria. The selection commands can be for selecting according to a tag memory content, by invoking the mask address or by comparing other tag characteristics. Selection criteria can be determined locally at a modem block of a reader or provided to the modem block by higher layers of the reader. Tags meeting the selection criteria are reported to the higher layers for further actions. Some tags may be held while waiting for instructions from the higher layer block(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Applicant: Impinj, Inc.
    Inventors: Ali Aiouaz, Paul Dietrich, Christopher Diorio, Scott Cooper
  • Decision directed phase locked loops (DD-PLL) with excess processing power in digital communication systems
    Patent number: 7164734
    Abstract: A decoder of a data signal subjected to phase shifting keying (PSK) modulation uses a plurality of phase locked loops (801-1 to 801-n) having an inner decoder for short block codes, at least one of which is adapted to apply excess processing power to process a selected burst of the data signal, such as processing the burst with multiple initial phase/frequency error estimates. A selection circuit identifies the burst and supplies to said one of said plurality of phase-locked loops (801-1 to 801-n) for re-processing the bust with excess processing power. An outer Reed-Solomon block decoder (319) may be used to correct errors in the codewords from the phase locked loops and may be used in the selection of the burst by the selection circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2007
    Assignee: Northrop Grumman Corporation
    Inventors: Stuart T. Linsky, Scott A. Cooper, Christopher W. Walker, Ali R. Golshan
  • Single RF oscillator single-side band modulation for RFID readers with frequency translation and filtering
    Publication number: 20060211386
    Abstract: A transmitter shifts a baseband data signal having a bandwidth of 2?M using a tone signal having a frequency ?M, which centers a sideband of the data signal at zero frequency. The transmitter then filters the shifted signal to filter out the non-centered sideband, and then adds the tone signal to form a composite signal. The transmitter upconverts the composite signal during a first operational mode using a RF signal having a frequency ?C equal to a center frequency of a channel. In a second operational mode, the transmitter upconverts a DC level using the same RF signal. The upconverted DC level can be used as a continuous wave carrier signal having a frequency ?C. The transmitter has a single RF oscillator to output both a SSB signal centered at frequency ?C during the first mode and a carrier signal of frequency ?C during the second mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2005
    Publication date: September 21, 2006
    Applicant: Impinj, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Thomas, Scott Cooper, Aanand Esterberg
  • SINGLE RF OSCILLATOR SINGLE-SIDE BAND MODULATION FOR RFID READERS USING TONE INSERTION DURING READER RECEPTION
    Publication number: 20060199551
    Abstract: A transmitter upconverts a SSB data signal during a first operational mode using a RF upconverting signal having a frequency that is offset from a center frequency of a channel (?C) by an amount that depends on the data signal's SSB bandwidth (?M). In a second operational mode, the transmitter upconverts a tone signal having a frequency ?M using the same RF upconverting signal. The upconverted tone signal can be used as a continuous wave (CW) carrier signal having a frequency ?C. The transmitter has a single RF oscillator to output both a SSB signal centered at frequency ?C during the first mode and a carrier signal of frequency ?C during the second mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2005
    Publication date: September 7, 2006
    Applicant: Impinj, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Thomas, Scott Cooper, Aanand Esterberg
  • Use of analog-valued floating-gate transistors for parallel and serial signal processing
    Publication number: 20060186960
    Abstract: Analog-valued floating-gate transistors are used as trimmable circuit components for modifying and/or controlling the gain, phase, offset, frequency response, current consumption, and/or transfer function of signal pathways in parallel and/or serial processing circuits in radio frequency, analog, or mixed-signal integrated circuits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2006
    Publication date: August 24, 2006
    Applicant: Impinj, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Diorio, Todd Humes, Ronald Oliver, William Colleran, Scott Cooper
  • RFID system components implementing adjusted backscatter calculations and methods
    Publication number: 20060163370
    Abstract: RFID system components, such as readers and tags, communicate by a reader transmitting waveforms that encode a calibration symbol and a divide ratio. Tags include a processor to determine a backscatter link period result by dividing a count value representing the calibration symbol by the divide ratio and adding an adjustment. Tags modulate a backscatter waveform that includes symbols using a link period determined from the result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2005
    Publication date: July 27, 2006
    Inventors: Christopher Diorio, Kurt Sundstrom, Scott Cooper, Todd Humes
  • Modulation of SLC26A2 expression
    Publication number: 20060154885
    Abstract: Compounds, compositions and methods are provided for modulating the expression of SLC26A2. The compositions comprise oligonucleotides, targeted to nucleic acid encoding SLC26A2. Methods of using these compounds for modulation of SLC26A2 expression and for diagnosis and treatment of disease associated with expression of SLC26A2 are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2005
    Publication date: July 13, 2006
    Inventors: C. Bennett, Brett Monia, Nicholas Dean, Xiaoxing Xu, Sanjay Bhanot, Brenda Baker, Susan Freier, Lex Cowsert, Robert McKay, Muthiah Manoharan, F. Dorr, Jon Holmlund, Alexander Borchers, Vickie Brown-Driver, Jacqueline Wyatt, Shin Flournoy, Elizabeth Ackermann, Hong Zhang, Andrew Watt, Eric Maracusson, Scott Cooper, Erich Koller, Loren Miraglia, William Ricketts, Kenneth Dobie, Tamara Sipes
  • Beam hopping self addressed packet switched communication system with power gating
    Patent number: 7068974
    Abstract: A downlink beam frame signal processing system (100) for a communication satellite includes a packet switch (608) that routes self addressed uplink data to a memory (804). The memory (804) stores queues for at least a first and a second downlink beam hop locations (302, 304). The processing system (100) also includes a power amplifier (108) that amplifies a waveform formed using the uplink data. A power gating circuit (1200) coupled to the power amplifier (108) includes a power gate input (1216) responsive to a power gating signal to remove RF power from at least a portion of the waveform before transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: Northrop Grumman Corporation
    Inventors: Stuart T. Linsky, Mark E. Bever, Fred C. Tramm, Esmaell Yousefi, Reginald Jue, Scott A. Cooper
  • RFID tags storing component configuration data in non-volatile memory and methods
    Publication number: 20060133140
    Abstract: An RFID tag has a Non Volatile Memory (NVM) array that can store data in a way that survives loss of power. The data is configuration data that controls the operation of an operational component of the tag. A performance of the operational component is thus adjusted according to the configuration data, and the adjustment is retained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2004
    Publication date: June 22, 2006
    Inventors: Vadim Gutnik, John Hyde, David Dressler, Alberto Pesavento, Ronald Oliver, Scott Cooper, Kurt Sundstrom
  • RFID tags with electronic fuses for storing component configuration data
    Publication number: 20060133175
    Abstract: An RFID tag has a fuse that is adapted to store configuration data in a way that survives loss of power. The fuse can be one time programmable or many times programmable, and be implemented with a non-volatile memory. The configuration data becomes available to an operational component of the tag, such as at power up, controlling its performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2004
    Publication date: June 22, 2006
    Inventors: Vadim Gutnik, John Hyde, David Dressler, Alberto Pesavento, Ronald Oliver, Scott Cooper, Kurt Sundstrom
  • Use of analog-valued floating-gate transistors for parallel and serial signal processing
    Patent number: 7061324
    Abstract: Analog-valued floating-gate transistors are used as trimmable circuit components for modifying and/or controlling the gain, phase, offset, frequency response, current consumption, and/or transfer function of signal pathways in parallel and/or serial processing circuits in radio frequency, analog, or mixed-signal integrated circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: Impinj, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher J. Diorio, Todd E. Humes, Ronald A. Oliver, William T. Colleran, Scott A. Cooper
  • Toy flying disc
    Patent number: D527428
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: CoopSport International Ltd.
    Inventor: John Scott Cooper