Patents by Inventor Scott Allen Imhoff

Scott Allen Imhoff 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: 12240629
    Abstract: Apparatus, computer-readable medium, and method for optimal delivery of one or more satellite effects via reverse time heat equation isomorphism including constructing a generalized formulation of the heat equation corresponding to a commander's intent for delivery of the one or more satellite effects, performing a separation of variables to decouple a plurality of variables into a plurality of corresponding separated equations, solving the plurality of separated equations to produce candidate solutions, applying boundary conditions to each candidate solution, filtering the candidate solutions to mitigate ill-posedness of solving the inverse of the heat equation, assessing formal differences between the candidate solutions and the inverse of the heat equation, and generating an optimized schedule of the one or more satellite effects based on the assessment of the formal differences of the candidate solutions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Scott Allen Imhoff, Brianne R. Hoppes, Marcus A. Teter, Kendy Hall
  • Publication number: 20240288589
    Abstract: Embodiments regard improved satellite position determination with age of measurement data. A method includes receiving measurement data from a satellite, in a first iteration, increasing a dimensionality of the measurement data to a specified number of dimensions resulting in N-dimensional input data, performing dynamic mode decomposition on the N-dimensional measurement data resulting in a Koopman operator and modes of the N-dimensional measurement data, adaptive filtering a time domain residue resulting in a filtered residue, and updating, based on the filtered residue and a time domain deterministic component of the N-dimensional measurement data, a state vector of an object associated with the satellite measurement data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventors: Scott Allen Imhoff, Marcus Alton Teter, Mac Allen Cody, James J. Richardson
  • Patent number: 11977170
    Abstract: Systems, devices, methods, and computer-readable media for location determination of an orbiting device. A method can include receiving measurement data from a monitor device, the measurement data representative of a position of an orbiting space object with a mechanically moveable antenna, receiving, by processor circuitry, mission data indicating orientation of the antenna is changing from a first orientation to a second, different orientation by a specified time, determining, based on the mission data, an inter-signal correction (ISC), applying the determined ISC to the measurement data resulting in corrected measurement data, providing the corrected measurement data to a Kalman filter, and receiving, from the Kalman filter, a position estimate of the orbiting space object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventor: Scott Allen Imhoff
  • Publication number: 20230373658
    Abstract: Apparatus, computer-readable medium, and method for optimal delivery of one or more satellite effects via reverse time heat equation isomorphism including constructing a generalized formulation of the heat equation corresponding to a commander's intent for delivery of the one or more satellite effects, performing a separation of variables to decouple a plurality of variables into a plurality of corresponding separated equations, solving the plurality of separated equations to produce candidate solutions, applying boundary conditions to each candidate solution, filtering the candidate solutions to mitigate ill-posedness of solving the inverse of the heat equation, assessing formal differences between the candidate solutions and the inverse of the heat equation, and generating an optimized schedule of the one or more satellite effects based on the assessment of the formal differences of the candidate solutions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Scott Allen Imhoff, Brianne R. Hoppes, Marcus A. Teter, Kendy Hall
  • Patent number: 11733390
    Abstract: Systems, devices, methods, and computer-readable media for improved location determination of an orbiting device. A method can include receiving, at a transceiver of a device, measurement data from a monitor device, the measurement data representative of a physical state of a mobile object, filtering, using a first of a plurality of first filters of the device, the measurement data based on a character parameter of a state transition matrix representative of the physical state resulting in filtered measurement data, filtering, using a Kalman filter, the filtered measurement data resulting in further filtered measurement data, and providing, by the transceiver, the further filtered measurement data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Scott Allen Imhoff, Marcus Alton Teter
  • Publication number: 20230107068
    Abstract: Systems, devices, methods, and computer-readable media for location determination of an orbiting device. A method can include receiving measurement data from a monitor device, the measurement data representative of a position of an orbiting space object with a mechanically moveable antenna, receiving, by processor circuitry, mission data indicating orientation of the antenna is changing from a first orientation to a second, different orientation by a specified time, determining, based on the mission data, an inter-signal correction (ISC), applying the determined ISC to the measurement data resulting in corrected measurement data, providing the corrected measurement data to a Kalman filter, and receiving, from the Kalman filter, a position estimate of the orbiting space object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventor: Scott Allen Imhoff
  • Publication number: 20230046944
    Abstract: Systems, devices, methods, and computer-readable media for improved location determination of an orbiting device. A method can include receiving, at a transceiver of a device, measurement data from a monitor device, the measurement data representative of a physical state of a mobile object, filtering, using a first of a plurality of first filters of the device, the measurement data based on a character parameter of a state transition matrix representative of the physical state resulting in filtered measurement data, filtering, using a Kalman filter, the filtered measurement data resulting in further filtered measurement data, and providing, by the transceiver, the further filtered measurement data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Scott Allen Imhoff, Marcus Alton Teter
  • Patent number: 11544492
    Abstract: A learning automaton can be trained to merge data from input data streams, optionally with different data rates, into a single output data stream. The learning automaton can learn over time from the input data streams. The input data streams can be low-pass filtered to suppress data having frequencies greater than a time-varying cutoff frequency. Initially, the cutoff frequency can be relatively low, so that the effective data rates of the input data streams are all equal. This can ensure that initially, high data-rate data does not overwhelm low data-rate data. As the learning automaton learns, an entropy of the learning automaton changes more slowly, and the cutoff frequency is increased over time. When the entropy of the learning automaton has stabilized, the training is completed, and the cutoff frequency can be large enough to pass all the input data streams, unfiltered, to the learning automaton.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Marcus Alton Teter, Natalie Rae Plotkin, Scott Allen Imhoff, Walter Parish Gililland, Jr., Austin Jay Jorgensen
  • Patent number: 11546001
    Abstract: A method for preprocessing data for device operations can include preprocessing measurement data using a machine learning technique, determining, by a Kalman filter and based on (1) the preprocessed measurement data or the measurement data and (2) prediction data from a prediction model predicting a measurement associated with the measurement data, corrected measurement data, and providing the corrected measurement data based on the predicted measurement and the preprocessed measurement data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Scott Allen Imhoff, Marcus Alton Teter
  • Publication number: 20190245564
    Abstract: A method for preprocessing data for device operations can include preprocessing measurement data using a machine learning technique, determining, by a Kalman filter and based on (1) the preprocessed measurement data or the measurement data and (2) prediction data from a prediction model predicting a measurement associated with the measurement data, corrected measurement data, and providing the corrected measurement data based on the predicted measurement and the preprocessed measurement data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventors: Scott Allen Imhoff, Marcus Alton Teter
  • Publication number: 20190228256
    Abstract: A learning automaton can be trained to merge data from input data streams, optionally with different data rates, into a single output data stream. The learning automaton can learn over time from the input data streams. The input data streams can be low-pass filtered to suppress data having frequencies greater than a time-varying cutoff frequency. Initially, the cutoff frequency can be relatively low, so that the effective data rates of the input data streams are all equal. This can ensure that initially, high data-rate data does not overwhelm low data-rate data. As the learning automaton learns, an entropy of the learning automaton changes more slowly, and the cutoff frequency is increased over time. When the entropy of the learning automaton has stabilized, the training is completed, and the cutoff frequency can be large enough to pass all the input data streams, unfiltered, to the learning automaton.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Marcus Alton Teter, Natalie Rae Plotkin, Scott Allen Imhoff, Walter Parish Gililland, JR., Austin Jay Jorgensen