Patents by Inventor Shawn M Amorino

Shawn M Amorino 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: 7408841
    Abstract: A software system and method is presented that calculates the sensor directivity at all spatial angles, and stores these values in a two dimensional matrix. These values are then used as additional “weighting” coefficients in the equation for the pressure detected by an array of directive sensors. The azimuthal and polar angles of a particular sensor normal vector are used to “rotate” the sensor directivity matrix to account for the angular orientation of each sensor within the array. The software system receives as input sensor and array geometry, shading functions, sensor shape, array structure baffling, steering, and shading. A sensor can have the shape of a point, line, plane, volume, baffled ring, or circular plane piston. The sensors within the array can either be baffled by the array structure or retain their free field directivity response, and array as a whole can have steering or no steering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2008
    Assignee: The United States of the America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: John R Welch, Andrew J Hull, Shawn M Amorino