Patents by Inventor Stephen A. Hedges

Stephen A. Hedges 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: 20240275499
    Abstract: An ATE system may include accessing, by a test control apparatus, a centralized server via a single connection, where an operating system of the ATE, a test sequence editor, test sequences, data base for all test sequence results, and parameters for one or more Device Under Test (DUT) may reside on the centralized server. The ATE system may include accessing by the test control apparatus the one or more DUT of the ATE system via the centralized server, the centralized server having one or more end-to-end connections with the one or more DUT. The ATE system may include accessing, by the test control apparatus, test data from the one or more DUT via the single connection to the centralized server, where the centralized server provides the test control apparatus with access to all of the one or more DUT and all of the test data from the one or more DUT.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Applicant: Rakuten Symphony UK Ltd
    Inventors: Hugh Roger McCalman, Stephen Hedges
  • Publication number: 20240250760
    Abstract: In some implementations, a MIMO calibrating apparatus may include coupling a plurality of input/output paths of a MIMO antenna panel to a plurality of transmit or receive paths of a MIMO radio panel, and measuring a loss of each of the plurality of input/output paths of the MIMO antenna panel at an input for a common calibration receiver port of the MIMO radio panel. The apparatus may include coupling a calibration feedback network of the MIMO antenna panel to the common calibration receiver port of the MIMO radio panel. The apparatus may include transmitting or receiving at a known power level by the MIMO radio panel, measuring a power output of all transmit or receive paths, and calibrating a transmit gain or a receive loss according to the measured loss at each input/output path of the MIMO antenna panel at the input for the common calibration receiver port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Rakuten Symphony UK Ltd
    Inventors: Hugh Roger McCalman, Stephen Hedges
  • Publication number: 20230172160
    Abstract: An animal drinking reservoir with replaceable inserts is presented. The animal drinking reservoir with replaceable inserts consists of a reservoir body and a replaceable reservoir insert. The reservoir body serves as a mounting fixture that attaches along a hamster case or any other suitable surface or body. The replaceable reservoir insert is installed along the mounting fixture, where the replaceable reservoir serves as a water dispensing unit suitable for supplying drinking water for animals. Once the reservoir insert is due for a water change, a user can easily swap the spend reservoir insert with a fresh reservoir insert.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventor: Aaron Stephen Hedge
  • Patent number: 9538692
    Abstract: An integrated heat exchanger and power delivery system for high powered electronic modules is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes a coolant manifold. The system further includes a heat exchanger and power delivery module. The heat exchanger and power delivery module comprises a plurality of heat exchanger and power delivery elements that are coupled to the coolant manifold. The system furthermore includes a high powered electronic module, wherein the high powered module comprises an array of sub-modules. The array of sub-modules is disposed on the plurality of heat exchanger and power delivery elements. The plurality of heat exchanger and power delivery elements are configured to substantially simultaneously deliver power and extract heat away from the sub-modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin W. Sliech, Stephen A. Hedges, Jared P. Majcher
  • Publication number: 20150222099
    Abstract: An integrated heat exchanger and power delivery system for high powered electronic modules is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes a coolant manifold. The system further includes a heat exchanger and power delivery module. The heat exchanger and power delivery module comprises a plurality of heat exchanger and power delivery elements that are coupled to the coolant manifold. The system furthermore includes a high powered electronic module, wherein the high powered module comprises an array of sub-modules. The array of sub-modules is disposed on the plurality of heat exchanger and power delivery elements. The plurality of heat exchanger and power delivery elements are configured to substantially simultaneously deliver power and extract heat away from the sub-modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: Kevin W. Sliech, Stephen A. Hedges, Jared P. Majcher
  • Patent number: 8164460
    Abstract: Whether or not one utilizes direct DC coupling of the microradios to the antenna feed points or couples the RF energy from the dipoles associated with the spaced-apart contact pads on the microradio, in the subject invention one selects only those microradios that are within a certain variance of a preferred direction and then makes sure that the polarization direction of all of these radios is in the preferred direction are identical, in one embodiment by utilizing digital coding, which both activates the microradio and is used to sense the polarity associated with the connection from the signal source to the contact pads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen A. Hedges, Kenneth R. Erikson
  • Publication number: 20090315676
    Abstract: Whether or not one utilizes direct DC coupling of the microradios to the antenna feed points or couples the RF energy from the dipoles associated with the spaced-apart contact pads on the microradio, in the subject invention one selects only those microradios that are within a certain variance of a preferred direction and then makes sure that the polarization direction of all of these radios is in the preferred direction are identical, in one embodiment by utilizing digital coding, which both activates the microradio and is used to sense the polarity associated with the connection from the signal source to the contact pads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2006
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicant: BAE SYSTEMS INFORMATION AND ELECTRONIS SYSTEMS INTEGRATION INC.
    Inventors: Stephen A. Hedges, Kenneth R. Erikson
  • Patent number: 7633435
    Abstract: An enhanced duplexer (1) which includes a combination of high dynamic range (HDR) amplifiers (11, 17) and a naovel signal cancellation circuit topology (15). Return signals from the circulator (3) are fed into the first HDR amplifier (11). A portion of the transmit signal is sampled with a directional coupler (7) and amplified with a second HDR amplifier (17) and then combined with the output of the first HDR amplifier (11) using a second directional coupler (13). The gain and phase of the second io amplifier (17) are adjusted so the leakage signals are canceled (19, 21) to enable a radar system to simultaneously transmit and receive signals to and from an antenna with increased sensitivity of operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: David E. Meharry, Stephen A. Hedges
  • Publication number: 20080272959
    Abstract: An enhanced duplexer (1) which includes a combination of high dynamic range (HDR) amplifiers (11, 17) and a naovel signal cancellation circuit topology (15). Return signals from the circulator (3) are fed into the first HDR amplifier (11). A portion of the transmit signal is sampled with a directional coupler (7) and amplified with a second HDR amplifier (17) and then combined with the output of the first HDR amplifier (11) using a second directional coupler (13). The gain and phase of the second io amplifier (17) are adjusted so the leakage signals are canceled (19, 21) to enable a radar system to simultaneously transmit and receive signals to and from an antenna with increased sensitivity of operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2005
    Publication date: November 6, 2008
    Inventors: David E. Meharry, Stephen A. Hedges
  • Patent number: 7358920
    Abstract: A nested cavity embedded loop mode antenna is provided with an ultra wide band response by nesting individual embedded cavity meander line loaded antenna modules, with the meander lines coupled to a ground plane plate either capacitively or directly so as to provide as much as a 27:1 ratio of high frequency to low frequency cutoff. The nested meander line structure is exceptionally compact and eliminates the problem of a null in the antenna radiation pattern perpendicular to the face of the antenna, thus to provide a loop type antenna pattern at all frequencies across which the antenna is to be operated. The use of the nested meander line configuration provides a flush mount for the antenna having a footprint associated with the larger of the meander line cavities and thus the lowest frequency of operation, the nesting precluding the necessity of providing separate side-by-side meander line loaded antennas which would increase the real estate required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: John T. Apostolos, Richard C. Ball, Stephen A. Hedges
  • Publication number: 20060181474
    Abstract: A nested cavity embedded loop mode antenna is provided with an ultra wide band response by nesting individual embedded cavity meander line loaded antenna modules, with the meander lines coupled to a ground plane plate either capacitively or directly so as to provide as much as a 27:1 ratio of high frequency to low frequency cutoff. The nested meander line structure is exceptionally compact and eliminates the problem of a null in the antenna radiation pattern perpendicular to the face of the antenna, thus to provide a loop type antenna pattern at all frequencies across which the antenna is to be operated. The use of the nested meander line configuration provides a flush mount for the antenna having a footprint associated with the larger of the meander line cavities and thus the lowest frequency of operation, the nesting precluding the necessity of providing separate side-by-side meander line loaded antennas which would increase the real estate required.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2004
    Publication date: August 17, 2006
    Inventors: John Apostolos, Richard Ball, Stephen Hedges