Patents by Inventor Stephen R. Blatt

Stephen R. Blatt 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: 8929936
    Abstract: A method and system of cognitive communication for generating non-interfering transmission, includes conducting radio scene analysis to find grey spaces using external signal parameters for incoming signal analysis without having to decode incoming signals. The disclosed cognitive communications system combines the areas of communications, signal processing, pattern classification and machine learning to detect the signals in the given spectrum of interests, extracts their features, classifies the signals in types, learns the salient characteristics and patterns of the signal and predicts their future behaviors. In the process of signal analysis, a classifier is employed for classifying the signals. The designing of such a classifier is initially performed based on selection of features of a signal detected and by selecting a model of the classifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Apurva N. Mody, Stephen R. Blatt, Diane G. Mills, Thomas P. McElwain, Ned B. Thammakhoune
  • Publication number: 20130288734
    Abstract: In a method of cognitive communication a system for generating non-interfering transmission, includes conducting radio scene analysis to find grey space using external signal parameters for incoming signal analysis without having to decode incoming signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Inventors: Apurva N. Mody, Stephen R. Blatt, Diane G. Mills, Thomas P. McElwain, Ned B. Thammakhoune
  • Patent number: 8515473
    Abstract: In a method of cognitive communication for non-interfering transmission, wherein the improvement comprises the step of conducting radio scene analysis to find not just the spectrum holes or White spaces; but also to use the signal classification, machine learning and prediction information to learn more things about the existing signals and its underlying protocols, to find the Gray space, hence utilizing the signal space, consisting of space, time, frequency (spectrum), code and location more efficiently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Apurva N. Mody, Stephen R. Blatt, Diane G. Mills, Thomas P. McElwain, Ned B. Thammakhoune
  • Publication number: 20080293353
    Abstract: In a method of cognitive communication for non-interfering transmission, wherein the improvement comprises the step of conducting radio scene analysis to find not just the spectrum holes or White spaces; but also to use the signal classification, machine learning and prediction information to learn more things about the existing signals and its underlying protocols, to find the Gray space, hence utilizing the signal space, consisting of space, time, frequency (spectrum), code and location more efficiently. In a method of cognitive jamming where smart and energy efficient jamming techniques are suggested based on sensing, classification and machine learning of the existing signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2008
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Inventors: Apurva N. Mody, Stephen R. Blatt, Diane G. Mills, Thomas P. McElwain, Ned B. Thammakhoune
  • Patent number: 7379530
    Abstract: A safe, reliable and rapid system for the detection of nuclear materials within containers includes the use of pulsed high-intensity gamma rays that can penetrate a container and its contents and can be detected outside the container to provide a display in which high-Z material, including lead, uranium, plutonium and other nuclear substances that absorb gamma rays are detected as black regions on the display. In one embodiment, orthogonal pulsed gamma ray beams illuminate the container from two different directions to provide three-dimensional slices from which the existence and location of nuclear threat materials can be ascertained in as little as four seconds for a 40-foot container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Paul W. Hoff, Stephen R. Blatt