Patents by Inventor Steven P. Stanners

Steven P. Stanners 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: 9377520
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for locating signal wave (SW) emitter/s using at least one moving signal collection platform. The disclosed systems and methods may be employed in one embodiment to estimate the signal energy transmitted from a grid of locations (such as a map) using collected IQ data (or other raw data representation such as IQ data covariance matrix), and without requiring computation of any intermediate geolocation-observable measurements (such as angle-of-arrival, direction-of-arrival, etc.). In a further embodiment, the disclosed systems and methods may be implemented in a blind manner (i.e., transmitted emitter signal/s are unknown and processed blindly) to geolocate SW emitters using a single SW signal collection platform (e.g., at relatively large standoff distances in some implementations) without relying on a known signal modulation or operation of multiple simultaneous SW signal collection platforms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: L-3 Communications Integrated Systems LP
    Inventors: Bryan L. Westcott, Steven P. Stanners
  • Publication number: 20140327571
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for locating signal wave (SW) emitter/s using at least one moving signal collection platform. The disclosed systems and methods may be employed in one embodiment to estimate the signal energy transmitted from a grid of locations (such as a map) using collected IQ data (or other raw data representation such as IQ data covariance matrix), and without requiring computation of any intermediate geolocation-observable measurements (such as angle-of-arrival, direction-of-arrival, etc.). In a further embodiment, the disclosed systems and methods may be implemented in a blind manner (i.e., transmitted emitter signal/s are unknown and processed blindly) to geolocate SW emitters using a single SW signal collection platform (e.g., at relatively large standoff distances in some implementations) without relying on a known signal modulation or operation of multiple simultaneous SW signal collection platforms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: L-3 COMMUNICATIONS INTEGRATED SYSTEMS L.P.
    Inventors: Bryan L. Westcott, Steven P. Stanners
  • Publication number: 20090015479
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for all-polarization direction finding. The method and apparatus generally include acquiring measurements at least partially corresponding to an emitted signal and generated utilizing a blind signal extraction algorithm, forming an all-polarization cost function utilizing the acquired measurements, and determining an angle of arrival for the emitted signal utilizing the formed all-polarization cost function. Such a configuration enables angles of arrivals to be easily determined for signals having any polarization without using a multiple signal classification (MUSIC) algorithm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2008
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: L-3 Communications Integrated Systems, L.P.
    Inventors: Steven D. Thornton, Dennis J. Close, Mark L. Kargel, Steven P. Stanners
  • Patent number: 7426378
    Abstract: Multiple cochannel FM signals received, for example, in an overloaded signal environment may be separated using parallel interference cancellation techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2008
    Assignee: L-3 Communications Integrated Systems, L.P.
    Inventor: Steven P. Stanners
  • Patent number: 7414582
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for all-polarization direction finding. The method and apparatus generally include acquiring measurements at least partially corresponding to an emitted signal and generated utilizing a blind signal extraction algorithm, forming an all-polarization cost function utilizing the acquired measurements, and determining an angle of arrival for the emitted signal utilizing the formed all-polarization cost function. Such a configuration enables angles of arrivals to be easily determined for signals having any polarization without using a multiple signal classification (MUSIC) algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: L-3 Communications Integrated Systems L.P.
    Inventors: Steven D. Thornton, Dennis J. Close, Mark L. Kargel, Steven P. Stanners