Patents by Inventor Thomas COURTAT

Thomas COURTAT 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: 11516055
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a real-time method for the blind demodulation of digital telecommunication signals, based on the observation of a sampled version of this signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: AVANTIX
    Inventor: Thomas Courtat
  • Patent number: 11438202
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for demodulating or blind searching the characteristics of digital telecommunication signals, characterized in that it comprises at least one hardware architecture or hardware and firmware comprising memories and one or more processing units for implementing a network of specific computation blocks connected together, including a first specialized block of the network estimating at least one filter for acquiring the blind signal, and a second block subsequently producing at least one module for estimating the amplification of the observed signals in order to subsequently assess the other characteristics of the signals observed by the other computation blocks of the network, at least a third specialized computation block producing a decision-making module for computing an error signal and back-propagating the computed errors to each of the preceding residual blocks (“propagate”, “update”).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: AVANTIX
    Inventor: Thomas Courtat
  • Patent number: 11063739
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an adaptive synchronization device for demodulating a signal in linear modulation (x). The device functions from a sampled version of the signal (x).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: AVANTIX
    Inventor: Thomas Courtat
  • Publication number: 20200358644
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a system for the blind demodulation of a linearly modulated digital telecommunication signal and comprising modules allowing the estimation, monitoring of the temporal variations and corrections in the value of the phases, amplitudes, frequencies, time offsets and a set of compensation filters of the propagation channel, characterized in that it comprises at least one hardware or hardware and firmware architecture comprising memories and one or more processing units for implementing a network of specific calculation blocks connected to each other, including a block for the blind synchronization of the signal allowing the estimation, monitoring and compensation of the delay of the signal and also making it possible to adapt the processing rate of the downstream chain (of the demodulation system) to the reduced cadence of one sample per symbol, a first block incorporates at least one module making it possible to estimate at least one of the parameters of the observed signals in or
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventor: Thomas COURTAT
  • Publication number: 20200328871
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an adaptive synchronization device for demodulating a signal in linear modulation (x). The device functions from a sampled version of the signal (x).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2018
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventor: Thomas COURTAT
  • Publication number: 20200328922
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for demodulating or blind searching the characteristics of digital telecommunication signals, characterized in that it comprises at least one hardware architecture or hardware and firmware comprising memories and one or more processing units for implementing a network of specific computation blocks connected together, including a first specialized block of the network estimating at least one filter for acquiring the blind signal, and a second block subsequently producing at least one module for estimating the amplification of the observed signals in order to subsequently assess the other characteristics of the signals observed by the other computation blocks of the network, at least a third specialized computation block producing a decision-making module for computing an error signal and back-propagating the computed errors to each of the preceding residual blocks (“propagate”, “update”).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventor: Thomas COURTAT
  • Publication number: 20200328921
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a real-time method for the blind demodulation of digital telecommunication signals, based on the observation of a sampled version of this signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventor: Thomas COURTAT
  • Publication number: 20190196000
    Abstract: A method for processing measurements obtained by an antenna system at a given time index t, includes within a first list of clusters, a cluster including temporal characteristics, spatial characteristics and signal characteristics, predicting, at the time index t, the spatial characteristics of each cluster contained in the first list of clusters as a function of the spatial characteristics of the cluster when lastly updated to form a second list of clusters; for each measurement: forming a third list of clusters included in the second list, each cluster including the previously predicted spatial characteristics and calculating a likelihood score between the measurement and each cluster of the third list of clusters, the likelihood score being calculated from two factors; selecting the maximum likelihood score; and comparing the maximum likelihood score with a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Hugo BOURGOIN, Thomas COURTAT