Patents by Inventor Thomas E. Szmurlo

Thomas E. Szmurlo 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: 5861837
    Abstract: A single antenna poly-frequency Continuous Wave (CW) Doppler radar system having leakage cancellation. The system provides for transmitting a plurality of carrier frequency signals and receiving the return signals by means of a single antenna coupled to an antenna interface through which a portion of the transmitted signal may leak. The signal appearing on an output port of the antenna interface is then down-converted to an intermediate frequency (IF) signal by a stable mixing signal. The IF signal is coupled to an adder which in turn is coupled to an output. The IF signal is further split into a pair of cancellation loops for each carrier frequency signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1999
    Assignee: Northrop Grumman Corporation
    Inventors: David L. Richardson, Thomas E. Szmurlo
  • Patent number: 5838195
    Abstract: Second harmonic distortion of a traveling wave tube amplifier with a bandwidth exceeding one octave is efficiently minimized by generating a low-power second harmonic signal, modifying it by an adaptive filter, and adding the modified second harmonic signal to the fundamental frequency input signal to the TWT. The adaptive filter is controlled by a feedback loop from the output of the TWT and is arranged to minimize the correlation between the generated second harmonic signal and the second harmonic content of the TWT output. Intermodulation distortion is eliminated in a similar manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1998
    Assignee: Northrop Grumman Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas E. Szmurlo, Mitchell F. Radich, Warren E. Guthrie
  • Patent number: 5801643
    Abstract: In a method for transmitting a desired parameter to a remote location, the desired parameter is first communicated to a base transmitter. Then, the base transmitter transmits a first radio signal therefrom having an unknown center frequency within a known frequency band. The first radio signal comprises information representative of the desired parameter. At a remote location, a remote receiver identifies the center frequency of the first radio signal and tunes the remote receiver to the center frequency thereof so as to facilitate reception of the first radio signal with the remote receiver. The information representative of the desired parameter may then be communicated to a desired destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1998
    Assignee: Northrop Grumman Corporation
    Inventors: Roger B. Williams, Thomas E. Szmurlo, Warren E. Guthrie, James Jensen
  • Patent number: 5757312
    Abstract: Hard-wired analog adaptive cancellation for microwave receivers to cancel the interference generated by co-located transmitter employs a circuit having two or more quadrature taps on a delay line. The least and greatest delays provided by the delay line taps are selected so that the copies of the transmitted signals provided by the respective taps bracket the timing of the portion of the transmitted signal that leaks into the collocated receiver's input. Samples of received signals corrupted by interference from the transmitter are mixed with delayed samples of a transmission reference signal to develop a cancellation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1998
    Assignee: Northrop Grumman Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas E. Szmurlo, Warren E. Guthrie
  • Patent number: 5729235
    Abstract: A translator for translating GPS signals received at one location to a different frequency for ground transmission to another location uses a spread spectrum pilot tone for phase-locking the local oscillator of the ground transmitter to that of the ground receiver, thereby increasing security, enabling use of otherwise unavailable frequency spectra, allowing coherence of pilot tone and GPS signal with small coherence bandwidths, and allowing interference-free transmission of the translated GPS signal and pilot tone with the same center frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1998
    Assignee: Northrop Grumman Corporation
    Inventors: Warren E. Guthrie, Robert Rozak, Thomas E. Szmurlo