Patents by Inventor Thomas J. McHale

Thomas J. McHale 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).

  • Autonomous sonar system and method
    Patent number: 8107320
    Abstract: An autonomous sonar system and method provide an arrangement capable of beamforming in three dimensions, detecting loud targets, adaptively beamforming in three dimensions to avoid the loud targets, detecting quiet targets, localizing the loud or quiet targets in range, bearing, and depth, detecting modulation of noise associated with propellers of the loud or quiet targets, generating three dimensional tracks of the loud or quiet targets in bearing, range and depth, making classification of the loud or quiet targets, assigning probabilities to the classifications, and generating classification reports according to the classifications for communication to a receiving station, all without human assistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Arnold W. Novick, Michael F. Janik, Thomas J. McHale, Ilya Rozenfeld, Kenneth J. McPhillips, John R. Short, James W. Casalegno
  • System and Method for Governance, Risk, and Compliance Management
    Publication number: 20090265199
    Abstract: In particular embodiments, the present invention provides a system and method for governance, risk, and compliance management. For example, a method for governance, risk, and compliance management includes providing an interface for defining a control to be used to reach a goal of an organization. The control provides a procedure to be followed by the organization. The method further includes providing the interface for defining a metric for tracking a progress of the organization towards reaching the goal using the procedure. The method further includes receiving metric data from an external source. The metric data corresponds to the metric. The method further includes tracking the progress of the organization towards reaching the goal using at least the metric and the metric data. The method further includes displaying the progress of the organization towards reaching the goal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicant: Computer Associates Think, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark L. Moerdler, Christopher S. Boswell, Galina Datskovsky, Murali Swaminathan, Bryan R. Diebold, Ying Ding, John D. Benton, Thomas J. McHale, Michael W. Stricklen
  • Autonomous Sonar System and Method
    Publication number: 20090257312
    Abstract: An autonomous sonar system and method provide an arrangement capable of beamforming in three dimensions, detecting loud targets, adaptively beamforming in three dimensions to avoid the loud targets, detecting quiet targets, localizing the loud or quiet targets in range, bearing, and depth, detecting modulation of noise associated with propellers of the loud or quiet targets, generating three dimensional tracks of the loud or quiet targets in bearing, range and depth, making classification of the loud or quiet targets, assigning probabilities to the classifications, and generating classification reports according to the classifications for communication to a receiving station, all without human assistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2009
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Inventors: Arnold W. Novick, Michael F. Janik, Thomas J. McHale, Ilya Rozenfeld, Kenneth J. McPhillips, John R. Short, James W. Casalegno