Patents by Inventor Thomas Marshall Tucker

Thomas Marshall Tucker 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: 9971335
    Abstract: A method of modeling a solid shape in a volume of space may include segmenting the volume into a plurality of equal portions of a given first size, determining, with respect to each portion, a first fill status based on whether each respective portion includes material of the shape, segmenting selected portions of the volume, based on the first fill status, into equal portions of a given second size that is smaller than the first size, determining, with respect to each selected portion, a second fill status, segmenting second selected portions of the volume, based on the second fill status, into equal portions of a given third size that is smaller than the second size, determining, with respect to each second selected portion, a third fill status, and generating a hybrid dynamic tree data structure based on the based on the first, second and third fill statuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Inventors: Thomas Marshall Tucker, Thomas Kurfess, Dmytro Konobrytskyi
  • Patent number: 9846223
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods efficiently calculate optimal flight paths for protected entities given terrain data, aircraft position, flight characteristics, and positions of known threat emitters. The systems and methods execute within the mission planning timeline, and the developed processes allow users to retrieve data from the calculations to effectively place an electronic attack platform at the right place and at the right time to be effective. The calculated optimal flight paths are displayed or otherwise visualized in the mission space. Electronic attack jamming capabilities are combined with projected threat emitter performance information in order to obtain optimal geometrical positioning of the electronic attack relative to the threat emitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: CHESAPEAKE TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dustan Christopher Hellwig, Matthew Gene Goldsbury, Thomas Marshall Tucker
  • Publication number: 20150294500
    Abstract: A method of modeling a solid shape in a volume of space may include segmenting the volume into a plurality of equal portions of a given first size, determining, with respect to each portion, a first fill status based on whether each respective portion includes material of the shape, segmenting selected portions of the volume, based on the first fill status, into equal portions of a given second size that is smaller than the first size, determining, with respect to each selected portion, a second fill status, segmenting second selected portions of the volume, based on the second fill status, into equal portions of a given third size that is smaller than the second size, determining, with respect to each second selected portion, a third fill status, and generating a hybrid dynamic tree data structure based on the based on the first, second and third fill statuses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2015
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventors: Thomas Marshall Tucker, Thomas Kurfess, Dmytro Konobrytskyi