Patents by Inventor Wayne D. Music

Wayne D. Music 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: 11300687
    Abstract: A system and method for discriminating and mitigating spoofing signals incoming to a satellite navigation system. Beam steering techniques are used to steer a null toward a legitimate satellite signal that is being spoofed. The spoofing signal is then tracked and its angle of arrival measured. A null is steered toward the measured angle of arrival of the spoofing signal, and the spoofing signal is confirmed by determining if there is a signal remaining with nulls on both the legitimate satellite signal and the spoofing signal. The null toward the legitimate satellite signal is then replaced with unity gain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Southwest Research Institute
    Inventors: Thomas Howard Jaeckle, Wayne D. Music, Donald R. Van Rheeden, Thomas Tillotson, Jeffery C. Sanders
  • Publication number: 20210318447
    Abstract: A system and method for discriminating and mitigating spoofing signals incoming to a satellite navigation system. Beam steering techniques are used to steer a null toward a legitimate satellite signal that is being spoofed. The spoofing signal is then tracked and its angle of arrival measured. A null is steered toward the measured angle of arrival of the spoofing signal, and the spoofing signal is confirmed by determining if there is a signal remaining with nulls on both the legitimate satellite signal and the spoofing signal. The null toward the legitimate satellite signal is then replaced with unity gain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2020
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Thomas Howard Jaeckle, Wayne D. Music, Donald R. Van Rheeden, Thomas C. Tillotson, Jeffery C. Sanders
  • Patent number: 10574320
    Abstract: A numerically stable and computationally efficient method for updating and downdating during MVDR (minimum variance distortionless response) adaptive beamforming. The method involves downdating and updating of the triangular (Cholesky) factor of the covariance matrix. The covariance matrix is never explicitly formed, but rather is partitioned and expanded after substituting in the Cholesky factors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Southwest Research Institute
    Inventor: Wayne D. Music
  • Patent number: 9692529
    Abstract: A system, method and computer program product for signal emitter identification using Higher-Order Cumulants (HOC) is presented. At least one transient signal is received from an emitter when the emitter turns on. The at least one transient signal is processed using at least one Higher-Order Cumulant (HOC) to provide a set of entries for a vector table. A feature vector is derived from the vector table, the feature vector identifying the emitter. The feature vector is used to identify an emitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Wayne D. Music, Ryan N. Wilson, Brian K. Anderson
  • Patent number: 8055211
    Abstract: A multi-receiver wireless communication device includes a transmitter, a transmit oscillator communicatively coupled to the transmitter, a receive oscillator communicatively coupled to a first receiver and second receiver, and a switching assembly having a first state in which the receive oscillator is coupled to the first and second receivers and a second state in which the receive oscillator is de-coupled from the second receiver and the transmit oscillator is coupled to the second receiver. The first receiver and the second receiver of the wireless communication device are able to operate independent of one another when the switching assembly is in the second state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory W. Chance, David Bateman, Francesc Boixadera, William B. Harrold, Armin W. Klomsdorf, Markus Muck, Wayne D. Music
  • Patent number: 7890821
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein to provide improved communication system test techniques. For example, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a wireless device test system is disclosed having a channel emulator for multipath and/or MIMO applications to allow the testing of wireless devices (e.g., WLAN devices) in a cabled environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Veriwave, Inc.
    Inventors: Wayne D. Music, Thomas Alexander
  • Publication number: 20090168914
    Abstract: A multi-receiver wireless communication device includes a transmitter, a transmit oscillator communicatively coupled to the transmitter, a receive oscillator communicatively coupled to a first receiver and second receiver, and a switching assembly having a first state in which the receive oscillator is coupled to the first and second receivers and a second state in which the receive oscillator is de-coupled from the second receiver and the transmit oscillator is coupled to the second receiver. The first receiver and the second receiver of the wireless communication device are able to operate independent of one another when the switching assembly is in the second state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2007
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: MOTOROLA, INC.
    Inventors: Gregory W. Chance, David Bateman, Francesc Boixadera, William B. Harrold, Armin W. Klomsdorf, Markus Muck, Wayne D. Music
  • Publication number: 20090094492
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein to provide improved communication system test techniques. For example, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a wireless device test system is disclosed having a channel emulator for multipath and/or MIMO applications to allow the testing of wireless devices (e.g., WLAN devices) in a cabled environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2007
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Inventors: Wayne D. Music, Thomas Alexander
  • Patent number: 7376204
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the invention, a symbol rate detector includes a nonlinear device to receive a pass band signal, a component to apply a Fourier Transform to a signal provided by the filter, and logic to select a peak frequency component from results of applying the Fourier Transform and to apply the peak frequency component as a symbol rate of a base band signal corresponding to the pass band signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2008
    Assignee: Lattice Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventor: Wayne D. Music