Ecm (electronic Countermeasures, I.e., Jamming) Patents (Class 342/14)
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Patent number: 12136988Abstract: Provided is a signal transmission apparatus for radiation equipment. The signal transmission apparatus includes a first wireless transmission component, the first wireless transmission component includes a first antenna and a second antenna; wherein the first antenna is a loop antenna, and the first antenna is disposed on a gantry in the radiation equipment and is rotatable synchronously with the gantry; and the second antenna is disposed separately from the gantry and is wirelessly connected to the first antenna.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2022Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: OUR UNITED CORPORATIONInventors: Renqing Liu, Shenfu Liu, Hongbin Zhao
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Patent number: 12099138Abstract: A maneuverable jamming grid array and methods of use thereof, that generally a portable grid array having a plurality of power supplies and a plurality of charging capacitors, an array of optical/RF module emitters configured on the grid array, in electrical communication with the power supplies and the plurality of charging capacitors, a control and communications module in electrical communication with the array of optical/RF module emitters, at least one array lifting and maneuvering drone connected to the grid array; and at least one array lifting balloon connected to said grid array, and thus to facilitate a positionable antiaircraft defense system.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2022Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Inventor: Brandon West
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Patent number: 12038530Abstract: A method of assessing the effectiveness of an electronic countermeasure (ECM) applied against an unknown, ambiguous, or unresponsive radar threat includes monitoring changes in a radar-associated factor while applying the ECM and determining if the ECM is disrupting the hostile radar. The radar-associated factor can be a weapon that is controlled by the radar threat, and assessing the ECM can include determining whether the weapon is misdirected due to applying the ECM. Or the radar-associated factor can be a feature of an RF waveform emitted by the radar threat, and assessing the ECM can include determining if the feature is changed due to applying the ECM. Continuous changes in the feature can indicate unsuccessful attempts to mitigate the ECM. Return of the feature to a pre-threat state can indicate disruption of the radar. The ECM can be selected from a library of countermeasures pre-verified as effective against known threats.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2020Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.Inventors: Scott A Kuzdeba, Brandon P. Hombs, Daniel Massar
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Patent number: 11973584Abstract: This application relates to a noise signal generating apparatus. In one aspect, the apparatus includes a bandwidth expansion unit configured to generate a noise signal having a second bandwidth by expanding a noise source signal having a first bandwidth to the second bandwidth that is greater than the first bandwidth. The apparatus may also include a randomization unit configured to perform randomization and output the generated noise signal having the second bandwidth.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Agency for Defense DevelopmentInventors: Jaewon Chang, Jeong Ho Ryu, Joo Rae Park, Young Ju Park, Byeong Nam Lee
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Patent number: 11973585Abstract: A portable Electromagnetic Countermeasure (ECM) device is disclosed for military and civilian population protection from electromagnetic communications and attack, including cell phones, radios, radio-triggered explosive devices, and other personal and portable devices comprising transmitters and receivers. The portable ECM device is usable by a person such as a soldier or policeman to protect themselves and other people around them from spy, guerrilla, military and terrorist threats. The portable (ECM) device comprises a first antenna and a second antenna, both to communicate radio signals with a software defined radio (SDR), and a control pack having a microprocessor operable by remote network connection, or by a mode selector on board the device, to control the SDR according to a mode selected, to receive, produce, and classify radio signals.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Inventors: Emil Reynolds, Raul Washington John Donoso, Jr.
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Patent number: 11700079Abstract: An optronic system (100) for a countermeasure unit (10) to optically communicate with another communication terminal is disclosed. The countermeasure unit (10) comprises a laser beam source (12) and a directing device (14) for a laser beam (15) of the laser beam source (12) and is configured to dazzle or to jam an object of threat (50). The optronic system (100) comprising: a detector (110), a modulation unit (120), and a control unit (130). The detector (110) is configured to detect an incoming communication in an incoming signal (25). The modulation unit (120) is configured to demodulate the incoming signal (25) or cause a modulation of an outgoing laser beam (15). The control unit (130) is configured, in response to the detected incoming communication, to control the modulation unit (120) to demodulate the incoming signal (25) or to modulate the outgoing laser beam (15) to enable an optical communication via the laser beam source (12) of the countermeasure unit (10).Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2021Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignees: HENSOLDT SENSORS GMBH, FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNGInventors: Oliver Rudow, Marc Eichhorn, Christelle Kieleck
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Patent number: 11644285Abstract: An active countermeasure for military rotorcraft against a heat-seeking missile threat involves one or more telescoping booms or poles that are articulated at their proximal end to the fuselage of the rotorcraft and have an IR-radiating decoy mounted on their distal tip. When a missile launch is detected the missile flight path is computed and one or more of the booms are extended and swung out to place the decoy on the shot line of the missile. The decoy is then switched on and lures the missile away from the vulnerable components of the craft, such as the engine, rotors, and fuselage so as to cause a miss or failing that a detonation away from the rotorcraft. The countermeasures are stored compactly against or within the tail when not deployed.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Inventor: Mark A. Pfluger
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Patent number: 11632187Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) jamming device includes a differential segmented aperture (DSA), a jammer source outputting a jamming signal at one or more frequencies or frequency bands to be jammed, and RF electronics that amplify and feed the jamming signal to the DSA so as to emit a jamming beam. The DSA includes an array of electrically conductive tapered projections, and the RF electronics comprise power splitters configured to split the jamming signal to aperture pixels of the DSA. The aperture pixels comprise pairs of electrically conductive tapered projections of the array of electrically conductive tapered projections. The RF electronics further comprise pixel power amplifiers, each connected to amplify the jamming signal fed to a single corresponding aperture pixel of the DSA. The RF jamming device may include a rifle-shaped housing, with the DSA mounted at a distal end of the barrel of the rifle-shaped housing.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventor: Raphael Joseph Welsh
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Patent number: 11622555Abstract: Optical remote sensing systems for quantifying aerial or aquatic fauna with respect to number of living organisms, such as animals, such as insects, birds, bats or aquatic organisms, and to biological specificity.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2017Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: FaunaPhotonics Agriculture & Environmental A/SInventor: Mikkel Brydegaard Sørensen
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Patent number: 11555885Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention is a method of transmitting a multibeam jamming signal of an array antenna and including: a signal receiving operation of receiving a radar signal from a plurality of radars; a signal analysis operation of analyzing the received radar signal and identifying an angle and frequency of the signal; a control phase value calculating operation of calculating a control phase value of each array path of the array antenna for each of the identified angles; and a multibeam jamming signal transmission operation of calculating a multibeam jamming signal based on the calculated control phase value and transmitting the multibeam jamming signal for each identified frequency.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2019Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENTInventors: Yeon Soo Jang, In Seon Kim, Sang Won Kim, Beom Jun Park, Un Seob Jeong
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Patent number: 11520008Abstract: A method of testing vehicular radar includes acquiring binary phase codes of transmitters in a radar DUT; acquiring desired FOVs and desired angular resolutions of the transmitters to determine target angles of emulated targets; calculating far field phases of a PMCW signal for binary phase states of the transmit array at each of the target angles to determine resultant phase symbol streams; calculating excess roundtrip time delay for each emulation delay, between the DUT and the emulated targets, and each setup delay between the DUT and each emulator receiver; time-shifting the resultant phase symbol streams by the excess roundtrip time delays; subtracting the time-shifted resultant phase symbol streams from the resultant phase symbol streams to obtain difference phase symbol streams; modulating a PMCW signal transmitted by the DUT by the difference phase symbol streams; and emulating the echo signals at the target angles in response to the modulated PMCW signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2020Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: Keysight Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Gregory S. Lee
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Patent number: 11502772Abstract: Disclosed is a method of producing an output signal from a signal generator, comprising: determining a driving input to the signal generator, the driving input for driving the signal generator to provide a predetermined output signal, wherein the output signal includes at least one frame, the at least one frame comprising an active period and a dummy period and wherein the active period and dummy period are determined by the driving input. Also disclosed is a method of producing an output signal from a signal generator, comprising: receiving a synchronisation signal; obtaining an input signal for controlling the signal generator to generate an output signal comprising at least one frame wherein the at least one frame comprises at least one active period and at least one dummy period; producing the output signal comprising a series of frames; and, synchronising the output signal with the synchronisation signal by varying a duration of the at least one of the dummy period or active period.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2020Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: KIRINTEC LIMITEDInventors: Richard Harrison, Paul Hill
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Patent number: 11432732Abstract: A detection device for detecting and characterizing biological energy fields emitted by biological specimens is configured to collect and analyze an electromagnetic signal that includes millimeter-length waves generated by the interaction of atmospheric plasma with torsion waves of the biological energy field. The device performs spectral analysis on the millimeter waves to determine characteristics of the corresponding torsion waves that generated them. An array of several hundred non-thermal plasma plumes are placed directly in front of a circular horn. A switchable circular polarizer is used to select left hand circular, linear or right hand circular polarization. A low noise frequency converter allows a noise temperature of less than 1150 K. A frequency scan and averaging algorithm is developed to characterize noise temperature versus frequency, comparing signal and noise levels between plasma on and plasma off, and switching polarization sense.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2017Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: ChiScan Holdings, LLCInventors: Bryon K. Eckert, Bradley N. Eckert, Huan Truong
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Patent number: 11411671Abstract: Systems and methods for disrupting unauthorized communication in low frequency radio communication devices are provided. Traditional systems and methods may fail to provide for disrupting unauthorized communications by generating low frequency signals in the same band as the low frequency bands of the low frequency radio communication devices. Embodiments of the present disclosure provides for overcoming the limitations faced by the traditional systems and methods by generating, via a square wave generator and a device coil of a low frequency radio communication device, low frequency signals; integrating the low frequency signals on a computing device by implementing a power controlling technique; and disrupting, via the integrated low frequency signals on the computing device, unauthorized communications in the low frequency radio communication device.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITEDInventors: Viral Prakash Shah, Rishi Setiya, Gurjeet Singh Sohal, Fahim Khan
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Patent number: 11411670Abstract: A chirp noise generation device for a compressed pulse signal includes: a receiving antenna; a signal analysis unit configured to determine whether to perform an electronic attack by analyzing a receipt signal that is inputted through the receiving antenna; and a digital frequency storage configured to store the receipt signal that is inputted through the receiving antenna, to generate a chirp noise by using the receipt signal, to generate a jamming signal by synthesizing the receipt signal and the chirp noise, and to transmit the jamming signal when a control command indicating that the electronic attack needs to be performed is received from the signal analysis unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2021Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENTInventors: Junghoon Lee, Jeil Jo
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Patent number: 11378361Abstract: A system and method that uses one or more jet engines to remove unmanned aircraft from restricted airspace. Generally, the force created by a jet engine can be used to remove drones or other unwanted objects from the restricted airspace. Once the system determines the presence of an unauthorized aircraft or object within the restricted airspace, the jet engine(s) can be activated and used to pull the drone or flying object towards the jet engine though the force created by the intake of the jet engine(s), or to expel the drone or object from the restricted area through the force created by the exhaust of the jet engine(s).Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: COLLATERAL OPPORTUNITIES, LLCInventor: Bruce Howard Kusens
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Patent number: 11300657Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for generating a jamming signal for deceiving a transmission/reception device. The apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive a signal transmitted from the transmission/reception device and a determination unit configured to determine whether or not the received signal is a pulse compression signal. The apparatus further includes a generation unit configured to determine, when the received signal is a pulse compression signal, a deception frequency based on a frequency bandwidth and a pulse width of the received pulse compression signal and generate the jamming signal based on the determined deception frequency.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2019Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: AGENCY FOR DEFENSE DEVELOPMENTInventors: Jung Hoon Lee, Jeil Jo
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Patent number: 11243418Abstract: An RF frequency tuning-in-silicon photoconductive-switch-based high power microwave system including a cradle; a transmission line proximate the cradle; a photosensitive silicon material switch component also proximate the cradle; a laser light source having a varied illumination incidence location on the photosensitive material; and a laser alignment component providing the location of the illumination incidence location on the photosensitive material; whereby the inductance of the switch varies as a function of the incidence location of the illumination on the photosensitive material.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2019Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.Inventor: John E. McGeehan
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Patent number: 11196507Abstract: Disclosed is an anti-eavesdropping method for the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) based on intermittent cooperative jamming.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: CHANGSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Xiaoshuang Xing, Gaofei Sun
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Patent number: 11171934Abstract: A process of hiding a key or data inside of random noise is introduced, whose purpose is to protect the privacy of the key or data. In some embodiments, the random noise is produced by quantum randomness, using photonic emission with a light emitting diode. When the data or key generation and random noise have the same probability distributions, and the key size is fixed, the security of the hiding can be made arbitrarily close to perfect secrecy, by increasing the noise size. The hiding process is practical in terms of infrastructure and cost, utilizing the existing TCP/IP infrastructure as a transmission medium, and using light emitting diode(s) and a photodetector in the random noise generator. In some embodiments, symmetric cryptography encrypts the data before the encrypted data is hidden in random noise, which substantially amplifies the computational complexity.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2019Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Fiske Software LLCInventor: Michael Stephen Fiske
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Patent number: 11171736Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) jamming device includes a differential segmented aperture (DSA), a jammer source outputting a jamming signal at one or more frequencies or frequency bands to be jammed, and RF electronics that amplify and feed the jamming signal to the DSA so as to emit a jamming beam. The DSA includes an array of electrically conductive tapered projections, and the RF electronics comprise power splitters configured to split the jamming signal to aperture pixels of the DSA. The aperture pixels comprise pairs of electrically conductive tapered projections of the array of electrically conductive tapered projections. The RF electronics further comprise pixel power amplifiers, each connected to amplify the jamming signal fed to a single corresponding aperture pixel of the DSA. The RF jamming device may include a rifle-shaped housing, with the DSA mounted at a distal end of the barrel of the rifle-shaped housing.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2020Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTEInventor: Raphael Joseph Welsh
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Patent number: 11171514Abstract: A wireless power transmission system includes a power-supplying device including an electronic oscillator that generates electric power having a frequency of 1 MHz or more and 5 MHz or less, and a power-supplying coil member in which the electric power flows; and a power-receiving device including a power-receiving coil member that is capable of generating electric power based on the magnetic field generating from the power-supplying coil member, wherein the power-receiving coil member is a sheet coil including an insulating layer and a first coil pattern disposed at one side of the insulating layer, the first coil pattern is composed of wires, and the wires are disposed in spaced apart relation from each other with a predetermined space provided therebetween in the radial direction of the first coil pattern.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2018Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Taiki Sueyoshi, Masami Inoue, Hisashi Tsuda, Takashi Oda, Kaoru Ito, Hideshi Yamakawa, Daigo Tsubai, Toru Mizutani, Yasuyuki Ota
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Patent number: 11067696Abstract: A defense system that receives information regarding an incoming object(s), then automatically coordinates spoofing or jamming of SATNAV signals potentially used by the incoming object(s) while also informing friendly systems of the spoofing or jamming of SATNAV signal.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2020Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: COUNTER ECHO SOLUTIONS LLCInventors: Andrew H. Fink, William A. Wilson, IV, Ryan Thomas Holte
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Patent number: 11031688Abstract: A wireless adapter front end system and method for an information handling system including a wireless adapter for communicating on a plurality antenna systems for connection to a plurality of wireless links and an antenna configurable to have a plurality of antenna radiation patterns via an antenna pattern steering control interface, wherein the antenna is operating in a first antenna radiation pattern.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2017Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: Dell Products, LPInventors: Suresh K. Ramasamy, Youngsoo Cho, Adolfo S. Montero, Ching Wei Chang, Ricardo R. Velasco, Geroncio O. Tan, Lars Fredrik Proejts, Jian Xin Guo, Stephen Shiao, Wei-Chia Huang
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Patent number: 10969467Abstract: The invention relates to a portable electronic signal generator, and in particular a programmable multi-waveform radiofrequency generator for use as battlefield decoy.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2019Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: KWESST INC.Inventor: Jeffrey M. Dunn
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Patent number: 10876820Abstract: A system and method that uses one or more jet engines to remove unmanned aircraft from restricted airspace. Generally, the force created by a jet engine can be used to remove drones or other unwanted objects from the restricted airspace. Once the system determines the presence of an unauthorized aircraft or object within the restricted airspace, the jet engine(s) can be activated and used to pull the drone or flying object towards the jet engine though the force created by the intake of the jet engine(s), or to expel the drone or object from the restricted area through the force created by the exhaust of the jet engine(s).Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Inventor: Bruce Kusens
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Patent number: 10826644Abstract: Jamming systems uses wireless signals (e.g., radio waves) to deliberately prevent a target from accurately receiving desired wireless signals. The examples herein disclose an anti-jamming system that mitigates an effect that jamming signals have on a radio receiver. To do so, the anti-jamming system generates a plasma shield in a region of space between the target and the jamming system. Plasma is opaque to electromagnetic energy meaning that radio signals, lasers, microwave energy, and the like are unable to pass through the plasma, and instead, are absorbed by the plasma. As such, the jamming signals emitted by the jamming system are absorbed by the plasma shield and do not interfere with the target's radio receiver.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2016Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANYInventor: Jeffrey H. Hunt
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Patent number: 10643153Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training and deploying machine-learned identification of radio frequency (RF) signals.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2018Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc.Inventor: Timothy James O'Shea
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Patent number: 10585170Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining misalignment of a radar sensor unit mounted to a vehicle includes providing targets on an alignment apparatus. A vehicle is located at predetermined location on a test station an exact given distance from the alignment apparatus. The actual locations and distances of the targets from each other and from radar sensor unit of the vehicle at the test station are known and pre-stored. At least one target is a greater distance from the vehicle than the other targets. The targets receive and return a radar wave from the radar sensor unit. The radar sensor unit determines locations and distances of the targets and compares with the given or actual locations and distances of the targets to determine misalignment of the radar sensor unit. A calibration program automatically calibrates azimuth and elevation to adjust for misalignment.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2015Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: Robert Bosch GbmHInventors: Raphael Hellinger, Oliver F. Schwindt
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Patent number: 10564286Abstract: A defense system that receives information regarding an incoming object(s), then automatically coordinates spoofing or jamming of SATNAV signals potentially used by the incoming object(s) while also informing friendly systems of the spoofing or jamming of SATNAV signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2019Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: COUNTER ECHO SOLUTIONS, LLCInventors: Andrew H. Fink, William A. Wilson, IV, Ryan Thomas Holte
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Patent number: 10502818Abstract: A system for interacting with a thermal detector includes at least one unmanned aerial vehicle and a sensor mounted to the at least one unmanned aerial vehicle. The sensor is configured to determine the presence of a component of the thermal detector and to generate a signal indicative of the presence of the component. The system also includes a beam emitter mounted to the at least one unmanned vehicle and in communication with the sensor. The beam emitter includes a beam source configured to direct a beam of thermal radiation to the thermal detector in response to the signal from the sensor.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2017Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: LMD Power of Light CorporationInventors: Susan Houde-Walter, Christopher Gagliano
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Patent number: 10404211Abstract: A spot noise generator includes a mask component, a polyphase synthesizer, a first signal channel and second signal channel. The mask component has a narrowband noise input, a desired frequency channels word input, a first channel output and a second channel output. The narrowband noise input signal is a digital narrowband noise signal sampled approximately at the Nyquist rate. The desired frequency channels word selects one of the group consisting of the first channel output, the second channel output and a combination of the first channel output and the second channel output. The polyphase synthesizer synthesizes the first channel output signal, synthesizes the second channel output signal and outputs a desired noise signal based on the synthesized first channel output signal and the synthesized second channel output signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2018Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Michael Civerolo, Nicholas Johnson, Nicholas A. Lumsden, Christopher L. Lichtenberg
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Patent number: 10371799Abstract: A radar apparatus is calibrated while operating in a configuration such that the receiver obtains substantially no reflection from the transmitter. The resultant received signal is written into the compensation signal memory for use during normal operation. The calibration environment is achieved by operating the radar apparatus in a quiet environment or by operating a quieting switch within the radar apparatus to quiet the reflected radar signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2016Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: Delta Mobile Systems, IncInventors: James C Graves, Jr., Debra A Jones
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Patent number: 10338226Abstract: A defense system that receives information regarding an incoming object(s), then automatically coordinates spoofing or jamming of SATNAV signals potentially used by the incoming object(s) while also informing friendly systems of the spoofing or jamming of SATNAV signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2016Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: COUNTER ECHO SOLUTIONS LLCInventors: Andrew H. Fink, William A. Wilson, IV, Ryan Thomas Holte
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Patent number: 10296831Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a storage medium, for processing radio signals. In once aspect, a system is disclosed that includes a processor and a storage device storing computer code that includes operations. The operations may include obtaining first output data generated by a first neural network based on the first neural network processing a received radio signal, receiving, by a signal transformer, a second set of input data that includes (i) the received radio signal and (ii) the first output data, generating, by the signal transformer, data representing a transformed radio signal by applying one or more transforms to the received radio signal, providing the data representing the transformed radio signal to a second neural network, obtaining second output data generated by the second neural network, and determining based on the second output data a set of information describing the received radio signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2018Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc.Inventor: Timothy James O'Shea
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Patent number: 10257727Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing at least one report relating to a wireless communications spectrum. At least one device is operable for wideband scan; to detect and measure at least one signal transmitted from at least one signal emitting device autonomously, thereby creating signal data; to analyze the signal data in near real-time, thereby creating analyzed data; generate the at least one report in near real-time; and to communicate at least a portion of the at least one report over a network to at least one remote device.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2017Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: DGS GLOBAL SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Ronald C. Dzierwa, Daniel Carbajal
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Patent number: 10257728Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices enable spectrum management by identifying, classifying, and cataloging signals of interest based on radio frequency measurements. Signal data is compared with stored data to identify the signal of interest. Signal degradation data is calculated based on noise figure parameters, hardware parameters and environment parameters.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2017Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: DGS GLOBAL SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Ronald C. Dzierwa, Gabriel R. Garcia, Daniel Carbajal
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Patent number: 10257729Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided for automated identification of baseline data and changes in state in a wireless communications spectrum, by identifying sources of signal emission in the spectrum by automatically detecting signals, analyzing signals, comparing signal data to historical and reference data, creating corresponding signal profiles, and determining information about the baseline data and changes in state based upon the measured and analyzed data in near real time, which is stored on each apparatus or device and/or on a remote server computer that aggregates data from each apparatus or device.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2017Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: DGS GLOBAL SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Daniel Carbajal, Ronald C. Dzierwa
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Patent number: 10231206Abstract: Apparatus and methods for identifying a wireless signal-emitting device are disclosed. The apparatus is configured to sense and measure wireless communication signals from signal-emitting devices in a spectrum. The apparatus is operable to automatically detect a signal of interest from the wireless signal-emitting device and create a signal profile of the signal of interest; compare the signal profile with stored device signal profiles for identification of the wireless signal-emitting device; and calculate signal degradation data for the signal of interest based on information associated with the signal of interest in a static database including noise figure parameters of a wireless signal-emitting device outputting the signal of interest. The signal profile of the signal of interest, profile comparison result, and signal degradation data are stored in the apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2017Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: DGS GLOBAL SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Ronald C. Dzierwa, Daniel Carbajal, David William Kleinbeck
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Patent number: 10219163Abstract: Devices and methods enable optimizing a signal of interest based on identifying and analyzing the signal of interest based on radio frequency energy measurements. Signal data is compared with stored data to identify the signal of interest. Signal degradation data is calculated based on noise figure parameters, hardware parameters and environment parameters. The signal of interest is optimized based on the signal degradation data. Terrain data may also be used for optimizing the signal of interest.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2017Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: DGS GLOBAL SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Ronald C. Dzierwa, Gabriel R. Garcia, Daniel Carbajal
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Patent number: 10148421Abstract: A device is provided for jamming electromagnetic radiation liable to be emitted by at least one portion of an interconnect region located above at least one zone of an integrated electronic circuit produced in and on a semiconductor substrate. The device includes an antenna located above the at least one zone of the circuit and generating circuit coupled to the antenna and configured to generate an electrical signal having at least one pseudo-random property to pass through the antenna.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SASInventors: Thomas Ordas, Alexandre Sarafianos, Stephane Chesnais, Fabrice Marinet
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Patent number: 10128976Abstract: A radio wave jamming system (1) comprises a plurality of radio transmitters (10) that are adapted to transmit respective jamming signals (11) including substantially the same frequency. The plurality of radio transmitters (10) are further adapted to temporally change at least one of the transmission phases of the jamming signals (11), which are to be transmitted from the plurality of radio transmitters (10), so as to temporally change the phase differences among the jamming signals (11) when the jamming signals (11) transmitted from the plurality of radio transmitters (10) arrive at a particular site (50). Thus, for example, a radio wave jamming system that can be constituted by small-output radio devices can be provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2015Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Hideto Shibohta, Shigeru Asai, Kenji Wakafuji, Masakazu Ono, Shingo Watanabe, Masato Kudou
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Patent number: 10122479Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus for automatic signal detection with temporal feature extraction in an RF environment are disclosed. An apparatus learns the RF environment in a predetermined period based on statistical learning techniques, thereby creating learning data. A knowledge map is formed based on the learning data. The apparatus automatically extracts temporal features of the RF environment from the knowledge map. A real-time spectral sweep is scrubbed against the knowledge map. The apparatus is operable to detect a signal in the RF environment, which has a low power level or is a narrowband signal buried in a wideband signal, and which cannot be identified otherwise.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2017Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: DGS GLOBAL SYSTEMS, INC.Inventor: Ronald C. Dzierwa
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Patent number: 9965267Abstract: An electronic warfare (EW) devices and a method of providing jamming techniques are generally described. Firmware is updated by eliminating an existing jamming technique, adding a new technique and/or changing parameters of one of the techniques in the firmware. Changing the technique parameters includes adding a new parameter, deleting an existing parameter, changing the range of values for an existing parameter and changing the order of the parameters to be transmitted by an Operational Flight Program (OFP) to the firmware to generate the technique. The OFP reads a published a register mapping specifying parameters to use in generating the jamming techniques in the EW firmware, a range of the parameters and an order of the parameters. The jamming techniques are generated using parameters transmitted by the OFP to the firmware. The same OFP is used to trigger generation of jamming techniques prior to and after the updating of the firmware.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2015Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: Raytheon CompanyInventors: Harry B. Marr, Jr., Jeffrey Jay Logan, Daniel Thompson
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Patent number: 9812132Abstract: Provided is a system where users performing a coordinated process are localized in a complex environment based upon audio input. Audio commands are detected and executed based on system user vocalization. Available commands are limited by user status, location, process type and process progress. Command execution is limited by the presence and locations of system users, non-users, or extraneous equipment.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2015Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Stéphane Vandroux, Mireille Haddad, Patrice Riou
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Patent number: 9621300Abstract: A communications system comprising an ECM signal transmission arrangement for generating and transmitting an ECM signal, a first controller operable to control the ECM transmission arrangement such that the transmitted signal takes a pulsed form including a plurality of first periods in which the ECM signal is transmitted separated by second periods in which the ECM signal is not transmitted, a radio signal receiver arrangement forming or including a bandpass filter and arranged to receive a radio signal, and a second controller operable to control the signal received by the receiver arrangement to take a pulsed form including a plurality of third periods in which the radio signal is received by the receiver arrangement separated by fourth periods in which the radio receiver does not receive the radio signal, wherein the first and second controllers are synchronised such that the second periods are synchronised with the third periods, at the radio signal receiver arrangement such that the pulsed signal receivType: GrantFiled: April 4, 2014Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: Kirintec LimitedInventor: Roy Peter Peers-Smith
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Patent number: 9584350Abstract: An electronic jamming circuit and method used to place a protective area around a person or vehicle so that an explosive device cannot be triggered are described. A wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) device in proximity to an explosive device is prevented from being triggered by a WCDMA communication by disruption of the ability of the WCDMA device to synchronize with, and thus cannot decipher, the communication. The jammer device may operate by forcing timing circuits in the WCDMA device to lock onto a jamming signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2010Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: Liberty UniversityInventors: Michael Anthony Maiuzzo, Ronald Sones
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Patent number: 9533760Abstract: This invention relates to capturing and displaying images and/or data received from a manned, or, more typically, an unmanned aerial drone. More particularly, the invention relates to a system of sensors mounted on an aerial drone and display systems in addition to transmission and reception components associated with the sensors and display systems respectively whereby images and/or data captured by the sensors can be transmitted to, received by, and viewed on single and multiple monitor display systems.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2016Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: CRANE-COHASSET HOLDINGS, LLCInventor: David Wagreich
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Patent number: 9525466Abstract: A method of cancelling interference of a terminal is disclosed. The method includes receiving interference parameter configuration information including a transmission timing of interference parameter information indicating a restricted set of a plurality of interference parameters to be used by one or more interference base stations associated with the terminal and interference parameter release information including a transmission timing of an indicator indicating release of the interference parameter information, receiving the interference parameter information according to the interference parameter configuration information, performing interference cancellation using the received interference parameter information, attempting detection of the indicator according to the interference parameter release information, and performing the interference cancellation without the received interference parameter information or suspending the interference cancellation when the indicator is detected.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2015Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Kunil Yum, Hyungtae Kim, Hyunho Lee
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Patent number: 9473268Abstract: A transmission frame generating device includes a control information signal generator and a frame former. The control information signal generator generates a modulation method information signal indicating a modulation method of a data signal and an error correction method information signal indicating an error correction method of the data signal. The frame former forms the transmission frame by repeating and discretely arranging the same modulation method information signal on a first multiple of a plurality of subcarriers on a frequency axis and by repeating and discretely arranging the same error correction method information signal on a second multiple of the plurality of the subcarriers on the frequency axis.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2014Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Yutaka Murakami, Katsuaki Abe, Masayuki Orihashi, Akihiko Matsuoka