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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7782256 | Enhanced passive coherent location techniques to track and identify UAVs, UCAVs, MAVs, and other objects A system and technique is described which has the capability to track and identify, in real time, various aircraft and objects including Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles (UCAVs), and Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs). The system uses a com... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7777675 | Deployable passive broadband aircraft tracking In a first, preferred embodiment of the present invention, integrated tracking is provided using passive broadband. The invention takes the system for deployable passive broadband detection and extends it by incorporating the capability to decode position for ADS-B,... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7739167 | Automated management of airport revenues A solution is described which provides an airport with the tools to accurately manage all sources of airside revenues, including operational revenues and capital programs. The system of the present invention relies on the acquisition of any and all data related to t... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7667647 | Extension of aircraft tracking and positive identification from movement areas into non-movement areas At most airports, responsibility of air traffic control starts and stops at the entrance or exit to the runway movement areas, which are taxiways and runways. In the non-movement areas, such as hangers, ramps, and aprons, aircraft movements and separation are no lon... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7612716 | Correlation of flight track data with other data sources A method and apparatus for providing live display of aircraft flight information obtains aircraft data from at least two data sources selected from aircraft position and flight information from an ASDI (aircraft situational awareness display to industry) data source... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7576695 | Multilateration enhancements for noise and operations management Multilateration techniques are used to provide accurate aircraft tracking data for aircraft on the ground and in the vicinity of an airport. From this data, aircraft noise and operations management may be enhanced. Aircraft noise may be calculated virtually using tr... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7495612 | Method and apparatus to improve ADS-B security Security of ADS-B transmissions is improved in a first embodiment to detect position spoofing. The annunciated position source may then be compared with the derived source and a determination is made regarding the difference between the results. Any position differe... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7477193 | Method and system for elliptical-based surveillance A method and system are provided for performing elliptical-based and hybrid surveillance, performing false target detection and resolution, and performing integrity monitoring using one or more receiving and transmitting elements time synchronized to a common precis... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7437250 | Airport pavement management system The AirScene™ Pavement Management System of the present invention automatically tracks data required to determine various factors in an assessment of current and future pavement maintenance needs and utilizes this data to quantify the pavement damage caused by eac... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7429950 | Method and apparatus to extend ADS performance metrics A method and system are provided for measuring and monitoring performance metrics of a non-ADS-B tracking system and generating performance metrics for the non-ADS-B tracking system in terms of ADS-B equivalent performance metrics. An aircraft transmits various tran... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7423590 | Method and apparatus for improving ADS-B security Security of ADS-B transmissions is improved in a first embodiment to detect position spoofing. The annunciated position source may then be compared with the derived source and a determination is made regarding the difference between the results. Any position differe... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7375683 | Use of geo-stationary satellites to augment wide area multilateration synchronization The present invention improves WAMLAT Timing Availability by using timing from one or more of a variety of sources. These sources include unaugmented SATNAV timing, from GPS or/and GALILEO, GEO timing from pseudo SATNAV signals, additional GEO timing for non SATNAV ... | 05/20/2008 |
