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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184673 | Wideband frequency hopping spread spectrum receivers and related methods Ultra-wideband frequency hopping spread spectrum (UWB-FHSS) solutions are used for receive architectures. These UWB-FHSS receive architectures can receive signals transmitted over an extremely wide bandwidth while using a relatively slow analog-to-digital converter ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182183 | Systems and methods for securing components Systems and methods for securing seats and other components to a seat track that may be implemented to provide flush symmetric and asymmetric seat track fitting assemblies that accommodate variances in the height of seat track extrusions. A component may be secured ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8149894 | Wideband frequency hopping spread spectrum transceivers and related methods Ultra-wideband frequency hopping spread spectrum (UWB-FHSS) solutions are used for transceiver architectures. These UWB-FHSS transceiver architectures can transmit and accurately digitize frequency hops over an extremely wide bandwidth while using a relatively slow ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8121222 | Systems and methods for construction of time-frequency surfaces and detection of signals Systems and methods for detecting and/or identifying signals that employ streaming processing to generate time-frequency surfaces by sampling a datastream according to a temporal structure that may be chosen as needed. The sampled datastream may be correlated with a... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8081946 | Interference cancellation for reconfigurable direct RF bandpass sampling interference cancellation Sampling may be employed to cancel an analog input radio frequency (RF) signal by using an upconverted analog cancellation RF signal to cancel the analog input RF signal at the sample instances. At least two sampling paths may be employed, a signal path and a cancel... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8078130 | Systems and methods for interference cancellation Systems and methods for interference cancellation in which a first signal having a first frequency may be cancelled with a second frequency having a second and different (e.g., lower) frequency by employing sampling to cancel the first signal with the separate signa... | 12/13/2011 |
| 7894948 | Systems and methods for coordination of entities and/or communicating location information Systems and methods that may be employed to communicate location information between two or more aerial vehicles or other types of vehicles or other entities, and/or that may be used to facilitate coordinated operations of two or more such entities. In one example, ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7849283 | Linear combiner weight memory A linear combiner weight memory. Various embodiments of the weight memory provide a weight bank and control logic. The weight bank is operable to couple with a data stream and may include four registers. The first register is operable to store a first in-phase weigh... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7809880 | Systems and methods for managing tape drive operation Systems and methods for managing operation of multiple tape drives in a way so that incoming data is spread or distributed across the multiple tape drives and which may be implemented in one example to continuously accept for recording without interruption from one ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7808995 | Methods and systems for relaying data packets One or more nodes of a network may be configured to provide substitute header information for insertion into a received data packet and then to retransmit the data packet with the modified header information to other network destinations. One or more other downstrea... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7769904 | Extensible binary mark-up language for efficient XML-based data communications and related systems and methods An extensible binary mark-up language is disclosed that is compatible with existing XML standards yet provides significantly improved efficiencies for XML-based data storage and communications, particularly for narrow and low bandwidth communication media. A corresp... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7708325 | Systems and methods for rotation of objects Systems and methods for rotating objects that shift the center of gravity of an object, such as a wing assembly, from a position outside the rotation axis area of the object to a position within the rotation axis area of the object. In one example, a material handli... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7626546 | Methods and systems for detection and location of multiple emitters Systems and methods for detection and geolocation of multiple emitters that are emitting RF signal energy on a common frequency, and that may be implemented to separate, geolocate, and/or determine the number of emitters (e.g., radio users) emitting on a common RF f... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7603656 | Methods and systems for modeling concurrent behavior Methods and systems for modeling concurrent behavior in a sequential programming environment using sequential-execution languages to describe and model multiple different processes which are running simultaneously. ... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7587441 | Systems and methods for weighted overlap and add processing Systems and methods for providing a weighted overlap and add (WOLA) architecture and/or for providing polyphase WOLA FFT processing that may be employed, for example, for separation or channelization of closely-spaced frequencies of an input signal. A WOLA architect... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7555469 | Reconfigurable neural network systems and methods utilizing FPGAs having packet routers Systems and methods are disclosed for forming reconfigurable neural networks with interconnected FPGAs each having a packet router. Neural network nodes are formed within the FPGAs and connections between nodes within an FPGA and connections to nodes external to the... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7545859 | Adaptive channel equalization technique and method for wideband passive digital receivers An adaptive channel equalization technique and method for wideband passive receivers is disclosed that reduces and tends to minimize distortions caused by circuitry within passive digital receivers. This equalization architecture provides an adaptive equalization so... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7535420 | Method and apparatus for signal tracking utilizing universal algorithm Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for signal tracking utilizing a universal algorithm. The method and apparatus generally include acquiring a signal measurement corresponding to a signal emitted from an emitter, forming a measuremen... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7496158 | Swept bandpass filter frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) receiver and related method A swept bandpass filter for receiving frequency varying input signals is disclosed. More particularly, a swept bandpass filter frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) receiver and related method are disclosed that provide an efficient solution for FMCW signals. T... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7489745 | Reconfigurable direct RF bandpass sampling receiver and related methods Reconfigurable direct radio frequency (RF) bandpass sampling receivers are disclosed that provide direct RF sampling of an input signal spectrum passed through a bandpass filter that is tunable over a wide frequency range of interest and that is sampled based on the... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7456788 | Method and apparatus for reducing geolocation ambiguity in signal tracking A method and apparatus for reducing geolocation ambiguity in signal tracking. The method and apparatus generally include acquiring a first and a second set of geolocations and comparing the sets to reduce ambiguous geolocations. Such a configuration enables accurate... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7444454 | Systems and methods for interconnection of multiple FPGA devices Application Specific Integrated Circuit (“ASIC”) devices, such as Field Programmable Gate Arrays (“FPGAs”), may be interconnected using serial I/O connections, such as high speed multi-gigabit serial transceiver (“MGT”) connections. For example, serial I... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7441158 | Embedded hardware debugging tool and associated method A multi-platform script language interpreter designed for hardware debug is disclosed along with related methods. In part, the invention is configured to act as an embedded hardware debugging software tool for embedded hardware operating on platforms with internal h... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7436912 | Nyquist folded bandpass sampling receivers and related methods Nyquist folded bandpass sampling receivers are disclosed that utilize wideband filters and modulated sampling clocks to identify received signals. In operation, multiple Nyquist zones are allowed to fold on top of each other during sampling. Because the RF sampling ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436911 | Nyquist folded bandpass sampling receivers with narrow band filters for UWB pulses and related methods Nyquist folded bandpass sampling receivers are disclosed that utilize narrow band filters in parallel with wideband filters to enhance reception of ultra wideband (UWB) pulses. The addition of the narrow band filter facilitates the reception of ultra wideband signal... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436910 | Direct bandpass sampling receivers with analog interpolation filters and related methods Reconfigurable direct radio frequency (RF) bandpass sampling receivers are disclosed that utilize analog interpolation filters to improve performance. The addition of the analog interpolation filter to the bandpass sampling receiver allows the quantization clock to ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7426599 | Systems and methods for writing data with a FIFO interface Application Specific Integrated Circuit (“ASIC”) devices, such as Field Programmable Gate Arrays (“FPGAs”), may be interconnected using serial I/O connections, such as high speed multi-gigabit serial transceiver (“MGT”) connections. For example, serial I... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7426378 | Separation of cochannel FM signals Multiple cochannel FM signals received, for example, in an overloaded signal environment may be separated using parallel interference cancellation techniques. ... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7414582 | Method and apparatus for all-polarization direction finding Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for all-polarization direction finding. The method and apparatus generally include acquiring measurements at least partially corresponding to an emitted signal and generated utilizing a blind signal... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7401487 | Apparatus and methods for material fabrication Apparatus and methods for fabricating materials by die-forming that may be implemented to form a joggle in a bendable workpiece by securing the workpiece to each of at least two respective adjacent working areas, and then by displacing at least one of the at least t... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7295296 | Portable target locator apparatus and method of use A portable target locator for use by a ground observer to accurately determine the location of a target and transmit location information and firing instructions to an unmanned vehicle so the unmanned vehicle can locate the target and perform an operation based on t... | 11/13/2007 |