Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7142850 | Radio estimation method of a mobile station velocity The invention relates to a method of estimating the speed (v) of a mobile station connected by a radio transmission channel to a remote station, said method including the following successive steps: receiving and filtering a transmission signal (s) to obtain a measu... | 11/28/2006 |
| 6823177 | Radio station with circularly polarised antennas A radio station including two antennas combined with respective first and second hybrid transmission polarization couplers is disclosed. Each antenna is arranged to generate two orthogonal electric field components in response to two respective quadrature radio sign... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6754264 | Digital equalization method, and a radio communication receiver implementing such method Discrete symbols of transmitted signals, forming part of the components of a vector D of size N, are estimated from a vector Y of L digital samples of a received signal. The vector Y may be broken down into Y=AD+YN, where A is a matrix of size L×N previo... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6501965 | Radio communication base station antenna The base station has an antenna system comprising a housing for fixing it to a support and one or several radiating slots. It is designed for transmitting, in a first direction substantially perpendicular to the front surface of the housing, an electric f... | 12/31/2002 |
| 5878033 | Process and equipment for broadcasting messages to mobile radio communication stations The messages are broadcast successively and at regular intervals to mobile stations on a particular radio channel of the TDMA network. They comprise service messages and schedule messages respectively associated with successive schedule periods, each sche... | 03/02/1999 |