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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120068877 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF PROVIDING A TCAS PRIMARY RADAR Systems and related methods are delineated for employing a TCAS to provide a radar function for a UAS. One such system comprises a TCAS having at least a transceiver and an antenna, and a processor coupled to the transceiver for receiving signals generated from receipt ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120038501 | SELF-CONFIGURING UNIVERSAL ACCESS TRANSCEIVER Techniques are described that allow information to be acquired by an ADS-B system of an aircraft without the installation of ADS-B dedicated flight crew controls or wired data interfaces in the aircraft. In one or more implementations, a receiver is associated with the ... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120001788 | TRANSPONDER DECODER An Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) system for an aircraft and method of automatically harmonizing a transponder squawk code and an ADS-B system such that a squawk code broadcast by the ADS-B system matches the transponder squawk code, includes transmi... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110298649 | NAVIGATION, IDENTIFICATION, AND COLLISION AVOIDANCE ANTENNA SYSTEMS Antenna embodiments are illustrated that are particularly suited for use in aircraft navigation, identification and collision avoidance systems. An exemplary antenna embodiment operates about a center wavelength and in association with a ground plane and comprises first... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110267216 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING ANTENNA CALIBRATION Systems and methods for providing antenna calibration can be used in a variety of applications. A method of calibrating an antenna array for use in a traffic advisory system or traffic alert and collision avoidance system provide a mechanism that renders complex combini... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110221626 | HOUSING FOR AIRCRAFT MOUNTED COMPONENTS A traffic collision avoidance system device is provided. The device includes a radome having an antenna contained therein. A chassis is bonded to the radome by a layer of bonding material about the chassis periphery. A housing is provided having a substantially flat bot... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110169684 | System for sensing aircraft and other objects A system for sensing aircraft and other objects uses bistatic radar with spread-spectrum signals transmitted from remotely located sources such as aircraft flying at very high altitudes or from a satellite constellation. A bistatic spread spectrum radar system using a s... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110148690 | SELF-CONFIGURING ADS-B SYSTEM Techniques are described that allow information to be acquired by an ADS-B system of an aircraft without the installation of ADS-B dedicated flight crew controls or wired data interfaces in the aircraft. In one or more implementations, a receiver is associated with the ... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110001653 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO IMPROVE THE ABILITY TO DECODE ADS-B SQUITTERS THROUGH MULTIPLE PROCESSING PATHS A system is delineated comprising a TCAS receiver having one or more filters, one or more amplifiers and one or more A/D converters, the one or more A/D converters for digitizing analog data into digital data for decoding one or more of an ADS-B message and a TIS-B mess... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110001654 | PROCESS AND A DEVICE FOR DETECTING AIRCRAFTS CIRCULATING IN AN AIR SPACE SURROUNDING AN AIRPLANE A process and a device for detecting aircrafts circulating in an air space surrounding an airplane is disclosed. The device (1A) comprises means (2, 3) for detecting an aircraft circulating in the air space surrounding the airplane and, in case of a detect... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100315281 | AIRSPACE RISK MITIGATION SYSTEM An airspace risk mitigation system includes a plurality of airspace input sources, an airspace data fusion and sensor coordination system, a communications link, and a risk mitigation support system. The airspace input sources includes a radar for generating radar data ... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100283661 | Observability of unmanned aircraft and aircraft without electrical systems The present invention relates to a lightweight beacon system, affixable, for example, to UAS, aircraft without electrical systems, airport surface vehicles, skydivers, gliders, and/or balloons. The lightweight beacon system uses a small, low-powered, portable radio beac... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100259439 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A REFERENCE SIGNAL FOR PHASE CALIBRATION OF A SYSTEM A two-element array antenna system includes a first antenna element and a second antenna element. The first and second antenna elements respectively include first and second frequency multipliers. A transmitting, receiving, and processing (TRP) system is coupled to the ... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100149019 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADS-B VALIDATION, ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MULTILATERATION, AND ELLIPTICAL SURVEILLANCE A system and method are disclosed to track aircraft or other vehicles using techniques including multilateration and elliptical surveillance. Unlike conventional approaches that use time difference of arrival for multilateration at a fixed set of reception points, this ... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100109936 | AIRCRAFT ANTI-COLLISION SYSTEM AND METHOD A system and method for avoiding aircraft collisions wherein a ground based monitoring station serves as one port of a wireless LAN operating according to a wireless communications protocol compatible with the IEEE 802.16e standard and derivatives thereof. A mobile unit... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100103022 | AUTOMATIC DEPENDENT SURVEILLANCE-BROADCAST (ADS-B) NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE, GROUND STATION AND SITUATION DISPLAY SOFTWARE DEPLOYMENT AND EVALUATION ACTIVITY A method and system that receives and processes ADS-B data from one or more aircraft is disclosed. The system may include one or more ground stations that receives data from one or more aircraft and converts the received aircraft ADS-B data to XML format, determines the... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100094484 | INTEGRATING COMMUNICATION AND SURVEILLANCE An aircraft control unit has modules for interfacing with various systems of an aircraft to integrate control of the systems. The modules include a communication module configured to be coupled to a communication system of the aircraft and a surveillance module configur... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100085236 | TRANSPONDER-BASED BEACON TRANSMITTER FOR SEE AND AVOID OF UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES A transponder-based beacon transmitter system in an unmanned aerial vehicle is provided. The transponder-based beacon transmitter system comprises a global positioning system interface communicatively coupled to receive position information indicative of a current locat... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100052973 | Device and Method for Monitoring the Location of Aircraft on the Ground The invention relates to a monitoring device and method allowing surveillance of the location and the displacement of an aircraft in relation to aircraft and/or craft on an airport displacement zone. The invention is a system cooperative wi... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20090219189 | GROUND COLLISION INSTRUMENT FOR AIRCRAFT AND MARINE VEHICLES Radar return processing systems and methods are operable to process radar information when an installation vehicle is operating in proximity to a surface area of interest. An exemplary embodiment reduces energy of an output pulse emitted from a radar system; receives a ... | 09/03/2009 |
| 20090195436 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OBTAINING AIRCRAFT STATE DATA FROM MULTIPLE DATA LINKS Systems and methods are delineated that may provide for a system for use in a merging and spacing application for an aircraft. An exemplary system may comprise a TCAS and a processor for executing the merging and spacing application using ADS-B data and data received by... | 08/06/2009 |
| 20090184862 | Systems and methods for multi-sensor collision avoidance An embodiment of the present invention provides a collision avoidance system for a host aircraft comprising a plurality of sensors for providing data about other aircraft that may be employed to determine one or more parameters to calculate future positions of the other... | 07/23/2009 |
| 20090073024 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATICALLY DISABLING A TCAS BROADCAST Systems and methods for automatically disabling the TCAS Broadcast when aircraft join up in formation. A Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) determines if the aircraft is approaching formation flight with other aircraft or flying in formation with other aircraft a... | 03/19/2009 |
| 20090027254 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO IMPROVE THE ABILITY TO DECODE ADS-B SQUITTERS THROUGH MULTIPLE PROCESSING PATHS A system is delineated comprising a TCAS receiver having one or more filters, one or more amplifiers and one or more A/D converters, the one or more A/D converters for digitizing analog data into digital data for decoding one or more of an ADS-B message and a TIS-B mess... | 01/29/2009 |
| 20080284637 | DIGITAL TAS TRANSMITTER AND RECEIVER SYSTEMS AND METHODS A directional receiver is provided for an aircraft collision avoidance system. The receiver may include input channels that are configured to receive uncompressed linear analog signals from antenna elements that are arranged within a predetermined antenna element geomet... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080186221 | SURFACE VEHICLE TRANSPONDER Systems and methods for alerting surrounding aircraft if a ground-based unit is a threat. One example system is located on a ground-based unit. The system includes a position sensor that senses position of the ground-based unit, a memory that stores predefined threat zo... | 08/07/2008 |
| 20080180310 | PANORAMIC WARNING SYSTEM FOR HELICOPTERS A panoramic warning system for helicopters, for the purpose of detecting obstacles and the proximity of the ground by using a plurality of radar sensors connected to the fuselage structure of the helicopter and which operate on varying wavelengths, the signals of which,... | 07/31/2008 |
| 20080174472 | Integrated avionics system There is provided an avionics system that provides several avionics functions within a single LRU. In one embodiment, the system comprises a software-configurable RF assembly, one or more processor assemblies that are configured to provide multiple TAWS/TCAS/Mode S/ADS-... | 07/24/2008 |
| 20080150784 | ADS-B RADAR SYSTEM A system and method of using a standard ADS-B transmitter and encoder to identify targets to provide a collision avoidance system, wherein the method includes the steps of providing a standard ADS-B transmitter and encoder, a phase modulator including a digital synthesi... | 06/26/2008 |
| 20080106456 | MODE S TRANSPONDER TRANSMISSION SIGNAL DECODER AND MODE S TRANSPONDER TRANSMISSION SIGNAL DECODING METHOD There are provided a differential processing unit which performs differential processing for a Mode S transponder transmission signal, an auto correlation arithmetic operation unit which performs an arithmetic operation of a degree of auto correlation between an increas... | 05/08/2008 |
| 20080068250 | DISTRIBUTED AND CABLE REDUCED TCAS A direction finding antenna system for determining the relative bearing of a second aircraft from a first aircraft in conjunction with a Traffic Alert Collision Avoidance System (TCAS). The system includes a first antenna and a second antenna located on a top surface of... | 03/20/2008 |
| 20080030393 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REAL TIME PULSE PROCESSING IN ATCRBS/MODE-S TRANSPONDERS An apparatus for processing pulses in ATCRBS/Mode S interrogations includes an antenna for receiving a radio frequency interrogation signal. The radio frequency interrogation signal is downconverted by a downconverter to an intermediate frequency signal. The intermediat... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20070222666 | COLLISION RISK PREVENTION EQUIPMENT FOR AIRCRAFT This equipment is of the TCAS type. In order to improve its integrity and the reliability of its measurements, its computing unit is provided with a cross-checking function carrying out the comparison between two values of a same parameter, for example a relative distan... | 09/27/2007 |
| 20070222664 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CORRELATING RADAR POSITION DATA WITH TARGET IDENTIFICATION DATA, AND DETERMINING TARGET POSITION USING ROUND TRIP DELAY DATA A method and system for using a single transceiver to correlate radar position data with target identification data. Two transceivers, operating in round trip delay mode, can be used to provide two possible positions for a given target when radar coverage is lost or una... | 09/27/2007 |
| 20070210953 | Aircraft collision sense and avoidance system and method A collision sense and avoidance system and method and an aircraft, such as an Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) and/or Remotely Piloted Vehicle (RPV), including the collision sense and avoidance system. The collision sense and avoidance system includes an image interrogator id... | 09/13/2007 |
| 20070159378 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RADAR TIME SENSOR Methods and apparatus to detect and measure energy transmission or azimuth angle information from a radar system at one or more known or measured azimuth angles, determine, for each azimuth angle, the time corresponding to the center of the beam of the energy transmissi... | 07/12/2007 |
| 20070139252 | System and method for monitoring airspace A method for receiving data corresponding to an aircraft in a monitored airspace, comparing the data to rules, each rule corresponding to a threat posed by the aircraft and generating a threat indication based on at least one of the rules triggered by the data. A system... | 06/21/2007 |
| 20070115165 | 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 longer ... | 05/24/2007 |
| 20070080849 | Digital DPSK demodulation method and system An aircraft transponder comprises an antenna for receiving an RF signal a downconverter coupled to the antenna for downconverting the RF signal to an IF signal, an analog-to-digital converter coupled to the downconverter to digitize the IF signal to produce a digital si... | 04/12/2007 |
| 20070080848 | Systems and methods for enhancing situational awareness of an aircraft on the ground A delineated collision avoidance system may comprise a processor for executing one or more instructions that implement one or more functions of the collision avoidance system, a transceiver for transmitting information from and receiving information for the host aircraf... | 04/12/2007 |
