Communications: directive radio wave systems and devices (e.g., radar, radio navigation) inventions 06/08

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 synthesizer, radio-frequency electronics, antennas, and a radar transceiver; synthesizing... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20080150785 - Method and device for determining a decision height during an autonomous approach of an aircraft: s

20080150786 - Combined imaging and distance monitoring for vehicular applications: Vehicular arrangement for obtaining information about objects exterior to the vehicle includes at least one combined imaging and distance measuring system arranged along an edge or a side of the vehicle, each combined system including an infrared illuminator for directing infrared illumination outward from the vehicle, an imager sensitive to... Agent: Brian Roffe, Esq

20080150787 - Multiple sensor processing: A method of multiple sensor processing includes receiving, at a first sensor system, track data from a second sensor system, comparing track data from the first sensor system to the track data from the second sensor system to determine if a track will be within a field of view of... Agent: Raytheon Company C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20080150788 - Systems and methods for tagging, tracking, targeting, and termination of mobile targets: A system for tagging and locating a target that may include a projectile frangible on impact, a RF tagging system located in the projectile, and a bonding agent located in the projectile for bonding the RF tagging system to the target. The RF tagging system may include a RF circuitry,... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20080150789 - Radar level gauge system: A radar level gauge system for determining a filling level of a filling material in a tank is disclosed. The system comprises: a wave guide arranged within the tank; a signaling unit arranged outside the tank, and comprising a transmitter for transmitting measuring signals towards the surface of the filling... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.a.

20080150790 - Apparatus and method for angle-resolved determination of the distance and speed of an object: An apparatus includes a plurality of sensor modules that are disposed at spacings with respect to one another, each sensor module having a local oscillator device. The oscillator device generates an oscillator signal that is passed on to a transmit/receive device, and the oscillator signal is radiated. The transmit/receive device... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080150791 - Radar controlled automatic target illumination system: A radar controlled automatic target illumination system for marine and other moving vessels. A radar system operably connected to the vessel produces an electronic signal corresponding to an azimuth of a target relative to, and in proximity to the vessel. An array of lights are connected to the vessel, each... Agent: Charles J. Prescott, P.a.

20080150792 - Systems and methods for monitoring transponder performance: There are presented various approaches to monitor performance of RF systems and circuitry such as those used in aircraft transponders. Such monitoring may be designed to verify operational performance of transponders as set forth by FAA regulations, or may be used to periodically or continually monitor integrity of transponder performance.... Agent: Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP

20080150793 - Pulse-coded remote calibration of an active phased array system: A method for remotely calibrating an active phased array system, and more particularly an antenna, (APA), used in transmission and/or in reception, comprising transmitting and/or receiving a set of calibration pulses (RCP, TCP). Contrarily to methods known from the prior art, in which a reference signal is transmitted together with... Agent: Clark & Brody

20080150794 - Weight calculation method, weight calculation device, adaptive array antenna, and radar device: A weight calculation method begins by storing a target reflection signal of a radar pulse received via an antenna in cells corresponding to positions along with a reception timing for a plurality of processing range cells having lengths equivalent to prescribed ranges on a time axis. The method continues by... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080150795 - Radar device: To provide a radar device which employs fast Fourier transform in a beam combining process to reduce the operation amount, the radar device including: a Fourier transform section that extracts a received signal that is obtained from waves radiated from a same transmitting element and received by a receiving element,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080150796 - Supporting an assisted satellite based positioning: For supporting a satellite based positioning of a mobile arrangement (30,40) with assistance data, a communication network converts parameters of a dedicated orbit model describing a movement of a satellite (50,60), which dedicated orbit model is defined for a particular satellite based positioning system, into parameters of a common orbit... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080150797 - Navigational signal tracking in low power mode: The present invention provides systems and methods for navigational signal tracking in low power mode to conserve the power of handheld navigation receivers. In an embodiment, the receiver cycles between sleep and wakeup states. During the sleep state, most of the components of the receiver are powered off to conserve... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP Ip Prosecution Department

20080150798 - Beam steering control for mobile antennas: A method and apparatus for steering a beam from a phased array antenna mounted on a mobile platform. Rate sensors mounted on the phased array antenna are used to update lower bandwidth data from the mobile platform, resulting in improved pointing performance.... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP

20080150799 - Polarization control system and method for an antenna array: In one embodiment, a polarization control system for an antenna array comprises a number of first and second antenna elements and a beam forming network. The first antenna elements have a direction of polarization that is different from a direction of polarization of the second antenna elements. The beam forming... Agent: Baker Botts LLP

20080150801 - Method, system and apparatus for determining antenna weighting for transmit diversity: A method, system and apparatus for determining at least one relative characteristic of a transmit diversity transmitter based on at least one quality indicator based on signals received on the plurality of antennas. In some embodiments of the invention, the relative characteristic may be a relative power or amplitude ratio... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080150800 - Phased array antenna apparatus: A phased array antenna apparatus includes: an antenna array portion having a plurality of antenna elements (2) disposed at equal intervals, and a plurality of phase shifters (3), each phase shifter being connected between the adjacent antenna elements and changing a phase of a transmission signal; a phase shifter control... Agent: Cheng Law Group, Pllc

20080150802 - Phased array antenna systems and methods: Systems and methods are disclosed herein providing an improved approach to phased array antenna communications. In one example, an antenna system includes a digital beamformer adapted to receive a plurality of input signals and selectively replicate and weight the input signals to provide a plurality of digital subarray signals. Digital... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080150803 - Apparatus and method for communication: There is provided a communication method including: generating a channel estimated value for each antenna by performing channel estimation using a received signal by each antenna; calculating reception weights by which subcarriers assigned the received signal of each antenna are to be multiplied using a set of the channel estimated... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080150804 - Performance and power management in direction of arrival determination by utilizing sensor information: A system for enhancing the performance of a wireless communication device (WCD) while executing a direction of arrival (DoA) estimation. The performance may be improved through device management, and may include the collection of information from one or more sensors installed within the WCD. The sensor information may initially be... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.l.p.

20080143579 - Smart chaff: Missile deflector systems for protecting a vehicle from threats that use an infrared sensor for guidance are disclosed. An exemplary missile deflector system can include, for example, a radiation source and one or more deployable smart chaff elements. The light source and the one or more deployable smart chaff elements... Agent: Kurt A. Luther Honeywell International, Inc.

20080143580 - Jammer detection and suppression for wireless communication: Techniques for detecting and suppressing jammers are described. A receiver may perform post-FFT jammer detection and pre-FFT jammer suppression. The receiver may transform an input signal to obtain a frequency-domain signal and may detect for jammers in the input signal based on the frequency-domain signal. The receiver may determine powers... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080143581 - Scanning and projection systems and methods: Systems and methods described herein provide scanning, processing and projection capabilities for areas of interest. An emitter emits signals toward an area of interest. Reflected signals are received by a receiver and processed into a resulting image. The resulting image can be projected back upon a surface associated with the... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, Pllc

20080143587 - Multiple input multiple output radar system: In the apparatus a RADAR transmitter and receiver array are provided which see different aspects of a target by virtue of their configuration. The transmitter transmits RADAR signals based on mutually orthogonal codes. There are two preferred forms of transmitter and receiver arrays.... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080143588 - System and method for synthesizing data in a radar system: A system for synthesizing data received from a weather radar system includes a digital signal processor, a data synthesizer, a convolution filter, and data storage. The digital signal processor digitizes reflectivity data from a radar antenna. The data synthesizer generates an M×N matrix for a digitized reflectivity data point and... Agent: Maynard Cooper & Gale, Pc

20080143582 - Method, and apparatus for measuring distance using radio frequency signal: Provided are a method, apparatus, and medium for measuring a distance using a radio frequency (RF) signal. The method of measuring a distance includes setting the transmitter power of an RF signal of a signal generating module to a minimum so as to measure the longest distance when no obstacle... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080143583 - Method and device for correcting non-ideal intermediate-frequency signals in distance sensing device according to the fmcw principle: In fill-level measuring devices that operate according to the FMCW principle, nonlinearity of the sensor signal depending on the time can result in measuring inaccuracies. The fill-level measuring device that operates according to the FMCW principle comprises a correction unit for the mathematical correction of the amplitude values or for... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080143584 - Method and system for determining the distance between an rfid reader and an rfid tag using phase: Embodiments of the present invention include a method of determining a distance between an RFID reader and an RFID tag comprising transmitting two or more signals having two or more corresponding frequencies from said reader and measuring a phase difference between backscattered signals from said tag. A distance between the... Agent: Fountainhead Law Group, Pc

20080143585 - Methods and systems for interferometric cross track phase calibration: A method to compensate for variances in signal path delays for a plurality of radar return processing channels is described. The method comprises providing a signal in the signal path between an antenna and a corresponding receiver of each radar return processing channel, receiving a reflection of the provided signal... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080143586 - Receiver circuit, electronic instrument, and signal processing method: In a portable phone, a signal received by a GPS antenna passes through a SAW filter and is amplified by an LNA. An addition section adds a cancellation signal generated by a cancellation signal generation section to the amplified signal to cancel noise superimposed on the received signal.... Agent: Global Ip Counselors, LLP

20080143589 - Downstream broad beam diversity with interference cancellation: Downstream satellite communication systems and methods are disclosed according to embodiments of the invention. According to embodiments of the invention, a composite signal may be received by a subscriber terminal that includes at least a first signal that is transmitted from a first user through a first satellite, a second... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP Viasat, Inc (client #017018)

20080143592 - Relative positioning system using satellite: A position measurement system for measuring displacement of an observation station viewed from a reference station by receiving radio waves from satellites by these stations, and performing relative position measurement between the stations, having: a short period displacement measurement section for measuring a short period displacement component in each of... Agent: Kusner & Jaffe Highland Place Suite 310

20080143593 - System and method for providing asset management and tracking capabilities: A system for providing asset management and tracking capabilities of a tractor-trailer system includes a trailer device coupled to a trailer. A tractor device is coupled to a tractor and configured to communicate with the trailer device using a first communication protocol. A hand held device is configured to communicate... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20080143590 - Keeping accurate time for a hybrid gps receiver and mobile phone when powered off: A hybrid navigation satellite receiver and mobile telephone uses only two crystal oscillators. One that operates a master clock around 27-MHz and that consumes milliwatts of power. The other oscillator consumes only microwatts of power and operates continuously on battery power at about 32-KHz. Only the second, low frequency oscillator... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080143591 - Keeping accurate time for a hybrid gps receiver and mobile phone when powered off: A hybrid navigation satellite receiver and mobile telephone uses only two crystal oscillators. One that operates a master clock around 27-MHz and that consumes milliwatts of power. The other oscillator consumes only microwatts of power and operates continuously on battery power at about 32-KHz. Only the second, low frequency oscillator... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080143594 - Ephemeris download from weak signals: The present invention provides systems and methods for downloading navigation data to a satellite receiver under weak signal conditions. In an embodiment, the receiver uses a tracking algorithm to estimate the Doppler frequency and rate of change of the Doppler frequency to compensate the phases of the I/Q samples from... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP Ip Prosecution Department

20080143597 - Method and apparatus for controlling a frequency source: A method is provided for controlling a clock for use in a frequency source. In the method a time bias is determined by determining the Accumulated Doppler Range of a signal source at different time intervals. The drift of a local clock is determined by determining the difference between the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080143595 - Method and system for a data interface for aiding a satellite positioning system receiver: The invention described herein relates to aiding a Satellite Positioning System (SPS) receiver of a platform with a data interface to the platform data. The platform, for example, could be a vehicle, ship, aircraft, or a pedestrian. The SPS receiver would be used to track the location of the platform.... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080143598 - Methods for improving computational efficiency in a global positioning satellite receiver: A method reduces consumption of computational resources in a satellite signal receiver. The method includes segmenting a sample of a received global positioning base band vector, segmenting a sample of a replica code/acquisition signal into segments corresponding in length to the segments of the base band vector, circularly correlating segments... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck, LLP Chase Tower

20080143596 - System and method for improving gps signal processing in a mobile phone by using mems: A receiver (R) for use in a user mobile terminal (U) in a satellite positioning system having a constellation of satellites (S) in which the receiver (R) acquires data from a satellite related to the position of the mobile terminal (U). A MEMS device (M) is incorporated in the receiver... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080143599 - Processing method for obtaining and displaying a photograph location on digital photos: A capturing apparatus with a GPS module captures an image to obtain a digital photo and at the same time the GPS module provides longitude and latitude information. According to the longitude and latitude information, the capturing apparatus checks a location database to obtain information regarding the location where the... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080143600 - Method and system for the alignment of an earth station antenna with a satellite antenna: There is described a method for the alignment of an earth station antenna with a satellite antenna, wherein a reference signal, emitted by the earth station antenna is analyzed in a monitoring station, wherein the reference signal is used as a carrier for authentication information about the earth station.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080143601 - Butler matrix implementation: A novel implementation of a planar 4×4 RF Butler matrix layout is disclosed that permits, by moving the beam ports to the interior of the layout, for combining beam ports that are not disposed on the same side of the layout without the imposition of long delay times or crossover... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080143602 - Miniaturized orthogonal antenna system: A system for providing multiple antenna patterns comprises a first antenna element, a second antenna element, wherein the first and second antenna elements are coplanar and arranged orthogonally with respect to each other in the plane, and a feed circuit in communication with a signal feed line alternately connecting the... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080143603 - Method and device for trilateration using los link prediction and pre-measurement los path filtering: A method for trilateration may include receiving a signal via each of a plurality of LOS paths and predicting performance of each LOS path. The method may also include filtering out signals received via LOS paths with performance below a predetermined threshold value. The method may further include performing trilateration... Agent: Moore And Van Allen Pllc For Boeing

20080143604 - Tracking device that conserves power using a sleep mode when proximate to an anchor beacon: A method for tracking objects in a way that, conserves power resources. The method can establish a designed range defining a safe area based upon the broadcast signal of an anchor beacon. When the tracking device is within the designed range, the tracking device can be placed in a mode... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.a.

20080143605 - Radio frequency navigation using frequency response matching: A method for radio navigation may include predicting a frequency response for each of a multiplicity of possible device locations. The method may also include measuring a frequency response at an actual device location. The method may further include matching the measured frequency response to one of the predicted frequency... Agent: Moore And Van Allen Pllc For Boeing

20080136701 - Coordination of electronic counter measures: An electronic counter measures solution. Jamming signals are emitted towards a threat to improve chances of survival for at least two vehicles, which are physically separated from one another, however associated with one another in a group. Each of the at least two vehicles receives a wireless time reference signal... Agent: Venable LLP

20080136702 - Radar device: A radar device has a long range radar sensor having a first transmission and receiving section for transmitting and receiving radio wave to a first detection range and a first signal processing section for detecting an object existing in the first detection range; a short range radar sensor having a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080136703 - Equivalent time sampling radar: A transmission side is provided with a power control signal generation section 2 for generating a power control signal whose amplitude is variable in order to equalize a signal intensity of a received signal, and an amplification section 4 for controlling transmission power of a transmission signal of a pulse... Agent: Darby & Darby P.c.

20080136704 - Method and system for concatenation of radar pulses: A system and method are described for generating waveforms for use in radar and sonar systems. The system includes waveform generation circuitry a waveform generator and an up-conversion module. The waveform generator generates concatenated pulse waveforms at an IF band. In a given pulse repetition interval (PRI), the concatenated pulse... Agent: Raytheon Company C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20080136706 - Device for generation of format description messages of future messages relating to a satellite navigation system: A device is dedicated to generating messages relating to at least one satellite navigation system and to be sent to navigation receivers. This device comprises processor means responsible for generating “description” messages to be broadcast to the navigation receivers from a chosen date and comprising a description of a format... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080136705 - Object locator: There is disclosed an object locator system for obtaining information about the location of an individual, animal or moveable object, having a lightweight, attached object locator, that is present in a region served by a two-way paging system and a global positioning satellite system. The object locator may be selectively... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, Pc

20080136707 - Method and apparatus for generating device address of wireless local network: An apparatus for generating a device address of a wireless local network includes an alien beacon determination unit which determines whether a received beacon is an alien beacon; a zone identity management unit which compares an alien zone identity included in the received beacon with a zone identity of a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080136708 - Usn system using multi-channel having differential radio power and method of configuring the system: A Ubiquitous Sensor Network (USN) system using multi-channel having differential radio power and a method of configuring the USN system are provided. The USN system and the method include a sink node performing a communication with a sensor node using at least one or more frequency signal having differential outputs;... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080136709 - System and method for position determination by impulse radio: A system and a method for position determination by impulse radio using a first transceiver having a first clock providing a first reference signal and a second transceiver placed spaced from the first transceiver. The system determines the position of the second transceiver. The second transceiver has a second clock... Agent: Venable LLP

20080129584 - Method and apparatus for simultaneous synthetic aperture radar and moving target indication: Method and apparatus for simultaneous synthetic aperture radar and moving target detection. A plurality of independent radio frequency signals are generated and applied to separate radiating/receiving antenna elements. Signals are generated as basis functions, such that moving target detection and synthetic aperture radar signals are constructed from individual waveform components... Agent: Air Force Research Laboratory Rij

20080129581 - System and method for standoff detection of human carried explosives: The system and method for standoff detection of human carried explosives (HCE) automatically detects HCE (112) up to a range of (200) meters and within seconds alerts an operator to HCE (112) threats. The system (100) has radar only, or both radar and video sensors, a multi-sensor processor (102), an... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080129582 - Tracking target method of radar with frequency modulation continuous wave: The present invention relates to a tracking target method of radar with frequency modulation continuous wave, which transmits a transmitted signal to receive a return wave of the transmitted signal that is used for detecting the target and obtaining the relative distance between the target and the radar. The tracking... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080129583 - Radar level detector: e

20080129585 - Cross-correlation mitigation method and apparatus for use in a global positioning system receiver: A method and apparatus mitigating the effects of cross-correlation signals on received satellite signals in a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver is described. MS-Assisted and MS-Based cross-correlation detection and mitigation methods and apparatus are described. A GPS search mode architecture is used to detect SV signals and identify potential cross-correlations.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080129586 - Satellite-based positioning receiver with improved integrity and continuity: m

20080129588 - Method and apparatus for determining location information of a mobile device: A method and apparatus for determining a location of a mobile station (“MS”) in a Global-Navigation-Satellite System is disclosed. The method includes obtaining an estimate of position associated with a mobile-country code (“MCC-position estimate”), wherein the mobile-country code is associated with a given country, and wherein the MCC-position estimate comprises... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080129587 - User equipment navigation solution with position determination of a navigation signal reflector: User equipment navigation solution with position determination of a navigation signal reflector methods and systems are described. In an embodiment, navigation signals transmitted from global positioning system (GPS) platform(s) can be received at a GPS-enabled receiver as direct navigation signals and reflected navigation signals. The direct navigation signals can then... Agent: Lee & Hayes, Pllc

20080129589 - Positioning system: A positioning system is provided having a first signal source for originating synchronous signals, and a second signal source for originating a signal which is not synchronous with the signal from the first signal source. The system determines, based on a signal propagation time and signal propagation speed from the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080129590 - Positioning system: A positioning system is provided having a first signal source for originating synchronous signals, and a second signal source for originating a signal which is not synchronous with the signal from the first signal source. The system determines, based on a signal propagation time and signal propagation speed from the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080129592 - Global positioning device with a head up display: A global positioning device with a HUD comprises a GPS module, a bluetooth module, a first single chip microprocessor, a power source switch, a GPS display light, a rotation detecting circuit, a second single chip microprocessor, a light sensor, and a HUD. The HUD projects the information of the vehicle,... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.a.

20080129591 - System and method for providing assistance data within a location network: A system and method for providing assistance to a position receiver in a location network consisting of a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and a synchronized network of positioning-unit devices is disclosed. A positioning-unit device observes the time and frequency of received Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals relative to... Agent: David Small C/- Locata Corporation

20080129593 - Determining position without current broadcast ephemeris: Devices and methods are described for determining position information without broadcast ephemeris data for extended time periods. A client device is disclosed that stores satellite states determined from broadcast ephemeris and numerically integrates equations of motion with regard to the stored satellite states to determine current satellites states. The client... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080129594 - Dual-polarization antenna feeds for mimo applications: Methods and systems for exploiting orthogonal antenna polarizations which restore MIMO capability to an otherwise single path link are disclosed. Disclosed dual-polarization antennae and antennae arrays create two orthogonally polarized independent channels of communication which are transmitted and received by similar dual-polarization antennae, taking advantage of the fact that orthogonally... Agent: Hahn And Moodley, LLP

20080129595 - Antenna array including a phase shifter array controller and algorithm for steering the array: An antenna system may include an antenna array which includes a plurality of radiating elements. The system may also include a phase shifter controller and algorithm to apply a non-periodic modulation to an excitation of each radiating element.... Agent: Moore And Van Allen Pllc For Boeing

20080129596 - Incoming wave number estimation method, incoming wave number estimation device, and radio device: An incoming wave number estimation device for receiving incoming radio waves by an array antenna in which a plurality (=M) of antenna elements are linearly arrayed with a same element spacing, and estimating the number of the incoming radio waves, including: a correlation matrix creation section for removing a diagonal... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080129597 - Two-stage location system: Systems and methods are provided for two-stage location. In one implementation, there is provided a method for receiving a first location of a first radio, the first radio providing the first location of the first radio; using the received first location to determine when to transmit an activation command from... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64046

20080129598 - Positioning method and device: s

20080129599 - Systems and methods for locating targets using digital elevation model survey points: A method for determining the position of a target using digital terrain elevation data survey points and a corresponding target locating system are described. The method includes selecting at least two surveyed reference points from the digital terrain elevation data, determining a location of the target locator with respect to... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080129601 - Method for use in a multilateration system and a multilateration system: Groupings of receivers to be used for determining a target location by a multilateration system are selected to give the best Geometric Dilution of Precision result by eliminating that receiver that makes the greatest contribution. In this way the groups to be used may be selected as appropriate for the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080129600 - Methods and systems for locating actuators for improvised explosive devices: A method for determining the location of an actuating device is described. The method includes receiving transmissions from the actuator utilizing a plurality of multiple channel receiving devices, determining a direction to the actuator based on the signals received, and retrieving position, orientation, and time information for the plurality of... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.