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Communications: directive radio wave systems and devices (e.g., radar, radio navigation) December patents and inventions 12/08

20080316084 - Radar system, radar transmission signal generation method, program therefor and program recording medium: Disclosed is a radar system capable of detecting near targets even in case of using discrete bands transmission signal. For this end, a discrete bands selection unit 1 selects discrete bands that meet the required radar parameters for detecting target information. A discrete bands synthetic waveform generation unit 2 suitably... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080316085 - Apparatus for position detection using multiple hcf transmissions: An apparatus a transmitter section, a receiver section, and a processing module. The transmitter section transmits a plurality of high carrier frequency beamformed signals in a loop manner until a desired number of signals has been transmitted. The receiver section receives the plurality of high carrier frequency beamformed signals and... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080316086 - Method and system for radio detection and ranging intrusion detection system: A RADAR system including a set of RADAR apparatuses is disclosed. Each apparatus includes a processor, a pulse unit in signal communication with the processor, a waveform signal generator in signal communication with the pulse unit, and a set of radar antennas in signal communication with the waveform signal generator.... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20080316087 - Simulator for internal antennas in telemetry devices: Systems and methods are described for simulating an internal antenna within a telemetry device. The simulator device includes a housing having at least one opening, wherein the housing is configured to accommodate close proximity placement of the telemetry device. The simulator device also includes a simulator or test antenna within... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20080316088 - Video-rate holographic surveillance system: In a holographic surveillance system (10) for near real-time imaging of a target (15), a source of RF radiation directs a non-amplified reference beam of pulsed coherent RF electromagnetic radiation toward a target. An array of antennas (31) receives a reflected beam from the target together with a component of... Agent: The Nath Law Group

20080316089 - Methods and systems for producing an interpretive airborne radar map: Systems and methods for identifying and uniquely displaying ground features (terrain/obstacles) that are shadowed from an aircrafts radar system. An example system includes one or more aircraft information, sources, a database that stores three-dimensional terrain/obstacle data, a display device, and a processor in data communication with the one or more... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services Ab-2b

20080316090 - Dsss radar, method implemented by radar and computer-readable storage medium: A DSSS (Direct Sequence Spectrum Spreading) radar has a transmitting part to transmit a transmitting signal, including a predetermined code sequence, to one or a plurality of targets, a receiving part to receive a received signal corresponding to the transmitting signal which has been reflected from the one or a... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20080316091 - Accuracy assessment in assisted gps positioning: Reliable and efficient search windows are provided by allowing the adaptation of the code search window to be dependent on inaccuracy measures of relations between a cellular frame time and a satellite reference time. This inaccuracy is calculated in a positioning node (21) of the cellular communications system (1), preferably... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080316093 - Gps global coverage augmentation system: A method and apparatus for efficiently obtaining improved coverage in augmenting GPS position location with differential GPS integrity and correction messages using existing satellite systems, planned satellite systems, or a combination of both to broadcast these integrity and correction messages without requiring dedicated satellite resources. At least one existing satellite... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080316092 - Methods for processing external correction messages, correcting position measurements of gnss receiver, and related apparatuses: Methods and apparatuses for processing external correction messages in a GNSS receiver are provided. One of the proposed methods includes providing a first storage unit; receiving a plurality of external correction messages from different data sources, wherein a plurality of GNSS differential correction data are carried by the plurality of... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080316094 - Method and apparatus for controlling power supply for speedy acquisition of gps signal, and gps receiver having the apparatus: Provided are a global positioning system (GPS) receiver which speedily acquires a GPS signal, and a method and apparatus for controlling power supply to the GPS receiver. The method includes when an external power is detected, supplying the external power to a GPS power supply unit and executing a GPS... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080316095 - Coherent integration enhancement method, positioning method, storage medium, coherent integration enhancement circuit, positioning circuit, and electronic instrument: Integrated correlation values (I and Q integrated correlation values) between each of I and Q signals obtained from a received signal and a code replica are calculated by a coherent integration process performed by a correlation process circuit section 32. A coherent integration enhancement circuit section converts a phase angle... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080316096 - Method of cross-correlation and continuous wave interference suppression for gps signal and associated gps receiver: A method for processing weak indoor signals in presence of cross-correlation or continuous wave interference and associated GPS receiver are provided. The method comprises providing a two-dimensional delay-Doppler accumulated power pattern comprising a plurality of accumulated powers corresponding to frequency and time; for a predetermined frequency, determining a partial average... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080316098 - Antenna apparatus and wireless communication terminal: Disclosed is an antenna apparatus which can control directivity of a plurality of radiation elements using one parasitic element. The antenna apparatus includes two radiation elements arranged on a base parallel to each other, and a parasitic element disposed between the two radiation elements. Radiation directivity of the two radiation... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080316097 - Radio frequency (rf) transition design for a phased array antenna system utilizing a beam forming network: In accordance with an embodiment, a radio frequency transition system includes a stripline trace section with openings in ground planes and forms a quarter wavelength resonator and an electromagnetic mechanism to couple the RF energy from the stripline trace section to a connector, wherein the RF signal energy is transferred... Agent: Sawyer Law Group, LLP

20080316099 - Wireless communication apparatus and method using beamforming: A wireless transmitting method includes calculating a beamforming channel matrix which is a channel matrix generated at a time when a transmitting apparatus applies a beamforming matrix to a data signal and transmits the data signal to receiving apparatuses, selecting a parameter to be used while transmitting the data signal... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080316101 - High power phased array antenna system and method with low power switching: A module having a first coupler for directing power from a source to first and second paths; a first amplifier disposed in the first path; a second amplifier disposed in the second path; and a second coupler for combining the outputs of the first and second amplifiers. In a more... Agent: Benman, Brown & Williams

20080316100 - Method and apparatus for antenna diversity selection: Signal reception apparatus comprising at least two antennas, receiver means having a first mode of operation for assessing the quality of received signals and a second mode of operation for processing received signals for identifying data carried therein, at least two signal paths connectable between the antennas and the receiver... Agent: Novak Druce Deluca + Quigg LLP

20080316102 - Transmitter and receiver-side processing of signals transmitted or received with a smart antenna: For transmitter-side processing of information it is decided in which direction of transmission signals for a receiver are to be transmitted, the direction of transmission being a linear combination of one of a number of antenna directional diagrams corresponding to a first plurality. In a baseband processing section (REC), a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080316103 - Apparatus for position detection using multiple antennas: An apparatus includes a transmitter and a receiver device, which includes a receiver section and a processing module. The transmitter transmits a high carrier frequency signal. The receiver section includes first and second antennas that have an antenna radiation relationship for receiving the high carrier frequency signal. A receiver module... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080316104 - Apparatus and method for computing location of a moving beacon using received signal strength and multi-frequencies: Provided is an apparatus and method for computing the location of a radio beacon by using received signal strength (RSS) and multiple frequencies. The apparatus and method of the present invention computes the location of a radio beacon without limitation in distance by using multiple frequencies and received signal strength... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080316105 - Method and apparatus for transmitter locating using a single receiver: Provided is a method and apparatus for locating a transmitter. The apparatus for locating a transmitter, including: an antenna having an antenna array for receiving first and second frequency signals transmitted from the transmitter and measuring an angle of the transmitter; a range of transmission (ROT) calculating unit for calculating... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080309543 - System and method for obtaining frequency and time synchronization in a wideband communication system: This document discusses, among other things, a system and method of measuring and correcting for frequency offset in wideband signals of bandwidth X within a communications system. A synchronization signal is generated and transmitted, wherein generating a synchronization signal includes generating a first chirp signal that sweeps a portion of... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080309544 - Method of explosives detection and identification: A proposed method of detection and identification of explosives and drugs in an object comprises the steps of: generating an emitted UHF signal carried by pulse fixed carrier frequency electromagnetic waves with predetermined carrier frequency, deviation, duration, and amplitude; exposure of the object to the emitted signal; reception of a... Agent: Nikolay Borsch-kompaneets Juris Ooo PCk

20080309549 - Method for storing measurements made by a radar: The present invention relates to a method for storing measurements of a given type made by a radar, each measurement having been made at a position in a given coordinate system. The method comprises a step of accessing a structured data storage space, each location of which is addressable by... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080309545 - Speed measuring device including fresnel zone plate lens antenna: A speed measuring device that employs a Fresnel zone plate lens antenna. The Fresnel lens antenna is mounted to one end of a low profile collection housing, typically cylindrical in configuration. An opposite end of the collection housing includes a back plate having an opening. A transceiver unit is mounted... Agent: MillerIPGroup, PLC Emag Technologies, Inc.

20080309546 - Radar device: A radar device includes: an oscillator for generating a wave at a plurality of transmission frequencies; a transmitting antenna; a receiving antenna; a receiver for generating a real received signal; a Fourier transform unit for performing a Fourier transform on the real received signal in a time direction; a spectral... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080309547 - Method and apparatus for optimizing emission in pulse echo methods: Emission values of pulse echo methods known to this point in time, especially those, which are used in industrial measurements technology for fill level measurements, frequently reach the allowable limit values. To avoid possible radio permitting of such measuring devices, the invention provides a method and a circuit for optimizing... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080309548 - Transmit-receive fm-cw radar apparatus: A transmit-receive FM-CW radar apparatus according to one mode of the invention comprises: a mixer for downconverting an IF signal; a switch provided on the input side of the mixer; and a switch controller for controlling the switch on and off in different modes and selecting the IF signal in... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080309550 - Satellite based positioning: The invention relates to a positioning of an assembly 1. An assembly 1 comprises a GNSS receiver 3 and a wireless communication module 2 and may exchange GNSS information with other assemblies 1 using cellular or non-cellular links. Relative positions between assemblies 1 are determined based on GNSS measurements at... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080309551 - Remotely-alterable electronic-ink based display device employing an integrated circuit structure having a gps signal receiver and programmed processor for locally determining display device position and transmitting determined position information to a re: A remotely-alterable electronic-ink based display device for displaying graphical indicia within a GPS system transmitting a plurality of GPS signals to the device display device. The device employs an addressable display assembly including a layer of electronic ink including a bi-stable non-volatile imaging material. The device includes an integrated circuit... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq., P.C.

20080309552 - System and method for gps acquisition using advanced tight coupling: A system and method for GPS acquisition in relatively high interference is described. Acquisition is aided by an Advanced Tightly Coupled (ATC) tracking filters that compute a satellite range residuals and range rate residuals for satellites being acquired. Multiple channels are used in parallel to search for the desired satellites.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080309553 - Systems and methods for mitigating multipath signals: Systems and methods for mitigating multipath signals in a receiver are provided. In this regard, a representative system, among others, includes a receiver comprising an antenna being configured to receive signals from a plurality of satellites, and a computing device being configured to: generate pseudorange measurements based on the received... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080309554 - Suppressing interference using beamforming of uplink signals received at multiple base stations: The present invention provides a method for suppressing interference using beamforming of uplink signals received at multiple base stations. The method may include accessing information indicative of a plurality of signals received over a plurality of uplink channels between a plurality of mobile units and a plurality of base stations.... Agent: Mark W. Sincell Williams, Morgan & Amerson, P.C.

20080309555 - Method for setting smart antenna and system thereof: The invention provides a method for setting a smart antenna and a system thereof. The smart antenna has a plurality of antenna patterns and is used to communicate with at least a wireless communication device. The method includes the following steps. A plurality of connection quality test results of the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080309556 - Relative 3d positioning in an ad-hoc network based on distances: A positioning apparatus for a wireless ad-hoc network that can measure distances between network nodes that are in range and connected to each other. The positioning apparatus can calculate 3D positions of some nodes using the distance values using a relative coordinate system, first by measuring distances to neighbored nodes,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080309557 - Facilitating mobile station location using a ground-based cellular network: Communications facilitate locating a mobile station (22) using the radio frequency spectrum typically used for cellular communications. A first locating signal is communicated between a base station transceiver (30, 32) and a mobile station (22) and includes information regarding the location of the signal source. A plurality of second locating... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C./alcatel-lucent

20080303708 - Structural system for optimizing performance of a millimeter wave concealed object detection system: A structural system for optimizing the performance of a millimeter wave concealed object detection system is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a shell is provided to house and protect the millimeter wave concealed object detection system so that the detection system can operate optimally in a controlled and managed environment... Agent: Mckinney Law, LLC

20080303712 - Radar imaging system and method using directional gradient magnitude second moment spatial variance detection: A detection system and method. The inventive system includes an arrangement for receiving a frame of image data; an arrangement for performing a rate of change of variance calculation with respect to at least one pixel in said frame of image data; and an arrangement for comparing said calculated rate... Agent: Benman, Brown & Williams

20080303709 - Radar system for monitoring targets in different distance ranges: In a radar system for monitoring targets in different distance ranges, radar pulses are emitted whose length is greater than the length corresponding to the propagation time between two objects to be distinguished from one another, located at different distances. On the receive side the high-frequency signal supplied to the... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080303710 - Antenna for a fill level radar for applications involving high temperatures and/or high pressures: An antenna for a fill level radar includes a high-temperature process separation device and an attenuation element. The attenuation element is used to improve the measuring signal in the near zone of the antenna and is affixed to the process separation device or in the process separation device. In this... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080303711 - Radar apparatus: A radar apparatus includes: a plurality of receiving antennas disposed at regular spacings; two transmitting antennas which are positioned each at opposed ends of the receiving antennas, and a spacing of which away from the receiving antennas adjacent thereto is a natural number multiple of half a disposition spacing of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080303713 - Navigational positioning without timing information: Provided herein are systems and methods that enable a navigation receiver to determine receiver position using a low ppm (Parts Per Million) Real Time Clock (RTC) under weak satellite signal reception conditions without the need for timing information from navigation satellites or aiding systems. Under weak signal conditions, the receiver... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20080303714 - Compact single-aperture antenna and navigation system: An exemplary radio-based navigation system uses a single-aperture multimode direction-finding antenna capable of determining platform position, velocity, attitude, and time while simultaneously providing protection against narrowband and broadband sources of interference. Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-signals such as those from the Global Positioning System (GPS) provide protection against jammers while... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080303715 - Display method for a dish of a dvb-s system: A method for informing a user of the rotation of a dish in a Digital Video Broadcasting-Satellite system includes determining the duration of the rotation of the dish according to the angular velocity of the dish and the angle of the rotation; and outputting the duration of the rotation of... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080303716 - Methods and apparatus for phased array: Methods and apparatus according to various aspects of the present invention operate in conjunction with a phased array system. The phased array system may include an array structural frame defining an array of module-receiving mounting locations. The phased array system may further include multiple array modules. Each array module may... Agent: The Noblitt Group, PLLC

20080303717 - Oblique em wave navigation coordinate plotter and cooperative transponder: t

20080303718 - Wireless communication apparatus for determining direction of arrival information to form a three-dimensional beam used by a transceiver: A wireless communication method and antenna system for determining the direction of arrival (DOA) of received signals in azimuth and elevation, (i.e., in three dimensions), to form a beam for transmitting and receiving signals. The system includes two antenna arrays, each having a plurality of antenna elements, two first stage... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080303719 - Antenna array including virtual antenna elements: A method and associated system for effectively increasing the number of antenna elements within a multi-element antenna system through computation of a response of “virtual” antenna elements located along an antenna array. The physical elements of the array are positioned sufficiently near each other to enable synthesis of a polynomial... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080297394 - Program to generate an aircrew display aid to assess jam effectiveness: The invention generally relates to the field of computer software particularly to an improved method of providing aircrew decision aids for use in determining the optimum placement of an Electronic Attack (EA) aircraft. The core of the invention is a software program that will dynamically provide the EA flight crew... Agent: Navairwd Counsel Group

20080297395 - Aircrew display aid to assess jam effectiveness: The invention generally relates to the field of computer software particularly to an improved method of providing aircrew decision aids for use in determining the optimum placement of an Electronic Attack (EA) aircraft. The core of the invention is a software program that will dynamically provide the EA flight crew... Agent: Navairwd Counsel Group

20080297396 - Dynamic replanning algorithm for aircrew display aid to assess jam effectiveness: The invention generally relates to the field of computer software particularly to an improved method of providing aircrew decision aids for use in determining the optimum placement of an Electronic Attack (EA) aircraft. The core of the invention is a software program that will dynamically provide the EA flight crew... Agent: Navairwd Counsel Group

20080297405 - Synthetic aperture focusing techniques: The present application describes an apparatus that includes a radar antenna device to acquire synthetic aperture radar data, radar receiver and transmitter equipment coupled to the radar antenna device, and a synthetic aperture radar processing device in communication with the radar receiver and transmitter equipment. This processing device includes a... Agent: Krieg Devault LLP

20080297397 - Method and system for using a database and gps position data to generate bearing data: A method and system for providing a bearing from a vehicle to a transmitting station are described. The method includes accessing a database to obtain transmitter position information for the transmitter, obtaining vehicle position information based on a GPS signal, and generating the bearing from the vehicle to the station... Agent: Garmin International, Inc. Attn: Legal - Ip

20080297398 - Dme ground apparatus: In a DME ground apparatus, under the control of a transmission-rate monitoring control unit, the transponder unit decodes an interrogation signal it has received and generates a response signal. The transmission rate at which to transmit the response signal is monitored. If the result of the monitoring indicates that the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080297399 - Dme ground apparatus: The transponder unit provided in a DME ground apparatus detects the transmission rate at which to transmit the pulse-pairs constituting a response signal. The threshold of the reception level of the pulse detection unit provided in the transponder unit is raised as the transmission rate increases.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080297400 - Monostatic planar multi-beam radar sensor: A monostatic multi-beam radar sensor for motor vehicles, having a group antenna, a planar lens having multiple inputs, and a homodyne mixer system, wherein the mixer system comprises multiple transfer mixers that are connected in parallel to the inputs of the lens.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080297401 - Arrival angle estimation system, communication device, and communication system: An arrival angle estimation system includes a transmitting device and a receiving device and estimates an arrival angle at which frames transmitted by radio from the transmitting device arrive at the receiving device. The transmitting device includes two directional antennas each arranged so that its directivity is tilted at ±θ... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080297402 - Built-in missile radar calibration verification: Array antenna calibration verification coupling interrogator and responder with mode-related interrogation signal having a previous calibration phase angle, producing in responder a characteristic interrogation response. Conjugate signal is generated by reversing phase of interrogation signal, producing in responder a characteristic conjugate response. Interrogation and conjugate responses sensed and combined to... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid, LLP

20080297403 - Radar level gauging system for use at sea: A radar level gauging system for determining a filling level of a liquid in a tank arranged in a mobile unit is disclosed. The system is comprises a processing circuitry for determining a local and momentary filling level at different times at a certain position in the tank of the... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20080297404 - Communication device with front-end radio frequency antenna module: A radio frequency communication front-end device having a front-end radio frequency antenna module comprises a microchip antenna and a radio frequency front-end signal processing core chip, wherein the microchip antenna is used to emit and receive electromagnetic waves for signal communication with other wireless equipment. The present invention, as being... Agent: G. Link Co., Ltd.

20080297406 - Automatic detection of communications satellite: A fast and efficient automated satellite constellation detection process can be implemented at least in part independent of in-band data in the satellite signal. The automated detection process iterates through a set of various predefined transponder settings to detect one or more accessible satellite constellations through each satellite dish connected... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080297407 - Gnss receiver and antenna system including a digital communication subsystem: A GNSS receiver and antenna system transmits signals from an antenna structure to a remote GNSS receiver and includes a digital communications subsystem that utilizes a high speed digital communications conductor. The transmissions are digital signals that preserve GNSS satellite signal frequency and/or carrier and code phase information. The system... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080297408 - Partial search carrier-phase integer ambiguity resolution: A method for performing integer ambiguity resolution in a global navigation satellite system is disclosed. A set of ambiguities, which are associated with carrier phase measurements of at least some of the signals received from the satellites in an identified set of satellites, are identified. Integer ambiguities are estimated and... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP / Navcom-deere

20080297409 - System and method for selecting a geographic location to associate with an object: There is disclosed a system and method for geotagging objects on a mobile handheld communication device. In an embodiment, the method comprises: providing a user interface with a plurality of user selectable options for obtaining geographic location coordinates; receiving a user selection of one of the plurality of options; and... Agent: Fasken Martineau Dumoulin LLP

20080297410 - Satellite receiver detachably combined to blue tooth handset: A satellite receiver detachably combined to a blue tooth handset comprises a blue tooth satellite receiver module including a blue tooth module, a central processing unit, satellite receiver module, a GPS satellite antenna, and a power control module; the satellite receiver module being coupled to the GPS satellite antenna for... Agent: Chii-moon Liou

20080297411 - System and method for gps signal acquisition: A method for acquiring a GPS signal includes receiving a GPS signal portion over a coarse acquisition (C/A) frame period. The received GPS signal portion is stored and correlated to each of a plurality of versions of a reference coarse acquisition code to obtain a respective plurality of autocorrelation values.... Agent: Clifford B. Perry

20080297412 - Gps reception device: According to one embodiment, a GPS reception device includes a section which acquires information in radio signals from satellites, a storage section which stores parameters to select part of the satellites, a section which calculates pseudo-distances from the satellites to a reception point based on the acquired information and measures... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080297413 - Slotted sectored scheduling with steerable directional antennas in wireless lans: A method includes determining for each access point and each associated client that has traffic to exchange with the access point in either directions of a link a pattern of slots of times that causes minimum interference to clients of other access points in a wireless local area network; deriving... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20080297414 - Ultra-wideband variable-phase ring-oscillator arrays, architectures, and related methods: Variable phase ring oscillators are described that provide a linear phase progression between adjacent elements in an antenna array by providing a symmetric ring configuration of tuned amplifiers and a single phase shifter. The ring topology is coupled to a single PLL that allows for direct modulation and demodulation of... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080297415 - Method for managing the operation of a wireless device, in particular for reducing interferences with a potential victim device: A wireless device belongs to a wireless communication system and exchanges information within at least one band of frequencies. A method includes detecting a presence of at least one victim device operating within the at least one band of frequencies. The first wireless device is provided with an antenna array,... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080297416 - Method and system for accelerating the computation of adaptive weights using matrix inverse calculations: A system and method is provided for performing matrix inverse functions, for example, for use within Space-Time Adaptive Processing (STAP). The methods use parallelism of a Forward/Backward substitution algorithm in two dimensions to increase a speed of execution of the matrix inverse function. Sampled data is combined with steering vector... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.