Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Integrated interference mitigation for iridium user handsets and GPS receivers
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Application No.: US16260468Application Date: 2019-01-29
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Publication No.: US11262457B2Publication Date: 2022-03-01
- Inventor: Christopher Jonathan Zarowski , Huan-Wan Tseng , William LeComte
- Applicant: Mayflower Communications Company, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US MA Bedford
- Assignee: Mayflower Communications Company, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Mayflower Communications Company, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Bedford
- Agent Kaplesh Kumar
- Main IPC: G01S19/21
- IPC: G01S19/21 ; G01S19/23 ; G01S19/24 ; G01S19/14 ; G01S19/36

Abstract:
System and method for concurrently protecting Iridium and GPS L1/L2 band received satellite signals against interference signals (e.g., jamming signals) using space-time adaptive processing (STAP). While the GPS signal is protected against jamming using Nulling of the interfering signals, the Iridium signal is protected using Beamforming. A single broadband small controlled reception pattern antenna (sCRPA) array receives both the GPS (L1 and L2) and Iridium signals for the STAP-based antijam solutions outputting filtered Iridium and GPS signals. Use of a common (small) broadband antenna and common front end signal processing of the received signals enables an integrated system for use on size, weight, and power constrained platforms such as drones, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and helicopters.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200241145A1 INTEGRATED INTERFERENCE MITIGATION FOR IRIDIUM USER HANDSETS AND GPS RECEIVERS Public/Granted day:2020-07-30
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