GPS

founder & CEO NAVSYS which develops advanced positioning, navigation & timing solutions mainly for defense contractors; helped develop Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS); worked on emergency location system under FHWA/CDOT & Mayday Program; is considered an expert on GPS Technology; fielded the 1st GPS cellular emergency location system; developed a digital beam-steering software reprogrammable GPS receiver for high accuracy commercial & military applications; pioneered Software Defined Receiver (SDR) positioning, navigation & timing technolgy; Director of Salida Business Incubator (2014); Director Tri-Lakes Business Incubator (2008); creator of NAE webinar "Bridging the Rural Divide Through Space;" launched tech to protect military GPS programs from getting jammed

Apparatus & methods for minimizing multipath signal errors during tracking of GPS satellite signals; Miniature phased array antenna system; Satellite communication system; GPS tracking system; GPS precision approach & landing system for aircraft; Vehicle tracking system employing Global Posioning System (GPS) satellites; Digital system for codeless phase measurement; Attitude sensing system; Enhanced Global Positioning system delta-range processing; Method & apparatus for reducing quantization error in laser gyro test data through high speed filtering

Category:
Engineering

Completion Status:
yes

Patent Number:
6727846; 6246369; 6157621; 5379224; 5311194; 5225842; 4862178; 4754280; 4646096; 4634283

Co-Inventor:
Peter K. Brown; Amir H. Matini; John D. Norgard; Edward Fenton Tuck; David Palmer Patterson; Douglas Gene Lockie; Vilnis G. Grencions; Asu Ram Jha; Donald A. Ashford; Mark Alan Sturza; James R. Stuart; Moshe Lerner Liron; H. Beat Wackernagel; W. Michael Bowles; Tom P. Thorvaldsen; John G. Mark; Anthony Matthews