John L Fergus

6426720, Jul 30, 2002

Apr 3, 2000

09/541545

John Anderson Fergus Ross - Del Mar CA
John Erik Hershey - Ballston Lake NY
Richard August Korkosz - Rotterdam Junction NY
Naofal Mohammed Wassel Al-Dhahir - Chatham NJ
William Robert McKinney - Loveland OH
Bruce Gunter Schings - Loveland OH

General Electric Company - Schenectady NY

H01Q 322

342372, 342 74, 342175, 342195, 342367, 342368, 342371, 342377

A system for directing a receiving lobe of an adaptive antenna array toward an aircraft in flight includes an aircraft position vector calculator and an antenna weight vector generator. The aircraft position vector calculator receives aircraft position information from an aircraft tracking service and calculates, based upon the aircraft position information it receives, an aircraft position vector g. An antenna weight vector generator receives the aircraft position vector g from the aircraft position vector calculator and generates, based upon the aircraft position vector g, an antenna element weight vector w. The antenna weight vector w is applied to the elements of an adaptive antenna array to direct a receiving lobe of the array towards an aircraft in flight.

6550681, Apr 22, 2003

Feb 3, 2000

09/497355

John Anderson Fergus Ross - Del Mar CA
Kirby Gannett Vosburgh - Niskayuna NY
Jerome Johnson Tiemann - Schenectady NY
Kristina Helena Valborg Hedengren - Schenectady NY

General Electric Company - Niskayuna NY

G06K 710

23546213, 235494, 235470, 23546215, 219714, 219702, 219506

A cooking apparatus includes a scanning device for reading a tag disposed upon a cooking item, which tag includes cooking instructions, and a network connection for receiving updated information relative to a respective cooking item. Circuitry is coupled to the scanning device and to the network connection for updated and implementing the cooking instructions.

6754282, Jun 22, 2004

Dec 13, 1999

09/460106

John Anderson Fergus Ross - Del Mar CA
Gary Jude Saulnier - Rexford NY
Eugene Joseph Orlowski - Scotia NY
Richard Louis Frey - Delanson NY

General Electric Company - Niskayuna NY

H04L 2300

375265, 37524022, 375253

A dc-free coding scheme that also provides channel gain employs a code that is based on an alphabet of two and comprises a list of N-dimensional vectors, where N is even, with a maximum run of two symbols. From this list, all vectors which begin or end in two identical symbols are eliminated. This avoids runs of longer than two consecutive symbols when vectors are concatenated. With this scheme, if the baseband transmission of a â+â is realized with positive voltage V and transmission of a â-â is realized with a negative voltage -V, then any concatenation of symbols is dc-free. Improved coding gain is realized by mapping modulated signals onto convolutional code trellises.

6771705, Aug 3, 2004

Feb 1, 2001

09/775095

Thomas J. Kenney - San Diego CA
John Anderson Fergus Ross - Del Mar CA

Nokia Corporation - Espoo

H04B 702

375267, 375299, 714755

Turbo coding is employed with space-time spreading (STS) transmission to improve transmission error performance and efficiency in addressing multipath fading. Different subsets of parity data are transmitted via each antenna/channel, with either subset alone sufficient for error recovery. In general, however, both channels will be received with some fidelity, and the parity data from the two channels is combined and decoded as a lower code rate transmission. Systematic data may be transmitted on both channels, with or without interleaving on an alternate channel. Time diversity may also be introduced by transmitting only part of the parity data within the two parity data subsets, then transmitting the remainder if the receiver could not produce the correct decoding from the original transmission.

7209714, Apr 24, 2007

Aug 29, 2003

10/651837

John Anderson Fergus Ross - Del Mar CA, US
Thomas J. Kenney - San Diego CA, US

Nokia Corporation - Espoo

H03C 7/02
H04B 7/02

455101, 455103, 375299

Apparatus, and an associated method, for selectably introducing desired levels of diversity into data communicated upon a radio communication channel to effectuate a communication service, such as a 1×EV-DV communication service. Responsive to channel conditions, the level of diversity is selected, and levels of encoding are utilized. Matching encoder and decoder apparatus are provided to sending and receiving station pairs. Encoder apparatus includes constituent encoder elements, and associated interleaver elements for interleaving data that is to be communicated by associated encoder elements. One, or more, antenna transducer elements are selectably utilized to provide spatial diversity in addition to temporal diversity.