Inventor · Cedar Rapids, IA, US

Robert J. Frank

28Patents
10h-index
33Co-inventors
71Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 22, 2003 → May 19, 2017

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8494464B1 Cognitive networked electronic warfare Electricity 191 Active
US8193981B1 Coordinated sensing and precision geolocation of target emitter Physics 180 Active
US8326240B1 System for specific emitter identification Electricity 171 Active
US7418343B1 Relative navigation for precision rendezvous and station keeping using datalink signals Physics 23 Active
US9057772B1 Referenced-based radio frequency feature estimation Electricity 22 Active
US8010287B1 Frequency hopping data link approach to autonomous GPS denied relative navigation determination Physics 17 Active
US7308043B1 Scrambled chirp frequency jitter for feature suppression Electricity 16 Expired
US8743708B1 Device and method supporting cognitive, dynamic media access control Electricity 15 Active
US7606524B1 Integrated monitoring and communications receiver architecture Electricity 10 Active
US8514130B1 Directional spectral awareness with single antenna radio Electricity 10 Active
US7450523B1 Control of reconfigurable SIS/MAC protocols used in wireless communication devices Electricity 10 Active
US7733839B1 Dynamic socket waveform Electricity 9 Active
US7606290B1 Architecture for signal acquisition with cyclic range search Electricity 4 Active
US7957451B1 Cognitive spectral sensor-based PN hopping/spreading sequence generator Electricity 3 Active
US7508887B1 Signal acquisition with transmit blanking compensation Electricity 3 Active
US8184572B1 Real time control and management of a TDMA radio Electricity 3 Active
US7382846B1 Off-symbol correlation technique Electricity 3 Active
US7970947B1 Tactical targeting network technology small form factor user system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 3 Active
US8699971B1 System for specific emitter identification Electricity 3 Active
US7835427B1 Multiplexed architecture for simultaneous transmission and reception Electricity 2 Active
US7583611B1 System and method to support communication between non-cognitive radios and cognitive radios Electricity 2 Active
US7929458B1 Organizational and control mechanism for spectrally-efficient management of dynamic socket waveforms Electricity 2 Active
US7636383B1 Signal acquisition with efficient doppler search Electricity 1 Active
US8743854B1 Signal separation and SINR enhancement Electricity 1 Active
US8077597B1 Multi-dwell channel monitoring for coordinated frequency hopped systems Electricity 0 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.