Lockheed Martin Corporation

Donald Winfield

Joseph Lawrence Chovan

William Arthur Penn

Thomas J Barnard

Lawrence Richard Snowman

Frank S Rotondo

John R Smigel

Walter Beeman

A wireless power transmission system for use in a mobile asset comprising a host transmitter for providing at least one of a microwave or a lightwave energy signal, a receiver configured to receive said signal, a converter for converting said signal to a storable energy form, and a controller to control the transfer of storable energy from said converter to at least one energy storage device.

Radio frequency power transmission system

A method for sensing acoustic energy as the energy passes from a more dense to a less dense medium while compensating for energy level loses that may have occurred along the acoustic path of the acoustic energy. The method may be used to replace a multi-sensor system for detecting acoustic energy. The method includes permitting the acoustic energy to progress from a first transmitting medium to a second transmitting medium, the first transmitting medium being more dense than the second transmitting medium and the first medium being contiguous with the second medium along a predetermined interface; disposing an optical sensor in the second medium so that at least a portion of the acoustic energy imposes a modulation proportional to the frequency components of the acoustic energy on a sampling light emitted by the optical sensor; and detecting at least a portion of the sampling light having modulation in response to the portion of the acoustic energy.

Method for sensing acoustic energy

A sensor array includes a plurality of sensor locations at which sensed signals are produced. A tension element holds locations at a given maximum spacing. The tension element includes an optical fiber. Light propagating on the optical fiber is applied to converters at each location for generating electrical power for the electrically powered portions of the array. The electrically powered portions may be a part of the sensor suite at each location, telemetry equipment, or both.

Sensor arrays having light-powered transducers

A system and process for localizing signals received on multiple co-linear arrays reduces the adverse effects on localization performance due to background noise. The system and process coherently combine all possible array cross-correlograms. The resulting correlogram is a function of two variables, one which corresponds to a fine bearing estimate and a second with maps into range.

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