US Patents Issued to Alfred R. Lopez

(Sole or Co-Inventor*)

 

 

Patent No.

Title

1

3,987,453

Oct 1976

Balance Exciter for Wideband Antenna Element

2*

4,041,501

Aug 1977

Limited Scan Array Antenna System With sharp Cutoff of Element Pattern

3*

4,067,014

Jun 1978

Correlation Receiver for Doppler Microwave Landing System

4

4,191,960

Mar 1980

Phased Array Antenna With Reduced Quantization Errors

5

4,321,605

Mar 1982

Array Antenna System

6

4,364,050

Dec 1982

Microstrip Antenna

7

4,554,550

Nov 1985

Resonant Waveguide Aperture Manifold

8

4,670,756

Jun 1987

Phase Shifter Control

9

4,724,440

Feb 1988

Beam Steering Unit Real Time Angular Monitor

10*

4,823,127

Apr 1989

Automatic Real-Time Fault Monitor Verifying Network in a Microwave Landing System

11

4,876,548

Oct 1989

Phased Array Antenna with Coupler in Spatial Filter Arrangement

12

4,912,480

Mar 1990

Offset Phase-Center Antenna for Aircraft Landing System

13

4,968,982

Nov 1990

Aircraft Landing System Having Simplified Out-of-Coverage Indication (OCI)

14*

4,999,639

Mar 1991

Radome Having Integral Heating and Impedance Matching Elements

15

5,111,208

May 1992

Calibration of Plural-Channel System

16

5,177,491

Jan 1993

Navigation Receiver with Beam Asymmetry Immunity

17

5,214,435

May 1993

Near Field Monitor for a Microwave Landing System

18*

5,270,723

Dec 1993

Near field Antenna Measurement Systems and Methods

19

5,304,998

Apr 1994

Dual-Mode Communication Antenna

20*

5,410,319

Apr 1995

Near field Antenna Measurement Systems and Methods

21

5,534,882

Jul 1996

GPS Antenna System

22

5,546,095

Aug 1996

Non-Imaging Glideslope Antenna Systems

23*

5,684,491

Nov 1997

High Gain Antenna Systems for Cellular Use

24*

5,684,794

Nov 1997

Validation of Subscriber Signals in a Cellular Radio Network

25

5,856,810

Jun 1999

Low Sidelobe Multi-Beam Feed Networks for Array Antennas

26

5,872,548

Feb 1999

Space/Angle Diversity Configurations for Cellular Antennas

27*

5,907,816

Mar 1999

High Gain Antenna Systems for Cellular Use

28

 5,917,457

Jun 1999

U-Dipole Radiating Elements and Antennas

29*

5,982,337

Nov 1999

Cellular Antennas for Stratosphere Coverage of Multi-Band Annular Earth Pattern

30

6,046,704

Apr 2000

Stamp-and-Bend Double-Tuned Radiating Elements and Antennas

31

6,057,806

May 2000

Cross-Polarized Around-Tower Cellular Antenna System

32

6,160,525

Dec 2000

Low Impedance Loop Antenna

33*

6,201,510

Mar 2001

Self-Contained Progressive-Phase GPS Elements and Antennas

34*

6,229,495

May 2001

Dual-Point-Feed Broadband Whip Antenna

35

6,300,915

Oct 2001

Vertical Array Antennas for Differential GPS Ground Stations

36*

6,473,054

Oct 2002

Array Antennas with Notched Radiation Patterns

37*

6,618,016

Sep 2003

Eight-Element Anti-Jam Aircraft GPS Antennas

38*

6,686,892

Feb 2004

Switchable Length Whip Antenna

39

6,744,412

Jun 2004

High Up/Down Ratio GPS Antenna with Serrated Absorber

40*

6,819,291

Nov 2004

Reduced-Size GPS Antennas for Anti-Jam Adaptive Processing

41*

6,831,601

Dec 2004

Circular Array Scanning with Sum and Difference Excitation

42

6,873,301

Mar 2005

Diamond Array Low-Sidelobe Flat-Plate Antenna Systems for Satellite Communication

43

7,015,866

Mar 2006

Flush Mounted Air Vehicle Array Antenna Systems for Satellite Communication

44

7,030,813

Apr 2006

Array Antennas with Independent Sum and Difference Excitation Levels

45*

7,088,303

Aug 2006

Folded Path Flat-Plate Antennas for Satellite Communication

46

7,119,757

Oct 2006

Dual-Array Two-Port Differential GPS Antenna Systems

47

7,417,597

Aug 2008

GPS Antenna System And Method With Vertically-Steerable Null For Interference Suppression

48

7,450,082

Nov 2008

Small Tuned-Element GPS Antennas for Anti-Jam Adaptive Processing

49

7,583,236

Sep 2009

Wideband Communication Antenna Systems With Low Angle Multipath Suppressions

50

7,982,680

Jul 2011

Antenna Providing Near-Spherical Coverage With Right-Hand Circular Polarization For Differential GPS Use

51

7,990,307

Aug 2011

Integrity Monitor Antenna Systems for GPS-Based Precision Landing System Verification

52

8,390,525

Mar 2013

Circularly Polarized Omnidirectional Antennas and Methods

53

8,493,278

Jul 2013

Antennas and Method to provide Adaptable Omnidirectional Ground Nulls