US Patent Issued to Textron Systems on Dec. 23 for "Convolutional digital radio frequency memory (DRFM) jamming" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,509, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Textron Systems Corp. (Hunt Valley, Md.).

"Convolutional digital radio frequency memory (DRFM) jamming" was invented by James Joseph Jaklitsch (Parkton, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique of jamming a victim radar includes digitizing an incident waveform received from the victim radar and convolving the digitized waveform with contents of a range trace memory. The range trace memory stores a sequence of impulses, which, when convolved with the digitized waveform, creates a corresponding sequence of delayed versions of the digitized waveform, one for each impulse in the sequence, and...