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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4811414 | Methods for digitally noise averaging and illumination equalizing fingerprint images Methods for operating a programmable digital computer to enhance images of fingerprints represented by an array of pixel values. Methods for noise averaging, illumination equalizing, directional filtering, unhairing, curvature correcting, and scale correc... | 03/07/1989 |
| 4792226 | Optical fingerprinting system An optical fingerprinting system includes an optics/processor unit, a video monitor, a data terminal, and a printer. The optics/processor unit includes a slap print prism for providing slap fingerprint images, and a plurality of individual finger prisms h... | 12/20/1988 |
