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...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7941059 | Down conversion for distortion free recovery of a phase modulated optical signal In one embodiment, a down conversion receiver is provided for a phase modulated optical signal. This may include an optical coupler coupled to be capable of receiving a phase modulated signal and a local oscillator signal, and a modulator coupled to an input of the ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941022 | Single fiber optical links for simultaneous data and power transmission In one embodiment, a fiber optic link includes a combined optical link for transmitting high optical power and wide bandwidth signal through a single optical fiber. In one embodiment, a means is provided for combining a high power optical signal and a low power data... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940201 | Photonic analog to digital converter input sampler An input sampler interface to a track and hold circuit that decouples a high bandwidth (possibly optical domain) input signal from a lower bandwidth electrical domain of a subsequent track and hold circuit or other circuit. ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939899 | Solid state actuator capable of plating and plating material storage In one embodiment, a solid state actuator is provided which includes a pair of electrodes and a solid state storage material having a plating material. A solid state ion transport material is adjacent the solid state storage material such that the solid state storag... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7938989 | Composite structures for storing thermal energy A composite structure for storing thermal energy. In one embodiment, an apparatus for storing thermal energy includes: a thermal storage material and a three-dimensional structure. The three-dimensional structure includes: a plurality of first truss elements defined... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7938254 | Hydrogen permeable encapsulated solid-state hydride materials and method for forming and using same A capsule having a hydrogen gas permeable shell with solid-state hydride material, such as hydrogen rich LiAlH4, Li3AlH6, and/or AlH3 encapsulated therein. The hydrogen gas permeable shell has pores that are between about ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7935603 | Symmetric non-intrusive and covert technique to render a transistor permanently non-operable A technique for and structures for camouflaging an integrated circuit structure. The technique including forming active areas of a first conductivity type and LDD regions of a second conductivity type resulting in a transistor that is always non-operational when sta... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7932512 | Implantation before epitaxial growth for photonic integrated circuits Fabrication of a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) including active elements such as a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) and passive elements such as a floating rib waveguide. Selective area doping through ion implantation or thermal diffusion before semiconduct... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7931858 | System and method for surface decontamination using electromagnetic surface waves A method of decontaminating a surface is provided. A surface to propagate electromagnetic surface waves is provided having a frequency in the microwave spectrum between 1 GHz and 1000 GHz. The surface includes a surface-wave medium or the surface-wave medium is lami... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7929147 | Method and system for determining an optimized artificial impedance surface A method and system for determining an optimized artificial impedance surface is disclosed. An artificial impedance pattern is calculated on an impedance surface using an optical holographic technique given an assumed surface wave profile and a desired far field rad... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7928877 | Continuous-time delta-sigma modulator with small distributed resonators A continuous time delta-sigma modulator having a sampling frequency includes a distributed resonator having a length about equal to a reciprocal of an integer times a velocity of a signal in the distributed resonator divided by twice the sampling frequency of the co... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7928389 | Wide bandwidth infrared detector and imager An apparatus and method for a detector are disclosed. The apparatus disclosed contains an extractor layer, an absorber layer disposed adjacent to the extractor layer, a first electrical contact and a second electrical contact. The absorber layer is configured to abs... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7927507 | Hydrogen storage compositions Compositions for hydrogen storage and methods of making such compositions employ an alloy that exhibits reversible formation/deformation of BH4− anions. The composition includes a ternary alloy including magnesium, boron and a metal and a met... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7912931 | Method and apparatus for increasing fault tolerance for cross-layer communication in networks A method, apparatus, and computer program product are presented for providing a measure of fault tolerance and security in the operation of cross layer communication agents (CCA) in a hybrid network. Specifically, this method, apparatus and computer program provide ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7911673 | Display screen with optical memory The invention is a multi-color display screen that has built in optical memory for each pixel location. The optical memory is optically read and optically programmed. The screen itself distinguishes between the specific colors from which a full-color (or multi-color... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7911407 | Method for designing artificial surface impedance structures characterized by an impedance tensor with complex components A method for designing artificial impedance surfaces is disclosed. The method involves matching impedance component values required for a given far-field radiation pattern (determined, for example, by holographic means) with measured or simulated impedance component... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7910199 | Metal filled porous carbon A porous carbon scaffold with a surface and pores, the porous carbon scaffold containing a primary metal and a secondary metal, where the primary metal is a metal that does not wet the surface of the pores of the carbon scaffold but wets the surface of the secondary... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7908309 | Analog wavelet transformer A method of transforming an analog electrical signal into a wavelet transform. The analog electrical signal is input into a transmission line system as a transmission line input signal. A wavelet transform lifting is performed on the transmission line input signal t... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7901524 | Actuation concepts for variable stiffness materials Apparatus and associated methods for actuating variable stiffness material (VSM) structures and achieving deformation of the structures. The apparatus and the associated methods use internal embedded actuation elements and/or externally attached elements to the VSM ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7895071 | System and method for multi-mission prioritization using cost-based mission scheduling Described is a system for multi-mission scheduling. The system is configured to compile a list of missions, where each mission includes at least one task. Additionally, each mission has a mission value associated with it such that the mission value reflects an order... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7893935 | Method and system for hybrid trackball and immersive navigation in a virtual environment The present invention relates to a system, method, and computer program product for immersive navigation in a virtual environment (VE) suitable for allowing a user to change a view orientation in the VE independently of physical orientation of a user input, such as ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7892630 | Variable stiffness structure In some embodiments, a variable stiffness structure is provided having constant stiffness material layers and variable modulus material layers arranged in alternating layers. The variable modulus material layers have a material with a changeable elastic modulus in r... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7888213 | Conductive channel pseudo block process and circuit to inhibit reverse engineering A technique for and structures for camouflaging an integrated circuit structure. The integrated circuit structure is formed by a plurality of layers of material having a controlled outline. A layer of conductive material having a controlled outline is disposed among... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7884930 | Integrated quartz biological sensor and method A sensor integrates a quartz nanoresonator for mass detection and SERS for optical detection in a same cavity on a chip for redundancy in the detection of a species. ... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7881916 | Precision shape sensing of elastically deformable materials The present invention provides a method and apparatus for sensing and determining the shapes of deformable materials, shaped by a plurality of actuators, using sparse sensor network topologies. The method comprises placing a plurality of curvature sensors on the sur... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7877020 | Coherent RF-photonic link linearized via a negative feedback phase-tracking loop In one of many possible implementations and embodiments, a method is provided for providing linearized phase modulation and demodulation in an RF-photonic link. This includes phase modulating a photonic carrier signal in a signal arm using the RF input and using the... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7875952 | Method of transistor level heterogeneous integration and system The present invention relates to a process for fabricating integrated circuit system. More particularly, the process allows for fabrication of highly integrated system-on-a-chip modules through heterogeneous integration of different semiconductor technologies wherei... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7875876 | Scalable quantum computer Described is a scalable quantum computer that includes at least two classical to quantum interface devices, with each being connected to a distinct quantum processing unit (QPU). An Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen pair generator (EPRPG) is included for generating an entangl... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7875523 | HBT with emitter electrode having planar side walls A heterojunction bipolar transistor is formed with an emitter electrode that comprises an emitter epitaxy underlying an emitter metal cap and that has horizontal dimensions that are substantially equal to the emitter metal cap. ... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7870279 | Method and apparatus for scanning, personalizing, and casting multimedia data streams via a communication network and television A streaming data filtering method and apparatus utilizing users' profiles to deliver streaming data to users is presented. The invention uses context-based cues to extract content from both video and text ontologies. The invention provides novel techniques that semi... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7868829 | Reflectarray A reflectarray is disclosed. The reflectarray includes a first array of conductive patches supported by a substrate, wherein each conductive patch in the first array has a first center line along a Y-direction and a second centerline along an X-direction, a pluralit... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7868335 | Modulation doped super-lattice sub-collector for high-performance HBTs and BJTs A bipolar junction transistor having an emitter, a base, and a collector includes a stack of one or more layer sets adjacent the collector. Each layer set includes a first material having a first band gap, wherein the first material is highly doped, and a second mat... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7864396 | Vertical cavity multiple quantum well device with simultaneous modulation and photodetection capability A vertical cavity modulator/detector (VCMD) device and a method for modulating and detecting light are disclosed. The VCMD device contains an n-type contact layer, a transparent tuning layer, a multiple quantum well structure, a p-type contact layer, a low reflectan... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7861398 | Method for fabricating a miniature tunable filter A method for fabrication of a filter includes forming an input transformer pole in a first substrate by forming a first conductive via, forming an output transformer pole in the first substrate by forming a second conductive via, forming one or more filter poles in ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7853805 | Anti-tamper system The present invention relates to an anti-tamper system. The system comprises a circuit pathway having a unique, programmable, evolved chip in the pathway. The chip has logic units with transistors having fixed parameters. The chip has route lengths and connections b... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7852153 | High efficiency linear microwave power amplifier A post-distortion method for cascading amplifier stages in a two-stage microwave power amplifier and a dynamic biasing method using back-end processing for correcting nonlinearity in the power amplifier output. A first or driver stage biased in a near-A region with ... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7851971 | Low frequency quartz based MEMS resonators and method of fabricating the same A method for fabricating a low frequency quartz resonator includes metalizing a top-side of a quartz wafer with a metal etch stop, depositing a first metal layer over the metal etch stop, patterning the first metal layer to form a top electrode, bonding the quartz w... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7851319 | Method for preparing a non-self-aligned heterojunction bipolar transistor with a small emitter-to-base spacing The present invention refers to a method for preparing a non-self-aligned heterojunction bipolar transistor comprising: preparing a patterned emitter metal on an emitter epi layer of a HBT epi structure on a substrate; preparing an emitter epitaxy below the emitter ... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7835600 | Microwave receiver front-end assembly and array A method of and apparatus for modulating an optical carrier by an incident electromagnetic field. The electromagnetic field propagates in a dielectric-filled transverse electromagnetic waveguide, At least one slice of an electro-optic material is disposed in the die... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7831433 | System and method for using context in navigation dialog Described is a navigation system. The navigation system comprises a route planning module and a route guidance module. The route planning module is configured to receive a request from a user for guidance to a particular destination. Based on a starting point, the r... | 11/09/2010 |
