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...that in the early 1940s GE engineer James Wright was charged with a task of utmost importance to the war effort: develop a cheap substitute for rubber that could be used to produce tires, gas masks and a whole host of military gear. Wright tackled the task diligently -- and wound up inventing Silly Putty.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7207728 | Optical bond-wire interconnections and a method for fabrication thereof Optical bond-wire interconnections between microelectronic chips, wherein optical wires are bonded onto microelectronic chips. Such optical connections offer numerous advantages compared to traditional electrical connections. Among other things, these interconnectio... | 04/24/2007 |
| 6400319 | Communication network intialization apparatus and method for fast GPS-based positioning An apparatus and method is disclosed, utilizing a communications network (in this particular design, it is a GEM (Geo-Mobile) satellite system) to initialize a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver (such one integrated into a handheld user terminal, or... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6377133 | Variable power divider/combiner A waveguide continuously variable power divider/combiner that is capable of dividing one input signal into two output signals, with the ratio of the output signals being continuously variable between zero and infinity. The waveguide has a first septum pol... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6370669 | Sets of rate-compatible universal turbo codes nearly optimized over various rates and interleaver sizes A method and apparatus for Turbo encoding uses a set of rate-compatible Turbo Codes optimized at high code rates and derived from a universal constituent code. The Turbo Codes have rate-compatible puncturing patterns. The method comprises: encoding a sign... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6285395 | Earth sensor for satellite An earth sensor for a communication satellite is provided which utilizes a camera for viewing the earth from the satellite and an optical correlator which optically processes the video data from the camera to provide attitude information to a satellite at... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6128575 | Methods for accurately inserting satellite constellations into common orbit planes Methods are provided for accurate insertion of a constellation of satellites into a common orbit plane with a mean inclination θ. In an embodiment of the invention, an initial satellite is inserted on an initial insertion date and, for each of subsequent... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6063655 | Junction high electron mobility transistor-heterojunction bipolar transistor (JHEMT-HBT) monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) and single growth method of fabrication A highly uniform, planar and high speed JHEMT-HBT MMIC is fabricated using a single growth process. A multi-layer structure including a composite emitter-channel layer, a base-gate layer and a collector layer is grown on a substrate. The composite emitter... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6019318 | Coordinatable system of inclined geosynchronous satellite orbits A coordinatable system of geosynchronous (24-hour), inclined, and slightly elliptical satellite orbits enables spectrum re-use by forming "highways" of moving "slots" in the latitudes above and below the geostationary (GSO) belt worldwide. Each of a plura... | 02/01/2000 |
| 5902417 | High efficiency tandem solar cells, and operating method A photovoltaic device uses a spectrally selective photon partitioner such as a reflector to partition incoming sunlight which is directed towards different solar cells, depending upon its energy. Solar cells having low and high energy band gaps are used, ... | 05/11/1999 |
