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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8183111 | Method of fabricating conductive electrodes on the front and backside of a thin film structure A method of fabricating a thin film device having conductive front and backside electrodes or contacts. Top-side cavities are first formed on a first dielectric layer, followed by the deposition of a metal layer on the first dielectric layer to fill the cavities. De... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180579 | Real time gamma-ray signature identifier A real time gamma-ray signature/source identification method and system using principal components analysis (PCA) for transforming and substantially reducing one or more comprehensive spectral libraries of nuclear materials types and configurations into a correspond... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180013 | Absolute nuclear material assay A method of absolute nuclear material assay of an unknown source comprising counting neutrons from the unknown source and providing an absolute nuclear material assay utilizing a model to optimally compare to the measured count distributions. In one embodiment, the ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178076 | Diagnosis and assessment of skeletal related disease using calcium 41 A method of determining calcium metabolism in a patient comprises the steps of administering radioactive calcium isotope 41Ca to the patient, allowing a period of time to elapse sufficient for dissemination and reaction of the radioactive calcium isotope ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177957 | Multiple frequency method for operating electrochemical sensors A multiple frequency method for the operation of a sensor to measure a parameter of interest using calibration information including the steps of exciting the sensor at a first frequency providing a first sensor response, exciting the sensor at a second frequency pr... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177946 | Electrochemical formation of hydroxide for enhancing carbon dioxide and acid gas uptake by a solution A system is described for forming metal hydroxide from a metal carbonate utilizing a water electrolysis cell having an acid-producing anode and a hydroxyl-producing cathode immersed in a water solution of sufficient ionic content to allow an electric current to pass... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8172964 | Pyrophoric metal-carbon foam composites and methods of making the same A method for creating a pyrophoric material according to one embodiment includes thermally activating a carbon foam for creating micropores therein; contacting the activated carbon foam with a liquid solution comprising a metal salt for depositing metal ions in the ... | 05/08/2012 |
| RE43365 | Apparatus for chemical amplification based on fluid partitioning in an immiscible liquid A system for nucleic acid amplification of a sample comprises partitioning the sample into partitioned sections and performing PCR on the partitioned sections of the sample. Another embodiment of the invention provides a system for nucleic acid amplification and det... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8165340 | Methods for gas detection using stationary hyperspectral imaging sensors According to one embodiment, a method comprises producing a first hyperspectral imaging (HSI) data cube of a location at a first time using data from a HSI sensor; producing a second HSI data cube of the same location at a second time using data from the HSI sensor;... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160118 | UWB dual burst transmit driver A dual burst transmitter for ultra-wideband (UWB) communication systems generates a pair of precisely spaced RF bursts from a single trigger event. An input trigger pulse produces two oscillator trigger pulses, an initial pulse and a delayed pulse, in a dual trigger... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155258 | Fission meter A neutron detector system for discriminating fissile material from non-fissile material wherein a digital data acquisition unit collects data at high rate, and in real-time processes large volumes of data directly into information that a first responder can use to d... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8153986 | Hybrid Compton camera/coded aperture imaging system A system in one embodiment includes an array of radiation detectors; and an array of imagers positioned behind the array of detectors relative to an expected trajectory of incoming radiation. A method in another embodiment includes detecting incoming radiation with ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8153328 | Carbon fuel cells with carbon corrosion suppression An electrochemical cell apparatus that can operate as either a fuel cell or a battery includes a cathode compartment, an anode compartment operatively connected to the cathode compartment, and a carbon fuel cell section connected to the anode compartment and the cat... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8143063 | Method for warning of radiological and chemical agents using detection paints on a vehicle surface A paint that warns of radiological or chemical substances comprising a paint operatively connected to the surface, an indicator material carried by the paint that provides an indication of the radiological or chemical substances, and a thermo-activation material car... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8142691 | Thermal casting of polymers in centrifuge for producing X-ray optics An optic is produced by the steps of placing a polymer inside a rotateable cylindrical chamber, the rotateable cylindrical chamber having an outside wall, rotating the cylindrical chamber, heating the rotating chamber forcing the polymer to the outside wall of the c... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8133735 | Method for warning of radiological and chemical substances using detection paints on a vehicle surface A system for warning of corrosion, chemical, or radiological substances. The system comprises painting a surface with a paint or coating that includes an indicator material and monitoring the surface for indications of the corrosion, chemical, or radiological substa... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8133256 | Shape memory polymer foams for endovascular therapies A system for occluding a physical anomaly. One embodiment comprises a shape memory material body wherein the shape memory material body fits within the physical anomaly occluding the physical anomaly. The shape memory material body has a primary shape for occluding ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8132412 | Rankline-Brayton engine powered solar thermal aircraft A solar thermal powered aircraft powered by heat energy from the sun. A Rankine-Brayton hybrid cycle heat engine is carried by the aircraft body for producing power for a propulsion mechanism, such as a propeller or other mechanism for enabling sustained free flight... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8125089 | Optically-initiated silicon carbide high voltage switch An improved photoconductive switch having a SIC or other wide band gap substrate material, such as GaAs and field-grading liners composed of preferably SiN formed on the substrate adjacent the electrode perimeters or adjacent the substrate perimeters for grading the... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8123354 | Compact adaptive optic-optical coherence tomography system Badal Optometer and rotating cylinders are inserted in the AO-OCT to correct large spectacle aberrations such as myopia, hyperopic and astigmatism for ease of clinical use and reduction. Spherical mirrors in the sets of the telescope are rotated orthogonally to redu... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8122596 | System of fabricating a flexible electrode array An image is captured or otherwise converted into a signal in an artificial vision system. The signal is transmitted to the retina utilizing an implant. The implant consists of a polymer substrate made of a compliant material such as poly(dimethylsiloxane) or PDMS. T... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8109149 | Contact stress sensor A contact stress sensor includes one or more MEMS fabricated sensor elements, where each sensor element of includes a thin non-recessed portion, a recessed portion and a pressure sensitive element adjacent to the recessed portion. An electric circuit is connected to... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8102955 | Multi-pulse frequency shifted (MPFS) multiple access modulation for ultra wideband The multi-pulse frequency shifted technique uses mutually orthogonal short duration pulses o transmit and receive information in a UWB multiuser communication system. The multiuser system uses the same pulse shape with different frequencies for the reference and dat... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8101919 | Isotopic response with small scintillator based gamma-ray spectrometers The intrinsic background of a gamma ray spectrometer is significantly reduced by surrounding the scintillator with a second scintillator. This second (external) scintillator surrounds the first scintillator and has an opening of approximately the same diameter as th... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8101305 | Carbon fuel particles used in direct carbon conversion fuel cells A system for preparing particulate carbon fuel and using the particulate carbon fuel in a fuel cell. Carbon particles are finely divided. The finely dividing carbon particles are introduced into the fuel cell. A gas containing oxygen is introduced into the fuel cell... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8101023 | Preparation of membranes using solvent-less vapor deposition followed by in-situ polymerization A system of fabricating a composite membrane from a membrane substrate using solvent-less vapor deposition followed by in-situ polymerization. A first monomer and a second monomer are directed into a mixing chamber in a deposition chamber. The first monomer and the ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8097212 | Detection of contamination of municipal water distribution systems A system for the detection of contaminates of a fluid in a conduit. The conduit is part of a fluid distribution system. A chemical or biological sensor array is connected to the conduit. The sensor array produces an acoustic signal burst in the fluid upon detection ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8093474 | Metallic nanospheres embedded in nanowires initiated on nanostructures and methods for synthesis thereof A nanostructure includes a nanowire having metallic spheres formed therein, the spheres being characterized as having at least one of about a uniform diameter and about a uniform spacing there between. A nanostructure in another embodiment includes a substrate havin... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8085894 | Swelling-resistant nuclear fuel A nuclear fuel according to one embodiment includes an assembly of nuclear fuel particles; and continuous open channels defined between at least some of the nuclear fuel particles, wherein the channels are characterized as allowing fission gasses produced in an inte... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8084005 | Multi-well sample plate cover penetration system An apparatus for penetrating a cover over a multi-well sample plate containing at least one individual sample well includes a cutting head, a cutter extending from the cutting head, and a robot. The cutting head is connected to the robot wherein the robot moves the ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081798 | Method and system for detecting polygon boundaries of structures in images as particle tracks through fields of corners and pixel gradients A stochastic method and system for detecting polygon structures in images, by detecting a set of best matching corners of predetermined acuteness α of a polygon model from a set of similarity scores based on GDM features of corners, and tracking polygon boundaries ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8076034 | Confinement of hydrogen at high pressure in carbon nanotubes A high pressure hydrogen confinement apparatus according to one embodiment includes carbon nanotubes capped at one or both ends thereof with a hydrogen-permeable membrane to enable the high pressure confinement of hydrogen and release of the hydrogen therethrough. A... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8075716 | Process for preparing energetic materials Sol-gel chemistry is used for the preparation of energetic materials (explosives, propellants and pyrotechnics) with improved homogeneity, and/or which can be cast to near-net shape, and/or made into precision molding powders. The sol-gel method is a synthetic chemi... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8075712 | Amorphous metal formulations and structured coatings for corrosion and wear resistance A system for coating a surface comprising providing a source of amorphous metal that contains more than 11 elements and applying the amorphous metal that contains more than 11 elements to the surface by a spray. Also a coating comprising a composite material made of... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8071813 | Methods of using ionic liquids having a fluoride anion as solvents A method in one embodiment includes contacting a strongly hydrogen bonded organic material with an ionic liquid having a fluoride anion for solubilizing the strongly hydrogen bonded organic material; and maintaining the ionic liquid at a temperature of about 90° C.... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068522 | Hyper dispersion pulse compressor for chirped pulse amplification systems A grating pulse compressor configuration is introduced for increasing the optical dispersion for a given footprint and to make practical the application for chirped pulse amplification (CPA) to quasi-narrow bandwidth materials, such as Nd:YAG. The grating configurat... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8065119 | Computerized method and system for designing an aerodynamic focusing lens stack A computerized method and system for designing an aerodynamic focusing lens stack, using input from a designer related to, for example, particle size range to be considered, characteristics of the gas to be flowed through the system, the upstream temperature and pre... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064065 | Ultrafast chirped optical waveform recorder using referenced heterodyning and a time microscope A new technique for capturing both the amplitude and phase of an optical waveform is presented. This technique can capture signals with many THz of bandwidths in a single shot (e.g., temporal resolution of about 44 fs), or be operated repetitively at a high rate. Th... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8059924 | Multiplexed photonic membranes and related detection methods for chemical and/or biological sensing applications Photonic detection systems and methods are shown. A flow through photonic membrane is provided with pores which are distributed along multiple regions. The pores of one region have walls to which a first type of target specific anchor can be attached, while pores of... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8057988 | Catalyst for microelectromechanical systems microreactors A microreactor comprising a silicon wafer, a multiplicity of microchannels in the silicon wafer, and a catalyst coating the microchannels. In one embodiment the catalyst coating the microchannels comprises a nanostructured material. In another embodiment the catalys... | 11/15/2011 |
