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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8009520 | Method and system for operating an atomic clock using a self-modulated laser with electrical modulation A polarization gain medium such as an emitting laser diode provides the optical pumping. An atomic vapor cell is positioned in the laser cavity providing spontaneous push-pull optical pumping inside the laser cavity. This causes the laser beam to be modulated at hyp... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7931794 | Method and system for electrolytic fabrication of atomic clock cells The present invention relates to a method and system for electrolytic fabrication of cells. A cell can be formed of a silicon layer (cathode) sandwiched between layers of glass. One or more holes are formed in the silicon layer. An alkali metal enriched glass materi... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7877340 | System and method for resolving gamma-ray spectra A system for identifying radionuclide emissions is described. The system includes at least one processor for processing output signals from a radionuclide detecting device, at least one training algorithm run by the at least one processor for analyzing data derived ... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7825736 | Method for suppressing light shift in optical pumping systems The present invention relates to a method and system to suppress or eliminate light shift in an optical pumping system, such as an atomic clock. The method uses modulation of a radiation source, such as a radio frequency or microwave source, to simultaneously lock t... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7758794 | Method of making an article comprising nanoscale patterns with reduced edge roughness In accordance with the invention, an article comprising a nanoscale surface pattern, such as a grating, is provided with a nanoscale patterns of reduced edge and/or sidewall roughness. Smooth featured articles, can be fabricated by nanoimprint lithography using a mo... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7744039 | Systems and methods for controlling flows with electrical pulses Systems and methods for controlling flow with electrical pulses are disclosed. An aircraft system in accordance with one embodiment includes an aerodynamic body having a flow surface exposed to an adjacent air stream, and a flow control assembly that includes a firs... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7700498 | Self-repair and enhancement of nanostructures by liquification under guiding conditions In accordance with the invention, the structure (10A, 10B) of a patterned nanoscale or near nanoscale device (“nanostructure”) is repaired and/or enhanced by liquifying the patterned device in the presence of appropriate guiding conditions for a pe... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7666619 | Compounds and methods for regulating bacterial growth and pathogenesis The invention provides autoinducer-2 analogs that regulate the activity of autoinducer-2 and methods of using such analogs for regulating bacterial growth and pathogenesis. ... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7635262 | Lithographic apparatus for fluid pressure imprint lithography Improved apparatus for imprint lithography involves using direct fluid pressure to press a mold into a substrate-supported film. Advantageously the mold and/or substrate are sufficiently flexible to provide wide area contact under the fluid pressure. Fluid pressing ... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7588657 | Pattern-free method of making line gratings In accordance with the invention, substrate-supported linear arrays are formed by the steps of adhering a thin layer of polymer between a pair of substrates and separating the substrates perpendicular to the layer. The polymer layer separates to form substrate-suppo... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7510946 | Method for filling of nanoscale holes and trenches and for planarizing of a wafer surface A processing method for use in the fabrication of fabrication of nanoscale electronic, optical, magnetic, biological, and fluidic devices and structures, for filling nanoscale holes and trenches, for planarizing a wafer surface, or for achieving both filling and pla... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7504355 | Supported metal catalyst with improved thermal stability Catalytic systems are provided that include a metallic catalyst attached to a ceramic support that has alumina as a principal ingredient. The ceramic support is doped with an adhesive agent so that the surface of the support includes the adhesive agent. The adhesive... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7491892 | Stretchable and elastic interconnects The present invention relates to stretchable interconnects which can be made in various geometric configurations, depending on the intended application. The stretchable interconnects can be formed of an electrically conducting film or an elastomer material to provid... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7439814 | Method and system for operating an atomic clock with simultaneous control of frequency and magnetic field The present invention relates to a method and system in which multi-coherent resonances of a microwave in which the alkali-metal atoms in the ground state are driven simultaneously by a microwave hyperfine frequency ΩH and a Zeeman frequency ΩZ | 10/21/2008 |
| 7418134 | Method and apparatus for foreground segmentation of video sequences The present invention relates to a method and system for foreground segmentation in which frames of a video sequence are analyzed in the transform domain to determine one or more features. The features are used to model the background. The background can be modeled ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7344850 | Identification of active-site inhibitors of glycosyltransferases using a generalizable high-throughput screen A method is described for identifying a compound that modulates the ability of a glycosyltransferase to bind a substrate comprising combining a glycosyltransferase, a labeled substrate, and a compound, in a reaction vessel, under conditions known to be suitable for ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7326542 | Compositions and methods for regulating bacterial pathogenesis The production of a purified extracellular bacterial signal called autoinducer-2 is regulated by changes in environmental conditions associated with a shift from a free-living existence to a colonizing or pathogenic existence in a host organism. Autoinducer-2 stimul... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7323941 | Method and system for operating a laser self-modulated at alkali-metal atom hyperfine frequency The present invention provides a method and apparatus for making atomic clocks or atomic magnetometers as self-modulated laser systems based on the physics of push-pull optical pumping. An atomic vapor cell is required to be in the laser cavity. With proper conditio... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7323340 | Compositions and methods for regulating bacterial pathogenesis The production of a purified extracellular bacterial signal called autoinducer-2 is regulated by changes in environmental conditions associated with a shift from a free-living existence to a colonizing or pathogenic existence in a host organism. Autoinducer-2 stimul... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7317739 | Mode-locked laser using a mode-locking wavelength selective reflector In accordance with the invention, a mode-locked laser comprises an optical gain medium disposed within an optical cavity formed by a first reflector and a wavelength selective second reflector to achieve mode-locking operation. Advantageously, the wavelength reflect... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7284035 | System for wireless push and pull based services The present invention relates to a method and system for providing Web content from pull and push based services running on Web content providers to mobile users. A proxy gateway connects the mobile users to the Web content providers. A prefetching module is used at... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7282456 | Self-repair and enhancement of nanostructures by liquification under guiding conditions In accordance with the invention, the structure of a patterned nanoscale or near nanoscale device (“nanostructure”) is repaired and/or enhanced by liquifying the patterned device in the presence of appropriate guiding conditions for a period of time and then per... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7244948 | Miniature multinuclide detection system and methods The present invention is directed toward an apparatus and methods for detection and identification of target radionuclides and threatening radionuclides that may be present in a sample volume. One aspect of the invention provides a digital computational apparatus th... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7217562 | Gradient structures interfacing microfluidics and nanofluidics, methods for fabrication and uses thereof The present invention relates to a device for interfacing nanofluidic and microfluidic components suitable for use in performing high throughput macromolecular analysis. Diffraction gradient lithography (DGL) is used to form a gradient interface between a microfluid... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7216660 | Method and device for controlling liquid flow on the surface of a microfluidic chip The invention is directed to a method and device for routing, mixing, or reacting droplets or liquid microstreams along the surface of a flat substrate. The flow of liquid microstreams or microdroplets along designated pathways is confined by chemical surface patter... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7208612 | Crystals of LuxP and complexes thereof A crystal comprising LuxP is obtained, and a binding site for autoinducer-2 (AI-2) identified. The X-ray crystallographic data for LuxP and a LuxP-AI-2 complex is determined and used in a drug discovery method. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising ligands identifi... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7200266 | Method and apparatus for automated video activity analysis The invention is a new method and apparatus that can be used to detect, recognize, and analyze people or other objects in security checkpoints, public-places, parking lots, or in similar environments under surveillance to detect the presence of certain objects of in... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7183099 | Inhibitors of autoinducer transporters The present invention relates to the discovery of the lsr operon, the genes therein, and the polypeptides encoded by these genes. The present invention also includes strains with altered expression levels of the polypeptides encoded by the genes and the lsr operon r... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7179534 | Conductive-polymer electronic switch A switch, used as an electronic-memory element, comprising a conductive organic polymer layer sandwiched between, and in contact with, two metallic conductive elements. In an initial post-fabrication state, the organic polymer layer is relatively highly conductive, ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7151077 | Polymersome compositions and associated methods of use The present invention relates to methods and compositions for treating subterranean formations. More particularly, the present invention relates to polymersomes, viscosifying agents that comprise polymersomes, and associated methods of use. In some embodiments, the ... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7119356 | Forming closely spaced electrodes The present invention provides an apparatus and a method of fabricating the apparatus. The apparatus comprises a substrate having a planar surface and first and second electrodes located on the planar surface. The first electrode has a top surface and a lateral surf... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7049116 | Engineered protein kinases which can utilize modified nucleotide triphosphate substrates Engineered protein kinases which can utilize modified nucleotide triphosphate substrates that are not as readily utilized by the wild-type forms of those enzymes, and methods of making and using them are disclosed. Modified nucleotide triphosphate substrates and met... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7026461 | Engineered protein kinases which can utilize nucleotide triphosphate substrates Engineered protein kinases which can utilize modified nucleotide triphosphate substrates that are not as readily utilized by the wild-type forms of those enzymes, and methods of making and using them. Modified nucleotide triphosphate substrates and methods of making... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6968022 | Method and apparatus for scheduling switched multibeam antennas in a multiple access environment The invention is a switched beam beamforming method and apparatus for wireless communication receiving stations utilizing an array of antenna elements in which only a single beam is generated at any given instant and the beam is switched at a very high rate, e.g., f... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6942986 | Compositions and methods for regulating bacterial pathogenesis The production of a purified extracellular bacterial signal called autoinducer-2 is regulated by changes in environmental conditions associated with a shift from a free-living existence to a colonizing or pathogenic existence in a host organism. Autoinducer-2 stimul... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6936435 | Compositions and methods for regulating bacterial pathogenesis The production of a purified extracellular bacterial signal called autoinducer-2 is regulated by changes in environmental conditions associated with a shift from a free-living existence to a colonizing or pathogenic existence in a host organism. Autoinducer-2 stimul... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6921653 | Crystalline UDP-glycosyl transferase (MurG) and methods of use thereof The present invention relates to crystals of the Escherichia coli MurG, a membrane-associated UDP-glycosyltransferase involved in peptidoglycan biosynthesis. The present invention also relates to three-dimensional atomic coordinates of the MurG protein, three... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6919770 | Method and system for operating an atomic clock with reduced spin-exchange broadening of atomic clock resonances The present invention relates to a method and system for using end resonances of highly spin-polarized alkali metal vapors for an atomic clock, magnetometer or other system. A left end resonance involves a transition from the quantum state of minimum spin angular mo... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6915240 | System and method of data reduction for improved exponential decay measurements A novel system and method for data reduction for improved exponential decay rate measurement in the present of excess low frequency noise. The system and method fit the tail of a record to a straight line wherein the straight line is extrapolated to the entire recor... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6888780 | Method and system for operating an atomic clock with simultaneous locking of field and frequency The present invention provides a method and system to simultaneously use the microwave and Zeeman end resonances associated with the same sublevel of maximum (or minimum) azimuthal quantum number m to lock both the atomic clock frequency and the magnetic field to de... | 05/03/2005 |
