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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7679057 | Antenna-coupled-into-rectifier infrared sensor elements and infrared sensors An infrared sensor element having an antenna coupled directly into a rectifier. Infrared radiation impinging the antenna induces an alternating current. The rectifier converts the alternating current into a rectified signal. The rectified signal corresponds to a mag... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7677491 | Methods and apparatus for airborne systems In various representative aspects, an airborne delivery system according to various aspects of the present invention comprises a container and an autorotating rotor system. The container may contain contents, and the rotor system facilitates control of at least a po... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7675958 | Intra-cavity non-degenerate laguerre mode generator A lasing method including the steps of providing a laser resonator; utilizing birefringence compensation in said resonator whereby said resonator is induced to operate in a Laguerre-Gaussian higher order mode; and utilizing polarized outcoupling of lasing energy at ... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7675952 | Articulated glaze cladding for laser components and method of encapsulation A glaze encapsulated solid-state laser component. The novel laser component includes a core and a cladding of ceramic glaze disposed on a surface of the core. In an illustrative embodiment, the core is fabricated from a laser gain medium and the cladding material is... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7675066 | Erase-on-demand memory cell An erase-on-demand memory cell 10(1) includes a memory layer 110 and a heating layer 130 that can heat memory layer 110 to at least an erase-effective temperature, to erase its data contents. Memory chips 270(1) and e... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7671801 | Armor for an electronically scanned array According to an embodiment of the present invention, an electronically scanned array includes a plurality of armor segments interspersed between a plurality of transmit/receive integrated microwave modules (TRIMMs), and a clamping element compressing the armor segme... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7671792 | Global positioning receiver with system and method for parallel synchronization for reducing time to first navigation fix A global positioning system receiver with a system and method for parallel synchronization. The novel receiver includes a correlator having plural demodulator channels for receiving a signal from a first satellite, and a processor for processing the signal from the ... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7671783 | Radar reflector A submarine warfare radar training system 10 includes an underwater vehicle 15 towing a float device 40 and a radar reflective target 45. The radar reflective target 45 is configured as a hollow tube-shaped element 50 having... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7671696 | Radio frequency interconnect circuits and techniques A multilayer circuit board assembly includes one or more radio frequency (RF) interconnects between different circuit layers on different circuit boards which make up the circuit board assembly. The RF interconnects can include one or more RF matching pads which pro... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7670045 | Microstrip power sensor A power sensor having a microstrip transmission line, comprising: a dielectric substrate; a strip conductor disposed on one surface of the substrate; and a ground plane conductor disposed on an opposite surface of the substrate. The power sensor includes a plurality... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7669081 | Systems and methods for scheduling, processing, and monitoring tasks A computer-implemented method for performing a process is provided. The method comprises: (a) receiving a request to perform a process, the process comprising a plurality of tasks and at least a scheduler rule; (b) receiving a plurality of checkpoints associated wit... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7667190 | Optical fiber assembly wrapped across roll-nod gimbal axes in a DIRCM system A control mechanism pins an optical fiber assembly on and off gimbal and between gimbals to route the assembly from an off-gimbal optical source across the gimbal axis/axes to an on-gimbal optical element so that the fiber assembly moves with the rotation of the gim... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7665998 | Radio frequency connector An RF connector includes an RF connector block including a body portion having a plurality of dividers projecting from a surface thereof with each of the dividers having a first surface configured to mate with an RF circuit board and having a second sloped surface. ... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7664472 | Reducing the peak-to-average power ratio of a signal Reducing the peak-to-average power ratio of a signal comprises receiving the input signal, where the input signal is associated with at least one unacceptable frequency range. The input signal is clipped about an amplitude range to yield a clipped signal and clipped... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7664196 | Frequency agile phase locked loop A circuit having a frequency controllable oscillator and a variable time delay circuit. The time delay circuit is fed by a signal produced by the oscillator, such time delay circuit being coupled to the oscillator to control the frequency of the signal produced by t... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7664120 | Multiple-transceiver distributed dynamic channel selection in a communication network In certain embodiments, a first node among a plurality of distributed nodes capable of forming or reforming a communication network between the nodes, each of the nodes including one or more transceivers, includes a memory for storing values for variables for the fi... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7663090 | Automatic photodiode biasing circuit A biasing circuit for a photodiode. The novel biasing circuit includes a first system for setting a reference gain threshold, a second system for setting an operating gain threshold, and a third system for adjusting a bias of the photodiode until a ratio of the oper... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7662698 | Transistor having field plate A method for forming a transistor device having a field plate. The method includes forming a structure having a source, a drain, and a Tee gate. A photo-resist layer is formed on the structure with an opening therein only the one of two distal ends of the Tee gate. ... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7661628 | Catalyzed decomposing structural payload foam and method of using same A high energy, e.g., ultraviolet (UV), catalyzed decomposing foam encapsulating a payload to be boosted in space provides an ultra-light weight, adaptable means to facilitate survival of much lighter, smaller satellites and space hardware under boost environment. Th... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7657189 | Optical link A system having a first optical modulator operates in a non-linear region thereof and fed by: an input radio frequency signal; and, a first optical frequency signal having a wavelength λ2. A second optical modulator operates in a linear region thereof an... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7656801 | Selective jamming of network traffic in contention-based networks According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for selectively jamming network traffic includes monitoring data packets transmitted over a network. In response to the monitoring, the presence of a blocked signal is identified in a first data packet. ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7652818 | Optical sight having an unpowered reticle illumination source An optical sight includes an optical train having an optical path therethrough, an entrance, and an exit. A reticle is visible through the exit of the optical path. An unpowered reticle illumination source has a first light source that illuminates the reticle respon... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7652631 | Ultra-wideband antenna array with additional low-frequency resonance In accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure, methods and systems for radiating elements are provided. In a method embodiment, a method of forming a radiating element includes forming a pair of conductive fingers having first and second portions. The ... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7652620 | RCS signature generation for closely spaced multiple objects using N-point models A method and system for analyzing the RCS of an object using N Point signature prediction models is provided. N-point signature prediction models are created for each object in a scenario and stored in lookup tables. Shooting and Bounce trace back techniques are use... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7651237 | System and method for reticle illumination A reticle illumination system. The novel system includes a first light source adapted to output light toward a target surface and a material having a predetermined index of refraction disposed between the first light source and the target surface for coupling light ... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7650711 | Rifle scope with textured profile A riflescope. In the illustrative embodiment, the inventive riflescope is implemented with a housing having an exterior surface and a texture applied to the surface of the housing. In the best mode, the texture has an elevation of 250 microns above the surface of th... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7648249 | Beam-steering apparatus having five degrees of freedom of line-of-sight steering A beam-steering apparatus comprises a set of planar tiltable mirrors positioned to define a light beam path therebetween. The set of planar tiltable mirrors comprises from three to five planar tiltable mirrors. Each of the planar tiltable mirrors has a center of rot... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7646796 | Solid-state suspension laser with separate excitation and extraction A laser. The novel laser includes a gain medium, a pump source adapted to optically excite the gain medium in a first location, and a resonator adapted to extract energy from the gain medium in a second location distinct from the first location. In an illustrative e... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7646332 | Method and apparatus for interleaved gridding in distributed multiple computing for real-time RCS prediction Apparatus and method for real-time determination of radar cross sections is disclosed using interleaved gridding. Radar cross section calculations are amenable to an implementation on parallel processors wherein the shooting window is subdivided into smaller areal u... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7645970 | Flight control system and method of using piezoelectric modal sensors to mitigate flexible body dynamics A flight control system is provided with one or more modal sensors that are each configured to measure the rate and possibly acceleration for a flexible body mode of the flight vehicle. The modal sensor's rate and suitably acceleration are subtracted from the rate a... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7642492 | Single-axis fin deployment system A missile has fins that rotate about a single axis to deploy from a stowed position to a deployed position. A foil longitudinal axis of each fin is angled relative to a shaft of the fin, such that a single-axis rotation of the shaft moves the foil from the stowed po... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7642336 | Phthalonitrile composites The disclosed compositions and methods for producing composite materials that are suitably adapted for use in elevated temperature environments generally include the use of oxyarylbisorthodinitrile matrix resins in conjunction with aromatic amines to produce an impr... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7637460 | Methods and apparatus for a cable retractor to prevent cable damage after connector release Methods and apparatus for a cable retractor device to remove slack in a lanyard coupled to a cable connector after release of an item from a vehicle. In one embodiment, the cable retractor device removes slack after the item is released from an aircraft to reduce th... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7636647 | Efficient design process for the allocation of variability to non-normally distributed components of complex systems and for the estimation of the system response probability density A method for implementing a point estimation method (PEM) that predicts variability of a system output response based on variabilities of inputs includes building a customized designed experiment such that each input variable x for the designed experiment is assigne... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7636455 | Digital image edge detection and road network tracking method and system A system and method for finding edge orientation and magnitude, and extracting a road path from an image. An image is segmented into at least a first window and a second window. A first road segment having plural parameters within the first window is specified. Plur... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7635761 | Water-soluble group III polyether acid salt complexes and thin films from same A water-stable and water-soluble ceramic precursor is provided, containing at least one Group III element. Also, a metal acid salt complex is provided comprising (1) bismuth, lanthanum, and titanium, and (2) a polyether acid. In addition, methods are provided for pr... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7634912 | Methods and apparatus for actuator system Methods and apparatus for an actuator system according to various aspects of the present invention include a housing; a sleeve having a deformable portion; and a mover for applying force to the sleeve. The sleeve, which is sealed to the housing, is configured to res... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7634553 | Service proxy for emulating a service in a computer infrastructure for testing and demonstration A method of emulating a service in a computer infrastructure includes the steps of providing a service proxy instance as a stand-in for the service and running the service proxy instance on a computer accessible to the computer infrastructure. The service proxy inst... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7634361 | Event alert system and method An event alert system and method provide event detection modules that communicate detected events with a central command center. The central command center combines the detected events with related data to provide an intelligent response signal, and communicates the... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7633991 | Ultra-low heat laser An ultra-low heat laser that does not rely on florescence cooling. Generally, the inventive laser includes a pump source operable at a pump frequency and a gain medium disposed to receive energy from the source and lase at a frequency close to the pump frequency. In... | 12/15/2009 |