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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8176829 | Armor system and method of manufacture An armor system includes a hard face and at least one reinforcing layer covering a rear surface of the hard face. The reinforcing layer is fabricated from a glass-ceramic material exhibiting crystalline bodies throughout the mass of the glass-ceramic material. At le... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176828 | Glass-ceramic with laminates A transparent armor system includes a hard face fabricated from a substantially transparent glass-ceramic material exhibiting crystalline bodies throughout the mass of the glass-ceramic material and a backing covering a rear surface of the hard face opposite an anti... | 05/15/2012 |
| 7856161 | Optical fiber faceplates including convergent constituent imaging conduits and tiled imaging arrays incorporating the same An imaging module includes an optical fiber faceplate with an image-input face, a planar image-output face, and a plurality of adjacently fused, internally reflecting imaging conduits extending between the image-input and image-output faces. The constituent imaging ... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7827822 | Method and apparatus for spray-forming melts of glass and glass-ceramic compositions The invention relates to a process and apparatus for forming a particulate composition, especially a particle glass composition, through the use of shock waves. A nozzle element is utilized having inlets for introduction of cold and heated gas and a delivery tube fo... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7583876 | Illuminable image-conducting optical assembly including light-conductive optics housing for creating an illuminating halo An illuminable image-conducting optical assembly includes an illuminable image-transporting optical fiber bundle having (i) an inner image-conducting bundle with opposed image-input and image-output faces and (ii) a plurality of illumination conduits disposed periph... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7570855 | Conduit bundles including first-type and second-type conduits with disparate properties A conduit bundle includes an inner bundle of first-type conduits extending between inner-bundle first and second ends. The first-type conduits are mutually and adjacently bonded along coinciding portions of their lengths in order to define an inner-bundle rigid regi... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7400795 | Light conduits having peripheral, shape-defining polymer overmolds An elongated light-guiding element includes opposed incident and emission ends between which light propagates by total internal reflection. The light-guiding element includes a glass core with first and second glass core ends and a glass-core outer surface. A non-gl... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7308177 | Partially flexible wound optical fiber bundle having intermediate rigid regions and methods of fabricating the same A of fabricating a partially flexible optical fiber bundle includes forming plural helical fiber ribbons, each helical ribbon being formed by winding a fiber about a mandrel and adjacently fusing a first selected set of fiber portions within each ribbon to define an... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7305166 | Graded refractive index optical fibers, optical components fabricated to include plural graded index optical fibers and methods of fabricating the same A graded-refractive-index optical fiber is fabricated by providing an elongated core rod of a first material including a concentration of high-refractive-index ions and a cladding tube of a second material including a lower concentration of the high-refractive-index... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7280727 | Micro-well and methods of fabricating and selectively blackening the same Well plates adaptable for specimen sampling in the biological, chemical and pharmaceutical sciences are fabricated by dissolving fusedly-retained cores from the cladding material of a fused fiber plate to define a capillary plate including first and second faces and... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280723 | Illumination assembly including a rigid light-guiding element incorporating a numerical-aperture alteration taper An illumination assembly includes a light-emitting element that emits light over a light-source numerical aperture and an elongated light-guiding element including opposed incident and emission ends between which ends light propagates by total internal reflection. T... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7229200 | Light conductive rod elements and light-delivery tool including a base for introducing light into a light conductive rod element A light-conductive rod element includes a solid rod-shaped body having a side surface extending along a longitudinal rod axis between a first light-input end and a second light-redirecting end. The rod element is fabricated from a material exhibiting a refractive in... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7221835 | Ion-reduction-blackened extra-mural absorbing media adapted for inclusion in image-conducting optical fiber arrays and methods of fabricating the same Methods of fabricating extra-mural absorption elements adapted for incorporation in an image-conducting optical fiber array include fabricating various constituent components to be included in an optical fiber bundle from one or more reducible-ion-containing glasses... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7095941 | Fused optical fiber optical device system A fused optical fiber optical device system comprises at least one optical component comprising optical fibers and at least one other optical component with which light transmitted in the optical fibers interacts, wherein the optical fiber comprises a core glass of ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 6795226 | Chromogenic glazing A transparent chromogenic assembly in which color changes are selectively effectable over predefined areas comprises a pair of facing transparent substrates (15, 21, 28) each covered with a conductive layer divided into individual energizeable areas each prov... | 09/21/2004 |
