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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184056 | Radial constrained lens The invention provides apparatuses for a radial constrained lens in a steerable directional antenna system. The radial constrained lens includes a feed array that excites a continuous radiating aperture through a section of radial waveguide. Feed elements of the fee... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8164217 | System and method for management of a DC and AC bus microgrid Systems and methods are described herein for managing the operations of a microgrid module. The microgrid module includes transformers and/or power converters necessary for modifying the input AC or DC power sources to meet the required characteristics of the output... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8133964 | Single-component coating having alkoxysilane-terminated N-substituted urea resins The coating described herein attempts to provide this solution by synthesizing alkoxysilane-terminated N-substituted urea resins, then formulating them into moisture-curable single-component (1K) topside coatings. These coatings will provide greater external stabili... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8123396 | Method and means for precision mixing An extremely dilute mixture of a liquid in a flowing fluid stream is prepared by forming tiny droplets of the liquid and injecting the droplets individually into the flowing stream. The rate at which liquid is added to the flowing stream is determined by the number ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8097472 | System and method for the separation of analytes A separation module operates to fractionate or separate an analyte into fractions according to pI, i.e., pI bands, utilizing capillary isoelectric focusing (“CIEF”) within a first microchannel. The fractions are stacked to form plugs, the number of which is dete... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8082286 | Method and system for soft-weighting a reiterative adaptive signal processor This invention is an improvement upon the basic adaptive signal processors, the Multi-Stage Wiener Filter and the cascaded canceller. The invention combines the concepts of soft weighting the adaptive weights of either type of processor disclosed herein with reitera... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8082133 | Terrain paging during a distributed simulation involving multiple objects A technique is described for managing loading of terrain data into working memory of a computer during a distributed simulation, in which multiple computer systems operated by multiple users participate, where the simulation involves multiple user-controlled objects... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8077274 | Optimizing performance parameters for switchable polymer dispersed liquid crystal optical elements Described herein are the materials, mechanisms and procedures for optimizing various performance parameters of HPDLC optical devices in order to meet differing performance requirements. These optimization tailoring techniques include control and independent optimiza... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077104 | Passive anti-jamming antenna system System and method for improving the interference resistance of an radio frequency (RF) antenna system through passive prescreening of the RF energy incident upon the antenna. The invention physically partitions the RF environment into two or more sectors with respec... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8071957 | Soft chemical ionization source A soft chemical ionization source can be small, require low power, reliably produce different ions depending on the operating conditions and configuration, and produce ions that ionize many sample chemicals in different phases in air, or solutions, or on surfaces. I... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8045505 | Mechanism for automatic network formation and medium access coordination The invention provides a set of mechanisms by which a wireless mobile mesh node equipped with a directional antenna may self form and self adapt its steady-state communications schedule. A link establishment handshake is carried out over an ongoing subtemplate-based... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8043137 | Light-emitting panel and a method for making An improved light-emitting panel having a plurality of micro-components sandwiched between two substrates is disclosed. Each micro-component contains a gas or gas-mixture capable of ionization when a sufficiently large voltage is supplied across the micro-component ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8010470 | Method of and apparatus for automated behavior prediction A computer-implemented method of behavior prediction includes selecting behavior examples having corresponding antecedent candidates, identifying source text descriptions describing the behavior examples, automatically extracting predictors as common themes across a... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8008617 | Ion transfer device Ions carried in a flowing gas stream are transferred to another gas stream of different composition or purity through an ion selective aperture communicating between the gas streams. The ion selective aperture is formed of a central layer which has an electrically c... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7961906 | Human detection with imaging sensors A method and apparatus for determining human beings from terrain or man-made obstacles is provided. A long-wave infrared camera along with additional devices such as a color camera, two cameras in stereo configuration, and/or a LADAR scanner are used such that the p... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7941288 | Chemical agent detection A chemical agent detector with a a lesser demand sensor, a greater demand sensor, an inlet; and a manifold; and methods associated therewith. The manifold is positioned between the inlet and the sensors, and includes a first intake associated with the lesser demand ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7936711 | Method and system for a channel selective repeater with capacity enhancement in a spread-spectrum wireless network The present invention relates to a system and method for extending the coverage area and communication capacity of a spread-spectrum based wireless network through the use of intelligent repeaters. The system comprises a wireless communication network augmented with... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7931592 | Systems and methods for monitoring health and delivering drugs transdermally The present invention pertains to a system and method for transdermal sampling, comprising: at least one sampler for retrieving and transferring at least one analyte obtained transdermally from the skin of a subject; at least one detector system for identifying and ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7916958 | Compression for holographic data and imagery Image pixel intensity data is transformed to a holographic representation of the image. A subset of the holographic representation is modeled. Model parameters constitute a compressed image representation. A two-dimensional Fourier transform can be applied to obtain... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7895568 | Automatically generated objects within extensible object frameworks and links to enterprise resources A method for generating source code objects based on a unified system model designed using a standard unified modeling tool, data in the form of a data model constructed using a logical modeling tool and unified model translator with said data being retrieved from l... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7890440 | Systems and methods for evaluating a group detection tool Systems and methods for evaluating a group detection tool are described. One described method includes a set of data including a collection of asserted links between pairs of individuals, creating a sorted list of the individuals present in the collection of asserte... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7848541 | Differential phase correlation Acceleration of a set of three frames of video with N movers may be determined by generating an inverse Fourier transformation of a differential phase correlation matrix of the three frames. The resultant acceleration estimate may be integrated with the velocity and... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7872707 | Method for controlling an index modulation of a switchable polymer dispersed liquid crystal optical component Described herein are the materials, mechanisms and procedures for optimizing various performance parameters of HPDLC optical devices in order to meet differing performance requirements. These optimization tailoring techniques include control and independent optimiza... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7836811 | Tools for use with robotic systems Systems are described herein for remotely aligning and placing disruptive devices at or near suspicious targets such as suspected improvised explosive devices (IEDs). In particular, tools connected to remotely controllable robots include disruptor guns for firing di... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7829153 | Microwave-attenuating composite materials, methods for preparing the same, intermediates for preparing the same, devices containing the same, methods of preparing such a device, and methods of attenuating microwaves The present invention provides microwave attenuating, filled composite materials which contain a polymer or ceramic matrix and metallic tubules and processes for making the same and devices which contain such materials. ... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7814208 | System and method for projecting content beyond firewalls A system and method for exchanging information between clients separated by firewalls is disclosed. A server may receive the information as posted through a browser client from beyond a first firewall and relay it to another client beyond a second firewall without l... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7789725 | Manufacture of light-emitting panels provided with texturized micro-components A method of forming micro-components is disclosed. The method includes pretesting and conditioning of the micro-components. The micro-components that fail testing or conditioning are discarded, and those remaining are assembled into a panel. ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7787012 | System and method for video image registration in a heads up display A system and method for aligning video images with an underlying visual field are provided. A video camera is coupled with a heads up display, and a computer positions images from the video camera on the heads up display based on the relative orientations of the cam... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7764830 | Machine learning of document templates for data extraction The present system can perform machine learning of prototypical descriptions of data elements for extraction from machine-readable documents. Document templates are created from sets of training documents that can be used to extract data from form documents, such as... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7761316 | System and method for determining performance level capabilities in view of predetermined model criteria Described is a process and system for tracing a company's work products to the equivalent work product element requirements for individual maturity models in order to ascertain an approximate determination of the maturity level of a particular maturity model that ha... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7752483 | Process and system for three-dimensional urban modeling A Heart Beat System (HBS) enables both inertial navigation system (INS) technology and other sensors, e.g., laser radar (LIDAR) systems, cameras and the like to be precisely time-coupled. The result of this coupling enables microsecond control by the HBS to each sen... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7746450 | Full-field light detection and ranging imaging system Apparatuses and methods determine positional information from a reflected optical signal for an object on a per pixel basis. A spread spectrum imaging system includes a transmitting module transmitting a transmitted optical signal that illuminates a target space and... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7742170 | Method and system for countering laser technology Described herein is a method and system for providing a countermeasure against laser detection systems using nanocomponent material that is tailored to cloak or obscure a target from detection by transmitted laser radiation. The nanodot material absorbs and/or down-... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7738271 | Controlled resonant charge transfer device Methods and devices for achieving a desired output in a resonant charge transfer device are given. In an exemplary embodiment a controlled resonant charge transfer device comprises first and second filter sections, first and second switch sections, a charge storage ... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7735311 | Pulsed detonation engines manufactured from materials having low thermal stability Pulsed detonation engines (PDEs), or various components thereof, such as the detonation chamber and/or nozzle, can be economically constructed from materials having low thermal stability, such as plastics, composites, and light metals. During operation, the intermit... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7710913 | Method and system for a channel selective repeater with capacity enhancement in a spread-spectrum wireless network The present invention relates to a system and method for extending the coverage area and communication capacity of a spread-spectrum based wireless network through the use of intelligent repeaters. The system comprises a wireless communication network augmented with... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7668222 | Dual flow common combustor chemical laser The invention herein is directed to a dual-chamber combustion laser assembly having lighter weight (per unit flow area), a more compact, flexible configuration for packaging in spacecraft, aircraft, or ground mobile vehicles, higher mass efficiency from lower heat l... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7655477 | System and method for the separation of analytes A separation module operates to fractionate or separate an analyte into fractions according to pI, i.e., pI bands, utilizing capillary isoelectric focusing (“CIEF”) within a first microchannel. The fractions are stacked to form plugs, the number of which is dete... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7653605 | Method of and apparatus for automated behavior prediction A computer-implemented method of behavior prediction includes selecting behavior examples having corresponding antecedent candidates, identifying source text descriptions describing the behavior examples, automatically extracting predictors as common themes across a... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7653248 | Compression for holographic data and imagery Image pixel intensity data is transformed to a holographic representation of the image. A subset of the holographic representation is modeled. Model parameters constitute a compressed image representation. A two-dimensional Fourier transform can be applied to obtain... | 01/26/2010 |
