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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8090411 | Wireless millimeter wave communication system A lens-based millimeter wave transceiver for use in wireless communication systems operating in the E-band spectrum consistent with the FCC rules regulating the 71-76 GHz and 81-86 GHz bands. The transceiver includes a single lens adapted for transmission of millime... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090379 | Cellular systems with distributed antennas A communication system providing wireless communication among wireless users through a number of cellular base stations, each including at least transport management equipment and broadband equipment, at least one of which supports at least remote cellular station i... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8025425 | Beaconless adaptive optics system An improved beaconless adaptive optics system and process. A target is illuminated with a high energy laser beam of a directed energy laser. Wave front measurements are made of high energy laser beam reflections from the target. These wave front measurements are ana... | 09/27/2011 |
| 7912506 | Wireless millimeter wave communication system with mobile base station A communication system providing wireless communication among wireless users through a number of cellular base stations. At least one of the base stations is a mobile base station in which low and high speed wireless transceivers are mounted on a temporarily station... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7460294 | Optically addressed MEMS Optically controlled micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) is disclosed. In one embodiment, a MEMS device may include a rotatable mirror having an optical sensor that is in electrical communication with the rotatable mirror via an associated electrode. Electrical p... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7447591 | Daytime stellar imager for attitude determination An automatic celestial navigation system for navigating both night and day by observation of K-band or H-band infrared light from multiple stars. One or more telescopes mounted on a movable platform such as a ship or airplane and directed at a substantially differen... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7432846 | Millimeter wave imaging system A millimeter wave imaging system. The system includes at least one millimeter wave frequency scanning antenna for collecting frequency dependent beams of millimeter wave radiation from a narrow one-dimensional field of view; a millimeter wave amplifier for amplifyin... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7415244 | Multi-channel millimeter wave imaging system A broad-band millimeter wave imaging system with improved thermal resolution as compared to prior art devices. The system is useful for producing images of metal and non-metal objects such as guns, knives and explosives hidden under clothing. A cylindrical antenna f... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7386201 | Mems mirror array and controls A MEMS mirror array in which the MEMS mirrors are driven in two axes by vertical comb drive actuators. Tortional elements with conductive comb fingers are utilized to provide the two axis actuation. A MEMS mirror control system supplies electrical voltage potentials... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7385549 | Millimeter wave portal imaging system A millimeter wave portal imaging system for the detection of concealed weapons, explosives and other contraband items. A preferred millimeter wave imaging system includes a number (such as 64) of millimeter wave detection units each including a frequency scanning an... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7349804 | Daytime stellar imager An automatic celestial navigation system for navigating both night and day by observation of K-band or H-band infrared light from multiple stars. In a first set of preferred embodiments three relatively large aperture telescopes are rigidly mounted on a movable plat... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349803 | Daytime stellar imager An automatic celestial navigation system for navigating both night and day by observation of K-band or H-band infrared light from multiple stars. A preferred embodiment uses three telescopes with each of the three telescopes rigidly mounted with respect to each othe... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7248204 | Security system with metal detection and mm-wave imaging A concealed weapons and contraband detection system combining metal detection equipment with millimeter wave imaging equipment. The preferred millimeter wave imaging equipment includes at least one millimeter wave frequency scanning antenna for collecting frequency ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7194236 | Millimeter wave imaging system A millimeter wave imaging system that includes at least one millimeter wave frequency scanning antenna for collecting frequency dependent beams of millimeter wave radiation from a narrow one-dimensional field of view. The collected radiation is amplified at the coll... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7190509 | Optically addressed MEMS Optically controlled micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) is disclosed. In one embodiment, a MEMS device may include a rotatable mirror having an optical sensor that is in electrical communication with the rotatable mirror via an associated electrode. Electrical p... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7177390 | Digital x-ray tomosynthesis system Method and device for digital x-ray tomosynthesis. Tomographic and/or three-dimensional images of an object are obtained with an x-ray source and a digital x-ray image sensor. The source, object and sensor are positioned relative to each other and attenuation data i... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7065326 | Millimeter wave communications system with a high performance modulator circuit A high data rate communication system operating at frequencies greater than 70 MHz and at data rates of about 1.25 Gbps or greater. Preferred embodiments include modulators with a resonant LC circuit including a diode which is back-biased for “off” (i.e., no tra... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7062293 | Cellular telephone system with free space millimeter wave trunk line A wireless cellular communication system in which groups of cellular base stations communicate with a central office via a narrow-band millimeter wave trunk line. The transceivers are equipped with antennas providing beam divergence small enough to ensure efficient ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 6968098 | Method for providing variable optical attenuation A method for attenuating an optical beam is provided, and in one embodiment, a communication beam and associated alignment beam are generated by a beam generating element. The alignment beam may later be sampled by a sensor that can provide a relative location of th... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6835002 | Apparatus and method for aligning fiber arrays A method of aligning fiber arrays includes the method steps of inserting optical fibers into a ferrule array with a predetermined portion of the fiber extending from the ferrule. The ends of the fibers are then inserted at least partially through a fiber alignment h... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6800856 | Light sampling system A light sampling system for sampling scattered light from mirrors in an optical switch. The system includes four basic components: an imaging lens, a multi-channel liquid crystal light valve (LCLV), a collecting lens, and a light sensor. Light scattered by each mirr... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6763196 | Laser communication system with source tracking A free space laser communication system that maintains dynamic alignment is presented. The system comprises two laser transceivers positioned a distance apart. Each transceiver includes the following components. A beacon laser is provided for transmitting a beacon b... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6738147 | Autostigmatic far field simulator A far-field simulator (FFS) which can be accurately calibrated and verified to sub-wavelength optical precision under any applicable test conditions is described. The FFS can be used over a tremendous range of ambient temperatures, and other conditions without detri... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6714800 | Cellular telephone system with free space millimeter wave trunk line A wireless cellular communication system in which groups of cellular base stations communicate with a central office via a narrow-band millimeter wave trunk line. The transceivers are equipped with antennas providing beam divergence small enough to ensure efficient ... | 03/30/2004 |
