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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| D615183 | Ceiling fan blade | 05/04/2010 |
| 7696860 | Electromagnetic field tactile display interface and biosensor Tactile communication methods, systems and devices for wireless touch communication which include an array of electromechanical transducers each independently capable of producing a vibration for communicating qualitative and quantitative tactile cues to a user, at ... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7561605 | Extreme chirped/stretched pulsed amplification and laser Methods, devices and systems for generating ultrashort optical linear chirped pulses with very high power by amplifying the pulses so that their temporal duration is longer than the storage time of the amplifying medium. The additional gain factor is related to the ... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7458384 | Surfactant incorporated nanostructure for pressure drop reduction in oil and gas lines Nano-sized rare earth metal oxide particles are prepared from aqueous reverse micelles. The engineered nanoparticles have large surface area to volume ratios, and uniformly incorporate a surfactant in each particle, so that when applied to the inner surface of a pip... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7450735 | Tracking across multiple cameras with disjoint views Tracking and surveillance methods and systems for monitoring objects passing in front of non-overlapping cameras. Invention finds corresponding tracks from different cameras and works out which object passing in front of the camera(s) made the tracks, in order to tr... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7450626 | Lasers that operate independently of temperature Apparatus, methods, systems and devices for providing a temperature independent laser by determining a temperature dependence of a lasing wavelength, selecting the lasing wavelength having minimal temperature dependence and constraining the lasing wavelength of the ... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7450204 | Multi-film compensated liquid crystal display with initial homogeneous alignment A liquid crystal display having a positive A-film and a negative A-film between a top polarizer and a bottom polarizer to increase the viewing angle of the liquid crystal display by reducing or eliminating light leakage at voltage-off state when viewed from an obliq... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7438885 | Synthesis of carbon nanotubes filled with palladium nanoparticles using arc discharge in solution A novel method for simultaneously forming and filling and decorating carbon nanotubes with palladium nanoparticles is disclosed. Synthesis involves preparing a palladium chloride (PdCl2) solution in a container, having two graphite electrodes, then immers... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7433604 | Direct-detection optical differential 8-level phase shift keying (OD8PSK) for spectrally efficient transmission Efficient systems, devices, apparatus and methods to generate, transmit and detect differentially encoded 8-level phase-modulated optical signals for spectrally efficient optical communication systems is invented. It includes an electrical encoder and an optical enc... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7424185 | Stretching and compression of laser pulses by means of high efficiency volume diffractive gratings with variable periods in photo-thermo-refractive glass High efficiency reflective volume Bragg gratings with chirped gratings recorded in photo-thermo-refractive glass having an absolute diffraction efficiency exceeding 95% in transmitting and reflecting modes are used to stretch and/or compress ultrashort laser pulses ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7422667 | Electrochemical deposition of carbon nanoparticles from organic solutions Carbon nanoparticles including both nanofilaments and nanotubes produced by an electrochemical deposition method from organic solutions at room temperature, in which the formation and growth of carbon nanoparticles are stimulated by the catalyst, such as iron and ni... | 09/09/2008 |
| D575864 | Ceiling fan blade | 08/26/2008 |
| 7396212 | High efficiency twisted leaf blade ceiling fan Twisted leaf shaped ceiling fan blades for low, medium and high speed operation of less than approximately 250 rpm. The novel blades twisted blades can be configured for 52″, 54″, 56″, 60″ and 64″ diameter fans, and have less blades (3 for example) than co... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7391851 | EUV, XUV, and X-Ray wavelength sources created from laser plasma produced from liquid metal solutions Metallic solutions at room temperature used a laser point source target droplets. Using the target metallic solutions results in damage free use to surrounding optical components since no debris are formed. The metallic solutions can produce plasma emissions in the ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7390999 | Differential Shack-Hartmann curvature sensor A differential Shack-Hartmann curvature sensor for measuring a curvature including principal curvatures and directions of a wavefront. The curvature sensor includes a Shack-Hartmann sensor with an input beam and an optical element to split said input beam into three... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7389460 | Runtime-competitive fault handling for reconfigurable logic devices Methods, systems, apparatus and devices to provide autonomous self-repair for programmable logic. Using Competitive Runtime Reconfiguration, an initial population of functionally identical, yet physically distinct individual programmable logic configurations are pro... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7388761 | High efficiency parallel post regulator for wide range input DC/DC converter Apparatus, methods, system and devices for providing a high efficiency parallel post regulator for a wide range input DC/DC converter. The wide input range DC/DC converter achieves zero-voltage-switching in the primary side switches in full range load due to 0.5 dut... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7372551 | Systems and methods for long-range, high-resolution laser radar range detection Provided are systems and methods for long-range, high-resolution, laser radar range detection. In one embodiment such a system includes an optical pulse modifier configured generated a stretched optical pulse and an optical amplifier configured to increase an optica... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369321 | Variable-focus liquid lens A variable focus liquid lens is formed using two substrates with at least two through holes in at least one of the substrates. One end of each through hole is covered with a distensible membrane, one on the exterior surface of the substrate and the other on the inte... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7358497 | Infrared/millimeter-wave focal plane array An antenna-coupled dual-band focal plane array for detecting radiation in the infrared and millimeter-wave bands. The dual-band focal plane array includes a millimeter antenna-coupled pixel incorporating an array of infrared antenna-coupled pixels in a two-dimension... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7354760 | Expression of protective antigens in transgenic chloroplasts Vectors and methods for plastid transformation of plants to produce protective antigens and vaccines for oral delivery are provided. The invention provides edible vaccines for conferring immunity to a mammal against Bacillus anthracis, as well as Yersina p... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7347987 | Inhibition of reactive oxygen species and protection of mammalian cells Methods and compositions useful for neuronal protection in retinal cells in vitro and the protection of mammalian cells from reactive oxygen species in vivo are provided. Ultrafine nano-size cerium oxide particles, less than 10 nanometers in diameter, have been prov... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7327434 | Tunable electronic lens and prisms using inhomogeneous nano scale liquid crystal droplets Using inhomogeneous sized liquid crystal (LC) droplets for lens and prisms. For forming a positive lens, the LC droplet size can gradually increase from the center to the side edges. For forming a negative lens, the LC droplet size can gradually decrease from the ce... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7326500 | Sensitization of photo-thermo-refractive glass to visible radiation by two-step illumination Photo-thermo-refractive (PTR) glass is a multi-component silicate glass having photosensitivity in rear UV region. A novel process is disclosed for PTR glass sensitization to visible region by means of two-step illumination followed by thermal development. This disc... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324286 | Optical beam steering and switching by optically controlled liquid crystal spatial light modulator with angular magnification by high efficiency PTR Bragg gratings Non-mechanical optical beam steering and switching is produced by optically controlled liquid crystal spatial light modulator with angular magnification by high efficiency volume Bragg gratings recorded in a photosensitive PTR glass. Small angle beam deflection in a... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7310598 | Energy based split vector quantizer employing signal representation in multiple transform domains The invention relates to representation of one and multidimensional signal vectors in multiple nonorthogonal domains and design of Vector Quantizers that can be chosen among these representations. There is presented a Vector Quantization technique in multiple nonort... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310144 | Polarimetry of three-dimensional optical fields The apparatus, system and method of the present invention provide a three-dimensional polarimeter probe having a coupler for coupling three components of an electromagnetic field that fluctuates in three-dimensions and an emitter for re-emitting a radiation correspo... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7295274 | Flower-shaped vertical alignment liquid crystal displays with wide view angle and fast response time A novel vertical alignment liquid crystal display with a structure having a flower-shaped vertical alignment (FVA) has the properties of fast response, high contrast ratio and a wide view angle. The method for making the device and structure of the FVA comprises the... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7291442 | Photosensitive polymeric material for WORM optical data storage with two-photon fluorescent readout Image formation via photoinduced fluorescence changes in a polymeric medium with two-photon fluorescence readout of a multi-layer structure. Fluorophore-containing polymers, possessing one or more basic functional groups, underwent protonation in the presence of a p... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7288324 | Synthesis of tetragonal phase stabilized nano and submicron sized nanoparticles Novel, monodispersed, spherical ZrO2 particles in the size range of approximately 10 to approximately 600 nm exhibiting metastable tetragonal crystal structure at room temperature and novel methods of preparation. The ZrO2 particles are approxi... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7285142 | Catalytic dehydrogenation of amine borane complexes A method of generating hydrogen includes the steps of providing an amine borane (AB) complex, at least one hydrogen generation catalyst, and a solvent, and mixing these components. Hydrogen is generated. The hydrogen produced is high purity hydrogen suitable for PEM... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7280632 | Exact filtered back projection (FBP) algorithm for spiral computer tomography with variable pitch Reconstructing images of objects spirally scanned with two-dimensional detectors with a novel algorithm under a variable pitch (nonconstant speed), where the object is not restricted to moving at a constant velocity. The object can move at variable speeds(increasing... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7276340 | Age determination from biological stains using messenger RNA profiling analysis Reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) assays, systems, methods and kits for the age determination of an individual from bloodstains or samples of unknown origin. The methodology is based on gene expression profiling analysis in which... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7249931 | High efficiency air conditioner condenser fan with performance enhancements Twisted blades for outdoor air conditioner condensers and heat pumps that improve airflow efficiency to minimize operating power requirements. The blades can run at approximately 850 rpm to produce approximately 1930 cfm of air flow using approximately 110 Watts of ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7224863 | All optical regeneration All optical regeneration methods and systems can be realized through an exponential amplifier and a limiting amplifier, which could be two independent devices (one piece of fiber with parametric amplification and a semiconductor optical amplifier operating at satura... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7220391 | UV photochemical option for closed cycle decomposition of hydrogen sulfide Methods and systems for separating hydrogen and sulfur from hydrogen sulfide(H2S) gas. Hydrogen sulfide(H2S) gas is passed into a scrubber and filtration unit with polysulfide solution. Interaction frees elemental sulfur which is filtered, exce... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7213320 | Moisture barrier cone Closed air space devices and methods of use for full body bio hazard type suits that eliminates condensation and fogging from forming on the face masks and the window visors of the suit. The devices and methods have a sealed closed air space that can be formed from ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7196916 | Alternated duty cycle control method for half-bridge DC-DC converter Apparatus, methods system and devices for using alternated duty cycle control to achieve soft-switching for at least one switch of the two half-bridge switches. When soft-switching can be only achieved for one switch, alternated duty cycle control alternates the sof... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7075713 | High efficiency collector for laser plasma EUV source Collector optics (70) for an EUV radiation source (10) for collecting EUV radiation (78). The collector optics (70) includes an elliptical dish reflector (72) where light generated at a focal point (76) of the reflector (... | 07/11/2006 |
| 6987549 | Fast response in-plane-switching pi-cell liquid crystal displays Transmissive liquid crystal displays having response time that can be approximately 2 to approximately 3 times faster than conventional displays. The displays adjust the rubbing angles to above approximately 20 degrees and preferably between approximately 30 and app... | 01/17/2006 |
