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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110043785 | Multifunction Aircraft Lidar A multifunction light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system for aircraft or other applications may use autodyne techniques. An autodyne system can use a single laser source and a single detector. The autodyne technique can mix two signal beams to produce a “beat noteâ€... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110005137 | AIRCRAFT MOVEABLE STRUCTURE OBSTRUCTION DETECTION SENSOR PANEL Technologies are described herein for detecting obstructions, utilizing an obstruction detection system. According to one aspect of the disclosure, the system includes a moveable assembly that includes a moveable structure moveable between a stowed and operational confi... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20100271090 | Adaptive Temporal Filtering of Single Event Effects Technologies are described herein for mitigating the effects of single event effects or upsets on digital semiconductor device data paths and clocks utilizing an adaptive temporal filter. The adaptive temporal filter includes a master delay line and a slave delay line t... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100181430 | Steering Logic for Spacecraft Slew Maneuvers Spacecraft control modules can steer a spacecraft during a slew maneuver. The spacecraft control modules can receive a target attitude for the spacecraft slew maneuver. An angle between a current attitude and the target attitude may be determined. A smooth attitude offs... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100139055 | Clamps For Supporting Transport System Structures This description provides clamps for supporting one or more structural members for installation onto a vehicle structure. The clamps may include two or more curved portions joined by a living hinge. The living hinge may enable the curved portions to pivot relative to on... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100125403 | Display of Taxi Route Control Point Information Methods, systems, and computer-readable media described herein provide for the display of taxi route control point information in conjunction with an alphanumeric taxi route display in an aircraft. Taxi route data is received and compared with airport map information to... | 05/20/2010 |
| 20100123046 | Disbanded Cascaded Array for Generating and Moving Plasma Clusters for Active Airflow Control An array of electrodes for selectively generating plasma is described herein. The array includes a first electrode disposed along a first dielectric, and at least a second electrode. A second electrode is sandwiched between the first dielectric and the second dielectric... | 05/20/2010 |
| 20100084516 | Retractable Aircraft Wing Tip Apparatus and methods provide for the use of retractable aircraft wing tips to increase the wingspan of an aircraft to decrease drag and increase fuel efficiency. According to various embodiments, a flexible lifting envelope is attached to an outboard end of an aircraft... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100084509 | Aerodynamically-Assisted Landing Gear Apparatus and methods provide for the use of a lift-producing body with a landing gear assembly in order to provide a lifting force during landing gear operations that reduces the load on the landing gear actuator. According to embodiments, the lift-producing body may b... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100075533 | RANDOMLY-ACCESSIBLE ELECTRICAL BUSBAR WITH PROTECTIVE COVER AND ASSOCIATED MATING CONNECTOR Apparatus and systems described herein provide for a randomly-accessible electrical busbar with a protective cover and an associated mating connector. Both the busbar and the associated mating connector have multiple, electrically conductive bristles protruding from a s... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100071773 | Shaping a Fluid Cavity of a Flow Control Actuator for Creation of Desired Waveform Characteristics Apparatus and methods provide for a flow control actuator having a fluid cavity that is shaped to create periodic waveforms within the resulting resonant actuating flow with predetermined characteristics for actuating a high-speed fluid flow. According to various embodi... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100071755 | Attaching Solar Collectors to a Structural Framework Utilizing a Flexible Clip Methods and apparatuses described herein provide for the attachment of solar collectors to a structural framework in a solar array assembly. A flexible clip is attached to either end of each solar collector and utilized to attach the solar collector to the structural fr... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100063821 | Hands-Free and Non-Visually Occluding Object Information Interaction System Technologies are described herein for providing a hands-free and non-visually occluding interaction with object information. In one method, a visual capture of a portion of an object is received through a hands-free and non-visually occluding visual capture device. An a... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100059939 | Vapor Seal Assembly And Method For Installing According to an embodiment, a method for installing a vapor seal assembly to pass at least one continuous wire through an aperture defined by a bulkhead includes providing a split shell having a threaded, hollow cylindrical extension, providing a split annular gasket, a... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100051749 | AIRCRAFT SPILLOVER FUEL TANK Apparatus and methods described herein provide for a spillover tank to extend the fuel capacity of the main wing tank of an aircraft. The spillover tank is located in the wing of the aircraft adjacent to the main wing tank. At least one aperture exists through the share... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100045130 | Superconducting Pulsed-Power Source Methods and systems provide pulsed-power to a load utilizing high temperature superconductors (HTS) within multiple pulsed-power devices. According to embodiments described herein, each pulsed-power device includes a HTS mounted on a rotor and an armature coil mounted o... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100044149 | Acoustic Management Of Fluid Flow Within A Duct Apparatus and methods described herein provide for the management of noise associated with a duct. A sound-dampening apparatus is provided consisting of a duct through which a fluid flows, such as an air duct. A flexuous cord is helically wound around the inner or outer... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100038986 | Brushless Motor/Generator With Trapped-Flux Superconductors Apparatus and methods provide for a high specific power electro-dynamo device that utilizes high-temperature superconductors, a dysprosium core, and superconducting coils to provide power. According to various embodiments, a rotor includes a number of rotor arms with a ... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100013419 | Parallel Motor Controller Architecture Apparatus, methods, and computer storage media provide for the establishment of a parallel motor controller architecture and the dynamic reconfiguration of the architecture to redirect power to various motors according to the changing power load requirements of the moto... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20090326702 | Potted Insert Installation and Validation Methods and computer storage media provide for the installation of potted inserts and installation validation. According to embodiments described herein, an insert is placed within an insert aperture of a panel or other structure. Potting compound is injected into a pot... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090313188 | Computationally Efficient Signal Classifier Methods provided by this description may include receiving input signals for classification, and deriving specified signal parameters from the input signals. These methods may also compare the specified signal parameter to signal parameters derived from training signals... | 12/17/2009 |
| 20090298335 | Connector Shield Termination in Limited Clearance Installations Apparatus and methods provide for the termination of shields within and around a cable at a connector in limited clearance environments. According to embodiments described herein, a shield termination fixture includes a base, at least one insert aperture, at least one r... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090287642 | Automated Analysis and Summarization of Comments in Survey Response Data Technologies are described herein for providing automated analysis and summarization of free-form comments in survey response data. A number of topic words are identified from the survey response comments, and a numeric weight is calculated for each topic word that refl... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090265313 | Automatically Extracting Data From Semi-Structured Documents This description provides tools and techniques for automatically extracting data from semi-structured documents. A computer-readable storage medium may contain computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to receive a request fo... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090263681 | THERMAL MANAGEMENT OF A HIGH TEMPERATURE FUEL CELL ELECTROLYZER Apparatus, systems, and methods provide for the management of a high temperature electrolysis process. According to embodiments described herein, a fuel cell electrolyzer stack is utilized in an electrolysis process. One implementation includes the use of a solid oxide ... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090263680 | Alternative Path Cooling of a High Temperature Fuel Cell Systems and methods provide for the thermal management of a high temperature fuel cell. According to embodiments described herein, a non-reactant coolant is routed into a fuel cell from a compressor or a ram air source. The non-reactant coolant absorbs waste heat from t... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090260006 | Virtualizing Embedded Systems This description provides tools and techniques for virtualizing embedded systems. Systems are described for embedding into a vehicle, with the systems including subsystems and centralized physical platforms that include computing resources operating on behalf of the sub... | 10/15/2009 |
| 20090257656 | Detecting Double JPEG Compression in Images Techniques are generally described for detecting double JPEG compression in images. Example detection techniques of double JPEG compression may include receiving JPEG images for analysis and extracting 2-dimensional (2-D) arrays of JPEG coefficients from the images. 2-D... | 10/15/2009 |
| 20090249808 | Evaporative Cooling for an Aircraft Subsystem Apparatus, systems, and methods provide for the cooling of an aircraft subsystem. According to embodiments described herein, coolant is routed through a heat-producing subsystem to absorb heat from the subsystem and to maintain the subsystem at a desired temperature. Bl... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090249796 | Thermally-Balanced Solid State Cooling Apparatus, systems, and methods provide for the cooling of a system on an aircraft or other platform. According to embodiments described herein, a first coolant is routed through a heat-producing system to absorb heat and maintain the system at a desired temperature. Th... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090248897 | Controlling The Status Of Network Address Space Methods, computer systems, and computer readable media provide for automated control of the status of network address space. Blocks of networking address space assigned to a network may be allocated from a free status to a new status based upon a request to allocate a p... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090247179 | Systems and Methods for Digital Processing of Satellite Communications Data A digital payload for processing a sub-band spectrum received on an uplink beam at a communications satellite includes a digital channelizer, a digital switch matrix and a digital combiner. The digital channelizer divides the sub-band spectrum into a plurality of freque... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090240380 | ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Feedback is received from a plurality of devices. External data is also received. Statistical patterns of the plurality of devices are determined based on the feedback. A policy is determined based on the statistical patterns, the feedback, and the external data. The po... | 09/24/2009 |
| 20090239393 | Conductive Magnetic Coupling System Technologies are described herein for a conductive magnetic coupling system. The system includes a signal supply component that provides electrical and/or data signals to a signal consumption component that utilizes the signal to provide an output. The two components ar... | 09/24/2009 |
| 20090238252 | Managing SSL Fixtures Over PLC Networks Managing solid-state luminary (SSL) fixtures over power line carrier (PLC) networks is described herein. Devices provided in this description include SSL arrays, and converter circuitry coupled to drive the SSL arrays. More specifically, the converter circuitry is adapt... | 09/24/2009 |
| 20090237011 | Illumination Device and Fixture Technologies are described herein for an illumination device and a corresponding fixture device. The illumination device includes a luminary module for the emission of light and an identification circuit containing identifying data, while the fixture device includes a d... | 09/24/2009 |
| 20090235122 | Method and System for Remote Software Testing Systems and methods for testing a computer program executing on a remote computer physically distant from a local computer are provided. The local and remote computers are connected via a network. The remote computer includes a redirection device operative to transmit t... | 09/17/2009 |
| 20090228257 | Lazy Evaluation of Geometric Definitions of Objects Within Procedural Programming Environments This description provides tools for lazy evaluation of geometric definitions of objects within procedural programming environments. Computer-based methods provided by these tools may parse input program code that includes statements that are syntactically consistent wit... | 09/10/2009 |
| 20090223621 | Counter-Rotating Spindle for Friction Stir Welding A counter-rotating spindle includes a shoulder tool, a pin tool inserted in the shoulder tool, a first motor that is connected with the pin tool and rotates the pin tool, and a second motor that is connected with the shoulder tool and rotates the shoulder tool. The dire... | 09/10/2009 |
| 20090222547 | Generating Displays of Networking Addresses Technologies for generating displays of user-defined blocks of networking addresses on a map of an associated address space are provided. Each block of networking addresses is described in a user-defined table with a start address and a map size. The display for each bl... | 09/03/2009 |
