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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100322707 | Vehicle barrier system A modular vehicle barrier system includes a reaction mass for installation in the earth; at least one post immovably anchored in the reaction mass and extending upwardly therefrom; the reaction mass having a forward member for confronting and compressing the surrounding... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100319524 | Vehicle protection system A structure or vehicle protection system including a removable frame on the structure or vehicle, and a net within the frame and spaced from the structure or vehicle and having a mesh size designed to disarm an incoming threat.... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100307328 | Protection system A net deployment system which, in one example, includes a manifold assembly including multiple weight ducts and a bladder port. A weight is disposed in each weight duct and each weight is tied to the net. A bladder is behind the net and is over the bladder port. At leas... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100280445 | Patient hydration system with taper down function A patient hydration system including an infusion device for administering hydration fluid to a patient, and a hydration fluid measurement device responsive to a source of hydration fluid, a patient urine output measurement device. A controller is responsive to the hydra... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100280444 | Patient hydration system with abnormal reading detection A patient hydration system including an infusion device for administering hydration fluid to a patient, and a hydration fluid measurement device responsive to a source of hydration fluid, a patient urine output measurement device. A controller is responsive to the hydra... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100280443 | Patient hydration system with redundant monitoring A patient hydration system including an infusion device for administering hydration fluid to a patient, and a hydration fluid measurement device responsive to a source of hydration fluid, a patient urine output measurement device. A controller is responsive to the hydra... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100234797 | Patient hydration system with bolus function A patient hydration system including an infusion device for administering hydration fluid to a patient, and a hydration fluid measurement device responsive to a source of hydration fluid, a patient urine output measurement device. A controller is responsive to the hydra... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100207527 | Multi-functional power supply for a hall thruster A multi-functional power supply system for a Hall thruster including a thruster assembly for providing a plasma discharge and a cathode assembly for providing electrons. The cathode assembly includes an emitter, a keeper with a current limiting device, and a heater. A m... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100204677 | Patient hydration system and method A fluid management system for a patient includes a console for mounting on an IV pole. The console includes an input for setting a desired fluid balance for a set therapy duration. A weighing subsystem weighs the patient's urine output collected in a urine collection ch... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100127407 | Two-sided substrateless multichip module and method of manufacturing same A two-sided substrateless multichip module including at least one die layer having at least one die. At least one bottomside interconnect layer is coupled to a bottom surface of the at least one die. At least one topside interconnect layer is coupled to a top surface of... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100016650 | Magnetic stimulators and stimulating coils A stimulating coil for use in the magnetic stimulation of neuro-muscular tissue comprises a self-supporting but flexible conductor in a flexible insulating sheath which can be adjusted by hand to conform the coil to the contours of a selected part of the human body. The... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20090307884 | Resonator system with a plurality of individual mechanically coupled resonators and method of making same A method of fabricating a MEMS piezoelectric resonator system includes forming a stack of layers on a substrate, the stack comprising at least one piezoelectric material layer spaced from the substrate by a sacrificial layer, patterning the stack to form a plurality of ... | 12/17/2009 |
| 20090305640 | Vehicle locating unit with improved power management method A method of checking messages from a network of communication sources includes initially testing the signal strength of a plurality of communication sources, storing the identity of the communication sources with the two strongest signals, and alternatively entering a s... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090254130 | Bone clamp A bone clamp, in one example, includes a first scissor arm and a second scissor arm pivotally connected to the first scissor arm. A guide is pivotally attached to the first scissor arm and a first clamping member with a drill or wire receiving channel therethrough is pi... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090184207 | Synchronously self deploying boom A deployable boom with adjacent panels hinged together typically in an end to end configuration. A first longeron is attached to at least two panels and a second longeron is also attached to at least two panels. Each longeron includes a self locking hinge between adjace... | 07/23/2009 |
| 20090154869 | Tunable Filter Device Comprising a Waveguide Containing Bragg Grating, and a Planer Substrate A tunable filter device (2) comprising a waveguide containing a Bragg grating (4), and a planar substrate (6), the planar substrate (6) comprising a core (8), a first cladding (10) on a first side (12) of the core (8 | 06/18/2009 |
| 20090141942 | Non-contact passive ranging system A non-contact passive ranging system wherein a first imager on a platform is focused on a first object and a second imager on the platform is also focused on the first object. The optical path from the first object to the first imager is configured to be shorter than th... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090095096 | Hazardous materials sensing robot A hazardous materials sensing robot includes a robot platform and a universal mounting tray on the robot platform for removably mounting thereon a plurality of sensors each having an output. An electronic interface unit is configured to receive the outputs of the sensor... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090089649 | Programmable compute unit with internal register and bit FIFO for executing Viterbi code A programmable compute unit with an internal register with a bit FIFO for executing Viterbi code is configured to accumulate in the forward path the best-path to each state in an internal register and store the survivor trace back information bit for each state in each ... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090082127 | Cigar holder and divot repair tool A golf tool including a body defining a divot repair tool with one or more fingers. A centrally disposed opening in the body is configured to receive a cigar. A solid perimeter body wall surrounds the opening and an exposed top edge of the body defines a rest support fo... | 03/26/2009 |
| 20090071281 | Robot arm assembly A robot arm assembly a base unit with a shoulder assembly rotatably disposed on the base unit. A lower robot arm is pivotably attached to the shoulder assembly. An upper robot arm is pivotably attached to the lower robot arm. The base unit includes a first motor which r... | 03/19/2009 |
| 20090033004 | Method of Constructing a Thin Film Mirror A method of constructing a thin film mirror, which method comprises: (i) attaching a thin film (72) to a suction chamber (68), the suction chamber (68) having edges which are for attaching the thin film (72) and which lie in a desired geometr... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090027133 | Crystal oscillator with variable-gain and variable-output-impedance inverter system A crystal oscillator with variable gain and variable output impedance inverter system includes an inverter, a variable impedance feedback circuit, connected between the output and input of the inverter, a crystal oscillator system, having a crystal with first and second... | 01/29/2009 |
| 20090000113 | Tool for pin tumbler locks A tool for loading pin stack elements into a pin tumbler lock includes a cylindrical shank of diameter similar to the diameter of the lock plug, a loading groove extending along at least a shank portion corresponding to the length of the set of pin chambers and intersec... | 01/01/2009 |
| 20080317034 | Method and system for apportioning channels in a programmable multi-source, multi-destination system This invention further features a method of apportioning channels in a programmable multi-source, multi-destination system, the method including determining the source for each channel by: a) computing the sum of the number of channels carried by the current and all pre... | 12/25/2008 |
| 20080313102 | Method of and system for estimating the cost and effort associated with preparing for and conducting a CMMI appraisal A method of and system for estimating the cost of and effort associated with preparing for and conducting a CMMI appraisal. A set of variables affecting a CMMI appraisal are input. Prior CMMI appraisal data is determined. The costs and effort associated with preparing f... | 12/18/2008 |
| 20080309409 | Balanced differential cross-coupled transconductance amplifier for a multiplexor A balanced, differential, cross-coupled amplifier including an input stage for receiving a differential input and including an input transconductance differential pair and a feedback transconductance differential pair; and an output stage responsive to the input stage f... | 12/18/2008 |
| 20080276743 | Direct grease injection for large open gearing A drive gear includes a plurality of internal radial channels extending between the axial bore and the periphery of the gear, and an axial bore includes a lubricant distribution structure therein to provide lubrication where the teeth of the drive gear mesh with the tee... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080279319 | SAMPLE RATE CONVERTER SYSTEM AND METHOD A sample rate conversion is accomplished by presenting to a numerically controlled oscillator (NCO) register a clock input at the desired output rate; first-modifying the NCO register contents responsive to a first factor; determining when the first modified NCO registe... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080245873 | Parcel dimensioning measurement system and method A parcel dimension measurement system includes image sensors oriented to image a parcel, an imaging subsystem configured to stitch together outputs of the image sensors to produce at least one two-dimensional image comprised of a plurality of pixels, and a general dimen... | 10/09/2008 |
| 20080244237 | Compute unit with an internal bit FIFO circuit A compute unit with an internal bit FIFO circuit includes at least one data register, a lookup table, a configuration register including FIFO base address, length and read/write mode fields for configuring a portion of the lookup table as a bit FIFO circuit and a read/w... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080243981 | Method and apparatus for accelerating processing of adaptive finite impulse response filtering Finite impulse response filtering is achieved by broadcasting to at least one compute unit an instruction having a plurality of data samples, a conditional field associated with each compute unit, and a set of operator values for operating on each data sample; providing... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080231339 | Double quench circuit for an avalanche current device A double quench circuit for an avalanche current device is provided in which the circuit includes an avalanche current device having a first terminal responsive to a bias voltage to reverse bias the avalanche current device above its avalanche breakdown voltage. A first... | 09/25/2008 |
| 20080223435 | Micron gap thermal photovoltaic device and method of making the same A method of making a micron gap thermal photovoltaic device wherein at least one standoff is formed on a photovoltaic substrate, a sacrificial layer is deposited on the photovoltaic substrate and about the standoff, an emitter is attached to the standoff and has a lower... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080225885 | Dual core crosspoint system A dual core crosspoint system includes a differential signal core for receiving N differential input channels with common mode voltage removed and providing m differential output channels with m output stages associated with the m output channels; and a common mode core... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080224895 | Adaptive range vehicle locating unit, vehicle tracking unit and vehicle recovery system including same An adaptive range vehicle recovery system including an adaptive range vehicle locating unit including a narrowband baseband generator for generating a narrowband signal, a wideband baseband generator for generating a wideband signal, a timing control circuit responsive ... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080228416 | Indirect rotor resistance estimation system and method Indirect rotor resistance estimation for an AC induction motor is achieved by successively stepping the quadrature command to zero and the direct current command to a predetermined value causing the quadrature stator voltage to decay as a representation of rotor current... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080225485 | Distributed transmit/receive integrated microwave module chip level cooling system A radar transmit and receive integrated microwave module with conductively cooled condenser side rails and one or more vacuum brazed fluid distribution manifold cold plates in fluid communication with the side rails. There are one or more transmit and receive modules on... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080210013 | Sealed capacitive sensor A sealed capacitive sensor includes a substrate having a diaphragm forming a first plate of a capacitor; a second fixed plate of the capacitor spaced from the diaphragm and defining a predetermined dielectric gap and a sealing medium connecting together the substrate an... | 09/04/2008 |
| 20080205171 | Redundant cross point switching system and method A redundant cross point switching is achieved by mapping a redundant column/row of point cells and enabling at least one of the switching devices which is associated with each column/row to define an alternate path around the defective point cell which replicates the fu... | 08/28/2008 |
