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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8131112 | Method for detecting cancer in a single cell using mitochondrial correlation microscopy A method for distinguishing a normal cell from an abnormal cell, such as, for example a cancer cell or diseased cell, of the same tissue type using mitochondrial correlation microscopy. ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8091479 | Fluid blade disablement tool A fluid blade disablement (FBD) tool that forms both a focused fluid projectile that resembles a blade, which can provide precision penetration of a barrier wall, and a broad fluid projectile that functions substantially like a hammer, which can produce general disr... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8037828 | Projectile-generating explosive access tool An explosive device that can generate a projectile from the opposite side of a wall from the side where the explosive device is detonated. The projectile can be generated without breaching the wall of the structure or container. The device can optionally open an ape... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8009356 | Tunable surface plasmon devices A tunable extraordinary optical transmission (EOT) device wherein the tunability derives from controlled variation of the dielectric constant of a semiconducting material (semiconductor) in evanescent-field contact with a metallic array of sub-wavelength apertures. ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7998239 | Alloy nanoparticle synthesis using ionizing radiation A method of forming stable nanoparticles comprising substantially uniform alloys of metals. A high dose of ionizing radiation is used to generate high concentrations of solvated electrons and optionally radical reducing species that rapidly reduce a mixture of metal... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7947397 | Battery components employing a silicate binder A battery component structure employing inorganic-silicate binders. In some embodiments, casting or coating of components may be performed using aqueous slurries of silicates and electrode materials or separator materials. ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7943116 | High-yield synthesis of brookite TiOnanoparticles A method for forming non-agglomerated brookite TiO2 nanoparticles without the use of expensive organic surfactants or high temperature processing. Embodiments of this invention use titanium isopropoxide as the titanium precursor and isopropanol as both th... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7942097 | Modular initiator with integrated optical diagnostic A slapper detonator which integrally incorporates an optical wavequide structure for determining whether there has been degradation of the explosive in the explosive device that is to be initiated by the detonator. Embodiments of this invention take advantage of the... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7915626 | Aluminum nitride transitional layer for reducing dislocation density and cracking of AIGan epitaxial films A denticulated Group III nitride structure that is useful for growing AlxGa1-xN to greater thicknesses without cracking and with a greatly reduced threading dislocation (TD) density. ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7912321 | Image registration with uncertainty analysis In an image registration method, edges are detected in a first image and a second image. A percentage of edge pixels in a subset of the second image that are also edges in the first image shifted by a translation is calculated. A best registration point is calculate... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7908970 | Dual initiation strip charge apparatus and methods for making and implementing the same A Dual Initiation Strip Charge (DISC) apparatus is initiated by a single initiation source and detonates a strip of explosive charge at two separate contacts. The reflection of explosively induced stresses meet and create a fracture and breach a target along a gener... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7785391 | Dendritic metal nanostructures Dendritic metal nanostructures made using a surfactant structure template, a metal salt, and electron donor species. ... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7767931 | Ultrashort-pulse laser generated nanoparticles of energetic materials A process for generating nanoscale particles of energetic materials, such as explosive materials, using ultrashort-pulse laser irradiation. The use of ultrashort laser pulses in embodiments of this invention enables one to generate particles by laser ablation that r... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7745315 | Highly aligned vertical GaN nanowires using submonolayer metal catalysts A method for forming vertically oriented, crystallographically aligned nanowires (nanocolumns) using monolayer or submonolayer quantities of metal atoms to form uniformly sized metal islands that serve as catalysts for MOCVD growth of Group III nitride nanowires. | 06/29/2010 |
| 7733788 | Computer network control plane tampering monitor A computer network control plane tampering monitor that detects unauthorized alteration of a label-switched path setup for an information packet intended for transmission through a computer network. ... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7704489 | Method of photocatalytic nanotagging A nanotagged chemical structure comprising a chemical structure with an associated photocatalyst and a tagging nanoparticle (a nanotag) grown in proximity to the photocatalyst, and a method for making the nanotagged chemical structure. The nanoparticle is grown in p... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7685923 | Fragment capture device A fragment capture device for use in explosive containment. The device comprises an assembly of at least two rows of bars positioned to eliminate line-of-sight trajectories between the generation point of fragments and a surrounding containment vessel or asset. The ... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7670933 | Nanowire-templated lateral epitaxial growth of non-polar group III nitrides A method for growing high quality, nonpolar Group III nitrides using lateral growth from Group III nitride nanowires. The method of nanowire-templated lateral epitaxial growth (NTLEG) employs crystallographically aligned, substantially vertical Group III nitride nan... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7612541 | Charge-pump voltage converter A charge-pump voltage converter for converting a low voltage provided by a low-voltage source to a higher voltage. Charge is inductively generated on a transfer rotor electrode during its transit past an inductor stator electrode and subsequently transferred by the ... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7449404 | Method for improving Mg doping during group-III nitride MOCVD A method for improving Mg doping of Group III-N materials grown by MOCVD preventing condensation in the gas phase or on reactor surfaces of adducts of magnesocene and ammonia by suitably heating reactor surfaces between the location of mixing of the magnesocene and ... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7385003 | In-situ formation of nanoparticles within a silicon-based matrix A method for encapsulating nanoparticles with an encapsulating matrix that minimizes aggregation and maintains favorable properties of the nanoparticles. The matrix comprises silicon-based network-forming compounds such as ormosils and polysiloxanes. The nanoparticl... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7374599 | Dendritic metal nanostructures A method for making dendritic metal nanostructures using a surfactant structure template, a metal salt, and electron donor species. ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7248397 | Wavelength-doubling optical parametric oscillator A wavelength-doubling optical parametric oscillator (OPO) comprising a type II nonlinear optical medium for generating a pair of degenerate waves at twice a pump wavelength and a plurality of mirrors for rotating the polarization of one wave by 90 degrees to produce... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7236297 | Gregorian optical system with non-linear optical technology for protection against intense optical transients An optical system comprising a concave primary mirror reflects light through an intermediate focus to a secondary mirror. The secondary mirror re-focuses the image to a final image plane. Optical limiter material is placed near the intermediate focus to optically li... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7171328 | Method for measuring thermal properties using a long-wavelength infrared thermal image A method for estimating the thermal properties of surface materials using long-wavelength thermal imagery by exploiting the differential heating histories of ground points in the vicinity of shadows. The use of differential heating histories of different ground poin... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7132163 | Heteroporphyrin nanotubes and composites Heteroporphyrin nanotubes, metal nanostructures, and metal/porphyrin-nanotube composite nanostructures formed using the nanotubes as photocatalysts and structural templates, and the methods for forming the nanotubes and composites. ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7036146 | System and method for secure group transactions A method and a secure system, processing on one or more computers, provides a way to control a group transaction. The invention uses group consensus access control and multiple distributed secure agents in a network environment. Each secure agent can organize with t... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6775314 | Distributed bragg reflector using AIGaN/GaN A supported distributed Bragg reflector or superlattice structure formed from a substrate, a nucleation layer deposited on the substrate, and an interlayer deposited on the nucleation layer, followed by deposition of (Al,Ga,B)N layers or multiple pairs of (Al,Ga,B)N... | 08/10/2004 |
