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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7256737 | Method and apparatus for geolocating a wireless communications device The time difference of arrival for a signal received at two or more receiving sites as transmitted from a wireless communications device, is determined by a frequency domain technique. The constituent frequencies of the signals received at the two or more receiving ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7245268 | Quadrifilar helical antenna A quadrifilar helical antenna comprising two pairs of filars having unequal lengths and phase quadrature signals propagating thereon. A conductive H-shaped impedance matching element matches a source impedance to an antenna impedance. The impedance matching element ... | 07/17/2007 |
| D530707 | Broadband adjustable match dipole antenna for embedded applications | 10/24/2006 |
| 7111753 | Insulating sleeve for a beverage container A beverage container insulating sleeve for insulating a user's hand from a cold or hot beverage container while maintaining the serving temperature of the beverage. The material of the sleeve comprises insulating polyethylene foam. The sleeve is a low cost, lightwei... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7084823 | Integrated front end antenna A radio frequency transmitting and receiving apparatus comprising a filter and an antenna, wherein the input reactance of the antenna is substantially equal in magnitude and opposite in sign to the output reactance of the filter. This reactance relationship permits ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7079079 | Low profile compact multi-band meanderline loaded antenna An antenna for transmitting and receiving radio frequency energy. The antenna comprises a conductive radiator comprising a first and a second conductive region for providing a first and a second current path length. A feed conductor and a ground conductor operate as... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7057556 | Method and apparatus for geolocating a wireless communications device The time difference of arrival for a signal received at two or more receiving sites as transmitted from a wireless communications device, is determined by a frequency domain technique. The constituent frequencies of the signals received at the two or more receiving ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7044302 | Patient controlled timed oral medication dispenser The oral medication delivery device provides patient access to medications prescribed to be available on an as-needed basis, but with a minimum time intervals between doses. The required time interval between drug accessibility is programmed into the device when the... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7046199 | Monolithic low profile omni-directional surface-mount antenna A monolithic surface mountable monopole antenna. The antenna comprises a top plate having a plurality of conductive regions and a like plurality of legs extending away from a plane of the top plate in a direction of a ground plane. Each leg is disposed between two a... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7042404 | Apparatus for reducing ground effects in a folder-type communications handset device An antenna for a folder type communications handset. The handset comprises first and second enclosures pivotably joined to permit rotation of one enclosure relative to the other enclosure. The antenna is disposed over a ground plane formed in a printed circuit board... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7027900 | Enhanced locomotive adhesion control A method of dynamically controlling traction of a locomotive (V) having a plurality of axles (A1–A6) on each of which are mounted wheels (W) for moving the locomotive over a set of rails (R). A creep control signal (creep_n) is provided to a controll... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7013239 | Apparatus and method for performance and fault data analysis An analysis scheduler for scheduling the automatic processing of performance data through a plurality of analysis tools is disclosed. Performance data provided to some of the tools by the analysis scheduler may be specified to be within a predetermined (but variable... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7002829 | Apparatus and method for programming a one-time programmable memory device A method and apparatus for opening a fuse formed on a semiconductor substrate. The apparatus comprises a thyristor formed from CMOS device regions and having a one or two control terminals for permitting current to flow through the thyristor into the fuse, for openi... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6995686 | Weather information dissemination system for mobile vehicles A method and apparatus for disseminating weather products, based on raw weather data provided by various weather condition sensors, to a mobile vehicle. The weather products are formed as web pages and transmitted to the mobile vehicle during the vertical blanking i... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6990322 | Method and apparatus for locomotive radio communications, with expansion capability An apparatus and method for equipping a locomotive with a modular radio communication system capable of being expanded to incorporate future improvements in radio and data communication electronics. The modular radio communication system provides for the installatio... | 01/24/2006 |
| D511691 | Timer and clock in imitation cigarette housing | 11/22/2005 |
| 6965348 | Broadband antenna structures There is disclosed an antenna exhibiting resonance over a broad frequency band or over a plurality of closely-spaced frequency bands, comprising a ground plane, a non-driven element affixed substantially perpendicular to the ground plane, a driven element affixed su... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6959235 | Diagnosis and repair system and method A diagnosis and repair recommendation system for a railroad locomotive is disclosed. The system uses generalized repair recommendations and instantiates them to a specific repair process for a unique road number locomotive. In addition to repair steps to be executed... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6950066 | Apparatus and method for forming a monolithic surface-mountable antenna An monolithic surface mountable antenna. The antenna comprises a ground plane, two dielectric layers separated by a conductive intermediate layer and a plurality of conductive regions on a top surface. Ground vias pass through the dielectric layers and connect one o... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6937193 | Wideband printed monopole antenna An antenna comprising two monopole elements and a ground plane disposed on a dielectric substrate. The elements are spaced apart to provide spatial diversity and have a shape to provide operation in multiple frequency bands and/or over a wide bandwidth of frequencie... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6917334 | Ultra-wide band meanderline fed monopole antenna An ultra-wide bandwidth antenna. The antenna comprises a serially electrically connected top radiator, side radiator and bottom radiator. Geometrically, the top radiator, side radiator and bottom radiator form a U-shaped structure. A meanderline conductor is connect... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6904341 | Integrated vessel monitoring and control system A vessel monitoring and control system. Data indicative of operational conditions for vessel systems is transmitted from the vessel to one or more remote sites and commands are received from the one or more remote sites for controlling the vessel systems. Multiple t... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6897817 | Independently tunable multiband meanderline loaded antenna An antenna for transmitting and receiving radio frequency energy. The antenna comprises a conductive top plate formed in the shape of a spiral. In one embodiment a sidewall meanderline extends from an edge of the top plate in the direction of a ground plane. A short... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6892701 | Method and apparatus for controlling locomotive smoke emissions during transient operation A method and apparatus for reducing the smoke emissions of a railroad locomotive during throttle notch changes. For certain throttle notch increases the present invention advances the engine timing angle and controls application of the load at the new throttle notch... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6891500 | Method and apparatus for geolocating a wireless communications device The time difference of arrival for a signal received at two or more receiving sites as transmitted from a wireless communications device, is determined by a frequency domain technique. The constituent frequencies of the signals received at the two or more receiving ... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6888510 | Compact, low profile, circular polarization cubic antenna An antenna providing circular polarization for received and transmitted signals. The antenna comprises a vertical conductive surfaces oriented to form a closed structure and horizontal conductive surfaces forming a top face of the closed structure. Connection of sel... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6873962 | Train corridor scheduling process A process for scheduling the travel of trains on a rail corridor. The rail corridor includes a plurality of siding tracks onto which trains can be sided when a meet or pass occurs with another train on the corridor. A gradient search process is used with a cost func... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6866347 | Locomotive brake pipe valve cut-out failure detection and correction In a distributed power railroad train, an apparatus for equalizing the equalizing reservoir pressure in the remote power unit and the brake pipe pressure. With these pressures equal, the remote unit cannot charge the brake pipe while the lead unit attempts to vent t... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6856286 | Dual band spiral-shaped antenna A planar antenna comprising a spiral conductive surface comprising an inner spiral segment and an outer spiral segment. A shorting leg for connection to a ground plane and a feed leg responsive to the antenna signal (in the transmit and the receive modes) extend dow... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6842158 | Wideband low profile spiral-shaped transmission line antenna An antenna incorporating slow wave structures. The antenna comprises at least two conductive serpentine structures disposed on a dielectric substrate and further comprising an oppositely disposed conductive top plate electrically connected to the conductive serpenti... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6842157 | Antenna arrays formed of spiral sub-array lattices A antenna array (20) includes a plurality of periodic or aperiodic arranged sub-arrays (22). Each sub-array (22) includes a plurality of antenna elements (32) arranged in the form of a spiral (30). The sub-arrays (22) can co... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6829855 | Ambidextrous reserve magazine holder for a firearm A magazine-protecting, ambidextrous device for carrying a loaded spare magazine attached to a firearm buttstock in position for rapid removal and insertion into the firing position of the firearm. The loaded spare magazine is restrained within a well formed in the b... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6824226 | Adaptive brake valve cutout scheme during distributed power communication loss In a distributed power railroad train, an apparatus for equalizing the equalizing reservoir pressure in the remote power unit and the brake pipe pressure in response to airflow into the brake pipe from the remote locomotive. With these pressures equal, the remote un... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6823835 | Method and apparatus for reducing locomotive diesel engine smoke using skip firing A diesel engine, having a plurality of individually controllable fuel injected cylinders, is operated in a skip firing mode to reduce smoke emissions during low power operation. The system senses certain identified engine operating parameters and when these paramete... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6812891 | Tri-band multi-mode antenna An antenna resonant in two or more frequency bands. The antenna comprises three parallel conductive plates disposed in a stacked orientation, with a first dielectric layer interposed between the bottom and the middle conductive plates and a second dielectric layer i... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6795935 | Diagnosis of faults in a complex system A method and apparatus for chronologically combining fault data, repair data, and operational parameters for a railroad locomotive. Generally, this data is collected and stored in separate databases. The present invention teaches combining the data so that an ordere... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6741212 | Low profile dielectrically loaded meanderline antenna An antenna having a plurality of conductive layers formed on a dielectric substrate. A ground plate and a feed plate are oriented in substantially parallel relation on two opposing sides of the dielectric substrate. A top plate, which is electrically connected to th... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6738294 | Electronic fingerprinting of semiconductor integrated circuits A method of identifying an integrated circuit device based on the initial state of certain memory cells within a memory array of the integrated circuit device. For many cells in the memory array the initial state is relatively consistent at each power-up, due to mis... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6725134 | Control strategy for diesel engine auxiliary loads to reduce emissions during engine power level changes A diesel locomotive includes a number of auxiliary subsystems operating in conjunction with the locomotive diesel engine and deriving their energy, from the diesel engine. Included among the subsystems are various cooling systems, the battery charging system, and th... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6722085 | Mobile home tie-down apparatus A tie-down apparatus for building structures, including mobile homes. The structure is constructed with a plurality of structural members including channel members disposed therein. In one embodiment, channel members are formed in both the roof structural members an... | 04/20/2004 |
