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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8020726 | Powder dispersion system A powder dispersion method and apparatus comprising an air eductor and a powder dispensing syringe inserted into a suction connection of the air eductor. ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8009772 | Concurrent signal combining and channel estimation in digital communications In the reception of digital information transmitted on a communication channel, a characteristic exhibited by the communication channel during transmission of the digital information is estimated based on a communication signal that represents the digital informatio... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7929439 | Multiple network interface core apparatus and method A network interface controller and network interface control method comprising providing a single integrated circuit as a network interface controller and employing a plurality of network interface cores on the single integrated circuit. ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7851973 | Using piezo-electric material to simulate a vibration environment A target object can be vibrated using actuation that exploits the piezo-electric (“PE”) property. Under combined conditions of vibration and centrifugal acceleration, a centrifugal load of the target object on PE vibration actuators can be reduced by using a cou... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7795770 | Passive levitation in alternating magnetic fields Stable levitation of an object in an alternating magnetic field can be achieved by eliminating coupling between the rotational and translational forces acting on the object. Stable levitation can also be achieved by varying the coupling between the rotational and tr... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7777665 | Comparing range data across the slow-time dimension to correct motion measurement errors beyond the range resolution of a synthetic aperture radar Motion measurement errors that extend beyond the range resolution of a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) can be corrected by effectively decreasing the range resolution of the SAR in order to permit measurement of the error. Range profiles can be compared across the sl... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7646473 | Determining position inside building via laser rangefinder and handheld computer An apparatus, computer software, and a method of determining position inside a building comprising selecting on a PDA at least two walls of a room in a digitized map of a building or a portion of a building, pointing and firing a laser rangefinder at corresponding p... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7610130 | Physical context management for a motor vehicle Computer software for and a method of enhancing safety for an operator of a motor vehicle comprising employing a plurality of sensors of vehicle and operator conditions, matching collective output from the sensors against a plurality of known dangerous conditions, a... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7565657 | Allocating application to group of consecutive processors in fault-tolerant deadlock-free routing path defined by routers obeying same rules for path selection In a multiple processor computing apparatus, directional routing restrictions and a logical channel construct permit fault tolerant, deadlock-free routing. Processor allocation can be performed by creating a linear ordering of the processors based on routing rules u... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7548004 | Passive levitation in alternating magnetic fields Stable levitation of an object in an alternating magnetic field can be achieved by eliminating coupling between the rotational and translational forces acting on the object. Stable levitation can also be achieved by varying the coupling between the rotational and tr... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7545065 | Spin-stabilized magnetic levitation without vertical axis of rotation The symmetry properties of a magnetic levitation arrangement are exploited to produce spin-stabilized magnetic levitation without aligning the rotational axis of the rotor with the direction of the force of gravity. The rotation of the rotor stabilizes perturbations... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7526465 | Human-machine interactions Digital technology utilizing a cognitive model based on human naturalistic decision-making processes, including pattern recognition and episodic memory, can reduce the dependency of human-machine interactions on the abilities of a human user and can enable a machine... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7454595 | Distributed processor allocation for launching applications in a massively connected processors complex A compute processor allocator architecture for allocating compute processors to run applications in a multiple processor computing apparatus is distributed among a subset of processors within the computing apparatus. Each processor of the subset includes a compute p... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7370023 | Simulation of human decision making A method for computer emulation of human decision making defines a plurality of concepts related to a domain and a plurality of situations related to the domain, where each situation is a combination of at least two of the concepts. Each concept and situation is rep... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7362859 | Enhancement of utilization of encryption engine A method of enhancing throughput of a pipelined encryption/decryption engine for an encryption/decryption process has a predetermined number of stages and provides feedback around the stages (and of such an encryption/decryption engine) by receiving a source datablo... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7339584 | Method of generating a surface mesh A method and machine-readable medium provide a technique to generate and modify a quadrilateral finite element surface mesh using dual creation and modification. After generating a dual of a surface (mesh), a predetermined algorithm may be followed to generate and m... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7257093 | Localized radio frequency communication using asynchronous transfer mode protocol A localized wireless communication system for communication between a plurality of circuit boards, and between electronic components on the circuit boards. Transceivers are located on each circuit board and electronic component. The transceivers communicate with one... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7246217 | Interconnection arrangement of routers of processor boards in array of cabinets supporting secure physical partition A multiple processor computing apparatus includes a physical interconnect structure that is flexibly configurable to support selective segregation of classified and unclassified users. The physical interconnect structure includes routers in service or compute proces... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7219039 | Method for generating a mesh representation of a region characterized by a trunk and a branch thereon The present invention provides a meshing method, called grafting, that lifts the prior art constraint on abutting surfaces, including surfaces that are linking, source/target, or other types of surfaces of the trunk volume. The grafting method locally modifies the s... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7181377 | Method of modifying a volume mesh using sheet extraction A method and machine-readable medium provide a technique to modify a hexahedral finite element volume mesh using dual generation and sheet extraction. After generating a dual of a volume stack (mesh), a predetermined algorithm may be followed to modify the volume me... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7098912 | Method of modifying a volume mesh using sheet insertion A method and machine-readable medium provide a technique to modify a hexahedral finite element volume mesh using dual generation and sheet insertion. After generating a dual of a volume stack (mesh), a predetermined algorithm may be followed to modify (refine) the v... | 08/29/2006 |
