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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8130260 | System and method for 3-dimensional display of image data Disclosed is a system for a 3-dimensional display that includes at least one eyepiece having first and second eyepiece sockets, having a first display contained in said first eyepiece socket associated with a first eye, two eye cameras mounted such that a first eye ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8063818 | Cross-PRN phase correction for GPS processing Methods and systems are provided for accessing GPS signals in faded environments. Means are provided for predicting the nonlinear phase induced by the receiver's own clock, when there is at least one GPS satellite link strong enough to calculate a phase profile. In ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8054182 | Remotely directed vehicle inspection method and apparatus A method of inspecting a vehicle, comprising providing at an inspection site a hand-held inspection wand that transceives audio-visual information with a command/remote site a safe distance from the inspection site and that is staffed by law enforcement personnel, s... | 11/08/2011 |
| 7945572 | Pattern discovery through reversing time flow The present invention provides systems and methods for automatically mining massive intelligence databases to discover sequential patterns therein using a novel combination of forward and reverse temporal processing techniques as an enhancement to well known pattern... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7916015 | System and method for monitoring environmental conditions A monitoring system and method for detecting environmental conditions is provided, the monitoring system including a sensing unit including a plurality of sensors for obtaining data related to environmental conditions, a controller interfaced with the sensing unit f... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7906316 | Apparatus for detecting molecules A molecular sensor includes a membrane layer having parallel pores extending through the membrane layer and incorporating therein probe molecules that bind with corresponding target molecules when present in the pores, electrodes, and an ionic solution in contact wi... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7881340 | Decentralized media access control for ad-hoc mobile wireless network A method of operating a decentralized ad-hoc wireless network including wireless stations, comprises establishing a common time reference which is used by the wireless stations to share access to a common wireless channel, the common time reference having a periodic... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7855934 | Vertical line hydrophone array A hydrophone deployment system including a hydrophone assembly, a container for enclosing the hydrophone assembly body in a coiled configuration, means for ejecting the hydrophone assembly from the container, a signal processing module for processing the electrical ... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7719925 | Vertical line hydrophone array A hydrophone assembly includes at least four hydrophone units for converting an acoustic signal to an electrical signal, the hydrophone units being in a parallel, cylindrically symmetric spaced spatial relationship with each other, and at least one spacer element to... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7697374 | Water inflatable volumetric hydrophone array A hydrophone array includes an inflatable shaped housing enclosing an interior space and formable between a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration, a framework of compliant material disposed within the interior of the inflatable housing, and a plurali... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7675990 | Space-time codes for linearly labelled PAM, PSK, QAM and related constellations using gray mapping General algebraic space-time code constructions are presented for Gray-mapped 2K-PSK, 2K-PAM, and 4K-QAM constellations. The space-time codes achieve the rate-diversity tradeoff—i.e., they allow the transmission of information at t... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7675819 | Volumetric passive sonobuoy array of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) wires A sonar system for detecting underwater acoustic signals includes a plurality of hydrophone units capable of converting acoustic impulses to electrical signals, the hydrophone units being substantially vertically oriented when deployed in a body of water, and the hy... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7574497 | System and method for an open autonomy kernel (oak) The Open Autonomy Kernel (OAK) addresses critical infrastructure requirements for next generation autonomous and semi-autonomous systems (24), including performance tracking, anomaly detection, diagnosis, fault recovery, and plant “safing”. OAK combines t... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7570426 | Apparatus and system for wide angle narrow-band optical detection in daylight Techniques for filtering light include, along a central optical axis, an entrance window; a first polarizer, a narrowband polarization-changing material, a second polarizer, and an exit window. The optical paths through the filter are substantively unscattered and p... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7561802 | Mobile communications via an optical signal during adverse atmospheric conditions A communications system for wireless transceiving of information, comprising at least one multiple optical beam scanning array transceiver located in a satellite for wirelessly transceiving the information; and at least two terminals at diverse locations capable of ... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7556855 | Impact resistant flexible body device An impact resistant device is provided comprising a support matrix and a plurality of energy absorbing elements operatively connected to the support matrix, each element comprising at least one ceramic material and at least one strain rate sensitive material. The im... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7554294 | Battery health monitor A battery health monitor (BHM) that operates as a battery-mountable full-spectrum alternating current (ac) impedance meter that facilitates monitoring a state-of-charge and a state-of-health of a battery. The BHM is used for monitoring one or more electrical paramet... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7471742 | Method and construction for space-time codes for AM-PSK constellations Space-time codes are developed for multi-radii AM-PSK constellations. Further, a “super-unified” space-time code construction is developed that incorporates multi-radii AM-PSK codes with the Lu-Kumar unified codes. The multi-radii space-time codes achieve the ra... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7413809 | Impact resistant flexible body device An impact resistant device is provided comprising a flexible support matrix and a plurality of energy absorbing elements operatively connected to the support matrix, each element comprising at least one ceramic material and at least one strain rate sensitive materia... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7379088 | System and method for real-time image control and processing for use in wide area space based surveillance A system and method for providing real-time imaging for use in wide area space based surveillance utilizing an Optical Tera-bps Satellite (OPTSAT) network, including a plurality of OPTSATs, wherein an object is imaged with at least one surveillance aperture operativ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379673 | Mobile communications system A communications system for wireless transceiving of information, comprising an optical array subsystem for transceiving optical signals and a millimeter wave subsystem for transceiving millimeter wave signals, and a beam steering controller for controlling the dire... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7317361 | Ensemble oscillator and related methods An ensemble clock comprises: an input for receiving a reference signal; multiple free-running oscillators each configured to generate a corresponding free-running frequency; an output oscillator configured to generate a controlled frequency having a frequency respon... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7315277 | Bit depth reduction for analog to digital conversion in global positioning system Disclosed is a system and method for reducing a bit-depth requirement for an A/D converter in a GPS receiver having an antenna for receiving an analog input signal and a low noise amplifier for amplifying the input signal, comprising a filter for filtering about a b... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7280627 | Constrained data-adaptive signal rejector A constrained data-adaptive signal rejector suppresses signals received through the side lobes of a sensor array while preserving signals received through the main lobes. A main beam is formed in a typical signal processing architecture. A subset of the original ind... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7266484 | Techniques for early detection of localized exposure to an agent active on a biological population Technique for early detection of localized exposure to an agent active on a biological population include collecting time series for each data type of multiple different data types. The data types are relevant for detecting exposure to the agent. For each data type ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7261945 | Impact resistant flexible body device An impact resistant device is provided comprising a flexible support matrix and a plurality of energy absorbing elements operatively connected to the support matrix, each element comprising at least one ceramic material and at least one strain rate sensitive materia... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7253740 | Method and apparatus for monitoring for failure temperatures of a structure An apparatus for monitoring a temperature of a structure, comprising: one or more electrically conductive loops adapted to be affixed to the structure, each including first and second elongate connection strips each made of a first metal composition having a first m... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7249006 | Method and system for bio-surveillance detection and alerting Background noise from relevant data sets, including for example over-the-counter sales data, absenteeism data, etc., is subtracted using a background estimation algorithm that outputs residual data. The effects of hypothetical anomalous events, such as a bio-terrori... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7226291 | Refreshable tactile computer display A method and apparatus for refreshable tactile output of information from a computer, includes using a movement actuator to move in unison along a first dimension a plurality of tactile elements that can be touched by a user of the tactile output. Based on data rece... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7219858 | Method for deploying multiple spacecraft A method for deploying multiple spacecraft is disclosed. The method can be used in a situation where a first celestial body is being orbited by a second celestial body. The spacecraft are loaded onto a single spaceship that contains the multiple spacecraft and the s... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7206575 | Method of remotely estimating a rest or best lock frequency of a local station receiver using telemetry A system includes a remote station and a local station having a receiver. The receiver operates in an unlocked state corresponding to its best lock frequency (BLF). The local station derives data indicative of a ratio of the BLF to a reference frequency of the recei... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7197197 | Method for detecting projectile impact location and velocity vector A method of determining the path of a projectile comprises detecting multiple time of arrivals of the projectile in multiple intersecting planes and determining the path and speed of the projectile based on the multiple times of arrivals. ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7197143 | Digital video authenticator The Digital Video Authenticator (DVA) addresses law enforcement concerns for a means to authenticate digital video (DV) so that it will be admissible and trusted as evidence in court. The DVA is a peripheral device attached to a commercial digital video recording de... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7187866 | System for distributing information and energy using fiber optic and optical wireless networks Disclosed is a system for distributing information and photonic energy into at least one room of a building, comprising a lighting generator for generating visible light energy, an infrared (IR) heat generator for generating IR heat energy, and an optical fiber subs... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7176691 | Switched coil receiver antenna for metal detector A pulse induction metal detector includes a pulse transmitter coil for generating and transmitting a first electromagnetic signal and a receiver coil for detecting and amplifying a second electromagnetic signal emitted by a nearby metal target due to eddy currents g... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7157913 | Re-configurable induction coil for metal detection A device in which the receiver coil of a pulse inductive metal detector is capable of switching between a differential configuration (i.e., gradiometer configuration) to a non-differential or summing configuration under control of the operator or computer. ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7148706 | Embeddable corrosion rate meters for remote monitoring of structures susceptible to corrosion An embeddable corrosion rate meter (ECRM) for detecting and measuring corrosion in metal and concrete structures is provided. The system comprises an electrochemical cell with at least one working electrode evenly separated from a counter electrode, wherein a separa... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7148691 | Step current inductive antenna for pulse inductive metal detector A device and method to improve pulse inductive metal detector (MD) sensitivity uses multiple, current steps to reduce the voltage rating of electronic components. Current reduction in one implementation is done with multiple switched resistors coupled to a voltage s... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7148585 | Power grid backfeed protection apparatus A circuit breaker that functions like a double pole double throw (DPDT) switch is used to isolate the commercial power grid from an external power source. When in the “on” position the circuit breaker serves as a main power input circuit breaker allowing power f... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7139567 | Tone based command system for reception of very weak signals This disclosure presents a communication receiver system for spacecraft that includes an open loop receiver adapted to receive a communication signal. An ultrastable oscillator (USO) and a tone detector are connected to the open loop receiver. The open loop receiver... | 11/21/2006 |
