Did You Know...
...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7685133 | System and method for automated discovery, binding, and integration of non-registered geospatial web services A method and computer system for identifying internet web pages containing documents that comply with a predetermined XML schema. The method includes searching the internet with a search engine for web pages using initial search terms and identifying a first set of ... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7673517 | System and method for optical interrogation of micro-mechanical sensors using microcavity interferometry A sensor and a method for sensing a change in mass of a reflective microbeam in a sensor, the sensor having a reflective layer disposed on a substrate and spaced apart from the reflective microbeam. The microbeam receives amplitude modulated laser energy at a first ... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7668790 | System and method for fusing data from different information sources with shared-sampling distribution based boosting A boosting—based method and system for fusing a set of classifiers that performs classification using weak learners trained on different views of the training data. The final ensemble contains learners that are trained on examples sampled with a shared sampling di... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7665688 | Convertible aerial vehicle with contra-rotating wing/rotors and twin tilting wing and propeller units A micro aerial vehicle can be converted during flight between a fixed wing flight mode and a rotary wing flight mode. The canard design micro aerial vehicle includes a fuselage, two tiltable propellers and airfoils arranged at a forward portion of fuselage, a pair o... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7646946 | Intensity modulated fiber optic strain sensor A strain sensor includes an optical fiber with at least one optical fiber, a reflector body with a reflective surface, a housing affixed to the optical fiber probe and to the reflector body. The reflective surface is spaced apart at a distance d from the ends of the... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7646524 | Photoconductive metamaterials with tunable index of refraction and frequency Materials and structures whose index of refraction can be tuned over a broad range of negative and positive values by applying above band-gap photons to a structure with a strip line element, a split ring resonator element, and a substrate, at least one of which is ... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7599248 | Method and apparatus for determining vector acoustic intensity A system and method for determining vector acoustic intensity fields using a spherical array of acoustic sensors, and a regularization technique. A mobile spherical array of a number of microphones that image the acoustic intensity vector throughout a large volume i... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7586236 | Tri-axial hybrid vibration isolator A tri-axial vibration isolation device having: a passive isolation assembly including a first frame, a plurality of passive lateral isolators supporting the support frame on the base, and a plurality of passive vertical isolators; and an actuator assembly including ... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7567714 | System, method and apparatus for clustering features A method, system, computer-readable medium, and apparatus for identifying a boundary of a cluster in a bitmap, the bitmap having at least one initially set bit, for applying an expansion shape to each of the initially set bits in the bitmap and identifying vertex bi... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7556775 | Microelectro-mechanical chemical sensor A microelectro-mechanical chemical sensor includes an active cantilever beam having a chemically selective material layer disposed thereon and at least one, preferably two, resistors with the resistance corresponding to the cantilever beam deflection. The sensor als... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7460740 | Intensity modulated fiber optic static pressure sensor system A fiber optic sensor for measuring static pressure includes a cartridge housing having an end that is exposed to the atmosphere, a thin flexible membrane covering the exposed end of the cartridge housing such that the flexible membrane has an exposed side and a prot... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7426326 | Low loss bridge electrode with rounded corners for electro-optic modulators An electro-optic modulator having a substrate, one or more optical waveguides, at least one active electrode formed on the substrate and aligned over the optical waveguide, the active electrode operating to induce a refractive index change in the optical waveguide. ... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7382370 | System and method for smoothing and compression of polyline data A computer-implemented process for smoothing and compression of data having an ordered list of points including a first point, a second point and a third point, each of the points being on the perimeter of a polygon. The method includes determining whether the trian... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7283712 | Gas filled hollow core chalcogenide photonic bandgap fiber Raman device and method This invention pertains to a glass fiber, a Raman device and a method. The fiber is a hollow core photonic bandgap chalcogenide glass fiber that includes a hollow core for passing light therethrough, a Raman active gas disposed in said core, a microstructured region... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7260023 | Remote underwater laser acoustic source A method for generating an acoustic source in a liquid includes transmitting an optical pulse through the liquid so the optical pulse reaches ILIB through pulse compression and ionizes a liquid volume. The pulse compression is achieved through at least on... | 08/21/2007 |
