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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8160575 | Methods for testing multibeam satellite systems using input power telemetry and output noise power Methods that test multibeam satellite communication systems, including its antennas and transponders. The methods use input power telemetry and output noise power to test satellite transponders and antennas while the satellite is in orbit. One method that tests a sa... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8130096 | Simplex personal and asset tracker Disclosed are systems, apparatus and methods for tracking or locating an asset along with providing emergency and non-emergency messaging services. An asset tracker is disposed on an asset. The asset tracker has a motion sensor, a GPS receiver and a simplex satellit... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8078861 | Remote processor reprogramming Disclosed are exemplary remote programming systems, software and methods for use in remotely programming field devices, such as engines, power generators, controllers, and data sensors, and the like. A (wired or wireless) communications link interconnects a processo... | 12/13/2011 |
| 7995989 | Method and apparatus providing suppression of system access by use of confidence polygons, volumes and surfaces in a mobile satellite system Disclosed are methods and apparatus to control the actions of a user terminal (UT) located at a remote location, possibly far from a gateway (GW), which has an interface to the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) and/or to the Internet. The methods and apparatu... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7869570 | Electromagnetic apparatus and methods employing coulomb force oscillators A Coulomb force oscillator comprising a power supply having a closed primary winding circuit and an open secondary winding that produces charge differential within the secondary winding to separate positive charges and negative charges therein, and which effects cha... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7792487 | Satellite communication system for communicating packet data messages A satellite communication system is disclosed which provides at least one satellite employing multiple beams to a plurality of user terminals. A gateway is employed to connect to either a PSTN or an Internet communicating with the user terminal over the system so th... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7731454 | Method for placing reinforced concrete piling without utilizing a pile driver or an auger Piling, apparatus and methods for pouring a concrete piling in situ around pre-positioned reinforcing rods inside removable hollow pipe sections that have been screwed into the ground. A final coupler pipe section including a removable coupler device is releasably a... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7711320 | Satellite communication system for communicating packet data messages A satellite communication system is disclosed which provides at least one satellite employing multiple beams to a plurality of user terminals. A gateway is employed to connect to either a PSTN or an Internet communicating with the user terminal over the constellatio... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7672639 | Method and system for routing telemetry in a simplex mode A satellite based communication system in a low-earth-orbit (LEO) has multiple beams and FDM channels within each beam for voice/data communication between user terminals and multiple gateways. The satellite based communication system has two links for duplex commun... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7630682 | Satellite communication system employing a combination of time slots and orthogonal codes A satellite communication system is disclosed which provides multiple beams and employs a plurality of user terminals (UT) and at least one gateway connected to a PSTN which communicates with at least one UT over the constellation wherein each of the UTs within a gi... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7609224 | Reducing wind loads on monopoles to provide increased capacity without structural reinforcement Apparatus and methods that reduce wind loads on polygonal monopoles, such as antenna towers and other telecommunication structures, exposed to winds. A multiplicity of connected segmented truncated conical shrouds are attached along at least a portion of the length ... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7564162 | Process compensated micromechanical resonators Disclosed are micromechanical tapered I-shaped bulk acoustic resonators. An exemplary resonator is formed on a substrate, which is preferably silicon. The resonator has a central rod (or extensional member) coupled to two tapered lateral flanges (or flexural members... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7535950 | Blind selected mapping techniques for crest factor reduction of forward link CDMA signals Disclosed are apparatus that implement blind selected mapping techniques that provide for crest factor reduction of forward link CDMA signals. Communication signals are processed using a mathematical algorithm that selectively maps a summed communication signal in a... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7511870 | Highly tunable low-impedance capacitive micromechanical resonators, oscillators, and processes relating thereto Disclosed are capacitive micromechanical resonators optimized for high Q, low motional impedance, and large tuning range. Exemplary resonators were fabricated using a HARPSS-on-SOI process, and demonstrated quality factors up to 119000 in vacuum. For resonators oper... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7489201 | Millimeter-wave cascode amplifier gain boosting technique Disclosed is a gain boosting technique for use with millimeter-wave cascode amplifiers. The exemplary technique may be implemented using a 0.18 μm SiGe process (FT=140 GHz). It has also been shown that the technique is effective for CMOS processes with c... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7460080 | Reducing drag caused by wind loads on communication tower appurtenances Apparatus and methods that reduce drag resulting from wind loads on antenna appetencies exposed to winds. An aerodynamically shaped outer housing made of a material that does not impede transmission or reception of radio frequency energy is assembled and attached to... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7363960 | Heat transfer of a remote heat source using a loop heat pipe Heat transfer systems and methods 30 for use on a spacecraft that use a loop heat pipe to transfer heat from a remotely located heat source to a thermal radiator or other heat dissipating apparatus. The loop heat pipe is a two phase heat transfer device that has an ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7360423 | Resonating star gyroscope Disclosed are resonant vibratory gyroscopes and fabrication methods relating thereto. The angular motion sensor comprises a resonating star gyroscope which comprises a vibratory solid or shell-type structure for rate sensing or measuring angle of rotation. The struc... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7337671 | Capacitive microaccelerometers and fabrication methods Disclosed are moveable microstructures comprising in-plane capacitive microaccelerometers, with submicro-gravity resolution (17 pF/g). The microstructures are fabricated in thick (>100 μm) silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substr... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7260329 | All optical time division multiplexer and packet switch using optical codewords and optically actuated optical switches Optical apparatus that uses optically-actuated optical switches in conjunction with an optical codeword addressing scheme to provide for time division multiplexing and demultiplexing of high data rate optical data. Optical codewords traveling simultaneously with the... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7220954 | Quantum state transfer between matter and light Disclosed are apparatus and methods that provide for a coherent quantum state transfer of information from a two-level atomic system (matter) to a single photon (light). Entanglement between a single photon (signal) and a two-component atomic ensemble of cold Rubidi... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7219132 | Dynamic resource allocation architecture for differentiated services over broadband communication networks Dynamic resource allocation that provides differentiated services over a broadband communication network. The system comprises a gateway that interfaces to an Internet service provider or corporate network, a local area network edge device, a satellite that provides... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7176770 | Capacitive vertical silicon bulk acoustic resonator Disclosed are high frequency, vertical silicon bulk acoustic resonators. Resonator structures having a relatively large transduction areas fabricated using a HARPSS fabrication process provide for high frequency capacitive resonators with significantly low impedance... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7170463 | Broadband omnidirectional array antenna system Broadband omnidirectional, vertically polarized communications antenna systems are disclosed. The antenna systems comprises a plurality of center-fed stacked dipole radiating elements disposed along a central axis, a coaxial feed line coupled between each of the sta... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7133740 | Automated closet system and methods Automated closet systems and related methods that use digital imagery, RFID/barcode identification of garment hangers, and computer-controlled conveyors, to provide for image-based garment storage and retrieval. Digital garment photographs are stored in a database. ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7123141 | Electronic monitoring systems and methods Electronic monitoring systems and methods that permit full-time tracking and management of, and communication with, monitored clients that carry a client tracking unit and wear a transmitter, by a monitoring individual that carries a wireless portable monitoring dev... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7090353 | System and method for improved digital projection Improved digital projection systems and methods are disclosed. Exemplary systems and methods embody a digital data source and a white light source. Light output of the white light source is coupled to a two-position digital micro-mirror device that separates black a... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7089276 | Modular Galois-field subfield-power integrated inverter-multiplier circuit for Galois-field division over GF(256) A modular Galois-field subfield-power integrated inverter-multiplier circuit that may be used to perform Galois-field division over GF(245). The integrated inverter-multiplier circuit combines subfield-power and parallel multiplication and inversion operations perfo... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7085500 | Programmable optical vector modulator and method for use in coherent optical communications A transmitter comprising a programmable optical vector modulator and method for coherent optical signal communication. The transmitter includes a transmitter laser whose output is coupled by way of an optical fiber to an amplitude modulator. The output of the amplit... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7076065 | Chaotic privacy system and method Systems and methods for protecting privacy in transmitting an analog information signal. The present invention combines the information signal with an analog random signal generated by a chaotic circuit and transmits the signal. The received signal is synchronized u... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7064786 | Substrate electrical bounce compensation circuitry for digital cinematography image capture cameras A charge coupled device (CCD) circuit employing substrate electrical bounce compensation circuitry that is particularly useful in a cinematography digital image capture cameras. An exemplary CCD circuit comprises a CCD array having a substrate that is coupled to an ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7056757 | Methods of forming oxide masks with submicron openings and microstructures formed thereby Processing techniques are disclosed for batch fabrication of microstructures comprising an oxide mask on a substrate with submicron openings formed therein, and microstructures having deep-submicron, high aspect-ratio etched trenches, using conventional optical phot... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7043985 | High-resolution in-plane tuning fork gyroscope and methods of fabrication A microstructure comprising an in-plane solid-mass electrically conductive tuning fork gyroscope and fabrication methods. The gyroscope is formed using substrate material having lower and upper layers sandwiching a sacrificial insulating layer. An exemplary gyroscop... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7019882 | Generation of M-ary digital signaling constellations directly at lightwave frequencies A coherent optical link includes a laser master oscillator operative to generate an amplitude- and phase-stable narrow linewidth optical carrier, a first programmable read-only memory (PROM) having an input for receiving and encoding an M-ary data word, a first digi... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6963677 | Optical memory and logic using cross-switches An all-optical, asynchronous binary storage cell implemented by optically induced total internal reflection cross-junction waveguide switches. The term “all-optical” refers to directing of optical data signals as a result of optical control signal inputs without... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6961431 | Analog privacy scrambler and scrambling method A system and method for maintaining privacy in transmission of a high bandwidth analog signal. A preferred system and method breaks an input signal into bands and then uses Walsh codes to overlay many signals on top of each other with a set of phase modulators to es... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6944950 | Tower reinforcement apparatus and methods An apparatus for reinforcing at least one load-bearing section of a tower assembly which apparatus includes two leg members, at least one brace member for connection to both of the leg members, and at least one connecting plate for attachment to a respective flange ... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6935025 | Tower reinforcement apparatus and methods An apparatus for reinforcing one or more load-bearing sections of a tower assembly, which apparatus comprises two leg members, a plurality of brace members, sized and configured for connection to both of the leg members and at least one connecting plate sized and co... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6889238 | Parallel decimator adaptive filter and method for all-rate gigabit-per-second modems Parallel adaptive filters and filtering methods that enable processing of an input signal in a circuit that has an clock speed many times slower than the input rate of the input signal that is processed. A polyphase decimator structure processes a data stream requir... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6874889 | Differential rate double shutter for cinematographic digital image capture cameras A high resolution, high frame rate digital cinematographic camera system having an improved shutter system. An exemplary digital cinematographic camera system comprises a digital camera with an image sensor, a shutter drive motor, and a double shutter system. The do... | 04/05/2005 |
