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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5521847 | System and method for determining airfoil characteristics from coordinate measuring machine probe center data The present invention discloses a system and method for determining airfoil characteristics from coordinate measuring machine probe center data. A coordinate measuring machine measures external coordinates along an airfoil and sends the coordinates to a c... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5519225 | System and method for using a dual modality detector for inspecting objects A system and method for using the detector to differentiate neutron attenuating material from high x-ray attenuating material in an object. The inspection system is used to detect the presence of nitride in titanium sponge nuggets or residual core materia... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5504792 | Method and system for masking cone beam projection data generated from either a region of interest helical scan or a helical scan The present invention discloses a method and system for performing three-dimensional computerized tomography imaging of a region of interest of an object. In the present invention, a scanning trajectory is provided about the object. The scanning trajector... | 04/02/1996 |
| 5500883 | Method and system for efficiently generating radon derivative data in a cone beam computerized tomography implementation The present invention discloses a method and system for generating Radon derivative data in a cone beam computerized tomography implementation. Radon derivative data is computed by using a plurality of processors that partition the Radon space among the p... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5500796 | Method for extracting open-issue data from textual specifications using natural language text processing A method for extracting open-issue data from a textual specification using a computer is disclosed. The method includes searching for predetermined trigger token morphemes in an enhanced text corpus based upon the textual specification and constituted of ... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5489781 | Dual modality detector A dual modality gas ionization detector for differentiating neutron attenuating material from high x-ray attenuating material in an object. The dual modality gas ionization detector uses 3 He and Xe gases pressurized in an ionization chamber to... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5477736 | Ultrasonic transducer with lens having electrorheological fluid therein for dynamically focusing and steering ultrasound energy An ultrasonic transducer having a transducer element which generates ultrasonic energy propagating along a transducer axis with a predetermined speed of propagation, and a lens acoustically coupled to the transducer element and having an input face positi... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5471878 | Method of suppressing grain noise in ultrasonic waveform data by 3D filtering A method of suppressing grain noise resulting from ultrasonic inspection of an object, including ultrasonically scanning an object and detecting waveform signals therefrom, determining, from the signals, data values which define a 3D waveform data set U(x... | 12/05/1995 |
| 5465283 | Method and apparatus for generating radon derivative data on a near uniformly space grid in a cone beam computerized tomography implementation The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for generating Radon derivative data on locations proximate to a near uniformly spaced polar grid in a digitized Radon space for a cone beam computerized tomography (CT) implementation. Radon derivati... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5463768 | Method and system for analyzing error logs for diagnostics The present invention discloses an error log analysis system comprising a diagnostic unit and a training unit. The training unit includes a plurality of historical error logs generated during abnormal operation or failure from a plurality of machines, and... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5463201 | Seam-tracking apparatus for a welding system employing an array of eddy current elements A seam-tracking apparatus for a welding system has a welding arm which directs an energy beam toward a seam. The seam-tracking apparatus includes an eddy current sensor formed by an array of eddy current elements, each producing a respective electrical si... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5446673 | System and method for finish machining an in-process part having an inaccessible interior cavity A system for finish machining an in-process part having an inaccessible interior cavity, an envelope of excess material to be machined, and a predefined minimum wall thickness includes a fixture for holding the in-process part to be finish machined. Also ... | 08/29/1995 |
| 5430887 | Cube-like processor array architecture According to the present invention, a 3D connectivity-conserved grain-structured processing architecture uses connectable massively parallel processors. A 3D grain-structured processing architecture is provided. The 3D links of the grain-structured proces... | 07/04/1995 |
| 5418457 | System and method for aligning an inspection probe and maintaining uniform spacing between the probe surface and an inspection surface A system and method is provided for aligning a scanning surface of an inspection probe relative to a workpiece surface under inspection. The probe preferably includes at least three alignment eddy current elements, each producing a respective spacing indi... | 05/23/1995 |
| 5412765 | Method for vector field visualization using time varying texture maps A method for visualizing vector fields uses texture mapping for the vectors to create an animated vector field. Vectors are textured with one dimensional texture maps composed of alternating visible and invisible segments. Successively applied texture map... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5408882 | Ultrasonic device and method for non-destructive evaluation of polymer composites An ultrasonic measurement device and a method for a non-destructive evaluation of polymer composites having discontinuous fibers distributed therein. The device has one or a plurality of substantially matched pairs of transducers disposed on wedge shaped ... | 04/25/1995 |
| 5398334 | System for automatic garbage collection using strong and weak encapsulated pointers The present invention solves both the dangling pointer problem and the garbage collection problem in software systems. Safe object pointers are divided into strong and weak pointers. Strong pointers point to an object unless they are explicitly assigned a... | 03/14/1995 |
| 5383120 | Method for tagging collocations in text A technique for injecting corpus-based preference into syntactic text parsing is provided. Specifically, the problem of tagging content-word pairs by part-of-speech is solved by using thematic analysis. A new measure of the fixed or variable nature of suc... | 01/17/1995 |
| 5371462 | Eddy current inspection method employing a probe array with test and reference data acquisition and signal processing Disclosed are methods for processing and interpreting data acquired from an eddy current probe array inspection system, based on a background subtraction technique. Test and reference waveform data sets are acquired, and subsequently combined. However, th... | 12/06/1994 |
| 5371461 | Apparatus and method for compensating for variations in the lift-off of eddy current surface inspection array elements An improved eddy current probe array having means to compensate the entire array for varying different element liftoff, is described. An array consisting of a plurality of sense elements and means for compensating these sense elements is scanned across an... | 12/06/1994 |
| 5365560 | Method and apparatus for acquiring a uniform distribution of radon data sufficiently dense to constitute a complete set for exact image reconstruction of an object irradiated by a cone beam source A method and apparatus for acquiring scanning cone beam projection data along a three dimensional scanning trajectory is disclosed. The technique ensures acquisition of a substantially uniform distribution of Radon data that is sufficiently complete for e... | 11/15/1994 |
| 5363308 | Method for automating the optimization of tool path generation for profile milling A method for generating tool paths for a profile milling task uses straight line (lacing) tool paths toward and away from the exterior boundary of a part to cover a first inset of a machining region. Recess areas which are difficult to reach with straight... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5359699 | Method for using a feed forward neural network to perform classification with highly biased data An artificial neural network detects points in feature space outside of a boundary determined by a set of sample data. The network is trained using pseudo data which compensates for the lack of original data representing "abnormal" or novel combinations o... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5355309 | Cone beam spotlight imaging using multi-resolution area detector A multi-resolution array detector includes a fine resolution zone having a higher density of detector elements than in a coarse resolution zone having a relatively lower density of detector elements. The array detector, usually an area detector, is used i... | 10/11/1994 |
