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...that two musicians were responsible for the invention of color print film? Fascinated by photography, Leopold Godowsky and Leopold Mannes worked together to produce an easy-to-use, practical color film. They worked full time as music teachers and gave concerts while experimenting during their off hours in Mannes' kitchen. Their success earned them full-time, well-paying jobs at Kodak and their efforts resulted in Kodachrome film, which was introduced in 1935.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8183512 | Optically-triggered power system and devices A power device is provided in an optically-triggered power system having a controller for generating electrical control signals and a converter for converting the electrical control signals to optical control signals. The power device includes a pair of terminals an... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179032 | Ellipsoidal microcavity plasma devices and powder blasting formation The invention provides microcavity plasma devices and arrays that are formed in layers that also seal the plasma medium, i.e., gas(es) and/or vapors. No separate packaging layers are required and additional packaging can be omitted if it is desirable to do so. A pre... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178357 | Peroxide chemical sensor and sensing method Sensors, sensing systems and sensing methods of the invention provide for detection of peroxides, including for example, vapor-phase H2O2 and organic peroxides such as di-tert-butyl peroxide. A sensor and sensing method of the invention uses at... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8159295 | Supply-modulated RF power amplifier and RF amplification methods An embodiment of the invention is a method of generating a reduced bandwidth envelope signal VDD(t) for the power supply modulator of an RF amplifier. An envelope signal of an RF amplifier input Venv(t) is low pass filtered. The filtered envelo... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159134 | Arrays of microcavity plasma devices and electrodes with reduced mechanical stress A preferred embodiment low stress electrode and a preferred array of microcavity plasma devices of the invention include a plurality of thin metal first electrodes and stress reduction structures and/or geometries designed to promote the flatness during and after pr... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8148718 | Low voltage transistors The invention provides a transistor having a substrate, a structure supported by the substrate including a source, drain, gate, and channel, wherein the source and the channel are made of different materials, and a tunnel junction formed between the source and the c... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8139656 | Method and system for linear processing of an input using Gaussian belief propagation Methods and systems for processing an input. An input vector y is received that represents a noisy observation of Ax, where A is a data matrix and x is a data vector of unknown variables. Data vector x is recovered from the received input vector y via an iterative m... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8136560 | Tire noise reduction device A tire noise reduction device includes at least one noise absorbing member made of a porous material. The noise absorbing member is attached to the inner surface of the tire tread portion. The noise absorbing member includes multiple continuous grooves arranged side... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8132611 | Metallic nanostructures self-assembly, and testing methods The invention provides method for metallic nanonstructures self-assembly methods and materials testing. Preferred embodiment methods permit for the formation of individual nanostructures and arrays of nanostructures. The nanostructures formed can have a metal alloy ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131656 | Adaptive optimization methods Methods and systems for optimizing a solution set. A solution set is generated, and solutions in the solution set are evaluated. Desirable solutions from the solution set are selected. A structural model is created using the desirable solutions, and a surrogate fitn... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8120546 | Indefinite materials A compensating multi layer material includes two compensating layers adjacent to one another. A multi-layer embodiment of the invention produces sub-wavelength near-field focusing, but mitigates the thickness and loss limitations of the isotropic “perfect lens.”... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8114864 | Macrolide antibiotics and their use for medical purposes The invention provides novel Thuggacin-Type macrolide compounds which form rearrangement products forming a lacton bond to different carbon atoms. The novel compounds can be produced by fermentation of Sorangium cellulosum and Chondromyces crocatus and... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8114489 | Composite material having low electromagnetic reflection and refraction A composite material has a host dielectric with an artificial plasmon medium embedded in the host. The artificial plasmon medium has a dielectric function of less than 1, and a plasma frequency selected to result in the permittivity of the composite being substantia... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8103981 | Tool for modifying mask design layout An embodiment of the invention provides a tool for modifying a mask design layout to be printed. The tool is executed by a computer system, and includes code for establishing a first level of correction for a mask design layout for a predetermined parametric yield w... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8097173 | Magnetic porous particles and method of making The invention provides porous particles that produce a predetermined optical response and that may be manipulated magnetically. A preferred particle of the invention has a porous structure that produces a predetermined optical response and magnetic material adhered ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095344 | Methods and systems for modeling material behavior A method for modeling material behavior includes using empirical three dimensional non-uniform stress and strain data to train a self-organizing computational model such as a neural network. A laboratory device for measuring non-uniform stress and strain data from m... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8080095 | Steady state tracking desorption system and method A preferred embodiment steady state tracking desorption system achieves steady tracking of either a fixed sorbate output set point, or a set point that changes over time. The system includes an electrically heated thermal adsorption/desorption device A temperature s... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8079799 | Apparatus and method for lifting containers A lifting apparatus is adapted for use in lifting a container having a pair of channels, each of the channels having a pair of open ends. The lifting apparatus includes an elongated support bar and a hook assembly mounted on each end of the support bar. Each of the ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8076410 | Luminescent silicon nanoparticle-polymer composites, composite wavelength converter and white LED An embodiment of the invention is luminescent silicon nanoparticle polymer composite that can serve as a wavelength converter or a UV absorber. The composite includes a polymer or an organosilicon compound; and within the polymer or organosilicon compound, a dispers... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073977 | Internet telephony through hosts Systems of the invention employ peer-to-peer and centralized server networking to enable POTS/PSTN/PBX phone lines to be shared with other users of the system over the Internet. An example application of the invention is to allow a person, having access to an Intern... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068478 | Resource sharing broadband access system, methods, and devices Methods, systems and devices for sharing communication resources among a plurality of clients (200-204) that are part of a common wireless community (1000). The communication resources are, for example, Internet access resources (101-1... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8066831 | Shock wave and power generation using on-chip nanoenergetic material A method of generating power uses a nanoenergetic material. The nanoenergetic material comprising thermite is obtained and deposited on a substrate. An igniter is placed on the nanoenergetic material. When power is desired, the nanoenergetic material is ignited. A t... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8063380 | Semiconductor crystal high resolution imager A radiation imaging device (10). The radiation image device (10) comprises a subject radiation station (12) producing photon emissions (14), and at least one semiconductor crystal detector (16) arranged in an edge-on orientation wi... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8062408 | Integrated vacuum absorption steam cycle gas separation Methods and systems for separating a targeted gas from a gas stream emitted from a power plant. The gas stream is brought into contact with an absorption solution to preferentially absorb the targeted gas to be separated from the gas stream so that an absorbed gas i... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8060807 | Content and channel aware object scheduling and error control A method and system for wireless data communication. A request is accepted for communication of a data collection including a plurality of data objects. For each of the plurality of data objects, content importance and error resilience properties are evaluated. A tr... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8056419 | Artificial lateral line An artificial sensor comprises at least one substrate, and a plurality of flow sensors disposed on the at least one substrate for providing a plurality of spatial-temporally varying signals representing a hydrodynamic stimulus. The plurality of flow sensors are spat... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8045814 | Image compression device, compressing method, storage medium, image decompression device, decompressing method, and storage medium An image compression device having a prediction unit for predicting a value of a compressing target pixel from peripheral values, and quantizing prediction error between a prediction value of the prediction unit and a value of an actual pixel in a predetermined quan... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041141 | Method and software for shape representation with curve skeletons Embodiments of the invention utilize a variational framework for computing curve skeletons (CS) of objects whose cross section is not necessary tubular. Embodiments utilize an energy function, which is proportional to some medialness function, such that the minimum ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8041031 | Cryptographic primitives, error coding, and pseudo-random number improvement methods using quasigroups Stream ciphers, including synchronous stream ciphers, self-synchronizing stream ciphers, and totally asynchronous stream ciphers, employ a working key and a quasigroup transformation, where the quasigroup used is based on an initial secret key. Error-correction and ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8040949 | Video encoding methods and devices A dual, and possibly multiple, frame approach is used by the invention. Embodiments of the invention include making a decision to use a long term reference frame, which is a frame other than an immediate past reference frame, to conduct INTER coding, or to conduct I... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8040586 | Metamaterials One exemplary metamaterial is formed from a plurality of individual unit cells, at least a portion of which have a different permeability than others. The plurality of individual unit cells are arranged to provide a metamaterial having a gradient index along at leas... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8014561 | Virtual fly over of complex tubular anatomical structures An embodiment of the invention is method, which can be implemented in software, firmware, hardware, etc., for virtual fly over inspection of complex anatomical tubular structures. In a preferred embodiment, the method is implemented in software, and the software rec... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8010655 | Network monitoring system and method A method for monitoring a wireless channel or wireless network. Preferably, the method and system monitors a web-based network. Active data probing is used to estimate bandwidth availability when no a-priori knowledge of the current channel or network condition is a... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8010210 | Apparatus and system for insertion of an implant The present invention provides an apparatus for insertion of a flexible implant into a body section of an implant recipient, the apparatus comprising an elongate guiding section having a longitudinal axis and an inner volume for removably receiving the implant, an e... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8004017 | Buried circumferential electrode microcavity plasma device arrays, electrical interconnects, and formation method A preferred embodiment microcavity plasma device array of the invention includes a plurality of first metal circumferential metal electrodes that surround microcavities in the device. The first circumferential electrodes are buried in a metal oxide layer and surroun... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8003357 | Acidophilic enzymes The present invention relates to enzymes having catalytic activity at a pH below 5.0. The present invention provides hydrolyzing enzymes obtainable from archaeobacteria, in detail to hydrolytic enzymes obtainable from the archaeobacterium Ferroplasma acidiphilum | 08/23/2011 |
| 7999622 | Adaptive phase noise cancellation for fractional-N phase locked loop An embodiment of the invention is a circuit for adaptive phase noise cancellation for a fractional-N PLL. A preferred embodiment employs a split loop filter architecture. Two loop filter halves separately drive half-sized parallel varactors in a voltage controlled o... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7988839 | Capillary electrophoresis systems and methods An embodiment of the invention is directed to a capillary electrophoresis apparatus comprising a plurality of separation micro-channels. A sample loading channel communicates with each of the plurality of separation channels. A driver circuit comprising a plurality ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7986250 | Nonlinearity robust successive requantizer A successive requantizer, which serves as a replacement for a ΔΣ modulator in a fractional-N PLL or a DAC, and avoids spurious tone problems, thereby circumventing the tradeoffs that result from reliance on the common approach of making highly linear analog circui... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7979365 | Methods and systems for interactive computing Methods and systems for creating a synthetic surrogate fitness function. User decisions are received representing fitness for a plurality of solutions. A partial ordering of the plurality of solutions is provided based on the received user decisions, wherein at leas... | 07/12/2011 |
