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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7918980 | Electrocapturing flow cell A flow cell for electrophoretically-assisted capturing analytes from a flow. The flow cell includes a specimen chamber, a first membrane, a second membrane, a first electrode chamber, and a second electrode chamber. The specimen chamber may have a sample inlet and a... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7915473 | Counter weapon containment A radioactive containment composition may be created for containing radionuclides from a radioactive material by mixing a clay mineral with water. This mixture may form an aqueous clay suspension, which in turn can be refined by filtering to remove coarse material. ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7907132 | Egocentric display An egocentric display that corresponds to a multidimensional frame of reference. The multidimensional frame of reference may include an ego center, a nadir below the ego center, and a zenith above the ego center. The egocentric display includes a center point, an in... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7904962 | Network attack modeling, analysis, and response Disclosed is a system for modeling, analyzing, and responding to network attacks. Machines are mapped to components, components are mapped to vulnerabilities, and vulnerabilities are mapped to exploits. Each of the exploits includes at least one precondition mapped ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7890266 | Wavelet maxima curves of surface latent heat flux The present invention introduces an innovative data mining technique to identify precursory signals associated with earthquakes. It involves a multistrategy approach that employs one-dimensional wavelet transformations to identify singularities in data, and analyzes... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7848904 | Multidimensional sensor data analyzer A multidimensional sensor data analyzer that includes: discretizing values in multidimensional sensor data at index locations in value surfaces that reside in a multidimensional value space; deriving surface components resulting from the intersection of a geometric ... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7844822 | Temporally threaded CMI watermark Disclosed is a temporally threaded copyright management information watermark where fragile watermarks containing CMI are spread throughout a digital work temporally. In one embodiment of this invention, the copyright management information is divided into a multitu... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7830923 | Interval centroid based watermark decoder An interval centroid-based watermark encoder encodes a watermark into a packet flow. Intervals are defined for the packet flow. Some of the intervals are selected as group A intervals while other intervals are selected as group B intervals. Group A and group B inter... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7822073 | Packet flow side channel A packet flow side channel encoder and decoder embeds and extracts a side channel communication in an overt communication data stream transmitted over a network. The encoder selects more than one group of related packets being transmitted on the network, relates a p... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7735141 | Intrusion event correlator Disclosed is a system for correlating intrusion events using attack graph distances. The system includes an attack graph generator, an exploit distance calculator, an intrusion detector, an event report/exploit associator, an event graph creator, an event graph dist... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7730037 | Fragile watermarks Disclosed is a fragile watermarking scheme for detecting and localizing malicious alterations made to a database relation with categorical attributes without introducing distortions to cover data. A watermark for a tuple group may be inserted by selectively switchin... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7725531 | Single use server system A system and method for processing a client request using single use virtual servers. The method: receives the client request from a network; passes the client request to a new virtual incoming client request server; passes an application request from the virtual in... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7725529 | Geographic information system Disclosed is a geographic information system which comprises a multithreading client and a multithreading server cluster. The multithreading client includes at least one user interface, at least one client coordinator, map data, at least one map manager, at least on... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7724933 | Functional dissipation classification of retinal images Retinal images can be classified by selecting a classifier and a figure of merit for quantifying classification quality; selecting a transform to generate features from input data; using a recursive process of functional dissipation to generate dissipative features ... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7724782 | Interval centroid based watermark An interval centroid-based watermark encoder encodes a watermark into a packet flow. Intervals are defined for the packet flow. Some of the intervals are selected as group A intervals while other intervals are selected as group B intervals. Group A and group B inter... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7720250 | Method and apparatus for watermarking stream data A watermarking system embeds a watermark into data values that may be streamed. A data hash is calculated using data values and a hash key. The data values are grouped. The groups include a first group and a second group. A first group hash is calculated using data ... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7702597 | Crop yield prediction using piecewise linear regression with a break point and weather and agricultural parameters Crop yield may be assessed and predicted using a piecewise linear regression method with break point and various weather and agricultural parameters, such as NDVI, surface parameters (soil moisture and surface temperature) and rainfall data. These parameters may hel... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7702526 | Assessment of episodes of illness An episode classification system including a multitude of diagnosis records. Each of the diagnosis records includes diagnoses information, time of diagnoses information, and patient information. A patient grouper generates at least one patient group by grouping pati... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7698100 | Multidimensional sensor data analyzer A multidimensional sensor data analyzer that includes: discretizing values in multidimensional sensor data at index locations in value surfaces that reside in a multidimensional value space; deriving surface components resulting from the intersection of a geometric ... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7663014 | Secondary process for radioactive chloride deweaponization and storage A radioactive containment composition may be created for containing radionuclides from a radioactive material by mixing a clay mineral with water. This mixture may form an aqueous clay suspension. The mixture can be refined by filtering to remove coarse material. Th... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7662738 | Counter weapon containment A radioactive containment composition may be created for containing radionuclides from a radioactive material by mixing a clay mineral with water. This mixture may form an aqueous clay suspension, which in turn can be refined by filtering to remove coarse material. ... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7650258 | Anthropogenic event risk assessment A computer implemented method and system for assessing the risk of an anthropogenic event are disclosed. An anthropogenic event is defined and recursively decomposed into causal conditions with ascertainable probabilities. The causal conditions and probabilities are... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7627900 | Attack graph aggregation Disclosed is framework for aggregating network attack graphs. A network may be represented as a dependency graph. Condition set(s), exploit set(s) and machine set(s) may be generated using information from the dependency graph. Exploit-condition set(s) may be genera... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7616599 | Label switched packet transfer base station A cellular network base station configured to operate in a cellular network having a service area divided into a multitude of cells through which mobile terminals can move through. The base station is configured to forwarding packets to and from the mobile terminals... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7545376 | Interactive closed-loop data entry with real-time graphical feedback Disclosed is an interactive closed loop data entry mechanism with real-time graphical feedback. The mechanism includes a spatial display processor, a graphical feedback mechanism, an entry interface, a value updater, and a connected-system-interface. ... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7509231 | Measuring and displaying performance, earned value and/or risk Disclosed is an aspect of a computer program that when executed by one or more processors causes the processors to perform steps related to measuring and displaying measures. The steps include: identifying factors; structuring these factors into a hierarchy; identif... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7484100 | Temporally threaded CMI watermark Disclosed is a temporally threaded copyright management information watermark where fragile watermarks containing CMI are spread throughout a digital work temporally. In one embodiment of this invention, the copyright management information is divided into a multitu... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7437336 | Polyoptimizing genetic algorithm for finding multiple solutions to problems A method and system for finding a multiple solutions to a problem is disclosed. The method includes: modeling a problem as an objective function, generating a multitude of candidate solutions for said objective function; and determining a set of acceptable and disti... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7382312 | Syntactic target classifier Disclosed is a Syntactic Landmine Detector. The syntactic landmine detector processes a received signal from a ground penetrating RADAR which contains at least one spatial sequence, the spatial sequence containing relative spatial information locating impedance disc... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7379934 | Data mapping The present invention provides for data to be bilaterally transferred between general applications such as databases and task specific applications. The transfer maps and transports data between applications. The first application includes a data structure with a da... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7346185 | Optical content modulation for visual copyright protection A visual copyright protection system is disclosed, including input content, a disruption processor, and output content. The disruption processor inserts disruptive content to the input content creating output content that impedes the ability of optical recording dev... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7230040 | Fabricating polymers for optical devices High concentrations of dye may be prepared in combination with thermoplastic polymers and used in optical polymers as monomeric and dimeric molecular solutions. The method of preparing high concentration levels allows the control over the aggregation of dye molecule... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7218933 | Cellular network handoff decision mechanism Disclosed is a cellular network handoff decision mechanism which comprising the steps of: determining a sampling interval using a carrier wavelength; determining a local averaging interval that is larger than the sampling interval; determining a handoff decision int... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7203955 | High definition media storage structure and playback mechanism An apparatus and method for storing and playing high definition content is disclosed. This invention provides a mechanism for storing and playing back high definition content on a medium such as DVD optical disc. One aspect of the invention is that elementary stream... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7184992 | Constrained optimization tool A system for finding a solution to a constrained optimization problem is disclosed. The system uses a mathematical formulation describing the constrained optimization problem. A transformer builds a specific function using the mathematical formulation, variables; an... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7180135 | Double gate (DG) SOI ratioed logic with intrinsically on symmetric DG-MOSFET load Disclosed is a Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) logic family composed of ratioed logic with intrinsically “on” symmetric fully depleted double-gate (DG) SOI MOSFET load(s) and asymmetric fully depleted double ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7181221 | Cellular network handoff modeling Disclosed is a system for evaluating the performance of cellular network handoff decisions. One embodiment of this system includes the steps of: creating a reference cellular network description; creating reduced geometric structures from the reference cellular netw... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7174325 | Neural processor Disclosed is a digital neural processor comprising at least one neural processing element. The neural processing elements including at least one simulated dendrite and a simulated axon. Each of the simulated dendrites may include: a dendrite input capable of receivi... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7170530 | Image-based clipping Disclosed is a tangible computer-readable medium encoded with an image-based clipping computer program. This image-based clipping computer program when executed by one or more processors should cause the processor(s) to generate a clipped pattern. To generate this c... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7162642 | Digital content distribution system and method A content distribution system and method which prevents unauthorized access to secured content such as movies and music. The apparatus includes a source, a receiver, an authorized security device such as a conditional access module (CAM) for decrypting authorized co... | 01/09/2007 |
