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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6880147 | System and method for developing software utilizing determinative representations A statechart includes a state having two or more parallel states. The two or more parallel states are ordered to ensure determinism for the system. The statecharts can be modified Harel statecharts. The statecharts can be utilized to generate avionics software. ... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6741208 | Dual-mode switched aperture/weather radar antenna array feed A weather radar antenna for radiating a desired beam formed by feeding quadrants of the antenna uses a dual-mode switched aperture antenna feed. The dual-mode switched antenna feed has an input divider that splits the input signal. A left switch switches the split i... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6738015 | Vector extended range correlation tracking of global positioning system (GPS) signals A vector extended range correlation (ERC) apparatus and method tracks signals transmitted from satellites in a GPS network in extremely low signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) environments. A GPS receiver antenna receives the signals transmitted from the ... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6710663 | Temperature compensation of a rubidium frequency standard A rubidium frequency standard is compensated for frequency variations over temperature by allowing the rubidium frequency standard to vary while holding the output frequency constant. A voltage controlled crystal oscillator, locked to a physics package, provides the... | 03/23/2004 |
| 7481954 | Composition for a light filtering material A composition for a filter material includes a dye and possibly a polymer host. The dye includes a Co(II) compound, a Ni(II) compound or a mixture thereof. Filter material can have a transmittance at 500 nanometers of at least 80% and a steep cutoff absorption band ... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7477164 | Vertical profile display using color filled bands to provide terrain awareness The flight display includes a vertical terrain profile display having a format that includes a side-on vertical terrain profile comprising a plurality of color filled vertical alerting bands representing areas of terrain that are within defined limits above and belo... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7474989 | Method and apparatus for failure prediction of an electronic assembly using life consumption and environmental monitoring Presently disclosed are a method and apparatus for predicting a failure in an electronic assembly by detecting an incremental change exhibited by a sacrificial sensor that is integrated into the electronic assembly and by monitoring environmental conditions that the... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7452258 | Method of sealing OLED cover with liquid adhesive A method of attaching a protective cover to an Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED) assembly is disclosed. According to the method, a liquid adhesive is applied to a substantial portion of a face one of the OLED assembly and the protective cover. The protective cover... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7450512 | Recirculating retransmission queuing system and method A method of retransmitting a data cell is disclosed. The method comprises providing a transmit queue having a head and a tail and providing a retransmit queue having a head and a tail. The method also comprises transmitting a first data cell from the head of the tra... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7450523 | Control of reconfigurable SIS/MAC protocols used in wireless communication devices A method, a device, and a system for reconfiguring communication transmission characteristics in response to a changing communication environment is provided. An environment at a communication device is characterized to determine if a transmission parameter associat... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7451258 | Rotating priority queue manager The present invention is a rotating priority queue manager. A rotating priority queue manager in accordance with the present invention may include a plurality of source data channels, a corresponding plurality of processing resources, and an arbitrating interface di... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7440592 | Secure content microdisplay A secure content near eye display apparatus includes a microdisplay device. A user verification system of the secure content near eye display apparatus is configured to verify whether a user is an authorized user. A controller coupled to the microdisplay device and ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440591 | Validation of terrain and obstacle databases A method of identifying errors in information describing terrain features is disclosed. According to the method, a first set of data is obtained which describes an area of terrain. The first set of data has a first type of error. A second set of data is obtained whi... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437180 | Over-the-air signaling service method and apparatus A method and apparatus is disclosed for retrofitting to an existing radio, the radio not having built in over-the-air signaling capabilities. The device and method include using an interface configured to interface to the radio and providing electrical signals to th... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436921 | Frequency sampling phase detector The present invention is an apparatus for determining the phase difference between a reference frequency signal and an input signal. The frequency sampling phase detector of the present invention may include a phase detector coupled with sample and hold circuitry. T... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436371 | Waveguide crescent slot array for low-loss, low-profile dual-polarization antenna A low-loss, low-profile dual-polarization slotted waveguide antenna includes one or more waveguides having a characteristic wavelength. Radiation apertures comprised of a waveguide slot pairs are formed in each or the waveguides of the antenna. Each waveguide slot p... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436368 | Antenna adapter for improved cosite performance An antenna for a military ground vehicle having a radio includes a whip element and a base plate attached to the whip element. The base plate has a first set of dimensions. The antenna also includes an antenna adapter that is attached to the base plate. The antenna ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436361 | Low-loss dual polarized antenna for satcom and polarimetric weather radar The present invention is a low-loss polarized antenna for satellite communications and polarimetric weather radar. The antenna may comprise: (a) a microstrip patch antenna, (b) a waveguide, and (c) a coupling interface between the antenna and waveguide. The microstr... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436350 | Combined aircraft TCAS/transponder with common antenna system The present invention is a combined aircraft TCAS/Transponder with common antenna system and transmitter. Common TCAS/Transponder multi-monopole top and bottom antennas may be connected to a top and bottom antenna modules, the top and bottom antenna modules being el... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7435311 | Panel-to-panel lamination method for improved uniformity A method of adhering a first panel, such as an OLED assembly, to a second panel, such as a protective cover plate, is disclosed. An adhesive is applied to a face of at least one of the first and second panels. The first panel is positioned to be responsive to moveme... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7437225 | Flight management system The present invention is a system and method for providing flight management to one or more aircraft via a communication link between a fight management system located outside the aircraft and a flight management system located inside the aircraft. Remote flight man... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7430192 | Net formation-merging system and method A method of utilizing communication channel resources between nodes in a network of nodes is provided. Communication between a set of nodes in a communication network uses a time division multiple access protocol that includes a plurality of time slots. A set of tim... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7427943 | Method of generating three-dimensional weather information from airborne weather radar imagery A method of displaying real-time, three-dimensional weather information is disclosed. A first representation of a weather event along a first plane is generated from data obtained from a first radar scan. A second representation of the weather event along a second p... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7417579 | Weather radar with significance determination A weather radar system includes processing electronics. The processing electronics sense weather and determine significant weather based upon the altitude of the weather. The altitude of the weather can be compared to a flight path to determine its significance. A d... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7417578 | Removal of spurious aircraft detections on weather radar A weather radar detects and removes spurious aircraft from a weather radar display by using one of the methods of differentiating radar return length, estimating a vertical gradient of reflectivity, tracking radar returns into regions that are eliminated from the we... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7417641 | Aeronautical chart display apparatus and method A method and apparatus for converting electronic display aeronautical chart data to aeronautical chart data that is tailored for an avionics display is disclosed. The method and apparatus received by a data processing unit, electronic display aeronautical chart data... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7418343 | Relative navigation for precision rendezvous and station keeping using datalink signals A follower aircraft is guided to a lead aircraft using a datalink that determines range between the two. The lead aircraft has an antenna array and processing system for determining azimuth/elevation of the follower aircraft. The lead aircraft transmits a ranging me... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7414980 | Interference estimation for interference excision with low computational complexity The present invention is a method and system for estimating interference. Packet characteristics of relevant packets within the channel at a given point in time may be processed. For example, a power level, occupied frequency and corresponding time references may be... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7414578 | Method for efficiently computing the beamforming weights for a large antenna array A method of determining the size of a sub-array for an antenna array is described. The method includes choosing a number of elements of a sub-array of antenna elements. Further, the method includes determining a direction of arrival of the signal using data from the... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7411472 | Low-loss integrated waveguide feed for wafer-scale heterogeneous layered active electronically scanned array A wafer-scale heterogeneous layered active electronically scanned array (ESA) utilizes a low-loss integrated waveguide feed. The ESA is formed from wafer-scale subarray modules each of which comprises a multilayer stack to form transmit/receive (T/R) modules. Wavegu... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7412324 | Flight management system with precision merging The present invention is a flight management system with precision merging that may determine a rejoin turn location based upon a heading to allow proper spacing between an aircraft and an identified target aircraft. The flight management system may monitor for devi... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7405694 | Communication link time transfer to improve navigation system accuracy A method and apparatus for improving differential navigation accuracy uses time transfer over a two-way communications link. The communications link transmits an overall time offset between a differential reference station and a remote user. A differential navigatio... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7403207 | Intensity weighting for sub-pixel positioning A method for determining intensity of a sub-pixel position within a pixelated image to enhance the image quality thereof. In a first step of this method information is received regarding a first pixel at a position X0,Y0, having an intensity I(X0,Y0). In a second st... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7403780 | Hybrid open/closed loop filtering for link quality estimation A method of adapting a communication link in a network of radio communication nodes is disclosed, The method includes sending by a first node a first radio communication, The method also includes receiving by a second node the first radio communication, Further, the... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7403756 | Highly-integrated MEMS-based miniaturized transceiver The present invention is directed to a highly-integrated MEMS-based miniaturized transceiver. The transceiver utilizes a low band front-end to direct sample low band signals and a high band front-end to translate high band signals that cannot be directly sampled to ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7400598 | Polymorphic broadcast and multicast services for wireless networks A method of communicating in a wireless ad-hoc communications network is disclosed. The network includes a plurality of nodes configured for wireless communication therebetween. According to the method, a receiving node receives a message originating from a source n... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7400596 | Dynamic, multicast routing using a quality of service manager A method, a device, and a system for processing a request to establish a multicast session among a plurality of communication nodes are provided. The device includes a multicast management application. The multicast management application includes instructions to re... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7398065 | Programmable sampling band pass filter A variable bandwidth, sampled analog filter can be programmed to have a variety of responses. A variable bandwidth, sampled analog filter is preferably a sampled analog resonator based filter that receives a bandwidth control input and a sample clock input. The samp... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7397810 | Artery nodes A method of communicating over a network of nodes is disclosed. According to the method, it is determined whether a first node forms part of an interconnected sub-network within the network. Broadcast slots are assigned to the first node if the first node is part of... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7397606 | Meniscus head up display combiner A meniscus combiner for a head up display (HUD) system. The meniscus combiner includes a meniscus lens; a multi-layer dichroic coating formed on a first surface of the meniscus lens; and, an anti-reflection coating formed on a second, opposite surface of the meniscu... | 07/08/2008 |
