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| 7269323 | 3D photonic bandgap device in SOI A 3D Photonic Bandgap Device in SOI (NC#98374). The structure includes a substrate having a semiconductor layer over an insulator layer and a 3D photonic bandgap structure having at least one period operatively coupled to the substrate. The apparatus has a funnel wa... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7268930 | Optical modulator An optical modulator used for optically modulating electromagnetic energy. The optical modulator comprises a substrate and three substantially planar reflectors arranged substantially mutually orthogonal to each other. The planar reflectors comprise a base reflector... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7257889 | Method for inserting wires through braided shielding A method for feeding wires through a braided shield, comprises steps of wrapping the ends of the wires with tape to create a plug end; inserting the plug end into a flexible tube that is mounted to an insert tool having a tapered end; feeding the insert tool through... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7253869 | Silicon-on-sapphire display with audio transducer and method of fabricating same A liquid crystal display includes: a) a sapphire substrate; b) a single crystal silicon structure disposed on the sapphire substrate to create a silicon-on-sapphire structure; c) a plurality of liquid crystal capacitors disposed on the silicon-on-sapphire structure;... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7250921 | Method and apparatus for multiband frequency distributed circuit with FSS A method and apparatus for a multiband frequency distributed circuit apparatus with FSS. The apparatus includes a circuit, a first dielectric layer, a first FSS layer, a second layer and a ground plane. The first dielectric layer is operatively coupled to the circui... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7249859 | Corner cube chemical-biological agent sensor A sensing system comprises a corner-cube reflector that has three reflective surfaces wherein at least one of the reflective surfaces is a surface of a bimaterial cantilever. The reflective surface of the bimaterial cantilever undergoes a change between a substantia... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7245292 | Apparatus and method for incorporating tactile control and tactile feedback into a human-machine interface A tactile user interface device that allows a user to manipulate the graphical elements of a graphical user interface and provides tactile feedback to the user. The interface device comprises a substrate and a plurality of tactile elements. Each tactile element of t... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7239439 | Communication system using variable pattern acousto-optic modulation A communication system uses a beam of light; a beam expanding lens; a lens for collimating the expanded beam into a column of collimated light; a plurality of acoustic transducers to project acoustic emanations perpendicularly to the column of collimated light, wher... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7233730 | 3D photonic bandgap device in SOI method A 3D Photonic Bandgap Device in SOI Method (NC#97881). The method includes providing a substrate comprising a semiconductor layer over an insulator layer and fabricating a 3D photonic bandgap structure having at least one period over the substrate. ... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7232699 | Method of making a high precision microelectromechanical capacitor with programmable voltage source A Method of Making a High Precision Microelectromechanical Capacitor with Programmable Voltage Source includes steps for forming a monolithic MEMS device having a capacitance actuator, a trim capacitor, and a high precision, programmable voltage source. The trim cap... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7205835 | Switching mode power amplifier having increased power efficiency An increased power efficient switching mode power amplifier system. The system includes a SMPA and an E/S reactive component. The SMPA includes a transistor, an RF choke and a tank circuit. The transistor has an emitter/source and is capable of receiving an input si... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7196590 | Multi-frequency sythesis using symmetry in arrays of coupled nonlinear oscillators Certain spatio-temporal symmetries induce one array of a two-array coupled network of oscillators to oscillate at N times the frequency of the other array, where N is the number of oscillators in each array. ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7194132 | Method and system for detecting anomalies in multispectral and hyperspectral imagery employing the normal compositional model A method for detecting anomalies from multidimensional data comprises: a) receiving multidimensional data; b) estimating background parameters of a normal compositional model from the multidimensional data; c) estimating abundance values of the normal compositional ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7193350 | Electroactive polymer structure An electroactive polymer (EAP) structure. The structure includes at least one EAP strand. An EAP strand includes a plurality of EAP segments and a plurality of insulators. An EAP segment includes an EAP tile and an activator. The activator facilitates activation of ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7194390 | Predictor of minimal noise figure for wideband amplifier A predictor allows the computation of the greatest lower bound of the noise figure pertaining uniformly over the operating band of a wideband amplifier. This computation is done directly from noise-parameter data of the amplifier. ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7194175 | 3D photonic bandgap device in SOI A 3D Photonic Bandgap Device in SOI (NC#97719). The structure includes a substrate having a semiconductor layer over an insulator layer and a 3D photonic bandgap structure having at least one period operatively coupled to the substrate. ... | 03/20/2007 |
| H2180 | Coiled optical Bragg radiating aperture system Disclosed is an optical beam steering system having a plurality of optical apertures arranged in a circle. Each of the optical apertures corresponds to a unique angular sector of the circle and includes a blazed fiber Bragg grating that responds to selected waveleng... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7174073 | Multiple-tapped optical delay line Photonic signals of high bandwidth are input into a winding of optical fiber. The winding of fiber has winds of fiber that are adjacently disposed and that form a substantially linear outer surface of the winding. A series of optical taps are defined in the optical ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7153749 | Method of tuning threshold voltages of interdiffusible structures A method of tuning threshold voltages of interdiffusible structures. The method includes a step of situating a interdiffusible structure in a path of a laser and a step of illuminating the interdiffusible structure with laser energy until a desired threshold voltage... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7148855 | Concave tapered slot antenna A concave tapered slot antenna. The antenna includes a first antenna element, a second antenna element and a concave dielectric lens. The first and second antenna elements are situated in a tapered slot antenna configuration. The concave dielectric lens is situated ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7139072 | Handheld thermo-electrically cooled surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TEC-SERS) fiber optic probe A thermoelectrically cooled surface-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (TEC-SERS) fiber optic probe for real-time and in-situ monitoring of volatile organic compounds in gas, liquid, and soil environments. The TEC-SERS probe comprises a sample chamber for receiving a gas s... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7116416 | Thermo-electrically cooled surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy sensor system A sensor system employs a thermo-electrically cooled surface enhanced Raman (SERS) structure that is positioned in a sample chamber. Gas or vapor that may contain an analyte of interest is introduced into the sample chamber so that the analyte may come into contact ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7109918 | Nonlinear beam forming and beam shaping aperture system This invention exploits the synchronization properties of coupled, nonlinear oscillators arrays to perform power combining, beam steering, and beam shaping. This architecture utilizes interactions between nonlinear active elements to generate beam patterns. A nonlin... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7094222 | Syringe device for simultaneous infusion and withdrawal A syringe device includes a first chamber defined by a cylindrical barrel, a plunger head within the barrel and a hollow needle sealed to an administering end of the barrel but open to an environment outside of the first chamber. A second chamber is defined by the b... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7084835 | Compact antenna assembly A compact antenna assembly which includes a lower member having a mast that is an elongated configuration terminating at an upper end and a lower end. The mast can be located at the center of an upper member. The upper member includes an emitter, having a perimeter,... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7082369 | Distributed biohazard surveillance system and apparatus for adaptive aerosol collection and synchronized particulate sampling A distributed biohazard surveillance system including a plurality of robust miniaturized remote monitoring stations for the detection, localized analysis and reporting of a broad range of biohazards. The remote monitoring station may be adapted to identify many diff... | 07/25/2006 |
| H2161 | Solid state laser pumped by visible light-emitting-diode Visible light-emitting-diodes (LEDs) are inexpensive, provide emissions in many wavelengths and are powerful enough to pump solid state laser rods. The LED light is directed to the laser rod (laser gain element). The LED wavelength chosen matches the absorption spec... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7057594 | Reconfigurable liquid crystal display A reconfigurable liquid crystal display comprises a polarizer operably coupled to a beam of incident light to pass a beam of polarized light having a polarization axis. A sequence of liquid crystal display pixels serially aligned with the beam of polarized light con... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058555 | Predictor for optimal selective power transfer A predictor for optimal transducer power gain computes the maximum transducer power gain attainable by a lossless matching network for a given load operating over selected non-overlapping (disjoint) sub-bands within a frequency band of operation. ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7051588 | Floating platform shock simulation system and apparatus A shock simulation system including a support plane, a first mass element and a first spring element attached between the support plane and the first mass element. Also included, is a second mass element that is attached to the first mass element with a second sprin... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054230 | Locator device for submerged structures Locator device that can be used to aid in the recovery of or to provide positional information about a structure that becomes submerged. The locator device for submerged structures consists of one or more modules. Each module can be customized to incorporate one or ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7045784 | Method and apparatus for micro-Golay cell infrared detectors A method and apparatus for micro-Golay cell infrared detector. The detector includes a microchannel plate array, sealing membrane, flexible membrane, IR absorbent medium and thermally reactive medium. The microchannel plate array has an upper surface and a lower sur... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7047226 | System and method for knowledge amplification employing structured expert randomization A Knowledge Amplifier with Structured Expert Randomization (KASER) that exploits a structured expert randomization principle. One KASER embodiment allows the user to supply declarative knowledge in the form of a semantic tree using single inheritance. Another KASER ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7043108 | Planar multiple-tapped optical delay line Photonic signals of high bandwidth are input into a planar spiral of waveguide. The spiral has a number of waveguide loops having a series optical tap areas wherein optical energy is leaked from the loops. The leaked optical energy is received by optical tap wavegui... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7027009 | Method and apparatus for simultaneous transmission of same frequencies A method and apparatus for communicating simultaneously at the same frequencies includes two or more conductor-backed, spiral antennas that have been shown to exhibit linear polarization. To permit simultaneous transmission on the same frequencies, two of the linear... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7022288 | Chemical detection sensor system A chemical detection sensor system comprises a support structure; multiple SERS chemical detection sensors supported by the support structure; multiple chemical reaction sensors, wherein each of the chemical reaction sensors is disposed for undergoing a state change... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7009572 | Tapered slot antenna An improved tapered slot antenna. The structure includes a first antenna element, a second antenna element, a brace, a semi-infinite balun and a radome. The first and second antenna elements are operatively coupled to the brace in a tapered slot antenna configuratio... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7006923 | Distributed biohazard surveillance system and apparatus for adaptive collection and particulate sampling A distributed biohazard surveillance system including a plurality of robust miniaturized remote monitoring stations for the detection, localized analysis and reporting of a broad range of biohazards. The remote monitoring station may be adapted to identify many diff... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7002526 | Integrated man-portable wearable antenna system A man-portable wearable antenna system to be worn by a wearer. The wearable antenna system comprises a helmet antenna, a vest antenna worn around the torso, a body antenna worn along the entire body, and a means for routing signals between one of the antennas and a ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6998835 | Electromagnetic sensor system and method An electromagnetic sensor system. The system includes an electromagnetic excitable structure that generates an acoustic signal when irradiated with electromagnetic energy; an acoustic energy transducer sensor for generating a first output signal that represents the ... | 02/14/2006 |
