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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8180595 | Portable data acquisition system According to typical inventive embodiments, a compact data acquisition unit is modularly assembled of COT components, based on a PC-104 or other form factor of relatively small size. Inside a durable casing, a dc-dc converter increases battery-generated dc voltage f... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8166903 | Deadrise-altering adjunct for marine hull bottom As typically embodied, the present invention's add-on device includes two wedge-shaped structural components that are oppositely congruent and symmetrically connected. In profile, the device describes a pair of nearly triangular quadrilateral figures that are enanti... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8113072 | Electromagnetic physical scale model modularization system The present invention's physical scale model (PSM) of a full-scale ship and associated degaussing system is typically embodied to include: an electrically wired, open, box-shaped framework; electronic structural modules; non-modular structural components; and, non-m... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8105967 | Lightweight ballistic armor including non-ceramic-infiltrated reaction-bonded-ceramic composite material According to typical inventive practice, precursor particulate is pressed and/or caste and/or molded and/or machined, thereby producing a porous green body of a desired shape. A gas is brought into contact with the porous green body so that, via reaction bonding bet... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8105510 | Method for making ballistic armor using low-density ceramic material The present invention's stratified composite system of armor, as typically embodied, comprises a backing stratum and a strike stratum that includes elastomeric matrix material and low-density ceramic elements embedded therein and arranged (e.g., in one or more rows ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102306 | Active-radar-assisted passive composite imagery for aiding navigation or detecting threats Typical inventive practice provides for electronic communication of a computer with a display, an active radar device (for transmitting target-location data and environmental data), a light measurement device (for transmitting visual light data), and passive imaging... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8096224 | Composite armor including geometric elements for attenuating shock waves The present invention's stratified composite material system of armor, as typically embodied, comprises a strike stratum and a backing stratum. The strike stratum includes elastomeric matrix material and inventive ceramic-inclusive elements embedded therein and arra... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094154 | Intelligent leading indicator display According to typical inventive practice, a baseline describing a statistical distribution is established for a set of historical occurrences of an event. Comparison is made between the baseline and at least one current occurrence of the same event. Any current occur... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8093908 | Method and apparatus for measuring electrical impedance of thin fluid films According to typical inventive practice, the relative positioning of two press members is mechanically adjustable so that their respective flat surfaces remain parallel at selectively closer or further distances apart. During immersion or partial immersion of the tw... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8046163 | Interactive pedestrian routing method The present invention's network-based directions-provision methodology typically features the establishment of two ranking schemes that reversely parallel each other. The “personal” ranking scheme ranks all permitted persons in terms of the degree of access perm... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7980765 | Bearing apparatus featuring electrorheological fluid lubrication The present invention, as variously practiced, implements electrorheological fluid (ERF) as a bearing lubricant. Various modes of an inventive rolling element bearing apparatus provide for electrification of inventive electrode components, viz: (first mode) two annu... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7959058 | Hybrid composite welded joint The present invention's composite-to-metal attachment methodology—bolt-free and adhesive-free—features the implementation of an intermediary structure containing metallic fibrous material. The intermediary structure couples a first adherend (which contains nonme... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7946211 | Electrical and elastomeric disruption of high-velocity projectiles According to typical inventive practice, an armor structure includes n≧1 highly-rate-sensitive elastomeric layers and n+1≧2 metallic layers, alternately configured. Each metallic layer is electrically connected to a power supply that includes, e.g., battery(ies)... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7946149 | Explosive pulse testing of protective specimens A transducer is fixedly positioned within a supporting frame, covered by a shield in underlying relation to an enclosure within which explosion pulses are generated for testing purposes. The explosion pulses are profiled during emergence thereof through an aperture ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7841290 | Marine shaftless external propulsor In one general aspect, a shaftless external propulsion system as described herein provides a sleeve configured to be externally mounted over a hull of a marine vehicle. In addition, the shaftless propulsion system provides a rotor and a first stator mounted on the s... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7839721 | Modal beam processing of acoustic vector sensor data The present invention, as typically embodied, represents a novel methodology for effecting linear processing of output signals that are received from one or more acoustic vector sensors. First, as pertains to each modal beam, the modal beam amplitude response b... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7833627 | Composite armor having a layered metallic matrix and dually embedded ceramic elements According to typical inventive practice, a first metallic material is poured into a mold including a bottom inside surface having regularly arrayed rises (truncated spherical convexities). The molten first metallic material cools and solidifies to include a surface ... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7818193 | Ship stowage aid analysis program Stowage requirements are estimated either in early stage design of a ship or in evaluation of an existing ship. Initialization data includes definition of one or more stowage aid types, definition of one or more storeroom types, description of stowage requirements a... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7798873 | Design of a flush inlet as integrated with a ship hull for waterjet propulsion The present invention's methodology for designing a fluid propulsion intake configuration of a marine vessel considers the integral geometry of the inlet together with a portion of the hull, with respect to which the inlet's entrance opening is flush. The inventive ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7797130 | Baseline comparative leading indicator analysis According to typical inventive practice, a baseline describing a statistical distribution is established for a set of historical occurrences of an event. Comparison is made between the baseline and at least one current occurrence of the same event. Any current occur... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7794808 | Elastomeric damage-control barrier A typical inventive embodiment describes a tubular shape and comprises a rigid outer layer, an elastomeric middle layer and a rigid inner layer. The elastomeric material is a strain-rate-sensitive polymer (e.g., polyurethane or polyurea) having a Young's modulus of ... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7793374 | Adjustable height bridging ramp system As typically embodied, the inventive ramp system for bridging between structures (e.g., marine vessels) includes a hydraulic elevator device and a ramp unit. The ramp unit includes three adjoining planar members, the ramp member (the main ramp body) being pivotably ... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7761226 | Interactive pedestrian routing system The present invention's network-based directions-provision methodology typically features the establishment of two ranking schemes that reversely parallel each other. The “personal” ranking scheme ranks all permitted persons in terms of the degree of access perm... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7761125 | Intermodulation distortion reduction methodology for high temperature superconductor microwave filters Intermodulation distortion (IMD) is known to be an impediment to progress in superconductor-based filter technology. The present invention's methodology for reducing IMD can open doors to heretofore unseen practical applications involving high temperature supercondu... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7756689 | Numerical modeling of six-degree-freedom ship motion The present invention's new calculative methodology models the motion of a seagoing vessel in six dimensions, uniquely employing a total velocity potential as the sole parameterization for taking into consideration all linear and nonlinear dynamical effects involved... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7736063 | Bearing apparatus having electrorheological fluid lubricant The present invention, as variously practiced, implements electrorheological fluid (ERF) as a bearing lubricant. Various modes of an inventive rolling element bearing apparatus provide for electrification of inventive electrode components, viz: (first mode) two annu... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7734449 | Numerical modeling of nonlinear ship-wave interactions The hydrodynamics of a seagoing vessel are numerically modeled through the present invention's new calculative methodology, which uniquely combines vessel boundary characteristics and pseudo-spectral environmental characteristics. Solutions are obtained through mutu... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7720566 | Control algorithm for vertical package conveyor Three software programs are respectively run on the main processing constituent of a programmable logic controller (PLC), the network-controlling constituent of the PLC, and a human interface unit. Intelligent (e.g., switch, sensor, control, etc.) devices are distri... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7685922 | Composite ballistic armor having geometric ceramic elements for shock wave attenuation The present invention's stratified composite material system of armor, as typically embodied, comprises a strike stratum and a backing stratum. The strike stratum includes elastomeric matrix material and inventive ceramic-inclusive elements embedded therein and arra... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7624080 | Smart sensor continuously adapting to a data stream in real time using both permanent and temporary knowledge bases to recognize sensor measurements As the present invention's adaptation process is typically practiced, an observation made by one or more sensing element(s) is classified as being either recognized or unrecognized in the context of a knowledge base. If the observation is classified as being recogni... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7592727 | Quiet load for motor testing A device for imposing a torque load upon rotating machinery comprises a rotary unit and plural electromagnetic units. The rotary unit includes a shaft and conductive disks discretely fastened thereto. Each electromagnetic unit includes a bracket-shaped magnetic core... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7564152 | High magnetostriction of positive magnetostrictive materials under tensile load An elongate structure having a magnetostrictive material composition is subjected to tensile stress in the longitudinal-axial direction, thereby generally orienting the magnetization of the elongate structure in the longitudinal-axial direction. Electrical current i... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7557747 | Method and apparatus using fast electronic switching for multi-channelizing a single-channel radar system According to typical practice of an inventive radar system, a switching device is capable of activating a receiver array one at a time so that when a receiver is activated the remaining receivers are inactivated. A switch control circuit is pre-programmed with contr... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7557485 | Ion conducting electrolyte brush additives The present invention's unique utilization of an electrolytic solution renders more efficient the conduction of electricity between two objects (such as two parts of electrical or electromechanical machinery) in relative motion. According to typical inventive practi... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7556471 | Inter-ship personnel transfer device and method of moving between compacted state and non-compacted state The present invention's vehicle, suitable for being hoisted while carrying people between destinations, is compactable and de-compactable. As typically embodied, the vehicle includes a box-shaped open frame, plural chairs, and a shock-absorbent base. The frame inclu... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7552018 | Method for quickly quantifying the resistance of a thin film as a function of frequency The present invention provides a baseline function, viz., a transmission-related parameter (transmission loss, transmission coefficient, etc.) as a function of resistance of a uniformly resistant finitely thin film—which is predicated on the theoretical behavior o... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7548489 | Method for designing a resonant acoustic projector Each of a pair of electrically conductive spiral coils is ensconced in a disk-shaped matrix. The two coil-ensconced matrices are joined face-to-face so as to sandwich between them a thin, non-magnetic elastic layer. An electronic device is connected so that each coi... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7521708 | High sensitivity ring-SQUID magnetic sensor More sensitive (especially due to reduced interference of flux noise) than a conventional SQUID, an inventive SQUID's major component is a hollow cylindric structure comprising one or more annular Josephson junctions. Each annular Josephson junction is defined by tw... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7519502 | Surface profile measurement processing method In one general aspect, a method of processing surface profile measurements includes obtaining a calibration image, the calibration image including one or more surface profile measurements at one or more discrete points on a surface, performing calibration processing... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7443764 | Resonant acoustic projector Each of a pair of electrically conductive spiral coils is ensconced in a disk-shaped matrix. The two coil-ensconced matrices are joined face-to-face so as to sandwich between them a thin, non-magnetic elastic layer. An electronic device is connected so that each coi... | 10/28/2008 |
