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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7736889 | Fluidic force discrimination This invention describes a method of using controlled fluidic forces to improve the performance of a biochemical binding assay where a target molecule is captured by specific molecular recognition onto a substrate surface with an affinity coating, and then labeled w... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7705781 | Histogram for ambiguity visualization and evaluation (HAVE) A method is provided for constructing a histogram to represent the root-mean-squared phase differences for a signal received at pairs of elements in an array. A pair-wise element phase difference (“PEP”) between a signal received at an angle of arrival θ1 ... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7684595 | Method of facial recognition An original image of a target is provided. The original image is guidedly perturbed into a first plurality of recognizable uniquely perturbed images, each of the first plurality of recognizable uniquely perturbed images being recognizable as representing the target ... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7668790 | System and method for fusing data from different information sources with shared-sampling distribution based boosting A boosting—based method and system for fusing a set of classifiers that performs classification using weak learners trained on different views of the training data. The final ensemble contains learners that are trained on examples sampled with a shared sampling di... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7665688 | Convertible aerial vehicle with contra-rotating wing/rotors and twin tilting wing and propeller units A micro aerial vehicle can be converted during flight between a fixed wing flight mode and a rotary wing flight mode. The canard design micro aerial vehicle includes a fuselage, two tiltable propellers and airfoils arranged at a forward portion of fuselage, a pair o... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7659906 | Airborne real time image exploitation system (ARIES) An apparatus includes an image buffer, a graphics buffer, a memory, a router, and a sensor interface. The apparatus further includes a memory controller for controlling transfer of image data from the image buffer to the memory via the router and for controlling tra... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7655474 | Trioxyethylene gold nanoclusters functionalized with a single DNA A method of making a nanoclusters functionalized with a single DNA strand comprising the steps of providing nanoclusters, combining said nanoclusters with thiolated DNA, incubating said nanoclusters and thiolated DNA mixture, combining said mixture with a solution c... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7646524 | Photoconductive metamaterials with tunable index of refraction and frequency Materials and structures whose index of refraction can be tuned over a broad range of negative and positive values by applying above band-gap photons to a structure with a strip line element, a split ring resonator element, and a substrate, at least one of which is ... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7628935 | Controlled actuated membranes and methods of making same The invention describes shape changing membranes that can be precisely controlled using the unique approach of smectic liquid-crystalline elastomers (LCEs) with patterned electrodes and a process of preparing and creating the elastomers. The methods to create the sh... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7618609 | Method to prepare defective metal oxides with increased specific capacity Increased lithium capacity of defective oxide materials and methods for preparation are described herein. Point defects may be introduced into a metal oxide to increase its lithium ion capacity. Defective metal oxides can be prepared by heating the metal oxide under... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7599248 | Method and apparatus for determining vector acoustic intensity A system and method for determining vector acoustic intensity fields using a spherical array of acoustic sensors, and a regularization technique. A mobile spherical array of a number of microphones that image the acoustic intensity vector throughout a large volume i... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7586236 | Tri-axial hybrid vibration isolator A tri-axial vibration isolation device having: a passive isolation assembly including a first frame, a plurality of passive lateral isolators supporting the support frame on the base, and a plurality of passive vertical isolators; and an actuator assembly including ... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7567714 | System, method and apparatus for clustering features A method, system, computer-readable medium, and apparatus for identifying a boundary of a cluster in a bitmap, the bitmap having at least one initially set bit, for applying an expansion shape to each of the initially set bits in the bitmap and identifying vertex bi... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7556775 | Microelectro-mechanical chemical sensor A microelectro-mechanical chemical sensor includes an active cantilever beam having a chemically selective material layer disposed thereon and at least one, preferably two, resistors with the resistance corresponding to the cantilever beam deflection. The sensor als... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7533557 | Impact tensile test machine A high-speed tensile test device is disclosed, which measures the stress-strain behavior, up to failure, of polymeric materials, at high strains (as much as 1000%), and high strain rates (up to 104/s). A weight, when dropped down a vertical track, impacts... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7460740 | Intensity modulated fiber optic static pressure sensor system A fiber optic sensor for measuring static pressure includes a cartridge housing having an end that is exposed to the atmosphere, a thin flexible membrane covering the exposed end of the cartridge housing such that the flexible membrane has an exposed side and a prot... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7427359 | Self-filling wet electrochemical cells by laser processing A method of preparing high capacity hydrous ruthenium oxide micro-ultracapacitors. A laser direct-write process deposits a film of hydrous ruthenium oxide in sulfuric acid under ambient temperature and atmospheric conditions. A dual laser process combining infrared ... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7426326 | Low loss bridge electrode with rounded corners for electro-optic modulators An electro-optic modulator having a substrate, one or more optical waveguides, at least one active electrode formed on the substrate and aligned over the optical waveguide, the active electrode operating to induce a refractive index change in the optical waveguide. ... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7421751 | Folding knife having locking portion, clip portion and unsharpened protrusion A knife comprises a handle and a blade movably attached to the handle and having a sharpened side and an unsharpened side. The sharpened side has a first sharp portion and a second sharp portion. The blade is operable to move from an engaged position to a disengaged... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7403326 | Doped fiber scene projection system and method This invention pertains to a scene projection system and a method for projecting a scene that can simulate light temperature of above 2000 K. The system comprises of a light source part for generating light at a lower wavelength; a means part for individually contro... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7382370 | System and method for smoothing and compression of polyline data A computer-implemented process for smoothing and compression of data having an ordered list of points including a first point, a second point and a third point, each of the points being on the perimeter of a polygon. The method includes determining whether the trian... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7345286 | System and method for retrieving ionospheric parameters from disk-viewing ultraviolet airglow data The present invention provides a system and method for retrieving ionospheric parameters from dayside disk-viewing measurements of an ultraviolet emission within the upper atmospheric airglow. The invention may provide nowcasting and forecasting information of the i... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7283712 | Gas filled hollow core chalcogenide photonic bandgap fiber Raman device and method This invention pertains to a glass fiber, a Raman device and a method. The fiber is a hollow core photonic bandgap chalcogenide glass fiber that includes a hollow core for passing light therethrough, a Raman active gas disposed in said core, a microstructured region... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7266044 | Method and apparatus for acoustic source tracking using a horizontal line array An apparatus for processing passive acoustic signals received on a horizontal line array that were either emitted from an underwater object or echo returned from an object, is proposed to track the motion (bearing change and range change) of an object (target) relat... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7260023 | Remote underwater laser acoustic source A method for generating an acoustic source in a liquid includes transmitting an optical pulse through the liquid so the optical pulse reaches ILIB through pulse compression and ionizes a liquid volume. The pulse compression is achieved through at least on... | 08/21/2007 |
| 6737793 | Apparatus for emitting electrons comprising a subsurface emitter structure An apparatus for emitting electrons is provided. The apparatus includes a subsurface emitter having a sharp tip, a substrate including a base, and electrical continuity between the tip, the base, and an external circuit. This emitter structure may be used to form in... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6649327 | Method of patterning electrically conductive polymers A method of patterning electrically conductive polymers is: forming a surface of a conducting polymer on a substrate, applying a mask to this surface, applying irradiation to form regions of exposed conducting polymer and regions of unexposed conducting p... | 11/18/2003 |
