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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7711489 | Trident probe groundwater exchange system A Trident Probe Groundwater Exchange System (NC#096456). The apparatus includes a groundwater conductivity sensor, designed to determine a groundwater conductivity surface; a water conductivity sensor, designed to determine a surface water conductivity groundwater; ... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7692596 | VAR TSA for extended low frequency response method A VAR TSA For Extended Low Frequency Response Method (NC#098855). The method includes providing a first antenna element of a tapered slot antenna pair, providing a second antenna element of the tapered slot antenna pair and operatively coupling the first antenna ele... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7646173 | Battery safety monitor system A battery safety monitor system. The system includes at least one battery, at least one zener diode, at least one safety device, a microcontroller, a display device and a power supply. The at least one battery comprises at least one cell string capable of outputting... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7629921 | Resonance confocal imaging of resonance control points A resonance confocal imaging of resonance control points method and system. The method includes receiving a far-field scattered response from a structure. The method further includes determining resonant frequencies from said far-field scattered response. Then, dete... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7577169 | Time stamping A method of time stamping by using a modified NTP at the data link/physical layers. The method includes steps of time stamping and recording arrival and transmit times at a lower data link level of a requester and/or a responder. ... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7518565 | Tapered slot antenna cylindrical array A Tapered Slot Antenna Cylindrical Array (NC#97194). The apparatus includes a base and a tapered slot antenna array. The base is capable of retaining a plurality of tapered slot antenna pairs. The tapered slot antenna array is operatively coupled to the base in a cy... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7459324 | Metal nanoparticle photonic bandgap device in SOI method A Metal Nanoparticle Photonic Bandgap Device in SOI Method (NC#098884). The method includes providing a substrate having a semiconductor layer over an insulator layer, operatively coupling the substrate to a photonic bandgap structure having at least one period, whe... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7348997 | Object selection in a computer-generated 3D environment An object selection of 3D objects in a computer-generated 3D environment method and system. The method includes defining a 3D space in a computer-generated environment. The method further includes identifying a plurality of 3D objects within the 3D space. Then, dete... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7336882 | Metal nanoparticle photonic bandgap device in SOI A Metal Nanoparticle Photonic Bandgap Device in SOI (NC#97882). The device includes a substrate having a semiconductor layer over an insulator layer; a photonic bandgap structure having at least one period operatively coupled to the substrate, adapted to receive and... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7330653 | Quantum dense coding system A Quantum Dense Coding System. The system includes a source, a transmitter and a receiver. The source is capable of down-converting a pump photon into a signal photon and an idler photon and outputting probability amplitudes, the signal photon and the idler photon, ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7307266 | Method and apparatus for an optically clocked optoelectronic track and hold device A method and apparatus for optically clocked optoelectronic track and hold (“OCOETH”) device. The OCOETH device includes a diode bridge, input node, at least two current sources and at least two photodetectors. The input node is operatively coupled to the diode ... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7305168 | Electronic/photonic bandgap device A Electronic/Photonic Bandgap Device (NC#98614). The apparatus includes a substrate; an electronics layer operatively coupled to the substrate; and an optical bus layer operatively coupled to the electronics layer. The optical bus layer comprises at least one 3D pho... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7302187 | Minimum transmitted photon quantum optical communications system A system parametrically down-converts a photon into a pair of first and second quantum-entangled photons. A transmitter is coupled to receive the first photon and includes an irreversible collapse event device for collapsing the quantum-entangled state of each photo... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7301959 | System and method for multiplying communications capacity on a time domain multiple access network using slave channeling A communications system and method using slave channeling. The method includes the steps of: (a) receiving a request to transmit a message from a first communications resource, the request including a destination address that identifies a second resource; (b) search... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7297113 | Microsensor system and method for measuring data One embodiment is a microprobe. An example of the microprobe comprises a housing having an aperture. This example of the microprobe also comprises an ISFET attached to the housing. The ISFET may have a gate located proximate the aperture. This example of the micropr... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7289700 | Blazed grating optical fiber polarizing coupler The blazed grating optical fiber polarizing coupler comprises a first optical fiber with a Bragg diffraction grating formed in its core at substantially the Brewster's angle with respect to an optical axis of the first optical fiber, a second optical fiber, also wit... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289738 | Quantum optical communications system A communication system employs quantum entanglement by projecting photons through a nonlinear crystal. Some become parametrically down-converted into signal and idler photon pairs. The signal photons are projected to a receiver and the idler photons to a transmitter... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286607 | Energy-control method and apparatus for digital diversity signaling A method of communicating digital signal information through diversity signaling with a constrained amount of transmission energy-per-bit available Etot. The method includes steps of: measuring channel noise Nj and channel transmission loss g | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286942 | System and method of fluctuation enhanced gas-sensing using saw devices A system and method of fluctuation enhanced gas-sensing using SAW devices includes processes for improved chemical analyte detection, identification, and quantification through the measurement and spectral analysis of frequency fluctuations in the instantaneous freq... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283425 | Apparatus for measuring flow noise of water over a hydrophone A water flow noise measuring apparatus comprising: a frame; a beam comprising a distal and a proximal end, where the proximal end is pivotably coupled to the frame; a hydrophone capable of detecting water flow noise and generating water flow noise data, where the hy... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280944 | Multichannel adaptive filter for noise and/or interference cancellation A signal processing method comprises: a) detecting sample auxiliary signals from an auxiliary signal and sample reference signals from a reference signal at different times; b) applying an auxiliary weight from a set of auxiliary weights to a corresponding sample au... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277475 | Narrowband interference excision device A narrowband interference excision method and apparatus. According to one embodiment, a method for narrowband interference excision is disclosed. The method comprising transforming time domain data into a frequency domain vector having a plurality of frequency bins.... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7277725 | Frequency agile-collocated multi-signal RF distribution system A frequency agile collocated multi-signal rf distribution system. The system includes a plurality of receivers, a plurality of transmitters, a power amplification module, an antenna module and an interference reduction module. The power amplification module is opera... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7274413 | Flexible video display apparatus and method A flexible video display apparatus and a method for making the same. The flexible video display comprises a silicon layer containing at least a portion of the control and display circuitry, a display layer, and a flexible layer. Other layers, such as an insulating l... | 09/25/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7263226 | Method and system for detecting anomalies in multispectral and hyperspectral imagery employing the normal compositional model A computer program product 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 nor... | 08/28/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
