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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8099859 | Modular assembly The invention is a modular assembly of modular objects for autonomously executing a variety of tasks. The modular assembly consists of a modular object called a platform, one or more modular objects called modules which are mounted to the platform in accordance with... | 01/24/2012 |
| 7755668 | Mobile surveillance system The invention is a mobile pan and tilt camera and display-control apparatus comprising (1) a fully rotatable camera mounted to a vehicle for capturing images, (2) a display-control box having an image display screen and control buttons for controlling the camera and... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7737821 | Electronic identification system with improved sensitivity The electronic identification system provides two-way communications between reader and tags using alternating magnetic fields established by the reader and tag. Communication is accomplished by utilizing either a one-step or a two-step modulation process in which t... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7551025 | High-voltage transconductance circuit The invention is a high-power transconductance circuit (HVTC) comprising three direct-coupled stages which can be substituted for a final-stage power-amplifying vacuum tube in an audio amplifier. The HVTC consists of an input stage, a driver stage, an output stage, ... | 06/23/2009 |
| 6829763 | Partitioned executive structure for real-time programs The invention is a method and apparatus for repetitively executing a plurality of software packages at a plurality of rates utilizing a common set of computational resources. The method consists of counting contiguous time increments and executing a plurality of sof... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6791673 | Ground surveillance system The invention is a method and apparatus for exercising surveillance over a surface from an observation point above the surface utilizing three-dimensional map data pertaining to the surface. The method comprises the steps (1) intercepting the light rays from a surfa... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6784788 | Universal electronic identification tag The universal electronic identification tag is for use with a variety of readers of different designs including a control reader which can be used to control the operations of the universal tag. A reader interrogates a tag by transmitting a carrier. The universal ta... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6634207 | Accelerometer compensation in an inertial navigation system The invention is a method and apparatus for improving the accuracy of an inertial navigation system. The method comprises (1) obtaining a measure of the angular velocity of a body frame of reference having a first axis, a second axis, and a third axis, (2... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6604945 | Method and apparatus for implantation The invention is a method and apparatus for embedding an implant of a special design in bone tissue in a way that encourages bone tissue growth in and around the implant thereby achieving greater attachment security over longer periods of time. The user e... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6538745 | Shock-tolerant multioscillator ring laser gyro The invention is a method and apparatus for processing signals with frequencies fL and fR from a multioscillator ring laser gyro, the method being repeated at regular time intervals. The difference fƊθ, of fL ... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6498875 | Optical connector for connecting a plurality of light sources to a plurality of light sinks The invention is a method and apparatus for transmitting the light from one or more transmitting arrays of optical devices to one or more receiving arrays of optical devices where each optical device in a transmitting array transmits an initially divergin... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6462603 | Solid-state relay Apparatus for opening and closing electrical circuits including one or more normally-open switches and normally-closed switches. A normally-open switch includes at least one MOSFET assembly consisting of a plurality of MOSFETs of different current-carryin... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6457977 | Internal-combustion engine instructional kit The invention is an apparatus consisting of a set of parts that can be assembled into a variety of internal-combustion engine analogs. The set of parts comprises a set of platform parts that can be assembled into a platform having a platform rotary axis a... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6438573 | Real-time programming method The invention is a real-time programming method (RTPM) for use in writing application programs to be executed by virtual machines and a method practiced by a real-time virtual machine (RTVM) while executing an application program written in accordance wit... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6417802 | Integrated inertial/GPS navigation system The invention is a method and apparatus for adjusting the phase and frequency of a received GPS signal in an inertial-GPS navigation system by inputting a delta-phase at delta-time intervals into the received satellite signal. The method comprises the ste... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6414597 | Electronic identification system extended-range reader An extended-range reader for use in identifying the tag of an object. The reader includes a winding of conducting wire for generating an interrogating magnetic field. The winding may be either a coil assembly consisting of a plurality of coils spaced at i... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6397146 | Acceleration compensation in a GPS-inertial navigation system The invention is a method and apparatus for compensating for acceleration in a GPS-inertial navigation system. A translated satellite signal is a satellite signal translated in the GPS receiver to an intermediate-frequency band by a sequence of M mixing o... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6317215 | Pseudorandom bit sequence generation The invention is a method and apparatus for generating a pseudorandom sequence of bits. The method comprises the steps of (1) selecting a "0" or a "1" as the next bit of the modified pseudorandom bit sequence if one or more criteria are satisfied, the cri... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6313872 | Security system for homes and small offices The security system for homes and small offices provides snapshots of potential trespassers for viewing on conventional television receivers. The system consists of at least one scene capture unit, a scene recovery unit, and communication links between th... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6307506 | Method and apparatus for enhancing the directional transmission and reception of information The invention is a method and apparatus for (1) enhancing the transmission of information in a particular direction or (2) enhancing the reception of information from a particular direction by an array of transducers, a transducer being any device for tra... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6307631 | Pseudorandom bit sequence generator The invention is a method and apparatus for generating a primary pseudorandom bit sequence consisting of a plurality of contiguous P subsequences. Each P subsequence consists of a start sequence of predetermined length followed by a sequence of trailing b... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6301571 | Method for interacting with a test subject with respect to knowledge and functionality The invention is a method for interacting with a test subject with respect to knowledge or functionality characterized by a plurality of states in one or more domains. A domain is a set of facts, a set of values, or a combination of a set of facts and a s... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6298316 | Failure detection system The invention is a method and apparatus for determining a failure in a subsystem that is part of a system, the system being characterized in terms of a state vector comprising a plurality of state variables. The state vector is updated at times (jK+k)TƊt... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6285954 | Compensation system The invention is a method and apparatus for obtaining an accurate value x1c of a variable x1 based on an estimate x1e that is a function of K variables x1, x2, . . . , xk, . . . , xK. | 09/04/2001 |
| 6268922 | Method and apparatus for determining fringe number in a fiber-optic gyro The invention is a method and apparatus for determining the fringe number for a fiber-optic gyro. The fiber-optic gyro comprises a light source feeding an interferometer which in turn feeds a detector. The detector output signal is a function of the fring... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6260033 | Method for remediation based on knowledge and/or functionality The invention is a method for remediation comprising steps (a) through (g). Step (a) consists of compiling a collection of one or more topics where a topic is a set of facts, a set of values, or a combination of a set of facts and a set of values that cha... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6249212 | Universal electronic identification tag The universal electronic identification tag is for use with a variety of readers of different designs including a control reader which can be used to control the operations of the universal tag. A reader interrogates a tag by transmitting a carrier. The u... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6249745 | Gravity vector compensation system The invention is a method and apparatus for gravity vector compensation in an inertial navigation system (INS). The INS obtains its position and determines a gravity-model vector at its position using a predetermined gravity model. The deflection of verti... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6237274 | Fishing rod handle attachment The fishing rod handle attachment is comprised of a handle, a handle extension for positioning the handle directly above the fishing rod, and an attaching device for rigidly attaching the handle attachment to the fishing rod. The handle is comprised of an... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6219616 | Method and apparatus for obtaining attitude updates in a strapdown inertial navigation system The invention is a method and apparatus for updating the attitude of a body by utilizing a plurality of gyros to measure as a function of time the angular rate vector or the integrated angular rate vector for the body. The method comprises the steps of (1... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6208937 | Method and apparatus for generating navigation data The invention is a method and apparatus for generating navigation data. The method comprises the steps of (a) determining the position vector for one or more observation points in an earth-fixed reference frame and (b) determining either (1) the position ... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6183385 | Variable-ratio transmission The invention is a variable-ratio transmission comprising a base having an axis of rotation to which an object can be attached and a plurality of pulley assemblies slideably attached to the base along radials. Each pulley assembly comprises one or more pu... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6175807 | Temperature compensation method for strapdown inertial navigation systems The invention is a method continuing over a plurality of time periods for compensating for the output error in each of one or more navigation instruments in a system comprising a plurality of navigation instruments after the system is introduced into its ... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6158282 | Extraction of double-oscillation-frequency sinusoids in vibratory rotation sensors The invention is a vibratory rotation sensor comprising a housing, a resonator attached to the housing, first and second sets of electrodes, and a signal processor. One set of electrodes are attached to the housing and the other set of electrodes are atta... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6138202 | Object space manager circuit for obtaining addresses of object headers The object space manager circuit is a device used in computer memory systems for determining the address of the first word of an object, given the address of any other word in the same object. It consists of a first-object-word encoding circuit, a memory ... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6135772 | Method and apparatus for implantation The invention is a method and apparatus for embedding an implant of a special design in bone tissue in a way that encourages bone tissue growth in and around the implant thereby achieving greater attachment security over longer periods of time. The user e... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6130755 | Fiber-optic gyro utilizing pseudorandom-bit-sequence light modulation The invention is a method and apparatus for determining the rotation of a medium through which a light beam propagates by modulating the light beam with a pseudorandom sequence of bits. The method comprises the steps of (1) selecting a "0" or a "1" as the... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6123069 | Oxygen breathing system with programmed oxygen delivery The oxygen breathing system with programmed oxygen delivery comprises a breathing circuit which a user exhales into and inhales from and a source of oxygen which delivers oxygen to the breathing circuit at a programmed rate. The oxygen is supplied at a hi... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6115125 | Pseudorandom-bit-sequence modulated fiber-optic gyro The invention is a method and apparatus for determining the rotation of a medium through which a light beam propagates by modulating the light beam with a primary pseudorandom bit sequence consisting of a plurality of contiguous P subsequences. Each P sub... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6094607 | 3D AIME™ aircraft navigation The apparatus of the present invention uses radar altimeter measurements and stored terrain altitude profiles to provide pre-filtered observations to a Kalman filter for estimating barometric offset at the airport runway, and barometric scale factor for o... | 07/25/2000 |
