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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8177162 | Wingtip and sponson interaction on an amphibious aircraft A system for enhanced lateral stability of an amphibious aircraft includes a buoyancy system laterally displaced from opposite sides of the fuselage of the aircraft and wingtip system having a hydrodynamic planing surface associated with each wingtip. The hydrodynam... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8157206 | Two-motion wing-fold mechanism with independent load path An aircraft wing folding system folds an outboard wing section relative to an inboard wing section between a deployed position and a stored position in two discrete motions where each motion has an independent load path separate of the loading of the wing experience... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8152100 | Amphibious sport aircraft trailer An amphibious aircraft trailer includes a frame supported on a wheel/suspension bearing axle for movements over a roadway surface. Incorporated into the trailer is a cradle configured to engage a hull of the amphibious aircraft when it is loaded and unloaded in wate... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8132352 | Handgun system Multiple improvements dramatically increase the reliability and accuracy of a handgun. By combining a plurality of improvements, the accuracy and reliability of a M1911-A1 is dramatically increased. The improvements include a modified sighting system that enables th... | 03/13/2012 |
| 7979722 | Flash memory distribution of digital content Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for distributing digital content. One embodiment comprises an apparatus comprising: a device (100) communications bus; coupled to the device communications bus (150), a bi-directional communications con... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7971384 | Interchangeable scope mount A system for interchangeably mounting sighting devices on a plurality of firearms which includes one or more ring assemblies and one or more mounting assemblies. A sighting device is coupled to a mounting assembly using a ring assembly forming a mounting system. The... | 07/05/2011 |
| D640180 | Sport aircraft cockpit and instrument cluster | 06/21/2011 |
| 7921115 | System and method for improving resolution of channel data Disclosed are methods for processing distribution channel data integrating business information with geographic data to produce integrated data, wherein the integrated data has greater resolution than the business information. Distribution channel data is captured a... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7861640 | Barrel link for a semi-automatic weapon An improved barrel link for consistently and reliably placing a barrel of a semi-automatic pistol into battery is disclosed. One embodiment of the present invention extends the width of the barrel link beyond that of the receiving channel of the barrel lug legs so a... | 01/04/2011 |
| D620876 | Aircraft delta fin | 08/03/2010 |
| D620838 | Amphibious sport aircraft | 08/03/2010 |
| D620392 | Amphibious sport aircraft with wing-fold | 07/27/2010 |
| 7761056 | Method of controlling a processor for radio isolation using a timer A method of operating a radio-frequency (RF) circuitry and a signal-processing circuitry in a mobile telephone apparatus includes at least partially disabling the signal-processing circuitry while transmitting or receiving signals. In one example, a processor is eff... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7756964 | Modular integrated computing and storage A modularized computing system includes a plurality of modular components that are coupled together forming a network. Each modular component includes a standard network interface. The system further includes an initialization module, a monitor module, a storage med... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7755561 | Antenna concealment assembly A rigid antenna support structure is designed and prefabricated to rest on two or more existing support foots normally found on a roof or similar structure. The antenna support structure, to which antennas are attached, possess mounting brackets associated with the ... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7742519 | Method for rate matching in data transmission A method employing an improved rate-matching algorithm used during transmission and reception of information packets involves performance of a complete process of puncturing or repetition in two steps. In the first step the action to be taken on each bit of the inpu... | 06/22/2010 |
| D617409 | Combination golf ball mark repair tool and ball mark | 06/08/2010 |
| 7720176 | Edge transceiver architecture and related methods In one embodiment, the present invention includes an apparatus having multiple transmission paths, including a first transmission path configured to receive and process baseband data in a first mode of operation to generate a radio frequency (RF) signal for output v... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7720046 | Synchronizing a channel codec and vocoder of a mobile station In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for maintaining a vocoder and channel codec in substantial synchronization. The method may include receiving a configuration message that includes rate information and an effective radio block identifier at ... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7710942 | UMTS receiver symbol synchronization The present invention relates to a method of performing time drift compensation in a receiver (200) and a receiver (200) for performing time drift compensation. The basic idea of the invention is that a signal is received at the receiver. A control pul... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7707761 | Process for manufacturing double barrel shotgun barrels, and the resulting double barrels A method for manufacturing double barrel shotgun barrels, including the steps of providing an elongated metal stock material having a first end and a second end, forming two index holes in both the first end and the second end of the material, forming a first and se... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7703085 | Process for converting programs in high-level programming languages to a unified executable for hybrid computing platforms A system and method for compiling computer code written to conform to a high-level language standard to generate a unified executable containing the hardware logic for a reconfigurable processor, the instructions for a traditional processor (instruction processor), ... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7702292 | Jitter reduction circuit and frequency synthesizer The jitter reduction circuit to reduce phase noise in a pulse train, comprises: —a resettable integrator (70) to integrate the pulse train, —a comparator (72) to compare the integrated pulse train with a reference level and to generate a modified p... | 04/20/2010 |
| D613654 | Sport aircraft instrument cluster | 04/13/2010 |
| D613653 | Sport aircraft instrument cluster | 04/13/2010 |
| D613202 | Amphibious sport aircraft | 04/06/2010 |
| D613191 | Interrogator/transponder test set | 04/06/2010 |
| 7680968 | Switch/network adapter port incorporating shared memory resources selectively accessible by a direct execution logic element and one or more dense logic devices in a fully buffered dual in-line memory module format (FB-DIMM) An enhanced switch/network adapter port incorporating shared memory resources (“SNAPM™”) selectively accessible by a direct execution logic element and one or more dense logic devices in a fully buffered dual in-line memory module (“FB-DIMM”) format for cl... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7673553 | Barrel link for a semiautomatic weapon An improved barrel link for consistently and reliably placing a barrel of a semi-automatic pistol into battery is disclosed. One embodiment of the present invention extends the width of the barrel link beyond that of the receiving channel of the barrel lug legs so a... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7671560 | Method and apparatus for handling deeply discharged batteries in a mobile station In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for performing a test on a rechargeable battery to indirectly determine a state of protection circuitry associated with the battery. The method may discharge the battery by controlling a pull-down current in... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7652457 | Switching regulator circuit including an inductor shunt switch A switching regulator circuit includes a switching circuit that may be configured to alternately apply a supply voltage and a reference voltage to an inductor coupled between a first node and an output node. The switching regulator circuit also includes a switch suc... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7649406 | Short-circuit charge-sharing technique for integrated circuit devices A short-circuit charge-sharing technique which allows charge-sharing between two or more circuits with a simple shorting transistor controlled to achieve the desired operating voltage levels. The shorting transistor which can be either a P-channel Metal Oxide Semico... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7644070 | System and method for improving resolution of channel data Disclosed are methods for processing distribution channel data integrating business information with geographic data to produce integrated data, wherein the integrated data has greater resolution than the business information. Distribution channel data is captured a... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7620800 | Multi-adaptive processing systems and techniques for enhancing parallelism and performance of computational functions Multi-adaptive processing systems and techniques for enhancing parallelism and performance of computational functions are disclosed which can be employed in a myriad of applications including multi-dimensional pipeline computations for seismic applications, search a... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7619548 | Correlated noise and spurious signal reduction Error introduced by analog to digital conversion of a set of laser pulses can be reduced by shifting the clock reference time associated with the firing of the laser pulse. A timing offset module shifts the timing reference of each laser pulse. Digital codes generat... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7603671 | Performance management in a virtual computing environment A virtual zone management framework manages one or more virtual computing zones forming a global computing zone residing on a host computer. The virtual zone manager comprises a normalization engine, a zone probe, and an interface engine that manages each virtual co... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7589327 | Energy sensitive direct conversion radiation detector An x-ray detector capable of directly converting x-ray radiation into electrical signals utilizes the radiation induced conductivity of various solid, electrically insulating materials. The detector is configured comprising one or more anodes and cathodes separated ... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7587004 | Method for decoding data using windows of data The present invention relates to a method for decoding data, said method using windows (WID) of input data. The invention is characterized in that it comprises for a current window the steps of:—Performing a forward recursion, wherein said forward recursion is ini... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7571225 | Standard operating procedure automation in database administration A plurality of modules and/or engines to manage the operation and health of a plurality of databases through the use of standard operating procedures (SOPs). Modules of the present invention are configured to assist database administrators to create, and thereafter ... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7565461 | Switch/network adapter port coupling a reconfigurable processing element to one or more microprocessors for use with interleaved memory controllers A switch/network adapter port (“SNAP™”) in a dual in-line memory module (“DIMM”) or Rambus™ in-line memory module (“RIMM”) format for clustered computers employing multi-adaptive processor (“MAP®”, both trademarks of SRC Computers, Inc.) element... | 07/21/2009 |
