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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7492316 | Wireless time reference system and method Instead of normalizing time reference of independent spatially-located clocks using a reference tag transmission from known location, the present invention uses an interarrival time interval between a pulse pair of UWB pulses as a timing metric. Thus, a method of sy... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7395827 | Apparatus to produce acoustic cavitation in a liquid insonification medium An apparatus to produce acoustic cavitation by controlling cavitation events in a liquid insonification medium utilizing a waveform to excite a transducer with a series of bipolar inharmonic tone bursts having medium recovery intervals between respective bursts so t... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7369598 | Ultra-wideband receiver and transmitter A waveform-adaptive ultra-wideband (UWB) transmitter and noise-tracking UWB receiver for use in communications, object detection and radar applications. In one embodiment, the output of an oscillator is gated by a low-level impulse generator either directly or throu... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7261691 | Personalized emergency medical monitoring and transmission system A portable emergency medical monitoring and transmission system capable of sending a message to a personal caretaker and/or an emergency response center. The system includes a wearable monitor/transmitter device including a glucose level detector, a geolocation syst... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7209523 | Ultra-wideband receiver and transmitter A waveform-adaptive ultra-wideband (UWB) transmitter and noise-tracking UWB receiver for use in communications, object detection and radar applications. In one embodiment, the output of an oscillator is gated by a low-level impulse generator either directly or throu... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7108569 | Axial flow pump or marine propulsion device A multistage axial-flow pumping or marine propulsion device having fixed or variable pitch stators between rotors. Stator vanes are designed to lower internal fluid speed without sacrificing total pressure as working fluid travels toward the discharge nozzle. A vari... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7062478 | Method and apparatus using automated rule processing to configure a product or service A configuration method and apparatus for a complex product or service that uses a reduced form of a prime rule indicative of valid and invalid configurations. The configurator applies user inputs parameters to an execution module that is constructed using directed a... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7006818 | System and method of providing public voicemail service to private network subscribers An apparatus and a method that enable private network providers to offer public network voicemail service. In the private network, a status indicator indicates the subscriber's availability to receive calls, and a controller outdials and/or issues signaling commands... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6965887 | Rule processing methods for automating a decision and assessing satisfiability of rule-based decision diagrams A method of rule processing includes defining/entering attributes, enumerations, and/or relationships; packaging the definitions in a reduced canonical form suitable for propositional logic manipulation using zero-suppressed binary decision diagrams (Zdd) to produce... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6882315 | Object location system and method An RF object locating system and method that uses or includes a set of N (N>2) receivers (monitoring stations) located at fixed positions in and/or about a region to be monitored, one or more reference transmitters that transmit a timing reference, a location proces... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6846365 | Method and apparatus for acoustic suppression of cavitation The invention provides a method and apparatus for suppressing hydrodynamic cavitation through the use of high frequency (>500 kHz) and high amplitude (>1 atmospheres) acoustic energy. The method includes biasing a transducer driving signal to generate an acoustic fi... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6842726 | Method of determining RF coverage area in a point-to-multipoint transmission system A method of determining RF coverage area in a point-to-multi-point RF transmission system and creating model maps showing serviceable business addresses within a given region. The method includes selecting a standard design signal strength level required to provide ... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6812884 | Transceiver system and method utilizing nanosecond pulses A transceiver for short-pulse radar applications is disclosed in which a shift register or the like is used to collect return signal information in a manner to reduce the number of transmit pulses needed and to increase the speed of determining the positions of mult... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6690741 | Ultra wideband data transmission system and method A data-modulated ultra wideband transmitter that modulates the phase, frequency, bandwidth, amplitude and/or attenuation of ultra-wideband (UWB) pulses. The transmitter confines or band-limits UWB signals within spectral limits for use in communication, p... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6587458 | Method and apparatus for an internet Caller-ID delivery plus service A method and apparatus for an Internet Caller-ID Delivery Plus Service is presented. The telephone numbers and Internet accounts of a subscriber are aggregated in a database, with one of the telephone numbers being designated as the primary contact number... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6578370 | Continuous flow quick-chilling apparatus and method for mass production of precooked foods A quick-chilling apparatus and method utilizes a continuous flow liquid reservoir located at a first region of a centralized kitchen facility. The reservoir includes insulated walls and a cooling liquid, such as water, that endlessly circulates about subm... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6412480 | Detachable legs for vertical hearth barbecue grill Detachable legs and side handles for a portable barbecue grill that interlock with each side of a barbecue grill wherein the grill has a flexible base to provide self-leveling of the legs. The leg members, among other things, provide stability against rea... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6411606 | Hybrid access system with remote device monitoring scheme A hybrid access system and method using a hybrid access system point of presence router and a remote link adapter to connect a user computer terminal to a network for fast downstream information transfer by high speed information broadcasting with lower s... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6405641 | Cookware for vertical hearth barbecue grill A cooking container such as a pot, skillet or deep fryer is geometrically shaped to lie upon and to optimally extract heat from the firebox of a vertical hearth barbecue grill. The container has a bottom heat extraction surface that lie directly over the ... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6395096 | Single transducer ACIM method and apparatus Acoustic coaxing induced microcavitation (ACIM) for controlling the onset, evolution, and/or intensity of microcavitation events in a liquid or fluid medium to perform nanometer or micrometer particle detection in ultrapure liquids, sub-micron particle re... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6374075 | Printing systems and methods A copy machine having a high accuracy sheet registration system for precise placement of images on each copy sheet. The copy machine includes sensors with charge coupled devices (CCDs) that detect the sheet positions in two dimensions within the machine, ... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6357344 | Firebox for vertical hearth barbecue grill A removable firebox for use in a portable, collapsible barbecue grill including retractable heating grate on top of the firebox and a retractable mid-level cooking grill for providing high-temperature cooking. A lower main grill is disposed in a base cavi... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6275497 | Method and apparatus for controlling communication channels using contention and polling schemes A medium access controller for a multi-user network that assigns or changes the operating protocol of multiple upstream channels according to user loading, user status, and/or type of payload data transfers requested by the user or detected by the control... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6239741 | UWB dual tunnel diode detector for object detection, measurement, or avoidance A highly sensitive, high-speed dual tunnel diode detector is described for use in Ultra Wideband (UWB) object detection systems, such as a radar. The extended capability of the detector to both extremely short (sub-foot) and long distance (tens of thousan... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6196116 | Firebox for vertical hearth barbecue grill A removable firebox for use in a portable, collapsible barbecue grill including retractable heating grate on top of the firebox and a retractable mid-level cooking grill for providing high-temperature cooking. A lower main grill is disposed in a base cavi... | 03/06/2001 |
