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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184991 | Ditherless optical modulator control A method of controlling the operating parameters of an optical modulator, without using a dither signal, is provided. Past operating parameters are compared to present operating parameters using a quality of modulation signal obtained by cross-correlating the data m... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184684 | Automatic gain control stress measurement for digital carriers The testing equipment of the present invention calculates a single “AGC stress” value, which provides an indication of the stability of the level of a digital carrier based on the change in gain required to stabilize the power of an incoming cable signal over ti... | 05/22/2012 |
| D660447 | Thermal pack | 05/22/2012 |
| D660446 | Thermal pack | 05/22/2012 |
| D660445 | Thermal pack | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180225 | Optical data link The invention provides an optically powered device interface module for operating an external device, and an optically powered data link comprising the same. In one embodiment the device interface module includes an optical interface for receiving optical power and ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8164810 | Security devices incorporating optically variable adhesive A structure for providing an optical effect includes first and second substrates hot stamped together by an adhesive. The adhesive includes an energy activated binder having a plurality of particles distributed therein or thereon for providing the optical effect det... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164721 | Grating trim retarders A grating trim retarder fabricated from a form-birefringent multi-layer dielectric stack including at least one anti-reflection coating and supported on a transparent substrate is provided. The form-birefringent dielectric stack includes an axially-inhomogeneous ele... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8163144 | Magnetron sputtering device The present invention relates to a magnetron sputtering device and technique for depositing materials onto a substrate at a high production rate in which the deposited films have predictive thickness distribution and in which the apparatus can operate continuously a... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8154303 | Method for locating cable impairments Methods are disclosed for identifying and locating points of impairment in a cable plant, such as that used for cable television (CATV). The methods utilize both known characteristics of signals as well as propagation times in free space and within the cable in conj... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8137762 | Two-axial alignment of magnetic platelets A method of planarizing a plurality of orientable non-spherical flakes supported by a longitudinal web is disclosed. A web supporting a coating of field orientable non-spherical flakes is placed between magnets so that the fields from the magnets traverse the web. F... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135275 | Measuring chromatic dispersion in an optical wavelength channel of an optical fiber link Two intensity modulated test signals are generated with precise frequency offset from a single laser source, and multiplexed into a combined test signal. The two modulated signals are demultiplexed at a receiver using a fixed periodic optical filter with complementa... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8127190 | Sampling a device bus A method for preparing tapped data for analysis. The data on a bus is sampled and latched at a certain rate to produce raw data. The raw data is then decoded by a pod that is configured for the protocol of the bus in a system under test. The decoded data can then be... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125906 | Capture RCDT and SNTT SAS speed negotiation decodes in a network diagnostic component Systems and methods for a network diagnostic device or component that is placed in-line between two nodes in a network to capture the value of a component of a speed negotiation signal. The network diagnostic component receives a speed negotiation signal from a firs... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8124217 | Structured surfaces that exhibit color by rotation An optically variable device is disclosed having a substrate with an array of pyramidal structures formed upon it or within it. The structures are coated with an optically variable color-shifting coating. Each of the structures form a pyramidal-like having at least ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8118963 | Stamping a coating of cured field aligned special effect flakes and image formed thereby A method of forming a security device is disclosed wherein a magnetically aligned pigment coating coated on a first substrate upon a release layer is hot stamped onto another substrate or object. Multiple patches with aligned magnetic flakes can be oriented differen... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8108510 | Method for implementing TopN measurements in operations support systems In an OSS, storing a plurality, typically less than all, of name-value pairs from a sample space and calculating a “representative” value based on values in the entire sample space. Optionally, a “remainder” value can be generated based on name-value pairs i... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8105678 | Structured surfaces that exhibit color by rotation An optically variable device is disclosed having a substrate with an array of pyramidal structures formed upon it or within it. The structures are preferably formed by printing pyramids with an optically variable color-shifting ink using an Intaglio-like printing pr... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8094270 | Thin-film optical retarders An oblique angle deposition is used to provide an A-plate optical retarder having at least one dense, form-birefringent layer. According to one embodiment, the dense, form-birefringent layer(s) are deposited as part of an FBAR stack to provide an all-dielectric full... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8073943 | Graphical user interface for adding measurements to existing distributed network troubleshooting system A graphical user interface provides a link to network related measurements by network analysis devices, to present a test including perceptibly correlated network-related measurements by two or more of the network analysis devices through a selectable graphical disp... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073034 | Mesa vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser The present invention provides an improved mesa vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL), in which a first distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) mesa of semiconductor material is disposed on a top surface of an active layer. A contact annulus is disposed on a cont... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8072683 | Cartesian polarizers utilizing photo-aligned liquid crystals Cartesian polarizers utilizing liquid crystal polymers (LCPs) are provided for use as laser protection filters in optical pick-up units. The LCPs are photo-aligned and cross-linked into a polymer host to provide a durable filter. According to one embodiment, the LCP... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8072561 | Twisted nematic xLCD contrast compensation with tilted-plate retarders Contrast compensation for a liquid crystal display projection system including a light source, a first polarizer, a liquid crystal display panel, and a second polarizer is provided using a tilted compensating plate. The compensating plate includes a first birefringe... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8055700 | Network test/measurement agent extensible with different types of network interfaces A system or method that extends a communication test/measurement agent by providing the communication test/measurement agent with built-in functionality to allow a central communication test/measurement system to generically communicate with and operate the agent, a... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8050555 | Optical phase modulator with monitoring structure The invention relates to an optical waveguide device that includes a waveguide phase modulator (WPM). A waveguide monitoring structure is coupled optically in parallel with the WPM so as to form a Mach-Zehnder interferometer therewith for producing monitor light ind... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8049824 | Single-layer birefringent crystal trim retarders A single-layer birefringent crystal trim retarder includes a birefringent crystal cut such that its optic axis is at a high oblique angle and such that it provides low in-plane retardance values even when the birefringent crystal is relatively thick. To compensate f... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8031749 | Passively Q-switched microlaser with controllable peak power density Geometrical design of laser microchips is disclosed that allows variation of the optical path length in the different media by simple displacement of the microchip, the movement having a non-zero projection orthogonal to the pump beam. The concept can be implemented... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8030684 | Mesa-type photodetectors with lateral diffusion junctions The present invention relates to a stable mesa-type photodetector with lateral diffusion junctions. The invention has found that without resorting to the complicated regrowth approach, a simple Zn diffusion process can be used to create high-quality semiconductor ju... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8027555 | Scalable cladding mode stripper device A cladding mode stripper for stripping cladding modes from an optical fiber is disclosed. The cladding mode stripper includes a reflective base and a block of a transparent material disposed on the reflective base. The block of the transparent material has a groove ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8027277 | Passive network tap for tapping network data A passive full-duplex bidirectional ZPL tap includes first and second network ports and first and second tap ports. A passive signal separator is configured to receive a data stream from at least one of the first or second network port and pass through the data stre... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8025952 | Printed magnetic ink overt security image A security image and method of forming said image is disclosed wherein a substrate having an image or indicia thereon is coated with a dilute solution of pigment flakes in an ink or paint. The flakes are subsequently aligned in a magnetic field and are fixed after t... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8009709 | DC coupled driver with active termination A DC coupled driver is described for modulating a vertical cavity surface emitting laser at high speeds with active termination. High speed and low total power dissipation is achieved by improving the driver immunity to pulse reflections, which can arise due to impe... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8008688 | Photodiode and method of fabrication The present invention provides a highly reliable photodiode, as well as a simple method of fabricating such a photodiode. During fabrication of the photodiode, a grading layer is epitaxially grown on a top surface of an absorption layer, and a blocking layer, for in... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8005886 | Systems and methods for generating network messages A networking system may include a traffic generator. The traffic generator may include a scripting module configured to create a script. The traffic generator may execute the script to send and/or receive network messages within the networking system, which may help... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8005133 | Displaying eye-diagram and digital diagnostic data using network analyzers Methods and apparatuses for displaying information for analyzing a signal transmitted in a communication system. The method can include displaying digital diagnostic data received from a monitoring interface of a transceiver. An eye-diagram for the signal is also di... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8001539 | Historical data management An apparatus and method for managing historical data includes receiving a compiled application program and a declarative specification. An enhancer generates one or more representations of at least one data class defined in the application program based on at least ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7999895 | Contrast compensation of microdisplay panels including a high order waveplate A contrast compensator for improving the panel contrast of liquid crystal (LC) microdisplays having a high-order waveplate configured as an O-plate and supporting a thin film transistor layer is provided. The contrast compensator includes a counter high-order wavepl... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7984187 | System and method for constructing transactions from electronic content A system and method for constructing transactions by requesting content from content providers, such as web sites, according to automatically generated content references. From that content and according to user-defined rules, the system can generate other content r... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7974248 | Wireless “whooper” system for consolidating wireless communication access points and client stations and providing differentiated wireless services A Wireless Whooper system for use in wireless networks is provided with a collection of wireless client stations arranged to transmit and receive wireless streams of information, and wireless Access Points (APs) arranged to wirelessly link with the wireless client s... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7969647 | Apparatus and method for flattening gain profile of an optical amplifier A change in loading conditions of fiber amplifiers in an optical communications network causes rapid variations in the gain profile of the amplifiers due to spectral hole burning and stimulated Raman scattering. An apparatus for reducing such gain profile variations... | 06/28/2011 |
