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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7051093 | QNX operation system network auto configuration A network of computers communicate with each other and with a single system manager computer in accordance with the QNX operating system to perform a series of related tasks. When computers at a number of sites running the operating system boot up, they have residen... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7044450 | Quick rail system with adjustable support A modular railing system with handicap access is disclosed based on commercially available tubing assembled into a railing through use of fittings that connect to each other and the rails and posts of the railing system to allow all possible standard rail configurat... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7040529 | Drop box for isolating received items A mail drop box for isolating mail deposited therein having a closable, removable container inside the box for receiving mail and has an opening in the top. A plurality of mail transmitting chutes each having a deposit port at its upper end and an exit port at its l... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7023956 | Detection methods and system using sequenced technologies Methods and systems for interconnecting sub-systems and for identifying combinations of multiple technologies. The method of this invention can be applied to detecting the presence of a characteristic in an object. ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7017730 | Bi-directional mail tray pusher A bidirectional article pusher for a conveying system, which includes a multiplicity of spaced rollers for moving articles along a longitudinal path. There is a push up stop arranged below the conveyor and movable between adjacent rollers to a position above the rol... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7012210 | Singulation detection system for objects used in conjunction with a conveyor system A system and method for reliably detecting singulated parcels traveling on a conveyor belt by comparing parcel characteristics before and after parcel agitation. First, parcel characteristics are evaluated. Then parcels are agitated to promote a change in characteri... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7010060 | Real-time software receiver A real-time software receiver that executes on a general purpose processor. The software receiver includes data acquisition and correlator modules that perform, in place of hardware correlation, baseband mixing and PRN code correlation using bit-wise parallelism. | 03/07/2006 |
| 6997374 | Apparatus for testing for particulate contaminants in depositories for mail-like articles An apparatus for testing for particulate contaminants in deposited mail-like articles includes an enclosure adapted for receiving deposited mail-like articles, a squeezing mechanism located within the enclosure and adapted for pressuring opposite flat sides of said ... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6968756 | Multi-speed ratio apparatus to control shaft output A multi-speed ratio apparatus to control output for use, but not limited to, either as a module connected to a transmission or as a stand alone transmission. The multi-speed ratio apparatus is connected to a driving member (such as, for example, an engine, motor, or... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6953014 | Thermal compensating desmodromic valve actuation system A thermal compensating desmodromic valve actuation system for opening and closing at least one valve of an engine having a cam assemblage and a driving mechanism for reciprocal movement operably connected to said cam assemblage. The cam assemblage includes a cam mec... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6954893 | Method and apparatus for reliable unidirectional communication in a data network A system and method for performing reliable unidirectional communication in a data network is disclosed. Unidirectional data is sent from a transmitting device to a receiving device. Prior to transmission, the data is divided into a window (401b) comprised of... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6950116 | Interactive virtual portal A system for performing interactive virtual reality sessions without constraining the mobility of a user is disclosed. The system allows a user to remain fully mobile while participating in an interactive virtual reality session. The system comprises a handheld comp... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6948653 | Hazardous material detection system for use with mail and other objects A portable detection system (10) for hazardous materials including explosives and infectious or hazardous biological agents readily adapted to conventional mail collection boxes (12), rural mailboxes (100) and the like. The system includes a fan... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6918534 | Collection box with sealed and statically charged mail chute A system and method for substantially eliminating the release of pathogen agents circulating in the air within a collection box. The mail deposit openings (12, 14) of a collection box mail chute (16) are adapted with gaskets (18, 20) to form an ... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6919119 | Electronic and opto-electronic devices fabricated from nanostructured high surface to volume ratio thin films An electronic or opto-electronic device or a chemical sensor comprising: an interpenetrating network of a nanostructured high surface area to volume ratio film material and an organic/inorganic material forming a nanocomposite. The high surface area to volume film m... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6914231 | Optical shuffle/interconnect system An optical shuffle/interconnect system having an imaging system defining an input image plane and an output image plane. An optical perfect shuffle is combined with the imaging system for rearranging spatial components of an object located proximate the input image ... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6860472 | Quick rail system A modular railing system is disclosed which is based on commercially available tubing, which is connected into a railing by especially designed fittings, which connect to each other and the rails and posts of the railing system to allow all possible standard rail co... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6856466 | Multiple imaging system A series of optical elements is used to produce multiple simultaneous adjoining images on a single image plane. A first, intermediate, image is produced using the first telecentric imaging lens. This intermediate image is produced at a plane coincident with an adjus... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6851655 | Seat rail system with position sensor A seat position sensor rail device is disclosed, comprising an upper rail body to partially support a seat, a lower rail body which slidably engages the upper rail body, a position sensor device mounted on the upper rail body, and a contact plate member secured to t... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6847860 | Profiler system for mail articles A profiler system is preferably mounted to a conventional roller conveyor frame rail used primarily in mail handling applications. The profiler system contains an array of photo sensors strategically placed to sense the height and length of a mail tray. The sensors ... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6847731 | Method and system for improving pattern recognition system performance Stand-alone or assistive pattern recognition system and process enabling error free classification of all objects in a training set and application to unclassified objects. Parameters and/or features of the data objects in a training set are selected and measured, f... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6838750 | Interconnect circuitry, multichip module, and methods of manufacturing thereof An electrical circuit having one or more dielectric layers formed of latex; and one or more layers of electrically conductive material, such as copper, patterned to form multiple electrical interconnects, with each such layer placed on top of one of said dielectric ... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6839663 | Haptic rendering of volumetric soft-bodies objects Haptic rendering of three-dimensional soft bodied objects for virtual interactions implemented by forming a three dimensional occupancy map of voxels, forming the surface of and bounding an object, forming a multi-dimensional coordinate system, defining minimum and ... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6834533 | System and method for detecting bio-hazardous particulates in mail handling systems A system and method for detecting bio-hazardous particulates in mail handling systems includes an air intake hood 20 that connects to a biohazard sensing suite 24 which, in turn, connects through an outlet duct 26 to a filter, adsorber, or scrub... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6823714 | System and method for detecting hazardous materials inside containers A system and method for detecting hazardous materials inside containers includes an air distribution plate 20 that defines an air plenum AP with a series of openings 22 that function to distribute a flow of air. An air input port 26 and an air o... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6812147 | GCIB processing to improve interconnection vias and improved interconnection via Reactive gas cluster ion beam processing using gas cluster ions comprising a mixture of gases cleans and/or etches the bottoms of electrical interconnect vias and/or trenches in integrated circuits to produce interconnect structures with lower contact resistances an... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6805807 | Adaptive GCIB for smoothing surfaces A method of processing the surface of a workpiece using an adaptive gas cluster ion beam is disclosed. The invention provides a method of reducing the surface roughness and/or improving the surface smoothing of a workpiece by etching at various etch rates. The workp... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6804602 | Incident-aware vehicular sensors for intelligent transportation systems A system and method for mobile platform real-time collection, transmission, and processing of an array of environmental and vehicle-related data in the context of an Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) network. The system and method provide enhanced in-vehicle d... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6792795 | System and method for detecting hazardous materials using agitation A system and method for detecting contaminants in or on objects, having a movably mounted container for holding objects and having a plurality of perforations and an entrance opening through which objects may be placed into the container. A housing encloses the cont... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6794196 | Deposited thin films and their use in detection, attachment and bio-medical applications The present invention is directed to the use of deposited thin films for chemical or biological analysis. The invention further relates to the use of these thin films in separation adherence and detection of chemical of biological samples. Applications of these thin... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6789727 | Mail processing apparatus and collection box with a mail article sealer A mail processing apparatus, includes an enclosure adapted for receiving deposited mail articles, a depository port adapted for passing deposited mail articles into the enclosure, and a sealing apparatus operatively associated with the depository port and adapted to... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6782334 | Method and system for calibration of time delay integration imaging devices Methods and systems for calibrating and aligning Time Delay Integration (TDI) Charge Coupled Device (CCD) sensors. A TDI sensor for linear imaging (line sensor) is calibrated by generating a two dimensional image from the line sensor, analyzing the two dimensional i... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6772019 | Method and system for multi-parameter choice optimization A method and system for performing trade-off studies using multi-parameter choice is disclosed. Candidates, each having one or more criteria associated therewith, are entered into the system via an input interface such as a keyboard. In addition, test rationale may ... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6770874 | Gas cluster ion beam size diagnostics and workpiece processing The invention provides methods and apparatus for measuring the distribution of cluster ion sizes in a gas cluster ion beam (GCIB) and for determining the mass distribution and mass flow of cluster ions in a GCIB processing system without necessitating the rejection ... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6772142 | Method and apparatus for collecting and expressing geographically-referenced data A web-based implemented system in which observers may pinpoint locations on a scalable map in order to fix data by latitude and longitude and to collect data describing that location. Also permitted within the system is the selection of non-contiguous groups of geog... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6765950 | Method for spread spectrum communication of supplemental information Systems and methods for the communication and recovery of supplementary data encoded in the primary information transmitted from a source to a receiver for both audio and television transmissions. The method includes modulating a carrier signal with the supplementar... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6753914 | Image correction arrangement An imaging system (10) for producing image-representative signals representing information-bearing objects (30) includes a line imager (12) and an arrangement (32) for scanning (34) the object (30) so that image-representati... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6749194 | Drop pocket stack height and object count monitoring system and method A mail handling system that imports data from a thickness measurement device regarding the thickness of a substantially flat mail article, counts the number of flat articles deposited on the top surface of the drop pocket, instructs the drop pocket to open to drop a... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6750460 | System and method for adjusting the properties of a device by GCIB processing A system and method of precisely adjusting the properties of a device using a gas cluster ion beam (GCIB) are described. Use of the invention permits the precise removal or addition of small amounts of material without significantly damaging or degrading the perform... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6750164 | Ionizing wiper An ionizing wiper for removing static charge from an insulative surface. The wiper is made of wiping material with a high density of ionizing points being disposed along the surface of the wiper such that the air between the ionizing points and an object is sufficie... | 06/15/2004 |
