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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7586972 | Code division multiple access enhanced capacity system A code division multiple access (CDMA) communication system using spread spectrum signaling over a communication bandwidth uses two different signal spectra generated using two different respective spreading code formats, such as NRZ code formatting and staggered Ma... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7577307 | Fast adaptive lifting lossless wavelet transform An adaptive lifting transform provides lossless image data compression on an improved edge prediction process. The adaptive predictor works on pixel-by-pixel basis that does not need bookkeeping overhead, especially for integer-to-integer wavelet transform for reduc... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7574064 | Fast lifting lossless wavelet transform The lifting transform reduces the number of lifting steps in lossless data compression while improving the overall rounding errors incurred in the real-to-integer conversion process at each of the lifting steps. The compression ratio increases when used for lossless... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7557753 | Spacecraft hardware tracker A GPS tracker is disposed on launch hardware that separates from a spacecraft launch vehicle during ascent to orbit with the launch hardware having a suborbital trajectory from launch to impact while being tracked so as to track the launch hardware during suborbital... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7555561 | Cooperative adaptive web caching routing and forwarding web content data broadcasting method Adaptive cooperative web caches construct and maintain routing and forwarding tables for efficient location of replicated web content data. The data stored in routing and forwarding tables indicate associations between web content requests and the internet protocol ... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7555033 | Binary offset carrier M-code envelope detector An M code envelope detector receives an incoming binary offset carrier (BOC) signal, such as the M code signal, and generates inphase BOC and quadraphase BOC signals, separated by an offset, that have respective ambiguous correlation envelopes, that when combined, p... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7552160 | Integrated lifting wavelet transform The integrated lifting transform provides both the lossy and lossless lifting wavelet transforms while sharing the same lifting chain for either lossy data compression or lossless data compression. The lifting steps can provide a lossless compression and a lossy com... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7529323 | Quaternary precoded continuous phase modulation soft bit metric demodulator A receiver generates log-likelihood-ratio-based soft bit metrics of precoded quaternary continuous phase modulation signals using four state-constrained trellises and a streamlined maximum likelihood sequence estimation Viterbi algorithm requiring no survivor state ... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7526357 | Pulse modulation laser writing system A pulse modulation laser writing system generates a motion control file for controlled motion of a sample under modulated laser beam exposure and generates a laser script file for generating a sequence of laser writing processes, such as, ablation, welding, texturin... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7526206 | Laser communications crosslink system A laser communication crosslink system employs an nth order sigma delta modulator with a laser transmitter for communicating an analog input signal in binary form as a pulse width modulated signal, and employs a digital filter with a receiver for providin... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7523780 | High density electronic cooling triangular shaped microchannel device An isosceles triangular cross section shaped microchannel-cooling device conducts a working fluid for the removal of heat from a heat source. The triangular shaped microchannel provides an increased thermal transport coefficient for improved heat transport with an i... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7507145 | Automated sectioning tomographic measurement system A tomographic system includes a reporting device colocated and juxtaposed an object so that both are ground through grinding to various sectioning depths as the reporting device is ground down exposing a reporting marker along a length of the reporting device for in... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7471238 | Multitarget tracking antispoofing receiver A multitarget tracking antispoofing receiver utilizes multitarget tracking algorithms and multiple correlators for tracking signals of interest in a field of view about a nominal trajectory of a desired true signal for tracking targets within the code phase and carr... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7469026 | Random walk filter timing recovery loop A timing recovery loop includes a random walk filter counter for counting early, nominal and late arrivals of data transitions pulses of an input baseband signal waveform encoding a digital bit stream, and provides magnitude counts that are compared to a threshold v... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7469082 | High power optical fiber laser array holographic couplers A transmissive holographic optical element including a chirped grating is used to inject light by side firing laser light from a an array of laser diodes into an optical fiber with a reflective HOE reflecting the injected laser light through and along the optical fi... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7450670 | Automatic gain control 16-ary quadrature amplitude modulation subsystem An improved AGC subsystem for preferred use in quadrature amplitude modulation receivers offers improved automatic gain control of received signals in fading channels by generating an error signal only from constellation signal points having large signal-to-noise ra... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7437394 | Merge and split discrete cosine block transform method Discrete Cosine Transforms in a radix-2 block transform method enables true split and merge transform processing of equal sized data halves in the transform domain for enabling recursive merges and splits in transform domain without data degradation. Input data in t... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7419915 | Laser assisted chemical etching method for release microscale and nanoscale devices A method using an etchant and a laser for localized precise heating enables precise etching and release of MEMS devices with improved process control while expanding the number of materials used to make MEMS, including silicon-dioxide patterned films buried in and s... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7419917 | Ion implanted microscale and nanoscale device method A method is used for producing nanoscale and microscale devices in a variety of materials, such as silicon dioxide patterned buried films. The method is inexpensive and reliable for making small scale mechanical, optical, or electrical devices and relies upon the im... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7403577 | Generalized polyphase channelization system A computation efficient polyphase channelization system enables one of many user FDMA signals to be channelized through multiple FFT response frequency bands forming an aggregate frequency band where K-point FFT channels are greater than the decimation factor M to p... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7397840 | Dual code spread spectrum communication system A direct sequence spread spectrum receiver includes a first spreading code generator for receiving a first channel signal spectrum spread by a first spread code, while a second group of receivers use a second spreading code, where the first and second codes are part... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7370537 | Ceramic ball bearing acoustic test method An acoustical mechanical test method prescribes compressing brittle balls in spherical conforming opposing platens producing equatorial bulging, tensile stresses, and resulting in crack or flaw growth with emissions of acoustical sounds for direct identification of ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373168 | Power controlled fading communication channel system A power controller in a communication system adjusts the transmitted power level using adaptive prediction of channel fading for maintaining the power level for improved communications by using an adaptive nonlinear predictor that explicitly takes into account the p... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7321641 | Baseband time-domain communications system A communications system reduces downconverter inaccuracies in time-domain measurements or samples of received microwave communications I and Q complex signals by converting received signal to baseband taking measurements or samples of the I and Q waveforms at differ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321989 | Simultaneously multithreaded processing and single event failure detection method A multithreaded processor is programmed for executing multiple simultaneous working programs by respective processor worker threads each executing the identical code having identical results for achieving redundant operations that can be compared to each other by on... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7301134 | Electro-optical focal plane array digital sensor system A laser beam detection and tracking system includes a focal plane array sensor providing pixel data and a field programmable gate array controller receiving the pixel data for determining a centroid of the illuminating spot of the impinging laser beam and for determ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7289425 | Parallel orthogonal frequency division multiplexed communication system A parallel orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) communications system includes a transmitter and receiver, the transmitter having a parallel fast Fourier transform (FFT) module operating in parallel to a conventional inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT)... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7259323 | Thin film solar cell thermal radiator A thin film solar cell thermal radiator configuration uses an embedded power bus to collect vertically migrating waste heat from electronic devices mounted on a thin film multilayer printed circuit board. The waste heat is vertically collected, horizontally spread, ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7256649 | Multiple signal intermodulation reduction system An intermodulation product reduction or cancellation amplifier received two input signals that are split in quadrature wherein the inphase outputs are summed and then amplified as an inphase signal, and the quadrature outputs are fixed-phase phase-shifted, then summ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7241475 | Method for producing carbon surface films by plasma exposure of a carbide compound Reactive halogen-ion plasmas, having for example, generating chloride ions, generated from low-pressure halogen gases using a radio-frequency plasma are employed for producing low-friction carbon coatings, such as a pure carbon film, at or near room temperature on a... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7226530 | Conducting polymer nanofiber sensors Polymer nanofibers, such as polyaniline nanofibers, with uniform diameters less than 500 nm can be made in bulk quantities through a facile aqueous and organic interfacial polymerization method at ambient conditions. The nanofibers have lengths varying from 500 nm t... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7224708 | Focused ion beam heater thermally tunable laser Platinum (Pt) thin film heaters are deposited by a focused ion beam for semiconductor manufacturing of thermally tunable distributed feedback lasers. An exemplar 1.3 μm InGaAsP/InP laser is integrated with a tuning element having a wide wavelength tuning range of 4... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7223979 | Radiation dosimeter system An improved radiation dosimeter device in an improved radiation dosimeter system provides a DC analog output voltage that is proportional to the total ionizing dose accumulated as a function of time at the location of the dosimeter in a host spacecraft, so as to ope... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7221231 | Discharge lamp stabilization system An RF-discharge lamp stabilization system for preferred use in a Rubidium atomic clock, senses acoustic oscillations of plasma ions in the 20.0 kHz range to assess the performance of the lamp for determining radio frequency parameters of the lamp while the lamp is i... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7200342 | Direct-sequence spread-spectrum optical-frequency-shift-keying code-division-multiple-access communication system A direct-sequence-spread-spectrum (DSSS) optical-frequency-shift-keying (OFSK) code-division-multiple-access (CDMA) communication system is adapted with optical transmitters and receivers for preferred use fiber optical communication systems where modulated data and... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7197804 | Method of making copper and carbon nanotube thermal conductor A thermal conductor is made of copper and carbon nanotubes powders that are compressed together and then cold rolled into sheets for aligning the carbon nanotubes for providing a composite matrix having a low coefficient of thermal expansion, high thermal conductivi... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7157715 | Radiation dosimeter device An improved radiation dosimeter device in an improved radiation dosimeter system provides a DC analog output voltage that is proportional to the total ionizing dose accumulated as a function of time at the location of the dosimeter in a host spacecraft, so as to ope... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7151362 | Uniform converter output voltage distribution power system A uniform converter output voltage distribution power system evenly controls the individual output voltages of DC-to-DC parallel-input series-output connected converters using a uniform output voltage distribution controller including a generator for generating resp... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7145972 | Polyphase channelization system A polyphase channelizer converts an intermediate frequency wideband signal into a complex signal that is sampled by parallel analog-to-digital converters having a bank of samplers respectively clocked by staggered clocking signals for respective converters for feedi... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7144949 | Synthetic method for conducting polymer nanofibers Polymer nanofibers, such as polyaniline nanofibers, with uniform diameters less than 500 nm can be made in bulk quantities through a facile aqueous and organic interfacial polymerization method at ambient conditions. The nanofibers have lengths varying from 500 nm t... | 12/05/2006 |
