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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8175827 | RF probe technique for determining plasma potential An rf probe is placed within a plasma and an rf signal from a network analyzer for a given dc bias voltage Vp is applied The frequency applied by the network analyzer, ω, is less than the plasma frequency, ωpe, and therefore is not in the res... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8173084 | Yb:YOceramic powders A high purity nano-sized Yb3+ doped Y2O3 (Yb:Y2O3) ceramic powder with a narrow size distribution and without hard agglomerates is provided. Also provided is a process for manufacturing the same wherein water in... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8163874 | Beta helical peptide structures stable in aqueous and non-aqueous media and methods for preparing same Disclosed is a method of making peptide structures that are stable in aqueous and non-aqueous media where a first linear peptide chain comprising alternating D,L- or L,D-amino acids having an N and C termini is joined by... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8144392 | Waveguide amplifier in a sputtered film of erbium-doped gallium lanthanum sulfide glass A waveguide amplifier, disposed on a substrate, composed of sputtered film of chalcogenide glass doped with Erbium is disclosed. The amplifier includes a substrate, a thick film of chalcogenide glass disposed on the substrate, a pumping device, and an optical combin... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8137988 | Fluidic force discrimination This invention describes a method of using controlled fluidic forces to improve the performance of a biochemical binding assay where a target molecule is captured by specific molecular recognition onto a substrate surface with an affinity coating, and then labeled w... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8137624 | Method and apparatus for attaching a fluid cell to a planar substrate Provided is a method and apparatus for attaching a fluid cell to a planar substrate. The planar substrate may have on it sensors or devices for detecting components within the fluid, and/or be treated to selectively bind or react with components within the fluid. Su... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8125706 | High-temperature interband cascade lasers A gain medium and an interband cascade laser, an interband cascade amplifier, and an external cavity laser having the gain medium are presented. The gain medium can include any one or more of the following features: (1) the active quantum well region includes a thic... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8105509 | Hot-pressed transparent ceramics and ceramic lasers A transparent polycrystalline ceramic having scattering and absorption loss less than 0.2/cm over a region comprising more than 95% of the originally densified shape and further provides a process for fabricating the same by hot pressing. The ceramic can be any suit... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8094519 | Intensity modulated fiber optic hydrophones A fiber optic hydrophone has a reflective diaphragm having an exposed face and a reflective protected face, at least one transmitting multimode optical fiber having an end spaced apart from the protected face of the diaphragm positioned to emit light toward the diap... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8058869 | Fiber laser magnetic field sensor The device includes two supports and a primary conductive strip. The primary conductive strip includes a neutral surface, a first side, and a second side. The primary conductive strip is connected one of directly and indirectly on the first side to the two supports ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8056222 | Laser-based technique for the transfer and embedding of electronic components and devices A laser direct write method used to transfer entire single components such as semiconductor bare dies or surface mount passive and active components on a substrate or inside recess in a substrate for making embedded microelectronics is disclosed. This method laser-m... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8050141 | Direction finder for incoming gunfire A system and method is provided for estimating a trajectory of an incoming bullet based on the acoustics of the shock wave created as the bullet travels through the air. A first auditory signal representing a direct sound from the shock wave is recorded and its azim... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8048547 | Biological fuel cells with nanoporous membranes A fuel cell comprising an anode chamber, a cathode chamber, and a nanoporous membrane between the anode chamber and the cathode chamber, wherein the nanoporous membrane sequesters and isolates a microbe in the anode chamber. The nanoporous membrane allows nutrients ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8029921 | Growth of high quality low-loss ferrite materials on wide bandgap semiconductor substrates A semiconductor device including a ferrite layer, a widebandgap semiconductor material layer, and a buffer layer. The buffer layer comprises an interweaving of MgO and BaM. In addition the buffer layer allows a gradual reduction of the interfacial stress, and mediat... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8022006 | Catalyst nanoparticle A catalyst nanoparticle covalently bonded to a surface ligand wherein the surface ligand has a peripheral functional group having a property suitable to ensure solubility in a fluid such as a hydroxylic solvent, water, lower molecular weight alcohol, methanol, ethan... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8021991 | Technique to radiation-harden trench refill oxides Oxide films are deposited under conditions generating a silicon-rich oxide in which silicon nanoclusters form either during deposition or during subsequent annealing. Such deposition conditions include those producing films with optical indices (n) greater than 1.46... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8012616 | Advanced apparatus for generating electrical power from aquatic sediment/water interfaces An improved benthic microbial fuel cell for generating energy at the interface of aquatic sediment and seawater includes an anode electrode embedded within the aquatic sediment, a cathode electrode positioned within the seawater and above the aquatic sediment, a rig... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8010943 | Dynamic memory management system and method A data expression is created to be executed on a computer. At least one of the at least two objects is tagged as temporary. A first non-assignment operator is executed to instruct the computer to perform a mathematical operation on object data corresponding to the o... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8009995 | Method and apparatus for photonic digital-to-analog conversion A method and apparatus for receiving a digital signal having a plurality of significant bits of resolution. The apparatus includes a mode locked laser comprising a single output. The apparatus also includes a beam divider operable to receive the single output. The a... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8005767 | System and method of classifying events The present invention enables identification of events such as target. From training target event data the present a very large number of clusters are formed for each class based on Euclidean distance using a repetitive k-means clustering process. Features from each... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7978738 | OPO laser mid-IR wavelength converter A wavelength converter comprising an arsenic sulfide (As—S) chalcogenide glass fiber coupled to an optical parametric oscillator (OPO) crystal and a laser system using an OPO crystal coupled to an As—S fiber are provided. The OPO receives pump laser radiation fr... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7970040 | Apparatus for incoherent combining of high power lasers for long-range directed-energy applications An embodiment of the invention includes an apparatus. The apparatus includes a plurality of lasers comprising a plurality of laser paths. The apparatus further includes an incoherent combining beam director in the plurality of laser paths. The apparatus also include... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7964158 | Method and apparatus for growing potassium lead chloride crystals A method and apparatus for growing a single crystal KPb2Cl5 material using a device including a plug including an axis. The plug includes a first portion defining a cylindrical hole about the axis. The plug includes a second portion defining a ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7952523 | Method and apparatus for passively locating radar emissions from rotating transmitters Systems and methods are presented for passive location of transmitters in which two or more receivers time stamp received signals from target transmitters and the time stamped data for each target signal of interest is isolated to identify a peak power time of arriv... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7947626 | Passaged neural stem cell-derived neuronal networks as sensing elements for detection of environmental threats This invention comprises a method for generating functional neural networks using neural progenitor cells on microelectrode arrays (MEAs). The method involves dissociating neural progenitor cells from an embryo, propagating the neural progenitor cells, passaging the... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7939805 | Method and apparatus for infrared spectrometry A Fourier-Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectrometer for operation in the mid- and long-wave infrared region (about 2-15 micron wavelengths) is disclosed. The FTIR spectrometer is composed of IR-transmitting fiber and uses a broadband IR source. A fiber stretcher is pro... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7937780 | Extremity armor Body armor for ballistic protection of a user's extremities preferably comprising right and left arm protection units and/or right and left leg protection units. The units include a ballistic protection material which preferably covers most of the user's upper arm, ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7932096 | Trioxyethylene gold nanoclusters functionalized with a single DNA A method of making a nanoclusters functionalized with a single DNA strand comprising the steps of providing nanoclusters, combining said nanoclusters with thiolated DNA, incubating said nanoclusters and thiolated DNA mixture, combining said mixture with a solution c... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7927705 | Low loss visible-IR transmitting glass-aluminum oxynitride composites and process This invention pertains to a composite of AlON and a germanate glass, and to a process for bonding AlON to the glass. The composite includes AlON and glass bonded together and having transmission in the visible and mid-infrared wavelength region. The process include... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7927547 | Reagentless and reusable biosensors with tunable differential binding affinities and methods of making The biosensor comprises a modular biorecognition element and a modular flexible arm element. The biorecognition element and the flexible arm element are each labeled with a signaling element. The flexible arm contains an analog of an analyte of interest that binds w... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7919338 | Method of making an integrally gated carbon nanotube field ionizer device A method of making an integrally gated carbon nanotube field ionization device comprising forming a first insulator layer on a first side of a substrate, depositing a conductive gate layer on the first insulator layer, forming a cavity in the substrate by etching a ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7915577 | Single-shot spatially-resolved imaging magnetometry using ultracold atoms A method and system for remotely imaging a magnetic field within an atom cloud is provided. An atom sample held in a magneto-optical trap is released, and the released atom cloud is illuminated by a Raman beam. Resonant atoms having certain velocities will absorb ph... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7900498 | Calibrated impact hammer An apparatus includes a positioner. The apparatus includes a striker axially movable in the positioner. The striker includes a striker inner end. The apparatus includes a force gauge axially movable in the positioner. The force gauge includes a force gauge inner end... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7889840 | System and method for predicting material fatigue and damage A method and system for determining damage prediction of a component. The component may be critical component used in an aircraft or other vehicle experiencing cyclic loading. The method and system determines the ΔK, Kmax and Kinternal values ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7873251 | Photonic band gap germanate glass fibers A photonic band gap fiber and method of making thereof is provided. The fiber is made of a germanate glass comprising at least 30 mol % of a germanium oxide and has a longitudinal central opening, a microstructured region having a plurality of longitudinal surroundi... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7869058 | Apparatuses and methods for evaluating performance of optical systems A system for evaluation of optical quality of an optical device includes a light source configured to generate light, the generated light be received by an optical device. An interferometric lens apparatus is removably mounted to the optical device to generate inter... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7867915 | Method for activating nitride surfaces for amine-reactive chemistry Provided is a method for controllably activating a surface for stable amine-reactive chemistries. A surface containing nitride is exposed to a plasma having a reactive species containing hydrogen for a period of time sufficient to activate the substrate for amine-re... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7858550 | Method of making a nanostructured electrode A method of making a nanostructured electrode comprising depositing a self-assembled monolayer on a substrate, depositing a catalyst nanoparticle covalently bonded to a ligand, and depositing a material capable of binding to the self-assembled monolayer. The method ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7858386 | Method of controlling quantum dot photoluminescence and other intrinsic properties through biological specificity A method of controllably changing an intrinsic property of a quantum dot by using a biological entity, either attached or in close proximity to the quantum dot, and changing the state of biological entity with a controllable mechanism. The change in state of the bio... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7824576 | Dispersion strengthened lithium and method therefor A composite material includes lithium hydride particles dispersed within lithium to form a lithium-lithium hydride composite. The lithium-lithium hydride composite has increased strength over pure lithium and similar soft X-ray transmission characteristics as pure l... | 11/02/2010 |
