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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185081 | High linearity tunable bandpass filter A tunable bandpass filter (10) is provided. An RF signal is provided at an input of the tunable bandpass filter, and a level shifted control signal (V1, V2) inputted to the tunable bandpass filter (10) switches a first arrangement and a s... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183744 | Piezoelectric motor A piezoelectric motor includes a piezoresonator body (3) having opposing front and back surfaces and opposing first and second end surfaces. The front (17) and the back (18) surfaces are substantially parallel to first (15) and second ( | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183743 | Tubular linear piezoelectric motor Tubular linear piezoelectric motor (100, 300), and a method for exciting a tubular piezoelectric resonator (101, 301) used in such motor. The motor is comprised of a resonator (101, 301) formed of a cylindrical tube. The tube has length n... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183742 | Piezoelectric rotary motor with high rotation speed and bi-directional operation Piezoelectric motor that provides high speed and bi-directional operation. A first rotor is disposed about a first shaft, and a second rotor separate from the first rotor is disposed about the first shaft and a second shaft. Each of the rotors and shafts are centere... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183741 | Valves based on reversible piezoelectric rotary motor A piezoelectric valve is provided that includes a valve body includes a plug and a drive body coupled to the valve body and operable to cause the rotatable plug to rotate about a rotational axis. The drive body includes a shaft disposed along the axis, the shaft sta... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183740 | Piezoelectric motor with high torque A piezoelectric motor (100) includes a stator (2) having a stator shaft (9). The motor also includes an annular piezoelement (4) having upper and lower surfaces and inner and outer rims retained on the stator. The motor further includes a... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181184 | System and method for scheduling tasks in processing frames Methods and systems for implementing methods for allocating available service capacity to a plurality of tasks in a data processing system having a plurality of processing channels is provided, where each processing channel is utilized in accordance with a time divi... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180281 | System and method for controlling a mobile repeater A system and method for controlling a mobile repeater are provided. The method includes determining a signal level for each of a plurality communication sites adjacent the repeater. The method further includes assigning a communication frequency to the repeater base... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180055 | Cryptographic system incorporating a digitally generated chaotic numerical sequence A cryptographic system (CS) is provided. The CS (500) is comprised of a data stream receiving device (DSRD), a chaotic sequence generator (CSG) and an encryptor. The DSRD (602) is configured to receive an input data stream. The CSG (300) include... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179393 | Fusion of a 2D electro-optical image and 3D point cloud data for scene interpretation and registration performance assessment Method and system for combining a 2D image with a 3D point cloud for improved visualization of a common scene as well as interpretation of the success of the registration process. The resulting fused data contains the combined information from the original 3D point ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179221 | High Q vertical ribbon inductor on semiconducting substrate A method of making a semiconductor device and devices thereof are provided. The semiconductor device (100) includes a semiconductor substrate (102) having opposing first and second surfaces (102a, 102b). The device further i... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8174214 | Three-phase low-loss rectifier with active gate drive A three-phase bridge rectifier circuit (BRC) connectable to an AC voltage source (ACVS) via input lines (151, 153, 155) and a load (109) via output lines (157, 159). ACVS (102, 104, 106) supplies BRC (100) with AC voltage waveforms... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170088 | Methods for determining a reference signal at any location along a transmission media Methods (200, 300) for determining a reference signal (Vref). The methods involve (202, 204, 302, 304) sensing at a first location along the transmission media (108, 502) a first signal (Vf) propagated thereover in a forwar... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169983 | Transcoder architecture for land mobile radio systems A transcoder architecture and method for transcoding in land mobile radio (LMR) systems are provided. The LMR system includes a first communication site configured to communicate using a first LMR communication protocol and a second communication site configured to ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169886 | Code division multiple access based contingency transmission Systems (100) and methods (500) for method for providing a redundant or distinct transmission feature to a communication system (100). The methods involve (508) detecting if there is a communication system fault. If a communication system... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165730 | Flight recorder having integral reserve power supply within form factor of enclosure and method therefor A flight recorder includes an enclosure having a notch formed on one side or corner of the enclosure. An electronic interface is disposed within the enclosure. The electronic interface is coupled for receiving flight data, video data, and audio data. A memory unit i... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165305 | Enhanced relational database security through encryption of table indices A system (108) for securing a database including a first and second tables is provided, where the first table includes a first key field and a first data field and the second table includes a second key field and a second data field. The first and second key ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165065 | Ad-hoc network acquisition using chaotic sequence spread waveform Method and system for identifying neighbor nodes in an ad-hoc wireless network including two or more nodes. The method involves generating a beacon signal at a first node of the network for alerting other nodes in the network of the presence of the first node. A dig... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161633 | Method of fabricating non-planar circuit board A method for forming a circuit board is provided. The method includes forming a circuit board substrate (112) from a circuit board material. The method also includes positioning the circuit board substrate on a rigid structure (114) having a three dime... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161452 | Software cinema The invention comprises a system and method for employing video in development processes. A new theory of operation for mapping video to formal models is disclosed. The present invention combines a runtime component and an object memory with an transformer component... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8157415 | Light emitting diode lighting module and method for making the same A method for making a light emitting diode lighting module includes steps of: (a) packaging a plurality of light emitting diode dies respectively on a plurality of die-mounting parts of a metal lead frame to form a plurality of light emitting diodes, respectively; a... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155452 | Image registration using rotation tolerant correlation method A method for correlating or finding similarity between two data sets. The method can be used for correlating two images with common scene content in order to find correspondence points between the data sets. These correspondence points then can be used to find the t... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154029 | Planar light source device A planar light source device includes: a substrate having a thickness larger than 0.9 mm and including a metal layer; and a plurality of light-emitting diode chips disposed on the substrate in a matrix array. Each light-emitting diode chip has a chip size ranging fr... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8145692 | Digital generation of an accelerated or decelerated chaotic numerical sequence A method for generating an accelerated and/or decelerated chaotic sequence. The method involves selecting a plurality of polynomial equations constructed from an acc-dec variable v. The method also involves selecting a value for the acc-dec variable v for advancing ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145262 | Multimode land mobile radio A multimode land mobile radio (LMR) and a method of communicating land mobile radio (LMR) content using an LMR device are provided. The LMR includes an LMR communication portion configured to provide communication with an LMR network and a cellular data network comm... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8142668 | Method for selective partition capacity based filtering A method is provided for filtering a fluid. The method includes the step of selecting a first surface filtration medium to include layers of a first mesh material (FMM). The method also includes the step of selecting a second surface filtration medium to include lay... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139764 | Closed galois field cryptographic system A cryptographic system (CS) comprised of generators (502), (504), (510), an encryption device (ED), and a decryption device (DD). The generator (502) generates a data sequence (DS) including payload data. The generator (504) genera... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8127145 | Computer architecture for an electronic device providing a secure file system A secure file service includes a cryptographic processor (302, 602) and a secure file system (301, 601). The cryptographic processor is comprised of a trusted microprocessor and a trusted operating system executing on the trusted cryptographic processo... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125808 | Three-phase low-loss rectifier A three-phase bridge rectifier circuit (TPBRC) connectable to an AC voltage source (102, 104, 106) via input lines (151, 153, 155) and to a load (199) via output lines (159, 157). The AC voltage source supplies the TPBRC (100) with... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121752 | Crash survivable memory unit A flight recorder includes an information input device, heat sensitive memory device electrically connected to the information input device, and housing enclosing the heat sensitive memory device. The housing is made with a first material and having a plurality of o... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8112430 | System for modifying a rule base for use in processing data A system for modifying a rule base for use in processing data, wherein an instance of an entity comprises associated data, for use with a parser for identifying a first instance of an entity in data associated with a document set in accordance with a first rule and ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107917 | High linearity tunable bandpass filter A tunable bandpass filter (10) is provided. An RF signal is provided at an input of the tunable bandpass filter, and a level shifted control signal (V1, V2) inputted to the tunable bandpass filter (10) switches a first arrangement and a s... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8106629 | Charging method and device A charging method for a battery includes: enabling a charging device to charge the battery with a first charging voltage having a value that is increasing and a first charging current having a value that is constant; and when it is determined that the value of the f... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8100558 | Lighting device and method for making the same A lighting device includes: at least one lighting module including a lead frame and a plurality of light emitting diodes packaged on the lead frame; an upper plate disposed on the lead frame, and having at least one perforated region formed with a plurality of throu... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8094960 | Spectral calibration of image pairs using atmospheric characterization A system (100) for processing remotely acquired imagery is provided. The system (100) includes a storage element for receiving imagery data defining a first image of a panchromatic image type using a sensor characterized by a panchromatic spectral resp... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8081710 | System and method for corrected modulation with nonlinear power amplification A system and method for modulating and amplifying an input signal are provided in a communication transmitter. The transmitter includes a pre-distortion lookup table containing pre-distortion lookup data. An auto-calibration module is in communication with the pre-d... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8078009 | Optical flow registration of panchromatic/multi-spectral image pairs A method for processing remotely acquired imagery includes obtaining imagery data defining a first image of a panchromatic image type, the first image having a first spatial resolution, and obtaining imagery data defining a second image of a multi-spectral image typ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8076991 | Frequency hopping band-stop filter A digitally-tunable filter includes a tunable filter circuit (110) for generating an output signal by processing an input signal based at least on a plurality of filter control signals (114). The filter also includes an input power sampler (118)... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073279 | Automated atmospheric characterization of remotely sensed multi-spectral imagery A method for processing remotely acquired imagery data includes identifying a region of lowest intensity in each of a plurality of different images for a plurality of different spectral bands and estimating first values for upwelling path radiance for each of the di... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8069855 | Respiratory mask A respiratory mask includes: a rigid mask frame having a ring portion, a loop portion spaced apart from the ring portion, and rib portions interconnecting the ring portion and the loop portion, the rigid mask frame defining a frame space; and a single piece of a fle... | 12/06/2011 |
