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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5796363 | Automatic position calculating imaging radar with low-cost synthetic aperture sensor for imaging layered media An imaging system for analyzing structures comprises a radar transmitter and receiver connected to a timing mechanism that allows a radar echo sample to be taken at a variety of delay times for each radar pulse transmission. The radar transmitter and rece... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5746634 | Process system and method for fabricating submicron field emission cathodes A process method and system for making field emission cathodes exists. The deposition source divergence is controlled to produce field emission cathodes with height-to-base aspect ratios that are uniform over large substrate surface areas while using very... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5742471 | Nanostructure multilayer dielectric materials for capacitors and insulators A capacitor is formed of at least two metal conductors having a multilayer dielectric and opposite dielectric-conductor interface layers in between. The multilayer dielectric includes many alternating layers of amorphous zirconium oxide (ZrO2) ... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5731538 | Method and system for making integrated solid-state fire-sets and detonators A slapper detonator comprises a solid-state high-voltage capacitor, a low-jitter dielectric breakdown switch and trigger circuitry, a detonator transmission line, an exploding foil bridge, and a flier material. All these components are fabricated in a sin... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5722989 | Microminiaturized minimally invasive intravascular micro-mechanical systems powered and controlled via fiber-optic cable A micro-mechanical system for medical procedures is constructed in the basic form of a catheter having a distal end for insertion into and manipulation within a body and a near end providing for a user to control the manipulation of the distal end within ... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5717787 | Method for data compression by associating complex numbers with files of data values A method for compressing data for storage or transmission. Given a complex polynomial and a value assigned to each root, a root generated data file (RGDF) is created, one entry at a time. Each entry is mapped to a point in a complex plane. An iterative ro... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5703965 | Image compression/decompression based on mathematical transform, reduction/expansion, and image sharpening An image represented in a first image array of pixels is first decimated in two dimensions before being compressed by a predefined compression algorithm such as JPEG. Another possible predefined compression algorithm can involve a wavelet technique. The c... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5689629 | Iterative optimizing quantization method for reconstructing three-dimensional images from a limited number of views A three-dimensional image reconstruction method comprises treating the object of interest as a group of elements with a size that is determined by the resolution of the projection data, e.g., as determined by the size of each pixel. One of the projections... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5661385 | Window-closing safety system A safety device includes a wire loop embedded in the glass of a passenger car window and routed near the closing leading-edge of the window. The wire loop carries microwave pulses around the loop to and from a transceiver with separate output and input po... | 08/26/1997 |
| 5597457 | System and method for forming synthetic protein crystals to determine the conformational structure by crystallography A method for forming synthetic crystals of proteins in a carrier fluid by use of the dipole moments of protein macromolecules that self-align in the Helmholtz layer adjacent to an electrode. The voltage gradients of such layers easily exceed 106 | 01/28/1997 |
| 5596436 | Subcarrier multiplexing with dispersion reduction and direct detection An SCM system for simultaneously reducing the concomitant problems of receiver complexity and dispersion penalty and without requiring the use of an expensive, high-bandwidth optical detector. The system provides both a dispersion reduction and a direct d... | 01/21/1997 |
| 5591951 | System and method for simultaneously collecting serial number information from numerous identity tags A system and method for simultaneously collecting serial number information reports from numerous colliding coded-radio-frequency identity tags. Each tag has a unique multi-digit serial number that is stored in non-volatile RAM. A reader transmits an ASCI... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5589838 | Short range radio locator system A radio location system comprises a wireless transmitter that outputs two megahertz period bursts of two gigahertz radar carrier signals. A receiver system determines the position of the transmitter by the relative arrival of the radar bursts at several c... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5583281 | Microminiature gas chromatograph A microminiature gas chromatograph (μGC) comprising a least one silicon wafer, a gas injector, a column, and a detector. The gas injector has a normally closed valve for introducing a mobile phase including a sample gas in a carrier gas. The valve is ful... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5575929 | Method for making circular tubular channels with two silicon wafers A two-wafer microcapillary structure is fabricated by depositing boron nitride (BN) or silicon nitride (Si3 N4) on two separate silicon wafers (e.g., crystal-plane silicon with [100] or [110] crystal orientation). Photolithography is... | 11/19/1996 |
| 5563605 | Precision digital pulse phase generator A timing generator comprises a crystal oscillator connected to provide an output reference pulse. A resistor-capacitor combination is connected to provide a variable-delay output pulse from an input connected to the crystal oscillator. A phase monitor is ... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5548257 | Vacuum-barrier window for wide-bandwidth high-power microwave transmission A vacuum output window comprises a planar dielectric material with identical systems of parallel ridges and valleys formed in opposite surfaces. The valleys in each surface neck together along parallel lines in the bulk of the dielectric. Liquid-coolant c... | 08/20/1996 |
| 5538915 | Process for forming synapses in neural networks and resistor therefor Customizable neural network in which one or more resistors form each synapse. All the resistors in the synaptic array are identical, thus simplifying the processing issues. Highly doped, amorphous silicon is used as the resistor material, to create extrem... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5538795 | Ignitable heterogeneous stratified structure for the propagation of an internal exothermic chemical reaction along an expanding wavefront and method of making same A multilayer structure has a selectable, (i) propagating reaction front velocity V, (ii) reaction initiation temperature attained by application of external energy and (iii) amount of energy delivered by a reaction of alternating unreacted layers of the m... | 07/23/1996 |
