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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184728 | Adaptive symbol transition method for OFDM-based cognitive radio systems and method of use In accordance with the present invention, a system and method for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) sidelobe suppression is provided. In a particular embodiment an extension is added to OFDM symbols that is calculated using optimization methods to mi... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179581 | Electrostatically-addressed MEMS array system and method of use The present invention provides an improved electrostatic micro actuator array system comprising a plurality of electrostatic micro actuators, each of the micro actuators further comprising at least one hold-down electrode and at least two pull-down electrodes positi... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8169342 | Method of providing a destination alert to a transit system rider Provided is a detection method used to alert a rider of a transit system that his or her upcoming destination location is approaching. The method detects upcoming transit stops and alerts the transit rider to prepare to depart the transit vehicle. Another alert to r... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165352 | Reconstruction of biometric image templates using match scores A method of reconstructing biometric face image templates of a face recognition system (FRS) using the match scores or distances provided by the FRS. The match scores represent the distance between a image introduced to the FRS and the unknown image template stored ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8163418 | Method of controlled delivery for use in electrochemical power sources A system and method for improving electrochemical power sources through the dispensing, encapsulation and dispersion into galvanic chambers of an electrochemical cell. Features of the method include the optimization of the concentration levels of chemicals involved ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8149685 | Covert OFDM transmission using cyclic prefix Methods for secure OFDM communications include changing the length of OFDM symbols in a pseudo-random fashion by appending a totally random signal to some of the OFDM symbols. An adaptive cyclic prefix is provided for covert and spectrally efficient communication. A... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145183 | On-demand emergency notification system using GPS-equipped devices Provided is an emergency locator system adapted for GPS-enabled wireless devices. Global Positioning System (GPS) technology is and Location Based Services (LBS) are used to determine the exact location of a user and communicate information relating to the emergency... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140256 | Dynamic ride matching system A ride matching method is disclosed herein. The ride matching method addresses many of the limitations associated with traditional dynamic ride matching applications. The method is unique in its ability to accept trips with schedules that cannot be expressed in term... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134346 | System and method for power factor correction A system and method for dynamically adjusting capacitance added in parallel to an electrical line input for improving efficiency of an electrical system. A microprocessor monitors in real time the current and voltage wave forms of a system and selects the optimum am... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8127967 | Volumetric control apparatus for fluid dispensing The present invention provides an apparatus for dispensing fluid in preselected volumetric quantities. The apparatus comprises a valve positioned inline with a conduit holding fluid under pressure, a flow meter positioned inline with the conduit, a control unit comm... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8093967 | MEMS high speed switching converter The present invention provides a DC high voltage converter having an oscillator driver, main switch array and topological enhanced capacitors. The switch array utilizes MEM cantilevers and topological capacitors for charge storages for the generation of a high volta... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8088638 | MEMS DC to DC switching converter The present invention provides a DC high voltage converter having an oscillator driver, main switch array and topological enhanced capacitors. The switch array utilizes MEM cantilevers and topological capacitors for charge storages for the generation of a high volta... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8083907 | Hydrogen storage nano-foil and method of manufacture A hydrogen storage system using a coiled nano-foil hydride and methods for forming the hydrogen absorbing nano-foil coil without backing materials. Intercalation of hydrogen in metal hydrides allows for large amounts of hydrogen to be stored at atmospheric temperatu... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8077958 | Computer-aided pathological diagnosis system The present invention is a computer-aided pathological diagnosis method for the classification of cancer cells in a tissue specimen based on a digital cellular image of the tissue specimen. The method of the present invention includes the steps of, extracting the hi... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8064836 | Cognitive radio transceiver for dispersed spectrum utilization In accordance with the present invention, a system and method that exploits the efficiency of the spectrum utilization is provided. The proposed technique, which is referred to as dispersed spectrum utilization, is based on the idea of transmitting the information o... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8060943 | Carbon nanotube oscillator surface profiling device and method of use The proposed device is based on a carbon nanotube oscillator consisting of a finite length outer stationary nanotube and a finite length inner oscillating nanotube. Its main function is to measure changes in the characteristics of the motion of the carbon nanotube o... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8036112 | System and method for transmission control protocol (TCP) transmission rate control The present invention provides a smooth friendly TCP based transport layer protocol method and apparatus for data and streaming applications. In accordance with the invention, a low pass filter that uses history information modifies the multiplicative decrease porti... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8026223 | Treating malignant tumors with high field strength electroporation of plasmids encoding IL-12 In accordance with the present invention is provided a method of treating a subject having a cancerous tumor. The treatment protocol methodology includes injecting the cancerous tumor with an effective dose of plasmid coding for a therapeutic protein followed by adm... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8011827 | Thermally compensated dual-probe fluorescence decay rate temperature sensor The present invention provides a dual-probe thermally compensated fluorescence decay rate temperature sensor capable of measuring the true temperature of a sample surface and its associated method of use. ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7963082 | Concrete vapor barrier integrity system and method The present invention provides a device and method to maintain the integrity of a vapor barrier for use with concrete slab on grade construction. In accordance with the present invention an apparatus to repair a punctured concrete slab vapor barrier includes a subst... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7960872 | Side illumination light emitting diode lighting device The present invention discloses a side illumination LED lighting device which includes at least one semiconductor light emitter mounted on a thermally conductive substrate and positioned within a reflective cavity such that the forward light path of the LED is direc... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7958906 | Thermally induced single-use valves and method of use In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a thermally induced single-use valve is provided including a silicon wafer having a top surface and a bottom surface and at least one cavity formed in the bottom surface of the wafer, a thermally deformable ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7944230 | Methodology and apparatus for reduction of soft errors in logic circuits The present invention includes a circuit-level system and method for preventing the propagation of soft errors in logic cells. A radiation jammer circuit in accordance with the present invention, including an RC differentiator and a depletion mode MOS circuit, when ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7943259 | Method of controlled delivery for use of electrochemical power source A system and method for improving electrochemical power sources through the dispensing encapsulation and dispersion into galvanic chambers of an electrochemical cell. Features of the method include the optimization of the concentration levels of chemicals involved i... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7923741 | Semiconductor lighting device with reflective remote wavelength conversion A semiconductor lighting device includes at least one semiconductor light emitter and at least one wavelength converting element, physically separated from the light emitter. At least one wavelength converting element has a reflective member underneath it, so that b... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7918066 | Concrete vapor barrier integrity system The present invention provides a device and method to maintain the integrity of a vapor barrier for use with concrete slab on grade construction. In accordance with the present invention an apparatus to repair a punctured concrete slab vapor barrier includes a subst... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7892440 | Wet etching process The present invention illustrates a bulk silicon etching technique that yields straight sidewalls, through wafer structures in very short times using standard silicon wet etching techniques. The method of the present invention employs selective porous silicon format... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7869526 | System and method for a single stage tunable ultra-wideband pulse generator The present invention provides a single-stage tunable Ultra-Wideband (UWB) pulse generator, by creating and differentiating a variable edge rate signal. Edge rate variability is introduced by first applying a step recovery diode (SRD) to compress the edges of the so... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7856885 | Reinforced piezoresistive pressure sensor A MEMS-based silicon pressure sensor for the ocean environment is presented. The invention is a multiple diaphragm piezoresistive pressure sensor for measuring the pressure of a liquid, comprising an inner deformable diaphragm formed on a silicon substrate, the inne... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7855015 | Aluminum and solid alkali peroxide galvanic cell The present invention provides a galvanic cell having an aluminum anode and a cathode compartment design suitable for carrying out the aqueous electrochemical reaction between solid aluminum metal and aqueous peroxide ions. The galvanic cell is activated when water,... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7829409 | Method of manufacturing silicon topological capacitors In accordance with the present invention, a novel method to fabricate topological capacitors is provided. The fabrication method of the instant invention is based upon a reversed surface topology utilizing deep reactive ion etching to establish conductive capacitive... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7829215 | Surface micromachined electrolyte-cavities for use in micro-aluminum galvanic cells The present invention is directed to the fabrication of thin aluminum anode batteries using a highly reproducible process that enables high volume manufacturing of the galvanic cells. In the present invention, semiconductor fabrication methods are used to fabricate ... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7827758 | Method to repair a concrete vapor barrier The present invention provides a device and method to maintain the integrity of a vapor barrier for use with concrete slab on grade construction. In accordance with the present invention an apparatus to repair a punctured concrete slab vapor barrier includes a subst... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7809668 | System and method to avoid oscillatory behavior in proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controllers by using fuzzy inference and modified/active damping An instability avoidance module that can be implemented in SISO PID control loops to automatically adjust the controller's tuning parameters when undesired oscillatory behavior is monitored. This module is a Fuzzy-based Supervisor composed of a dynamic parameter ide... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7804320 | Methodology and apparatus for reduction of soft errors in logic circuits The present invention includes a circuit-level system and method for preventing the propagation of soft errors in logic cells. A radiation jammer circuit in accordance with the present invention, including an RC differentiator and a depletion mode MOS circuit, when ... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7796686 | Adaptive ultrawideband receiver and method of use In accordance with the present invention, novel methods for adaptive receiver design and related parameter estimation techniques for efficient and non-coherent reception of ultrawideband signals are presented. Efficient estimation of maximum excess delay of the chan... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7789556 | Thermally compensated dual-probe fluorescence decay rate temperature sensor and method of use The present invention provides a dual-probe thermally compensated fluorescence decay rate temperature sensor capable of measuring the true temperature of a sample surface and its associated method of use. ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7781195 | Electroporation device A device for manipulating a molecule in vivo relative to a target tissue includes at least one elongated member having at least two discrete and separately activatable electrodes separated by an insulating material interposed therebetween. The electrodes are configu... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7769440 | Electromanipulation device and method The present invention is a device for electromanipulation of chemical species in vivo relative to a target tissue including a nonconductive, conformable array base adapted to be placed coincident to the target tissue, a plurality of electrode elements projecting fro... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7741936 | Tunable micro electromechanical inductor The present invention provides a monolithic inductor developed using radio frequency micro electromechanical (RF MEMS) techniques. In a particular embodiment of the present invention, a tunable radio frequency microelectromechanical inductor includes a coplanar wave... | 06/22/2010 |
