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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8069001 | Thermal protection system ablation sensor An isotherm sensor tracks space vehicle temperatures by a thermal protection system (TPS) material during vehicle re-entry as a function of time, and surface recession through calibration, calculation, analysis and exposed surface modeling. Sensor design includes: t... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8000903 | Coated or doped carbon nanotube network sensors as affected by environmental parameters Methods for using modified single wall carbon nanotubes (“SWCNTs”) to detect presence and/or concentration of a gas component, such as a halogen (e.g., Cl2), hydrogen halides (e.g., HCl), a hydrocarbon (e.g., CnH2n+2), an alcohol... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7968054 | Nanostructure sensing and transmission of gas data A system for receiving, analyzing and communicating results of sensing chemical and/or physical parameter values, using wireless transmission of the data. Presence or absence of one or more of a group of selected chemicals in a gas or vapor is determined, using suit... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7949472 | Rapid polymer sequencer Method and system for rapid and accurate determination of each of a sequence of unknown polymer components, such as nucleic acid components. A self-assembling monolayer of a selected substance is optionally provided on an interior surface of a pipette tip, and the i... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7939734 | Biochemical sensors using carbon nanotube arrays Method and system for detecting presence of biomolecules in a selected subset, or in each of several selected subsets, in a fluid. Each of an array of two or more carbon nanotubes (“CNTs”) is connected at a first CNT end to one or more electronics devices, each ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7923709 | Radiation shielding systems using nanotechnology A system for shielding personnel and/or equipment from radiation particles. In one embodiment, a first substrate is connected to a first array or perpendicularly oriented metal-like fingers, and a second, electrically conducting substrate has an array of carbon nano... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7875455 | Real time oil reservoir evaluation using nanotechnology A method and system for evaluating status and response of a mineral-producing field (e.g., oil and/or gas) by monitoring selected chemical and physical properties in or adjacent to a wellsite headspace. Nanotechnology sensors and other sensors are provided for one o... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7873181 | Visual image sensor organ replacement: implementation Method and system for enhancing or extending visual representation of a selected region of a visual image, where visual representation is interfered with or distorted, by supplementing a visual signal with at least one audio signal having one or more audio signal pa... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7869029 | Multiple wavelength light collimator and monitor An optical system for receiving and collimating light and for transporting and processing light received in each of N wavelength ranges, including near-ultraviolet, visible, near-infrared and mid-infrared wavelengths, to determine a fraction of light received, and a... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7816491 | Ordered biological nanostructures formed from chaperonin polypeptides The following application relates to nanotemplates, nanostructures, nanoarrays and nanodevices formed from wild-type and mutated chaperonin polypeptides, methods of producing such compositions, methods of using such compositions and particular chaperonin polypeptide... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7795388 | Versatile platform for nanotechnology based on circular permutations of chaperonin protein The present invention provides chaperonin polypeptides which are modified to include N-terminal and C-terminal ends that are relocated from the central pore region to various different positions in the polypeptide which are located on the exterior of the folded modi... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7784531 | Nanoengineered thermal materials based on carbon nanotube array composites A method for providing for thermal conduction using an array of carbon nanotubes (CNTs). An array of vertically oriented CNTs is grown on a substrate having high thermal conductivity, and interstitial regions between adjacent CNTs in the array are partly or wholly f... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7783130 | Spatial standard observer The present invention relates to devices and methods for the measurement and/or for the specification of the perceptual intensity of a visual image, or the perceptual distance between a pair of images. Grayscale test and reference images are processed to produce tes... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7767305 | High efficiency tantalum-based ceramic composite structures Tantalum-based ceramics are suitable for use in thermal protection systems. These composite structures have high efficiency surfaces (low catalytic efficiency and high emittance), thereby reducing heat flux to a spacecraft during planetary re-entry. These ceramics c... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7767270 | Selective functionalization of carbon nanotubes based upon distance traveled Method and system for functionalizing a collection of carbon nanotubes (CNTs). A selected precursor gas (e.g., H2 or NH3 or NF3 or F2 or CF4 or CnHm) is irradiated to provide a cold plasma ... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7718223 | Control of carbon nanotube density and tower height in an array A method for controlling density or tower height of carbon nanotube (CNT) arrays grown in spaced apart first and second regions on a substrate. CNTs having a first density range (or first tower height range) are grown in the first region using a first source tempera... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7704547 | Carbon nanotube growth density control Method and system for combined coarse scale control and fine scale control of growth density of a carbon nanotube (“CNT”) array on a substrate, using a selected electrical field adjacent to a substrate surface for coarse scale density control (by one or more ord... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7702427 | Air traffic management evaluation tool Method and system for evaluating and implementing air traffic management tools and approaches for managing and avoiding an air traffic incident before the incident occurs. The invention provides flight plan routing and direct routing or wind optimal routing, using g... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7698274 | Selective access and editing in a database Method and system for providing selective access to different portions of a database by different subgroups of database users. Where N users are involved, up to 2N−1 distinguishable access subgroups in a group space can be formed, where no two access su... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7672969 | Context based configuration management system A computer-based system for configuring and displaying information on changes in, and present status of, a collection of events associated with a project. Classes of icons for decision events, configurations and feedback mechanisms, and time lines (sequential and/or... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7662459 | Versatile honeycomb matrix heat shield A thermal protection system for atmospheric entry of a vehicle, the system including a honeycomb structure with selected cross sectional shapes that receives and holds thermally cured thermal protection (TP) blocks that have corresponding cross sectional shapes. Mat... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7655497 | Growth method for chalcongenide phase-change nanostructures A method for growth of an alloy for use in a nanostructure, to provide a resulting nanostructure compound including at least one of GexTey, InxSby, InxSey, SbxTey, Gax... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7655145 | Contaminated water treatment Method and system for processing of a liquid (“contaminant liquid”) containing water and containing urine and/or other contaminants in a two step process. Urine, or a contaminated liquid similar to and/or containing urine and thus having a relatively high salt a... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7650232 | Trajectory specification for high capacity air traffic control Method and system for analyzing and processing information on one or more aircraft flight paths, using a four-dimensional coordinate system including three Cartesian or equivalent coordinates (x, y, z) and a fourth coordinate δ that corresponds to a distance estima... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7635420 | Dielectrophoresis-based particle sensor using nanoelectrode arrays A method for concentrating or partly separating particles of a selected species from a liquid or fluid containing these particles and flowing in a channel, and for determining if the selected species particle is present in the liquid or fluid. A time varying electri... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7616982 | Determination and application of location and angular orientation of a pill transmitter within a body A mobile pill transmitter system that moves through or adjacent to one or more organs in an animal's body and that provides signals from which the pill's present location and/or present angular orientation can be determined. The system also provides signals from whi... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7590606 | Multi-user investigation organizer A system that allows a team of geographically dispersed users to collaboratively analyze a mishap event. The system includes a reconfigurable ontology, including instances that are related to and characterize the mishap, a semantic network that receives, indexes and... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7574357 | Applications of sub-audible speech recognition based upon electromyographic signals Method and system for generating electromyographic or sub-audible signals (“SAWPs”) and for transmitting and recognizing the SAWPs that represent the original words and/or phrases. The SAWPs may be generated in an environment that interferes excessively with nor... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7574338 | Finite-difference simulation and visualization of elastodynamics in time-evolving generalized curvilinear coordinates Modeling and simulation of free and forced structural vibrations is essential to an overall structural health monitoring capability. In the various embodiments, a first principles finite-difference approach is adopted in modeling a structural subsystem such as a mec... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7561946 | Real time correction of aircraft flight configuration Method and system for monitoring and analyzing, in real time, variation with time of an aircraft flight parameter. A time-dependent recovery band, defined by first and second recovery band boundaries that are spaced apart at at least one time point, is constructed f... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7549338 | Nanostructure sensor of presence and concentration of a target molecule Method and system (i) to determine when a selected target molecule is present or absent in a fluid, (2) to estimate concentration of the target molecule in the fluid and (3) estimate possible presence of a second (different) target molecule in the fluid, by analyzin... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7531775 | Photometer for tracking a moving light source A photometer that tracks a path of a moving light source with little or no motion of the photometer components. The system includes a non-moving, truncated paraboloid of revolution, having a paraboloid axis, a paraboloid axis, a small entrance aperture, a larger exi... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7529633 | Application of carbon nanotube hold-off voltage for determining gas composition Method and system for determining chemical composition of a single-component or multiple-component gas, using a discharge holdoff mechanism. A voltage difference V between two spaced apart electrodes is brought to a selected value and held, the holdoff time interval... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7516890 | Interactive inventory monitoring Method and system for monitoring present location and/or present status of a target inventory item, where the inventory items are located on one or more inventory shelves or other inventory receptacles that communicate with an inventory base station through use of r... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7490367 | Solid and liquid waste drying bag Method and system for processing waste from human activities, including solids, liquids and vapors. A fluid-impermeable bag, lined with a liquid-impermeable but vapor-permeable membrane, defining an inner bag, is provided. A vacuum force is provided to extract vapor... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7473436 | Functionalization of carbon nanotubes Method and system for functionalizing a collection of carbon nanotubes (CNTs). A selected precursor gas (e.g., H2 or F2 or CnHm) is irradiated to provide a cold plasma of selected target species particles, such as atomic H... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7473930 | Use of patterned CNT arrays for display purposes Method and system for providing a dynamically reconfigurable display having nanometer-scale resolution, using a patterned array of multi-wall carbon nanotube (MWCNT) clusters. A diode, phosphor or other light source on each MWCNT cluster is independently activated, ... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7454321 | Robust, optimal subsonic airfoil shapes Method system, and product from application of the method, for design of a subsonic airfoil shape, beginning with an arbitrary initial airfoil shape and incorporating one or more constraints on the airfoil geometric parameters and flow characteristics. The resulting... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7438422 | Simplified night sky display system A portable structure, simply constructed with inexpensive and generally lightweight materials, for displaying a selected portion of the night sky and selected planets, satellites, comets and other astronomically observable objects that are visually perceptible withi... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7431242 | Re-entry vehicle shape for enhanced performance A convex shell structure for enhanced aerodynamic performance and/or reduced heat transfer requirements for a space vehicle that re-enters an atmosphere. The structure has a fore-body, an aft-body, a longitudinal axis and a transverse cross sectional shape, projecte... | 10/07/2008 |
