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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8007204 | Floating structure for support of mixed use facilities A method for providing a sustainable offshore community that includes a floatable, low cost platform structure which covers a large amount of real estate and is supported above the surface of the ocean from columns which pass through the structure such that the extr... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7943914 | Back illumination method for counter measuring IR guided missiles Commercial aircraft are protected from attack by infrared seeking guided missiles through the utilization of a ground-based directed infrared countermeasure system in which the deployment of an IR guided missile is detected off-aircraft and more particularly on the ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7936301 | Stepped frequency radar A multi-port junction is fed with a frequency-stepped source and has one of its ports connected to an antenna that can serve either as a transmit-and-receive antenna or as a receive antenna only, with the outputs of the multi-port junction being used to estimate a c... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7927402 | Passive desiccant system In a method for removing moisture from an optical system at high altitude, the improvement comprises using the difference in flow resistance between the desiccant path and the optical cavity path to enable airflow through the desiccant unit and not through the optic... | 04/19/2011 |
| 5649059 | Alpha-numeric verbal scroll technique for use in an emergency location system An Emergency Vessel Location System (EVLS) which broadcasts a verbal MAYDAY message including the vessel or vehicle identification number (VIN) and the vessel position via a transceiver controlled by the EVLS is provided with a verbal scrolling technique ... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5634714 | Fluid mixing and dispensing system for the rapid mixing of a prestored substance with a fluid and the dispensing thereof A fluid mixing system is provided to permit rapid mixing of a prestored powdered substance such as powdered milk with a liquid in which, in one embodiment, baby bottles are stacked one atop the other in fluid communication, with an internally carried stem... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5610812 | Contextual tagger utilizing deterministic finite state transducer A system for assigning part-of-speech tags to English text includes an improved contextual tagger which utilizes a deterministic finite state transducer to improve tagging speed such that large documents can have its sentences accurately tagged as to part... | 03/11/1997 |
| 5603027 | Computer program version management system with reduced storage space and enabling multiple program versions to have the same name A computer program version update system reduces storage space usage and enables calling programs to invoke any version of a program using the same name by storing only modified modules of a program for different program versions. Multiple versions of a p... | 02/11/1997 |
| 5600834 | Method and apparatus for reconciling different versions of a file In a distributed file environment, a system for safely updating a file wiut risk of losing work performed at one site due to work performed on the file at another site uses a journal or log at each site which is updated after a file is modified. This log... | 02/04/1997 |
| 5600810 | Scaleable very long instruction word processor with parallelism matching A system is provided to increase the efficiency of a VLIW, Very Long Insttion Word, processor which matches its level of parallelism, LOP, to the LOP of the executable code before executing the code's fixed-length VLIW instructions, so that object-level ... | 02/04/1997 |
| 5598460 | Emergency back-up system for enhancing reliability or rescue A system is provided for enhancing the reliability of rescue services by providing a 911 back-up system in which the termination of an emergency call is sensed followed by dialing the telephone number of a predetermined dispatch office, with the dispatch ... | 01/28/1997 |
| 5594469 | Hand gesture machine control system A system for the control from a distance of machines having displays incls hand gesture detection in which the hand gesture causes movement of an on-screen hand icon over an on-screen machine control icon, with the hand icon moving the machine control ic... | 01/14/1997 |
| 5579503 | Direct cache coupled network interface for low latency A low latency network receive interface reduces the copying of message data by directly coupling the network to a cache and by providing an address-based message in which an incoming message block preincorporates an address so that messages can be directl... | 11/26/1996 |
| 5570301 | System for unencumbered measurement and reporting of body posture A system for unencumbered measurement of body posture or attitude utilizes on-encumbering force or proximity sensors to monitor an individual, where the individual need not be aware of the presence or action of the sensors. Outputs from these sensors are a... | 10/29/1996 |
| 5540589 | Audio interactive tutor An all-audio, hands-free and eyes-free interactive tutor provides time-efficient and reduced-boredom instruction by varying a course of instruction based on the correct and incorrect responses of the user so as to frequently repeat and provide positive fe... | 07/30/1996 |
