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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8183726 | Electric motor assist bicyle Methods, systems and apparatus for an electric motor assist bicycle having a hub motor mounted to the front or rear hub to provide electric motor assist, and to function as a generator to charge batteries. The motor can be either a molded or wound magnetic flux chan... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8170384 | Hybrid photonic signal processing modules Methods, systems, apparatus and devices for a variable fiber optic delay line that includes an electro-optic modulator for receiving and modulating an input signal, a switchless discrete long time delay module for injecting a long time delay into the modulated signa... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8153005 | Retention/detention pond stormwater treatment system Materials, compositions, substances and methods and systems for stormwater treatment in wet ponds, dry ponds and a green roof system. A first embodiment provides in-situ treatment unit within the retention pond by withdrawing the stored stormwater to circulate the s... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8120153 | High-temperature, wirebondless, injection-molded, ultra-compact hybrid power module A cost-effective, ultra-compact, hybrid power module packaging system and method for making allows device operation in conventional and high temperature ranges over 300° C. Double metal leadframes are directly bonded to the front- and backside of semiconductor chip... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8117954 | Firearm modification kit A kit for modifying a firearm such as a Kalashnikov assault rifle, better known as the AK-47, so as to permit the bolt carrier to be pulled back easily with either the right hand or left hand of a user. The kit includes a receiver cover including an arch-shaped crow... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8107056 | Hybrid optical distance sensor Methods and systems for a hybrid optical device for high dynamic range high resolution remote sensing of object distance, object motion displacement, object three dimensional structure, object spatial profile, and measurement of liquid levels, and different matter i... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103711 | Dispersion compensation using digital infinite impulse response filtering Methods and systems for novel infinite impulse response filtering system to allow DC using a complex input signal having a real and imaginary part of the complex input signal yr and yi to produce a real part of a dispersion-compensated signal X... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8101929 | Diffraction free, self-bending airy wave arrangement Methods and systems for Airy waves and Airy wavepackets or Airy beam generation from an input beam or pulse. Airy wavefronts and Airy wavepackets can be generated using Airy beam generation through Fourier synthesis using phase masks or filters in the spatial domain... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8101079 | On-site wastewater treatment using a functionalized green filtration media sorption field Methods, system, compositions for a green sorption media for bioretention soil amendments in drainfields for on-site waste water systems filled with the green sorption media to foster an anaerobic or anoxic environment saturated. The green sorption media includes on... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8096481 | Ventilation system control A method, system, apparatus, and device to provide an effective, automatic means to effect exhaust, supply, or balanced ventilation, or a combination thereof, by automatically activating a ventilation fan for the selected operation time per cycle interval based on p... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8066834 | Burn rate sensitization of solid propellants using a nano-titania additive Adding nanoparticles as a catalyst to solid propellant fuel to increase and enhance burn rates of the fuel by up to 10 times or more and/or modifying the pressure index. A preferred embodiment uses TiO2 nanoparticles mixed with a solid propellant fuel, wh... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8049631 | System and method for deterring impaired vehicle operation A system of determining an impairment level of a vehicle operator and preventing operation of the vehicle in an impaired state and method of using the same that comprises a key portion to initiate the starting of the vehicle, an electrical source to power the system... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8025837 | Generator for flux specific bursts on nano-particles Methods, systems and apparatus for producing a variable, known number of nanoparticles of various materials in an expanding mist in a vacuum or enclosure. The configurations allow for this mist of small particles to be produced in bursts, at repetition rates over a ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8023206 | Achromatic optical system for beam shaping An achromatic refractive beam shaping optical system that transforms the intensity distribution of a light beam, preferably provides transformation of a beam which intensity distribution described by Gaussian function to a beam of uniform intensity. The system consi... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8002985 | Passive nutrient removal material mixes Materials, compositions, substances and methods and systems for stormwater treatment in wet ponds, dry ponds and a green roof system. A first embodiment provides in-situ treatment unit within the retention pond by withdrawing the stored stormwater to circulate the s... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8002984 | Green sorption material mixes for water treatment Media compositions for use in wastewater treatment, stormwater treatment, CSO treatment and greenroof stormwater management systems as filtration media, plant growth media or pollutant retention media. Media composition includes at least one of a recycled material s... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7995181 | High speed and wide viewing angle liquid crystal displays Novel structural configurations of a TFT-LCD (Thin Film Transistor Liquid Crystal Display) which results in both fast response to input data and provides wide-viewing-angles. The structure of the device is comprised of one pixel electrode layer and two common electr... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7983570 | Direct detection differential polarization-phase-shift keying for high spectral efficiency optical communication Efficient apparatus, methods, systems and devices to generate, transmit and detect optical differential polarization-phase-shift keying signals are disclosed for high spectral efficiency optical communication systems. It includes an electrical encoder and an optical... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7983448 | Self correcting tracking of moving objects in video Apparatus, methods, systems and devices for identifying and tracking a human hand in a video. The steps for identifying the hand includes detecting parallel lines (bars), detecting curved fingertips (curves), grouping the detected parallel lines and curved fingertip... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7978346 | Methods and systems for realizing high resolution three-dimensional optical imaging Methods and systems for realizing high resolution three-dimensional (3-D) optical imaging using diffraction limited low resolution optical signals. Using axial shift-based signal processing via computer based computation algorithm, three sets of high resolution opti... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7969540 | Transflective liquid crystal display having mutually complementary patterned electrode and reflector A transflective liquid crystal display with uniform cell gap configuration throughout the transmissive and the reflective display region is invented. Mutually complementary common electrode pattern and reflector pattern or mutually complementary ITO pixel electrode ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7961105 | Weighted SAW reflector gratings for orthogonal frequency coded SAW tags and sensors Weighted surface acoustic wave reflector gratings for coding identification tags and sensors to enable unique sensor operation and identification for a multi-sensor environment. In an embodiment, the weighted reflectors are variable while in another embodiment the r... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7955507 | Functionalized green filtration media for passive underground drainfield for septic tank nutrient removal Methods, systems and compositions for a green sorption media for bioretention soil amendments in drainfields for on-site waste water systems filled with the green sorption media to foster an anaerobic or anoxic environment saturated. The green sorption media include... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7952482 | Surface acoustic wave coding for orthogonal frequency coded devices Methods and systems for coding SAW OFC devices to mitigate code collisions in a wireless multi-tag system. Each device producing plural stepped frequencies as an OFC signal with a chip offset delay to increase code diversity. A method for assigning a different OCF t... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7932980 | Liquid crystal display device having patterned electrodes for repetitive divided horizontal electric field and fringing electric field Apparatus, methods, systems and devices for high aperture ratio, high transmittance, and wide viewing angle liquid crystal display having first and second substrates each with an alignment layer and polarizer on the interior and exterior surface thereof and a liquid... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7931763 | Burn rate sensitization of solid propellants using a nano-titania additive Adding nanoparticles as a catalyst to solid propellant fuel to increase and enhance burn rates of the fuel by up to 10 times or more and/or modifying the pressure index. A preferred embodiment uses TiO2 nanoparticles mixed with a solid propellant fuel, wh... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7929097 | Fast response liquid crystal mode A novel nematic liquid crystal (LC) mode is based on the Fringing-Field-Switching of Vertically-Aligned liquid crystals. The VA-FFS mode is capable of generating very fast optical modulation without the use of very thin cell gap. IA major feature of this LC mode is ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7927484 | Passive underground drainfield for septic tank nutrient removal using functionalized green filtration media Methods, systems and compositions for a green sorption media for bioretention soil amendments in drainfields for on-site waste water systems filled with the green sorption media to foster an anaerobic or anoxic environment saturated. The green sorption media include... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7920267 | Micro integrated planar optical waveguide type SPR sensor An integrated optical waveguide type surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor having an optical waveguide with a corresponding SPR sensing area, photodetectors, and wavelength tunable laser or any kind of external tunable laser source/coupler formed on a substrate. In... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7917039 | Signal processing using spectrally phase-encoded optical frequency combs Methods, apparatus and systems for an optical system for data harvesting and pattern recognition. The system includes a mode locked laser for producing a comb of optical frequencies that is split into two identical combs, a wavelength division demultiplexer separate... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7900527 | Electrically deflected nanomechanical sensors An electrically-induced deflective amplification sensor as an actively controlled and reconfigurable nanomechanical sensor for the detection and recognition of chemicals, biomolecules, and gaseous molecules. The electrically-induced deflective amplification sensors ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7899093 | Combination of up-converting materials with semiconductor light sources Methods, apparatus and systems for an up-converter resonant cavity light emitting diode device includes a semiconductor light source, an up-converter to form the light emitter with up-converting materials and an electrical source coupled with the semiconductor light... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7897047 | Retention/detention pond and green roof passive nutrient removal material mixes Materials, compositions, substances and methods and systems for stormwater treatment in wet ponds, dry ponds and a green roof system. A first embodiment provides in-situ treatment unit within the retention pond by withdrawing the stored stormwater to circulate the s... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7881347 | Hybrid gain guiding in laser resonators Methods and systems for hybrid gain guiding in laser resonators that combines the features of gain guiding and fiber or other types of lasers into a single system. Hybrid gain guiding in laser resonators is not limited to conventional fiber lasers. Any type of gain ... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7848479 | Image reconstruction for a general circle-plus trajectory Methods, apparatus and systems for an exact filtered back projection process for circle-plus trajectories, which consist of two components: C and L. The first component C, is analogous to a circle in the traditional circle-plus trajectories, is any closed (not neces... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7847207 | Method and system to attach carbon nanotube probe to scanning probe microscopy tips An easy and controllable method and system to attach a carbon nanotube to a scanning probe tip such as a scanning probe microscopy (SPM) tip using a focus ion beam (FIB) technique. The method and system includes selecting a carbon fiber by a Focus Ion Beam micromani... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7879308 | Multiwall carbon nanotube field emitter fabricated by focused ion beam technique A multi-wall carbon nanotube field emitter and method of producing the same is disclosed. The multi-wall carbon nanotube field emitter comprises a nanotube having a diameter between approximately 1 nanometer and approximately 100 nanometers with an integrally attach... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7868510 | High-efficiency wheel-motor utilizing molded magnetic flux channels with transverse-flux stator A motor including an outside rotor having a rotor disc with plural magnets alternating polarities flush mounted in the disc, an inside stator assembly with a ring of pole pieces forming a channel to house a transversely wound stator windings, and a controller couple... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7855768 | Transflective liquid crystal display using separate transmissive and reflective liquid crystal cells and materials with single cell gap A transflective liquid crystal display (TLCD) using separate transmissive (T) and reflective (R) cells in which two liquid crystal materials with different birefringence changes are used. The birefringence change of the R region is half of the birefringence change o... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7825805 | Delayed offset multi-track OFC sensors and tags Apparatus, systems, devices and methods for providing an orthogonal frequency coding technique for surface acoustic wave sensors incorporating the use of multiple parallel acoustic tracks to provide increased coding by phase shifting and delaying a code sequence. Th... | 11/02/2010 |
