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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110025524 | SIGNAL CLOTHING An article of signal clothing is provided. The signal clothing may comprise a clothing body, a signal generating unit, and a transceiving unit. The signal generating unit is disposed on the clothing body and configured to generate a signal periodically. The transfer uni... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110006908 | Synchronization of a Plurality of Devices in a Wireless Sensor Arrangement Two or more wirelessly networked devices for control or data acquisition functions for real-time application are provided with a error corrected synchronization and data collection process. A single start device transmits a start message, followed by each stop device ac... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20090309750 | Method for Operating an RFID Network The invention relates to a method for operating an RFID network consisting of a number of read-write stations (1, 2, 3, 11, N0-N17), for which a reader service signal (9, 105) is modulated onto a read-write signal that is required to process ... | 12/17/2009 |
| 20090153350 | Method and Apparatus for Distributing Haptic Synchronous Signals A haptic signal distribution system capable of distributing haptic synchronous signals includes a master haptic device and groups of slave haptic devices. In one embodiment, the master haptic device is configured to distribute haptic synchronous signals to slave haptic ... | 06/18/2009 |
| 20090096632 | Synchronization of haptic effect data in a media stream Haptic information in a series of frames of a media file is identified and time stamps corresponding thereto are determined in accordance with information embedded in a tag either preceding or appending the media file. The haptic effect information is automatically sync... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090033513 | PAIRING WIRELESS DEVICES OF A NETWORK USING RELATIVE GAIN ARRAYS A method for pairing a first wireless device with a second wireless device includes gathering a first wireless communications characteristic about communications between the first wireless device and the second wireless device. The method further includes gathering seco... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20080157995 | IRRIGATION TWO-WIRE COMMUNICATION CONTROL The present embodiments provide methods, systems and apparatuses for use in implementing and/or controlling irrigation through communication over a two-wire interface. Some method of controlling irrigation over a two-wire interface define a reference voltage at a first ... | 07/03/2008 |
| 20070290803 | DATA SYNCHRONIZATION AND INTEGRITY FOR INTERMITTENTLY CONNECTED SENSORS A system for data synchronization of intermittently connected sensors may include an RFID system and an information management system. The system may also include an application to insure integrity of data retrieved or posted between the RFID system and the information ... | 12/20/2007 |
