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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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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7766837 | M-tracking for space-time image A new method is introduced able to track the motion of a thin object, e.g. a wall, from a series of digital field data (e.g. images) in order to analyze field information corresponding to the moving position of the object. The method is based on the extraction of M-... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7254493 | Pressure transducer based fluid velocity sensor The invention consists of a pressure transducer based air velocity sensor that has been optimized for use in metal ducts. The fluid flow velocity is determined by measuring the propagation delay of a direct path pressure wave signal transmitted through the fluid as ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7069124 | Robotic modeling of voids Robotic systems for modeling, mapping and exploring subterranean void spaces such as mines, caves, tunnels, bunkers, and conduits. Robotic modeling of subterranean voids is generally enabled by a procedural system consisting of preprocessing, ingress, void modeling,... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7037267 | Medical diagnostic methods, systems, and related equipment A medical diagnostic method, system and related equipment particularly adapted to diagnose disorders of the blood circulation serving the head and neck, and especially the brain. A preferred use of the system is early, rapid, accurate, diagnosis of stroke, especiall... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6702743 | Ultrasound apparatus and method for tissue resonance analysis An ultrasound probe is placed on the head of a patient, and is used to generate an ultrasound pulse which propagates through the skull and brain of the patient, and is reflected off of the skull and soft tissue lying in a path perpendicular to the ultraso... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6475147 | Ultrasonic apparatus and technique to measure changes in intracranial pressure Changes in intracranial pressure can be measured dynamically and non-invasively by monitoring one or more cerebrospinal fluid pulsatile components. Pulsatile components such as systolic and diastolic blood pressures are partially transferred to the cerebr... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6454774 | Device for introducing brain probes A device for inserting a thin measurement probe into brain tissue, the device including a skull screw, a guide hose, and a compressive screw connection. The skull screw defines a longitudinal borehole through which the guide hose and a measurement probe e... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6377833 | System and method for computer input of dynamic mental information A system calibrates a user's brain region (e.g., the primary visual cortex or V1 region) to actual sensory information (e.g., the visual field), and enables imagined sensory information (e.g.; dynamic mental imagery) to be interpreted as computer input. T... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6328694 | Ultrasound apparatus and method for tissue resonance analysis An ultrasound probe is placed on the head of a patient, and is used to generate an ultrasound pulse which propagates through the skull and brain of the patient, and is reflected off of the skull and soft tissue lying in a path perpendicular to the ultraso... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6231509 | Apparatus and method for monitoring intracranial pressure An apparatus and a method that permit the accurate measurement and continuous monitoring of the intracranial pressure of humans and vertebrates that eliminates the requirement of direct contact with the patient's head, obviates problems previously encount... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6210335 | Acoustic flash to increase penetration Upon detection of systole by a detector (21), a master controller (20) adjusts a transmit level control (36) to cause a transducer array (2) to transmit ultrasound waves with a high acoustic output approaching the mechanical index FDA limit with sufficien... | 04/03/2001 |
| 5951476 | Method for detecting brain microhemorrhage Continued bleeding into a pocket or hematoma in the cranium could exert pressure on the brain which would move it relative to the cranium to force the brain stem into the medulla oblongata to arrest breathing. Such brain micromovement is detected by proje... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5941826 | Method for adjustment of the Doppler angle in echography, and arrangement for carrying out the method The Doppler angle is adjusted to a value close to the optimum Doppler angle DAopt, typically amounting to 60°, between the direction of an echographic excitation and the axis of a blood vessel in an echographic image, based on prior designation of an ini... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5701897 | Ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus and image displaying system There is provided an ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus in which a region containing an organ of an object being examined is diagnosed by means of ultrasonic beams, the organ being in motion, the apparatus comprising: an element for scanning the region by the... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5605155 | Ultrasound system for automatically measuring fetal head size An ultrasound system automatically measures fetal head size from ultrasound images. An ultrasound image of the fetal head is detected. A radial maxima point is identified on each of a plurality of radii extending from a substantially common vertex point w... | 02/25/1997 |
| 5513640 | Diagnostic ultrasound system A diagnostic ultrasound system is provided for displaying a color image of a motion of a tissue scans an ultrasonic pulse signal along a tomographic plane to acquire an electrical echo signal, extracts a Doppler signal from the echo signal, calculates vel... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5388583 | Method and apparatus for non-invasively deriving and indicating of dynamic characteristics of the human and animal intracranial media An ultrasonic non-invasive technique is descried for deriving the time dependencies of characteristics of certain regions in the intracranium medium. Precise measurements of the transit travel times of acoustic pulses are made and processed to extract var... | 02/14/1995 |
| 5109868 | Method for diagnosing senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type A method is provided for detecting senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type (SDAT) wherein atrophy of the medial temporal lobe of the brain (for example as determined by CT scan) as indicated by a thickness thereof, at its narrowest point, of 11.5 mm or le... | 05/05/1992 |
| 5016641 | Spectral interpolation of ultrasound Doppler signal A method and apparatus for producing the Doppler audio output in a medical ultrasound system. The system includes a transmitter for transmitting ultrasound into a body, a receiver for receiving and processing echoes to produce a Doppler signal, and a Dopp... | 05/21/1991 |
| 4984567 | Apparatus for measuring intracranial pressure The present invention relates to an apparatus for measuring the intracranial pressure of a living body or patient utilizing ultrasonic waves. An ultrasonic pulse is transmitted as triggered by a trigger signal into the cranium from an ultrasonic probe pla... | 01/15/1991 |
| 4043321 | Arrangement for ultrasonic-echo encephalography An arrangement for effecting ultrasonic-echo encephalography, including at least two ultrasonic heads, as well as a recording arrangement for the ultrasonic waves which are received from the skull of a patient, and having at least one marking device assoc... | 08/23/1977 |
