Did You Know...
...that the inventor of the electric motor was a blacksmith named Thomas Davenport? Described as "a brilliantly unsuccessful inventor", Davenport invented the first rotary electric motor. In 1836 he headed out -- on foot -- from his Vermont home to file a patent application at the Patent Office in Washington, D.C. By the time he got there, he had squandered away his money and couldn't afford the $30 filing fee so he turned around and went home. When he later mailed in his application with money he'd raised, the Patent office was destroyed in a fire. He did finally get credit for his invention on Feb. 5, 1837.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6772068 | Quality control of data A method of monitoring the quality of data is disclosed. The method includes sampling a first acquired data trace to determine the amplitude of the trace at a plurality of sampling times; and determining first and second attributes for the acquired first data trace ... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6763303 | System for classifying seafloor roughness The present invention relates to a novel system for seafloor classification using artificial neural network (ANN) hybrid layout with the use of unprocessed multi-beam backscatter data and more importantly, this invention relates to an real-time seafloor roughness cl... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6757612 | Phenomenological orbital debris impact risk assessment model and software An orbital debris impact risk assessment and management model is provided for low-Earth orbit (LEO). The model is phenomenologically based, meaning real, theoretical and historical data of the LEO environment is used in conjunction with thermodynamic based code arch... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6751683 | Method, system and program products for projecting the impact of configuration changes on controllers An impact of configuration changes on controllers is projected. This projection quantifies the impact for each controller affected by the change, such that it is known by a quantifiable value how much the change impacts the controller. In order to project the impact... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6745127 | System and method for tracking and reporting pesticide and fertilizer use on agricultural products A system by which consumers can determine the growth history of a produce crop including fertilizer application, chemical application, and processing. A grower records the history of application to the product in a database. Upon harvesting the crop, the history is ... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6745128 | Methods and systems for managing farmland Methods and systems for characterizing and managing plots of land is provided. Information related to elevation, soil conductivity, crop yield, and grower history is organized into profiles to generate a management zone profile. The management zone profile divides t... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6725164 | Hydrophone assembly A hydrophone assembly is provided that has a frequency response that matches that of an accelerometer. In a preferred implementation, the frequency response resembles that of a differentiator in combination with a pair of simple lags. ... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6714867 | Method for seismic monitoring of an underground zone by simultaneous use of sererval vibroseismic sources Method and system intended for seismic monitoring of an underground zone (1), comprising simultaneously using several seismic vibrators. The system comprises for example several local units (LU) comprising each a vibrator (5), a seismic pickup antenna ... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6711502 | Water saturation and sand fraction determination from borehole resistivity imaging tool, transverse induction logging and a tensorial water saturation model The total porosity of said formation, a fractional volume of the shale, and a resistivity of the shale are determined in a laminated reservoir including sands that may have dispersed shales therein. A tensor petrophysical model determines the laminar shale volume an... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6697737 | Quality control cube for seismic data Attributes of a seismic data set that are indicative of the quality of the seismic data are displayed in a quality control (QC) hypercube. The axes of the hypercube may be the source position, the source line, the receiver position and a processing step. ... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6683970 | Method of diagnosing nutritious condition of crop in plant field A method of diagnosing nutritious condition of crop in a plant field is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: locating a camera equipped with a plurality of image elements in a predetermined central depression angle with respect to the plant field... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6675097 | Nonlinear constrained inversion method to determine base of salt interface from gravity and gravity tensor data The present invention is a method for determining a parameter of interest of a region of interest of the earth using tensor data. At least one component of potential fields data is measured at a plurality of locations over a region of interest including a... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6665615 | Method of estimating elastic and compositional parameters from seismic and echo-acoustic data A method for determining from measured reflection data on a plurality of trace positions, a plurality of subsurface parameters. The method includes the steps of: preprocessing the measured reflection data into a plurality of partial or full stacks; specif... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6665619 | Noise estimator for seismic exploration A method of generating a noise estimate during seismic surveying, including measuring noise energy having a plurality of frequencies in a second time interval. The second time interval having a second start time delayed from a first start time of a first ... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6662185 | Methods and systems for plant performance analysis Methods and systems for assessing wide-area performance of a crop variety using a linear mixed model that incorporates geostatistical components and includes parameters for fixed effects, random effects and covariances. A wide-area database is constructed... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6658308 | System for and method of customizing an animal feed based on nucleic acid material content A system for and method of determining a formulation for an animal feed having a customized nucleic acid material content. The system can include an animal profile, an animal nutrient requirement profile, an evaluation criteria, and/or ingredient nutrient... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6654688 | Processing sonic waveform measurements Methods for determining the best value for at least one slowness-related parameter that has been determined in a number of ways is disclosed. Sonic logging data input in the methods are processed to determine multiple values of at least one slowness-relat... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6646559 | Method and apparatus for activating warning devices The invention provides a system and method for activating one or more warning devices, such as weather warning sirens, environmental warning devices, flash flood gates, and the like, from a remote or central location. Warning devices situated across geogr... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6640205 | Method and device for investigating and identifying the nature of a material The method of and a device for using this method, on equipment or assigned to equipment for working a material, for investigating and identifying the nature of the material, which is to be worked and for making available at least one operating parameter f... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6633817 | Sequence database search with sequence search trees A method and system for generating and searching a tree-structured index of window vectors that represent database sequences comprise a window vector generation module, a tree-structured index generation module, a query sequence partitioning module, and a... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6633252 | Radar plow drillstring steering A radar-plow drillstring steering system comprises a steering plow and a measurements-while-drilling instrument for mounting just behind the drill bit and downhole motor of a drill rod. The instrument includes a radar system connected to upward-looking an... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6622092 | Predictor for optimal broadband impedance matching A predictor for optimal broadband impedance matching of the present invention computes the maximum value of transducer power gain possible for any impedance matching network for a given transmission line, load, and frequency band.... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6618673 | Optimization of irrigation cycles A method for the optimization of irrigation of an area by a plurality of successive adaptive irrigation cycles is disclosed. The method is implemented as a system including an irrigation water controller, a probe for sensing a wetting-front depth, a compu... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6615653 | In situ method for determining soil liquefaction tendency and its prevention by electro-osmosis A method for determining the liquefaction tendency of a water saturated soil is provided in which a driven or self boring probe with a plurality of expanding and contracting bladders imposes a cyclic shear stress reversal on a body of soil in situ, and fr... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6615139 | Digitally implemented method for automatic optimization of gravity fields obtained from three-dimensional density interfaces using depth dependent density The present invention relates to a digitally implemented method for determining basement depths of 3-dimensional density interfaces from gridded gravity data, wherein density contrast above the interface is assumed to be varying parabolically with depth, ... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6611760 | Method and system for estimating gas production by a landfill or other subsurface source A new and useful method and system for estimating LFG generation and gas permeability in a landfill or other subsurface-gas producing body of material is provided. The gas generation rate in a portion of a landfill or other subsurface-gas producing body o... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6600566 | High-order high-frequency rough surface scattering solver The present invention provides a rough surface scattering method and solver for efficiently computing electromagnetic scattered fields resulting from an incident wave (12) being reflected from a surface slowly varying on the scale of the wavelength (10). ... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6597305 | Hazard and target alerting for weather radar A system, method, and computer program product for alerting a flight crew of weather radar return data collected, yet not presently being displayed. The system includes a memory, a processor, and an output device. The memory stores radar return informatio... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6597992 | Soil and topography surveying Methods of characterizing subsurface conditions in a selected geographic region previously associated as a whole with a specific subsurface material characteristic reference profile such as from a USDA-NRCS soil survey. The method includes deploying a sen... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6584405 | Radiance modeling A spectrum is automatically searched to select monochromatic spectral points, monochromatic transmittances or radiances are automatically calculated at the selected monochromatic spectral points, for one or more viewing geometries and for non-homogeneous ... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6574652 | Intrinsically safe communication and control system for use in hazardous locations including monotoring device with intrinsically safe fluorescent tube backlit An intrinsically safe data acquisition system is disclosed for use in hazardous locations. The system includes a driller's console that itself is intrinsically safe and includes a large LCD monitor, keypad and local CPU. The monitor includes an intrinsica... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6560537 | Prospecting technique Disclosed herein is a technique of prospecting for deep massive sulphide ore bodies, comprising the steps of selecting a geologic region which is substantially acoustically transparent; directing seismic waves at the region and collecting reflected or dif... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6549852 | Methods and systems for managing farmland Methods and systems for characterizing and managing plots of land is provided. Information related to elevation, soil conductivity, crop yield, and grower history is organized into profiles to generate a management zone profile. The management zone profil... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6549851 | Real-time plant nutrition prescription A system and method for translating plant tissue analysis results into nutritional supplement recommendations. A tissue analysis is performed on plant samples from a treatable area of plants. The tissue analysis results indicate current nutrient levels in... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6536272 | Water monitoring, data collection, and transmission module A water sampling apparatus is disclosed having a water inlet and a water collecting scoop. A pump, in fluid communication with the water inlet, draws a water sample from a body of water through the water inlet. A plurality of testing units, in fluid commu... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6529890 | Method for representing synoptic climatology information in a class-object-attribute hierarchy and an expert system for obtaining synoptic climatology information An expert system for synoptic climatology. The expert system comprises a user interface that interacts with a user to obtain geographical information. An inference engine executes expert rules based on the geographical information. A synoptic climatology ... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6505124 | GPS system to provide planter tripping for crop research plots A GPS system to provide planter tripping for crop research plots provides the longitude and latitude of the first trip location and provide a continuous flow of location information. A control computer calculates the next tripping location and provides a ... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6493632 | Water saturation and sand fraction determination from borehole resistivity imaging tool, transverse induction logging and a tensorial water saturation model The total porosity of a formation, a fractional volume of the shale, and a resistivity of the shale are determined in a laminated reservoir including sands that may have dispersed shales therein. A tensor petrophysical model determines the laminar shale v... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6484099 | Process for correcting atmospheric influences in multispectral optical remote sensing data The inventive process for correcting atmospheric influences in multispectral optical remote sensing data, which are acquired as raw data in satellite or airborne sensors for earth observation, comprises the combination of a pre-classification (DERA) of th... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6477467 | Efficient inversion of near singular geophysical signals In a method for inverting a seismic signal, an input seismic signal is represented as an input vector i(t) of length m+n-1, an output seismic signal is represented as an output vector o(t) of length m, and a finite impulse response filter is represented a... | 11/05/2002 |
