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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 |
| 7649130 | Integrated circuit An integrated circuit produced from non-monocrystalline semiconductors, including a plurality of transistors, all of the transistors being of the same type, and at least two timer signal inputs, wherein the timer signals fed to the different inputs are temporally no... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7378151 | Semiconductor nanoparticle, and a process of manufacturing the same The invention provides a semiconductor nanoparticle comprising a semiconductor nanoparticle core on the surface of which electron-releasing groups are arranged, the semiconductor nanoparticle having a fluorescent property and water-solubility. The invention also pro... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7361410 | External modification of composite organic inorganic nanoclusters comprising raman active organic compound Modified and functionalized metallic nanoclusters capable of providing an enhanced Raman signal from an organic Raman-active molecule incorporated therein are provided. For example, modifications include coatings and layers, such as adsorption layers, metal coatings... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7264876 | Polymer-wrapped single wall carbon nanotubes The present invention relates to new compositions of matter and articles of manufacture comprising SWNTs as nanometer scale conducting rods dispersed in an electrically-insulating matrix. These compositions of matter have novel and useful electrical, mechanical, and... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7264872 | Durable high index nanocomposites for AR coatings The present invention includes ultraviolet curable compositions preferably containing discrete, crystalline zirconia nanoparticles with reactive, or copolymerizable, surface modification, in a polymerizable monomer/oligomer resin mixture. It is believed that copolym... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7262266 | Copolymerization of polybenzazoles and other aromatic polymers with carbon nanotubes The present invention is generally directed to the block copolymerization of rigid rod polymers with carbon nanotubes (CNTs), the CNTs generally being shortened, to form nanotube block copolymers. The present invention is also directed to fibers and other shaped art... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7252699 | Method for patterning metal using nanoparticle containing precursors Continuous, conducting metal patterns can be formed from metal nanoparticle containing films by exposure to radiation (FIG. 1). The metal patterns can be one, two, or three dimensional and have high resolution resulting in feature sizes in the order... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7202173 | Systems and methods for electrical contacts to arrays of vertically aligned nanorods Systems and methods may provide electrical contacts to an array of substantially vertically aligned nanorods. The nanorod array may be fabricated on top of a conducting layer that serves as a bottom contact to the nanorods. A top metal contact may be applied to a pl... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7175778 | Self-aligning QCA based nanomaterials The present application is directed to the preparation and use of a class of nanoparticles called Quantum Confined Atoms or QCA's. A QCA is a particle of material comprising a plurality of host atoms in a nanoparticle of a size of less than 10 nm with a single atom ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7071258 | Nano-scaled graphene plates A nano-scaled graphene plate material and a process for producing this material. The material comprises a sheet of graphite plane or a multiplicity of sheets of graphite plane. The graphite plane is composed of a two-dimensional hexagonal lattice of carbon atoms and... | 07/04/2006 |
| 4621023 | Method of homogenizing dispersions of hydrated lipidic lamellar phases and suspensions obtained by the said method The invention concerns a method of homogenizing dispersions of hydrated lipidic lamellar phases and suspensions obtained thereby which can be applied particularly to the making of products intended for cosmetic, pharmaceutical and medical uses. The method... | 11/04/1986 |
| 4107288 | Injectable compositions, nanoparticles useful therein, and process of manufacturing same Particles in the size range from about 10 to about 1000 nm, preferably less than about 500 nm, which comprise a crosslinked matrix of macromolecules of natural origin. A biologically or pharmacodynamically active material may be supported on or incorporat... | 08/15/1978 |
