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"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7339537 | Capacitive drive antenna and an air vehicle so equipped Disclosed are antenna embodiments and air vehicles so equipped that include a first antenna component, and a second antenna component, separated by a free space gap, where the antenna embodiments are adapted to capacitively couple the first antenna component and the... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7190304 | System for interception and defeat of rocket propelled grenades and method of use A method for intercepting and a defeating rocket propelled grenade (RPG) which includes the steps of detecting a thermal signature from a launch of the RPG; and cueing a narrow beam radar which locates the RPG and develops a ballistic solution and target intercept p... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7140574 | Inertial position target measuring systems and methods Systems and methods for contiguously and accurately updating target object information during an entire target engagement period are provided. The target tracking system includes a database for storing starfield information, an optical beam source configured to illu... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7032857 | Multi-sensor guidance system for extreme force launch shock applications A projectile navigation system operable within an extremely high G-shock loading environment during the launch phase may include a set of Kalman filters configured to repeatedly calculate a navigational solution by solving a set of non-linear equations of motions of... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7007888 | Inertial position target measuring systems and methods Systems and methods for contiguously and accurately updating target object information during an entire target engagement period are provided. The target tracking system includes a database for storing starfield information, an optical beam source configured to illu... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6925410 | Selecting a target device in a device network A device network to process signals has target devices, selecting devices that are movable relative to the target devices, and controllers. The controllers are in communication with the target devices and the selecting devices. Each of the selecting devices has a po... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6863244 | Mitigation of angular acceleration effects on optical sensor data A method, apparatus, article of manufacture, and a memory structure for compensating for optical sensor data corrupted by angular acceleration is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of determining an angular acceleration of the optical sensor and modifying the... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6324475 | Method for identifying in a pre-established catalogue stars detected by a star sensor The invention concerns the identification of stars. It consists in selecting "detected stars" among the sensed stars; coupling the detected stars; selecting all or part of the doublets of the catalogue which are most likely to have been present in the vis... | 11/27/2001 |
| 5808292 | Apparatus and method for remote sensing of an object A sensing and tracking system is provided which includes a stationary array of sensors, a control system and a stationary lens assembly. The control system activates at least one sensor of the array of sensors and for receiving data therefrom. The station... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5773813 | Angular position finding system for an observation instrument Angular position finding system for an observation instrument, possibly fitted with a sighting change mirror and which includes one or two reflecting mirrors and one or two alignment sensors. Light patterns are produced both on the instrument and on the a... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5022608 | Lightweight missile guidance system A lightweight missile terminal guidance system 14 is disclosed which includes a seeker 16 for providing a first signal indicative of a first angle &3xb5; between a line-of-sight 15 from the missile 10 to a target 12 and a longitudinal axis 9 extending thr... | 06/11/1991 |
| 4923276 | Tapered optical fiber telescope, tracking system apparatus and method incorporating tapered optical fiber telescopes An optical fiber telescope is disclosed as including an optical train having a plurality of tapered optical fibers arranged in a plurality of cascading stages. A collecting stage provides the aperture for the telescope and has an output for transmitting l... | 05/08/1990 |
| 4740680 | Star sensor arrangement for a rotating satellite having two fields of view A star sensor arrangement for a satellite which on its orbit and/or during transfer into the orbit rotates at least with a part about an axis of rotation fixed with respect to the satellite, and which is equipped with a star sensor looking in the directio... | 04/26/1988 |
| 4612488 | Apparatus for controlling the directional orientation of a radiation receiver device to a light source A controller for a tracking system which tracks the sun. The controller has a rotatable disc with a light transmitting portion and an opaque portion. The solar radiation, transmitted through the disc when rotating, falls on optically sensitive sensor dete... | 09/16/1986 |
| 4494202 | Fourth order predictive, augmented proportional navigation system terminal guidance design with missile/target decoupling A method for augmenting a noise-adaptive predictive proportional navigation terminal guidance scheme. In a fourth order configuration with noise adaptive varying gain parameters calculated as a function of time-to-go, this system implements an optimal con... | 01/15/1985 |
| 4306691 | Stellar corrector The present invention concerns using star sightings to supplement the ineal instruments in nonfixed launch systems so as to provide increased accuracy without refinement of the inertial systems. It is particularly applicable to a system in which the miss... | 12/22/1981 |
| 4103847 | Line scan area signature detection method An area signature detection system arranged to receive an output from a sensor operative in the electromagnetic spectrum, where the output from the sensor is an amplitude varying electrical signal representing the field-of-view beheld by the sensor, and t... | 08/01/1978 |
