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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 |
| 20110285648 | USE OF FINGERPRINT SCANNING SENSOR DATA TO DETECT FINGER ROLL AND PITCH ANGLES A method for detecting roll angles of a finger in contact with a fingerprint scanning sensor is described. The method includes obtaining spatial measurement data of a measurable contact area from a touch surface of a fingerprint scanning sensor, using an algorithm to cr... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20100044121 | SENSORS, ALGORITHMS AND APPLICATIONS FOR A HIGH DIMENSIONAL TOUCHPAD A high dimensional touchpad (HDTP) controls a variety of computer windows systems and applications by detecting a user's finger movement in the left-right, forward-backward, roll, pitch, yaw, and downward pressure directions. Measurements obtained from the touchpad of a... | 02/25/2010 |
