| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7301608 |
Photon-counting, non-imaging, direct-detect LADAR |
November 27, 2007 |
| A light wave rangefinder includes a light transmitting optical system for directing a laser pulse at a target, and a light receiving optical system for receiving reflected light from the target, including a Geiger-mode avalanche photodiode (APD) array and a non-imaging optical device. Th |
| 7301147 |
Method and system for communicating pulse width in a night vision system power system |
November 27, 2007 |
| A night vision system including a power system having a low voltage unit coupled to a high voltage unit. The low voltage unit includes a low voltage controller and a low voltage table correlating step values to pulse widths, the low voltage controller obtaining a desired pulse width |
| 7300321 |
Early warning and protection for heat exchange systems |
November 27, 2007 |
| Method and apparatus are provided for warning a user or operator about a malfunction in a pump and/or engine of a marine vessel or another suitable device or equipment, featuring steps of: comparing a sensed pressure differential at a sensed RPM when the pump/engine is running to a l |
| 7298312 |
Detecting small, time domain impulsive communications signals |
November 20, 2007 |
| A method and system are disclosed for generating and detecting secure UWB or relatively small time domain impulsive communications signals. A transmitter generates a sequence of at least three pulses having a predetermined template, and the pulses are generated in a predetermined seq |
| 7297883 |
Electrical switch with multiple switching ways |
November 20, 2007 |
| The invention proposes an electrical switch (20) with multiple switching ways comprising a bottom support (22) in the bottom (32) of which are arranged fixed contacts (30a, 30b, 30c, 30d), a top member (26) that is mounted to be movable relative to the bottom support (22) from a central |
| 7292067 |
Method and apparatus for buffering bi-directional open drain signal lines |
November 6, 2007 |
| A buffer system includes a logic adjusting circuit for translating a first logic level of a first component to a second logic level of a second component. The first and second logic level values are substantially different, and the buffer system has no directional control signal. A m |
| 7289683 |
System and method for scintillation suppression in intensified digital video |
October 30, 2007 |
| A method for scintillation suppression of video images includes receiving a frame of pixels having intensity values and identifying pixels in the received frame having scintillation noise. The method modifies intensity values of pixels in the received frame, which are identified as havin |
| 7289200 |
Confocal reflectommeter/ellipsometer to inspect low-temperature fusion seals |
October 30, 2007 |
| A device and method for measuring a fusion seal quality within a structure comprising a source for providing a focused optical beam of a known intensity to a fusion seal within a structure, the fusion seal reflecting the optical beam according to the fusion seal quality, a receiver for |
| 7282690 |
Display of indicator lights in night vision devices using fiber optic screen |
October 16, 2007 |
| A night vision device includes an image intensifier tube and a fiber optic screen disposed in operative relationship to each other. The fiber optic screen includes a longitudinal bundle of multiple optical fibers, where the bundle has an outer surface. A groove is formed in the fiber opt |
| 7280657 |
Data encryption and decryption system and method using merged ciphers |
October 9, 2007 |
| A system and method for implementing the Triple Data Encryption Algorithm (TDEA) for the Data Encryption Standard (DES) using merger ciphers is provided which may be configured to operate in the chain block cipher (CBC) mode. Data blocks are enciphered using less computations in the |
| 7277570 |
Method and apparatus for witness card statistical analysis using image processing techniques |
October 2, 2007 |
| A method and apparatus for performing witness card statistical analysis using image processing techniques to quickly and efficiently generate as-sprayed performance statistics for a spray device, or spray, based upon a comprehensive analysis of as-sprayed witness card stains. Calibra |
| 7272495 |
System and method for inverse multilateration |
September 18, 2007 |
| A method and system for location-determination of a mobile comprising of a receiver with a variable processor gain of up to 45.15 dB for detecting signals transmitted from transmitters that at a farther distance as well as from transmitters that are situated in sparsely populated areas. |
| 7271359 |
Float switch assembly |
September 18, 2007 |
| A fluid height sensor (10) includes a float (14) with an arm (20) fixed to a shaft (40) that extends into a cavity (30) in a housing (12). A switch assembly (32) in the housing includes a switch (50) formed by a largely stationary blade (52) and by a moveable switch blade (54) that moves |
| 7269359 |
Focal plane array with synchronous detection circuits for an active remote sensing system |
September 11, 2007 |
| The invention provides a synchronous detector for a unit cell of a read out integrated circuit (ROIC). The synchronous detector includes a bipolar photo-detector formed in a focal plane array (FPA) for sensing light energy. The bipolar photo-detector has one end coupled to a sense no |
| 7266703 |
Single-pass cryptographic processor and method |
September 4, 2007 |
| A cryptographic processing system includes a cipher circuit and hash circuit. An input control unit and output control unit work together to process data packets in a pipelined manner wherein the data packets move through the processing system in a single-pass. The input control unit |
| 7266465 |
Wideband digital IFM receiver with frequency confirmation |
September 4, 2007 |
| An apparatus for confirming a frequency measurement of a received signal includes a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) module for receiving a sampled digital signal. The DFT module is configured to analyze the received sampled digital signal, and output amplitude values at different fr |
| 7260722 |
Digital multimedia watermarking for source identification |
August 21, 2007 |
| A system and method for communicating a device's capabilities uses a digital watermark embedded in content data. The watermark includes parameters concerning a source unit's communications capabilities. The watermark is embedded within content data, such as multimedia data, of a data |
| 7260507 |
Method for improving the performance accuracy in differential absorption lidar for oil and gas p |
August 21, 2007 |
| An improved method for determining whether a measurement point, measured using a differential absorption LIDAR (DIAL) system, represents a plume point or a non-plume point. Concentration path lengths (CPL's) for a plurality of measurement points are determined. An average non-plume CPL, |
| 7260141 |
Integrated beamformer/modem architecture |
August 21, 2007 |
| A transceiver employing a steerable phased-array antenna includes a modem architecture in which signals from each antenna element in the array are independently processed down to the individual baseband channel level, and digital beamforming is performed at baseband. The data rate reduct |
| 7259861 |
Using a fixed-frequency of oscillation in an FTS system to measure scene inhomogeneity |
August 21, 2007 |
| A method for measuring scene inhomogeneity includes directing radiance of a scene into an interferometer; and oscillating a field-of-view (FOV) of the interferometer, while directing the radiance of the scene into the interferometer. A Fourier transform of signals emerging from the i |
| 7255590 |
Plug connector device for multicore flat cables |
August 14, 2007 |
| A plug connector device (10) for multicore flat cables (15), has a plug (11) which can be fixedly joined to one end of a flat cable in a mechanical fashion, and a plug socket (12) which can be run through by the flat cable (15) such that, with their first contact ends (62), contact e |
| 7255333 |
Strip diffuser |
August 14, 2007 |
| Membrane strip diffusers are disclosed, useful for example in aerating wastewater in activated sludge plants. These diffusers have membranes, diffuser bodies and gas conduits elongated in the same general direction. Such conduits may be attached to or formed integrally with the diffuser |
| 7255324 |
Quarter-turn diaphragm valve |
August 14, 2007 |
| A quarter-turn valve includes a valve body having an inlet, an outlet, and a diaphragm adjacent arranged in said valve body for movement between a closed and opened position for restricting and controlling fluid flow. The valve further includes an input shaft for receiving a torsional in |
| 7251400 |
Absorptive clad fiber optic faceplate tube |
July 31, 2007 |
| A limiter device is used as a fiber optic faceplate (FOFP) night vision goggle for limiting light or laser induced damage on a vacuum side of the FOFP. The limiter device includes a plurality of longitudinally extending optical fibers, each bundled to each other to form a light input sur |
| 7248001 |
Method and system for modulating frequency in a night vision system power system |
July 24, 2007 |
| A night vision system including a power system having a low voltage unit coupled to a high voltage unit. The low voltage unit includes a low voltage controller and a low voltage table correlating pulse widths to step values. The low voltage unit transmits the step value to the high v |
| 7245833 |
Photonic channelized RF receiver employing dense wavelength division multiplexing |
July 17, 2007 |
| A photonic channelized receiver includes: an optical source, an optical combiner, an electro-optical modulator, an etalon, a wavelength splitter, and a set of detectors. The optical source produces a set of optical signals at spaced wavelengths, and the optical combiner combines the |
| 7245497 |
Modular electronics enclosure |
July 17, 2007 |
| A modular electronics enclosure for one or more circuit card assembly includes top and bottom lids formed substantially the same with at least one intermediate circuit card support member disposed therebetween. At least one spring clip clamps the top and bottom lids together around the |
| 7245423 |
Reducing noise in a fiber amplifier using a cleaning optical signal |
July 17, 2007 |
| A fiber amplifier system and method are provided for reducing noise produced by a fiber amplifier by combining an optical signal to be amplified with a continuous wave optical signal that stimulates ions in the fiber amplifier to reduce photons produced by spontaneous emission when a |
| 7245250 |
Synthetic aperture radar image compression |
July 17, 2007 |
| A method is disclosed of generating multi-resolution images using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) phase history data. A high resolution SAR image may be formed from the phase history data, or a lower resolution SAR image may be formed from a sub-aperture of the phase history data. The |
| 7244146 |
High density RF connector system |
July 17, 2007 |
| A coaxial connector has inner and outer contacts (34, 36) connected to inner and outer conductors (20, 22) of a coaxial cable (14), in a contact arrangement of small diameter (A), so each coax contact arrangements can carry high frequency signals. The outer contact has a rear portion (70 |
| 7243677 |
Air exchange assembly |
July 17, 2007 |
| An air exchange assembly that allows for the passage of large volumes of air through a continuously rotating joint. The large cross section of the passageways in the air exchange assembly allow for a large volume of low pressure air to pass through in both directions to make a closed loo |
| 7242671 |
System and method for link-state based proxy flooding of messages in a network |
July 10, 2007 |
| The invention includes a method and apparatus for disseminating information in a communication network having a plurality of nodes. The method includes receiving, in a node, a packet including link-state advertisements (LSAs) from the communication network and a flooding status field |
| 7240338 |
Computer language translation system and method of converting procedural computer language softw |
July 3, 2007 |
| Common data structures associated with procedurally-oriented software, such as Fortran COMMON blocks, are translated into object-oriented (OO) classes. Procedurally-oriented software modules are reduced in complexity by extracting an appropriate number of sub-modules from the original |
| 7239707 |
Staggered pulse acquisition method and apparatus |
July 3, 2007 |
| A transmitter employing a cryptographic algorithm and key generates and transmits a staggered pulse signal that includes a plurality of high-power pulses that are part of a pseudonoise (PN) code. The high-power pulses are separated by a group of low-power chips and the time interval |
| 7239463 |
Prism device and combined optical and radio frequency beam steering system |
July 3, 2007 |
| A prism device includes: a prism material having substantially the same index of refraction at first and second wavelengths; a first anti-reflection coating for reducing reflection of a first signal beam at the first wavelength; and a second anti-reflection coating for reducing refle |
| 7238906 |
Electrical switch of the normally closed type |
July 3, 2007 |
| The invention proposes a switch (10) comprising a casing (12) which carries a pair of fixed contact elements (48), a contact bar (96) which is movable between a rear closure position and a front opening position, and a member (60) for actuation of the movable contact bar (96) which is |
| 7237262 |
System and method for anti-replay processing of a data packet |
June 26, 2007 |
| A system for processing a data packet to determine if a replay condition exists for the data packet, wherein the data packet comprises a sequence number for comparison to a highest sequence number. The processing system includes a mask register to store a mask value, wherein the mask val |
| 7236923 |
Acronym extraction system and method of identifying acronyms and extracting corresponding expans |
June 26, 2007 |
| An acronym expansion system of the present invention receives electronic documents and extracts acronyms and their corresponding expansions. A part-of-speech tagger decomposes text into string tokens or words and tags them with their part-of-speech, while an acronym identifier determ |
| 7235773 |
Method and apparatus for image signal compensation of dark current, focal plane temperature, and |
June 26, 2007 |
| A system and method for calibration and compensation of a visual sensor system. The visual sensor system includes dark pixels adjacent active pixels on a CCD imaging array, which provide dark current data corresponding to image response data. Concurrently, the temperature of the foca |
| 7235754 |
Switch device provided with a light source |
June 26, 2007 |
| A casing (3), in which a plurality of conductive tracks are fixed, an operation element (5) which is arranged so as to be able to move in translation in the casing (3), a conductive dome-like member (51) which is arranged in the casing (3) and which is resiliently deformable under th |
| 7234970 |
Smart card connector with fraud protection |
June 26, 2007 |
| A smart card connector with signal blade contacts having signal tails (34a) lying at the rear end of the connector frame, and with the connector being provided with a shield structure (110) that prevents a person from fraudulently contacting the signal tails during use of the connect |
| 7224516 |
Multimode fiber optic amplifier and method of amplifying optical signals |
May 29, 2007 |
| A multimode fiber receiver includes a multimode collimator, a multimode fiber optic amplifier and a detector. The collimator receives incoming signals and provides the signals to the amplifier. The amplifier includes plural amplification stages, a limiter, a tunable narrow band filter an |
| 7221837 |
Device and method for reducing glass flow during the manufacture of microchannel plates |
May 22, 2007 |
| The present invention provides a glass packing tube for use in fabricating a microchannel plate. The glass tube has a plurality of flat inner surfaces and is used to form a boule including a plurality of optical fibers located in the tube and a plurality of support rods between the f |
| 7221696 |
Communication system and method for acquiring pseudonoise codes or carrier signals under conditi |
May 22, 2007 |
| A Spread Spectrum system acquires signals with frequency uncertainty. The present invention independently computes the number of frequency bands necessary to cover the carrier frequency uncertainty and the chip rate uncertainty and uses the largest of the two quantities in the acquisitio |
| 7221436 |
System and method for optimization-based sensor steering and tracking |
May 22, 2007 |
| A method of tracking a target includes: (a) receiving energy from the target at a plurality of spatial orientations; (b) processing the received energy; (c) evaluating a penalty function at each of the plurality of spatial orientations; (d) selecting a new spatial orientation based o |
| 7220931 |
Switching device with integrated light source |
May 22, 2007 |
| A switching device which includes a lighting source (18) having an SMC (surface mounted component) type light emitting diode, which includes a pair of connection members (52) with base portions (82) each soldered or otherwise joined to a plate (76) of the SMC diode. The connection member |
| 7218697 |
Digital phase detector for periodically alternating signals |
May 15, 2007 |
| A method of determining a phase between a first signal and a second signal is provided. The first signal and the second signal correspond to signal transmissions between a first device and a second device. The second device periodically moves along a translational axis with respect to th |
| 7218682 |
Methods and apparatus for synchronously combining signals from plural transmitters |
May 15, 2007 |
| Enhanced reception of transmitted signals in a communication system is achieved by synchronously combining transmissions from a cluster of transmitters at a distant receiver. The transmitters coordinate transmissions such that each substantially simultaneously transmits the same sign |
| 7218530 |
Enhanced blind hole termination of pin to PCB |
May 15, 2007 |
| Tails (20) projecting from an electrical component (12) that lies on a circuit board surface, are terminated to traces on a multi-layer circuit board (14) in a manner that minimizes the disadvantages of long through hole soldering and of surface mount techniques. A blind hole is drilled |
| 7215681 |
Adaptive channel access for carrier sense multiple access based systems |
May 8, 2007 |
| In a network including multiple nodes communicating on a channel using CSMA protocol, where each node accesses the channel by occupying at least one time slot in a contention interval, the invention includes transmitting and receiving, in a node, messages on the channel during a firs |
