| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7435944 |
Microresonator-based high-performance high-pressure sensor and system |
October 14, 2008 |
| An optically-powered integrated microstructure pressure sensing system for sensing pressure within a cavity. The pressure sensing system comprises a pressure sensor having an optical resonant structure subject to the pressure within the cavity and having physical properties changing due |
| 7419636 |
Vapor sensing instruments for ultra trace chemical detection |
September 2, 2008 |
| A detector for detecting vapors emitted from analytes includes a housing, a pump and a sensing assembly. The housing has an inlet, an outlet and an enclosed sensing volume therebetween. The pump communicates with the housing for moving a carrier sequentially through the enclosed sensing |
| 7398131 |
Method and system for concrete quality control based on the concrete's maturity |
July 8, 2008 |
| Method and system for controlling and monitoring the quality of concrete based on the concrete's maturity. Various embodiments of the present invention are discussed. First, Enhanced Maturity involves a maturity calibration method to account for the water-to-cementitious-materials ra |
| 7397043 |
Standoff optical detection platform based on surface plasmon-coupled emission |
July 8, 2008 |
| A free-space standoff optical detection platform for any detection scheme based on spontaneous emissions, such as for example, fluorescence detection. More particularly, the present invention relates to a detection system having SPCE beads. In one embodiment, the SPCE beads are diele |
| 7357043 |
Chemical trace detection portal based on the natural airflow and heat transfer of vehicles |
April 15, 2008 |
| A portal is provided with a detector for detecting trace amounts of substances of interest that may be retained on the surface or interior of a vehicular subject. The portal relies upon the continuous process by which microscopic flakes of dust, dirt, pollen, and other surface and in |
| 7324199 |
System and deconvolution process for an optical filtering device based on WGM resonance |
January 29, 2008 |
| A system and method for detecting the optical spectrum of an optical input signal. The system includes a tunable optical filter having a microresonator that is tunable across a plurality of states and a processor. The input signal is coupled into the microresonator, which is continuo |
| 7286944 |
Method and device for securely storing data |
October 23, 2007 |
| A system for providing reliable, unalterable mechanical data associated with the mechanical properties of a concrete mass. The system includes a logger, a second memory device and an outbound data transfer device. The logger is provided with one or more sensors, a microprocessor and a fi |
| 7267322 |
Wet well valve |
September 11, 2007 |
| A valve assembly provides the ability for internal tank operations providing novel and unique methods for intricate measurement, monitoring, sampling, mixing, isolation, evaluation or other tasks desired inside tanks, vessels, piping or flow applications. The valve assembly is suppor |
| 7266271 |
System, probe and methods for colorimetric testing |
September 4, 2007 |
| A system and methods for performing calorimetric testing which includes a micro resonator that supports a plurality of whispering gallery mode resonant frequencies, a first waveguide that receives light and evanescently couples whispering gallery mode resonant frequencies from the fi |
| 7244926 |
Microresonator-based high-performance high-pressure sensor and system |
July 17, 2007 |
| An optically-powered integrated microstructure pressure sensing system for sensing pressure within a cavity. the pressure sensing system comprises a pressure sensor having an optical resonant structure subject to the pressure within the cavity and having physical properties changing due |
| 7212701 |
Methods for measuring optical absorbance of a sample medium |
May 1, 2007 |
| A method for measuring the optical absorbance of a sample medium with a microfluidic chip that includes a substrate defining a microfluidic channel, a microresonator positioned within the microfluidic channel, and at least one waveguide or coupling surface evanescently coupled to the |
| 7177492 |
System, probe and methods for colorimetric testing |
February 13, 2007 |
| A microfluidic chip that includes a substrate, a microresonator, and at least one waveguide or coupling surface. The substrate defines a microfluidic channel. The microresonator is positioned within the microfluidic channel. The at least one waveguide or coupling surface receives lig |
| 7126136 |
Nanoparticle optical storage apparatus and methods of making and using same |
October 24, 2006 |
| The present invention relates in general to nanoparticles exhibiting luminescence such as photostimulated luminescence or photoluminescence and optical switching processes based upon such properties, in more particular, the use of such photostimulated luminescence exhibiting nanopart |
| 7067072 |
Nanophase luminescence particulate material |
June 27, 2006 |
| The present invention relates in general to nanoparticles exhibiting luminescence such as photostimulated luminescence or photoluminescence and optical switching processes based upon such properties, in more particular, the use of such photostimulated luminescence exhibiting nanopart |
| 7008559 |
Manganese doped upconversion luminescence nanoparticles |
March 7, 2006 |
| The present relates in general to upconversion luminescence ("UCL") materials and methods of making and using same and more particularly, but not meant to be limiting, to Mn.sup.2+ doped semiconductor nanoparticles for use as UCL materials. The present invention also relates in general |
| 6816265 |
Passive tilt correction on two axes |
November 9, 2004 |
| A tilt compensator and delay element for use in an interferometer. The interferometer can be a scanning or a non-scanning interferometer. For example, the interferometer can be a Michelson-Morley interferometer or a Mach-Zehnder interferometer having a scanning mirror. The tilt compensat |
| 6781696 |
Apparatus and method for a microsphere whispering-gallery mode evanescent-wave sensor |
August 24, 2004 |
| A microsphere whispering-gallery mode evanescent-wave sensor for use in the detection and identification of atoms or molecules has been developed. In operation, the species under scrutiny is introduced proximate to a microsphere in which a whispering-gallery mode has been excited. The |
| 6768510 |
Color correction for RGB |
July 27, 2004 |
| A camera, comprising at least one photodetector, and a light directing device. The light directing device separates light of a wavelength from about 360 nm to about 420 nm to form an NUV component and directs the NUV component to the at least one photodetector whereby the photodetector |
| 6661950 |
Microresonator-based tuned optical filter |
December 9, 2003 |
| A novel tuned coupled-microresonator filter with a known transfer function. This transfer function may be used, along with the filter's output signal, to extract the original input signal. The quality factor of manufacturable microresonators typically exceeds 10.sup.6 and permits the att |
| 6558626 |
Vapor sensing instrument for ultra trace chemical detection |
May 6, 2003 |
| A detector for detecting vapors emitted from energetic compounds includes a housing, a pump and a sensing assembly. The housing has an inlet, an outlet and an enclosed sensing volume there between. The pump communicates with the housing for moving a carrier gas sequentially through the |
| 5804971 |
Modular card based meter |
September 8, 1998 |
| The invention relates to a sensor electrode connected to a card module that can be received within an industry standard plug-in receptacle of a selected computer to enable a combination capable of very exhaustive data detection, processing, storage and the like for whatever the selected |
