| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| RE36315 |
Compounds and infrared devices including stoichiometric semiconductor compounds of indium, thall |
September 28, 1999 |
| A semiconductor layer of In.sub.1-x Tl.sub.x Q carried on a substrate forms an infrared device, where Q is selected from the group consisting essentially of As.sub.1-y P.sub.y and 0<x<1, 0<y<1. |
| RE34136 |
9 alpha, 11 beta-substituted and 11 beta-substituted estranes |
December 1, 1992 |
| 9 alpha, 11 beta and 11 beta-substituted estranes are disclosed which exhibit elevated estrogenic and postcoital contraceptive activities. A process for their manufacture and their use in pharmaceuticals is also disclosed. |
| RE29765 |
Strain gauge transducer system |
September 19, 1978 |
| A writing instrument is provided which generates electrical signals indicative of the force applied and the direction of motion taken by the writing instrument as one is writing with it. The writing instrument uses strain gauges for providing these signals. |
| 7620268 |
Method and apparatus for recognizing text in an image sequence of scene imagery |
November 17, 2009 |
| An apparatus and a concomitant method for detecting and recognizing text information in a captured imagery. The present method transforms the image of the text to a normalized coordinate system before performing OCR, thereby yielding more robust recognition performance. The present i |
| 7610199 |
Method and apparatus for obtaining complete speech signals for speech recognition applications |
October 27, 2009 |
| The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for obtaining complete speech signals for speech recognition applications. In one embodiment, the method continuously records an audio stream comprising a sequence of frames to a circular buffer. When a user command to commence |
| 7608989 |
Compliant electroactive polymer transducers for sonic applications |
October 27, 2009 |
| Described herein are compliant electroactive polymer transducers for use in acoustic applications. A compliant electroactive polymer transducer includes a compliant electroactive polymer at least two electrodes. For sound production, circuitry in electrical communication with the tra |
| 7598652 |
Mechanical meta-materials |
October 6, 2009 |
| The present invention provides meta-materials with an actively controllable mechanical property. The meta-material includes a deformable structure and a set of activation elements. The activation elements are controllable between multiple states. The meta-material includes a first va |
| 7598651 |
Mechanical meta-materials |
October 6, 2009 |
| The present invention provides meta-materials with an actively controllable mechanical property. The meta-material includes a deformable structure and a set of activation elements. The activation elements are controllable between multiple states. The meta-material includes a first va |
| 7594260 |
Network surveillance using long-term and short-term statistical profiles to determine suspicious |
September 22, 2009 |
| A method of network surveillance includes receiving network packets handled by a network entity and building at least one long-term and a least one short-term statistical profile from a measure of the network packets that monitors data transfers, errors, or network connections. A com |
| 7592926 |
Light-emitting diode assembly for use in heads-up display systems of propeller-driven aircraft |
September 22, 2009 |
| Described is a heads-up display system for an aircraft having a rotating propeller assembly. The heads-up display system includes an electrical interconnection sheet and a plurality of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) electrically connected to the electrical interconnection sheet. The he |
| 7592408 |
Olefin copolymers containing hydrolytically cleavable linkages and use thereof in degradable pro |
September 22, 2009 |
| The invention is directed to olefin copolymers composed of nonhydrolyzable monomer units and hydrolyzable monomer units, the latter resulting from copolymerization of monomers containing a linkage that is hydrolytically cleavable in the presence of aqueous base or aqueous acid. Generally |
| 7592021 |
Bioadhesive delivery system for transmucosal delivery of beneficial agents |
September 22, 2009 |
| Formulations and methods for transmucosal delivery of a beneficial agent are described in which a pH-responsive component and a temperature-responsive component are combined and applied to a mucous membrane. The temperature-responsive component is a component that, in aqueous solutio |
| 7582858 |
Apparatus and method of moving micro-droplets using laser-induced thermal gradients |
September 1, 2009 |
| Described are an apparatus and method of moving micro-droplets. A surface has a liquid phase thereon. In the liquid phase is a droplet. Focused at an edge of the droplet is a beam of light. The light beam produces a thermal gradient sufficient to induce the droplet to move according to |
| 7574334 |
Formal methods for modeling and analysis of hybrid systems |
August 11, 2009 |
| A technique based on the use of a quantifier elimination decision procedure for real closed fields and simple theorem proving to construct a series of successively finer qualitative abstractions of hybrid automata is taught. The resulting abstractions are always discrete transition s |
| 7571095 |
Method and apparatus for recognizing speech in a noisy environment |
August 4, 2009 |
| An apparatus and a concomitant method for recognizing speech in a noisy environment are provided. The present method includes applying a first interpolation weight to a clean speech model to produce a weighted clean speech model, applying a second interpolation weight to a noise model to |
| 7567681 |
Surface deformation electroactive polymer transducers |
July 28, 2009 |
| The present invention provides electroactive polymer transducers that produce out-of-plane deflections. The transducers form a set of surface features based on deflection of an electroactive polymer. The set of surface features may include elevated polymer surface features and/or dep |
| 7559969 |
Methods and apparatuses for producing metallic compositions via reduction of metal halides |
July 14, 2009 |
| The present invention is generally directed towards a method for producing a solid metallic composition by reacting a gaseous metal halide with a reducing agent are described. In one embodiment, the method includes reacting a gaseous metal halide with a reducing agent in a manner eff |
| 7557456 |
Wave powered generation using electroactive polymers |
July 7, 2009 |
| Described herein are systems and methods that use an electroactive polymer transducer to convert mechanical energy, originally contained in one or more waves, to electrical energy. Marine devices described herein may employ a mechanical energy conversion system that transfers mechanical |
| 7554787 |
Wall crawling devices |
June 30, 2009 |
| Described herein is electroadhesion technology that permits controllable adherence between two objects. Electroadhesion uses electrostatic forces of attraction produced by an electrostatic adhesion voltage, which is applied using electrodes in an electroadhesive device. The electrostatic |
| 7551419 |
Electroadhesion |
June 23, 2009 |
| Described herein is electroadhesion technology that permits controllable adherence between two objects. Electroadhesion uses electrostatic forces of attraction produced by an electrostatic adhesion voltage, which is applied using electrodes in an electroadhesive device. The electrostatic |
| 7538445 |
Wave powered generation |
May 26, 2009 |
| Described herein are marine devices and methods that convert mechanical energy in one or more waves to mechanical energy that is better suited for conversion into electrical energy. The marine devices employ a mechanical energy conversion system that harnesses wave energy and convert |
| 7537197 |
Electroactive polymer devices for controlling fluid flow |
May 26, 2009 |
| The invention describes devices for controlling fluid flow, such as valves. The devices may include one or more electroactive polymer transducers with an electroactive polymer that deflects in response to an application of an electric field. The electroactive polymer may be in contac |
| 7485978 |
Compliant walled combustion devices for producing mechanical and electrical energy |
February 3, 2009 |
| Combustion devices described herein comprise a compliant combustion chamber wall or segment. The compliant segment deforms during combustion in the combustion chamber. Some devices may include a compliant wall configured to stretch responsive to pressure generated by combustion of a |
| 7477571 |
Method for detecting vibrations in a biological organism using real-time vibration imaging |
January 13, 2009 |
| The present invention provides a method for detecting vibration information by receiving electromagnetic radiation reflected or emitted from a biological organism at a light amplitude modulation detector array to provide real-time imaging of the target object. The detected radiation |
| 7468575 |
Electroactive polymer electrodes |
December 23, 2008 |
| Described herein are transducers, their use and fabrication. The transducers convert between mechanical and electrical energy. The present invention further relates to compliant electrodes that conform to the shape of a polymer included in a transducer. |
| 7456549 |
Electroactive polymer motors |
November 25, 2008 |
| The present invention relates to mechanical-electrical power conversion systems. The systems comprise one or more electroactive polymers that convert between electrical and mechanical energy. When a voltage is applied to electrodes contacting an electroactive polymer, the polymer def |
| 7439733 |
System and method of magnetically sensing position of a moving component |
October 21, 2008 |
| A position-sensing system magnetically senses the position of a first component moving with respect to a second component. A magnetically hard layer on the first component provides a recording medium. Information is magnetically recorded in regions of the magnetically hard layer. These |
| 7436099 |
Electroactive polymer pre-strain |
October 14, 2008 |
| The present invention provides electroactive polymers, transducers and devices that maintain pre-strain in one or more portions of an electroactive polymer. Electroactive polymers described herein may include a pre-strained portion and a stiffened portion configured to maintain pre-s |
| 7429610 |
Analogs of indole-3-carbinol metabolites as chemotherapeutic and chemopreventive agents |
September 30, 2008 |
| Novel compounds useful as chemotherapeutic and chemopreventive agents are provided. The compounds are analogs of indole-3-carbinol metabolites wherein the structures and substituents of the compounds are selected to enhance the compounds' overall efficacy, particularly with respect to |
| 7417119 |
Nanoscale array biomolecular bond enhancer device |
August 26, 2008 |
| The invention teaches the use of an addressable nanoscale device to create a programmable substrate useful in selectively attracting proteins, nucleating protein crystals and growing protein crystals of a size amenable to diffraction analysis. Further taught is the use of nanoscale a |
| 7411332 |
Electroactive polymer animated devices |
August 12, 2008 |
| The present invention relates to animated devices that include one or more electroactive polymer transducers. When actuated by electrical energy, an electroactive polymer produces mechanical deflection in one or more directions. This deflection may be used to produce motion of a feature |
| 7403980 |
Methods and apparatus for scalable, distributed management of virtual private networks |
July 22, 2008 |
| A groupware management system for collaborative groups is disclosed that is scalable to support large, dynamic, multiple, and other virtual VPNs. The system may introduce a graph (or hierarchical) structure to the VPN, providing multiple master nodes controlling membership in subsets of |
| 7399817 |
Olefin copolymers containing hydrolytically cleavable linkages and use thereof in degradable pro |
July 15, 2008 |
| The invention is directed to olefin copolymers composed of nonhydrolyzable monomer units and hydrolyzable monomer units, the latter resulting from copolymerization of monomers containing a linkage that is hydrolytically cleavable in the presence of aqueous base or aqueous acid. Generally |
| 7394182 |
Electroactive polymer devices for moving fluid |
July 1, 2008 |
| The invention describes devices for performing thermodynamic work on a fluid, such as pumps, compressors and fans. The thermodynamic work may be used to provide a driving force for moving the fluid. Work performed on the fluid may be transmitted to other devices, such as a piston in a |
| 7379993 |
Prioritizing Bayes network alerts |
May 27, 2008 |
| This invention uses Bayesian techniques to prioritize alerts or alert groups generated by intrusion detection systems and other information security devices, such as network analyzers, network monitors, firewalls, antivirus software, authentication services, host and application secu |
| 7378783 |
Electroactive polymer torsional device |
May 27, 2008 |
| The present invention relates to mechanical-electrical power conversion systems. The systems comprise one or more electroactive polymers that convert between electrical and mechanical energy. When a voltage is applied to electrodes contacting an electroactive polymer, the polymer def |
| 7375675 |
Method and system for multiple target class data recording, processing and display for over-the- |
May 20, 2008 |
| A method and apparatus are disclosed that enable an over-the-horizon-radar (OTHR) system to detect and track multiple target classes simultaneously, where target classes are defined by the speed and acceleration of the tracked objects. The OTHR is tasked in a staring mode, with a bandwid |
| 7368862 |
Electroactive polymer generators |
May 6, 2008 |
| The present invention relates to transducers, their use and fabrication. The transducers convert between mechanical and electrical energy. Some transducers of the present invention include a pre-strained polymer. The pre-strain improves the conversion between electrical and mechanical |
| 7362032 |
Electroactive polymer devices for moving fluid |
April 22, 2008 |
| The invention describes devices for performing thermodynamic work on a fluid, such as pumps, compressors and fans. The thermodynamic work may be used to provide a driving force for moving the fluid. Work performed on the fluid may be transmitted to other devices, such as a piston in a |
| 7342876 |
Interference mitigation and adaptive routing in wireless ad-hoc packet-switched networks |
March 11, 2008 |
| Described are an apparatus and method for routing packets through a multiple-hop wireless communications network. Interference with packet switched communications carried by radio frequency (RF) over the multiple-hop wireless communications network is detected. In response to informa |
| 7333676 |
Method and apparatus for recognizing text in an image sequence of scene imagery |
February 19, 2008 |
| An apparatus and a concomitant method for detecting and recognizing text information in a captured imagery. The present method transforms the image of the text to a normalized coordinate system before performing OCR, thereby yielding more robust recognition performance. The present i |
| 7329687 |
Flavanoid compounds as chemotherapeutic, chemopreventive, and antiangiogenic agents |
February 12, 2008 |
| Compounds useful as chemotherapeutic, chemopreventive, and antiangiogenic agents are provided. The compounds are flavanoids, including flavanones, flavanols, and chalcones. The compounds have the structure of formula (I) ##STR00001## wherein R.sup.1 through R.sup.3 and R.sup.5 through |
| 7329392 |
Device and method for handling reaction components |
February 12, 2008 |
| An apparatus and method for performing successive chemical or biochemical operations in an automated or semi-automated format are disclosed. The apparatus includes (i) a substrate having two or more wells, where each well is separated from adjacent well(s) by an energy barrier, (ii), a |
| 7327683 |
Method and apparatus for disseminating topology information and for discovering new neighboring |
February 5, 2008 |
| A proactive link-state routing protocol designed for mobile ad-hoc networks is disclosed, which provides hop-by-hop routing along shortest paths to each destination. Each node running the present protocol will compute a source tree (providing paths to all reachable nodes) based on pa |
| 7324945 |
Method of dynamically altering grammars in a memory efficient speech recognition system |
January 29, 2008 |
| A method of speech recognition that uses hierarchical data structures that include a top level grammar and various related subgrammars, such as word, phone, and state subgrammars. A speech signal is acquired, and a probabilistic search is performed using the speech signal as an input, |
| 7320457 |
Electroactive polymer devices for controlling fluid flow |
January 22, 2008 |
| The invention describes devices for controlling fluid flow, such as valves. The devices may include one or more electroactive polymer transducers with an electroactive polymer that deflects in response to an application of an electric field. The electroactive polymer may be in contac |
| 7308404 |
Method and apparatus for speech recognition using a dynamic vocabulary |
December 11, 2007 |
| A method and apparatus are provided for performing speech recognition using a dynamic vocabulary. Results from a preliminary speech recognition pass can be used to update or refine a language model in order to improve the accuracy of search results and to simplify subsequent recognition |
| 7308363 |
Modeling and evaluation metabolic reaction pathways and culturing cells |
December 11, 2007 |
| Biological and chemical systems are represented as a symbolic model. Minimal sets of elements of the system are identified from the model, for example, by automatic inference. The model can be constructed from Boolean propositions that are mapped to a binary decision diagram. The mod |
| 7307418 |
Systems for recording position information in a magnetic layer on a piston rod |
December 11, 2007 |
| Described are system for recording piston rod position information in a magnetic layer on the piston rod. A piston rod has a magnetically hard layer formed thereon to provide a recording medium. A magnetic pattern is recorded in the magnetically hard layer. A magnetic field sensor dispos |
| 7286718 |
Method and apparatus for determination of text orientation |
October 23, 2007 |
| The present invention relates to a method for determining the orientation of text, so that the text can be correctly read. In one embodiment, the method analyzes the "open" portions of text characters to determine in which direction the open portions face. By determining the respective |
