| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7555084 |
System and method of digital system performance enhancement |
June 30, 2009 |
| The present invention performs a digital computation with a lower than worst-case-required clock period (i.e., a faster clock), and at the same time performs the same computation with a larger, worst-case-assumed, clock period (i.e., a slower clock) on a second system with identical |
| 7517475 |
Thermochromic indicator materials with controlled reversibility |
April 14, 2009 |
| A thermal indicator material which comprises a plurality of polythiophenes having a second low temperature color and a high temperature color. The polythiophenes are structured and arranged to exhibit a color change from the second low temperature color to the high temperature color when |
| 7409534 |
Automatic and transparent hardware conversion of traditional control flow to predicates |
August 5, 2008 |
| A computing device that provides hardware conversion of flow control predicates associated with program instructions executable within the computing device, detects the beginning and the end of a branch domain of the program instructions, and realizes the beginning and the end of the |
| 7187335 |
System and method for providing a distributed loaded monopole antenna |
March 6, 2007 |
| A distributed loaded antenna system including a monopole antenna is disclosed. The antenna system includes a radiation resistance unit coupled to a transmitter base, a current enhancing unit for enhancing current through the radiation resistance unit, and a conductive mid-section int |
| 6985547 |
System and method of digital system performance enhancement |
January 10, 2006 |
| The present invention performs a digital computation with a lower than worst-case-required clock period (i.e., a faster clock), and at the same time performs the same computation with a larger, worst-case-assumed, clock period (i.e., a slower clock) on a second system with identical |
| 6976150 |
Resource flow computing device |
December 13, 2005 |
| A scalable processing system includes a memory device having a plurality of executable program instructions, wherein each of the executable program instructions includes a timetag data field indicative of the nominal sequential order of the associated executable program instructions. The |
| 6913757 |
Live, avirulent strain of V. anguillarum that protects fish against infection by virulent V. ang |
July 5, 2005 |
| The present invention comprises the identification, characterization and sequencing of a gene within the V. anguillarum genome, the mugA gene, a live, attenuated strain of V. anguillarum which comprises a mutated mugA gene, methods of making the strain, vaccines comprising the strain and |
| 6858440 |
Tapered tubular optical waveguide probe for magnetic focusing immunosensors |
February 22, 2005 |
| A waveguide probe for the detection of pathogens in a sample which comprises a laser, a first and a second tubes that converge at a point to form a proximal end. A magnet is positioned in the end to configure to focus paramagnetic microspheres attached to antigen/antibody/optically l |
| 6850315 |
Intensity-based optical waveguide sensor |
February 1, 2005 |
| The invention relates to polymeric/semiconductor thin film strain gauges comprising visible light from spectrometer (10) which is directed onto a thin film passive sensor (12) having a transparent glass substrate (14) and a laminated construction in succession from the substrate (14), of |
| 6844199 |
Direct detection of bacteria-antibody complexes via UV resonance Raman spectroscopy |
January 18, 2005 |
| A system for the detection of bacteria based on bacteria-antibody complexes. Bacteria attached to antibody are detected with resonance Raman spectroscopy. The bacteria are detected directly in a great numerical excess, e.g. 100 to 10,000 of antibody molecules. A sample to be tested is |
| 6833786 |
Pneumatic demultiplexer for controlling multiple assistive technology devices |
December 21, 2004 |
| A pneumatic demultiplexer that allows a person with a disability to control multiple assistive technology devices by the use of a single sip-and-puff tube. The devices to be controlled are operated by a single pneumatic or electrical switch input. The pneumatic demultiplexer is under the |
| 6822744 |
Modular interferometric imaging method apparatus and system |
November 23, 2004 |
| A modular interferometric imaging system includes a sensor array that senses a physical parameter and provides a plurality of first sensor array output signals indicative thereof. An analog die receives the plurality of first sensor array output signals, and digitizes and modulated each |
| 6814180 |
Monopole-driven underwater sound source |
November 9, 2004 |
| An underwater sound source which comprises a housing having an inner and an outer surface and a monopole driver suspended within the center of the housing. The housing is adapted to receive fluid therein to form a fluid column inside the housing. The underwater sound source resonates at |
| 6803446 |
Functionalized and processable conducting polymers |
October 12, 2004 |
| A electrically conductive polymeric composition comprising a plurality of polymeric complexes. Each polymeric complex comprises a strand of a .pi.-conjugated polymer and strand of a polyelectrolyte. The polyelectrolyte is non-covalently bond to the .pi.-conjugated polymer and has at |
| 6762238 |
Water-borne polymeric complex and anti-corrosive composition |
July 13, 2004 |
| A coating composition which contains a polymeric complex between polyaniline and a polymeric ion. In addition to the said polymeric complex, the composition contains a water-dispersable binder. The composition is useful as a water-borne paint to be applied onto a metal substrate elec |
| 6729187 |
Self-compensated ceramic strain gage for use at high temperatures |
May 4, 2004 |
| A self-compensated strain gage sensor having a temperature co-efficient of resistance (TCR) of essentially zero comprised of a wide band semiconductor and a compensating metal functioning as serial resistors. Based on the resistivity of the semiconductor and the metal and the tempera |
| 6719910 |
Stormwater treatment system |
April 13, 2004 |
| A stormwater treatment system which comprises a housing having a first filter layer and a second filter layer positioned within the housing. The first filter layer absorbs contaminants from stormwater to produce a first treated stormwater having an effluent concentration that meets the U |
| 6718890 |
Underwater seagrass seeding apparatus |
April 13, 2004 |
| An underwater seeding apparatus which comprises a first longitudinal member, a second longitudinal member and a cross member. The first longitudinal member is positioned in a parallel relationship to the second longitudinal member and the cross member is attached to the first and sec |
| 6706218 |
Thermochromic polymers for rapid visual assessment of temperature |
March 16, 2004 |
| A thermochromic polymer-based temperature indicator composition which comprises a polythiophene and a carrier medium. The composition is characterized in that the polythiophene is present in the medium in an amount of about 0.05 to about 5.0% by weight based on the total weight of th |
| 6635181 |
Continuous, hybrid field-gradient device for magnetic colloid based separations |
October 21, 2003 |
| A continuous, hybrid magnetic field gradient device for colloidal magnetic affinity separation having an axially-rotating horizontal glass tube, and a plurality of axially located repeating magnetic units. Each magnetic units consists of an alternating current solenoid that surrounds the |
| 6506819 |
Light weight particulate composite materials with cenospheres as reinforcements and method for m |
January 14, 2003 |
| This invention provides a particulate composite comprising a polyester resin, a plasticizer, and a plurality of cenospheres. The polyester resin and the plasticizer form a matrix wherein the cenospsheres are distributed nonhomogeneously in the matrix. The nonhomogenous distribution of |
| 6391653 |
Acoustic standing-wave enhancement of a fiber-optic salmonella biosensor |
May 21, 2002 |
| A fluorescent fiber-optic biosensor system using ultrasonic concentration of particles and cells for the detection of Salmonella typhimurium. A biosensor test chamber serves as an ultrasonic standing-wave cell that allows microspheres or cells to be concentrated in parallel layers or in |
| 6326491 |
Process to prepare pyrimidine nucleosides |
December 4, 2001 |
| A process for the production of a compound of the formula: ##STR1##wherein R.sub.1 is hydrogen, alkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.16 substituted alkyl, aryl, substituted aryl, aralkyl, substituted aralkyls, alkenyl, substituted alkenyl, alkynyl, substituted alkynyl, cyano, carboxy, carboxy ester |
| 6254830 |
Magnetic focusing immunosensor for the detection of pathogens |
July 3, 2001 |
| A magnetic focusing immunosensor for the detection of pathogens comprising a laser, an exciting fiber and a collecting fiber, a fiber optic magnetic probe in communication with the collecting and exciting fibers and means for detecting, collecting and measuring fluorescent signals in |
| 6243795 |
Redundant, asymmetrically parallel disk cache for a data storage system |
June 5, 2001 |
| A data storage system includes redundant write caches, a disk controller and an array of disks. One of the redundant write caches is a primary write cache of RAM or NVRAM, and another is a backup write cache having a hybrid memory structure of a relatively small amount of NVRAM in co |
| 6184980 |
Fiber optic sensor for petroleum |
February 6, 2001 |
| A silver halide fiber optic for the detection and identification of petroleum. The fiber optic serves both as a waveguide for transmitting a signal to and from petroleum in remote locations and also as an intrinsic part of the sensing element to obtain evanescent wave spectra. The ev |
| 6150032 |
Electroactive polymer coatings for corrosion control |
November 21, 2000 |
| An anti-corrosive polymeric complex which is comprised of a plurality of double-stranded molecular complexes. Each of the molecular complexes are comprised of a strand of a conductive polymer and a strand of a copolymer. The strands of the polymeric complex are non-covalently bonded to e |
| 5798447 |
Antibodies specific for D-myo-inositol 1, 4, 5-trisphosphate and the enzyme-linked immunosorbent |
August 25, 1998 |
| Antibodies against Ins(1,4,5)P.sub.3 were raised by immunizing rabbits with two types of IP.sub.3 -BSA conjugates which were synthesized by covalently coupling Ins(1,4,5)P.sub.3 to the carrier protein via alkyl linkages. The anti-Ins(1,4,5)P.sub.3 antibodies were detected by an ELISA whe |
| 5379393 |
Cache memory system for vector processing |
January 3, 1995 |
| A cache memory system for use during vector processing in a processor. The processor contains a central processing unit (CPU) and a main memory. The system includes a vector cache memory, a first address register, a main memory address calculation unit, and a cache address calculation un |
