| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 6974508 |
Nickel base superalloy turbine disk |
December 13, 2005 |
| A low solvus, high refractory alloy having unusually versatile processing mechanical property capabilities for advanced disks and rotors in gas turbine engines. The nickel base superalloy has a composition consisting essentially of, in weight percent, 3.0-4.0 Al, 0.02-0.04 B, 0.02-0.05 C |
| 6932090 |
Motion sickness treatment apparatus and method |
August 23, 2005 |
| Methods and apparatus are disclosed for treating motion sickness. In a preferred embodiment a method of the invention comprises operating eyewear having shutter lenses to open said shutter lenses at a selected operating frequency ranging from within about 3 Hz to about 50 Hz. The shutter |
| 6909770 |
Methods for identification and verification using vacuum XRF system |
June 21, 2005 |
| Apparatus and methods in which one or more elemental taggants that are intrinsically located in an object are detected by x-ray fluorescence analysis under vacuum conditions to identify or verify the object's elemental content for elements with lower atomic numbers. By using x-ray fl |
| 6903687 |
Feed structure for antennas |
June 7, 2005 |
| A novel feed structure, for an antenna having a resonant electric field structure, comprising a patch element, an integrated circuit attached to the patch element, at least one inner conductor electrically connected to and terminating at the integrated circuit on a first end of the at le |
| 6895115 |
Method for implementation of recursive hierarchical segmentation on parallel computers |
May 17, 2005 |
| A method, computer readable storage, and apparatus for implementing a recursive hierarchical segmentation algorithm on a parallel computing platform. The method includes setting a bottom level of recursion that defines where a recursive division of an image into sections stops dividi |
| 6869480 |
Method for the production of nanometer scale step height reference specimens |
March 22, 2005 |
| Methods are disclosed that provide for structures and techniques for the fabrication of ordered arrangements of crystallographically determined nanometer scale steps on single crystal substrates, particularly SiC. The ordered nanometer scale step structures are produced on the top surfac |
| 6864473 |
Dynamic optical filtration |
March 8, 2005 |
| A dynamic optical filtration system and method effectively blocks bright light sources without impairing view of the remainder of the scene. A sensor measures light intensity and position so that selected cells of a shading matrix may interrupt the view of the bright light source by a |
| 6828367 |
Organic modification of a layered silicate by co-ion exchange of an alkyl ammonium and a mono-pr |
December 7, 2004 |
| Co-Ion exchange of the interlayer cations of a layered silicate with a mono-protonated aromatic diamine and an alkyl ammonium ion into the silicate galleries. The presence of the alkyl ammonium ion provides low oligomer melt viscosity during processing. The presence of the diamine al |
| 6816117 |
Distributed antenna system and method |
November 9, 2004 |
| System and methods are disclosed for employing one or more radiators having non-unique phase centers mounted to a body with respect to a plurality of transmitters to determine location characteristics of the body such as the position and/or attitude of the body. The one or more radiators |
| 6784276 |
High-solids polyimide precursor solutions |
August 31, 2004 |
| This invention is a highly concentrated stable solution of polyimide precursors (monomers) having a solids content ranging from about 80 to 98 percent by weight in lower aliphatic alcohols i.e. methyl and/or ethyl alcohol. The concentrated polyimide precursor solution comprises effective |
| 6716392 |
Preservation of liquid biological samples |
April 6, 2004 |
| The present invention relates to the preservation of a liquid biological sample. The biological sample is exposed to a preservative containing at least about 0.15 g of sodium benzoate and at least about 0.025 g of citric acid per 100 ml of sample. The biological sample may be collected i |
| 6696792 |
Compact plasma accelerator |
February 24, 2004 |
| A compact plasma accelerator having components including a cathode electron source, an anodic ionizing gas source, and a magnetic field that is cusped. The components are held by an electrically insulating body having a central axis, a top axial end, and a bottom axial end. The cusped |
| 6658329 |
Video guidance sensor system with laser rangefinder |
December 2, 2003 |
| A video guidance sensor system for use in automated docking of a chase vehicle with a target vehicle wherein the chase vehicle includes a laser rangefinder that uses pulse or phase time of flight measurement to measure distance. The laser rangefinder includes a diode laser pulse or phase |
| 6651481 |
Method and apparatus for characterizing pressure sensors using modulated light beam pressure |
November 25, 2003 |
| Embodiments of apparatuses and methods are provided that use light sources instead of sound sources for characterizing and calibrating sensors for measuring small pressures to mitigate many of the problems with using sound sources. In one embodiment an apparatus has a light source for |
| 6647855 |
Apparatus and method for deploying a hypervelocity shield |
November 18, 2003 |
| Provided herein are apparatuses for deployment of at least one hypervelocity shield on a structure in exoatmospheric space. The apparatuses comprise a means of attaching to the structure at least at one place on the structure and further comprise at least one of the hypervelocity shi |
| 6566648 |
Edge triggered apparatus and method for measuring strain in bragg gratings |
May 20, 2003 |
| An apparatus and method for measuring strain of gratings written into an optical fiber. Optical radiation is transmitted over one or more contiguous predetermined wavelength ranges into a reference optical fiber network and an optical fiber network under test to produce a plurality of |
| 6552521 |
Single station system and method of locating lightning strikes |
April 22, 2003 |
| An embodiment of the present invention uses a single detection system to approximate a location of lightning strikes. This system is triggered by a broadband RF detector and measures a time until the arrival of a leading edge of the thunder acoustic pulse. This time difference is used to |
| 6547189 |
Inflatable vessel and method |
April 15, 2003 |
| An inflatable module comprising a structural core and an inflatable shell, wherein the inflatable shell is sealingly attached to the structural core. In its launch or pre-deployed configuration, the wall thickness of the inflatable shell is collapsed by vacuum. Also in this configuration |
| 6512536 |
Cable and line inspection mechanism |
January 28, 2003 |
| An automated cable and line inspection mechanism visually scans the entire surface of a cable as the mechanism travels along the cable=s length. The mechanism includes a drive system, a video camera, a mirror assembly for providing the camera with a 360 degree view of the cable, and a la |
| 6501414 |
Method for locating a concealed object |
December 31, 2002 |
| Apparatus and methods are disclosed for detecting anomalies in microwave penetrable material that may be used for locating plastic mines or pipes underneath the ground. A transmitter is positioned at a plurality of different positions above the ground. A microwave signal is transmitted |
| 6492857 |
Method and apparatus for reducing the vulnerability of latches to single event upsets |
December 10, 2002 |
| A delay circuit includes a first network having an input and an output node, a second network having an input and an output, the input of the second network being coupled to the output node of the first network. The first network and the second network are configured such that: a glitch |
