The Board of Governors for Higher Education, State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130111263 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECOVERING INFORMATION FROM NAND GATES ARRAY MEMORY SYSTEMS | 05-02-2013 |
20120310370 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A NEURAL-MACHINE INTERFACE FOR ARTIFICIAL LEGS - A neural-machine interface system is disclosed for providing control of a leg prosthesis. The system includes a plurality of input channels for receiving electromyographic signals from a subject, a feature vector formation unit for processing the electromyographic signals, and a pattern classification unit for identifying the intended movement of the subject's leg prosthesis. | 12-06-2012 |
20110210900 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING DIRECTIONAL RADIATION FIELDS USING DISTRIBUTED LOADED MONOPOLE ANTENNAS - An antenna system is disclosed that provides a directional radiation field. The antenna system includes at least two monopole antennas, each of which provides a differential connector. Each differential connector is associated with a signal having a different phase such that a radiation field associated with said antenna system is other than a radiation field that would exist if each differential connector were associated with the signal having the same phase. | 09-01-2011 |
20110166833 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FINITE ELEMENT BASED TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION - A method is disclosed of providing an optimal minimum mass topology for a structure based on a set of design criteria including at least one support point and at least one force to be applied to the structure. The method includes the steps of: identifying a plurality of nodes within a structure design domain, and assigning an initial density value to said plurality of nodes; conducting a finite element analysis on the nodes; determining one of a stress intensity or strain energy values for each node; ranking the nodes by relative stress intensity or strain energy values; adjusting the density value for each node; and repeating the steps of conducting a finite element analysis on said nodes, wherein the step of adjusting each density value for each node is performed according to a family of statistical distribution functions that gradually transition to a bimodal distribution wherein nodes are either fully dense or effectively void thereby providing an optimal topology. | 07-07-2011 |
20110117446 | INHIBITION OF ELECTROLYTE OXIDATION IN LITHIUM ION BATTERIES WITH ELECTROLYTE ADDITIVES - A lithium ion battery electrolyte for use in lithium ion batteries. The electrolyte includes LiPF | 05-19-2011 |
20110055626 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECOVERING INFORMATION FROM NAND GATES ARRAY MEMORY SYSTEMS - A method is disclosed for recovering data associated with a damaged file stored in a NAND gate array memory. The method includes the steps of: identifying all meta data associated with the damaged file; identifying each logical block address of all identified meta data; collecting all physical block addresses associated with one of the identified logical block addresses or the identified meta data; counting in a replace table (ReplTable) a number of matches to a physical block address of the damaged file for each physical block address of the damaged file; choosing a block in a linked list that corresponds to the physical block address of the block in the linked list; and linking all chosen blocks to form a replicated file. | 03-03-2011 |
20110055104 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING UNFAIR MANIPULATIONS OF ON-LINE REPUTATION SYSTEMS - A method is disclosed for detecting unfair ratings in rating data over a period of time in connection with an on-line rating system. The method includes the steps of: detecting changes in an arrival rate of ratings in the rating data over the period of time and providing arrival rate change data; detecting changes in a model of the rating data over the period of time such that changes in the model are represented as model errors and providing model error data; detecting changes in a histogram of the rating data over the period of time and providing histogram detection data; detecting changes in a mean of the rating data over the period of time and providing mean change detection data; and processing the arrival rate change data, the model error data, the histogram detection data, and the mean change detection data to identify unfair ratings in the rating data. | 03-03-2011 |
20110054288 | BIOMEDICAL SENSORS USABLE ON UN-PREPARED CONTACT SURFACES - A biomedical sensor is disclosed that provides at least first and second electrical nodes for connection to medical equipment. The biomedical sensor includes a plurality of protruding electrodes that extend from a common base. At least one of the protruding electrodes is coupled to the first electrical node, and at least two of the protruding electrodes are coupled to the second electrical node. At least one of the plurality of protruding electrodes is adjustable in length such that each of the plurality of protruding electrodes is adapted to contact a non-planar surface of a subject. | 03-03-2011 |
20100245589 | CAMERA CONTROL SYSTEM TO FOLLOW MOVING OBJECTS - The present invention is directed to an image tracking system that tracks the motion of an object. The image processing system tracks the motion of an object with an image recording device that records a first image of an object to be tracked and shortly thereafter records a second image of the object to be tracked. The system analyzes data from the first and the second images to provide a difference image of the object, defined by a bit map of pixels. The system processes the difference image to determine a threshold and calculates a centroid of the pixels in the difference image above the threshold. The system then determines the center of the difference image and determines a motion vector defined by the displacement from the center to the centroid and determines a pan tilt vector based on the motion vector and outputs the pan tilt vector to the image recording device to automatically track the object. | 09-30-2010 |
20100175441 | BIOPRODUCTION OF HYDROLYSATE FROM SQUID PROCESSING BYPRODUCTS FOR AQUACULTURE FEED INGREDIENT AND ORGANIC FERTILIZER - A bioproduction process of preparing an hydrolysate from squid processing byproducts. The process includes obtaining squid byproducts and hydrolyzing the byproducts. The hydrolyzed product are heated until the viscosity stabilizes. The hydrolyzed product is then filtered to form a filtrate and then concentrated to form the desired hydrolysate. | 07-15-2010 |
20090043994 | RESOURCE FLOW COMPUTER - 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 system also includes a plurality of processing elements, which are configured and arranged to receive executable program instructions from the memory device, wherein each of the processing elements executes executable instructions having the highest priority as indicated by the state of the timetag data field. | 02-12-2009 |