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20110277619 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES AND METHODS FOR SHIP DEFENSE - The present invention includes systems for repelling a potential pirate boarding of a commercial ship. Electrification of metal surfaces around the sides of a commercial ship allows for providing an electric shock to a pirate attempting to scale a large commercial vessel from a small power boat. Additional systems allow for identification of breach site as well as site-specific responses including the firing of a water cannon to thwart pirate penetration. | 11-17-2011 |
20110277842 | EcoSafe Desal Brine Return System - Described is a system for allowing ecologically-sensitive return of brine to seawater. A plurality of “smart” hoses is employed with riptide and sun light sensors so as to allow for returning concentrated brine to as large a volume of sea water as possible. Return hoses may include elements to allow for control of their depth and location for optimal safe brine release. | 11-17-2011 |
20110278235 | EcoSafe Desal Intake System - Described is a system for creating a microenvironment around a high volume water intake pipe. Specifically, a microenvironment cage incorporating fiber optics, sonar and monitoring sensors may be placed around such a pipe with the express purpose of keeping fish, wildlife and debris away from intake holes and any associated filters. The cage protects marine habitat by keeping the high intake forces away from fish and wildlife and it lowers the energy and maintenance requirements of an associated facility by only allowing water to approach the facility's intake pipe. | 11-17-2011 |
20110281478 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING ENERGY FOR SHIP PROPULSION - The present invention allows for the replacement of polluting and inefficient diesel-based marine propulsion systems. A natural-gas burning power plant in combination and at least one renewable energy source are combined to drive a ship's propulsion during times when the power plants are not in use for other activities including desalination and oil exploration. Renewable energies are used judiciously to reduce fossil fuel requirements but the present invention does not fully rely on renewable energy, which is not always available. | 11-17-2011 |
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20130279115 | System And Methods For Reduced Power Consumption And Heat Removal In Optical And - A heat removal system for use in optical and optoelectronic devices and subassemblies is provided. The heat removal system lowers the power consumption of one or more active cooling components within the device or subassembly, such as a TEC, which is used to remove heat from heat generating components within the device or subassembly. For any particular application, the heat removal system more efficiently removes the heat from the active cooling component, by using a heat transfer assembly, such as a planar heat pipe type assembly. The heat transfer assembly employs properties like, but not limited to, phase transition change and thermal conductivity to move heat without external power. In some embodiments, the heat transfer assembly can be used to allow the active cooling component, such as a TEC to be removed, leaving the heat transfer assembly to remove the heat from the device or subassembly. | 10-24-2013 |
20130308951 | Wavelength Tunable Array For Data Communications - Systems and apparatus for data communications comprising a plurality of wavelength tunable submodules in an array is provided. Each submodule has a wavelength tunable laser, and each submodule comprises, as an individual unit, a self-contained wavelength locker having optical and/or optoelectronic functions. The system may be a transponder array comprising a plurality of WDM or DWDM modules. In some embodiments, the individual submodules may comprise photonic integrated wavelength tunable lasers with other optical, electrical and optoelectronic components. Each wavelength tunable submodule incorporated into the module or array can have the same or different optical wavelength and other parameters including but not limited to modulation format. By utilizing the wavelength tunable laser submodules to build a module or array, the need for individual modules dedicated to wavelength sub-bands in the array is eliminated. The same tunable module can be used to fill all the wavelengths on a transmission fiber. | 11-21-2013 |
20140147130 | Optical Burst Mode Clock And Data Recovery - An optical receiver, transmitter, transceiver or transponder for bursty, framed or continuous data. The optical receiver includes a burst mode clock recovery module that recovers the clock rapidly and with a small number of preamble or overhead bits at the front end of the data. A local clock is used for timing when the recovered clock is not available. Transitions between the recovered clock and local clock are smoothed out to avoid undesirable artifacts. | 05-29-2014 |
20150333475 | Tunable U-Laser Transmitter With Integrated Mach-Zehnder Modulator - According to the present invention, a monolithically integrated laser | 11-19-2015 |
20150365177 | Control Systems For Optical Devices And Subassemblies - The present invention describes systems | 12-17-2015 |
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20090297558 | Inactivated Influenza Virus Compositions - The invention provides compositions of inactivated influenza virus that can be used as vaccines and immunological compositions useful for inhibiting, preventing and treating influenza. | 12-03-2009 |
20100226938 | Cellular and viral inactivation - The invention provides compositions of inactivated viruses, bacteria, fungi, parasites and tumor cells that can be used as vaccines. Methods for making such inactivated viruses, bacteria, fungi, parasites and tumor cells are also provided. | 09-09-2010 |
20110038890 | Cellular And Viral Inactivation - The invention involves inactivation of viral populations by treating the viral populations with a compound to crosslink proteins in the viral membrane, UV irradiation and further inactivation of the viruses using detergent(s). According to the invention, this method preserves the native structure of viral epitopes so that the inactivated viral preparations can be used in immunological compositions that will inhibit and/or prevent viral infection when administered to an animal. | 02-17-2011 |
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20100156897 | System and Method For Adaptive Scalable Dynamic Conversion, Quality and Processing Optimization, Enhancement, Correction, Mastering, And Other Advantageous Processing of Three Dimensional Media Content - The present invention is directed to a system and method for providing 3D content-centric solutions that greatly improve the quality and impact of 3D media content, while decreasing the required levels of computing power, and lowering the complexity of the necessary 3D media playback and display solutions, thus maximizing the 3D experience produced therefrom. The novel system and method accomplish these goals by providing modular unifying scalable 3D content-centered solutions, preferably implemented in a configurable infrastructure, that improve the quality and impact of any 3D media content, while decreasing the required levels of computing power, and lowering the complexity of the necessary playback and display solutions. The inventive system and method advantageously enable automatic, semi-automatic or user-controlled selective performance of 3D content processing and/or settings/parameter configuration at one or more components of the infrastructure (from 3D content capture to 3D content media display), and in at least one embodiment thereof, the inventive system and method are capable of determining and implementing selective or optimal storage, transmittal, and application(s) of 3D content processing/settings/parameter/profile configuration(s) prior to, or during, display of corresponding 3D content media to one or more viewers thereof. | 06-24-2010 |
20100214286 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLABORATIVE DISTRIBUTED GENERATION, CONVERSION, QUALITY AND PROCESSING OPTIMIZATION, ENHANCEMENT, CORRECTION, MASTERING, AND OTHER ADVANTAGEOUS PROCESSING OF THREE DIMENSIONAL MEDIA CONTENT - The present invention is directed to a system and method for enabling multiple parties to access and utilize, separately, in parallel, and/or on a collaborative basis, a plurality of distributed modular 3D content-centric solutions that are operable to greatly improve the quality and impact of 3D media content, while decreasing the required levels of computing power, and lowering the complexity of the necessary 3D media playback and display solutions, thus maximizing the 3D experience produced therefrom. The inventive system and method facilitate and enable multiple parties to work individually or to collaborate, in a scalable and managed manner and at varying degrees, in customizable modular processes of generating, converting into, and/or beneficially processing 3D media content to produce enhanced 3D media content, and thereby greatly improving and maximizing the 3D experience produced therefrom. In various embodiments of the inventive system and method, a centralized system is provided for managing and selectively controlling access to, and utilization of, the plurality of the modular 3D content-centric solutions by a plurality of pre-registered users, and to manage 3D content-related projects by distributing individual tasks, along with appropriate access to necessary 3D content-centric solution module(s), to at least one of the plural pre-registered users. In other embodiments of the present invention, a centralized 3D content generation/conversion/processing (G/C/P) system is provided for managing 3D content-related G/C/P projects and for distributing various tasks for such projects for performance by at least one of the plural pre-registered users by enabling access thereof to necessary 3D content-centric solution module(s). | 08-26-2010 |
20120105439 | System and Method For Adaptive Scalable Dynamic Conversion, Quality and Processing Optimization, Enhancement, Correction, Mastering, And Other Advantageous Processing of Three Dimensional Media Content - The present invention is directed to a system and method for providing 3D content-centric solutions that greatly improve the quality and impact of 3D media content, while decreasing the required levels of computing power, and lowering the complexity of the necessary 3D media playback and display solutions, thus maximizing the 3D experience produced therefrom. The novel system and method accomplish these goals by providing modular unifying scalable 3D content-centered solutions, preferably implemented in a configurable infrastructure, that improve the quality and impact of any 3D media content, while decreasing the required levels of computing power, and lowering the complexity of the necessary playback and display solutions. The inventive system and method advantageously enable automatic, semi-automatic or user-controlled selective performance of 3D content processing and/or settings/parameter configuration at one or more components of the infrastructure, and in at least one embodiment thereof, the inventive system and method are capable of determining and implementing selective or optimal storage, transmittal, and application(s) of 3D content processing/settings/parameter/profile configuration(s) prior to, or during, display of corresponding 3D content media to one or more viewers thereof. | 05-03-2012 |
20140044403 | System and Method For Adaptive Scalable Dynamic Conversion, Quality and Processing Optimization, Enhancement, Correction, Mastering, And Other Advantageous Processing of Three Dimensional Media Content - In at least one embodiment thereof, the inventive system and method are directed to providing and configuring a novel platform-independent 3D content media container operable to: (1) support and store a 3D content media file with at least one 3D content modification/improvement technique applied to only specific predetermined portions thereof, and (2) selectively enabling particular optimal 3D content-related parameter settings for future application of at least one additional 3D content modification/improvement technique, to likewise be associated with one or more specific corresponding 3D content media file portion(s), and to also be stored in association therewith in the inventive 3D content media container. In at least one additional embodiment thereof, the inventive system and method are capable of determining and implementing various storage, transmittal, and application(s) of 3D content media processing/settings/parameter/profile configuration(s) prior to, or during, display of corresponding 3D content media | 02-13-2014 |
20140169760 | Media Player with Recorder Optimization - A method for creating depth image correction markers for a 3D depth mapping format for a 3D video program, especially useful with an Auto stereoscopic 3DTV, as well as a method of playing the 3D video programs using the correction markers. | 06-19-2014 |
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20140261031 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRINTING PATTERNS USING NEAR INFRARED UPCONVERTING INKS - The present invention relates generally to using upconverting inks for producing highly-resolved patterns for, inter alia, security applications. More specifically, the present invention relates to the use of sols (inks) and printing processes that produce well-defined printed features consisting of polymers impregnated with luminescent upconversion nanocrystals. The patterns printed using such inks and processes may exhibit defined shapes, characters of text, and various other types of images. | 09-18-2014 |
20150226579 | FUSE-LIKE SENSOR, DETECTION AND MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS - A system includes a substrate having a surface and a circuit with a plurality of conductive paths disposed adjacent (e.g., directly on or separated by a thin layer). The circuit is configured to detect an interruption or alteration of conduction of one or more of the plurality of conductive paths due to a flaw in the substrate. The circuit is further configured to identify the interrupted or altered one or more of the plurality of conductive paths based on one or more electrical characteristics of the circuit. | 08-13-2015 |
20150359457 | FOOT-MOUNTED SENSOR SYSTEMS FOR TRACKING BODY MOVEMENT - A method is disclosed for foot sensors to be used to determine at least two characteristics of a subject's activity by using a combination of sensors for force and foot orientation/motion/position. A wearable footwear ecosystem is comprised of the subject's footwear, sensor-enabled insoles or insertable devices, in- or on-footwear electronics that is hard wired to the sensors and may contain additional sensors such as accelerometers, a master device and means to communicate (typically wirelessly) among the various sensor platforms, and the master device including clock synchronization. Correlating the time stamps for data among various sensors, and the master device communicating wirelessly is critical to accurate determination of the desired characteristics. Multiple force-sensitive resistors on a common substrate are individually optimized for dynamic range. Pulse sensors using arrays of such force-sensitive resistors are implemented. The resultant system can profitably be used for gaming, biometric monitoring, and activity tracking. | 12-17-2015 |
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20090038017 | SECURE VAULT SERVICE FOR SOFTWARE COMPONENTS WITHIN AN EXECUTION ENVIRONMENT - Embodiments of apparatuses, articles, methods, and systems for secure vault service for software components within an execution environment are generally described herein. An embodiment includes the ability for a Virtual Machine Monitor, Operating System Monitor, or other underlying platform capability to restrict memory regions for access only by specifically authenticated, authorized and verified software components, even when part of an otherwise compromised operating system environment. The underlying platform to lock and unlock secrets on behalf of the authenticated/authorized/verified software component provided in protected memory regions only accessible to the authenticated/authorized/verified software component. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 02-05-2009 |
20090165099 | PROVISIONING ACTIVE MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY (AMT) IN COMPUTER SYSTEMS - Active management technology (AMT) may be provisioned in a client device automatically, which may provide a secure connection between the provisioning server and the client device. The client device comprising the active management technology may support zero-touch provisioning and one-touch provisioning. | 06-25-2009 |
20120226903 | SECURE PLATFORM VOUCHER SERVICE FOR SOFTWARE COMPONENTS WITHIN AN EXECUTION ENVIRONMENT - Apparatuses, articles, methods, and systems for secure platform voucher service for software within an execution environment. An embodiment includes the ability for a Virtual Machine Monitor, Operating System Monitor, or other underlying platform capability to restrict memory regions for access only by authenticated, authorized and verified software components. A provisioning remote entity or gateway only needs to know a platform's public key or certificate hierarchy to receive verification for any component. The verification or voucher helps assure to the remote entity that no malware running in the platform or on the network will have access to provisioned material. The underlying platform to lock and unlock secrets on behalf of the authenticated/authorized/verified software component provided in protected memory regions only accessible to the software component. | 09-06-2012 |
20150074419 | SECURE VAULT SERVICE FOR SOFTWARE COMPONENTS WITHIN AN EXECUTION ENVIRONMENT - Embodiments of apparatuses, articles, methods, and systems for secure vault service for software components within an execution environment are generally described herein. An embodiment includes the ability for a Virtual Machine Monitor, Operating System Monitor, or other underlying platform capability to restrict memory regions for access only by specifically authenticated, authorized and verified software components, even when part of an otherwise compromised operating system environment. The underlying platform to lock and unlock secrets on behalf of the authenticated/authorized/verified software component provided in protected memory regions only accessible to the authenticated/authorized/verified software component. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 03-12-2015 |
20150134952 | SECURE VAULT SERVICE FOR SOFTWARE COMPONENTS WITHIN AN EXECUTION ENVIRONMENT - Embodiments of apparatuses, articles, methods, and systems for secure vault service for software components within an execution environment are generally described herein. An embodiment includes the ability for a Virtual Machine Monitor, Operating System Monitor, or other underlying platform capability to restrict memory regions for access only by specifically authenticated, authorized and verified software components, even when part of an otherwise compromised operating system environment. The underlying platform to lock and unlock secrets on behalf of the authenticated/authorized/verified software component provided in protected memory regions only accessible to the authenticated/authorized/verified software component. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 05-14-2015 |
20150244739 | NETWORK SECURITY ELEMENTS USING ENDPOINT RESOURCES - A method and apparatus for network security elements using endpoint resources. An embodiment of a method includes receiving a request for access to a network at an endpoint server. The method further includes detecting that the request for access to the network includes a request that is unauthorized. The request for access to the network is directed to a network security element. | 08-27-2015 |
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20120075572 | Decorative selectable arms with bayonet clip attachment of arms to eyeglass frames - An eyeglass frame system, comprising an eyeglass securing front frame portion; a pair of temple-contacting side members, each member having a proximal end and a distal end, the proximal end of each secured by a pivotal connection to a respective outermost portion of said front frame portion, said at least one of said side members having inner and outer vertical surfaces thereof, said pivotal connection effected at a first end of a male element of a bayonet clip, a second end thereof defining a plurality of projecting prongs. The system also includes female elements complemental to said male elements. Female elements are formed integrally with an inner surface at each proximal end of said temple-contacting side members. Said male and female members may be selectably engaged or disengaged from each other through the application of pressure on the male elements transversely to the axis of said temple-contacting members. | 03-29-2012 |
20130200033 | Smart cap system - A medicine container cap for use with a bottle containing a plurality of pills includes a casing having a pill dispensing opening. A pill dispensing track assembly is removably coupled to the casing and includes a pill ramp for delivering pills to the pill dispensing opening and an insert that includes a pill dispenser slot that receives pills from the pill ramp and is open to the pill dispensing opening. The insert is detachably from the pill ramp and is insertable through an opening in the casing for being attached to the pill ramp. The pill ramp includes an adjustable member that modifies a characteristic of the pill ramp based on at least one characteristic of the insert that is selected, inserted through the opening in the casing and coupled to the pill ramp. | 08-08-2013 |
20140305963 | SMART CAP SYSTEM - A medicine container cap for use with a bottle containing a plurality of pills includes a casing having a pill dispensing opening. A pill dispensing track assembly is removably coupled to the casing and includes a pill ramp for delivering pills to the pill dispensing opening and an insert that includes a pill dispenser slot that receives pills from the pill ramp and is open to the pill dispensing opening. The insert is detachably from the pill ramp and is insertable through an opening in the casing for being attached to the pill ramp. The pill ramp includes an adjustable member that modifies a characteristic of the pill ramp based on at least one characteristic of the insert that is selected, inserted through the opening in the casing and coupled to the pill ramp. | 10-16-2014 |