Abstract: Electronic devices operate in an analog world and their circuitry is subject to non-linear environmental effects that can cause operational problems. Selecting components for a design for a capacitor-charging circuit that incorporates a current-limiting resistor and uses non-linear power supplies, either means having to test every possible combination of elements, and suffering a resultant ‘combinatorial explosion’ as complexity increases, or choosing to over-engineer against untested surprise failure points. Doing the latter in a cost-efficient manner through a min/max/log-set testing series also enables use of non-linear power supplies whose parameters are not known due to competitive or trade secret protective efforts by their manufacturers.

Abstract: A single-usage network tap monitors network information flow over a particular connection. Instead of requiring a tap for each analytical device, by incorporating elements that regenerate, spread, and coordinate the timing of the signal, multiple, simultaneous, and parallel analytical devices can monitor a particular network connection through one tap, It incorporates four amplifiers preferably manufactured on the same IC die with high-impedance input terminals connected directly to the two conductors of a gigabit Ethernet local area network digital transmission line so as not to load or otherwise upset its impedance or other parameters. The output terminals of the operational amplifiers are connected to and match the input impedance of the digital transmission protocol Gigabit analyzer. The gain of the operational amplifiers is arranged so as to replicate at the input of the analyzer the signals appearing on the Gigabit local area network transmission line with uninterruptible power supply.

Abstract: Exploiting the substantive reciprocity of internode channel responses through dynamic, adaptive modification of receive and transmit weights, enables locally enabled global optimization of a multipoint, wireless electromagnetic communications network of communication nodes. Each diversity-channel-capable node uses computationally efficient exploitation of pilot tone data and diversity-adaptive signal processing of the weightings and the signal to further convey optimization and channel information which promote local and thereby network-global efficiency.

Abstract: This invention is a tool for computer-aided design, computer-aided manufacturing forming a Project Management System, comprising: (1) a Component Database; (2) a Component Data Management System; (3) a Design and Manufacturing System; (4) an Assembly Drawing Generator; (5) a Bill of Materials Generator; and, (7) a Project Database. The Project Manager tracks the process and actions, recording and supervising version and change order compliance and task completion, from the start through verification of a production-ready finished version. Each project uses a master workbench. On it design specifications are entered for each subassembly element and connector. Then the user consults the Component Database using a Search and Cross Reference engine for components meeting those design specifications, until a constraint-satisfying design is completed. The tool generates a Bill of Materials, Assembly Drawings, and process records for the project in process.

Abstract: This is a method for managing and optimizing transaction processing that: (1) significantly expands the robustness of systems with respect to consistency, reliability, and recoverability; (2) provides multiple performance improvements over traditional methods; (3) enables transactions in a distributed business process to recover from errors without the cost of two-phase commit; (4) enables enhancements to resource management; and, (5) provides improved scheduling. The method further enables a high degree of collaborative and adaptive transaction management over traditional transaction managers.

Abstract: By embedding as a Physical Layer (PHY) Appliqué patterns (time, frequency, tone multiplexed, control signal, explicit network authentication, projective, other, or combined) on wireless electronic communications network (WECN) digital signal packets, and using a QRD-based auto-SCORE adaptation algorithm to maximize the signal-to-interference-and-noise ratio (SINR) attainable by multielement arrays over very small time-bandwidth products, differentiation and detection of signals from environmental noise (particularly from other or non-network signals) can be improved, allowing more compressed, secure, efficient network operations.

Abstract: A method for milking animals, particularly domesticated dairy animals, and most particularly dairy cattle, that improves milk/food sanitation, labor and cost efficiency, environmental friendliness, and throughput, that uses a wet prep and minimizes both interactions with the animal being milked and delays between steps during which recontamination of teats can happen. The best method comprises the steps of preparing the milker's hands, priming the animal's teats, attaching a feeder tube to a milking machine to each teat, and completing the milking. (Therefore through the method we sanitize the milker's hands, cows teats and feeder tube all in one step.) By preparing the milker rather than the udder and teats, the method eliminates steps and delays, and reduces chances for infection, material usages, and complexity, that were extant in the prior art.

Abstract: A vehicle's operator can signal both the intended relative braking effort, and changes thereto, using a signal with a proportionately scaled and reactive display. A sensor measuring the current proportionate intensity of the intended and applied braking effort is attached to a vehicle's braking system. This sensor sends a signal to the associated external display (which may comprise multiple, separated areas). Each display area then shows that portion of its area commensurate with, or proportional to, the intensity of the intended and applied braking effort. The sensor, signal, and display(s) regularly repeat this at rapid intervals, thereby keeping the display responsive to and in accordance with the current intended and applied braking effort. In one enhancement, the outer limit of the display is activated when any braking effort is made, to enable rapid evaluation by any viewer between the relative effort applied and the potential full effort.

Abstract: An improved golf putter head incorporates multiple perspective sighting and visualization elements, including multiple parallel alignment edges, striking vector sighting guides, multiple triangulation elements for equating a perspective ‘vanishing point’ with the desired break point to accurately gauge the striking vector's length, into a head engineered to distribute the mass distally outward along the Y axis from the central striking element in a 4:1 ratio to create anti-torque stabilization, and with the mass distributed rearward along the X axis for enhanced dynamic feedback during the backswing and enhanced dynamic stability, using connections amongst the mass elements whose shape, material, and placement provides improved resonance to improve the kinesthetic feedback, with a connection limitation to the shaft that best assures against torque during the swing by connecting the shaft vector through the rotational striking center of balance of the putter, thereby providing means for accura

Abstract: By inserting at least one cable connecting two or more electronic devices (communication, audio, display, input/output, or other) into a clip that joins the cable(s) to a log detailing the cable's connections, subsequent maintenance of and changes to that connection are made simpler and more efficient. The preferred approach inserts one end of each connecting cable into a clip having a socket for a detachable log; a second approach connects the clip to an already-attached cable. The detachable log keeps the functional information concerning each cable, and its connections, held by said clip, including the physical characteristics, functional purpose, and details of the other end(s) attachment(s) and target(s). Another function of said clip permits more stable and easily-handled insertion or removal of one or more cable(s) from the device to which it is or they are attached.

Abstract: A puzzle using Moebius topology and three-dimensional construction to make solution more challenging by preventing the player from seeing all possible layouts at any one time. The preferred embodiment of the puzzle challenges players to solve a maze when part of the maze will always be concealed by the current viewing surface, as the internal and external surface are both contiguous and identical.

Abstract: A method for creating one or more footwear soles that will print out with each step on a malleable surface (such as sand) or an imprintable surface (such as a sidewalk) a pattern (which may include therein an image, text, and their combination), wherein the pattern to be printed is personalized to each sole's individual owner according to the owner's specification of the pattern.