Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Landiorio & Teska
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Patent number: 7972901Abstract: A method of manufacturing a package including manufacturing a substrate to include at least one layer of LCP material, manufacturing a cover made of LCP material to include a lower lip, and sealing the cover to the substrate by heating the interface between the lower lip and the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2005Date of Patent: July 5, 2011Assignee: Foster-Miller, Inc.Inventors: Brian Farrell, Paul Jaynes, Malcolm Taylor
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Patent number: 7880557Abstract: A hybrid Marchand/back-wave balun includes a first pair of coupled sections having a first primary section and first secondary section; a second pair of coupled sections having a second primary section and second secondary section; a first reactance interconnecting the first and second primary sections and a second reactance interconnecting the first and second secondary sections; one of the reactances being open at high frequency and shorted at low frequency, the other reactance being shorted at high frequency and open at low frequency for selectively providing low frequency Marchand/high frequency back-wave function and high frequency Marchand/low frequency back-wave function; and a double balanced mixer using same.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2009Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Hittite Microwave CorporationInventor: Xin Jiang
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Patent number: 7726244Abstract: A method of destroying mines in a minefield buried under the surface includes deploying a munition including a plurality of kinetic energy rods each having a stabilizer into a position above the minefield and deploying the rods above the minefield to fall towards the minefield each aligned along a velocity vector to penetrate the surface and destroy the mines.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2007Date of Patent: June 1, 2010Assignee: Raytheon CompanyInventor: Richard M. Lloyd
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Patent number: 7341410Abstract: A dynamical instrument for machining comprising a sensor responsive to a non-rotating part of a machine proximate the tool of the machine for outputting a vibration signal, and a processor responsive to the sensor output configured to calculate a plurality of signature quantities which characterize the dynamics of the vibration signal and correlate the signature quantities to detect parameters associated with the operation of the machine.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2003Date of Patent: March 11, 2008Assignee: Foster-Miller, Inc.Inventors: Wayne S. Hill, Bruce N. Barck
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Patent number: 7322431Abstract: An ultrasonic processor for continuous processing of material is disclosed comprising an enclosed processor chamber (12) having opposed end wall (18) and (16) and an input (40) and an output (42) so that material to be processed can be passed through the processor chamber. Ultrasound is applied to the chamber by a bank of ultrasonic converters (22,24) and the input and output are mutually displaced along a connecting wall (14) in a direction perpendicular to the processor wall to which the converter bank is coupled.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2003Date of Patent: January 29, 2008Assignee: Ultrasonic Processors LimitedInventor: Henry Kevin Ratcliff
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Patent number: 7269187Abstract: A packet detection technique is disclosed in which an average correlation signal is generated representative of the match between a repetitive sequence of symbols; an average power signal is generated representative of the average power in the sequence of symbols; a scaled magnitude of the average correlation signal scaled by a first predetermined scale factor is produced; and one of the average power signal and scaled magnitude of the average correlation signal are multiplied by the second scale factor and compared to determine whether there is a match between a repetitive sequence of symbols.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2004Date of Patent: September 11, 2007Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.Inventors: Sunder S. Kidambi, Paul S. Wilkins
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Patent number: 7177891Abstract: A compact Galois field parallel multiplier engine includes a multiplier circuit for multiplying together two polynomials with coefficients over a Galois field to obtain their product; a Galois field linear transformer circuit has a multiply input from the multiplier circuit for predicting the modulo remainder of the polynomial product for an irreducible polynomial; first and second polynomial inputs; the Galois field linear transformer circuit may include a plurality of cells configured in a matrix section and a unity matrix section wherein the unity matrix section cells represent the prediction of the remainder when the output of the multiplier circuit is a polynomial with a power less than the power of the irreducible polynomial.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2003Date of Patent: February 13, 2007Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.Inventors: Yosef Stein, Joshua A. Kablotsky
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Patent number: 7172299Abstract: An integrated wavefront correction module including a mounting device a deformable mirror carried by the mounting device for correcting for high spatial and temporal frequency error in an incident wavefront and a tip-tilt correction mechanism including a base and a plurality of tip-tilt actuators interconnected between the base and one of the flexible and fixed portions and a plurality of support posts interconnected between the base and the other of the flexible and fixed portions or alternatively the tip-tilt correction mechanism may include at least one actuator platform, a base, a first set of tip-tilt actuators for adjustably supporting the at least one actuator platform from the base and a second set of tip-tilt actuators for adjustably supporting the mounting device from the at least one actuator platform for adjusting the mounting device and the deformable mirror together to compensate for tip-tilt errors in the incident wavefront with the tip-tilt actuators being operated typically at mid-range in orType: GrantFiled: September 8, 2004Date of Patent: February 6, 2007Assignee: Xinetics, Inc.Inventors: Mark Anderson Smith, Jeffrey L. Cavaco, Zaffir A. Chaudhry
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Patent number: 7170148Abstract: A semi-fusible link system and method for a multi-layer integrated circuit including active circuitry on a first layer having a metal one layer including a semi-fusible link element on a second layer having a metal two layer adapted for interconnecting with the metal one layer, and a selector circuit disposed on the first layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2004Date of Patent: January 30, 2007Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.Inventor: Denis J. Doyle
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Patent number: 6862934Abstract: A tuning fork gyroscope typically including at least one proof mass with an upper sense plate disposed above the proof mass and a lower sense plate disposed below the proof mass and means for sensing changes in the nominal gaps between the sense plate and the proof mass and for outputting a signal indicative of the gyroscope angular rate.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2002Date of Patent: March 8, 2005Assignee: The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.Inventors: Marc S. Weinberg, Anthony S. Kourepenis, William D. Sawyer, Jeffrey T. Borenstein, James H. Connelly, Amy E. Duwel, Christopher M. Lento, James R. Cousens
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Patent number: 6672257Abstract: An upper bundle steam generator cleaning, inspection, and repair system including a deployment support device receivable within the steam generator to raise a cleaning device, an inspection device, and/or a tool up to the upper bundles of the steam generator.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2000Date of Patent: January 6, 2004Assignee: Foster-Miller, Inc.Inventors: Augustus J. Ashton, III, J. Timothy Lovett, Daniel Fischbach, Steven K. Ruggieri, Alan Brightman, Steven Jens
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Patent number: 6362419Abstract: A pedestal structure includes a base and a cover; a tongue on one side of one of the base and cover and a groove in the corresponding side of the other for receiving the tongue when the base and cover are engaged; and a security mechanism having a first portion on an opposing side of one of the base and cover and a second portion on a corresponding opposing side of the other for securing together the base and cover and tightly engaging the tongue and groove.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 1999Date of Patent: March 26, 2002Assignee: Utility Marketing CorporationInventors: Bonnie C. Gallagher, Steven G. Cherry, Charles Edward McMurray
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Patent number: 6280552Abstract: A method of applying an edge electrode pattern to a touch screen panel including printing an edge electrode pattern on decal paper; applying a cover coat over the electrode pattern; removing the decal paper; and transferring the edge electrode pattern to a touch screen panel. A decal to be used in accordance with this method.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 1999Date of Patent: August 28, 2001Assignee: MicroTouch Systems, Inc.Inventor: Frank J. Bottari
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Patent number: 6168906Abstract: A method of making a micromachined membrane having both stiff and flexible regions includes depositing a photoresist on a substrate; exposing the photoresist to actinic radiation through a mask to define openings having a first width in the photoresist in the stiff region and openings having a second width greater than the first width in the flexible region; developing the exposed photoresist to create the openings; etching the openings through the developed photoresist to create grooves in the substrate; and coating the substrate including the grooves with a film of material having a thickness greater than one half the first width and less than half of the second width to form adjacent contacting rigid corrugations in the stiff region and spaced compliant corrugations in the flexible region.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 1998Date of Patent: January 2, 2001Assignee: The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.Inventors: Jonathan J. Bernstein, Brian Thomas Cunningham
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Patent number: 5992745Abstract: A method and system of determining the character value of an n,k structured bar code. A first table is established to include entries wherein each entry has a number of bar width values representing a unique high order value. A second table is established to include entries wherein each entry has a number of space width values representing a unique low order value. The entries of each table are searched to determine a high order value and a low order value.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 1997Date of Patent: November 30, 1999Assignee: Uniform Code Council, Inc.Inventor: Theodore C. Williams