Patents Assigned to United States of America
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Patent number: 11970256Abstract: An air deployable buoyant device for transmitting data on its location and the conditions in the air as it descends to the surface of a body of water, and on conditions on a body of water on a real-time basis is disclosed. The device includes a buoy and a plurality of sensors and a transmitter associated with the buoy. The transmitter transmits data on the location of the device and the conditions in the air and on a body of water on a real-time basis to at least one receiver. The receiver may be located over the horizon or in line of sight with the device. The sensors are in communication with the transmitter, and each sensor measures at least one condition in the air and/or on a body of water to assist in locating a person in the water and provide information on the water conditions to a rescue team. Methods of deploying and using the buoyant device are also disclosed herein.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air ForceInventors: Gene David Sauder, II, Bon Strout
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Patent number: 11971290Abstract: A water submersion detection system that may include a buoyant device having a conductive surface, and a housing enclosing the buoyant device and having conductive elements. The conductive elements may include a first set of one or more nonadjacent conductive elements that are electrically connected, and a second set of one or more nonadjacent conductive elements that are electrically connected. The system may include a submersion alert device that activates responsive to the buoyant device contacting the housing.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventor: Raymond Mark Gamache
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Patent number: 11971300Abstract: The present invention relates to a compact, lightweight, cost-efficient ultraviolet-visible-far infrared (UV-VIS-IR) telescope system, covering the 300 nm to 2500 nm (0.3 ?m to 2.5 ?m) spectral range, based on a fast focal-ratio, reflective optics design, and an optical coupling interface appropriate for COTS spectrometers, commensurate with about 1U-2U CubeSat payload volume.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASAInventors: Shahid Aslam, Tilak Hewagama, Nicolas Gorius, Peter C. Chen, Theodor Kostiuk, John R. Kolasinski
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Patent number: 11972335Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for automatic classification of information in an adversarial machine learning setting. For example, a learner that includes multiple classifiers may perform data classification automatically. Each classifier may be trained with adversarial data of a different strength. For a given query to be classified, the learner is configured to intelligently select a classifier that is commensurate with the adversarial strength of the data inside the query, without explicit knowledge of that data or its adversarial strength.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Prithviraj Dasgupta, Joseph B. Collins
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Patent number: 11969466Abstract: Vaccines that elicit broadly protective anti-influenza antibodies. Some vaccines comprise nanoparticles that display HA trimers from influenza virus on their surface. The nanoparticles are fusion proteins comprising a monomeric subunit (e.g., ferritin) joined to the stem region of an influenza HA protein. The fusion proteins self-assemble to form the HA-displaying nanoparticles. The vaccines comprise only the stem region of an influenza HA protein joined to a trimerization domain. Also provided are fusion proteins, and nucleic acid molecules encoding such proteins, and assays using nanoparticles of the invention to detect anti-influenza antibodies.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human ServicesInventors: John R. Mascola, Jeffrey C. Boyington, Hadi M. Yassine, Peter D. Kwong, Barney S. Graham, Masaru Kanekiyo
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Patent number: 11971391Abstract: An in-situ bollard tester. The in-situ bollard tester may comprise: a frame, cable, and tensioner. The frame is preferably adapted to mount onto a pier or wharf and around a bollard to provide structural support for the cable and tensioner. The frame may comprise a rectangular frame, pair of hanging columns, pair of jacks and pair of legs. The pair of jacks are coupled near proximal corners of the rectangular frame and are vertically disposed. The hanging columns are coupled near distal corners of the rectangular frame. The pair of legs are coupled at the lower ends of the hanging columns and are disposed in a horizontal manner. The tensioner may be coupled above the rectangular frame. The cable may fasten to the bollard, and the tensioner may apply tension to the cable at various load angles in order to test the integrity of the bollard.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Gerritt E. Lang, Elaina Ryan, Juan Carrillo, Ricardo Contreras, Zachary Harwood, Benjamin Hulbert, Dennis Michael How, Timothy Paul Kurtin, II
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Patent number: 11970260Abstract: Provided is a radar and communications enhanced sail for a sailboat, sail ship, or sail drone. The sail includes a first sail section comprising an active communication system, a second sail section comprising a passive communication system, or a combination thereof. The active communication system includes an antenna array (transceiver) and a software-defined radio (SDR), while the passive communication system comprises a reflective panel or sections and/or array of reflector panels or sections. The active system utilizes its SDR and transceiver to communicate back and forth with an onshore SDR and transceiver to provide information as necessary. The passive system receives a radar signal via the reflective material on the sail and reflects the signal back at the radar, which produces a radar cross section indicating that there is an object (in this case the sailboat) in the ocean.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Corey Bergsrud, Katherine Grace Pfeiffer, Edward Zipperle, Michael Combs
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Patent number: 11970889Abstract: The emergency egress apparatus includes a protuberance mated to a first portion of the door barricade and a keeper mated to a second portion of the door barricade. A retainer is selectively disposed between one of two positions. A first position defines the placement of the retainer that establishes an interference fit between the protuberance and the keeper. A second position defines the placement of the retainer such that it is not in contact with the protuberance or the keeper. The first position secures the first portion of the door barricaded with respect to the second portion of the door barricade, and the second position decouples the first portion of the door barricade with respect to the second portion of the door barricade.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air ForceInventors: John P. McIntire, Matthew Srnoyachki
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Patent number: 11970586Abstract: A composite material may be prepared from a solid polymeric binder and a solid filler by feeding into an extruder the solid polymeric binder at a first feed rate and the solid filler at a second feed rate. The extruder extrudes an extrudate of the solid polymeric binder and solid filler to form the composite material. The composite material has a binder to filler ratio determined by the first feed rate and second feed rate. The solid polymeric binder and solid filler have different densities. Feeding the solid polymeric binder at the first feed rate and the solid filler at the second feed rate distributes the solid filler substantially homogeneously throughout the composite material.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignees: FLORIDA LEAGUE OF CITIES, INCORPORATED, United States of America As Represented By The Administrator of NASAInventors: Salih Kocak, Christopher L. Holley, II, Nathan Gelino, Tracy Gibson, James Captain, Robert P. Mueller
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Patent number: 11973269Abstract: A tera-sample-per-second waveform generator comprising: a first transmission line having a terminated end and an output end; an anti-reflection load coupled to the terminated end of the first transmission line; a plurality of current sources, wherein each current source is configured to inject current into the first transmission line; and a second transmission line configured to feed the first transmission line with a seed signal through the plurality of current sources such that the second transmission line has a different time delay between current sources than the first transmission line, wherein the seed signal triggers the current sources to inject current into the first transmission line in order to generate an output waveform.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventor: Paul D. Swanson
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Patent number: 11973306Abstract: Disclosed is a laser system including a first laser and a second laser. The first laser includes a laser cavity, and a gas phase molecular gain medium disposed in the laser cavity, the gain medium having an absorption band. The second laser is a solid state laser configured to be continuously tunable, with respect to an emission wavelength of the second laser, over the absorption band of the gain medium, and the second laser is tuned to pump rotational vibrational transitions in the gain medium to achieve a rotational population inversion.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignees: PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the ArmyInventors: Paul Chevalier, Arman Amirzhan, Marco Piccardo, Fan Wang, Steven Glen Johnson, Henry O. Everitt, Federico Capasso
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Publication number: 20240132619Abstract: Disclosed is a molecule comprising: (a) a first domain, which comprises a targeting moiety; (b) a second domain, which comprises an albumin binding domain (ABD), (c) a third domain, which comprises a furin cleavage sequence (“FCS”), which FCS is cleavable by furin; and (d) a fourth domain, which comprises an optionally substituted Domain III from Pseudomonas exotoxin A (“PE”). Related nucleic acids, recombinant expression vectors, host cells, populations of cells, pharmaceutical compositions, methods of producing the molecule, methods of treating or preventing cancer in a mammal, and methods of inhibiting the growth of a target cell are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: The United States of America,as represented by the Secretary,Department of Health and Human ServicesInventors: Ira H. Pastan, Junxia Wei, Masanori Onda, Tapan Bera, Mitchell Ho
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Publication number: 20240136180Abstract: A method for growing nanocrystalline diamond (NCD) on Ga2O3 to provide thermal management in Ga2O3-based devices. A protective SiNx interlayer is deposited on the Ga2O3 before growth of the NCD layer to protect the Ga2O3 from damage caused during growth of the NCD layer. The presence of the NCD provides thermal management and enables improved performance of the Ga2O3-based device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Marko J. Tadjer, Joseph A. Spencer, Alan G. Jacobs, Hannah N. Masten, James Spencer Lundh, Karl D. Hobart, Travis J. Anderson, Tatyana I. Feygelson, Bradford B. Pate, Boris N. Feigelson
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Patent number: 11965799Abstract: An electromagnetic signal detector includes a photonic crystal substrate, an antenna disposed on the substrate and having an active feed region and a ground region spaced apart from one another by a gap, a photonic crystal disposed on the substrate at the gap, and an electro optic polymer disposed on the photonic crystal.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASAInventors: Eleanya Onuma, Manohar Deshpande, Mark Stephen, Fabrizio Gambini, Charles Turner
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Patent number: 11967104Abstract: A method of determining the location of an object in a camera field of view is disclosed. The method may utilize a camera system that includes a digital video camera and a computer that runs image analysis software for analyzing images received from the camera. The image analysis software is configured to isolate pixel groups in each image. The method includes the steps of locating an object in the camera's field of view in which the object is represented by a set of pixels; identifying the centroid of the set of pixels representing the object; and calculating the location of the object relative to the camera based upon known parameters including the focal plane and camera lens location.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air ForceInventors: Anthony Ligouri, Hayk Azatyan, William Erwin, Travis Rennich, David Shald, Adam Warren
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Patent number: 11968440Abstract: A system for generating a privacy protected image. The system may have a detection logic and obscuring logic configured to detect one or more identity-correlated object categories. The system may provide automatic selection of a type of obscuring to be used based on the detected category; wherein said automatic selection includes automatically selecting among a plurality of different, category specific types of reversible obscuring. The detection logic and obscuring logic may include an automatic category-specific selecting between irreversible obscuring and reversible obscuring. The system may comprise a privacy protected image output logic configured to generate the privacy protected image.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: The Government of the United States of America, represented by the Secretary of Homeland SecurityInventor: Arun Vemury
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Patent number: 11966138Abstract: A projector includes a beam homogenizer receiving light from a light source and creating a predetermined illumination, and a spatial light modulator including grating stages to receive the predetermined illumination. Each grating stage may include a plurality of pixels where corresponding pixels in the grating stages are aligned with one another. Each of the pixels may include a liquid crystal layer disposed between two substrates, where a pixel is switchable by applying a voltage thereto, with a grating period of the pixel selected such that, when the voltage is applied to the pixel and light is passed therethrough, optical energy from the light in plus and minus first orders is deflected toward sides of the pixel and optical energy from a zero order of the light is allowed to pass through the pixel, with a polarization state of the light maintained through the pixel.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air ForceInventor: Joshua Lentz
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Patent number: 11965265Abstract: An in-situ method for changing surface features of a metal workpiece. An electrically conductive workpiece is immersed in a bath containing an electrolyte solution devoid of ions corresponding to the workpiece. A counter electrode is immersed in the bath. An electric power supply is connected to the workpiece and the counter electrode. An electric current is passed in a first direction between the workpiece and the counter electrode, while the workpiece serves as an anode. The electric current polarity is reversed to pass the electric current in a second direction between the metallic workpiece and the electrode, while the workpiece serves as a cathode. The electric current polarity in the first direction drives ions from the workpiece into the electrolyte solution, and the electric current polarity in the second direction plates the ions onto the workpiece in the same bath.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: David Sapiro, Gabriel Bjerke
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Patent number: 11968540Abstract: Systems and methods for independently managing wireless transmission by individual spectrum access systems in a radio frequency spectrum shared by a plurality of spectrum access systems. An example method includes: receiving, by the spectrum access system, an interference budget from a sensor; determining, by the spectrum access system, secondary users managed by the spectrum access system in a radio frequency spectrum shared by a plurality of spectrum access systems; managing a move list for the spectrum access system independently of the other spectrum access systems in an absence of exchange of spectrum grant information with the other spectrum access systems; and determining the move list for the spectrum access system from a first moment and a second moment of an aggregate interference distribution such that the spectrum access system provides grants to its secondary users in a dynamic protection area of the spectrum access system.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCEInventors: Thao Tran-Nhu Nguyen, Michael Rafat Souryal
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Patent number: RE49947Abstract: A system for supplying hydrogen gas to a lighter-than-air (LTA) vehicle includes a manifold having multiple vessels. Each vessel has a first chamber that is separated from a second chamber by a barrier. A trigger assembly integrated with the barrier allows a liquid to be combined with a reactant and a catalyst in the second chamber to form a chemical reaction to generate hydrogen gas. A pressure relief valve located on each vessel opens to allow the hydrogen gas to exit when a predetermined pressure is reached, and the hydrogen gas is supplied to the LTA vehicle connected to the manifold.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Pamela A. Boss, Gregory W. Anderson, Brandon J. Wiedemeier, Carol A. Becker, Brooke Bachmann, Mark Gillcrist, Jeffrey M. Lloyd, Charles Ringer