Patents by Inventor James R. Buss

James R. Buss has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8230937
    Abstract: A method for altering the course of a conflagration involving firing a projectile comprising a powder mixture of oxidant powder and nanosized reductant powder at velocity sufficient for a violent reaction between the oxidant powder and the nanosized reductant powder upon impact of the projectile, and causing impact of the projectile at a location chosen to draw a main fire to a spot fire at such location and thereby change the course of the conflagration, whereby the air near the chosen location is heated to a temperature sufficient to cause a spot fire at such location. The invention also includes a projectile useful for such method and said mixture preferably comprises a metastable intermolecular composite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Department of Energy
    Inventors: Blaine W. Asay, Steven F. Son, V. Eric Sanders, Timothy Foley, Alan M. Novak, James R. Busse
  • Patent number: 8185357
    Abstract: Changes, increase or decrease, in the body fluid are passively detected by using a single pixel, non-linear blind de-mixing procedure, which can be extended to general biomedical measurement and diagnosis instruments. More specifically, the single pixel, non-linear blind de-mixing procedure in applied on the hot spots of rheumatic arthritis or breast cancer detection problem using passive two-color infrared imaging, as well as to passively detect blockages in the body fluid circulatory system that might be of importance for coronary artery bypass surgery, diabetes and deep vein thrombosis. Other applications of the mentioned algorithm include a pair of cameras for video, a pair of antennas for cell phones, and in situ data gathering or imaging using multiple mode fiber-optical sensing, as well as selective amplification hearing aids through two-ear binaural processing for de-noise echo cancellation and signal classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Harold H. Szu, James R. Buss, Ivica Kopriva
  • Patent number: 7931764
    Abstract: A method to substantially desensitize a metastable intermolecular composite material to electrostatic discharge and friction comprising mixing the composite material with an organic diluent and removing enough organic diluent from the mixture to form a mixture with a substantially putty-like consistency, as well as a concomitant method of recovering the metastable intermolecular composite material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy
    Inventors: James R. Busse, Robert C. Dye, Timothy J. Foley, Kelvin T. Higa, Betty S. Jorgensen, Victor E. Sanders, Steven F. Son
  • Patent number: 7789981
    Abstract: A method to substantially desensitize a metastable intermolecular composite material to electrostatic discharge and friction comprising mixing the composite material with an organic diluent and removing enough organic diluent from the mixture to form a mixture with a substantially putty-like consistency, as well as a concomitant method of recovering the metastable intermolecular composite material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy
    Inventors: James R. Busse, Robert C. Dye, Timothy J. Foley, Kelvin T. Higa, Betty S. Jorgensen, Victor E. Sanders, Steven F. Son
  • Patent number: 7511655
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining three dimensional sub-voxel positions using synthetic aperture radar. The apparatus includes at least four non-coplanar, phase-coherent synthetic aperture radar (SAR) platforms comprising a plurality of phase-synchronized local oscillators cohered to a common reference clock, a first SAR platform of the SAR platforms operable to transmit a radar waveform, and the SAR platforms operable to receive scattered energy waveforms resulting from the radar waveform and operable to generate two-dimensional (2-D) SAR images based on the received scattered energy waveforms. The apparatus also includes a synchronizing processor operable to communicate with the SAR platforms and operable to synchronize a plurality of SAR transmission and receiving intervals for the SAR platforms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Jefferson M. Willey, William A. Barnwell, James R. Buss, Harold H. Szu
  • Patent number: 7366564
    Abstract: Changes, increase or decrease, in the body fluid flow are passively detected by using a single pixel, non-linear blind de-mixing procedure, which can be extended to general biomedical measurement and diagnoses instruments. More specifically the single pixel, non-linear blind de-mixing procedure is applied on the hot spots of rheumatic arthritis or breast cancer detection problem using passive two-color infrared imaging as well as to passively detect blockages in the body fluid circulatory system that might be of importance for coronary artery bypass surgery, diabetes and deep vein thrombosis. Other applications of the mentioned algorithm include a pair of cameras for video, a pair of antennas for cell phones, and in situ data gathering or imaging using multiple mode fiberoptical sensing as well as selective amplification hearing aids through two-ear binaural processing for de-noise echo cancellation and signal classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Harold H. Szu, James R. Buss, Ivica Kopriva
  • Publication number: 20080074313
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining three dimensional sub-voxel positions using synthetic aperture radar. The apparatus includes at least four non-coplanar, phase-coherent synthetic aperture radar (SAR) platforms comprising a plurality of phase-synchronized local oscillators cohered to a common reference clock, a first SAR platform of the SAR platforms operable to transmit a radar waveform, and the SAR platforms operable to receive scattered energy waveforms resulting from the radar waveform and operable to generate two-dimensional (2-D) SAR images based on the received scattered energy waveforms. The apparatus also includes a synchronizing processor operable to communicate with the SAR platforms and operable to synchronize a plurality of SAR transmission and receiving intervals for the SAR platforms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2006
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Inventors: Jefferson M. Willey, William A. Barnwell, James R. Buss, Harold H. Szu
  • Publication number: 20040181375
    Abstract: Changes, increase or decrease, in the body fluid flow are passively detected by using a single pixel, non-linear blind de-mixing procedure, which can be extended to general biomedical measurement and diagnoses instruments. More specifically the single pixel, non-linear blind de-mixing procedure is applied on the hot spots of rheumatic arthritis or breast cancer detection problem using passive two-color infrared imaging as well as to passively detect blockages in the body fluid circulatory system that might be of importance for coronary artery bypass surgery, diabetes and deep vein thrombosis. Other applications of the mentioned algorithm include a pair of cameras for video, a pair of antennas for cell phones, and in situ data gathering or imaging using multiple mode fiberoptical sensing as well as selective amplification hearing aids through two-ear binaural processing for de-noise echo cancellation and signal classification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2003
    Publication date: September 16, 2004
    Inventors: Harold Szu, James R. Buss, Ivica Kopriva