Patents by Inventor Michael D. Moskal

Michael D. Moskal 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).

  • Publication number: 20080260212
    Abstract: An improved method for detecting truth or deceit (15) comprising providing a video camera (18) adapted to record images of a subject's (16) face, recording images of the subject's face, providing a mathematical model (62) of a face defined by a set of facial feature locations and textures, providing a mathematical model of facial behaviors (78, 82, 98, 104) that correlate to truth or deceit, comparing (64) the facial feature locations to the image (29) to provide a set of matched facial feature locations (70), comparing (77, 90, 94, 100) the mathematical model of facial behaviors to the matched facial feature locations, and providing a deceit indication as a function of the comparison (78, 91, 95, 101 or 23).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2008
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Inventors: Michael D. Moskal, Venugopal Govindaraju, Philip Charles Kilinskas, Jared Delbert Holsopple, Thomas Edward Slowe
  • Patent number: 5606111
    Abstract: A test cell apparatus and method for measuring gases emitted from a test ple. The apparatus having hollow, enclosed, gas impermeable chamber having side walls terminating at a closed end and a gas transfer end. The gas transfer end receives and emits a flow of a gas therethrough. The cell has a planar platform in the chamber extending from the closed end to the gas transfer end defining a first chamber portion including a first gas transfer end portion, and a second chamber portion including a second gas transfer end portion. The platform has an opening therethrough at a location proximate to the closed end of the chamber and a fan installed in it near the gas transfer end. Means are provided for fixing a test article through the platform such that part of the test article is positioned and exposed within the first chamber portion and another part of the test article is positioned and exposed within the second chamber portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1997
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Roland J. Pili e, Thomas M. McMahon, Michael D. Moskal