Patents— 2012

DATE
ID NO.
Title
01-03-2012 8,087,499 Vibration wave controlled variable stiffness structures and method of making same
01-10-2012 8,093,559 Methods and apparatus for three-color infrared sensors
01-10-2012 8,095,993 Cryptographic architecture with instruction masking and other techniques for thwarting differential power analysis
01-17-2012 8,097,234 Hydrogen permeable encapsulated solid-state hydride materials and method for forming and using same
01-17-2012 8,098,187 Wide field of view millimeter wave imager
01-31-2012 8,106,850 Adaptive spectral surface
02-14-2012 8,112,989 Electrically resistive coating for remediation (regeneration) of a diesel particulate filter and method
02-14-2012 8,114,544 Methods and apparatus for increasing biofilm formation and power output in microbial fuel cells
02-14-2012 8,116,575 System for anomaly detection using sub-space analysis
02-14-2012 8,117,141 Hierarchical system for multi-objective shape control of variable stiffness structures
02-21-2012 8,120,843 Dark channel array with scattering centers
02-21-2012 8,121,485 RF-photonic transversal filter method and apparatus
02-28-2012 8,124,013 System and method for large scale atmospheric plasma generation
02-28-2012 8,124,505 Two stage plasma etching method for enhancement mode GaN HFET
03-20-2012 8,138,016 Large area integration of quartz resonators with electronics
03-27-2012 8,143,648 Unipolar tunneling photodetector
03-27-2012 8,144,059 Active dielectric resonator antenna
03-27-2012 8,144,317 Method to locate and eliminate manufacturing defects in a quartz resonator gyro
03-27-2012 8,144,708 Collaborative multicast routing (CMR) for multicasting in unidirectional, hybrid, multi-tiered mobile wireless network
04-10-2012 8,151,640 MEMS on-chip inertial navigation system with error correction
04-10-2012 8,153,532 Bilayer dielectric interconnection process
04-10-2012 8,155,496 Composite truss armor
04-24-2012 8,165,407 Visual attention and object recognition system
05-01-2012 8,168,487 Programmable connection and isolation of active regions in an integrated circuit using ambiguous features to confuse a reverse engineer
05-01-2012 8,169,001 Method for preparing a non-self-aligned heterojunction bipolar transistor with a small emitter-to-base spacing
05-08-2012 8,174,425 Asynchronous pulse processing apparatus and method providing signal normalization
05-15-2012 8,176,607 Method of fabricating quartz resonators
05-15-2012 8,178,946 Modulation doped super-lattice base for heterojunction bipolar transistors
05-15-2012 8,179,331 Free-space phase shifter having series coupled inductive-variable capacitance devices
05-15-2012 8,180,057 Chaotic signal enabled low probability intercept communication
05-15-2012 8,180,183 Parallel modulator photonic link
06-05-2012 8,193,611 High performance InAs-based devices
06-05-2012 8,195,023 Functionally-graded three-dimensional ordered open-cellular microstructure and method of making same
06-05-2012 8,195,591 Cognitive signal processing system
06-12-2012 8,197,930 Three-dimensional ordered open-cellular structures
06-19-2012 8,204,623 Planning approach for obstacle avoidance in complex environment using articulated redundant robot arm
06-19-2012 8,204,924 Variable precision wavelets
06-26-2012 8,207,782 Circuits and methods to minimize thermally generated offset voltages
07-03-2012 8,212,739 Multiband tunable impedance surface
07-03-2012 8,213,709 Method and system for directed area search using cognitive swarm vision and cognitive Bayesian reasoning
07-03-2012 8,214,309 Cognitive-neural method for image analysis
07-10-2012 8,216,910 Group III-V compound semiconductor based heterojunction bipolar transistors with various collector profiles on a common wafer
07-17-2012 8,223,052 Randomized time encoding machine for sub-nyquist signal sampling
07-24-2012 8,228,582 Optical retro-reflective apparatus with modulation capability
07-24-2012 8,229,304 Phase control of a fiber optic bundle
08-14-2012 8,241,798 Methods and apparatus for increasing biofilm formation and power output in microbial fuel cells
08-14-2012 8,242,538 Method and device for growing pseudomorphic A1InAsSb on InAs
08-14-2012 8,242,865 Planar RF electromechanical switch
08-14-2012 8,244,077 Unit-cell array optical signal processor
08-21-2012 8,246,846 Method for fabricating integrated MEMS switches and filters
09-04-2012 8,257,885 Recording reflection Bragg Gratings and apodizing reflection Bragg Gratings
09-04-2012 8,258,583 Conductive channel pseudo block process and circuit to inhibit reverse engineering
09-11-2012 8,263,928 High speed photonic analog to digital quantizer
09-18-2012 8,270,671 Method and system for generic object detection using block features
09-18-2012 8,270,792 High-resolution multi-level frequency channelizers
09-25-2012 8,272,309 Composite truss armor
09-25-2012 8,274,727 Programmable optical label
10-09-2012 8,283,553 Photon enhanced thermoelectric power generation
10-09-2012 8,285,052 Image ordering system optimized via user feedback
10-09-2012 8,285,655 Method for object recongnition using multi-layered swarm sweep algorithms
10-16-2012 8,287,895 Three-dimensional biological scaffold compromising polymer waveguides
10-16-2012 8,288,877 Actuator enhanced alignment of self-assembled microstructures
10-23-2012 8,295,654 High-speed self-adjusting photonic converter
10-23-2012 8,296,577 Cryptographic bus architecture for the prevention of differential power analysis
11-06-2012 8,305,154 Parametrically driven quartz UHF oscillator
11-06-2012 8,306,786 Detector array for compressive sensing
11-13-2012 8,309,240 Encapsulated fire-retardant materials to improve battery safety
11-13-2012 8,311,317 Hierarchical spatial representation for multimodal sensory data
11-20-2012 8,315,499 Functionally-graded three-dimensional ordered open-cellular microstructure and method of making same
11-27-2012 8,320,727 Composite structures with ordered three-dimensional (3D) continuous interpenetrating phases
12-11-2012 8,331,743 Reconfigurable optical filters formed by integration of electrically tunable microresonators
12-11-2012 8,332,053 Method for fabrication of a stretchable electronic skin
12-18-2012 8,334,684 Method for improving sensitivity for radiometers
12-18-2012 8,334,797 Wideband high resolution time-stretched photonic analog-to-digital converter
12-18-2012 8,335,751 System for intelligent goal-directed search in large volume imagery and video using a cognitive-neural subsystem
12-25-2012 8,339,320 Tunable frequency selective surface