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Computing & Data Science
Technology Area • The Computing & Data Science technology area contains fundamental and applied solutions in the computing and information sciences. These technologies include computer system architecture, new computing paradigms, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, machine learning, cognitive modeling, data analytics, scientific visualization and modeling, and applications of computational and data science to engineering domains.   This...

Computing an operating parameter of a unified power flow controller
Patent • #US8930034B1. A Unified Power Flow Controller described herein comprises a sensor that outputs at least one sensed condition, a processor that receives the at least one sensed condition, a memory that comprises control logic that is executable by the processor; and power electronics that comprise power storage, wherein the processor...

Computing an operating parameter of a unified power flow controller
Patent • #US9851737B1. A Unified Power Flow Controller described herein comprises a sensor that outputs at least one sensed condition, a processor that receives the at least one sensed condition, a memory that comprises control logic that is executable by the processor; and power electronics that comprise power storage, wherein the processor...

Computing angle of arrival of radio signals
Patent • #US9810760B1. Various technologies pertaining to computing angle of arrival of radio signals are described. A system that is configured for computing the angle of arrival of a radio signal includes a cylindrical sheath wrapped around a cylindrical object, where the cylindrical sheath acts as a ground plane. The system further...

Computing architecture for autonomous microgrids
Patent • #US9148019B2. A computing architecture that facilitates autonomously controlling operations of a microgrid is described herein. A microgrid network includes numerous computing devices that execute intelligent agents, each of which is assigned to a particular entity (load, source, storage device, or switch) in the microgrid. The intelligent agents can execute in...

Computing environment logbook
Patent • #US8271891B1. A computing environment logbook logs events occurring within a computing environment. The events are displayed as a history of past events within the logbook of the computing environment. The logbook provides search functionality to search through the history of past events to find one or more selected past events,...

Concentrated solar irradiation of targets in plasmas
Patent • #US12573587B2. An apparatus for thermal ablation testing is provided. The apparatus comprises a chamber; an optically transparent window in the chamber; a sample holder inside the chamber; a test sample in the sample holder; a number of bare-wire thermocouples connected to the test sample, wherein the thermocouples generate temperature data...

Concentrated thermal tuner for optical microdisk devices
Patent • #US11796841B1. A thermally tunable microresonator device with enhanced thermal confinement for greater efficiency is provided. A thermal confinement structure is electrically connected in series with the heater element used for tuning the microresonator. The heater element is conformed in a circular arc concentric with the microresonator, the thermal confinement structure...

Concentration solar power optimization system and method of using same
Patent • #US8674280B1. A system and method for optimizing at least one mirror of at least one CSP system is provided. The system has a screen for displaying light patterns for reflection by the mirror, a camera for receiving a reflection of the light patterns from the mirror, and a solar characterization...

Concentric Flow Control (CFC) Vent Mast
Featured Opportunity • A smaller, lighter, and less expensive solution for safer release of lighter-than-air flammable gases. Gaseous or liquid hydrogen tank releases, or releases of other lighter-than-air flammable gases, are typically routed up a vent mast into ambient air, where they can safely dissipate and not return to ground level. This requires...

Concurrent signal combining and channel estimation in digital communications
Patent • #US8009772B1. In the reception of digital information transmitted on a communication channel, a characteristic exhibited by the communication channel during transmission of the digital information is estimated based on a communication signal that represents the digital information and has been received via the communication channel. Concurrently with the estimating, the...

Configuration Self-Scrubber for Xilinx Virtex-5QV FPGAs
Featured Opportunity • The Xilinx Virtex-5QV is a field programmable gate array (FPGA) designed for use in space applications The Xilinx Virtex-5QV is a field programmable gate array (FPGA) designed for use in space applications. Despite radiation hardening of this particular FPGA, single-event upsets still occasionally corrupt the configuration memory of the device,...

Connectors for multicore optical fibers and methods thereof
Patent • #US10234632B1. The present invention relates to optical coupling systems that employ a multicore optical fiber. The system can be employed with two multicore optical fibers or with a single multicore optical fiber for use with an optical device. In particular, the system includes connectors having a lens assembly configured to...

Content-addressable memory based enforcement of configurable policies
Patent • #US8719925B1. A monitoring device for monitoring transactions on a bus includes content-addressable memory (“CAM”) and a response policy unit. The CAM includes an input coupled to receive a bus transaction tag based on bus traffic on the bus. The CAM stores data tags associated with rules of a security policy...

Continuous full-resolution two-color infrared detector
Patent • #US11674850B1. An apparatus is provided for nanoantenna-enhanced detection of infrared radiation. The apparatus includes one or more detector pixels. A plurality of detector pixels can constitute a focal plane array (FPA). Each detector pixel carries at least a first and a second subpattern of nanoantenna elements, with elements of the...

Continuously variable optical confinement for optical amplifiers
Patent • #US12355209B1. A semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) with a variable optical confinement factor I′ along the length of the device is disclosed. At the input end of the SOA, the optical confinement is high as an optical core is adjacent an optical gain layer, resulting in a high-gain region that rapidly...

Contour mode resonators with acoustic reflectors
Patent • #US7385334B1. A microelectromechanical (MEM) resonator is disclosed which has a linear or ring-shaped acoustic resonator suspended above a substrate by an acoustic reflector. The acoustic resonator can be formed with a piezoelectric material (e.g. aluminum nitride, zinc oxide or PZT), or using an electrostatically-actuated material. The acoustic reflector (also termed...

Control system design method
Patent • #US8121708B1. A control system design method and concomitant control system comprising representing a physical apparatus to be controlled as a Hamiltonian system, determining elements of the Hamiltonian system representation which are power generators, power dissipators, and power storage devices, analyzing stability and performance of the Hamiltonian system based on the...

Control System for Active Damping of Inter-Area Oscillations
Featured Opportunity • Inter-area oscillations may develop on power grids with large generation and load complexes separated by long transmission lines. Poorly damped inter-area oscillations can have devastating effects, such as extensive blackouts like those experienced on the West Coast in August 1996. The current approach to prevent these effects is to operate...

Control systems and methods to enable autonomous drilling
Patent • #US11753922B1. A system or method for drilling includes autonomously controlling a rotary or percussive drilling process as it transitions through multiple materials with very different dynamics. The method determines a drilling medium based on real-time measurements and comparison to prior drilling data, and identifies the material type, drilling region, and...

Control systems and methods to enable autonomous drilling
Patent • #US11280173B1. A system or method for drilling includes autonomously controlling a rotary or percussive drilling process as it transitions through multiple materials with very different dynamics. The method determines a drilling medium based on real-time measurements and comparison to prior drilling data, and identifies the material type, drilling region, and...
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