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Compact particle accelerator
Patent • #9,750,122. A compact particle accelerator having an input portion configured to receive power to produce particles for acceleration, where the input portion includes a switch, is provided. In a general embodiment, a vacuum tube receives particles produced from the input portion at a first end, and a plurality of wafer...

Compact radiation detector
Patent • #9,993,894. An apparatus for detecting radiation is provided. In embodiments, at least one sensor is disposed on a surface of a wafer-like substrate. At least one sensor medium is fixed relative to the substrate, optically or electrically coupled to the sensor, and separated from the sensor by no more than...

Compact radiation detector
Patent • #10,620,326. Apparatus for detecting radiation includes a sensor medium disposed within a cavity in a silicon-based substrate. An electrode arrangement is provided for collecting charge generated within the sensor medium by interactions with impinging radiation and drifted through the sensor medium. The electrode arrangement is constituted, in part, by a...

Compact solid source of hydrogen gas
Patent • #6,746,496. A compact solid source of hydrogen gas, where the gas is generated by contacting water with micro-disperse particles of sodium borohydride in the presence of a catalyst, such as cobalt or ruthenium. The micro-disperse particles can have a substantially uniform diameter of 1-10 microns, and preferably about 3-5 microns....

Compensating for parasitic voltage drops in circuit arrays
Patent • #10,043,855. Various technologies for improving uniformity of operation of elements in an array circuit are described herein. In an exemplary embodiment, a plurality of resistive elements are incorporated into an array circuit such that voltages developed across any two elements is substantially the same when an equal voltage is applied...

Complex admixtures of clathrate hydrates in a water desalination method
Patent • #7,560,028. Disclosed is a method that achieves water desalination by utilizing and optimizing clathrate hydrate phenomena. Clathrate hydrates are crystalline compounds of gas and water that desalinate water by excluding salt molecules during crystallization. Contacting a hydrate forming gaseous species with water will spontaneously form hydrates at specific temperatures and...

Compliant cantilevered micromold
Patent • #7,090,189. A compliant cantilevered three-dimensional micromold is provided. The compliant cantilevered micromold is suitable for use in the replication of cantilevered microparts and greatly simplifies the replication of such cantilevered parts. The compliant cantilevered micromold may be used to fabricate microparts using casting or electroforming techniques. When the compliant micromold...

Composite zeolite membranes
Patent • #6,494,326. A new class of composite zeolite membranes and synthesis techniques therefor has been invented. These membranes are essentially defect-free, and exhibit large levels of transmembrane flux and of chemical and isotopic selectivity.

Composition pulse time-of-flight mass flow sensor
Patent • #6,675,660. A device for measuring fluid flow rates over a wide range of flow rates (<1 nL/min to >10 .mu.L/min) and at pressures at least as great as 10,000 psi. The invention is particularly adapted for use in microfluidic systems. The device operates by producing compositional variations in the fluid,...

Composition pulse time-of-flight mass flow sensor
Patent • #7,225,683. A device for measuring fluid flow rates over a wide range of flow rates (<1 nL/min to >10 .mu.L/min) and at pressures at least as great as 2,000 psi. The invention is particularly adapted for use in microfluidic systems. The device operates by producing compositional variations in the fluid,...

Compound semiconductor optical waveguide switch
Patent • #6,577,785. An optical waveguide switch is disclosed which is formed from III-V compound semiconductors and which has a moveable optical waveguide with a cantilevered portion that can be bent laterally by an integral electrostatic actuator to route an optical signal (i.e. light) between the moveable optical waveguide and one of...

Comprehensive Testing of Respiratory Personal Protective Equipment
Featured Opportunity • New and improved approaches to rapidly test and certify respiratory personal protective equipment (PPE) can ensure widespread availability and reliable protection from airborne pathogens. Business Problem During the COVID-19 pandemic, the long lead times associated with existing testing methods for respiratory personal protective equipment (PPE) significantly hindered the certification process...

Compressive sensing optical design and simulation tool
Patent • #10,539,783. A system or method for designing optical systems includes generating a mathematical model of an imaging system; tracing a plurality of light rays from a source through the model of the imaging system in a forward direction and a backward direction incident upon an arbitrarily defined detector location; calculating...

Computation of glint, glare, and solar irradiance distribution
Patent • #9,103,719. Described herein are technologies pertaining to computing the solar irradiance distribution on a surface of a receiver in a concentrating solar power system or glint/glare emitted from a reflective entity. At least one camera captures images of the Sun and the entity of interest, wherein the images have pluralities...

Computation of glint, glare, and solar irradiance distribution
Patent • #9,722,534. Described herein are technologies pertaining to computing the solar irradiance distribution on a surface of a receiver in a concentrating solar power system or glint/glare emitted from a reflective entity. At least one camera captures images of the Sun and the entity of interest, wherein the images have pluralities...

Computation of term dominance in text documents
Patent • #8,166,051. An improved entropy-based term dominance metric useful for characterizing a corpus of text documents, and is useful for comparing the term dominance metrics of a first corpus of documents to a second corpus having a different number of documents.

Computational optical physical unclonable function
Patent • #10,387,660. A system or method for encryption of data includes a light source, a random optical element and a light detection element. The light source is arranged to transmit an input data signal to the random optical element. The light source is incident on the random optical element such that...

Computational optical physical unclonable function
Patent • #11151263. A system or method for encryption of data includes a light source, a random optical element and a light detection element. The light source is arranged to transmit an input data signal to the random optical element. The light source is incident on the random optical element such that...

Computational processor-in-memory with enhanced strided memory access
Patent • #10,936,230. A computational memory for a computer. The memory includes a memory bank having a selected-row buffer and being configured to store records up to a number, K. The memory also includes an accumulator connected to the memory bank, the accumulator configured to store up to K records. The memory...
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