Patent • #US7421924B1. An active hinge apparatus is disclosed which can be used to raise a micromechanical structure (e.g. a plate or micromirror) on a substrate. The active hinge apparatus utilizes one or more of teeth protruding outward from an axle which also supports the micromechanical structure on one end thereof. A...
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Apparatus, method and system for imaging and utilization of SEM charged particles
Patent • #US10770262B1. A scanning electron microscope (SEM) system includes an SEM objective that emits an electron beam toward a sample, causing emission of charged particles including secondary electrons, Auger electrons, backscattered electrons, anions and cations. The SEM system includes electron optics elements that are configured to establish electric fields around the...
Apparatus, method and system to control accessibility of platform resources based on an integrity level
Patent • #US9479513B1. Techniques and mechanism to selectively provide resource access to a functional domain of a platform. In an embodiment, the platform includes both a report domain to monitor the functional domain and a policy domain to identify, based on such monitoring, a transition of the functional domain from a first...
Apparatus, methods and system for temperature gradient aging with in-situ electrical monitoring
Patent • #US10876987B1. An apparatus for making in-situ electrical measurements of a sample while the sample is subjected to a temperature gradient between a first side of the sample and a second side of the sample. The apparatus comprises a first heater and a second heater that are positioned in contact with...
Apparatus, system and method for highlighting activity-induced change in multi-pass synthetic aperture radar imagery
Patent • #US10698104B1. Described herein are various technologies relating to constructing a differenced change product (DCP) image. A plurality of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images of a scene are generated based upon radar signals directed towards and reflected off of the scene, and a plurality of coherence change detection (CCD) images of...
Apparatus, system and method for highlighting anomalous change in multi-pass synthetic aperture radar imagery
Patent • #US10535127B1. Described herein are various technologies relating to constructing a statistically-normalized coherence (SNC) image. A plurality of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images of a scene are generated based upon radar signals directed towards and reflected off of the scene, and a plurality of coherence change detection (CCD) images of the...
Apparatus, system and method for providing cryptographic key information with physically unclonable function circuitry
Patent • #US9208355B1. Techniques and mechanisms for providing a value from physically unclonable function (PUF) circuitry for a cryptographic operation of a security module. In an embodiment, a cryptographic engine receives a value from PUF circuitry and based on the value, outputs a result of a cryptographic operation to a bus of...
Apparatuses and methods for tuning center frequencies
Patent • #US9270281B1. Apparatuses and methods for tuning center frequencies are described herein. Examples of tuning described herein including tuning using feedback from the resonator. Variable gain feedback for tuning of acoustic wave resonators is provided in some examples. An example apparatus may include a resonator and a feedback loop. The resonator...
Application for managing model-based material properties for simulation-based engineering
Patent • #US7499841B2. An application for generating a property set associated with a constitutive model of a material includes a first program module adapted to receive test data associated with the material and to extract loading conditions from the test data. A material model driver is adapted to receive the loading conditions...
Approximate circuits for increased reliability
Patent • #US9218444B2. Embodiments of the invention describe a Boolean circuit having a voter circuit and a plurality of approximate circuits each based, at least in part, on a reference circuit. The approximate circuits are each to generate one or more output signals based on values of received input signals. The voter...
Approximate circuits for increased reliability
Patent • #US9112490B1. Embodiments of the invention describe a Boolean circuit having a voter circuit and a plurality of approximate circuits each based, at least in part, on a reference circuit. The approximate circuits are each to generate one or more output signals based on values of received input signals. The voter...
Aqueous Na-ion redox flow battery with ceramic NaSICON membrane
Patent • #US10586997B1. A redox flow battery is described herein that has a sodium-super-ionic-conductor NaSICON barrier disposed between an anolyte chamber of the battery and the catholyte chamber of the battery. The NaSICON barrier prevents crossover of solvents or active redox species between the anolyte chamber and the catholyte chamber, while permitting...
Arc plasma-generating systems and methods thereof
Patent • #US10261120B1. The present invention relates to systems for generating an arc fault in an electrical circuit, as well as methods thereof. In particular, the system provides a platform that can produce an arc discharge in a controlled manner, while measuring various parameters to characterize that discharge. Such parameters include voltage...
Architected Porous Stamp for Liquid Transfer Printing
Featured Opportunity • An architected porous stamp fabricated using multiphoton lithography (MPL) can achieve very fine tunable features and exceptional control in liquid transfer printing Mass production roll-to-roll printing techniques such as flexography, gravure, and offset are undergoing re-examination for their suitability in the emerging area of printed electronics. These methods rely on...
Architected stamps for liquid transfer printing
Patent • #US11718115B2. The present invention relates to architected stamps having beneficial printing properties. In particular, negative Poisson ratio structures and/or porous reservoirs can be employed to control fluid dynamics and to provide metered ink transfer.
Architectural support for persistent applications
Patent • #US12298897B2. Illustrative embodiments are directed to methods, apparatus and computer program products for caching at least a fraction of data stored in a non-volatile memory in a mirror region of a dynamic random access memory. A memory controller hub of a processor chip coupled to both the non-volatile memory and...
Area selective deposition templated by hydrogen and halogen resists
Patent • #US12518967B1. A process for area selective atomic layer deposition (ALD) at the near atomic scale (sub 10 nm) is disclosed. A substrate surface is cleaned and terminated with hydrogen and a pattern written in the hydrogen terminated surface by selectively depassivating the surface using scanning tunneling microscope lithography. The depassivated...
Area-efficient physically unclonable function circuit architecture
Patent • #US9018972B1. Generating a physically a physically unclonable function (“PUF”) circuit value includes comparing each of first identification components in a first bank to each of second identification components in a second bank. A given first identification component in the first bank is not compared to another first identification component in...
Artifact reduction within a SAR image
Patent • #US10018718B1. The various technologies presented herein relate to reducing and/or filtering undesired artifacts in a SAR image, wherein the artifacts are generated by RF interference resulting from a communication signal being included in a radar return which also comprises radar clutter. The radar return is separated into two subapertures, a...
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Associative list processing unit
Patent • #US8688903B1. An associative list processing unit and method comprising employing a plurality of prioritized cell blocks and permitting inserts to occur in a single clock cycle if all of the cell blocks are not full.
Athermal channeled spectropolarimeter
Patent • #US9207123B2. A temperature insensitive (athermal) channeled spectropolarimeter (CSP) is described. The athermal CSP includes a crystal retarder formed of a biaxial crystal. The crystal retarder has three crystal axes, wherein each axis has its own distinct index of refraction. The axes are oriented in a particular manner, causing an amplitude...
Atomic Magnetometer
Featured Opportunity • Highly sensitive, cryogen-free Atomic Magnetometer magnetic field sensor substantially reduces costs of acquiring and operating magnetoencephalography (MEG) systems The Atomic Magnetometer MEG system uses a novel sensor design that allows it to be compact, highly sensitive, and versatile enough to be readily arrayed around the human skull. In the system,...
Atomic magnetometer
Patent • #US8212556B1. An atomic magnetometer is disclosed which uses a pump light beam at a D1 or D2 transition of an alkali metal vapor to magnetically polarize the vapor in a heated cell, and a probe light beam at a different D2 or D1 transition to sense the magnetic field via...
Atomic magnetometer with multiple spatial channels
Patent • #US9995800B1. An atomic magnetometer includes an atomic vapor cell, an optical system conformed to transmit pump radiation and probe radiation through the vapor cell, and an optical detection system arranged to receive and detect probe radiation after it exits the vapor cell. Improvements in the separation of spatial channels are...
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