Patent • #US8398839B1. A new microfluidic system comprising an automated prototype insulator-based dielectrophoresis (iDEP) triggering microfluidic device for pathogen monitoring that can eventually be run outside the laboratory in a real world environment has been used to demonstrate the feasibility of automated trapping and detection of particles. The system broadly comprised an...
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System on chip module configured for event-driven architecture
Patent • #US10089160B2. A system on chip (SoC) module is described herein, wherein the SoC modules comprise a processor subsystem and a hardware logic subsystem. The processor subsystem and hardware logic subsystem are in communication with one another, and transmit event messages between one another. The processor subsystem executes software actors, while...
System on chip module configured for event-driven architecture
Patent • #US9792250B1. A system on chip (SoC) module is described herein, wherein the SoC modules comprise a processor subsystem and a hardware logic subsystem. The processor subsystem and hardware logic subsystem are in communication with one another, and transmit event messages between one another. The processor subsystem executes software actors, while...
System, algorithm, and method using short pulse interrogation with neutrons to detect and identify matter
Patent • #US11061164B1. A system, method, and algorithm for detecting and identifying special nuclear material (SNM) (including fissionable material), explosives, or drugs is disclosed. This material detection system relies on active interrogation of material using a short, intense neutron pulse, and characterization of the resulting prompt gamma response in two short time...
Systems and methods for automated drilling of high aspect ratio, small diameter holes in remote, confined spaces
Patent • #US12241370B1. A compact drill assembly, a drilling system and a method for automatically drilling small diameter holes of arbitrary depth. The compact drill assembly includes a housing having a geometry that allows insertion into the confined space and a rotatable drilling spindle that includes an actuated locking collet assembly arranged...
Systems and methods for automatically updating system firmware
Patent • #US12405781B2. In an approach to secure firmware updating, a system comprises: one or more user devices, each of the one or more user devices having one or more firmware modules; one or more computing devices; a digital signature repository; and a z-engine circuitry. The z-engine circuitry is configured to: receive...
Systems and methods for blocking, detecting and responding to cyber attacks in physically controlled distributed systems
Patent • #US12470594B1. Systems and methods that provide Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) technologies that equip cyber-defenders with new capabilities to autonomously respond to network and host-based system alerts, threat hunting results, and cyber intelligence data streams. Systems and methods provide a novel SOAR approach for networked systems where such networked...
Systems and methods for controlling electrical grid resources
Patent • #US11050262B1. The present invention relates to PMU-based control systems for dampening inter-area oscillations in large-scale interconnected power systems or grids to protect against a catastrophic blackout. The control systems receive phasor measurements from two or more locations on an AC transmission line and generates a power control command to a...
Systems and methods for dynamically reconfigurable artificial synapses and neurons with tunable activation functions
Patent • #US11930723B1. An ionic redox transistor comprises a solid channel, a solid reservoir layer, and a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the channel and the reservoir layer. The channel exhibits a substantially linear current-voltage relationship in a first range of voltages, and a nonlinear current-voltage relationship in a second range of...
Systems and methods for electronic communication with a device using an unknown communications protocol
Patent • #US11196611B1. Various technologies for communicating with systems that communicate using an unknown communications protocol are described herein. A transceiver intercepts a plurality of communications exchanged between two or more transceivers on a communications network. Pattern-recognition algorithms are executed over the plurality of communications, and features of an unknown communications protocol...
Systems and methods for high temperature bulk solid storage and handling
Patent • #US12379135B1. Systems and methods are disclosed that minimize erosion within a high-temperature storage bin by using particle-on-particle flow whereby flow against the wall is minimized thus protecting the walls from erosion. The flat bottom of the bin promotes a stagnant bed of particles around the outlet that provides thermal insulation...
Systems and methods for in-situ calibration of scintillation spectrometer
Patent • #US11675098B1. A radiation spectrometer includes a scintillator, a photomultiplier, and one or more light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The scintillator receives radiation from the environment and emits light that is indicative of an energy of the radiation. The photomultiplier receives the light and outputs an electrical signal that is in turn indicative...
Systems and methods for interferometric end point detection for a focused ion beam fabrication tool
Patent • #US10446369B1. Various technologies for providing an operator of a focused ion beam (FIB) system with navigational and processing data are described herein. An exemplary system includes a broadband light source and a narrowband light source that emit light to a target of the FIB. An optical detector receives reflections of...
Systems and methods for intrusion detection using GHz beams
Patent • #US10055959B1. The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods that use 1 GHz to 1000 GHz sources and sensors to create an intrusion detection array that does not have the physical limitations of an Active IR sensor. The array is created by a plurality of wave sources and sensor...
Systems and methods for measuring material degradation
Patent • #US12196645B1. Systems and methods that measure material deformation by measuring a tracer gas that has been added to or is present in an engineered material that is subsequently released from the material, measured, and correlated to a change in a property of the material upon a stress/strain being applied to...
Systems and methods for miniaturized drawbar extension springs
Patent • #US10473175B1. Extension springs that can be manufactured to a small size with a precise free length are described herein. An extension spring comprises a first drawbar member and a second drawbar member that extend along a same direction. The extension spring further comprises a compression spring coil that surrounds respective...
Systems and methods for monitoring traffic on industrial control and building automation system networks
Patent • #US10819721B1. Technologies relating to monitoring communications traffic to detect potential attacks on industrial control system networks and building automation system networks are described herein. In an embodiment, a monitoring device receives a plurality of communications from a control network. The monitoring device transmits the communications to a computing device. Based...
Systems and methods for optical measurement of cross-wind
Patent • #US12038507B1. Various technologies pertaining to optical measurement of cross-wind are described herein. A beam of light is emitted along a trajectory through a shooting space from a location of a shooter to a target using a laser. The beam is reflected by the target, and the beam is received at...
Systems and methods for optimal phase shift between dynamic control actions for wind turbines
Patent • #US12535055B1. Dynamic wake control (or dynamic induction control) is used to promote wake breakdown and recovery behind a wind turbine that improve wind farm performance/efficiency. Constructive interference is created by simultaneously performing harmonic rotor speed control and harmonic collective pitch control so that the phase of the rotor speed perturbations...
Systems and methods for particle-enhanced dry heat rejection and thermal storage
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Systems and Methods for Producing Thermally Processed Materials
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Systems and methods for quantum optical device authentication
Patent • #US11343088B1. Quantum optical device authentication technologies are described herein. A first device includes an optical transmitter transmits a plurality of pulses to an optical receiver included on a second device. The optical pulses each have one of two non-orthogonal optical states. The optical receiver measures each of the pulses and...
Systems and methods for rapid force-based measurements of residual stress
Patent • #US12625021B1. Systems and methods that directly measures forces caused by residual stresses in components. The components may be manufactured components including via Additive Manufacturing (AM). The system and method may use a small force sensor fitted onto a part of the component and a force sensor may be placed/fitted near...
Systems and methods for remote, automated non-destructive inspection
Patent • #US12360082B1. An automated, inspection system that includes a robot with a closed loop control system that includes multiple Nondestructive Testing (NDI) modalities for complete through-thickness inspection of structures (e.g., wind turbine blades, aircraft, pressure vessels, pipelines, ships). The robot can be programmed either by a user or another inspection system...
Systems and methods for resolving a number of incident RF-range photons
Patent • #US12029141B1. A photon-number-resolving detector comprises a detection element, an ohmmeter, and a hardware logic component. The detection element can be formed from a Weyl or Dirac semimetal. Electrons of the detection element are characterized by a surface state that exhibits a Dirac cone and a bulk superconducting state that exhibits...
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