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Patent • #US7256290B1. A titanium alkoxide composition is provided, as represented by the chemical formula (OC<SUB>6</SUB>H<SUB>5</SUB>N)<SUB>2</SUB>Ti(OC<SUB>6</SUB>H<SUB>5</SUB>NH<SUB>2</SUB>)<SUB>2</SUB>. As prepared, the compound is a crystalline substance with a hexavalent titanium atom bonded to two OC<SUB>6</SUB>H<SUB>5</SUB>NH<SUB>2 </SUB>groups and two OC<SUB>6</SUB>H<SUB>5</SUB>N groups with a theoretical molecular weight of 480.38, comprising 60.01% C, 5.04% H and 11.66%...

Patent • #US10808794B1. The present invention features a metamaterial including a plurality of unit cells, in which each unit cell includes two interacting members to dissipate energy. Also provided herein are assemblies including such metamaterials and methods of manufacture.

Patent • #US9799828B1. Topological insulators can be utilized in a new type of infrared photodetector that is intrinsically sensitive to the polarization of incident light and static magnetic fields. The detector isolates single topological insulator surfaces and allows light collection and exposure to static magnetic fields. The wavelength range of interest is...

Patent • #US11339845B1. An acoustic shield for protecting a vibrational sensitive device includes a first unit cell and a second unit cell. The first unit cell includes a first locally resonant unit. The first locally resonant unit controls a first phase gradient and the first unit cell includes a first surface. The...

Patent • #US11421650B2. The present disclosure is directed to towerless vertical-axis wind turbines with pre-tensioned rotors. The present disclosure is further directed to a vertical-axis wind turbine (VAWT) with supported blade ends (e.g., Darrieus type) which replaces the center tower with tensioned supports, such as tensioned guy wires, and blade pre-load.

Patent • #US9304128B1. Embodiments of the present invention are directed toward devices, system and method for conducting toxin activity assay using sedimentation. The toxin activity assay may include generating complexes which bind to a plurality of beads in a fluid sample. The complexes may include a target toxin and a labeling agent,...

Patent • #US9194805B2. Apparatuses and methods for in situ detection of a trace amount of an analyte are disclosed herein. In a general embodiment, the present disclosure provides a surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) insert including a passageway therethrough, where the passageway has a SERS surface positioned therein. The SERS surface is configured...

Patent • #US8459865B1. Innovative tracking heat flux sensors located at or near the solar collector's focus for centering the concentrated image on a receiver assembly. With flux sensors mounted near a receiver's aperture, the flux gradient near the focus of a dish or trough collector can be used to precisely position the...

Patent • #US8427359B1. Radar data associated with radar illumination of a movable target is processed to monitor motion of the target. A plurality of filter operations are performed in parallel on the radar data so that each filter operation produces target image information. The filter operations are defined to have respectively corresponding...

Patent • #US10345106B1. Described herein are various technologies pertaining to extracting one or more features from trajectory data recorded during motion of a body, and further, generating a n-dimensional feature vector based upon the one or more extracted features. The n-dimensional feature vector enables expedited analysis of the trajectory data from which...

Patent • #US10801841B1. Described herein are various technologies pertaining to extracting one or more features from trajectory data recorded during motion of a body, and further, generating a n-dimensional feature vector based upon the one or more extracted features. The n-dimensional feature vector enables expedited analysis of the trajectory data from which...

Patent • #US10180398B2. A hyperspectral imaging flow cytometer can acquire high-resolution hyperspectral images of particles, such as biological cells, flowing through a microfluidic system. A trajectory-based triggering system can be used that will only trigger the acquisition of a hyperspectral image when an appropriate particle or cell is crossing an imaging line,...

Patent • #US12310082B1. There is provided a transistor apparatus of the kind in which a gate electrode includes one or more gate fingers that extend laterally across a device area. At least one gate finger is not rectilinear, but instead describes two or more meanders about an average path across the device...

Patent • #US11677668B1. A computer-implemented method of deep packet inspection (DPI) in a network is provided. The method comprises collecting data packets comprising a number of traffic flows from a number of devices via a number of traffic taps and classifying each traffic flow according to data about network protocol layers of...

Patent • #US9508881B2. A microsystems-enabled multi-junction photovoltaic (MEM-PV) cell includes a first photovoltaic cell having a first junction, the first photovoltaic cell including a first semiconductor material employed to form the first junction, the first semiconductor material having a first bandgap. The MEM-PV cell also includes a second photovoltaic cell comprising a...

Patent • #US11150609B1. In disclosed apparatus, a plurality of optical waveguides monolithically integrated on a surface ion trap substrate deliver light to the trapping sites. Electrical routing traces defined in one or more metallization levels deliver electrical signals to electrodes of the surface electrode ion trap. A plurality of photodetectors are integrated...

Patent • #US10148244B1. A micromechanical resonator is disclosed. The resonator includes a resonant micromechanical element. A film of annealable material deposited on a facial surface of the element. In one instance, the resonance of the element can be adjusting by using a feedback loop to control annealing of the deposited film.

Patent • #US12129820B1. A tubular wave energy converter configured to remain afloat near the surface of a wave field and trap a water column oscillating asymmetrically to the wave field in which the converter is located. Water column oscillations create a pressure flux providing motive power for a generator. The converter, generator...

Patent • #US11371887B2. Systems and methods are provided for filtering coherent infrared light from a thermal background for protection of infrared (IR) imaging arrays and detection systems. A Michelson interferometer is used for coherent light filtering. In an implementation, a system includes a fixed mirror, a beam splitter, and a moving mirror...