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Spatial light modulator array with heat minimization and image enhancement features
Patent • #7,170,669. An enhanced spatial light modulator (ESLM) array, a microelectronics patterning system and a projection display system using such an ESLM for heat-minimization and resolution enhancement during imaging, and the method for fabricating such an ESLM array. The ESLM array includes, in each individual pixel element, a small pixel mirror...

Spatial light modulator features
Patent • #7420730. An enhanced spatial light modulator (ESLM) array, a microelectronics patterning system and a projection display system using such an ESLM for heat-minimization and resolution enhancement during imaging, and the method for fabricating such an ESLM array. The ESLM array includes, in each individual pixel element, a small pixel mirror...

Spectral compression algorithms for the analysis of very large multivariate images
Patent • #7,283,684. A method for spectrally compressing data sets enables the efficient analysis of very large multivariate images. The spectral compression algorithm uses a factored representation of the data that can be obtained from Principal Components Analysis or other factorization technique. Furthermore, a block algorithm can be used for performing common...

Spectral notch interference mitigation for stretch processing synthetic aperture radar
Patent • #10,330,786. Various technologies for mitigating interference in stretch-processed SAR imagery are described herein. Stretch-processed SAR data is received at a computing device. The stretch-processed (or deramped) SAR data is then reramped, thereby removing frequency-variant components of narrowband interference signals in the deramped data. A frequency-domain transform is executed over the...

Spectral replacement to mitigate interference for multi-pass synthetic aperture radar
Patent • #10,495,750. Various technologies for mitigating interference artifacts in multi-pass synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery are described herein. First and second phase histories corresponding to first and second SAR passes over a scene are processed in image and phase-history domains to correct for spatially-variant and constant phase offsets between the phase...

Spin-orbit qubit using quantum dots
Patent • #10,482,388. Methods and apparatus of quantum information processing using quantum dots are provided. Electrons from a 2DEG are confined to the quantum dots and subjected to a magnetic field having a component directed parallel to the interface. Due to interfacial asymmetries, there is created an effective magnetic field that perturbs...

Spin-stabilized magnetic levitation without vertical axis of rotation
Patent • #7,545,065. The symmetry properties of a magnetic levitation arrangement are exploited to produce spin-stabilized magnetic levitation without aligning the rotational axis of the rotor with the direction of the force of gravity. The rotation of the rotor stabilizes perturbations directed parallel to the rotational axis.

Spin-stabilized orbital rocket guidance
Patent • #11,292,617. Technologies for guidance of a spin-stabilized orbital rocket are described herein. The spin-stabilized rocket includes a guidance controller. The guidance controller computes parameters of a burn of a second-stage engine of the rocket to reach a desired nominal orbit subsequent to burnout of the first stage of the rocket....

SpinDx™: Point-of-Care Diagnostics Using Centrifugal Microfluidics
Featured Opportunity • Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed an innovative technique for conducting simultaneous multiplexed immunoassays and white blood cell counts from a single finger prick of whole blood with less than 15 minutes total sample-to-answer time. The technique is based on centrifugal microfluidics, or “lab-on-a-disk’ technology, which uses centrifugal forces...

Spreading devices into a 2-D module layout
Patent • #9,972,736. An apparatus, method, and system, the apparatus including a receiving member dimensioned to receive an array of microelectronic devices; and a linkage member coupled to the receiving member, the linkage member configured to move the receiving member in at least two dimensions so as to modify a spacing between...

Spring Drive Fitting
Featured Opportunity • Design and manufacturing companies specializing in valves, tubes, and other gas and fluid system components continue to battle the age-old problem of fitting pipes and tubing together quickly and reliably. The Spring Drive Fitting addresses this challenge, bridging the gap between solutions for small diameter tube fittings commonly seen in...

Spring performance tester for miniature extension springs
Patent • #9,651,464. A spring performance tester and method of testing a spring are disclosed that has improved accuracy and precision over prior art spring testers. The tester can perform static and cyclic testing. The spring tester can provide validation for product acceptance as well as test for cyclic degradation of springs,...

Stabilized scintillator
Patent • #10,479,934. A stabilized scintillator includes a compound corresponding to formula (2) or (3), or activated derivatives thereof: A.sub.2BB'.sub.xB''.sub.yX.sub.6 (2) A.sub.2BB'X.sub.xX'.sub.y (3) wherein A and B are monovalent cations, B' is a trivalent cation, X is a halogen, x and y are molar percentages, x+y=1; B'' is an aliovalent exchange cation...

Staring 2-D Hadamard transform spectral imager
Patent • #6,996,292. A staring imaging system inputs a 2D spatial image containing multi-frequency spectral information. This image is encoded in one dimension of the image with a cyclic Hadamarid S-matrix. The resulting image is detecting with a spatial 2D detector; and a computer applies a Hadamard transform to recover the encoded...

Startup Design Features for Supercritical Power Conversion Systems
Featured Opportunity • Sandia National Laboratories has created solutions to startup flow issues in supercritical conversion systems. The Supercritical Brayton Cycle is a power conversion system that is undergoing extensive testing and advancements at Sandia Labs. The brayton cycle system has the ability to achieve higher efficiency and more cost effect power conversion...

Startup-Friendly Technologies
Page • Several of Sandia's technological advancements are suitable for licensing by startups and entrepreneurs: Brain-Targeting Nanobodies Nanobodies capable of penetrating the Blood-Brain Barrier (BBB) can act... Photovoltaic Prognostics Photovoltaic (PV) System Monitoring Overview Residential, commercial, and utility-scale photovoltaic... Tinker Tailoring Lignin A method to generate oxidized lignin with specified carboxylic acid......

State machine analysis of sensor data from dynamic processes
Patent • #6,668,203. A state machine model analyzes sensor data from dynamic processes at a facility to identify the actual processes that were performed at the facility during a period of interest for the purpose of remote facility inspection. An inspector can further input the expected operations into the state machine model...

Stateless and stateful implementations of faithful execution
Patent • #8,914,648. A faithful execution system includes system memory, a target processor, and protection engine. The system memory stores a ciphertext including value fields and integrity fields. The value fields each include an encrypted executable instruction and the integrity fields each include an encrypted integrity value for determining whether a corresponding...

Stationary phase deposition based on onium salts
Patent • #7,314,505. Onium salt chemistry can be used to deposit very uniform thickness stationary phases on the wall of a gas chromatography column. In particular, the stationary phase can be bonded to non-silicon based columns, especially microfabricated metal columns. Non-silicon microfabricated columns may be manufactured and processed at a fraction of...

Storyboard method of end-user programming with natural language confirmation
Patent • #8,589,821. A technique for end-user programming includes populating a template with graphically illustrated actions and then invoking a command to generate a screen element based on the template. The screen element is rendered within a computing environment and provides a mechanism for triggering execution of a sequence of user actions....

Strain-compensated infrared photodetector and photodetector array
Patent • #8,450,773. A photodetector is disclosed for the detection of infrared light with a long cutoff wavelength in the range of about 4.5-10 microns. The photodetector, which can be formed on a semiconductor substrate as an nBn device, has a light absorbing region which includes InAsSb light-absorbing layers and tensile-strained layers...

Strained layer superlattice focal plane array having a planar structure
Patent • #8,293,566. An infrared focal plane array (FPA) is disclosed which utilizes a strained-layer superlattice (SLS) formed of alternating layers of InAs and In.sub.xGa.sub.1-xSb with 0.ltoreq.x.ltoreq.0.5 epitaxially grown on a GaSb substrate. The FPA avoids the use of a mesa structure to isolate each photodetector element and instead uses impurity-doped regions...
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