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Wave Fingerprint of Complicated Enclosures
Published Thursday, March 6, 2008Researchers at the University of Maryland have invented a system that exploits the extreme sensitivity of small wavelength waves inside complicated enclosures to create a method that distinguishes between nominally identical objects through their unique “wave fingerprints.”Current methods that employ waves to distinguish objects are...
Categories: Imaging devices, Microelectronics
Keyword(s): wave fingerprint complicated enclosures
Docket: PS-2007-006
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Geometry-Based Search Software
Published Thursday, March 6, 2008Three-Dimensional Computer Aided Drawing (3D CAD) systems have become extremely popular these days and are frequently used to generate 3D models of parts and assemblies. Companies routinely set up databases of CAD models of their parts and assemblies. Manufacturing companies use these databases to find information that would be useful in...
Categories: Information Technology
Keyword(s): 3D, CAD, software, geometry
Docket: IS-2007-059
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Ultra-Miniature Fiber-Optic Pressure Sensor Array System
Published Thursday, March 6, 2008As sensors become integrated in more and more applications, there is a need for scalable fabrication techniques that can yield sensors with uniform properties and which have identical thickness and cavity lengths. Furthermore, fabrication techniques that allow for manufacturing of uniform sensors having nanometer thicknesses could be of immense...
Categories: Sensors/Monitors
Keyword(s): Fiber-Optic, Fabry-Perot cavity, Pressure Sensor, 525
Docket: PS-2007-105
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Audio Camera for Efficient Sound Localization
Published Thursday, March 6, 2008Much as an optical camera creates images from captured light intensity to create a real time picture, an audio camera developed by researchers at the University of Maryland creates a “real time” audio image out of sound arriving from all directions to a specific point – the location of the camera. The audio images can be projected onto a...
Categories: Information Technology
Keyword(s): sound localization, visisonics, HRTF, head related transfer function, microphone, audio
Docket: IS-2007-048
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Precision Bandmaster
Published Wednesday, March 5, 2008Researchers at the University of Maryland have invented a new gel-cutting device for use in molecular biology.This device, the Bandmaster, is unlike any other gel-cutting device currently available in that it allows accurate viewing of the band from above, which can greatly reduce the possibility of contamination. Unlike most other...
Categories: Research Tools, Antibodies, & Reagents
Keyword(s): gel device gel-cutting comb bandmaster band
Docket: LS-2006-072
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Supplements for Increased Milk Fat Production
Published Tuesday, February 19, 2008Milk fat and milk protein account for about 40-50% each of the price paid to dairy producers, according to the Federal Milk Marketing multiple component milk pricing system. Higher quantities of fat and protein increase product value, therefore feeding systems that increase milk fat and protein are of economic importance to dairy producers. While...
Categories: Agricultural
Keyword(s): milk, milk fat, dairy, meat, product
Docket: LS-2007-042
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Methods and Device for Automated Walnut Shell Fragment and Meat Differentiation
Published Monday, October 29, 2007Automated discrimination between walnut shell and the pulp has become an imperative task in the walnut post harvest processing industry. The black walnut shell is especially hard and hazardous to the consumer if it is mixed with the pulp in the walnut processing plant. Currently, the walnut cracking machines remove the majority shells by air lathe...
Keyword(s): walnut, sorting, meat-shell
Docket: IS-2007-003
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Multispectral Imaging Radiometer
Published Monday, October 29, 2007The Multi-spectral Imaging Radiometer is an optical apparatus that maps the temperature distribution across a hot sample, with high spatial resolution. An image of the glowing object is split into 4 (or more) separate wavelength bands, creating multiple visible/NIR images that are focused independently. All of the single- wavelength images are...
Categories: Devices, Sensors/Monitors
Keyword(s): Geology, imaging radiometer
Docket: PS-2007-077
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Biologically-Inspired Visually Implemented Blending in a Local Environment (B-InVisIBLE) Active Camouflage
Published Monday, October 29, 2007A flexible, conformable display mechanism has been described that is capable of creating a wide variety of color combinations and spatial patterns, which uses the chromatophores and reflective underlying layer of cuttlefish skin as biological inspiration. Basic operation is similar in concept to the operation of passive-matrix LCDs, whereby the...
Categories: Devices
Keyword(s): environment, artificial, cuttle fish, active camoflauge
Docket: PS-2007-070
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Confidentiality Preserving Rank-Ordered Search
Published Monday, October 29, 2007In the current information era, efficient and effective search capabilities for digital collections have become essential for information management and knowledge discovery. Meanwhile, a growing number of collections are professionally maintained in data centers and stored in encrypted form to limit their access to only authorized users in order...
Categories: Information Technology
Keyword(s): rank order search, security, document search, document management
Docket: IS-2007-098