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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in New Mexico (July 29)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 29 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in New Mexico. *** USAF Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 29 -- The U.S. Air Force has been assigned a patent (7,764,720) developed by four co-inventors for a "multi-tone driven high-power narrow-linewidth rare earth doped fiber amplifier." The co-inventors are Timothy J. Bronder, Albuquerque, N.M., Iyad A. Dajani, Albuquerque, N.M., Clint M. Zeringue, Albuquerque, N.M., and Thomas M. Shay, Albuquerque, N.M. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method to increase the output power of narrow-linewidth rare earth-doped fiber amplifiers by suppressing simulated Brillouin scattering. The fiber amplifier is seeded with two or more lasers having frequencies and input powers that are sufficiently different. The seed signal with the highest emission cross section (e.g., signal 2) initially experiences the greatest gain. If signal 2 is also given sufficiently greater input power than signal 1, it will be amplified to its maximum value before the seed signals have reached the midpoint of the gain fiber. Beyond that point, the signal having the lower emission and absorption cross sections (signal 1) and significantly lower input power will continue to experience gain by power transfer from both signal 2 and the pump light, attaining a power output well beyond what the maximum output would have been had the amplifier been illuminated with a single frequency beam. This technique effectively reduces the Stokes light of signal 1, whereby higher power narrow-linewidth optical fiber amplifiers may be realized." The patent application was filed on Aug. 26, 2008 (12/198,308). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=2&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,764,720&OS=7,764,720&RS=7,764,720 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** OpenEye Scientific Software Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 29 -- OpenEye Scientific Software, Santa Fe, N.M., has been assigned a patent (7,765,070) developed by Anthony Nicholls, Santa Fe, N.M., for an "ellipsoidal gaussian representations of molecules and molecular fields." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "I describe several techniques for characterizing molecules based on the shapes of their fields. In particular, I describe a way to automatically break molecules into a series of fragments by using an ellipsoidal Gaussian decomposition. These fragments can then be analyzed by a shape metric technique, and the parameters of the decomposition can be used in creating, characterizing, and searching databases of molecules based on field similarity. The ellipsoidal Gaussian representations can also be used to describe binding or active sites on macromolecules, thereby providing a template for searching for complementary molecules in a database. The most immediate application of these techniques is to pharmaceutical drug discovery and design." The patent application was filed on March 17, 2006 (11/378,576). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,765,070&OS=7,765,070&RS=7,765,070 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Honeywell International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 29 -- Honeywell International, Morristown, N.J., has been assigned a patent (7,764,229) developed by Brad Smoot, Scandia Park, N.M., and Erik Erben, Rio Rancho, N.M., for a "steerable directional antenna system for autonomous air vehicle communication." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for communication with an autonomous air vehicle are provided. The system comprises a steerable antenna array including a plurality of directional antenna elements each selectable to receive a video signal from the air vehicle. An antenna control unit is operatively coupled to the antenna elements and includes a magnetometer for determining an orientation for each of the antenna elements. A ground control station is in operative communication with the antenna array and comprises a ground data terminal in operative communication with the antenna control unit, and an operator control unit in operative communication with the data terminal and the antenna control unit. The operator control unit is configured to obtain positions of the air vehicle and the ground control station from the data terminal. The operator control unit is further configured to determine which of the antenna elements to select by utilizing the positions of the air vehicle and the ground control station, and the orientation of one of the antenna elements." The patent application was filed on June 3, 2008 (12/132,474). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,764,229.PN.&OS=PN/7,764,229&RS=PN/7,764,229 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. For more information about Targeted News Service products and services, please contact: Myron Struck, editor, Targeted News Service LLC, Springfield, Va., 703/304-1897; [email protected]; http://targetednews.com. -1055862 (c) 2011 Targeted News Service |