[May 25, 2012] Los Alamos National Security Assigned Patent Tweet (Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 25 -- Los Alamos National Security, Los Alamos, N.M., has been assigned a patent (8,183,994) developed by Torsten Albert Staab, Los Alamos, N.M., for a "flexible, scalable, service-oriented surveillance system architecture." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A surveillance architecture having applications in a wide variety of surveillance-related applications is disclosed. This architecture can be used in various surveillance scenarios, including, but not limited to, chemical, biological, radiological surveillance and physical security, is highly scalable and allows for rapid, plug-and-play field data/sample acquisition and local and remote sharing of system resources. By design, the architecture also fosters fault tolerance and allows users to quickly deploy and establish ad hoc, semi-permanent, and permanent surveillance systems. Furthermore, the architecture's service-oriented approach allows for rapid, on-the-fly, plug-and-play integration and dynamic harvesting of heterogeneous surveillance technologies (e.g., sensors, handheld data acquisition devices, analytical instrumentation, and so forth)." The patent application was filed on Sept. 18, 2007 (11/857,333). 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=8,183,994&OS=8,183,994&RS=8,183,994 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. SR0525HP0525-741807 (c) 2012 Targeted News Service [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]