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Invention

We've included links to the invention at both the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) and the Delphion Intellectual Property Network (DIPN).

Inventor(s)

Date issued

Patent no.

Micro-Optical Sensor System for Pressure, Acceleration, and Pressure Gradient Measurements
| PTO | DIPN |

Yu (ISR), Balachandran (ME)

9/23/08

7,428,054

Denoising Mechanism for Speech Signals using Embedded Thresholds and an Analysis Dictionary
| PTO | DIPN |

Berenstein (ISR), Walnut, Napoletani (ISR alumni), Sauer, Struppa

9/9/08

7,424,463

Fabrication and Integration of Polymeric BioMEMS
| PTO | DIPN |

Ghodssi, Rubloff (both ISR), Park, Kastantin, Wu, Yi, Li, Valentine

5/20/08

7,375,404

Computer-Driven, Dynamic Memory Allocation Methodology for Scratch Pad-Based Embedded Systems
| PTO | DIPN |

Barua (ISR), Udayakumaran

4/29/08

7,367,024

Far-field optical microscope with a nanometer-scale resolution based on the in-plane image magnification by surface plasmon polaritons
| PTO | DIPN |

Davis (ISR), Smolyaninov

4/22/08

7,362,442

Far-field optical microscope with a nanometer-scale resolution based on the in-plane image magnification by surface plasmon polaritions
| PTO | DIPN |

Davis (ISR), Smolyaninov

4/22/08

7,362,440

Group TDMA frame allocation method and apparatus
| PTO | DIPN |

Nguyen, Wieselthier and Ephremides (ISR)

6/19/07

7,233,584

Fiber Tip Based Sensor System for Measurements of Pressure Gradient, Air Particle Velocity and Acoustic Intensity
| PTO | DIPN |

Balachandran (ME), Yu (ME/ISR) and Al-Bassyiouni

5/29/07

7,221,804

Method and Apparatus for Compressing and Decompressing Images
| PTO | DIPN |

Atsumi (Mitsubishi), Farvardin (ISR)

5/22/07

7,224,456

System and Method for Optical Wireless Communication
| PTO | DIPN |

Davis (ISR)

9/12/06

7,106,971

Method of Controlling Routing of Packets to a Mobile Node in a Telecommunications Network
| PTO | DIPN |

O'Neill, Corson (ISR)

8/1/06

7,085,241

Security Methods for Use in a Wireless Communications System | PTO | DIPN |

Corson, Laroia, Park, Uppala, Vanderveen (Flarion Technologies, Inc.)

6/27/06

7,069,000

Methods and Apparatus for Updating Mobile Node Location Information | PTO | DIPN |

Corson, Laroia, Park, Uppala, Venkata, Vanderveen (Flarion Technologies, Inc.)

3/21/06

7,016,690

Methods for the Electronic Annotation, Retrieval and Use of Electronic Images | PTO | DIPN |

Shneiderman (ISR)

3/7/06

7,010,751

3D Wavelet-Based Video Codec with Human Perceptual Model | PTO | DIPN |

Gu, Jiang and Baras (all ISR)

2/28/06

7,006,568

Optical Wireless Networks with Adjustable Topologies | PTO | DIPN |

Davis (ECE), Milner (CEE) and Smolyaninov (ECE)

1/24/06

6,990,350

Power Control-Based Admission Methods for Maximum Throughput in DS-CDMA Networks with Multimedia Traffic | PTO | DIPN |

Ephremides, Ayyagari (ISR)

9/20/05

6,947,407

Dynamic Network Resource Allocation Using Multimedia Content Features and Traffic Features | PTO | DIPN |

Wu (ISR), Joyce, Vetro, Wong, Guan, Kung

9/20/05

6,947,378

Wavefront Phase Sensors Using Optically or Electrically Controlled Phase Spatial Light Modulators | PTO | DIPN |

Vorontsov, Justh, Krishnaprasad, Beresnev, Ricklin (ISR)

6/28/05

6,911,637

Fiber Tip Based Sensor System for Acoustic Measurements | PTO | DIPN |

Miao Yu (ISR), Balachandran (ME) and Al-Bassyiouni (ME)

5/31/05

6,901,176

System and Method for Optical Processing Based on Light-Controlled Photon Tunneling | PTO | DIPN |

Davis (ISR), Smolyaninov (ECE) and Zayats

5/24/05

6,897,436

Integrated Method for Performing Scheduling, Routing and Access Control in a Computer Network | PTO | DIPN |

Ephremides, Ayyagari (ISR)

5/17/05

6,894,991

Power Control for Active Link Quality Protection in CDMA Networks | PTO | DIPN |

Ephremides, Ayyagari (ISR)

4/12/05

6,879,572

Spatially Programmable Microelectronics Process Equipment using Segmented Gas Injection Showerhead with Exhaust Gas Recirculation
| PTO | DIPN |

Adomaitis, Kidder, Rubloff (ISR)

11/23/04

6,821,910

Adaptive Routing Method for a Dynamic Network
| PTO | DIPN |

Corson (ISR), Park (Naval Research Laboratory)

12/23/03

6,667,957

A Process for 3-Dimensional Micro Mechanisms
| PTO | DIPN |

DeVoe, Tsai (ISR)

12/16/03

6,664,126

Focused Ion-Beam Fabrication of Fiber Probes for Use in Near Field Scanning Optical Microscopy
| PTO | DIPN |

Davis (ISR), Smolyaninov (ECE), Pilevar, Edinger and Atia

10/14/03

6,633,711

A Method for Eliminating the Requirement for Synchronized Clocks in Distributed Routing Approaches that are Dependent on the Temporal Ordering of Events | PTO | DIPN |

Corson (ISR), Park (Naval Research Laboratory)

9/30/03

6,628,643
Human Visual Model for Data Hiding
| PTO | DIPN |

Wu (ISR);Yu

Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co., Ltd. (Japan)

8/26/03  6,611,608

Optical Fiber Evanescent Field Excited Fluorosensor | PTO | DIPN |

Davis (ISR), Pilevar (former postdoc of Dr. Davis), Fielding (former Ph.D. student of Dr. Davis) Portugal

5/6/03

6,558,958

Acoustic Consumption Monitor | PTO | DIPN |

Gogol, Jr.; Wajid (Leybold Inficon Inc.); Rubloff (ISR)

11/19/02

6,482,649
Methods and Apparatus for Multi-Layer Data Hiding | PTO | DIPN |

Yu; Wu (ISR); Li; Gelman

Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co., Ltd. (Japan)

9/24/02  6,456,726

Combined power control and space-time diversity in mobile cellular communications
| PTO | DIPN |

Liu, Rashid-Farrokhi, Tassiulas (ISR)

4/23/02

6,377,812
Watermarking scheme for image authentication
| PTO | DIPN |
Wu (ISR), Liu 9/4/01  6,285,775
Rotation, scale, and translation resilient public watermarking for images using a log-polar fourier transform | PTO | DIPN | Bloom, Cox, Miller, Wu (ISR),
Lin, Lui

Signafy, Inc., Princeton, NJ
1/21/00  6,282,300

Capacity enhancement for multi-code CDMA with integrated services through quality of services and admission control | PTO | DIPN |

Ephremides, Ayyagari (ISR), Resheff (Verizon Laboratories Inc.)

8/21/01

6,278,701

Apparatus and method for multi-purpose setup planning for sheet metal bending operations
| PTO | DIPN |

Gupta (ME/ISR); Bourne

Amada America, Inc., Buena Park, Calif.

5/15/01 6,233,538

Method and system to optimize capacity of a CDMA cellular communication system
| PTO | DIPN |

Raghavan (BGMT), Vasudevan, Sanchez, Chiu, Okeson

US West, Inc,
Englewood, Colo.

10/3/00 6,128,500

Computer-Aided Determination of Window-and-Level Settings for Filmless Radiology | PTO | DIPN |

Sidiropoulos, Baras (ISR)

10/3/00 6,127,669
Optical Fiber Evanescent Field Excited Fluorosensor and Method of Manufacture
| PTO | DIPN |
Fielding, Portugal, Pilevar
Davis (ECE/ISR)
8/15/00 6,103,535
Method for Operating a Sensor to Differentiate between Analytes in a Sample | PTO | DIPN |

Kunt, Cavicchi, Semancik, McAvoy (ISR)

8/1/00  6,095,681
Method and Apparatus for Analyzing Co-Evolving Time Sequences | PTO | DIPN |

Faloutsos, Sidiropoulos (ISR); Yi (CS); Biliris, Jagadish, Johnson, (AT&T)

4/25/00  6,055,491
Near field optical probe for simultaneous phase and enhanced amplitude contrast in reflection mode using path matched differential interferometry and method of making it
| PTO | DIPN |
Atia, Pilevar, Davis (ECE/ISR) 11/23/99 5,990,474
Method and device for placement of transmitters in wireless networks | PTO | DIPN | Ephremides, Stamatelos (ISR) 11/16/99  5,987,328
External Cavity Fiber Fabry-Perot Magnetometer
| PTO | DIPN |
Wagreich
Davis (ECE/ISR)
11/9/99 5,982,174
Method and Apparatus for Processing Data from a Tomographic Imaging System | PTO | DIPN | Related ISR technical report: 95-73
 
 
Walnut (Fairfax, Va.)
Berenstein, Liu, Rashid-Farrokhi (ISR)
9/14/99
5,953,388 
Frame Relay Network Planning Tool 
| PTO | DIPN |
Chiu (Louisville, Colo.)
Raghavan (BGMT)
Hansen (Louisville, Colo.)
Xu (Louisville, Colo.)

US West, Inc., Denver
MediaOne Group, Inc., Englewood, Colo.

8/17/99
5,940,373
Watermarking scheme for image authentication
| PTO | DIPN |
Wu (ISR), Liu (Princeton) 10/1/98 6,285,775
DCT-Based Motion Estimation
| PTO | DIPN |

ISR Technical Report 95-1

Koc, Liu (ISR) 8/4/98 5,790,686
Continuous-time adaptive learning circuit
| PTO | DIPN |

Kub, Justh

United States of America; Secretary of the Navy

7/14/98 5,781,063
A Method of Fabricating Oxide Ceramic Articles
| PTO | DIPN |
Zhang (ISR), Jahanmir (National Institute of Standards and Technology) 4/16/96 5,507,962
Precoding Scheme for Transmitting Data Using Optimally-Shaped Constellations Over Intersymbol-Interference Channels
| PTO | DIPN |
Related ISR technical reports: | 92-1 | 92-2 | 92-5 |Related ISR PhD thesis: 92-6
Laroia, Farvardin (ISR) and Steven A. Tretter (UM)  2/7/95 5,388,124
Low Complexity CELP Speech Coder
| PTO | DIPN |
ISR Master's Thesis 92-10
Baras, Kao (ISR) 12/6/94 5,371,853
Optimal Unified Architectures for the Real-Time Computation of Time Recursive Discrete Sinusoidal Transforms
| PTO | DIPN |
Related ISR technical reports: 92-66 | 93-31 |
Related ISR PhD thesis: 92-17
Liu and Chiu (ISR) 8/16/94 5,339,265
Cochlear Filter Bank with Switched Capacitor Circuits | PTO | DIPN |
Related ISR technical reports: 91-85 | 91-86 | 92-63 | 92-64 | 92-93 |
Lin, Shamma, and Edwards (ISR) 7/19/94 5,331,222
Simplified and Symmetric Five-Bar Linkage Drivers | PTO | DIPN | Tsai (ISR), Tahmasebi (NASA) 4/12/94 5,301,566
Six-Degree-of-Freedom Parallel Minimanipulator with Three Inextensible Limbs | PTO | DIPN |
Related ISR technical reports: 91-92 | 92-8 | 92-84 | 93-55 | 95-93 |
Related ISR PhD thesis: 93-1
Tsai (ISR), Tahmasebi (NASA) 1/18/94 5,279,176
Anti-Backlash Drive Systems for Multi-Degree Freedom Devices | PTO | DIPN |
Related ISR technical reports: 90-38|92-85
Related ISR PhD thesis: 91-7
Tsai, Chang (ISR) 9/14/93 5,245,263
Modular Dexterous Hand | PTO | DIPN | De Comarmond, Loncaric (ISR)  10/1/91 5,052,736
Vibratory Linear Motor Systems | PTO | DIPN | Brockett (Harvard); Kliman, Jones, and Tompkins (General Electric)  2/19/91 4,994,698

 

 

   
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