Briefs: Medical

Texturing Blood-Glucose-Monitoring Optics Using Oxygen Beams

A method has been invented for utilizing directed, hyperthermal oxygen atoms and ions for texturing tips of polymeric optical fibers or other polymeric optical components for use...

Briefs: Physical Sciences

Thermal Imaging Cameras Improve Cattle Assessment Systems

Many feeder cattle companies currently conduct “slaughterability” assessments by sending cattle through a chute and photographing them from above with a CCTV or visible light...

Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control

Precision Stages Enable Analytical Measurement of Jet-Able Fluids

Precision X-Y stages were developed for integration into a new analytical measurement tool for use in the development of digital inks or other fluids to be jetted from ink jet...

Briefs: Software

Computer Simulation Ensures Motorcycle Stability

In the area of maintaining conventional motorcycle stability, engineers have established a series of tests that measure the wobble, weave, and kickback of every new model before it is released...

Briefs: Medical

Stroboscopic Goggles for Reduction of Motion Sickness

A device built around a pair of electronic shutters has been demonstrated to be effective as a prototype of stroboscopic goggles or eyeglasses for preventing or reducing motion sickness....

Briefs: Medical

Ex Vivo Growth of Bioengineered Ligaments and Other Tissues

A method of growing bioengineered tissues for use in surgical replacement of damaged anterior cruciate ligaments has been invented. An anterior cruciate ligament is one of two...

Briefs: Physical Sciences

Modified Penning-Malmberg Trap for Storing Antiprotons

A modified Penning-Malmberg trap that could store a small cloud of antiprotons for a relatively long time (weeks) has been developed. This trap is intended for use in research on the...

Briefs: Electronics & Computers

Adaptive Thresholding and Parameter Estimation for PPM

A method of adaptive setting of a threshold level for the detection of pulses in a pulse-position modulation (PPM) free-space optical communication system has been developed. In...

Briefs: Electronics & Computers

Displacing Unpredictable Nulls in Antenna Radiation Patterns

A method of maintaining radio communication despite the emergence of unpredictable fades and nulls in the radiation pattern of an antenna has been proposed. The method was...

Briefs: Electronics & Computers

Coupled Receiver/Decoders for Low-Rate Turbo Codes

Coupled receiver/decoders have been proposed for receiving weak single-channel phase-modulated radio signals bearing low-rate-turbo-coded binary data. Originally intended for use in...

Briefs: Electronics & Computers

Integrated Pointing and Signal Detector for Optical Receiver

A design concept for the receiver portion of a proposed free-space optical communication terminal calls for integration of its communication and pointing detectors. As explained...

Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping

Making a Metal-Lined Composite-Overwrapped Pressure Vessel

A process has been devised for the fabrication of a pressure vessel that comprises a composite-material (matrix/fiber) shell with a metal liner on its inner surface. The use of the...

Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping

Shipbuilders Design Pipeline Dredging Barge With FEA Software

A South American pipeline project that traverses the Amazon jungle and the Andes Mountains to the Pacific coast originates in the Camisea fields of eastern Peru, which are among...

Briefs: Information Technology

Fast Algorithms for Model-Based Diagnosis

Two improved new methods for automated diagnosis of complex engineering systems involve the use of novel algorithms that are more efficient than prior algorithms used for the same purpose. Both the...

Briefs: Information Technology

Calculation Management Captures and Tracks Engineering Design Information

Virtually every design decision, from a simple sketch to complex system drawings, is informed by calculations. Yet, in the race to get projects completed and products...

Briefs: Information Technology

Scheme for Entering Binary Data Into a Quantum Computer

A quantum algorithm provides for the encoding of an exponentially large number of classical data bits by use of a smaller (polynomially large) number of quantum bits (qubits). The...

Briefs: Materials

Making Macroscopic Assemblies of Aligned Carbon Nanotubes

A method of aligning and assembling single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) to fabricate macroscopic structures has been invented. The method entails suspending SWNTs in a fluid,...

Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems

Synthetic Bursae for Robots

Synthetic bursae are under development for incorporation into robot joints that are actuated by motor-driven cables in a manner similar to that of arthropod joints actuated by muscle-driven tendons. Like natural...