Department of the Navy September 26, 2016 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The inventions listed below are assigned to the United States Government as represented by the Secretary of the Navy. U.S. Patent Number 6,664,915 entitled ``Identification Friend or Foe System Including Short Range UV Shield'' issued on December 16, 2003; U.S. Patent Number 7,661,271 entitled ``Integrated Electric Gas Turbine'' issued on February 16, 2010; U.S. Patent Number 6,600,694 entitled ``Digital Signal Processor Based Torpedo Counter-measure'' issued on July 29, 2003; U.S. Patent Number 6,820,025 entitled '' Method and Apparatus for Motion Tracking of an Articulated Rigid Body'' issued on November 16, 2004; U.S. Patent Number 6,717,525 entitled ``Tactical Vectoring Equipment (TVE)'' issued on April 6, 2004; U.S. Patent Number 6,624,780 entitled ``False Target Radar Image Generator for Countering wideband and Imaging Radars'' issued on September 11, 2003; U.S. Patent Number 7,725,595 entitled ``Embedded Communications System and Method'' issued on May 25, 2010; U.S. Patent Number 8,443,101 entitled ``Method for Identifying and Blocking Embedded Communications'' issued on May 14, 2013; U.S. Patent Number 7,675,198 entitled ``Inductive Pulse Forming Network for High-current, High-power Applications'' issued on March 9, 2010; U.S. Patent Number 8,018,096 entitled ``Inductive Pulse Forming Network for High-current, High-power Applications'' issued September 13, 2011; U.S. Patent Number 7,074,697 entitled ``Doping- assisted Defect Control in Compound Semiconductors'' issued on July 11, 2006; U.S. Patent Number 7,089,148 entitled ``Method and Apparatus for Motion Tracking of an Articulated Rigid Body'' issued August 8, 2006; U.S. Patent Number 7,627,003 entitled ``Automatic Clock Synchronization and Distribution Circuit for Counter Clock Flow Pipelined Systems'' issued on December 1, 2009; U.S. Patent Number 8,085,817 entitled ``Automatic Clock Synchronization and Distribution Circuit for Counter Clock Flow Pipelined Systems'' issued December 27, 2011; U.S. Patent Number 8,019,090 entitled ``Active Feedforward Noise Vibration Control System'' issued September 13, 2011; U.S. Patent Number 8,064,541 entitled ``Hyperphase Shift Keying'' issued November 22, 2011; U.S. Patent Number 8,050,849 entitled ``Method to Reduce Fuel Consumption by Naval Vessels that Operate in Mixed Propulsion Modes'' issued November 1,2011; U.S. Patent Number 8,006,937 entitled ``Spacecraft Docking Interface Mechanism'' issued October 12, 2010; U.S. Patent Number 7,811,918 entitled ``Electric Current Induced Liquid Metal Flow and Metallic Conformal Coating of Conductive Templates'' issued on October 12, 2010; U.S. Patent Number 8,467,548 entitled ``Miniature Directional Sound Sensor Using Micro-Electro- Mechanical-System (MEMS)'' issued on June 8, 2013; U.S. Patent Number 8,579,535 entitled ``Micro-coupling Active Release Mechanism'' issued on November 12, 2013; U.S. Patent Number 9,003,627 entitled ``Micro-coupling Active Release Mechanism'' issued on April 14, 2015; U.S. Patent Number 8,654,672 entitled ``Method for Optimal Transmitter Placement in Wireless Mesh Networks'' issued on February 18, 2014; U.S. Patent Number 8,473,826 entitled ``Hybrid Soft Decision Hard Decision Reed-Solomon Decoding'' issued June 25, 2013; U.S. Patent Number 8,433,959 entitled ``Method for Determining Hard Drive Contents Through Statistical Drive Sampling'' issued on April 30, 2013; U.S. Patent Number 8,446,096 entitled ``Terahertz (THz) Reverse Micromagnetron'' issued on May 21, 2013; U.S. Patent Number 8,624,497 entitled ``Terahertz (THz) Reverse Micromagnetron'' issued on January 7, 2014; U.S. Patent Number 8,724,598 entitled ``Method for Energy-efficient, Traffic-adaptive, Flow-specific Medium Access For Wireless Networks'' issued on May 13, 2014; U.S. Patent Number 8,269,658 entitled ``Photonic Analog-to-Digital Conversion Using the Robust Symmetrical Number System'' issued on September 18, 2012; U.S. Patent Number 9,194,379 entitled ``Field Ionization Based Electrical Space Ion Thruster Using A Permeable Substrate'' issued on November 24, 2015; U.S. Patent Number 8,800,930 entitled ``Aerial Delivery System with High Accuracy Touchdown'' issued on August 12, 2014; U.S. Patent Number 8,730,098 entitled ``Method for Radar Detection of Persons Wearing Wires'' issued on May 20, 2014; U.S. Patent Number 8,525,393 entitled ``Bimaterial Microelectromechanical System (MEMS) Solar Power Generator'' issued on September 3, 2013; U.S. Patent Number 8,526,746 entitled ``Near Lossless Data Compression Method Using Nonuniform Sampling” issued on September 3, 2013; U.S. Patent Number 8,489,256 entitled ``Automatic Parafoil Turn Calculation Method and Apparatus'' issued on July 16, 2013; U.S. Patent Number 8,437,891 entitled ``Method And Apparatus for Parafoil Guidance That Accounts For Ground Winds'' issued on May 7, 2013; U.S. Patent Number 8,818,581 entitled ``Parafoil Electronic Control Unit Having Wireless Connectivity'' issued on August 26, 2014; U.S. Patent Number 9,331,773 entitled ``Instantaneous Wireless Network Established By Simultaneously Descending Parafoils'' issued on May 3, 2016; U.S. Patent Number 8,483,891 entitled ``Automatically Guided Parafoil Directed to Land on a Moving Target'' issued on July 9, 2013; U.S. Patent Number 8,693,365 entitled ``Method and Apparatus for State-Based Channel Selection Method in Multi-Channel Wireless Communications Networks'' issued on April 8, 2014; U.S. Patent Number 8,810,121 entitled ``Method and Device to Produce Hot, Dense, Long-lived Plasmas'' issued on August 19, 2014; U.S. Patent Number 8,746,120 entitled ``Boosted Electromagnetic Device and Method to Accelerate Solid Metal Slugs to High Speeds'' issued on June 10, 2014; U.S. Patent Number 8,878,742 entitled ``Dipole with an Unbalanced Microstrip Feed'' issued on November 4, 2014; U.S. Patent Number 9,038,958 entitled ``Method And Apparatus For Contingency Guidance Of A CMG-Actuated Spacecraft'' issued on May 26, 2015; U.S. Patent Number 8,880,246 entitled ``Method and Apparatus for Determining Spacecraft Maneuvers'' issued on November 4, 2014; U.S. Patent Number 9,248,501 entitled ``Method for Additive Manufacturing Using pH and Potential Controlled Powder Solidification'' issued on February 2, 2016; U.S. Patent Number 9,234,732 entitled ``Explosives Storage System'' issued on January 12, 2016; U.S. Patent Number 9,417,044 entitled ``Explosives Storage System'' issued on August 16, 2016; U.S. Patent Number 9,419,920 entitled ``Gateway Router and Method for Application-Aware Automatic Network Selection'' issued on August 16, 2016; U.S. Patent Number 9,321,529 entitled ``Hybrid Mobile Buoy for Persistent Surface and Underwater Exploration'' issued on April 26, 2016; U.S. Patent Number 9,418,080 entitled ``Method and System for Mobile Structured Collection of Data and Images'' issued on August 16, 2016. U.S. Patent Application Number 14/625,869 filed on February 19, 2015, entitled ``Navigation System and Method Using an Adaptive-Gain Complementary Filter Device''; U.S. Patent Application Number 14/ 671,143 filed on March 27, 2015, entitled ``Landing Signal Officer (LSO) Information Management and Trend Analysis (IMTA) Tool''; U.S. Patent Application Number 13/662,786 filed on October 29, 2012, entitled ``Electromagnetic Device and Method to Accelerate Solid Metal Slugs to High Speeds''; U.S. Patent Application Number 14/978,769 filed on December 22, 2015, entitled ``Bi-Material Terahertz Sensor and Terahertz Emitter Using Metamaterial Structures''; U.S. Patent Application Number 13/901,308 filed on May 23, 2013, entitled ``Apparatus and Method for Improvised Explosive Device (IED) Network Analysis''; U.S. Patent Application Number 15/188,505 filed on June 21, 2016, entitled ``Method and Apparatus for Guidance and Control of Uncertain Dynamical Systems''; U.S. Patent Application Number 14/ 853,330 filed on September 14, 2015, entitled ``Method and System for Determining Shortest Oceanic Routes''; U.S. Patent Application Number 14/247,657 filed on April 8, 2014, entitled ``A Method for Conducting Architecture Model-based Interoperability Assessment''; U.S. Patent Application Number 15/073,831 filed on March 18, 2016, entitled ``Multirotor Mobile Buoy for Persistent Surface and Underwater Exploration''; U.S. Patent Application Number 14/338,222 filed on July 22, 2014, entitled ``Method and Apparatus for Passive Geolocation of a 4G WIMAX Mobile Station Using a Single Base Station''; U.S. Patent Application Number 14/316,639 filed on June 26, 2014, entitled ``Method and Apparatus for Singularity Avoidance for Control Moment Gyroscope (CMG) Systems Without Using Null Motion''; U.S. Patent Application Number 14/459,662 filed on August 14, 2014, entitled ``Apparatus and Method for Full Planform Deployment at High Altitude''; U.S. Patent Application Number 14/480,220 filed on September 8, 2014, entitled ``Solid-state Spark Chamber for Detection of Radiation''; U.S. Patent Application Number 14/555,798 filed on November 28, 2014, entitled ``Method for Computer Vision Analysis of Cannon-launched Artillery Video''; U.S. Patent Application Number 14/945,781 filed on November 19, 2015, entitled ``Method and Apparatus for Computer Vision Analysis of Cannon-launched Artillery Video''; U.S. Patent Application Number 14/699,051 filed on April 29, 2015, entitled ``Unscented Control for Uncertain Dynamical Systems''; U.S. Patent Application Number 14/ 833,728 filed on August 24, 2015, entitled ``Method and Apparatus for Rapid Acoustic Analysis''; U.S. Patent Application Number 14/810,026 filed on July 27, 2015, entitled ``Method and Apparatus for Detection and Hazardous Environmental Conditions and Initiation of Alarm Devices''; U.S. Patent Application Number 14/883,384 filed on October 14, 2015, entitled ``Wireless Signal Localization and Collection from an Airborne Symmetric Line Array Network''; U.S. Patent Application Number 14/852,734 filed on September 14, 2015, entitled ``Network Monitoring Method Using Phantom Nodes''; U.S. Patent Application Number 14/851,404 filed on September 11, 2015, entitled ``Method and Apparatus for Hybrid Time Synchronization Based on Broadcast Sequencing for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks''; U.S. Patent Application Number 14/919,346 filed on October 21, 2015, entitled ``Method and Apparatus for Robust Symmetrical Number System (RSNS) Photonic Direction Finding (DF) System''; U.S. Patent Application Number 14/624,321 filed on February 17, 2015, entitled ``Super Dielectric Materials''; U.S. Patent Application Number 14/ 665,865 filed on March 23, 2015, entitled ``Method for Producing A Coating''; U.S. Patent Application Number 14/939,032 filed on November 12, 2015, entitled ``Method and Apparatus for Computer Vision Analysis of Spin Rate of Marked Projectiles''; U.S. Patent Application Number 14/979,836 filed on December 28, 2015, entitled ``Method for Interference-Robust Transmitter Placement in Wireless Mesh Networks''; U.S. Patent Application Number 14/850,410 filed on September 10, 2015, entitled ``Capacitor with Ionic-solution-infused, Porous, Electrically Non-conductive Material''; U.S. Patent Application Number 15/208,784 filed on July 13, 2016, entitled ``Unscented Optimization and Control Allocation''; U.S. Patent Application Number 15/225,174 filed on August 1, 2016, entitled ``Device and Method for Cellular Synchronization Assisted Location Estimation''; U.S. Patent Application Number 15/ 082,225 filed on March 28, 2016, entitled ``Automated Multi-plane Propulsion System''; U.S. Patent Application Number 15/131,733 filed on April 18, 2016, entitled ``Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Launcher System''; U.S. Patent Application Number 15/137,090 filed on April 25, 2016, entitled ``Device and Method for Applying Internal Pressure to a Hollow Cylinder''; U.S. Patent Application Number 15/137,285 filed on April 25, 2016, entitled ``Life Preserver Location System''; U.S. Patent Application Number 62/293,376 filed on February 10, 2016, entitled ``Method and Apparatus for Satellite Mission Planning''; U.S. Patent Application Number 62/303,186 filed on March 03, 2016, entitled ``Method and Apparatus for Medium Voltage Pulsed Current Supplies Using Wide Bandgap Solid State Devices''; U.S. Patent Application Number 15/ 147,568 filed on May 05, 2016, entitled ``MEMS Thermal Creep Cantilever''; U.S. Patent Application Number 15/093,047 filed on April 07, 2016, entitled ``Light Activated Rotor''; U.S. Patent Application Number 15/130,189 filed on April 15, 2016, entitled ``Light Activated Generator''; U.S. Patent Application Number 15/207,128 filed on July 11, 2016, entitled ``AIGaAs/GaAs Solar Cell with Back-surface Alternating Contacts (GaAs BAC Solar Cell)''; U.S. Patent Application Number 62/370,066 filed on August 02, 2016, entitled ``Chemical Method to Create Metal Films on Metal and Ceramic Substrates''.