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Patents Issued During the 2000s

Patents issued that include inventors from Physics Division. For more information on a patent, including an abstract and the option to order a copy of the full document, click on the patent name.

Group	Name	Patent #	Date Issued	Patent Name
P-22 P-23	D. Platts, D. Clark	7,095,311	8/22/06	Identification coding schemes for modulated reflectance systems
P-21	J. Galbraith	7,079,924	7/18/06	Vision-based obstacle avoidance
P-22 P-DO	G. Nickel, F. Wysocki	7,079,192	7/18/06	Letter box line blackener for the HDTV/conventional-analog hybrid system
P-24	L. Rosocha	7,063,819	6/20/06	Nonthermal plasma processor utilizing additive-gas injection and/or gas extraction
P-22	D. Platts	7,044,718	5/16/06	Radial-radial single rotor turbine
P-24	G. Selwyn, I. Henins, J. Park, H. Herrmann	7,025,856	4/11/06	Processing materials inside an atmospheric-pressure radiofrequency nonthermal plasma discharge
P-24	J. Park, I. Henins	6,909,237	6/21/05	Production of stable, non-thermal atmospheric pressure rf capacitive plasmas using gases other than helium or neon
P-24	L. Rosocha	6,906,280	6/14/05	Fast pulse nonthermal plasma reactor
P-25	F.E. Merrill, C. Morris	6,894,278	5/17/05	Electron Radiography
P-22	D.A. Platts	6,807,802	10/26/04	Single rotor turbine
P-DO	D.M. Coates Briles, Neagley (ISR-3), Freund	6,766,141	7/20/04	Remote down-hole well telemetry
P-22	G.H. Nickel	6,751,256	6/15/04	Transmission of digital images within the NTSC analog format
P-21	R.J. Hughes Buttler, Lamoreaux, Morgan, Nordholt, Peterson, Kwiat,	6,748,083	6/8/04	Method and apparatus for free-space quantum key distribution in daylight
P-21	A. Castro	6,743,578	6/1/04	Method for the detection of specific nucleic acid sequences by polymerase nucleotide incorporation
P-21	W.S. Murray	6,781,134	8/24/04	Handheld CZT radiation detector
P-22	C. Frankle	6,724,898	4/20/04	Speech Recovery Device
P-21	E. Peterson Peterson, Hults, Smith, Kwon, Foltyn, Jia (MST)	6,602,588	8/5/2003	Superconducting Structure Including Mixed Rare Earth Barium-Copper Oxide Compositions
P-21	C. Smith	6,583,863	6/24/2003	Single photon imaging and timing array sensor apparatus and method
P-24	G. Selwyn I. Henins	6,546,938	3/15/2003	Combined Plasma/Liquid Cleaning of Substrates
P-24	Z. Wang C.W. Barnes	6,486,593	11/26/2002	Plasma Accelerator
P-21 P-DO	R.H. Kraus, Jr. D. M. Coates	6,470,220	10/22/2002	Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancers Using In Vivo Magnetic Domains
P-DO	D.L. Neagley (NIS) S.D. Briles (NIS) D.M. Coates	6,434,372	8/13/2002	Long-Range, Full-Duplex, Modulated-reflector Cell Phone for Voice/Data Transmission
P-DO	D.J. Devlin (MST-7) D.M. Coates T.A. Archuleta (MST-7)	6,432,537	8/13/2002	Diamond-Like-Carbon Coated Aramid Fibers Having Improved Mechanical Properties
P-22	D.A. Platts	6,430,917	8/13/2002	Single Rotor Turbine Engine
P-DO	D.M. Coates K.C. Walter (MST)	6,319,367	11/20/2001	Plasma Treatment for Producing Electron Emitters
P-24	G.S. Selwyn I. Henins K. Schoenberg S J. Seestrom (P-DO)	6,262,523	7/17/2001	Large Area Atmospheric-Pressure Plasma Jet
P-24	H.W. Herrmann G.S. Selwyn K. Schoenberg S. J. Seestrom (P-DO)	6,228,330	5/8/2001	Atmospheric-Pressure Plasma Decontamination/Sterilization Chamber
P-24	G.S. Selwyn, et al.	6,194,036	2/27/2001	Deposition of Coatings Using an Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jet
P-21	J.S. George	6,038,067	3/14/2000	Scanning computed confocal imager
P-DO	D.J. Devlin D.M. Coates T.A. Archuleta R. S. Barbero	6,037,016	3/14/2000	Capacitively coupled RF diamond-like-carbon reactor
P-24	D.C. Thompson G.E. Busch C.W. Wilson T.J. Zaugg C.E.M. Strauss D.K.Remelius T. Shimada	6,031,852	2/29/2000	Rapid acoustooptic tuner and phase-shifter