ISR Patents by Research Area

Operations Research and Manufacturing
Invention Date Issued Patent No.
A Method of Fabricating Oxide Ceramic Articles PTO Guangming Zhang, Said Jahanmir 04/16/1996 5,507,962
Control, Robotics
Invention Date Issued Patent No.
Simplified and Symmetrical Five-Bar Linkage Driver for Manipulating a Six-Degree-of-Freedom Parallel "Minimanipulator" with Three Inextensible Limbs PTO Lung-Wen Tsai, Farhad Tahmasebi 04/12/1994 5,301,566
Six-Degree-of-Freedom Parallel Minimanipulator with Three Inextensible Limbs PTO Lung-Wen Tsai, Farhad Tahmasebi 01/18/1994 5,279,176
Anti-Backlash Drive Systems for Multi-Degree Freedom Devices PTO Lung-Wen Tsai, Sun-Lai Chang 09/14/1993 5,245,263
Modular Dexterous Hand PTO Fabrice de Comarmond, Josip Loncaric 10/01/1991 5,052,736
Vibratory Linear Motor Systems PTO Roger Brockett, Gerald Kliman, Donald Jones, Russell Tompkins 02/19/1991 4,994,698
Systems Engineering
Invention Inventor(s) Date Issued Patent No.
Tree-to-graph folding procedure for systems engineering requirements PTO Mark A. Austin, Natalya Shmunis, Virnal Mayank, David Everett 01/25/2011 7,877,737
Communications and Security, Optics, Signal Processing
Invention Inventor(s) Date Issued Patent No.
Counterfeit Detection Scheme using Paper Surfaces and Mobile Cameras PTO Min Wu, Chau-Wai Wong 07/28/2020 10,726,256
Counterfeit Detection Scheme using Paper Surfaces and Mobile Cameras PTO Min Wu, Chau-Wai Wong 07/28/2020 10,726,256
Counterfeit Detection Scheme using Paper Surfaces and Mobile Cameras PTO Min Wu, Chau-Wai Wong 07/28/2020 10,726,256
Communications and Security, Computer Science and AI
Invention Inventor(s) Date Issued Patent No.
Binary rewriting system PTO Rajeev Barua, Kapil Anand, Aparna Kotha, Khaled Elwazeer 09/20/2016 9,448,788
Automatic parallelization using binary rewriting PTO Rajeev Barua, Aparna Kotha 02/04/2014 8,645,935
Binary rewriting without relocation information PTO Rajeev Barua, Matthew Smithson 08/13/2013 8,510,723
Communications and Security
Invention Inventor(s) Date Issued Patent No.
Data Hiding in Compiled Program Binaries for Supplementing Computer Functionality PTO Min Wu, Ashwin Swaminathan, Yinian Mao 11/23/2010 7,840,789
Human Visual Model for Data Hiding PTO Min Wu, Hong Heather Yu 08/26/2003 6,611,608
Methods and Apparatus for Multi-Layer Data Hiding PTO Min Wu, Hong Heather Yu, Xin Li, Alexander Gelman 09/24/2002 6,456,726
Watermarking scheme for image authentication PTO Min Wu, Bede Liu 09/04/2001 6,285,775
Rotation, scale, and translation resilient public watermarking for images using a log-polar fourier transform PTO Min Wu, Matthew Miller, Jeffrey Bloom, Ingemar Cox, Yiu Man Lui, Ching-Yung Lin 08/28/2001 6,282,300
Energy
Invention Inventor(s) Date Issued Patent No.
Low-Cost Connectors for Inverters and Converters and Methods of Manufacturing and Using the Same Alireza Khaligh, F. Musavi 06/06/2023 11,670,881
Vehicle Onboard Charger for Bi-directional Charging of Low/High Voltage Batteries Alireza Khaligh, J. Lu, A. Mallik, S. Zou 11/08/2022 11,491,883
Integrated Dual-Output Grid-to-Vehicle (G2V) and Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) Onboard Charger for Plug-In Electric Vehicleskhaligh Alireza Khaligh, Y. Tang 06/30/2020 10,696,182
Integrated onboard chargers for plug-in vehicles PTO Alireza Khaligh, Yichao Tang, Chuan Shi 02/18/2020 10,562,404
Bridgeless Resonant AC-DC Converters and Systems and Control Systems Therefore Alireza Khaligh, Y. Tang 10/16/2018 10,103,644
Integrated Dual-Output Grid-to-Vehicle (G2V) and Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) Onboard Charger for Plug-In Electric Vehicles Alireza Khaligh, Y. Tang 04/03/2018 9,931,951
Powertrain System in Plug-In Electric Vehicles PTO Alireza Khaligh, Serkan Dusmex 01/30/2018 9,878,635
Powertrain System in Plug-In Electric Vehicles PTO Alireza Khaligh, Serkan Dusmex 01/30/2018 9,878,635
ZVS DC/DC converter for converting voltage between a battery and a DC link in a hybrid energy storage system and method thereof PTO Alireza Khaligh, Serkan Dusmez 08/16/2016 9,419,522
Multiple-Input DC Converter PTO Alireza Khaligh 10/07/2014 8,853,888
Optics
Invention Inventor(s) Date Issued Patent No.
Far-field optical microscope with a nanometer-scale resolution based on the in-plane image magnification by surface plasmon polaritions PTO Christopher Davis, Igor Smolyaninov 04/22/2008 7,362,440
Far-field optical microscope with a nanometer-scale resolution based on the in-plane image magnification by surface plasmon polaritions PTO Christopher Davis, Igor Smolyaninov 04/22/2008 7,362,442
Focused Ion-Beam Fabrication of Fiber Probes for Use in Near Field Scanning Optical Microscopy PTO Christopher Davis, Igor Smolyaninov, Klaus Edinger, Walid Atia, Saeed Pilevar 10/14/2003 6,633,711
Optical Fiber Evanescent Field Excited Fluorosensor PTO Christopher Davis, Saeed Pilevar, Alexander Fielding, Frank Portugal 05/06/2003 6,558,958
Optical Fiber Evanescent Field Excited Fluorosensor and Method of Manufacture PTO Christopher Davis, Saeed Pilevar, Alexander Fielding, Frank Portugal 08/15/2000 6,103,535
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 Christopher Davis, Walaid Atia, Saeed Pilevar 11/23/1999 5,990,474
External Cavity Fiber Fabry-Perot Magnetometer PTO Christopher Davis, Richard Wagreich 11/09/1999 5,982,174
Signal Processing
Invention Inventor(s) Date Issued Patent No.
Pitch detection algorithm based on PWVT of teager energy operator PTO Carol Espy-Wilson, Vahid Khanagha 02/12/2019 10,204,643
Systems and Methods for Speech Extraction PTO Carol Espy-Wilson, Srikanth Vishnubhotla 02/06/2018 9,886,967
Multiple pitch extraction by strength calculation from extrema PTO Carol Espy-Wilson, Srikanth Vishnubhotla 05/02/2017 9,640,200
Systems and methods for multiple pitch tracking using a multidimensional function and strength values PTO Carol Espy-Wilson, Srikanth Vishnubhotla 03/04/2014 8,666,734
System and method for automatic speech recognition from phonetic features and acoustic landmarks PTO Carol Espy-Wilson, Amit Juneja 02/16/2010 7,664,642
Denoising Mechanism for Speech Signals using Embedded Thresholds and an Analysis Dictionary PTO Carlos Berenstein, David Walnut, Domenico Napoletani, Daniele Struppa 09/09/2008 7,424,463
System and method for automatic speech recognition from phonetic features and acoustic landmarks PTO Carol Espy-Wilson, Amit Juneja 09/21/2006 US20060212296A1 (application)
3D Wavelet-Based Video Codec with Human Perceptual Model PTO John S. Baras, Junfeng Gu, Yimin Jiang 02/28/2006 7,006,568
Electrolaryngeal Speech Enhancement for Telephony PTO Carol Espy-Wilson, Joel M. MacAuslan, Venkatesh Chari, Richard Goldhor 12/13/2005 6,975,984
Lossy/lossless region-if-interest image coding PTO Nariman Farvardin, Eiji Atsumi 05/10/2005 6,891,973
Computer Science and AI, Signal Processing
Invention Inventor(s) Date Issued Patent No.
Method and apparatus for authenticating biometric scanners PTO John S. Baras, Vladimir Ivanov 02/10/2015 8,953,848
Method and apparatus for authenticating area biometric scanners PTO John S. Baras, Vladimir Ivanov 01/27/2015 8,942,430
Method and apparatus for authenticating swipe biometric scanners PTO John S. Baras, Vladimir Ivanov 01/27/2015 8,942,438