Cleanearth Technologies Inc.

Other

Biomed Protect, LLC

Contec Corporation

Cet Limited

Berkeley Research Associates, Inc.

Jeffry Golden

Randy Dale Curry

Andrew Cilia

Bruce J Mincher

Qingzhong (James) Cai

Charles W Martin

Andrew Blanchard

Thomas E Clevenger

Leonid Polonskiy

Jeffery Devon Lewis

Shaupoh Wang

William R Purdum

Douglas M Weidenheimer

Christopher G Kocher

Zhu Joe Wang

Paul Brister

Jasenka Benac

Sol Schneider

Robert D Morgan

Joan A Stader

Clinton Boyd

Arie Kaplan

Lawrence Hanebrink

A freeze-resistant watering device has a nipple or ball valve, a heat pipe, a sleeve in tight thermal contact with the nipple, a water-tight connection to a liquid containing container or supply pipe, and an outer shield enclosing an insulating space or insulation material. This device thermally couples a watering nipple or ball valve to a container or supply pipe via a thermal conduction path including bends so the nipple or ball valve maintains a temperature near that of the liquid in the container or supply pipe, and also provides a means for thawing the watering device with heat from the liquid in the container or supply pipe. The use of one or more freeze-resistant watering devices with a thermally insulated container in a watering unit with an insulated container or supply pipe provides drinking water to animals, and in particular, birds in sub-freezing and in hot weather.

Freeze resistant watering device

A freeze-resistant watering device has a nipple or ball valve, a heat pipe, a sleeve in tight thermal contact with the nipple, a water-tight connection to a liquid containing container or supply pipe, and an outer shield enclosing an insulating space or insulation material. This device thermally couples a watering nipple or ball valve to a container or supply pipe via a thermal conduction path including bends so that the nipple or ball valve maintains at a temperature that is near the temperature of the liquid in the container or supply pipe. Further, the use of one or more freeze-resistant watering devices with a thermally insulated container in a watering unit with an insulated container or supply pipe provides drinking water to animals, and in particular, birds in sub-freezing and in hot weather.

A freeze-resistant watering nipple assembly comprising a watering nipple valve, a heat pipe, a sleeve in tight thermal contact with the nipple, a water-tight connection to a liquid containing container or supply pipe, and an outer shield enclosing an insulating space and/or insulation material is described, which thermally couples a watering nipple to a container or supply pipe via a sufficiently good thermal conduction path so that the nipple can be maintained at a temperature that is near the temperature of the liquid in the container or supply pipe. Further, the use of one or more freeze-resistant watering nipple assemblies with a thermally insulated container is described so that the unit comprising the nipple assembly or assemblies and the insulated container provides drinking water to animals, and in particular, birds in sub-freezing and in hot weather.

Freeze resistant watering nipple device

In one embodiment, a disinfectant composition includes a peroxide, a peracid, an anionic surfactant, a nonionic polymer, and one or both of a linear fatty alcohol and an alkyl pyrrolidone. The disinfectants provide greater killing rates for microbial populations in short periods of time, and therefore can be considered to be fast-acting disinfectants.

Fast-acting disinfectant compositions for reducing or eliminating microbial populations

A method of deactivating chemical contaminants and biological agents from a target surface by and aerosol spraying the target surface with an electrostatically charged, photosensitizer solution, and then illuminating the surface with ultraviolet light.

Method and apparatus for photosensitized ultraviolet decontamination of surfaces and aerosol clouds

A microbicidal and decontaminant composition comprising an aqueous solution of peroxides and peracids having equilibrium reaction products, a photoreactive surfactant, and a polymer, wherein said polymer interacts with said peroxides and said peracids.

Peracid/peroxide composition and use thereof as an anti-microbial and a photosensitizer

The invention is a method of spectral data classification that uses the decoupling of target chromaticity and lighting or illumination chromaticity in spectral data and the sorting and selection of spectral bands by values of a merit function to obtain an optimized set of combinations of spectral bands for classification of the data. The decoupling is performed in 'delta-log' space. A rotation transform may be applied. For a broad range of parameters, correction of lighting chromaticity may be obtained by use of an equivalent 'Planck distribution' temperature. Merit function sorting and band combination selection is performed by multiple selection criteria. The method achieves reliable pixel classification and target detection in diverse lighting or illumination, especially in circumstances where lighting is non-uniform across a scene, such as with sunlight and shadows on a partly cloudy day or in &#x201c;artificial&#x201d; lighting. Applications are found in homeland security, defense, environmental protection, biomedical diagnostics, industrial process and product monitoring, and other remote or standoff sensing by spectral characteristics.

Method for spectral data classification and detection in diverse lighting conditions

A method of deactivating chemical contaminants and biological agents from a target surface by and aerosol spraying the target surface with a electrostatically charged, photosensitizer solution, and then illuminating the surface with ultraviolet light.

This invention presents a method of image reconstruction based on static and irregular detector positioning using fan-beam back projection technique of computerized tomography.

Method for fast image reconstruction with compact radiation source and detector arrangement using computerized tomography

A method of organizing a radar system or a sensor system with multiple levels of hierarchical constructs for all level of the system. These architectural levels incorporate self-similar organizational structure and represent design strategies that implement data transfer and communication interfaces with both intranet and internet communication network connections.

Radar or sensor system with hierarchical architecture and reconfigurable functionality

A method for remotely detecting whether a subject is alive, comprising the steps of determining a calibration spectral signature for light reflectance from living skin, normalizing the calibration spectral signature values to the calibration reflectance value at a reference wavelength, storing the normalized calibration spectral signature, determining a subject spectral signature of the light reflectance of a region of skin of the subject whose liveness is to be determined, normalizing the subject spectral signature values to the subject reflectance value at the reference wavelength, comparing the normalized subject spectral signature with the normalized calibration spectral signature for at least one wavelength, generating a subject liveness signal based on the comparison of the normalized subject spectral signature with the normalized calibration spectral signature, and emitting the subject liveness signal.

Method and apparatus for standoff detection of liveness

A method for immobilizing at least one hazardous chemical, comprising the steps of breaching a container having a bulk chemical agent, adding a rheological modifier into the container, and dispersing the rheological modifier within the container so as to promote interaction between the rheological modifier and the bulk chemical agent.

Method for defeat of bulk chemical warfare agents

A process of extracting halogenated organic compounds, and particularly PCBs, from soil, sediment, slurry, sludge and dehalogenating the compounds contacts a contaminated soil sample with an extraction medium of a mixture of an alkane and a water miscible alcohol. The organic compounds dissolve in the extraction medium which is separated from the soil by passing water upwardly through the soil. The extraction medium floats to the surface of the water and is separated. Thereafter, the extraction medium containing the halogenated organic contaminants is subjected to ionizing radiation to radiolytically dehalogenate the compounds.

Process for the solvent extraction for the radiolysis and dehalogenation of halogenated organic compounds in soils, sludges, sediments and slurries

A method and apparatus to improve the atomization of liquid and the efficiency of depositing liquid particles onto target objects, or to coat the target object with a thin film of liquid, to reduce the risk of high-voltage electrical shock, and to reduce the weight of an electrostatic spray system has been developed by inducing electrostatic charges onto the atomized liquid particles sprayed from a grounded metal nozzle.

Method and apparatus for electrostatic spray

A method of deactivating chemical contaminants and biological agents from a target surface by aerosol spraying the target surface with a electrostatically charged, photosensitizer solution, and then illuminating the surface with ultraviolet light.

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Creve Coeur, MO, United States of America

Jeffry Golden