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California Institute of Technology

Stephen Douglas Russell

Randy L Shimabukuro

Joanna N Ptasinski

Douglas A Sexton

Ayax D Ramirez

Bruce W Offord

Paul R De La Houssaye

Shannon D Kasa

Ryan P Lu

Wadad B Dubbelday

Stanley R Clayton

Howard W Walker

Richard J Orazi

John Scott Rodgers

David W Brock

Eugene P Kelley

Graham A Garcia

Michael Garrett Lovern

Jamie K Pugh

J Scott Rodgers

Timothy C Stamnitz

William Pugh

Dennis E Amundson

Narayan R Joshi

Ronald Eugene Reedy

George P Imthurn

Monti E Aklufi

Markham E Lasher

Mark W Roberts

Andrew Thomas Barfknecht

Michael J Burns

Andrew S Katz

Rudy Padilla

Diane M Szaflarski

Serey Thai

Michael J Winton

Robert C Dynes

Antonio Gilliam

Mark R Roser

Yu Albert Wang

Richard Lee Waters

Donald J Albares

Marcio Calixto De Andrade

Nackieb M Kamin

Michael Patrick Daly

Lee Lemay

Mark Alan Livingston

Peter M Poirier

Patrick M Sullivan

Charles A Young

Douglas S Hulbert

Hesham Fouad

Oswald I Csanadi

Marcos Ontiveros

Katharine Julia Russell

Jonathan W Decker

Suleyman Guleyupoglu

Ozzie Csanadi

Randy L Shlmabukuro

Eugene P Kelly

Shikik T Johnson

Kurt H Weiner

Systems and methods are provided for addressing the complexity inherent in evaluating Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) systems by using meta-agent based adaptation in multi-agent systems. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a multi-agent based automated evaluation capability for distributed, SOA systems that can dynamically adapt to the non-deterministic nature of such systems to enable a continuous monitoring capability for detecting and circumventing operational errors as they arise.

Meta-agent based adaptation in multi-agent systems for SOA system evaluation

A method for beam steering and beam forming an antenna is disclosed herein that includes illuminating an optical fiber with a light source, thereby transmitting a signal through the optical fiber to an electro-optical switch. The electro-optical switch is actuated with the signal from the light source, thereby switching an electrical load in the electro-optical switch. At least one antenna element in an array of antenna elements is excited with RF radiation radiated by a driven element via an RF transmission line and reradiated from parasitic elements, thereby beam steering and beam forming the antenna.

Beam steering and beam forming an antenna

A method and apparatus to provide phototherapy to companion animals. The apparatus includes at least one light source configured to flood illuminate inside a housing, a housing sized to surround at least one companion animal, and a control system to adjust the light flux and light duration of the at least one light source. The method includes providing said apparatus and flood illuminating at least one companion animal with a clinically significant light flux and light duration.

Phototherapy for domesticated animals method and apparatus

Pulsating radio star (PULSAR) navigation systems and methods can include a plurality of PULSARs that can emit PULSAR radiation pulses in the millisecond range, and a plurality of Josephson Junctions (JJs) that can be arranged as an array of microantennas. The systems and methods can include a cryogenic cooling system for cooling the JJs to an operating temperature based on the JJ materials, and a thermal management system for maintaining the operating temperature. An oscillator can determine times of arrival (TOAs) of magnetic field components of the PULSAR pulses. A processor can compute the terrestrial position of the navigation system using the TOAs and the known celestial position of the PULSARs. A GPS sub-system can be included for navigation using GPS signals. The processor can be configured to compute terrestrial location using the PULSAR magnetic field components when GPS signal strength falls below a predetermined level or is lost.

Systems and methods for navigation using PULSARs

A waveguide and methods for manufacture can include a silicon wafer and a silicon substrate on the wafer that can be patterned into a silicon waveguide. A cladding can be deposited on the wafer and that waveguide using a plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) process. When a PECVD process is used, the cladding portions that are in contact with that waveguide and in the immediate vicinity can have a lower density, and a lower refractive index n of less than (n&#x3c;1.3). The lower uniform cladding refractive index can be uniform from the waveguide surfaces out to approximately one micrometer from the waveguide. This can further in result in an increased difference between the refractive index of the silicon waveguide and the adjacent lower refractive index cladding portions, which can further result in greater light confinement within the waveguide (i.e. reduced losses during transmission).

Optical waveguide

A system for detecting tampering. The system comprises a first luminescent layer adjacent to a first item of value and an optical detector operably connected to an alarm. The first luminescent layer emits a light beam, which is detected by the optical detector. Upon detection of the light beam, the optical detector activates the alarm.

Tamper detection system

Systems and methods for enhancing exploratory data analysis using a recommender system are provided. The recommender system receives feedback when a set of raw data is analyzed (e.g., from one or more data analysts exploring a data set). Based on the collected feedback, the recommender system can automatically infer the need for certain analytical operations to be performed on a data set. These inferences can be used by the recommender system to infer analytical operations when new data sets are analyzed.

Recommender system for exploratory data analysis

Methods and devices for a plasmonic circuit are described. A planar plasmonic device is configured with a controlling gate structure and when coupled to a complementary plasmonic device, a switching circuit can be realized. Also, by varying the properties of the complementary plasmonic device, the circuit can also operate as an amplifier. By use of combinations of this plasmonic circuit element, more advanced circuits and logic functions can be arrived at.

Complementary plasmonic device and method

A method is provided for creating a chamber on a semiconductor substrate, utilizing wet etching or dry etching, back-filling the chamber with a polymeric compound, and sealing the chamber.

Back end of line (BEOL) method for polymer and biphenyl claddings

A tunable ultra-compact spectrometer and methods for spectrometry therefor can include a single pixel and a Fresnel zone plate having a focal length at a first temperature Tand a first wavelength &#x3bb;, and a focal point. The pixel can be twenty micrometers square and can be placed at a distance from the pixel that equal to the focal length so that the focal point is at the pixel. The Fresnel zone plate can be made of a material that causes the same focal point at the pixel at T, but at a different wavelength &#x3bb;than wavelength &#x3bb;. A heat source can selectively add heat to the Fresnel zone plate to cause a second temperature T. Exemplary materials for the Fresnel zone plate can be quartz for visible wavelengths, silicon for infrared wavelength, or other materials, according to the &#x3bb;(s) of interest.

Tunable ultra-compact fresnel zone plate spectrometer

Photonic devices may include a first ring resonator and a second ring resonator located within the first ring resonator, the second ring resonator separated from and optically coupled to the first ring resonator. A waveguide structure is optically coupled to the first ring resonator and may be parallel bus waveguides optically coupled on opposite ends of the first ring resonator or a u-shaped waveguide wrapped substantially around the first ring resonator. A third ring resonator may located within the second ring resonator and may be separated from and optically coupled to the first ring resonator and the second ring resonator. A sensing medium may be disposed within the interior of the third ring resonator and optically coupled to the third ring resonator. The sensing medium is configured to undergo a change in refractive index responsive to one or more analytes bound to the sensing medium.

Embedded ring resonator-based photonic devices

Power is provided to a remote device by receiving external energy from a laser source and storing the energy in a storage battery. A photovoltaic receiver capable of alignment in a preferred reception direction for receiving energy is used to receive energy from a source of excitement energy, and is configured to receive energy from a laser which is directed to the photovoltaic receiver. A charging circuit receives power from the photovoltaic receiver and is used to charge the storage battery.

Stand-off charging for batteries

Devices and methods for conveying energy through a watertight enclosure can include placing at least one means for converting electrical energy into vibrational mechanical energy in direct contact with the enclosure. At least one means for harvesting the vibrational mechanical energy from the enclosure into electrical energy can also be placed in direct contact on the enclosure, on the opposite side of the enclosure from the conversion means. The conversion means and harvesting means both operate at a matching frequency &#x3c9;. A plurality of transducers generating vibrations at frequency &#x3c9; can be used in conjunction with harvester, or vice versa. Or, a plurality of transducers operating at discrete frequencies &#x3c9;can be used in conjunction with a plurality of harvesters operating at matching frequencies &#x3c9;. These configurations can be used to transmit electrical energy through the watertight enclosure without breaking the watertight integrity of the enclosure.

Energy conveyance device

Methods for fabricating ultra-sharp nanoprobes can include the steps of providing a wafer, and patterning a silicon layer on the wafer with a plurality of geometric structures. The geometric structures can be patterned using electron-beam lithography or photolithography, and can have circular, triangular or other geometric shapes when viewed in top plan. The methods can further include the step of depositing a non-uniform cladding on the geometric structures using plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) techniques, and then wet-etching the wafer. The non-uniform nature of the cladding can result in more complete etching in the areas where the cladding has lower density and incomplete etching in the areas of higher density of the non-uniform cladding. The different etching rates in the proximity of at least adjacent two geometric structures can result in the formation of ultra-sharp nanoprobes.

Ultra-sharp nanoprobes and methods

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Stephen Douglas Russell