Aquila Technologies Group, Inc.

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The General Hospital Corporation

Canberra Albuquerque, Inc.

Canberra Aquila, Inc.

Steven P Kadner

Nathaniel M Sims

Kevin Ferguson

Robert G Campos

William M Resnik

Jerome F Beckes

Robert Rajala

Yakov Ponurovskii

Miquel A Franco

Micha Auerbach

Alexander I Nadezhdinskii

Chris Martinez

A device and method for measuring the relative amounts ofU andU in the gaseous phase of UFusing tunable diode laser spectroscopy (TDLS). The invention is a faster, more accurate method for making such measurement. The improved method involves using methane (CH) or acetylene (CH) as a calibration gas, and using a Fabry-Perot interferometer to calibrate the laser frequency, to determine the relative amounts ofU andU in UFgas within &#xb1;0.27% accuracy, for example 7.00%&#xb1;0.27%. The sample time required for such measurement is about one second.

Gaseous uranium hexafluride isotope measurement by diode laser spectroscopy

An apparatus and method for measuring and recording the torque applied to a bolt. The present invention utilizes a piezoelectric compound disposed between an upper member and a lower member. When the bolt is tightened, the piezoelectric compound is physically distorted and a net electrical potential is created across the piezoelectric compound. A processor in the bolt measures the electrical potential and calculates the torque based on the potential. The bolt then transmits a data packet comprising the torque value and bolt information to a wrench, which later transmits the data packet to a computer and a database. Alternatively, the bolt can be configured with a transmitter so that the data packet can be transmitted directly from the bolt to the computer and database. The bolt can also be configured with energizing circuitry that acts as a power source for the bolt.

Apparatus and method for measuring the torque applied to bolts

The seal system is comprised of a custom integrated circuit utilizing a special CMOS gate-array technology that can be utilized to build inexpensive tamper-resistant electronic seals. The electronic circuit includes a special analog as well as digital, single-chip circuitry that senses the state of the seal, and when interrogated, transmits that state via a 35-bit data word to a seal reader device, allowing remote monitoring and control of containers and expensive goods. Any attempt to tamper with the seal will be recorded in the circuit for later transmittal to the hand-held seal reader/verifier. Each seal has a unique 20-bit identification number, combined with a 6-bit random seal code and a 6-bit resistance value. The seal electronics may be utilized in a way to provide several types of seals, namely, a shipping container seal, an event triggering seal, and event logging seal, and a tamper-proof seal as well as combinations thereof.

Seal system

A tag associated with a device and that identifies the device with respect to other devices is connected to a communication link with the same connector used to connect the device to a source of power. The device connector includes an element for receiving electrical power and a data contact connected to the tag. An electrical power connector (which serves as the power source) has an element for engaging the element of the device connector and applying electrical power thereto, and another data contact connected to the communication link. When the device connector is engaged with the electrical power source connector, the data contacts engage one another and establish a data path between the communication link and the tag. The connection to the communication link allows information to be exchanged between the communication link and the tag.

Connecting a portable device to a network

A touch-sensitive data input device for use with a computer system having a display screen has a demountable bezel which establishes a grid of light beams in front of the display screen. Misalignment between the display screen frame of reference and the bezel frame of reference is corrected by the calculation of coordinate transforms which are applied to bezel grid coordinates to translate same to display screen coordinates. The coordinate transforms are generated by the computer in accordance with a program of instructions executed in a preliminary bezel alignment procedure.

Touch-sensitive data input device

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Albuquerque, NM, United States of America

Steven P Kadner