Raytheon Company

Walter Wrigglesworth

Thomas A Olden

Darin Scot Williams

Jayne M Hall

Embodiments of a flight vehicle are provided, as are embodiments of a method for manufacturing a flight vehicle. In one embodiment, the flight vehicle includes a solid-propellant rocket motor, control circuitry, and an electrically-interconnective support structure. The electrically-interconnective support structure includes a load-bearing frame and a plurality of electrical conductors embedded within the load-bearing frame. The solid-propellant rocket motor is mounted to the load-bearing frame, and the plurality of electrical conductors embedded within the frame electrically couples the solid-propellant rocket motor to the control circuitry.

Flight vehicles including electrically-interconnective support structures and methods for the manufacture thereof

A composite interconnect assembly includes a body structure formed from a composite material (e.g., a carbon graphite material) with one or more conductive traces embedded therein (e.g., a copper or copper alloy). One or more contact regions are provided such that the conductive traces are exposed and are configured to mechanically and electrically connect to one or more electronic components. The body structure may have a variety of shapes, including planar, cylindrical, conical, and the like.

Systems and methods for composite structures with embedded interconnects

A method and system for identifying anomalous cells includes an imaging subsystem to generate a track file from collected images of cells, a image processing subsystem to extract features from the track file and generate feature sets for particular cells, and a discrimination subsystem to generate a probabilistic belief function from the feature sets to determine a probability that at least some of the cells are anomalous. The images may include sample cells from a tissue sample. In embodiments, the imaging subsystem may collect images from photographs and may also collect images from a microscope. In embodiments, the discrimination subsystem may perform both supervised and unsupervised training to update the belief functions learning from known anomalous cells and cells with know anomalous features to enhance its accuracy over time.

System and method for detecting anomalous targets including cancerous cells

A position encoder uses a track encoded with a pattern of bit-widths in accordance with a sequence. The sequence may be any sequence having unique subsequences, and may be a pseudo-random noise (PRN) sequence such that each N-bit subsequence occurs only once on the track. Sensors detect transitions between the bits and bit-widths as the track moves with respect to the sensors to provide in-phase and quadrature-phase pick-off signals. The pickoff signals are summed and absolute value thresholded. The absolute value thresholded sum signal is sampled when the quadrature pairs are in the '00' or '11' quadrants, and latched when the sum signal goes high to distinguish between wide and narrow bit widths. The latch is shifted into a shift data register for use in determining the position of the encoder track. In the case of a PRN sequence having a length of 2bits, the position may be an absolute position when the number of valid bits in the shift data register is at least N. The position may be an incremental position when the number of transitions detected is less than N.

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