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Exploration

Accomplishments

Patents

Patents

The Exploration Technology Directorate employs some of the most highly respected scientific and technical experts in the world. These professionals continue to invent and discover new hardware, software, materials and methods that are often patented, and can be licensed to the private sector.

5,483,168

Optical Robotic Path Planning System - Max B. Reid

5,426,512

Image Compression Having Minimum Perceptual Error - Andrew B. Watson

5,438,623

Ames Spatial Auditory Display (ASAD) - Durand Begault

5,651,079

Photonic Switching Devices Using Light Bullets - Peter M. Goorjian

5,694,939

Autogenic-Feedback Training Exercise (AFTE) Method And System - Patricia S. Cowings

5,581,694

A Method of Testing and Predicting Failures of Electronic Mechanical Systems - David L. Iverson, Ann F. Patterson-Hine Anderson

5,629,780

Image Compression having Minimum Perceptual Error - Andrew B. Watson

5,649,064

System and Method for Modeling the Flow Performance of an Object - Charles C. Jorgenson, James C. Ross

5,963,683

Photonic Switching Devices Using Light Bullets - Peter M. Goorjian

5,697,108

Suitlock Docking Mechanism - Philip Culbertson

6,493,023

Method and Apparatus for Evaluating the Visual Quality of Processed Digital Video Sequences - Andrew B. Watson

5,816,105

Three Degree-of-Freedom Mechanical Linkage for Backdrivable Manipulators and Manual Input Devices - Bernard D. Adelstein

6,109,270

Multimodality Instrument For Tissue Characterization - Russell J. Andrews, Robert Mah

6,161,097

Automated Traffic Management System and Method - Brian Glass, Liljana Spirkovska, David L. Iverson, William J. McDermott, Ronald J. Reisman, James S. Gibson

6,278,965

Real-Time Surface Traffic Adviser - Brian J. Glass, David L. Iverson, William J. McDermott, Ronald J. Reisman, Liljana Spirkovska, James S. Gibson

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