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7,012,233 Thrust vectoring a flight vehicle during homing using a multi-pulse motor 2006-03-14 7,040,210 Apparatus and method for restraining and releasing a control surface 2006-05-09 7,051,980 Efficient orbit sparing system for space vehicle constellations 2006-05-30 7,073,748 UAV comprising a sensing system for detection and identification of biological particles 2006-07-11 7,080,804 Hot-start navigation information distribution system 2006-07-25 7,097,132 Apparatus and method for selectivity locking a fin assembly 2006-08-29 7,097,136 Immersible unmanned air vehicle and system for launch, recovery, and re-launch at sea 2006-08-29 7,104,506 Spacecraft disturbance trimming system 2006-09-12 7,143,983 Passive jet spoiler for yaw control of an aircraft 2006-12-05 7,149,611 Virtual sensor mast 2006-12-12 7,183,966 Dual mode target sensing apparatus 2007-02-27 7,198,232 Optimal speed management for reaction wheel control system and method 2007-04-03 7,207,520 System, method, and apparatus for designing streamline traced, mixed compression inlets for aircraft engines 2007-04-24 7,219,579 Apparatus and method for actuating control surfaces 2007-05-22 7,219,856 UAV recovery system 2007-05-22 7,229,049 Unitized rotary actuator hinge fitting 2007-06-12 7,237,752 System and method for reducing plasma induced communication disruption utilizing electrophilic injectant and sharp reentry vehicle nose shaping 2007-07-03 7,244,487 Apparatus, system, and method of joining structural components with a tapered tension bond joint 2007-07-17 7,246,539 Apparatus for actuating a control surface 2007-07-24 7,246,775 System and method of substantially autonomous geosynchronous time-optimal orbit transfer 2007-07-24 7,264,198 Time-to-go missile guidance method and system 2007-09-04 7,267,303 Method and system for providing cruciform steered, bent biconic and plasma suppression for maximum accuracy 2007-09-11 7,270,302 Scalable thermal control system for spacecraft mounted instrumentation 2007-09-18 7,278,612 Swaged cable deployment in space 2007-10-09 7,306,187 Inflatable endurance unmanned aerial vehicle 2007-12-11 7,348,918 Mobile ballistic missile detection and defense system 2008-03-25 7,354,636 Flexible laminate material for lighter-than-air vehicles 2008-04-08 7,357,356 Attitude and antenna steering system for geosynchronous earth orbit (GEO) spacecraft 2008-04-15 7,376,496 Spacecraft magnetic momentum control system 2008-05-20 7,394,047 Interceptor guidance for boost-phase missile defense 2008-07-01 7,400,289 Plume-to-hardbody offset compensation in boosting missiles 2008-07-15 7,410,125 Robotically assisted launch/capture platform for an unmanned air vehicle 2008-08-12 7,422,178 Non-threaded structural insert for component attachment 2008-09-09 7,448,572 Direct mounted propulsion for non-rigid airships 2008-11-11 7,451,022 Calibration of ship attitude reference 2008-11-11 7,464,898 Precision thrust/sun tracking attitude control system for gimbaled thruster 2008-12-16 7,472,865 Dehumidification system for an airship 2009-01-06 7,473,876 Boost phase intercept missile fire control system architecture 2009-01-06 7,500,637 Airship with lifting gas cell system 2009-03-10 7,510,145 UAV recovery system II 2009-03-31 7,510,149 System and method to control flowfield vortices with micro-jet arrays 2009-03-31 7,511,252 Multihypothesis threat missile propagator for boost-phase missile defense 2009-03-31 7,511,253 Apparatus for detecting radiation and munition incorporating same 2009-03-31 7,521,108 Embedded connector attached to a base panel 2009-04-21 7,542,828 Unmanned air vehicle, integrated weapon platform, avionics system and control method 2009-06-02 7,546,977 Passive aerodynamic sonic boom suppression for supersonic aircraft 2009-06-16 7,552,669 Coordinated ballistic missile defense planning using genetic algorithm 2009-06-30 7,559,505 Apparatus and method for restraining and deploying an airfoil 2009-07-14 7,568,347 Method for designing flowfield molded hypersonic inlet for integrated turbojet and ram-scramjet applications 2009-08-04 7,575,191 Binary optics SAL seeker (BOSS) 2009-08-18 7,599,805 Systems and methods for predicting supersonic acoustic signatures 2009-10-06 7,602,349 System of stowing and deploying multiple phased arrays or combinations of arrays and reflectors 2009-10-13 7,611,595 System, method, and apparatus for metallic-composite joint with compliant, non-corrosive interface 2009-11-03 7,617,670 Flow control redistribution to mitigate high cycle fatigue 2009-11-17 7,621,481 Decoupled steering/planing air vehicle nose landing gear 2009-11-24 7,624,948 Optimized land mobile satellite configuration and steering method 2009-12-01 7,631,839 Enhanced multiple instrument distributed aperture sensor 2009-12-15 7,654,490 Precision attitude control system for gimbaled thruster 2010-02-02 7,669,803 Optimized land mobile satellite system for north american coverage 2010-03-02 7,673,831 Small unmanned air vehicle system for deploying and towing a sensor in a tow medium and methods related thereto 2010-03-09 7,686,247 Vehicle recovery 2010-03-30 7,686,256 Conformal aero-adaptive nozzle/aftbody 2010-03-30 7,686,257 Dual bimorph synthetic pulsator 2010-03-30 7,687,129 Splice seam 2010-03-30 7,690,595 System, method, and apparatus for throat corner scoop offtake for mixed compression inlets on aircraft engines 2010-04-06 7,692,125 Evanescent wave coupling for Fresnel direction finding 2010-04-06 7,699,261 Small unmanned airborne vehicle airframe 2010-04-20 7,712,701 Unmanned aerial vehicle with electrically powered, counterrotating ducted rotors 2010-05-11 7,718,936 Bulk material windows for distributed aperture sensors 2010-05-18 7,720,604 Stationkeeping optimization for inclined elliptical satellite orbit constellations 2010-05-18 7,721,997 Method and system for providing cruciform steered, bent biconic and plasma suppression for maximum accuracy 2010-05-25 7,724,179 Miniaturized microwave-photonic receiver 2010-05-25 7,731,123 Contra-bevel driven control surface 2010-06-08 7,734,386 System for intelligently controlling a team of vehicles 2010-06-08 7,744,032 Power and imaging system for an airship 2010-06-29 7,748,663 Launch vehicle stage integration device 2010-07-06 7,748,664 High performance synthetic valve/pulsator 2010-07-06 7,750,275 Folding control surface assembly and vehicle incorporating same 2010-07-06 7,755,011 Target maneuver detection 2010-07-13 7,762,194 Apparatus comprising a payload ejection mechanism 2010-07-27 7,762,498 Enhanced high-efficiency spacecraft propulsion system 2010-07-27 7,762,499 Independent East/West thermal management system 2010-07-27 7,766,274 Active maple seed flyer 2010-08-03 7,786,416 Combination conductor-antenna 2010-08-31 7,790,261 Splice seam 2010-09-07 7,832,687 On-orbit storage, plane change, and injection to final orbit of space vehicles 2010-11-16 7,832,688 Optimized land mobile satellite configuration and steering 2010-11-16 7,835,826 Attitude determination system for yaw-steering spacecraft 2010-11-16 7,837,919 System, method, apparatus, and applications for open cell woven structural supports 2010-11-23 7,841,562 Load patch for airships 2010-11-30 7,851,734 Acceleration activated fin release mechanism 2010-12-14 7,858,910 Zero blind zone doppler beam sharpening 2010-12-28 7,866,599 Integrated inward turning inlets and nozzles for hypersonic air vehicles 2011-01-11 7,868,276 Airborne vehicle emulation system and method 2011-01-11 7,870,720 Inlet electromagnetic flow control 2011-01-18 7,871,041 System, method, and apparatus for leading edge structures and direct manufacturing thereof 2011-01-18 7,873,444 Controlling movement of an unmanned vehicle 2011-01-18 7,874,514 Amphibious aircraft 2011-01-25 7,874,515 Air vehicle propulsion system on gimbaled truss 2011-01-25 7,874,520 Satellite with deployable, articulatable thermal radiators 2011-01-25 7,874,525 Method and system for fully fixed vehicle control surfaces 2011-01-25 7,875,795 Thermocouple array for generating electrical power for lighter than air vehicles 2011-01-25 7,875,837 Missile tracking with interceptor launch and control 2011-01-25 7,878,453 Piezoelectric and pyroelectric power-generating laminate for an airship envelope 2011-02-01 7,905,447 System, method and apparatus for aircraft having counter-rotating, ring-winged rotors 2011-03-15 7,910,867 Architecture for a launch controller 2011-03-22 7,917,256 Active vibration damping (AVD) system for precision pointing spacecraft 2011-03-29 7,931,962 Pyrolizing flexible ablator material 2011-04-26 7,946,533 Optimized land mobile satellite system for North American coverage 2011-05-24 7,967,256 Spacecraft battery thermal management system 2011-06-28 7,967,258 Dual bimorph synthetic pulsator 2011-06-28 7,988,097 Precision attitude control system for gimbaled thruster 2011-08-02 8,003,185 Splice seam 2011-08-23 8,006,939 Over-wing traveling-wave axial flow plasma accelerator 2011-08-30 8,016,229 Retracting air cushioned landing system for air vehicles 2011-09-13 8,033,504 System, method and apparatus for windblast reduction during release or ejection from aircraft 2011-10-11 8,038,097 Vehicle recovery package 2011-10-18 8,038,102 System and method to control flowfield vortices with micro-jet arrays 2011-10-18 8,061,651 Airship photocatalytic reactor energy generation, storage, and pipeless transmission systems 2011-11-22 8,063,347 Sensor independent engagement decision processing 2011-11-22 8,070,096 Systems and methods for recovering an airship 2011-12-06 8,074,918 Unmanned aerial system launch from water 2011-12-13 8,079,545 System, method and apparatus for ground-based manipulation and control of aerial vehicle during non-flying operations 2011-12-20 8,098,191 Electronic curtain for vehicle protection 2012-01-17 8,106,340 Generalized midcourse missile guidance 2012-01-31 8,113,468 Precision attitude control system for gimbaled thruster 2012-02-14 8,115,148 Method for targeting a preferred object within a group of decoys 2012-02-14 8,123,173 Attitude and antenna steering system and method for spacecraft 2012-02-28 8,130,137 Template updated boost algorithm 2012-03-06 8,134,103 Burnout time estimation and early thrust termination determination for a boosting target 2012-03-13 8,152,093 Laminate structure with electronic devices and method 2012-04-10 8,158,236 Conductive seam cover tape 2012-04-17 8,167,240 System and methods for buoyancy management in an airship 2012-05-01 8,168,283 Highly reflective materials for use as logos and/or identification 2012-05-01 8,191,818 Method for recovering a relatively slower moving vehicle 2012-06-05 8,205,822 Active maple seed flyer 2012-06-26 8,210,482 Prismatic-shaped vortex generators 2012-07-03 8,220,754 Plasma enhanced riblet 2012-07-17 8,222,583 Drag-stabilized water-entry projectile and cartridge assembly 2012-07-17 8,226,038 Microvanes for aircraft aft body drag reduction 2012-07-24 8,282,040 Composite aircraft wing 2012-10-09 8,288,696 Inertial boost thrust vector control interceptor guidance 2012-10-16 8,288,697 Changing rocket attitude to improve communication link performance in the presence of multiple rocket plumes 2012-10-16 8,296,053 System and method for determining relative motion between ship combat system elements 2012-10-23 8,297,058 Apparatus and method for processing airflow with flowfield molded hypersonic inlet 2012-10-30 8,316,544 Expandable precured joint filler 2012-11-27 8,317,130 Landing gear mount 2012-11-27 8,348,200 Synthetic jet actuator system and related methods 2013-01-08 8,350,200 Passive aerosurface adjustment for static margin management 2013-01-08 8,358,238 Maneuvering missile engagement 2013-01-22 8,371,534 System for isolating vibration among a plurality of instruments 2013-02-12 8,378,880 Explicit probabilistic target object selection and engagement 2013-02-19 8,403,271 Passive robust flow control micro device 2013-03-26 8,414,260 Control system for controlling propeller aircraft engine during takeoff 2013-04-09 8,434,712 Methods and apparatus for driving rotational elements of a vehicle 2013-05-07 8,438,977 Projectile having deployable fin 2013-05-14 8,459,589 External pressurization system for lighter than air vehicles 2013-06-11 8,473,119 Optimal guidance blender for a hovering/flying vehicle 2013-06-25 8,480,033 Integral thermally insulated fuel bladder 2013-07-09 8,480,241 Occulter for exoplanet exploration 2013-07-09 8,484,976 System, method and apparatus for fluidic effectors for enhanced fluid flow mixing 2013-07-16 8,493,715 Automatically ejecting flight data recorder 2013-07-23 8,496,201 High capacity heat sink 2013-07-30 8,520,308 Optical arrangement for tracking detector 2013-08-27 8,523,115 System, apparatus, program product, and related methods for providing boundary layer flow control 2013-09-03 8,524,621 Metallized flexible laminate material for lighter-than-air vehicles 2013-09-03 8,527,193 Method for determining relative motion using accelerometer data 2013-09-03 8,561,944 System and method for desaturation of a control moment gyroscope 2013-10-22 8,563,908 Methods and systems for threat engagement management 2013-10-22 8,575,526 System and method for dispensing of multiple kill vehicles using an integrated multiple kill vehicle payload 2013-11-05 8,575,527 Vehicle having side portholes and an array of fixed EO imaging sub-systems utilizing the portholes 2013-11-05 8,610,041 Missile tracking by GPS reflections 2013-12-17 8,634,973 Multi core vehicle management multi core manager system and method 2014-01-21 8,636,254 Dynamically controlled cross flow instability inhibiting assembly 2014-01-28 8,670,879 Automatically ejecting flight data recorder 2014-03-11 8,698,058 Missile with ranging bistatic RF seeker 2014-04-15 8,710,411 Method and system for determining an optimal missile intercept approach direction for correct remote sensor-to-seeker handover 2014-04-29 8,714,492 Non-interfering deployable radiator arrangement for geo spacecraft 2014-05-06 8,766,152 Laser guided munition impact offset 2014-07-01 8,777,156 Heavier than air internal ballast 2014-07-15 8,783,602 System and method for furling an air cushion landing system 2014-07-22 8,783,617 Aircraft fuselage drag reduction blivet 2014-07-22 8,788,120 Targeting management 2014-07-22 8,789,791 Electrical system and electrical accumulator for electrical actuation and related methods 2014-07-29 8,800,932 Medium earth orbit constellation with simple satellite network topology 2014-08-12 8,820,684 Spacecraft heat dissipation system 2014-09-02 8,847,134 Deployable wing and fin control surface actuation 2014-09-30 8,899,513 Active maple seed flyer 2014-12-02 8,916,795 Plasma actuated vortex generators 2014-12-23 8,921,748 Optical window and detection system employing the same 2014-12-30 8,924,137 Method and apparatus for dynamic air traffic trajectory synchronization 2014-12-30 8,960,608 Deployable radiator having an increased view factor 2015-02-24 8,960,609 Minimally intrusive wingtip vortex wake mitigation using inside-mold-line surface modifications 2015-02-24 8,967,547 Spacecraft east-west radiator assembly 2015-03-03 8,998,132 Aerodynamic wing load distribution control 2015-04-07
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