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Billing and Accounts Receivables System 2000 (BARS 2000)
Published Thursday, September 9, 2004The Billing and Accounts Receivable System or BARS is designed to reduce the cycle time required to bill and collect revenue from both federal and private sponsors of research and development projects by automating the creation of invoices and tracking the receivables. The system substantially reduces the labor costs associated with maintaining...
Categories: Information Technology
Keyword(s): Billing, accounts, accounting
Docket: IS-2001-022
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A Probabilistic Acoustic-Phonetic Approach to Automatic Speech Recognition
Published Wednesday, September 1, 2004The state of the art voice recognition systems use very little knowledge of acoustic-phonetics and are largely dependent on statistical modeling.This invention, brings together knowledge of acoustic-phonetics and statistical pattern recognition to build a system, called Event-Based System (EBS) for automatic speech recognition. The...
Categories: Information Technology
Keyword(s): voice recgonition, phonetics, speech recognition, learn
Docket: IS-2004-010
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VROOM (Vehicle Rental Repair Operations Organization and Maintenance)
Published Sunday, August 29, 2004VROOM is a fleet management system that integrates vehicle tracking, rental and maintenance into a single system. Functionality can be broken down into the following sections: local user administration, vehicle management, fuel tracking, customer administration, rental assignment and maintenance. The system integrates these functions into a client...
Categories: Information Technology
Keyword(s): University Software
Docket: IS-2004-076
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Segmented Reactor Showerhead Design with Exhaust Gas Recirculation and Spatially-Resolved Sensing Capability for Chemical Vapor Deposition, Plasma-Enhanced CVD, and Plasma Etch Processes
Published Wednesday, August 18, 2004Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is a process for depositing thin films from reactive gaseous chemical species onto a substrate in a controlled reactor environment for semiconductor and other materials manufacturing applications. In some instances, plasmas are used to enhance the deposition rate of desired materials. With manufacturing trends...
Categories: Chemical
Keyword(s): Chemical vapor deposition, 525
Docket: PS-2000-029
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Fire Protection System for Post-Crash Vehicle Engine Compartments
Published Monday, August 2, 2004Inventors at the University of Maryland, College Park, have developed an on-board nitrogen-entrained foaming system for suppressing a vehicle fire. The system is capable of producing 200 liters/min of such foam and is compact.It is envisioned that such a foam system can be deployed in advance of, for instance, an enemy missile attack,...
Categories: Chemical
Keyword(s): foam, fire suppression, tank, ship, non-aqueous
Docket: PS-2004-021
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Continuously Graded Thin Films for Functionally Broadband Device Arrays
Published Monday, July 26, 2004Device array geometries, common in current microelectronic and optoelectronic applications, include multiple devices wherein each device in the array performs a function with a slightly different specification relative to its adjacent device in the array. For instance, arrays of devices as a whole can emit, detect and/or process signals at...
Categories: Imaging devices, Microelectronics
Keyword(s): oxide, thin film, UV, sensor, detection, chip device array, multiple
Docket: PS-2004-027
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Enrichment of Zinc and Cadmium in Phytoaccumulator Biomass
Published Wednesday, July 21, 2004"Phytomining refers to the extraction of metals from metal-accumulating plants. Known as hyperaccumulators, such plants can be grown in areas that are toxic to other life, such as mining sites contaminated with heavy metals. They can also be grown in soil that contains trace metals. Phytomining nickel, for example, can occur in soil with as little...
Categories: Agricultural
Keyword(s): phytomining, Zn, plant, toxic metals, remediation, Cobalt, zinc, Co thlaspi, ash
Docket: LS-2004-066
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One Click Mold Design for Rapid Tooling Applications
Published Wednesday, July 21, 2004Currently, available software tools that assist mold designers in designing and modifying quality molds offer limited functionality in determining the mold geometry. Hence, mold designers must perform these tasks manually. An expert mold designer utilizing the best available software in the market can take anywhere from several hours to several...
Categories: Information Technology
Keyword(s): mold design, software, one click
Docket: IS-2004-064
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Micro-Knife-Edge Techniques for Sealing of Microfluidic Systems
Published Wednesday, July 14, 2004Researchers at the University of Maryland, College Park, have developed an invention that relates to fabrication of leak-tight microfluidic systems for biomedical and other applications. A major technical challenge in microfluidics is to achieve design and fabrication strategies that enable simple or complex networks of fluid channels to be...
Categories: Microfluidics
Keyword(s): micro-fluidic systems, leak, wafer, fluid, seal, gasket
Docket: PS-2004-057
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Automatic Thumbnail Cropping
Published Monday, July 5, 2004Thumbnail images provide image retrieval and browsing systems users with a method for quickly scanning large numbers of images. Recognizing the objects in an image is important in many retrieval tasks, but thumbnails generated by shrinking the original images often render objects illegible.Researchers at the University of Maryland,...
Categories: Information Technology
Keyword(s): Thumbnail, images, retieval, scanning, data sets, face detection, saliency map, cropping
Docket: IS-2004-062