1. & Office of Patent Counsel Patents and Pizza October 3, 2006 Presenter of Awards: Benjamin Y. Roca Speaker: Harry Charles, Inventor

2. & Office of Patent Counsel Agenda Introduction/Announcements Patent Awards Keynote Presentation Lunch

3. & Office of Patent Counsel Announcements Ray Sterner and Steve Babin create an image that is featured on the cover of National Geographic Magazine (August 2006)

4. & Office of Patent Counsel Announcements Gunshot imaging system developed by Brett Lapin and Nick Beser was licensed to PSI of Reston, VA.

5. & Office of Patent Counsel Announcements Hologic Inc. gets FDA 501K marketing clearance to incorporate APL’s bone health analysis software in their commercially developed bone scanner

6. & Office of Patent Counsel 7,030,759 Steerable Three-Dimensional Magnetic Field Sensor System for Detection and Classification of Metal Targets Carl V. Nelson

7. & Office of Patent Counsel 7,032,589 Portable Ventilator Charles W. Kerechanin, II Dexter G. Smith Jennifer A. Vincent (Nix) Protagoras N. Cutchis

8. & Office of Patent Counsel 7,043,369 Radiance Library Forecasting for Time-Critical Hyperspectral Target Detection Systems Marc A. Kolodner Patricia K. Murphy Edward E. Hume, Jr.

9. & Office of Patent Counsel 7,046,934 Optical Communication System Using a High Altitude Tethered Balloon Surjit S. Badesha Andrew D. Goldfinger Thomas W. Jerardi

10. & Office of Patent Counsel 7,048,544 Apparatus and Method for Training Using a Human Interaction Simulator Dale E. Olsen

11. & Office of Patent Counsel 7,054,229 Multi-line Towed Acoustic Array Shape Measurement Unit David A. Kitchin Walter S. Allensworth (non-APL)

12. & Office of Patent Counsel 7,056,289 Method and System for Outpatient Monitoring Edward K. Kasper (non-APL) Gary Gerstenblith (non-APL) Sheldon H. Gottlieb (non-APL) Jeffrey A. Spaeder (non-APL) James G. Palmer Phillip R. Thorne (non-APL)

13. & Office of Patent Counsel 7,063,781 Techniques for Sensing Chloride Ions in Wet or Dry Media George M. Murray Russell P. Cain Bliss G. Carkhuff Francis B. Weiskopf, Jr.

14. & Office of Patent Counsel 7,064,541 Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Xylophone Bar Magnetometer with Automatic Resonance Control Eli A. Richards Dennis K. Wickenden

15. & Office of Patent Counsel 7,067,702 Process for Preparing Vinyl Substituted Beta-Diketones Glen E. Southard George M. Murray

16. & Office of Patent Counsel 7,067,801 Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Complex Mixtures of Immune System Modulators Joany Jackman

17. & Office of Patent Counsel 7,068,362 Expandable Beam Transmissometer Thomas M. Murdock Kirk S. Decker James T. Velky Karen D. Rennich

18. & Office of Patent Counsel 7,071,596 Dielectric Motors with Electrically Conducting Rotating Drive Shafts and Vehicles Using Same Jerry A. Krill

19. & Office of Patent Counsel 7,073,749 High Altitude Reconnaissance Vehicle Jerry A. Krill Michael W. Roth Frederick W. Riedel Matthew R. Feinstein William T. Mason, III Margaret Ann G. Darrin Rafal P. Szczepanowski Vincent F. Neradka

20. & Office of Patent Counsel 7,075,213 Variable Ratio Transmission Elements for Motor Drive Shafts Jerry A. Krill

21. & Office of Patent Counsel 7,075,304 Variable Damping Induction Coil for Metal Detection Carl V. Nelson

22. & Office of Patent Counsel 7,078,906 Simultaneous Time-Domain and Frequency-Domain Metal Detector Carl V. Nelson

23. & Office of Patent Counsel 7,079,976 Dense Object Detection System and Method Carl V. Nelson Mary R. Keller

24. & Office of Patent Counsel 7,081,836 Method and Apparatus for Covertly Detecting and Reporting a Distress Condition in a Vehicle Control Cabin Paul J. Biermann

25. & Office of Patent Counsel 7,091,479 Threat Identification in Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry Using Maximum Likelihood Carleton S. Hayek