b'REFLEC TING ON THE PAST YEARS ACHIE VEMENTSPatent 10,581,481Apparatus for Determining a ThermalThermophilic and Thermoacidophilic Conductivity and a Thermal Diffusivity Biopolymerdegrading Genes and Enzymes of a Material, and Related Methods From Alicyclobacillus Acidocaldarius and Related Organisms, MethodsA method of determining a thermal conductivity and a thermal diffusivity of a material begins by exposing aIsolated or purified polypeptides and nucleic acid specimen with a substrate of a material and a metallicsequences encoding polypeptides from Alicyclobacillus film over the substrate to an amplitude modulatedacidocaldarius are provided. Further provided are pump laser beam of electromagnetic radiation. A phasemethods of at least partially degrading, cleaving or profile of the material is measured, and a continuum- removing polysaccharides, lignocellulose, cellulose based model is fit to the phase profile. Relatedand more using isolated or purified polypeptides and microscopes and related methods are also disclosed. nucleic acid sequences encoding polypeptides fromPatent 10,578,569 granted 3/3/2020 to David H. Hurley, Robert S. Schley,A. acidocaldarius.Marat Khafizov Patent 10,597,690 granted 3/24/2020 to David N. Thompson, William A. Apel, Vicki S. Thompson, David W. Reed, Jeffrey A. Lacey, Emily D. Henriksen, Communication Device, Spread- spectrum Receiver, and Related Method UsingMethods of Forming Structures and Fissile Normalized Matched Filter for ImprovingFuel Materials by Additive ManufacturingSignal-to-noise Ratio in Harsh Environments 12A method of forming one or more structures by A communication device, a method of operating theadditive manufacturing begins with introducing a first communication device, and a spread-spectrum receiverlayer of a powder mixture comprising graphite and are disclosed in this patent. The method includesa fuel on a surface of a substrate. The first layer is at receiving an incoming RF signal, demodulating theleast partially compacted and then exposed to laser incoming radio frequency (RF) signal to generate aradiation to form a first layer of material comprising the baseband signal, filtering the baseband signal with afuel dispersed within a graphite matrix material, with normalized matched filter having filter characteristicsat least one additional layer added. Related structures matched to a pulse-shaping filter of the transmitterand methods of forming one or more structures are that generated the incoming RF signal, and extracting aalso disclosed.received signal from a normalized output generated byPatent 10,614,923 granted 4/7/2020 to Isabella J. Van Rooyen,the normalized matched filter. As a result, interferencesSean R. Morrelland noise from harsh environments may be suppressed.Patent 10,581,481 granted 3/3/2020 to Hussein Moradi, Jonathan D. Driggs, Arslan J. Majid, Behrouz Farhang, Taylor M. Sibbett5'