Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8183826 | Battery charging control methods, electric vehicle charging methods, battery charging apparatuses and rechargeable battery systems Battery charging control methods, electric vehicle charging methods, battery charging apparatuses and rechargeable battery systems. According to one aspect, a battery charging control method includes accessing information regarding a presence of at least one of a su... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182965 | Optimized cell configurations for stable LSCF-based solid oxide fuel cells Lanthanum strontium cobalt iron oxides (La(1-x)SrxCoyFe1-yO3-f; (LSCF) have excellent power density (>500 mW/cm2 at 750° C.). When covered with a metallization layer, LSCF cathodes have demonstrated increased durability and stability. Other modifications, such as t... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8173960 | Low pressure electrospray ionization system and process for effective transmission of ions Systems and methods that provide up to complete transmission of ions between coupled stages with low effective ion losses. An “interfaceless” electrospray ionization system is further described that operates an electrospray at a reduced pressure such that standa... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8166777 | Glass composition and process for sealing void spaces in electrochemical devices A glass foaming material and method are disclosed for filling void spaces in electrochemical devices. The glass material includes a reagent that foams at a temperature above the softening point of the glass. Expansion of the glass fills void spaces including by-pass... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8158545 | Methods, systems, and devices for deep desulfurization of fuel gases A highly effective and regenerable method, system and device that enables the desulfurization of warm fuel gases by passing these warm gasses over metal-based sorbents arranged in a mesoporous substrate. This technology will protect Fischer-Tropsch synthesis catalys... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8140464 | Hypothesis analysis methods, hypothesis analysis devices, and articles of manufacture Hypothesis analysis methods, hypothesis analysis devices, and articles of manufacture are described according to some aspects. In one aspect, a hypothesis analysis method includes providing a hypothesis, providing an indicator which at least one of supports and refu... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8138117 | Functionalized sorbent for chemical separations and sequential forming process A highly functionalized sorbent and sequential process for making are disclosed. The sorbent includes organic short-length amino silanes and organic oligomeric polyfunctional amino silanes that are dispersed within pores of a porous support that form a 3-dimensional... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8132122 | Multidimensional structured data visualization method and apparatus, text visualization method and apparatus, method and apparatus for visualizing and graphically navigating the world wide web, method and apparatus for visualizing hierarchies A method of displaying correlations among information objects includes receiving a query against a database; obtaining a query result set; and generating a visualization representing the components of the result set, the visualization including one of a plane and li... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8132121 | Multidimensional structured data visualization method and apparatus, text visualization method and apparatus, method and apparatus for visualizing and graphically navigating the world wide web, method and apparatus for visualizing hierarchies A method of displaying correlations among information objects includes receiving a query against a database; obtaining a query result set; and generating a visualization representing the components of the result set, the visualization including one of a plane and li... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131735 | Rapid automatic keyword extraction for information retrieval and analysis Methods and systems for rapid automatic keyword extraction for information retrieval and analysis. Embodiments can include parsing words in an individual document by delimiters, stop words, or both in order to identify candidate keywords. Word scores for each word w... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130800 | Mode-locked solid state lasers using diode laser excitation A mode-locked laser employs a coupled-polarization scheme for efficient longitudinal pumping by reshaped laser diode bars. One or more dielectric polarizers are configured to reflect a pumping wavelength having a first polarization and to reflect a lasing wavelength... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126804 | Decision support systems and methods for complex networks Methods and systems for automated decision support in analyzing operation data from a complex network. Embodiments of the present invention utilize these algorithms and techniques not only to characterize the past and present condition of a complex network, but also... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126104 | Medical radioisotopes and methods for producing the same This disclosure concerns a new method for preparing radioisotopes, such as molybdenum-99, by alpha particle irradiation, such as by alpha particle irradiation of zirconium-96. Molybdenum-99 is a precursor to the medically-significant radioisotope technetium-99m. Als... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8110667 | Method for conversion of carbohydrate polymers to value-added chemical products Methods are described for conversion of carbohydrate polymers in ionic liquids, including cellulose, that yield value-added chemicals including, e.g., glucose and 5-hydroxylmethylfurfural (HMF) at temperatures below 120° C. Catalyst compositions that include variou... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8110167 | Nanowire synthesis from vapor and solid sources Methods of the present invention can be used to synthesize nanowires with controllable compositions and/or with multiple elements. The methods can include coating solid powder granules, which comprise a first element, with a catalyst. The catalyst and the first elem... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8101140 | Structured catalyst bed and method for conversion of feed materials to chemical products and liquid fuels The present invention is a structured monolith reactor and method that provides for controlled Fischer-Tropsch (FT) synthesis. The invention controls mass transport limitations leading to higher CO conversion and lower methane selectivity. Over 95 wt % of the total ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8097845 | Focused analyte spray emission apparatus and process for mass spectrometric analysis An apparatus and process are disclosed that deliver an analyte deposited on a substrate to a mass spectrometer that provides for trace analysis of complex organic analytes. Analytes are probed using a small droplet of solvent that is formed at the junction between t... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8088502 | Nanostructured thin film optical coatings A durable coating made up of superimposed microlayers of preselected materials, and a method of making and utilizing such a coating. In one embodiment of the invention, at least 200 microlayers of at least one transparent material, having a thickness of less than 50... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8088283 | Continuous batch reactor, system, and process for treatment of metal-contaminated fluids A fluid treatment device, system, and process are described that provide a filtered, metal-depleted (treated) fluid. The system includes two pairs of tanks that are piped and valved to allow one pair to fill/react while the other pair decants/discharges, which provi... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8087516 | System and process for treatment of a contaminated fluid A new device, method, and system are disclosed that provide for removal of undesired materials from a contaminated fluid. Materials present in the fluids are kept in motion in one or more filter cassettes that include disc aerators that improve contact times with th... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8073573 | Electrical power distribution control methods, electrical energy demand monitoring methods, and power management devices Electrical power distribution control methods, electrical energy demand monitoring methods, and power management devices are described. In one aspect, an electrical power distribution control method includes providing electrical energy from an electrical power distr... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8067053 | Method for selective immobilization of macromolecules on self assembled monolayer surfaces Disclosed is a method for selective chemical binding and immobilization of macromolecules on solid supports in conjunction with self-assembled monolayer (SAM) surfaces. Immobilization involves selective binding of peptides and other macromolecules to SAM surfaces us... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8064982 | Methods for magnetic resonance analysis using magic angle technique Methods of performing a magnetic resonance analysis of a biological object are disclosed that include placing the object in a main magnetic field (that has a static field direction) and in a radio frequency field; rotating the object at a frequency of less than abou... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8061207 | System and process for ultrasonic characterization of deformed structures Generally speaking, the method of the present invention is performed by making various ultrasonic scans at preselected orientations along the length of a material being tested. Data from the scans are then plotted together with various calculated parameters that are... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8061187 | Lossless droplet transfer of droplet-based microfluidic analysis A transfer structure for droplet-based microfluidic analysis is characterized by a first conduit containing a first stream having at least one immiscible droplet of aqueous material and a second conduit containing a second stream comprising an aqueous fluid. The int... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8036876 | Methods of defining ontologies, word disambiguation methods, computer systems, and articles of manufacture Methods of defining ontologies, word disambiguation methods, computer systems, and articles of manufacture are described according to some aspects. In one aspect, a word disambiguation method includes accessing textual content to be disambiguated, wherein the textua... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8023739 | Processes, data structures, and apparatuses for representing knowledge Processes, data structures, and apparatuses to represent knowledge are disclosed. The processes can comprise labeling elements in a knowledge signature according to concepts in an ontology and populating the elements with confidence values. The data structures can c... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8012403 | Method for producing high purity low dielectric constant ceramic and hybrid ceramic films Porous ceramic and hybrid ceramic films are useful as low dielectric constant interlayers in semiconductor interconnects. (Hybrid ceramic films are defined as films that contain organic and ceramic molecular components in the structure, as, for example, organosilica... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7994347 | Hydroxymethylfurfural reduction methods and methods of producing furandimethanol A method of reducing hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) where a starting material containing HMF in a solvent comprising water is provided. H2 is provided into the reactor and the starting material is contacted with a catalyst containing at least one metal selec... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7986260 | Circularly polarized antennas for active holographic imaging through barriers Circularly-polarized antennas and their methods of use for active holographic imaging through barriers. The antennas are dielectrically loaded to optimally match the dielectric constant of the barrier through which images are to be produced. The dielectric loading h... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7979214 | Peptide identification Peptides are identified from a list of candidates using collision-induced dissociation tandem mass spectrometry data. A probabilistic model for the occurrence of spectral peaks corresponding to frequently observed partial peptide fragment ions is applied. As part of... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7973177 | Process for producing cyclic compounds The invention includes methods of processing an initial di-carbonyl compound by conversion to a cyclic compound. The cyclic compound is reacted with an alkylating agent to form a derivative having an alkylated ring nitrogen. The invention encompasses a method of pro... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7966882 | Self-calibrating method for measuring the density and velocity of sound from two reflections of ultrasound at a solid-liquid interface A method for determining a velocity and density of a fluid without requiring the transmission of ultrasound through the fluid, and a system for performing such a method. The method involves the steps of delivering, receiving and analyzing ultrasound pulses sent from... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7964028 | Method and apparatus for selective capture of gas phase analytes using metal β-diketonate polymers A process and sensor device are disclosed that employ metal β-diketonate polymers to selectively capture gas-phase explosives and weaponized chemical agents in a sampling area or volume. The metal β-diketonate polymers can be applied to surfaces in various analyti... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7964022 | Method and apparatus for selective capture of gas phase analytes using metal β-diketonate polymers A process and sensor device are disclosed that employ metal β-diketonate polymers to selectively capture gas-phase explosives and weaponized chemical agents in a sampling area or volume. The metal β-diketonate polymers can be applied to surfaces in various analyti... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7963116 | Bulk-scaffolded hydrogen storage and releasing materials and methods for preparing and using same Compositions are disclosed for storing and releasing hydrogen and methods for preparing and using same. These hydrogen storage and releasing materials exhibit fast release rates at low release temperatures without unwanted side reactions, thus preserving desired lev... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7957441 | Method and apparatus for resonant frequency waveform modulation A resonant modulator device and process are described that provide enhanced resonant frequency waveforms to electrical devices including, e.g., laser devices. Faster, larger, and more complex modulation waveforms are obtained than can be obtained by use of conventio... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7956328 | System, device, and methods for real-time screening of live cells, biomarkers, and chemical signatures An ATR-FTIR device and system are described that defect live-cell responses to stimuli and perturbations in real-time. The system and device can monitor perturbations resulting from exposures to various physical, chemical, and biological materials in real-time, as w... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7956224 | Palladium catalyzed hydrogenation of bio-oils and organic compounds The invention provides palladium-catalyzed hydrogenations of bio-oils and certain organic compounds. Experimental results have shown unexpected and superior results for palladium-catalyzed hydrogenations of organic compounds typically found in bio-oils. ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7955574 | Porous thin film and process for analyte preconcentration and determination A porous thin film and a method are disclosed. The film has a generally uniform thickness and includes fused silica particles that provide multiple types of pores in the film. Particles are generally uniformly distributed on a surface and have a generally open struc... | 06/07/2011 |
