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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185511 | Clinician-driven example-based computer-aided diagnosis Optimizing example-based computer-aided diagnosis (CADx) is accomplished by clustering volumes-of-interest (VOIs) (116) in a database (120) into respective clusters according to subjective assessment of similarity (S220). An optimal set of volum... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185189 | Investigation of body structures A pulsed radiation beam is directed toward a body structure having a configuration or physical characteristic that changes over time, the radiation being pulsed at a pulse modulation frequency. A detector detects acoustic oscillations set up in the body resultant fr... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184883 | Motion compensated CT reconstruction of high contrast objects Cardiac CT imaging using gated reconstruction is currently limited in its temporal and spatial resolution. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an examination apparatus is provided in which an identification of a high contrast object is per... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184774 | Dual-color pyrometric measurement of X-ray focal spot temperature An x-ray tube disclosed here in includes an emitter arranged to emit electrons on to a focal spot on a rotatable anode. The x-ray tube also includes a hollow tube arranged to receive electromagnetic radiation from the focal spot at one end of the hollow tube and tra... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184457 | Switch mode power supply for in-line voltage applications A switch mode power supply (15) employs a rectifier (20), a converter (50) and converter driver (60). The rectifier (20) generates a rectified supply voltage (VRS) based on an in-line voltage (VLN), and the co... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184445 | Modular electric system The present invention relates to a modular electric system with a base module (2, 11) comprising a substrate (3, 12), a power supply (40), power/data transmission means (4, 16) and holding means; at least one load module (7, 20, 30... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184280 | Controllable light angle selector Disclosed is a controllable light angle selecting device that includes a fixed light selecting means for transmitting light within a limited acceptance angle, optically connected to at least one light redirecting means capable of achieving a variable angular differe... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183941 | Electronic device for generating a local oscillator signal having a frequency equal to a fractional part of a fundamental frequency An electronic device (ED) is intended for generating a local oscillator signal having a chosen frequency FLO from a main signal outputted by a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) and having a fundamental frequency FVCO and harmonics thereof. Th... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183861 | Arrangement including compensation for influencing and/or detecting magnetic particles in a region of action An arrangement for influencing and/or detecting magnetic particles includes a selector for generating a magnetic selection field having a pattern in space of its magnetic field strength such that a first sub-zone having a low magnetic field strength and a second sub... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183860 | Arrangement and method for influencing and/or detecting magnetic particles in a region of action An arrangement and a method for influencing and/or detecting magnetic particles in a region of action includes a generator for generating a magnetic selection field having a pattern in space of its magnetic field strength such that a first sub-zone having a low magn... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183785 | Method of controlling a lighting system based on a target light distribution The invention relates to a method of controlling a lighting system with multiple controllable light sources 3a, 3b and a system therefor. According to a first aspect, influence data of the lighting system are obtained, which data represen... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183784 | Integrated lighting control module and power switch A lighting system includes a light source and a switch configured to receive input power and provide switched power. A control module is configured to receive the switched power and control the light source. The control module is further configured to provide the sw... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183577 | Controlling pit formation in a III-nitride device A device includes a semiconductor structure comprising a III-nitride light emitting layer disposed between an n-type region and a p-type region and a plurality of layer pairs disposed within one of the n-type region and the p-type region. Each layer pair includes an... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183532 | Cardiac SPECT system with trajectory optimization In a disclosed imaging method, the instantaneous speed or data acquisition dwell times of a detector head (14, 16) is optimized as a function of position along a path (P) of the detector head around a subject (S, SS, SXL). The optimization is respective to an... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182429 | Enhanced functionality and accuracy for a wrist-based multi-parameter monitor A method for adjusting a blood pressure measurement to compensate for a pressure offset due to obtaining the blood pressure measurement at an elevation other than heart level is illustrated. The method includes measuring a blood pressure at a location above or below... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181387 | Plant growth device Disclosed is a rack for growing plants, including mounting means and a plurality of shelve means spaced vertically. Each of the plurality of shelve means is configured to slide generally horizontally in and out of said mounting means and includes a carrier element; ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181369 | Soleplate for an iron The invention relates to an iron (1) comprising a soleplate (3) having a garment-contact surface (5) and having a means for accommodating an antimicrobial agent. By contacting the garment-contact surface with the piece of garment, as is being do... | 05/22/2012 |
| D660538 | Steam generator for iron | 05/22/2012 |
| D660495 | Luminaire for road lighting | 05/22/2012 |
| D660493 | Luminaire for road lighting | 05/22/2012 |
| D660417 | Connector for medical purpose | 05/22/2012 |
| D660290 | Headphone | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180380 | Associated paging indicator A receiver for receiving wireless communication signals from a transmitter is arranged to operate in one of a plurality of states. The receiver is arranged to perform a state transition from the current state to another state among the plurality of states upon recep... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180017 | Stereo tube attenuation filter A computed tomography apparatus (10) includes spaced radiation sources (82, 84), such as anodes, which each propagate a cone-beam of radiation (40, 50) into an examination region (14). A detector (22) detects radiation which has pa... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179815 | Gathering and reporting data concerning communication channel conditions for a wireless device in a wireless network A device for wireless communication with at least one node in a wireless network is configured to obtain statistical data regarding one or more selected communication channels over which the device is adapted to communicate. The, device is further configured to repo... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179751 | Method and device for sensitivity compensation Method and device for generating a control voltage for a position actuator of a disk drive system for displacing a lens of a pick-up unit to a given X-position. The actuator is operated by an open loop control system. First, parameters of the control system are cali... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179400 | Motion adaptive ambient lighting A method for controlling an ambient lighting element including receiving a content signal, analyzing the content signal to determine a motion vector of an object (120A) depicted in the content signal, presenting the content signal on a display device, and adj... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179131 | Method and arrangement for influencing and/or detecting magnetic particles in a region of action by rotating magnetic drive vector A method for influencing and/or detecting magnetic particles in a region of action includes generating a magnetic selection field having a pattern in space of its magnetic field strength such that a first sub-zone having a low magnetic field strength and a second su... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179036 | Light emitting device with a shunt A light emitting device includes a stack of layers having a basic layer, a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer. An organic light-emitting layer is sandwiched between the first and second electrode layers. At least one shunt element has a connection-en... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179029 | Light emitting device including multiple OLEDs The present invention relates to a light emitting device (30) having at least a first (10) and a second light emitting element (20), with the first light emitting element (10) emitting a first light (1) and the second light emittin... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177718 | Linear array ultrasound transducer with variable patch boundaries An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system has a two dimensional array arranged in multiple patches of multiple transducer elements. Each patch of transducer elements is coupled to a group of microbeamformer delay lines having outputs which can be coupled to a selected... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177429 | Foldable nuclear medicine gantry In accordance with one aspect, imaging system (10, 190) includes a plurality of detector heads (12, 14, 80, 100, 202) and a frame (20) on which the plurality of detector heads are mounted. The frame is configurable in (i) an operational configur... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177397 | LED heat management system A heat management system has a first heatsink coupled to a support surface. At least one heat pipe has a heat absorbing end in thermal connectivity with the first heatsink and a heat releasing end in thermal connectivity with a second heatsink. ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176915 | End-tidal gas estimation system and method An apparatus and method of using an end-tidal gas value taken from an non-intubated patient that includes measuring a plurality of gas concentration values, determining an end-tidal gas value from the gas concentration values, and reporting the end-tidal gas value f... | 05/15/2012 |
| RE43384 | Radio communication system with multiple and simultaneous encoding technique A method of operating a radio communication system uses a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) technique. Multiple scrambling codes may be used in a single cell to alleviate the shortage of channelisation codes available for downlink channels from a primary station.... | 05/15/2012 |
| D659883 | Luminaire | 05/15/2012 |
| D659823 | Face mask assembly | 05/15/2012 |
| D659822 | Cushion in face mask assembly | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175895 | Remote command center for patient monitoring A remote command center for providing services to geographically dispersed hospitalized patients. A datastore accessible to the remote command center receives patient data from geographically dispersed hospitalized patients. Monitored data elements of geographically... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175737 | Method and apparatus for designing and integrated circuit Method and apparatus for designing an integrated circuit by adding a plurality of control points to an integrated circuit wafer design. Each control point has at least one attribute. Then, an integrated circuit wafer is manufactured using the integrated circuit wafe... | 05/08/2012 |
