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| 8183201 | Methods of treating αvβ3 integrin-associated diseases by administering polypeptides selective for αvβ3 integrin The invention provides disintegrin variants, and more specifically to disintegrin variants which are selective αvβ3 integrin antagonists for treatment and prevention of αvβ3 integrin-associated diseases. The present invention also relates to pegylated proteins, ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8178886 | Multi-layered LED epitaxial structure with light emitting unit A method for manufacturing a semiconductor light emitting device includes: (a) providing a temporary substrate; (b) forming a multi-layered LED epitaxial structure, having at least one light emitting unit, on the temporary substrate, wherein a first surface of the l... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8138230 | Chi (χ)-alumina dispersion and application to coating slurry of digital printing medium A chi (χ)-alumina dispersion and coating slurry of digital printing medium containing the same is disclosed, which includes flaked porous χ-alumina nanoparticles with high specific surface area obtained by subjecting gibbsite to thermal treating, physical wet-mill... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8126305 | Electromagnetic wave propagating structure An electromagnetic wave propagating structure includes a main body having surfaces capable of blocking propagation of an electromagnetic wave, and including an incident side and an exit side opposite to the incident side in a wave-propagating direction. The main bod... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8095484 | System and method for automatic virtual metrology A server, a system and a method for automatic virtual metrology (AVM) are disclosed. The AVM system comprises a model-creation server and a plurality of AVM servers. The model-creation server is used to construct the first set of virtual metrology (VM) models (of a ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8080289 | Method for making an aligned carbon nanotube A method for making an aligned carbon nanotube includes the steps of a) applying a layer of a ferrosilicon alloy film onto a substrate, b) etching the layer of the ferrosilicon film to form a plurality of fine ferrosilicon alloy particles that are distributed proper... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8078027 | Focus enhancing electromagnetic wave propagating device A focus enhancing electromagnetic wave propagating device includes a main body formed with a main wave-propagating structure (MS) for focusing an electromagnetic wave into a focusing light spot, and an auxiliary wave-propagating channel (AC) for allowing the wave to... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8021582 | Method for producing microparticles in a continuous phase liquid A continuous phase liquid and a dispersed phase liquid are permitted to flow together through a co-flow channel. Preferably, the dispersed phase liquid is arranged to flow within the flowing body of the continuous phase liquid in the co-flow channel so that the disp... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8012906 | High-temperature catalytic material and method for producing the same A high-temperature catalytic material and a method for producing the same are disclosed. The high-temperature catalytic material is obtained by subjecting a mixture of gibbsite and boehmite in a desired weight ratio to a single dry thermal treatment in the air, with... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8012478 | Use of anti-IL-20 antibody for treating stroke Treatment of stroke with an antibody specific to IL-20, e.g., monoclonal antibody 7E. ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8000546 | Adaptive scan method for image/video coding An adaptive scan method for image/video coding in accordance with the present invention comprises acts of calculating an average power of the transformed coefficients vector and acts rearranging the powers of the transformed coefficients with descending order in the... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7995659 | Prediction module A prediction module includes a computation control unit and first to sixth processing units. The computation control unit arranges the pixels of a reference block outputted by a frame buffer appropriately according to data decoded by an entropy decoder into first an... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7955545 | Nano-imprinting process A nano-imprinting process is described, comprising: providing a substrate including an imprinting material layer covering a surface of the substrate; providing a mold including protruding features set on a surface of the mold covered with an anti-adhesion layer; for... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7951096 | Limb rehabilitation apparatus with torque detector A rehabilitation apparatus is disclosed. The rehabilitation apparatus includes a supporting housing, a rotary housing, an actuator, a control unit, and a torque detector. The rotary housing is slidably mounted to the supporting housing to hold a body segment. The ac... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7943728 | Disintegrin variants and their use in treating osteoporosis-induced bone loss and angiogenesis-related diseases Disintegrin variants and pharmaceutical uses thereof are disclosed. The disintegrin variant includes an isolated polypeptide that has integrin αvβ3 receptor-antagonist activity and substantially reduced integrin αllbβ3 and/or α5β1 receptor-blocking activity as... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7936911 | 3D planning and prediction method for optimizing facial skeleton symmetry in orthognathic surgery The method comprises steps of making a plaster dental cast of a patient, reconstructing jaw image assembly models, performing registration between physical stone and image model, adjusting the plaster dental cast based on a x-ray cephalometric plan, tracking movemen... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7894665 | Video annotation method by integrating visual features and frequent patterns A video annotation method by integrating visual features and frequent patterns is disclosed. This method is featured in integrating a statistical model based on visual features with a sequential model and an association model constructed by data mining skills for au... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7881515 | Cephalogram image analysis method An automated cephalogram image analysis method is disclosed. In this method, a step is first performed for building a reference database in which a set of tracing feature curve models respectively representing a set of reference cephalometric patterns are establishe... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7837994 | Use of anti-IL-20 antibody for treating osteoporosis Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis using an anti-IL-20 antibody 7E, and optionally, in combination with an etanercept polypeptide. ... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7808221 | Current regulation module The present invention discloses a current regulation module for providing a predetermined current. The current regulation module comprises a linear power conversion circuit, a switching power conversion circuit, a current detector, and a controller. The current dete... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7786274 | Anti-IL-20 antibody and its use in treating IL-20 associated inflammatory diseases This invention features an antibody specifically binding to human IL-20 (e.g., mAb 7E and a equivalent thereof) and its use in treating an IL-20 associated inflammatory disease, such as atherosclerosis, RA, psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, bacteria-induced gastric ul... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7774203 | Audio signal segmentation algorithm The present invention discloses an audio signal segmentation algorithm comprising the following steps. First, an audio signal is provided. Then, an audio activity detection (AAD) step is applied to divide the audio signal into at least one noise segment and at least... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7723829 | Embedded metal heat sink for semiconductor An embedded metal heat sink for a semiconductor device is described. The embedded metal heat sink for a semiconductor device comprises a metal thin layer, a metal heat sink and two bonding pads. The metal thin layer including a first surface and a second surface on ... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7707032 | Method and system for matching speech data A method and system used to determine the similarity between an input speech data and a sample speech data is provided. First, the input speech data is segmented into a plurality of input speech frames and the sample speech data is segmented into a plurality of samp... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7679539 | Randomized thermometer-coding digital-to-analog converter and method therefor A randomized thermometer-coding digital-to-analog converter (DAC) for the reduction of harmonic distortion due to non-ideal circuit mismatch is presented. The present invention introduces a new dynamic element matching technique that contains three properties of ran... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7670686 | Long-term hydrophilic modification of PDMS substrate and method for manufacturing the same The present invention relates to a hydrophilic surface structure of the non-hydrophilic substrate and the manufacturing method for using the same. The hydrophilic substrate surface structure is fabricated by forming an amphiphilic polymer layer, a cross-linked stack... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7618574 | Imprint lithography utilizing silated acidic polymers A synthesis for a silated acidic polymer by a copolymerization of several monomers includes one acidic monomer and one silated monomer. The silated acidic polymer is used as a resist barrier in imprint lithography and is easily removed by an environmental basic aqua... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7613365 | Video summarization system and the method thereof The present invention discloses a video summarization system and the method thereof. A similarity computing apparatus computes the similarity between each frame to obtain multiple similarity values. A key frame extracting apparatus chooses the key frames from the fr... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7603328 | Dual-phase virtual metrology method A dual-phase virtual metrology method is disclosed for considering both promptness and accuracy by generating dual-phase virtual metrology (VM) values, wherein a Phase-I conjecture step emphasizes promptness by immediately calculating the Phase-I virtual metrology v... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7593912 | Method for evaluating reliance level of a virtual metrology system in product manufacturing A method for evaluating reliance level of a virtual metrology system is disclosed. In this method, a reliance index (RI) and a RI threshold value are calculated by analyzing the process data of production equipment, thereby determining if the virtual metrology resul... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7576675 | Return-to-zero current-steering DAC with clock-to-output isolation A return-to-zero current-steering DAC is presented. The presented return-to-zero technique can isolate the analog output nodes of the DAC from the coupling of the control signals of the DAC without sacrificing speed. The topology uses a bank of return-to-zero circui... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7574360 | Unit selection module and method of chinese text-to-speech synthesis A unit selection module for Chinese Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis includes a probabilistic context free grammar (PCFG) parser, a latent semantic indexing (LSI) module, and a modified variable-length unit selection scheme; any Chinese sentence is firstly input and t... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7561078 | System and method for encoding a data set An encoding system for a data set, particularly for a video data set is disclosed in the present invention. The encoding system includes a coding strategies represented as a tree-based structure, a cost projection system for each tree node, and a parameter searching... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7547473 | Magnetic nanoparticles and method for producing the same Magnetic nanoparticles and a method for producing the same are disclosed. A carboxylated polysaccharide with various functions such as chelating and ion exchange is covalently bound on the surfaces of magnetic nanoparticles. The polysaccharide-bound magnetic nanopar... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7493185 | Quality prognostics system and method for manufacturing processes A quality prognostics system and a quality prognostics method for predicting the product quality during manufacturing processes are disclosed, wherein the current production tool parameters sensed during the manufacturing process and several previous quality data co... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7491379 | Method for producing nano-scale θ-phase alumina microparticles A method for producing nano-scale theta (θ)-phase alumina microparticles is disclosed. The nano-scale θ-phase alumina microparticles are uniform in particle size and highly phase-pure. They are obtained by controlling the ratio of boehmite mixed with the θ-phase ... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7488516 | Method for modification of glass-based microchannel A method for modification of glass-based microchannels, which uses liquid organic-based solution containing siloxane for the modification of microchannels on the glass substrate, such as quartz, boron glass, sodium glass, and the like, to form a solid film to isolat... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7485165 | Air filtering device for protection suits An air filtering device for protection suits includes a case in which a fan unit is received and a filtering unit is engaged with a hole in a wall of the case and located outside of the case. A duct of the fan unit extends through a top of the case and is in communi... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7457236 | Method for providing fault-tolerant application cluster service A method for providing an application cluster service (APCS) with fault-detection and failure-recovery capabilities. This method is composed of the steps of nodes clustering, invoking and detecting applications, fault-recovery of applications, detection of nodes, an... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7452755 | Embedded metal heat sink for semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same An embedded metal heat sink for a semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the same are described. The embedded metal heat sink for a semiconductor device comprises a metal thin layer, a metal heat sink and two bonding pads. The metal thin layer including... | 11/18/2008 |
