Felix Hoffmann, a German chemist, was searching for something to relieve his father's arthritis. In doing so, he "rediscovered" acetylsalicylic acid and in 1900, patented a stable process for developing it. Hence, we have aspirin.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185481 | Spectral clustering for multi-type relational data A general model is provided which provides collective factorization on related matrices, for multi-type relational data clustering. The model is applicable to relational data with various structures. Under this model, a spectral relational clustering algorithm is pr... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8173260 | Nano-structure enhancements for anisotropic conductive adhesive and thermal interposers The present invention features additions of nano-structures to interconnect conductor fine particles (spheres) to: (1) reduce thermal interface resistance by using thermal interposers that have high thermal conductivity nano-structures at their surfaces; (2) improve... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8168120 | Reliable switch that is triggered by the detection of a specific gas or substance A sensor, having a resonant frequency responsive to presence of an analyze, comprising a DC electrostatic excitation component, to produce a static force pulling a moveable element toward a backplate; an AC electrostatic excitation component, to produce an oscillati... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164629 | Linear system based, qualitative independent motion detection from compressed mpeg surveillance video The present invention features a qualitative method to detect independent motion revealed in successive frames of a compressed surveillance MPEG video stream using linear system consistency analysis without decompression of the stream, identifying the segments conta... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160293 | Determining whether or not a digital image has been tampered with Apparatus and method to verify the integrity of a digital image (i.e., deciding whether or not the entire image or just a portion has been tampered with, and/or finding the doctored area in the image). One first determines the imaging sensor's reference pattern nois... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8129001 | Composite thermal interface material system and method using nano-scale components A method of manufacturing a thermal interface material, comprising providing a sheet comprising nano-scale fibers, the sheet having at least one exposed surface; and stabilizing the fibers with a stabilizing material disposed in at least a portion of a void space be... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8073167 | Comb sense microphone A miniature microphone, comprising a diaphragm, supported for displacement in response to acoustic waves, from which a plurality of projections extend; a plurality of projections extending from a surface; a body, supporting the surface to maintain the plurality of p... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8046558 | File system having predictable real-time performance A file system that permits predictable accesses to file data stored on devices that may have a variable access latency dependent on the physical location of the file on the physical storage device. A variety of features that guarantee timely, real-time response to I... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8046425 | Distributed adaptive network memory engine Memory demands of large-memory applications continue to remain one step ahead of the improvements in DRAM capacities of commodity systems. Performance of such applications degrades rapidly once the system hits the physical memory limit and starts paging to the local... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041773 | Automatic clustering for self-organizing grids Computational grids have traditionally not scaled effectively due to administrative hurdles to resource and user participation. Most production grids are essentially multi-site supercomputer centers, rather than truly open and heterogeneous sets of resources that ca... | 10/18/2011 |
| 7992283 | Surface micromachined differential microphone A differential microphone having a perimeter slit formed around the microphone diaphragm that replaces the backside hole previously required in conventional silicon, micromachined microphones. The differential microphone is formed using silicon fabrication technique... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7970168 | Hierarchical static shadow detection method There is provided a hierarchical shadow detection system for color aerial images. The system performs well with highly complex images as well as images having different brightness and illumination conditions. The system consists of two hierarchical levels of process... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7925711 | Centralized adaptive network memory engine There is a constant battle to break even between continuing improvements in DRAM capacities and the growing memory demands of large-memory high-performance applications. Performance of such applications degrades quickly once the system hits the physical memory limit... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7917599 | Distributed adaptive network memory engine Memory demands of large-memory applications continue to remain one step ahead of the improvements in DRAM capacities of commodity systems. Performance of such applications degrades rapidly once the system hits the physical memory limit and starts paging to the local... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7903835 | Miniature non-directional microphone A miniature microphone comprising a diaphragm compliantly suspended over an enclosed air volume having a vent port is provided, wherein an effective stiffness of the diaphragm with respect to displacement by acoustic vibrations is controlled principally by the enclo... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7876924 | Robust diaphragm for an acoustic device A rigid, flat plate diaphragm for an acoustic device is illustrated. The internal supporting structure of the diaphragm provides a combination of torsional and translational stiffeners, which resemble a number of crossbars. These stiffeners brace and support the dia... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7814040 | System and method for image annotation and multi-modal image retrieval using probabilistic semantic models Systems and Methods for multi-modal or multimedia image retrieval are provided. Automatic image annotation is achieved based on a probabilistic semantic model in which visual features and textual words are connected via a hidden layer comprising the semantic concept... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7787030 | Method and apparatus for identifying an imaging device A new technique for identifying from images a camera, or other imaging device such as a scanner, is based on the device's reference noise pattern, a unique stochastic characteristic of all common digital imaging sensors, including CCD, CMOS (Foveon™ X3), and JFET.... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7616237 | Method and apparatus for identifying an imaging device A new technique for identifying whether images are derived from a common imager, e.g., a camera, or other imaging device such as a scanner, based on the device's measured or inferred reference noise pattern, a unique stochastic characteristic of all common digital i... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7595817 | Linear system based, qualitative independent motion detection from compressed MPEG surveillance video The present invention features a qualitative method to detect independent motion revealed in successive frames of a compressed surveillance MPEG video stream using linear system consistency analysis without decompression of the stream, identifying the segments conta... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7562243 | System and method for reducing power requirements of microprocessors through dynamic allocation of datapath resources There is provided a system and methods for segmenting datapath resources such as reorder buffers, physical registers, instruction queues and load-store queues, etc. in a microprocessor so that their size may be dynamically expanded and contracted. This is accomplish... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7282254 | Surface coating for electronic systems A bi- or multi-layer coating is deposited upon a substrate using a low temperature process. The bi-layer is a lower layer of a SAM coating, which is overlaid with a hard coating. The hard coating can be made of materials such as: polymer, Si3N4... | 10/16/2007 |