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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20090132896 | METRIC CALCULATIONS FOR MAP DECODING USING THE BUTTERFLY STRUCTURE OF THE TRELLIS A method of calculating backward computations branch metrics for a butterfly in a trellis of a MAP-genre decoding algorithm, the method comprising providing initialised branch metrics for the transitions in the butterfly and incrementing the branch metrics with a group ... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090129413 | Methods and Apparatus for Generating RGB Laser Light A dual-cavity single longitudinal mode (SLM) laser oscillator generates a pulsed laser signal having a long pulsewidth, long coherence length, and good shot-to-shot energy stability. The laser oscillator has a first cavity between an output coupler and a rear mirror and... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090121286 | Integrated Circuit Comprising a Field Effect Transistor and Method of Fabricating the Same An integrated circuit includes a field effect transistor including: a gate electrode disposed adjacent to a surface of semiconductor substrate and a source/drain region disposed in the semiconductor substrate and adjacent to the surface. A net dopant concentration of a ... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090120030 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR POSITIONING REINFORCING MEMBERS WITHIN HARDENED MATERIAL STRUCTURES A positioning device for accurately positioning a reinforcing member in a hardening material (e.g., concrete). The positioning device is made from a plastic material and includes a base and a support member extending from the base. The base includes at least one receivi... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090116569 | Bi-Directional Beamforming Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Wireless Communication Techniques are provided herein to configure first and second wireless communication devices in order to perform bi-directional beamformed multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication. Each device uses received signals from the other device to compute beamforming ... | 05/07/2009 |
| 20090115254 | Systems and Methods for Voltage SAG Compensation A voltage sag compensation system includes a capacitor charging and discharging module connected to an AC rectifier and to an inverter, a two stage voltage detector configured to detect a degree of voltage sag that is present on a power line, and an inverter gating modu... | 05/07/2009 |
| 20090113091 | Digital Arts and Crafts Computer Peripheral Toy Device A computer peripheral toy device is provided that connects to a personal computer and enables a child user to create drawings, animated figures, cards, posters, and other projects and items. The device includes a housing having a drawing tablet and a stylus that connect... | 04/30/2009 |
| 20090111492 | System and Method for Enhanced Message Delivery Coincident with the evolution, maturation, etc. of wireless messaging ecosystems an infrastructure that provides for intelligent and dynamic alternate Multimedia Message Service (MMS) message delivery channels. Occasions may arise where a Mobile Subscriber would like to... | 04/30/2009 |
| 20090111465 | Transmission Scheduling for ADS-B Ground Systems System and methods for reducing redundant messages broadcast in an Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) system. For a given target, a controller determines the relevant customers that should receive information about the target, identifies all of the groun... | 04/30/2009 |
| 20090110124 | Soft decision enhancement A Viterbi trellis processing technique in which soft decisions and hard decisions are derived from a received signal and the soft decisions are enhanced by being modified using the hard decisions. A log likelihood ratio for a bit of the received signal can be derived by... | 04/30/2009 |
| 20090104923 | System and Method for Enhanced Message Addressing Coincident with the evolution, maturation, etc. of wireless messaging ecosystems, today and in the future the addressing of a message needs to include—and all of the different entities that process messages (e.g., Wireless Carriers, intermediaries, enterprises, Conten... | 04/23/2009 |
| 20090104922 | Architecture and Methods for Inter-Carrier Multi-Media Messaging Multi-Media Messaging (MMS) services so that numerous wireless operators can transmit MMS messages between them. The architecture also provides for delivery, at least of notification messages, to those wireless operators who are not part of the overall inter-carrier MMS... | 04/23/2009 |
| 20090102715 | Beamforming Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Retransmission Techniques are provided for improving hybrid automatic repeat request retransmissions techniques in a beamformed multiple-input multiple-output wireless communication environment. At a first device comprising a first plurality of antennas, a plurality of beamforming wei... | 04/23/2009 |
| 20090100784 | Rebar Support Assembly The present invention is directed toward a rebar support assembly utilized in structural construction beams. The assembly may include a frame having chair portion, a cage portion, an intermediate portion, and/or a header portion. Each portion may include one or more reb... | 04/23/2009 |
| 20090100234 | Data Access System and Data Access Method A data access system and a data access method achieving effects of power saving and access synchronization during data access are provided. The data access system includes a data processing unit, a bridge device and a memory device. The data processing unit sends an acc... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090100144 | Computer Peripheral Device For Accessing Web Site Content A computer peripheral device is provided comprising a housing, a plurality of figures each having a unique physical appearance and a unique structural characteristic, an identifying portion that is configured to identify one of the plurality of figures, at a time, based... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090098894 | System and Method for Enhanced Content Delivery Coincident with the evolution, maturation, etc. of wireless messaging ecosystems an infrastructure that provides for enhanced content delivery in new and creative ways. The delivery model leverages the features, capabilities, etc. that are offered by MMS to deliver vari... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090098838 | BEAMFORMED MULTI-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT COMMUNICATION WITH UPLINK TRANSMISSION ROTATION Techniques are provided to enable computation of beamforming weights for beamforming MIMO wireless communication between first and second wireless communication devices. At the first device comprising a first plurality of antennas, signals are received that are wireless... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090098124 | IDENTIFICATION AND ENGINEERING OF ANTIBODIES WITH VARIANT HEAVY CHAINS AND METHODS OF USING SAME The present invention relates to molecules, particularly polypeptides, more particularly immunoglobulins (e.g., antibodies), comprising a variant heavy chain, which variant heavy chain comprises constant domains from more than one IgG isotype. The variant heavy chain of... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090097004 | Lithography Apparatus, Masks for Non-Telecentric Exposure and Methods of Manufacturing Integrated Circuits A lithography apparatus includes a first optical system configured to irradiate a mask with a non-telecentric illumination and a second optical system configured to guide radiation reflected off or transmitted through the mask to a substrate. The mask includes an absorb... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090097001 | Non-Telecentric Lithography Apparatus and Method of Manufacturing Integrated Circuits A lithography apparatus includes a condenser system and a projection system. The condenser system is configured to irradiate a mask with non-telecentric incident radiation. The projection system is configured to collect and focus a radiation diffracted at an absorber pa... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090096753 | Apparatus and Method for Changing On-Screen Image Position, and Navigation System Using the Same Provided are an apparatus and method for changing a position of an image on a screen of an image display device, such as a map provided by a navigation system or mobile phone and a broadcast program played back by a television receiver, allowing the image to be reduced,... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090096001 | Integrated Circuit and Method of Manufacturing the Same A method of manufacturing an integrated circuit includes: forming a trench in a substrate, forming a high-k dielectric layer lining the trench, and removing a section of the high-k dielectric layer from the trench via an isotropic dry etch process.... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090095802 | Container Blank for a Storage Container The present invention is directed toward a blank of material configured to form a storage/display container. The blank includes fold lines at predetermined locations to provide panels selectively foldable into a predetermined configuration. Specifically, the blank forms... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090093638 | Allylic Oxidations Catalyzed by Dirhodium Catalysts under Aqueous Conditions The present invention relates to compositions and methods for achieving the efficient allylic oxidation of organic molecules, especially olefins and steroids, under aqueous conditions. The invention concerns the use of dirhodium (II,II) “paddlewheel complexes, and in ... | 04/09/2009 |
| 20090092610 | FcGammaRIIB Specific Antibodies and Methods of Use Thereof The present invention relates to antibodies or fragments thereof that specifically bind the extracellular domain of FcγRIIB, particularly human FcγRIIB, and block the Fc binding site of human FcγRIIB. The invention provides methods of treating cancer and/or regulatin... | 04/09/2009 |
| 20090088326 | Process of Forming a High-Temperature Superconductor A method of producing a thin layer, high-temperature superconductor strip is disclosed. In the method, a metal salt solution is formed and coated onto a substrate including a high-temperature superconductor layer. Heat is then applied directly or indirectly to the solut... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090088090 | OMNI-DIRECTIONAL AND LOW-CORRELATED PRE-CODING BROADCAST BEAMFORMING Techniques are provided herein to compute beamforming weight vectors for pre-coding broadcast signals. First, system parameters for a device configured to wirelessly transmit one or more broadcast signals via a plurality of antennas are determined. Based on the system p... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090088042 | Power Source Compartment For An Electronic Device The present invention relates to a leak-proof compartment in which a power supply or source may be disposed. The compartment can be utilized in a children's product. In one embodiment, the children's product may include an electronic device for entertaining a child. The... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090087494 | Methods and Compositions for Targeted Delivery of Therapeutic Agents Compositions and methods for targeted delivery of therapeutic agents, and particularly for mucosal, oral, nasal, or parenteral delivery of therapeutic agents. The compositions comprise carrier particles containing or encapsulating a therapeutic agent or agents, which ha... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090086855 | LINK ADAPTATION BASED ON GENERIC CINR MEASUREMENT ACCORDING TO LOG-LIKELIHOOD RATIO DISTRIBUTION Techniques are provided to compute the carrier to interference-plus-noise ratio (CINR) in a wireless communication system using log-likelihood ratio (LLR) data generated from a received transmission. The LLR data are collected as they are sent from a detector to a forwa... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090086494 | Cover for a Luminary Device The present invention is directed toward a cover for an illumination device including a composite image including selectively visible design elements. The exterior surface of the cover may include a design element viewable regardless of whether the light source is extin... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090085663 | Transconductor Having High Linearity and Programmable Gain and Mixer using the Same A mixer having high linearity and an associated transconductor combining programmable gain amplifier and mixer functions are provided. The transconductor includes first and second resistors, a differential amplifier, first and second feedback circuits, and first and sec... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090085084 | Integrated Circuit and Methods of Manufacturing the Same A method of manufacturing an integrated circuit includes forming landing pads in an array region of a substrate, individual ones of the landing pads being electrically coupled to individual ones of portions of devices formed in the substrate in the array region. The met... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090082787 | Suturing Device A suturing device is disclosed. The suturing device comprises a shaft with a proximal end and a distal end and a passage extending therebetween disposed on a longitudinal axis. A rod is disposed within the shaft passage and is capable of moving axially along the longitu... | 03/26/2009 |
| 20090080560 | CLOSED-LOOP BEAMFORMING WEIGHT ESTIMATION IN FREQUENCY DIVISION DUPLEX SYSTEMS A closed-loop beamforming weight estimation process in which, at a first device, respective ones of a plurality of beamforming weight vectors are applied to subcarriers associated with a pattern of subcarriers assigned to a corresponding subcarrier stream such that the ... | 03/26/2009 |
| 20090079824 | Security Camera System and Method of Steering Beams to Alter a Field of View A security camera system according to present invention embodiments includes a telephoto type lens with one or more factors of optical zoom. A set of prisms that steer incoming beams from the surrounding environment (to adjust the field of view) is disposed in front of ... | 03/26/2009 |
| 20090079717 | Quick Port-Switching Method and Associated Apparatus A quick port-switching method and associated apparatus are provided. A quick port-switching display control circuit includes a display controller, a first TMDS port, a second TMDS port and an analog video port. The display controller has a first GPIO pin and a second GP... | 03/26/2009 |
| 20090077586 | DVD Playback Over Multi-Room By Copying to HDD DVD playback over Multi-room by copying to the hard drive of a primary device in a networked multi-room system (NMS). The DVD content is saved to a hard drive and can then be retrieved by any of the remote devices in the NMS by accessing the program guide or the recorde... | 03/19/2009 |
| 20090076251 | FcGammaRIIB Specific Antibodies and Methods of Use Thereof The present invention relates to antibodies or fragments thereof that specifically bind FcγRIIB, particularly human FcγRIIB, more particularly the extracellular domain of FcγRIIB with greater affinity than said antibodies or fragments thereof bind FcγRIIA, particula... | 03/19/2009 |
