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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110046947 | System and Method for Enhancing a Decoded Tonal Sound Signal A system and method for enhancing a tonal sound signal decoded by a decoder of a speech-specific codec in response to a received coded bit stream, in which a spectral analyser is responsive to the decoded tonal sound signal to produce spectral parameters representative ... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110046651 | MULTIFUNCTIONAL CORE FOR TWO-PIECE HEMOSTASIS CLIP A device includes a clip including first and second arms distal ends of which are biased apart and a core member including first and second portions connected to one another via a frangible link. The first portion includes a first protrusion for engaging a cut-out in th... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110046512 | Flared Needle for EUS Fine Needle Aspiration Device A device for gathering tissue samples includes a needle defining a distal tissue penetrating tip. The needle includes an increased diameter proximal portion extending proximally from the distal tip. An outer diameter of the distal tip is smaller than an outer diameter o... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110039191 | Functional Layer for High-Temperature Fuel Cells and Method for Production Described is a functional layer for high-temperature fuel cells and to a method for the production of functional layers. The functional layer is in particular a low-sintering, electrically conductive, ceramic layer which is formed between an interconnector and a cathode... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110035213 | Method and Device for Sound Activity Detection and Sound Signal Classification A device and method for estimating a tonality of a sound signal comprise: calculating a current residual spectrum of the sound signal; detecting peaks in the current residual spectrum; calculating a correlation map between the current residual spectrum and a previous re... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110034960 | Clamping Device for Bone Fixation Elements A device for clamping fixation elements, which have been inserted into bone, for manipulating fragments of a fractured bone. The device incorporating a hollow body with a cavity having a wall, a clamping body moveable within the cavity between a first position and a sec... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110034928 | Cable and Crimp for Bone Surgery A surgical cable and crimp device is provided. The cable has an enlargement (bead) affixed to one of its ends. The crimp member includes two holes. One of the holes includes a slot and a cavity. The cavity is sized to accept the bead of the cable, and the slot is sized ... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110029953 | System and Method for Scalable Handling of Debug Information Described herein are systems and tools for scalable handling of debug information. The system includes a memory storing an application, and a processor executing a set of instructions operable to generate a plurality of subsets from the application, produce a linkable f... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110022924 | Device and Method for Frame Erasure Concealment in a PCM Codec Interoperable with the ITU-T Recommendation G. 711 A device and method for resynchronization and recovery after frame erasure concealment of an encoded sound signal comprise decoding, in a current frame, a correctly received signal after the frame erasure. Frame erasure concealment is extended in the current frame using... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110006821 | System and Method for Signal Adjustment Embodiment of the present invention relate to a method for receiving a first signal, determining a first characteristic of the first signal, the characteristic being a time based characteristic, receiving a second signal and processing the second signal through a predet... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110005532 | Method and System for Improving a Subject's Sensory, Reflex and/or Motor Mechanisms via Auditory, Tactile or Visual Stimulations The present invention relates to a method and a system for improving sensitivity of a first sensory, reflex and/or motor mechanism of a subject by stimulating a second sensory, reflex and/or motor mechanism of the subject. For that purpose a noise is applied to the seco... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110005454 | Plasma Reactor, and Method for the Production of Monocrystalline Diamond Layers A plasma reactor and a method for production on wafers over a large area of monocrystalline diamond layers. The plasma reactor includes at least two flat electrodes having surfaces orientated towards each other, the electrodes being delimited respectively by an edge; a ... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110004211 | Apparatus and Method for Use With Fracture Table to Reposition Bone Portions A medical apparatus comprising first and second arms coupled to a fracture table. A first attachment mechanism is carried by the first arm for securing the first arm to a first portion of a bone of a mammalian body and a second attachment mechanism is carried by the sec... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100333112 | Method and System for Secure Communication Between Processor Partitions A system and method for writing, by a sender, a message into blocks of a memory space, the memory space being shared by the sender of the message and a receiver of the message, and sending, by the sender, an interrupt corresponding to the message.... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100332796 | Method and System for a CPU-Local Storage Mechanism Described herein are systems and methods for implementing a processor-local (e.g., a CPU-local) storage mechanism. An exemplary system includes a plurality of processors executing an operating system, the operating system including a processor local storage mechanism, w... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100328767 | Polarizing Plastic Optical Device and Process for Producing the Same A polarizing plastic lens comprising a polarizing film with low tendency to detachment from an optical resin layer. There is provided polarizing plastic lens comprising polarizing film constituted of a polyvinyl alcohol resin. Two optical resin layers of different thick... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100324696 | Intragastric Prosthesis for the Treatment of Morbid Obesity A porous weave of bioabsorbable filaments having an open mesh configuration is formed into an oblate shape having dimensions greater than the esophageal opening and gastric outlet of a stomach. The resulting prosthesis is deployed in the stomach and is of a size to be r... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100324604 | Device for Osteosynthesis A device for osteosynthesis that includes a fixation element having at least one through hole designed to receive a pivotable bushing for a bone screw. The through hole having a central axis and a cross-section extending orthogonally to the central axis defined by two i... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100318137 | Internal Cable Fixator A cable fixation device comprises a clamp including a head portion and a body portion along with a lumen extending therethrough. The head portion is removably coupleable with an actuating mechanism. The lumen is sized and shaped to slidably accommodate a cable in combin... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100312291 | Robotic Arms A device for treating fractures of a bone comprises a plurality of arms, each extending from a proximal end to a distal end and movable in a three-dimensional space, the proximal end of each arm coupled to a frame and a plurality of couplings, each of the couplings coup... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100312286 | Variable Angle Locked Bone Plate A plate for fixation to a target portion of bone to be treated, comprises a first fixation element receiving opening extending therethrough from a proximal surface to a distal surface, the first fixation element receiving opening including a plurality of columns distrib... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100309590 | High Voltage Saturated Core Fault Current Limiter A fault current limiter designed for connection into a medium voltage, high voltage, or extra-high voltage substation or other high voltage source such as a generator station, the limiter including: a ferromagnetic circuit formed from a ferromagnetic material and includ... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100307251 | Detailfunction Based Measurement Methods and apparatuses for finding, extracting and for providing of echoes with detail functions are described. In particular, an echo extraction method for extracting an echo from an echo function is described. The method comprises receiving the echo function and deco... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100305557 | HTA Sheath with Removable Scope An ablation device comprises an elongated introducer sized for insertion into a hollow organ via a natural opening, the introducer extending to a distal end which, when in an operative position, is within the hollow organ, the introducer including and a delivery lumen e... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100298999 | Energy Saving Control for a Field Device A control for a field device comprises a monitoring unit that is separate from a control unit for controlling the field device which monitoring unit, when the control unit is in a sleep mode, waits for an activation signal in order to switch the control unit to the oper... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100298893 | Pelvic Cable Solution A device for treating bone fractures, comprises an actuating mechanism removably coupleable to a clamping mechanism including a clamp defining a cable receiving channel extending therethrough and a compression member coupled to the clamp for movement relative thereto, m... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100298829 | Peri-Prosthetic Fixation Implant and Method An apparatus for leading a cerclage member along a desired path through a portion of bone, comprises a guide strip extending from a proximal end to a sharpened distal end, at least a portion of the guide strip being biased to assume a shape corresponding to a portion of... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100296217 | Fault Current Limiter A fault current limiter (FCL) includes a series of high permeability posts (1) for collectively define a core for the FCL. A DC coil (2), for the purposes of saturating a portion of the high permeability posts (1), surrounds the complete structure o... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100292993 | Method and Device for Efficient Quantization of Transform Information in an Embedded Speech and Audio Codec A method and device for coding an input sound signal in at least one lower layer and at least one upper layer of an embedded codec while reducing a quantization noise comprises, in the at least one lower layer, coding the input sound signal to produce coding parameters,... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100292698 | Self-Retaining Cable Tie A system for securing a bone fixation device to a bone comprises a flexible longitudinal element configured to wrap about and stabilize one of a target portion of bone and a bone stabilizing element. The longitudinal element includes a plurality of projections extending... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100286753 | Device and Method for Treatment of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease A lower esophageal sphincter tightening device for treating gastroesophageal reflux disease which includes an insertion device, an energy source, and an energy transmitting device. The insertion device, by insertion through a body opening, positions the energy transmitt... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100286549 | System and Method for Assessing Efficacy of Therapeutic Agents A method for assessing an effect of a therapeutic agent, comprises the steps of detecting brain electrical activity of a subject to generate a first set of brain wave data and extracting from the first set of brain wave data first data features sensitive to a neurologic... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100280831 | Method and Device for Fast Algebraic Codebook Search in Speech and Audio Coding A method and device for searching an algebraic codebook during encoding of a sound signal, wherein the algebraic codebook comprises a set of codevectors formed of a number of pulse positions and a number of pulses distributed over the pulse positions. In the algebraic c... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100280421 | Ultrasound Heater-Agitator for Thermal Tissue Treatment A method and a device to deliver heat and mechanical agitation in a liquid with ultrasound. The method and device may be used for thermal treatment of tissue within a living body, the device comprises a housing extending from a distal end to a proximal end, the housing ... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100280411 | Transbronchial Needle Aspiration Device Transbronchial needle aspiration (TBNA) device. In one embodiment, the device comprises a handle and a flexible catheter, the handle having a bore, the proximal end of the catheter being fixed within the handle bore. A protective tubular hub having a flared distal end i... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100278068 | Method and System for Filtering IP Traffic in Mobile IP Networks A method for extracting data information from data traffic flowing through a mobile IP network, in view of providing a substantially real-time view of the mobile IP network comprises receiving a copy of the data traffic and extracting sequentially, in relation to a laye... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100277782 | Micromechanical Device and Method for Projecting Electromagnetic Radiation A micromechanical apparatus includes a moving element which comprises a controllable heating apparatus for introduction of a defined amount of heat into the moving element, wherein the apparatus furthermore has a control unit which is designed to control the heating app... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100275185 | System and Method for High Performance Coverage Analysis A system and method for inserting at least one instrumentation point into a program at a first location, executing the program and removing the instrumentation point from the program when the executing program reaches the instrumentation point. The system and method fur... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100274296 | Multiplexed Screws A bone fixation element comprises a shaft extending substantially along a longitudinal axis of the fixation element in combination with a head including a plurality of fixation element openings distributed about a perimeter thereof. Each of the fixation element openings... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100274249 | System and Method for Minimally Invasive Crimp and Cable for Bone Cerclage An apparatus for securing a cerclage member about a bone comprises a crimp including a first lumen extending therethrough from a first lumen proximal opening to a first lumen distal opening and being configured to slidably receive a cerclage member therein, a proximal p... | 10/28/2010 |
