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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20090143772 | Laser-Induced Protection Shield in Laser Surgery Techniques, apparatus and systems for laser surgery are described to provide protection of sensitive tissues from surgical laser pulses. For example, an ophthalmic surgical method may include determining a surgical target region in an eye, selecting a protection region ... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090143142 | Human Interface System A human interface configured to optimize a biomechanical effect of a human user's opposing thumb and fingers by including, on one surface, one or more software configurable input elements manipulatable by a user's thumb(s) or a stylus, and, on another surface, one or mo... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090142327 | Novel Class of Therapeutic Protein Based Molecules The present invention provides new compositions and methods for preventing and treating pathogen infection. In particular, the present invention provides compounds having an anchoring domain that anchors the compound to the surface of a target cell, and a therapeutic do... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090141649 | Communication System and Method In a communications system a transmitter is arranged to transmit asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) cells in which synchronous transfer mode (STM) channels are assembled. In order to minimise the bandwidth required at lease some of the ATM cells include one or more switch... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090138681 | SYNCHRONIZATION OF PARALLEL PROCESSES A speculative execution capability of a processor is exposed to program control through at least one machine instruction. The at least one machine instruction may be two instructions designed to facilitate synchronization between parallel processes. According to an aspe... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090137993 | Methods and Apparatus for Integrated Cataract Surgery Techniques, apparatus and systems for cataract surgery. Implementation of the described techniques, apparatus and systems includes a method for cataract eye surgery is presented, including: determining a surgical target region in a lens of the eye and applying laser pul... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090137991 | Methods and Apparatus for Laser Treatment of the Crystalline Lens Methods and apparatus for laser treatment of the crystalline lens. Implementations of the described methods and apparatus include a laser treatment of a lens of an eye includes defining a target boundary of a target region in the lens, applying surgical laser pulses to ... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090137988 | Methods And Apparatus For Improved Post-Operative Ocular Optical Performance Techniques, systems are described for performing laser eye surgery. In one aspect, a method for improving an optical function of an eye includes preparing the eye for surgery by determining an optical characteristic of the eye. Laser marking pulses are applied to genera... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090136240 | Balanced Phase-Shaped Binary Transmission In Optical Communications Optical communication apparatus, methods, systems are provided based on balanced-detection phase-shaped binary transmission (BD-PSBT).... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090135860 | Cross Modulation-Based Opto-Electronic Oscillator with Tunable Electro-Optic Optical Whispering Gallery Mode Resonator Examples and implementations of photonic devices and techniques based on whispering gallery mode resonators formed of electro-optic materials to effectuate cross modulation between whispering gallery modes of different polarizations in the resonators.... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090135087 | Metamaterial Structures with Multilayer Metallization and Via Techniques and apparatus based on metamaterial structures are provided for antenna and transmission line devices, including multilayer metallization metamaterial structures with one or more conductive vias connecting conductive parts in two different metallization layer... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090135008 | Providing Notifications Using Voice-to-Text Conversion Methods and systems for providing electronic notifications are described. A server is configured to serve an interface, such as a Web page, to a terminal that requests from a user a first set of user contacts to be used to provide notifications to the user by a telephon... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090132975 | Circuit Splitting in Analysis of Circuits at Transistor Level Operating splitting methods for splitting a circuit into two sub circuits and analyzing the two sub circuits with improved computation efficiency and processing speed.... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090131088 | Notification System Management Methods and systems for providing electronic notifications are described. A server is configured to serve an interface, such as a Web page, to a terminal that requests from a user a first set of user contacts to be used to provide notifications to the user by a telephon... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20080307524 | Detecting Public Network Attacks Using Signatures and Fast Content Analysis Network worms or viruses are a growing threat to the security of public and private networks and the individual computers that make up those networks. A content sifting method if provided that automatically generates a precise signature for a worm or virus that can then... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080302233 | Digital music systems Digital music systems, apparatus and techniques based on digitized music data and information to allow for a wide range of applications including digital music practice companion systems.... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080300056 | Telephone Enabled Elimination Game An interactive tournament which involves sending questions to interactive devices such as cell phones or PDAs. The question that is received must be answered in a specified period of time e.g. 10 minutes. Proper answers go on to the next round, improper or late answers ... | 12/04/2008 |
| 20080294964 | SERIAL CONCATENATION OF INTERLEAVED CONVOLUTIONAL CODES FORMING TURBO-LIKE CODES A serial concatenated coder includes an outer coder and an inner coder. The outer coder irregularly repeats bits in a data block according to a degree profile and scrambles the repeated bits. The scrambled and repeated bits are input to an inner coder, which has a rate ... | 11/27/2008 |
| 20080294434 | Live Media Captioning Subscription Framework for Mobile Devices A subscription-based system provides transcribed audio information to one or more mobile devices. Some techniques feature a system for providing subscription services for currently-generated (e.g., not stored) information (e.g., caption information, transcribed audio) f... | 11/27/2008 |
| 20080289906 | Single Line Distributor The invention relates to a single line distributor (1) for dosed discharge of lubricant at a lubricating point, comprising a control device (9) which consists of a control element (5) which can be moved from a base position into a discharge position... | 11/27/2008 |
| 20080291140 | Display Systems Having Screens with Optical Fluorescent Materials Fluorescent screens and display systems and devices based on such screens using at least one excitation optical beam to excite one or more fluorescent materials on a screen which emit light to form images. The fluorescent materials may include phosphor materials and non... | 11/27/2008 |
| 20080285835 | Reducing distortion in magnetic resonance images Systems and techniques for reducing distortions in magnetic resonance images. In one aspect, machine-implemented method for reducing image distortion in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) includes receiving a first MRI image and a second MRI image, estimating displacement... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080284906 | Devices and Methods for Transforming Coding Coefficients of Video Signals Disclosed are a device and a method for transforming a first coding coefficients of video signals into a second coding coefficients of the video signals. The device includes a first storing means for storing the first coding coefficients; a second storing means for stor... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080286600 | Designs and Fabrication of Structural Armor Fabrication techniques for and examples of metallic composite materials with high toughness, high strength, and lightweight for various structural, armor, and structural-armor applications. For example, various advanced materials based on metallic-intermetallic laminate... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080284251 | Voltage selection circuitry Techniques, systems and apparatus are described for providing a voltage selection circuitry and a DC-to-DC converter having such voltage selection circuitry. The voltage selection circuitry includes a first terminal voltage sensing unit that senses a voltage of a first ... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080278582 | Video Fusion Display Systems Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for managing video bandwidth over a network connecting one or more cameras and one or more client video display stations. In one aspect, a system includes a data communication network, ... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080280608 | Enhanced Timer Based Registration Method for Wireless Communication Networks Techniques and systems that provide enhanced timer based registration for efficiently registering access terminals with a wireless network.... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080278728 | Optical Sensing Based on Surface Plasmon Resonances in Nanostructures Devices and techniques for using nanostructures such as nanohole metal films to construct SPP sensors for sensing various substances.... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080273598 | Digital video codec using small-sized buffer memory Techniques, systems and apparatus for digital information processing are described. In particular, techniques, systems and apparatus are described for reducing the size of buffer memory used. In one aspect, a digital video codec includes a buffer memory including an ind... | 11/06/2008 |
| 20080273809 | Method and System for Improving Compressed Image Chroma Information Methods, systems, and computer programs for improving compressed image chroma information. In one aspect of the invention, a resolution for a red color component of a color video image is used that is higher than the resolution for a blue color component of the color vi... | 11/06/2008 |
| 20080273751 | Detection and Tracking of Moving Objects from a Moving Platform in Presence of Strong Parallax Among other things, methods, systems and computer program products are described for detecting and tracking a moving object in a scene. One or more residual pixels are identified from video data. At least two geometric constraints are applied to the identified one or mo... | 11/06/2008 |
| 20080267110 | Signaling for Multi-Hop Relay in Wireless Communication Systems Systems and techniques for signaling between a subordinate base station and a superordinate base station in a wireless network with wireless relay stations to inform the superordinate base station of a failure in establishing an uplink related to the subordinate base st... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080266017 | CONTROLLING COUPLING STRENGTH IN ELECTROMAGNETIC BUS COUPLING A controller sends signals to an electromagnetic coupler associated with a bus. The signals are arranged to set a coupling strength of the coupler.... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080268288 | Spinodally Patterned Nanostructures Devices based on spinodally decomposed periodic structures and their fabrication techniques.... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080269595 | Mapping of Vascular Perfusion Territories Techniques, systems computer program products are disclosed for mapping of vascular perfusion territories by placing one or more blood vessels of the vascular perfusion territories in a tag condition and others in a control condition by applying a train of pseudo-contin... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080267562 | Delivering light via optical waveguide and multi-view optical probe head Techniques, apparatus and systems that use an optical probe head to deliver light to a target and to collect light from the target for imaging, monitoring, medical diagnostics and medical treatment applications.... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080259806 | Signature Matching Methods and Apparatus for Performing Network Diagnostics A system for identifying problems in networks receives test data which may include statistical information regarding packet loss on a path. The system creates a signature from the test data and compares the signature to example signatures corresponding to various networ... | 10/23/2008 |
| 20080258880 | Information Collecting and Decision Making Via Tiered Information Network Systems Techniques, apparatus and systems for information collecting and decision making based on networks of sensors and communication nodes for security monitoring and warning, disaster warning, counter-terrorism, and other applications associated with information collecting ... | 10/23/2008 |
| 20080258981 | Antennas, Devices and Systems Based on Metamaterial Structures Techniques, apparatus and systems that use one or more composite left and right handed (CRLH) metamaterial structures in processing and handling electromagnetic wave signals. Antenna, antenna arrays and other RF devices can be formed based on CRLH metamaterial structure... | 10/23/2008 |
| 20080257107 | Compositions of Hardmetal Materials with Novel Binders Hardmetal compositions each including hard particles having a first material and a binder matrix having a second, different material comprising rhenium or a Ni-based superalloy. A two-step sintering process may be used to fabricate such hardmetals at relatively low sint... | 10/23/2008 |
