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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110047418 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING RULE-BASED FAULT DETECTION IN A BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM A controller for a building management system includes a system of rules for detecting faults in the building management system. The rules include content conditions and trigger conditions. The content conditions are not checked until one or more of the trigger conditio... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110047327 | SEARCHING A CONTENT ADDRESSABLE MEMORY A method includes searching a content addressable memory based on a comparand. The comparand includes a collection of bits. A modified comparand is generated by modifying the comparand. The modified comparand is based at least in part on a comparand overlay data value. ... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110047197 | AUDIO CONVERTER DEVICE AND METHOD FOR USING THE SAME An audio converter device and a method for using the same. The audio converter device receives the digital audio data from a first device via a local area network. The audio converter device decompresses the digital audio data and converts the digital audio data into an... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110047145 | SEARCH ENGINE GRAPHICAL INTERFACE USING MAPS OF SEARCH TERMS AND IMAGES A system, method and computer program product for visualization of search results includes a map displayed to a user on a screen. The map shows search query terms and optionally other terms related to the search query terms. The display of the terms corresponds to relat... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110047111 | USE OF NEURAL NETWORKS FOR ANNOTATING SEARCH RESULTS A system for generating annotations of a document, including a plurality of neurons connected as a neural network, the neurons being associated with words, sentences and documents. An activity regulator regulates a minimum and/or maximum number of neurons of the neural ... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110047043 | AUTOMATED VENDING OF PRODUCTS CONTAINING CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES The present invention provides for devices and methods for vending regulated products, particularly controlled substances, including those containing pseudoephedrine. The present invention allows for the identification of consumers through reliable log-in-procedures, al... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110046994 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MULTI-STAGE ASSESSMENT OF LOCATE REQUEST TICKETS Locate and/or marking operations involve detecting and/or marking a presence or an absence of at least one underground facility within a dig area, wherein at least a portion of the dig area is planned to be excavated or disturbed during excavation activities. One or mor... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110046993 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ASSESSING RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH LOCATE REQUEST TICKETS Locate and/or marking operations involve detecting and/or marking a presence or an absence of at least one underground facility within a dig area, wherein at least a portion of the dig area is planned to be excavated or disturbed during excavation activities. One or mor... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110046912 | Semiconductor Device having variable parameter selection based on temperature and test method A semiconductor device that may include temperature sensing circuits is disclosed. The temperature sensing circuits may be used to control various parameters, such as internal regulated supply voltages, internal refresh frequency, or a word line low voltage. In this way... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110046778 | METHOD OF CONDUCTING A SALES TRANSACTION USING A RANDOM ACCESS AND RANDOM LOAD DISPENSING UNIT The present invention provides a random access and random load dispensing unit including a housing, at least one support located in the housing and defining a first axis, a plurality of platforms movable along the support along the first axis, a plurality of bins suppor... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110046457 | MULTILUMEN CATHETER A multilumen catheter having tubings extending into lumens within the catheter. The lumens may be used for blood, drugs or other medicants. The lumens may also be used for sensors. The junction element, external to the patient, connects the tubings to the lumens. The tu... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110046376 | METHODS FOR SYNTHESIZING HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS. A method for synthesizing a heterocyclic compound includes: reacting 1-methylpiperazine with 5-chloro-2-nitroaniline at an internal temperature sufficient to provide a compound of Formula VIH The 1-methylpiperazine and the 5-chloro-2-nitroaniline are reacted in a solven... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110046125 | METHOD FOR TREATING INFECTIONS The present invention relates to compounds for treating or preventing infection that inhibit the activity of Hsp90.... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110046120 | TREATMENT OF IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDERS The present disclosure provides methods and compositions for treating Impulse Control disorders including, for example, pathological gambling using α2-adrenergic agonists, β-adrenergic receptor antagonists, or both.... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110045972 | THERMAL IMAGING MEMBERS AND METHODS There are described thermal imaging members and thermal imaging methods utilizing unsymmetrical rhodamine compounds. The rhodamine color-forming compounds exhibit a first color when in a crystalline form and a second color, different from the first color, when in an amo... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110045930 | VEHICLE TRANSMISSION A transmission includes a bevel gear configured to provide power to a shaft of a vehicle and that is rotatably engaged with a collar assembly. The transmission also includes a planetary gear set selectively engageable with the collar assembly. The collar assembly includ... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110045635 | VERTICALLY STACKED PRE-PACKAGED INTEGRATED CIRCUIT CHIPS Prepackaged chips, such a memory chips, are vertically stacked and bonded together with their terminals aligned. The exterior lead frames are removed including that portion which extends into the packaging. The bonding wires are now exposed on the collective lateral sur... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110045612 | METHODS FOR DISTINGUISHING A SET OF HIGHLY DOPED REGIONS FROM A SET OF LIGHTLY DOPED REGIONS ON A SILICON SUBSTRATE A method of distinguishing a set of highly doped regions from a set of lightly doped regions on a silicon substrate is disclosed. The method includes providing the silicon substrate, the silicon substrate configured with the set of lightly doped regions and the set of h... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110045597 | CHEMICAL SENSORS OF ZINC, NICKEL, AND COPPER IONS The present technology provides a dual chemical sensor for zinc and nickel ions and a chemical sensor for copper ions. Also provided are methods of making and using the chemical sensors. The chemical sensors have the structure of formula I, wherein R1, and R<... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110045569 | ENZYMATIC CONVERSION OF BLOOD GROUP A, B, AND AB RED BLOOD CELLS USING ALPHA-N- ACETYLGALACTOSAMINIDASES AND ALPHA-GALACTOSIDASES WITH UNIQUE SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITIES AND KINETIC PROPERTIES This invention relates to enzymatic removal of type A and B antigens from blood group A, B, and AB reactive cells in blood products, and thereby converting these to non-A and non-B reactive cells. The invention further relates to using unique α-N-acetylgalactosaminidas... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110045350 | MESOPOROUS MATERIALS FOR ELECTRODES Mesoporous electrode materials with large particle size where the majority of particles have sizes in excess of 15 μm have a well connected internal mesopore network, and have high power capability when used as intercalation materials for a range of battery and superca... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110045076 | LINEAR ORDER RELEASE POLYMER Intravaginal drug delivery devices, including intravaginal rings, are provided herein. The devices comprise a polyether urethane composition and a pharmaceutically effective amount of at least one vaginally administrable drug homogeneously distributed throughout the pol... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044976 | HUMANIZED ANTIBODIES Humanized antibodies that bind ICAM-1 are provided. Antibodies include those selected from: SEQ ID NO:1 and 3 (HumA); SEQ ID NO:5 and 7 (HumB); SEQ ID NO:9 and 11 (HumC); SEQ ID NO:13 and 15 (HumD); SEQ ID NO:17 and 19 (HumE); SEQ ID NO:21 and 23 (HumF); SEQ ID NO:25 an... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044887 | MESOPOROUS MANGANESE DIOXIDE α-Phase manganese dioxide, when in a mesoporous form, has useful properties enabling its use as electrodes, inter alia, in lithium batteries and supercapacitors.... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044494 | Quantization-Based Data Embedding in Mapped Data Novel methods and systems for quantization based data embedding and reading in host signals, such as image, audio and video signals. To embed auxiliary data in a host signal, an embedder maps the host signal from a first domain into a mapped signal in a second domain. T... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044372 | Semiconductor Device having variable parameter selection based on temperature and test method A semiconductor device that may include temperature sensing circuits is disclosed. The temperature sensing circuits may be used to control various parameters, such as internal regulated supply voltages, internal refresh frequency, or a word line low voltage. In this way... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044119 | Semiconductor Device having variable parameter selection based on temperature and test method A semiconductor device that may include temperature sensing circuits is disclosed. The temperature sensing circuits may be used to control various parameters, such as internal regulated supply voltages, internal refresh frequency, or a word line low voltage. In this way... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044118 | Semiconductor Device having variable parameter selection based on temperature and test method A semiconductor device that may include temperature sensing circuits is disclosed. The temperature sensing circuits may be used to control various parameters, such as internal regulated supply voltages, internal refresh frequency, or a word line low voltage. In this way... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110043607 | TRACKING AND CHARACTERIZING PARTICLES WITH HOLOGRAPHIC VIDEO MICROSCOPY In-line holography to create images of a specimen, such as one or more particles dispersed in a transparent medium. Analyzing these images with results from light scattering theory yields the particles' sizes with nanometer resolution, their refractive indexes to within... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110042488 | CONTAINER AND METHOD FOR A SUBSTANCE TO BE SPRAYED A container for a substance to be sprayed includes a reservoir for the substance and operable spraying means connected to the reservoir for spraying the substance. The spraying means are provided with at least two spaced apart outflow openings that are in fluid communic... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110042417 | WATER SUPPLY APPARATUS AND CLEANING SYSTEM FOR CLEANING THE WATER SUPPLY APPARATUS A cleaning system for cleaning a water supply apparatus includes a cleaning agent vessel containing a cleaning agent that is supplied to the water supply apparatus. The water supply apparatus has a recirculation circuit for recirculating water within the water supply ap... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110042344 | POLYMERIC INDICATORS FOR DETECTING THE PRESENCE OF METABOLIC BYPRODUCTS FROM MICROORGANISMS Polymeric indicators are provided for visually monitoring, detecting, and/or determining the presence of metabolic byproducts from harmful or potentially harmful microorganisms.... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110040807 | DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD A method of replicating data on a source to a destination comprising the steps of: extracting data from a source via a user interface in a source format; converting the extracted data from the source's format into a destination format; and uploading the converted data t... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110040590 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING A TICKET ASSESSMENT SYSTEM Locate and/or marking operations involve detecting and/or marking a presence or an absence of at least one underground facility within a dig area, wherein at least a portion of the dig area is planned to be excavated or disturbed during excavation activities. A record o... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110040589 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ASSESSING COMPLEXITY OF LOCATE REQUEST TICKETS Locate and/or marking operations involve detecting and/or marking a presence or an absence of at least one underground facility within a dig area, wherein at least a portion of the dig area is planned to be excavated or disturbed during excavation activities. One or mor... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110040152 | SURGICAL RETRACTOR Provided is a surgical retractor capable of preventing an organ of a human body from being damaged when the organ of the human body positioned over a surgical area in the human body is lifted up. The surgical retractor includes a support body including a plurality of su... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110039867 | PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVES WHICH ARE ANTAGONIST OF THE VITRONECTIN RECEPTOR A subject of the invention is the compounds of formula (I);
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| 20110039766 | METHODS FOR PREVENTING OR TREATING METABOLIC SYNDROME The invention provides methods of preventing or treating metabolic syndrome in a mammalian subject. The methods comprise administering to the subject an effective amount of an aromatic-cationic peptide to subjects in need thereof.... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110038517 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FOUR DIMENSIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY AND FLUOROSCOPY A method for generating time-resolved 3D medical images of a subject by imparting temporal information from a time-series of 2D medical images into 3D images of the subject. Generally speaking, this is achieved by acquiring image data using a medical imaging system, gen... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110038198 | ELECTRONIC DEVICES BASED ON CURRENT INDUCED MAGNETIZATION DYNAMICS IN SINGLE MAGNETIC LAYERS The present invention generally relates to magnetic devices used in memory and information processing applications, such as giant magneto-resistance (GMR) devices and tunneling magneto-resistance devices. More specifically, the present invention is directed to a single ... | 02/17/2011 |
