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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110039611 | CONTINUAL LIMIT HOLD'EM QUASI-TOURNAMENTS A method of simulating a gaming tournament utilizing a plurality of electronic game machines in a quasi-tournament includes the steps of: a) receiving value from a plurality of human users of the electronic game machines, the received value corresponding to a plurality ... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110033290 | STRUT FOR AN INTERMEDIATE TURBINE HOUSING, INTERMEDIATE TURBINE HOUSING, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN INTERMEDIATE TURBINE HOUSING The present invention relates to a strut for a turbine center frame of a jet engine, in particular a gas turbine, with a first end for disposition on an internal structure of the turbine center frame and a second end opposite the first end for attaching the strut on a h... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110022450 | COMPTUER NETWORK CHAT SYSTEM FOR DISPLAY OF TEXT AND VIDEO IN A RIVALRY CONTEXT A chat system comprises a chat room application (Team Chat application) running on a chat server connected to a computer network having a plurality of users. The Team Chat application is configured to produce a chat room interface on the display of users accessing the c... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110019205 | Apparatus and method for implementing a touchless slider A method for gesture recognition in an optical system using a touchless slider is shown. The touchless slider has first and second reference points positioned along an axis in an optical system. The method includes obtaining a plurality of first and second reflectance v... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110018613 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRE-CHARGING A BOOT CAPACITOR IN A SWITCHING REGULATOR WITH HIGH PRE-BIAS VOLTAGE An apparatus comprises a voltage regulator including an high side switching transistor and a low side switching transistor. An high side drive controls operation of the high side switching transistor. A low side driver controls operation of the low side switching transi... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110010269 | VEHICLE AUDIO SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING SYNTHETIC ENGINE SOUND An audio system for an electrically powered vehicle includes a data storage unit, a processor for accessing the data storage unit and retrieving one of pre-recorded engine sounds, pre-recorded exhaust sounds, or one or more algorithms for reproducing engine sounds and e... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110007304 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR AUTOMATIC LASER FOCUSING The invention relates to a process and an apparatus for automatic laser focusing. The core concept of the process is the automatable and especially preferably the automated photographing of the focal spot generated during a focus series by camera and a determination of ... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110005549 | METHOD FOR THE THERMOCHEMICAL CLEANING AND/OR STRIPPING OF TURBINE COMPONENTS The invention relates to a process for the thermochemical cleaning and/or stripping of turbine components, in particular engine components, with the steps: Production of a first gaseous mixture containing HF and H2 in which the part by volume of HF in the mix... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110004560 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING REAL ESTATE INFORMATION TO POTENTIAL BUYERS A system for providing real time property data to a potential real estate customer utilizes a property information server that provides real time property data to the potential real estate customer responsive to receipt of a unique identifier associated with a particula... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100328534 | PORTABLE MEDIA ENCODER A portable media encoder is disclosed. The portable media encoder comprises a video input port configured to receive a video input from a video source, an audio input port configured to receive an audio input from an audio source, and a digital output port for providing... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100328295 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LCD LOOP CONTROL An LCD controller includes a charge pump for generating a charge voltage responsive to an external voltage and a clock signal. The controller further includes an oscillator for generating the clock signal responsive to an oscillator control signal. An LCD driver voltage... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100328286 | LCD CONTROLLER WITH OSCILLATOR PREBIAS CONTROL An LCD controller includes a charge pump circuit for generating a charge voltage responsive to an external voltage and a clock signal. An oscillator generates the clock signal responsive to at least one bias voltage. The oscillator has a high power mode of operation and... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100328199 | LCD CONTROLLER WITH BYPASS MODE An LCD controller includes a charge pump circuit for generating a charge voltage responsive to an external voltage and a clock signal. An oscillator generates the clock signal responsive to at least one bias voltage. The oscillator has a high power mode of operation and... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100327930 | SCHMITT TRIGGER WITH GATED TRANSITION LEVEL CONTROL A Schmitt trigger comprises first and second circuitry. The first circuitry receives an input voltage and provides an output voltage at either a logical “low” or a logical “high” voltage level responsive to the input voltage and a first bias voltage. The second ... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100327835 | INTEGRATOR FOR PROVIDING OVERSHOOT PROTECTION AND LIGHT SWITCHING MODE DURING NON-ZERO LOAD CONDITION FOR AN LED DRIVER CIRCUITRY A voltage regulator system comprises circuitry for generating a regulated output voltage responsive to an input voltage and switching control signals. A voltage divider is connected to an output node of the circuitry to provide a way to monitor the output voltage. A vol... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100322758 | COMPRESSOR OF A GAS TURBINE The invention relates to a compressor, particularly a high pressure compressor, of a gas turbine, particularly of a gas turbine aircraft engine, having at least one rotating blade ring on the rotor side, and having at least one guide blade ring on the stator side, where... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100321155 | OBJECT AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM A system employing enrollment information and the quality of the enrollment information. The enrollment information includes data unique to the identification of a person. The system also stores biometric sensor quality information. When a person seeks to authenticate h... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100320983 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PFM/PWM MODE TRANSITION WITHIN A MULTI-PHASE BUCK CONVERTER A multi-phase voltage regulator comprises a plurality of DC/DC voltage regulators. Each of the DC/DC voltage regulators is associated with a particular phase of the multi-phase regulator. Each of the regulators comprises a first switching transistor connected between an... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100320696 | SEAL ARRANGEMENT The invention relates to a sealing arrangement for a non-hermetic seal of a gap (11) between a stator and a rotor with a brush seal (13), wherein the brush seal (13) has a bristle package (14) with several bristles (15), the bristles a... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100319956 | HYBRID CABLE FOR CONVEYING DATA AND POWER Hybrid cables for conveying data and conducting operating power to electrically powered devices and a vehicle utilizing such cables are disclosed.... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100319194 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING INTEGRALLY BLADED ROTORS A method for producing integrally bladed rotors comprises the following steps: a) defining and providing a blade profile of a blade to be manufactured with a pre-contour and a theoretical contour; b) producing at least two sectional planes of the blade profile, which se... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100318678 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ROUTING AND COMMUNICATING IN A HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK ENVIRONMENT An improved system and method are disclosed for peer-to-peer communications. In one example, the method is for connecting an endpoint that is separated from another endpoint by a symmetric network address translation device.... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100318029 | SEMI-COMPLIANT MEDICAL BALLOON A semi-compliant fiber-reinforced medical balloon having a folded wall thickness of from about 0.0010 to about 0.0060 inches and a rated burst pressure of at least 15 atmospheres and exhibiting compliance in the radial direction of from 0.5% expansion per atmosphere to ... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100315059 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SYNCHRONOUS SWITCH FOR A SYNCHRONOUS CONVERTER An apparatus comprises a synchronous converter for providing a regulated output voltage responsive to an input voltage, a control PWM signal to a control switch of the synchronous converter and a synchronous PWM signal to a synchronous switch of the synchronous converte... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100312902 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENDPOINT HANDOFF IN A HYBRID PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKING ENVIRONMENT A system and method for endpoint handoff in a hybrid peer-to-peer networking environment are provided. In one example, the method includes logging into the peer-to-peer network by a first endpoint. The first endpoint directly notifies a second endpoint that the second e... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100312160 | CUSTOMIZABLE THERAPEUTIC COMPRESSION GARMENT AND METHOD Provided is a therapeutic compression apparatus that includes a compression material. In one example, the apparatus includes a large surface area of a single sheet of compression material. The apparatus may include indicia that allow it to be trimmed to fit a patient.... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100310089 | SYSTEM FOR ALLOWING SELECTIVE LISTENING ON MULTIPLE TELEVISIONS Provided is an audio transmission system for use in environments having multiple televisions. An audio transmitter couples to a television via the television's audio output jack and frequency modulates the audio signal for transmission on a user selected channel. An aud... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100310071 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EMBEDDING SEARCHABLE INFORMATION INTO A FILE FOR TRANSMISSION, STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL An apparatus is disclosed for acquiring information to be transmitted to a receiving facility and for transmitting such thereto. A capture device captures information from a first source. A stamping device is provided for associating with the captured information a repr... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100303288 | METHOD FOR MULTI-MEDIA RECOGNITION, DATA CONVERSION, CREATION OF METATAGS, STORAGE AND SEARCH RETRIEVAL This invention relates to an apparatus for capturing data a first capture device interfacing with a primary data source to capture data therefrom for storage into a primary data set. A second capture device is provided interfacing with a secondary data source to capture... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100301826 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ORING PHASES TO OVERCOME DUTY CYCLE LIMITATIONS IN A MULTI-PHASE BOOST CONVERTER A multiphase boost converter includes a multiphase PWM controller for generating a plurality of PWM signals. A plurality of boost converters are each associated with a separate phase connected between an input voltage node and an output voltage node and generating an ou... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100295510 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CELL BALANCING AND CHARGING An apparatus for charging a plurality of series connected battery cells includes first and second input terminals for providing a charging voltage to the plurality of series connected battery cells. A transformer includes a primary side associated with the charging volt... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100295509 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CELL BALANCING AND CHARGING An apparatus for charging a plurality of series connected battery cells, includes a first and second input terminals for providing a charging voltage to the plurality of series connected battery cell. A transformer includes a primary side associated with the charging vo... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100293052 | Method and System for Targeted Advertising A method and system of displaying advertisements may include generating a predictive model to predict a type of user, collecting advertisements based upon the type of user, placing the predictive model and collected advertisements on a computer of a user, executing the ... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100284203 | CONTROL MODE FOR ZVS CONVERTER AT RESONANT OPERATING FREQUENCIES A zero volt switching voltage converter comprises a switching network including a plurality of switches for generating control signals responsive to an input voltage source and switching control signals. Circuitry generates a regulated output voltage responsive to the c... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100283760 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCANNING A TOUCHSCREEN WITH MULTI-TOUCH DETECTION USING MASTER/SLAVE DEVICES A touch panel scan system is disclosed for detecting a change in mutual capacitance on the surface of a touch panel. A first touch detect device is provided having a transmitter for transmitting a transmit signal to a select one of a plurality of first lines on a first ... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100283211 | HONEYCOMB STRUCTURE Disclosed is a honeycomb structure for non-hermetic rotor-stator and rotor-rotor seals in turbo machines. Said honeycomb structure comprises a plurality of at least predominantly radially oriented honeycomb cells which are separated by cell walls, are open on one side, ... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100281320 | METHOD FOR ACCURACY IMPROVEMENT ALLOWING CHIP-BY-CHIP MEASUREMENT CORRECTION A method for allowing measurement corrections on a chip-by-chip basis. Error correction values are generated responsive to the input value to a circuit of the calibrated integrated circuit chip and to a measured value from the circuit of the calibrated integrated circui... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100269049 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING EVENTS IN A MULTIPLE SCHEDULE ENVIRONMENT Provided are a system and method for managing events in a multiple schedule environment. In one example, the method includes receiving a user selection identifying an event that is to be scheduled, wherein the user selection identifies the event from a plurality of pre-... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100268509 | TURBOMACHINE, GAP-MEASURING SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A ROTOR GAP The invention relates to a turbomachine having a rotor (10) comprising rotor blades (12), having a rotor housing (16) which surrounds at least sections of the rotor (10) or the rotor blade (12) so as to form a rotor gap (d), and having... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100260590 | POST-PULLER AND METHOD A method of removing a T-type fence post from the earth with a powered, mobile piece of equipment controlled by a human operator includes attaching a substantially flat plate to a lift arm of the powered mobile piece of equipment such that the plate hangs substantially ... | 10/14/2010 |
