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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110046945 | METHOD AND DEVICE OF BITRATE DISTRIBUTION/TRUNCATION FOR SCALABLE AUDIO CODING Embodiments of the invention provides a method and device for assigning bitrates to a plurality of channels in a scalable audio encoding/truncation process. Different bitrates are assigned to different channels in the scalable audio encoding/truncation process.... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110046620 | CORDLESS HEATED FORCEPS A cordless heated forceps device useful for manipulating tissue samples in a paraffin or other embedding medium, e.g., in histology and pathology labs. The forceps in one implementation has tip elements that are bound to a resistive heat-dissipating component with coppe... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110042611 | REACTOR FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF NANOPARTICLES An apparatus (10) and a method (200) for the manufacture of nanoparticles. The apparatus and the method allows for the nucleation and growth of nanoparticles at independent temperatures. The independent temperatures allow for the growth of nanoparticles in... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110041000 | METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR ADJUSTING A TRUNK STATE The present invention provides a method and a device for adjusting a trunk state, wherein the method includes: if a media gateway controller receives a request of a new service and thus uses the trunk circuit, sending an adding command message to a media gateway; after ... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110039321 | METHODS FOR THE CONVERSION OF FISH WASTE FROM AQUACULTURE SYSTEMS TO METHANE VIA A MODIFIED UASB REACTOR A process for treatment of sludge made up of saline organic solids or organic waste produced in a saltwater or brackish aquaculture system is described. The process includes use of a modified reactor, operating under anaerobic conditions, which yields methane from the d... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110037674 | OFFSET PARABOLA ANTENNA An offset parabola antenna includes an elliptical parabolic reflector having a mirror surface in a shape partially cut out from a paraboloid, a primary radiator, and a supporting arm which supports the primary radiator to fix the primary radiator at a focal point of the... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110036785 | WASTE SOLID CLEANING APPARATUS There is herein described the removal of fluid from fluid-contaminated waste solids and a method and apparatus for analysing and detecting the amount of oil in a fluid-contaminated waste material. In particular, there is described the removal of oil from drill cuttings ... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110033053 | SECURITY KEY GENERATING METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM A security key generating method, device and system are provided, wherein, the method is used for generating a security key in the process of the handover to an EUTRAN network from other network, the method includes: an MME generates a security key based on a root key K... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110032355 | MONITORING METHOD AND TERMINAL USING DIFFERENT MONITORING PRECISIONS This invention discloses a monitoring method and terminal using different monitoring precisions. The method comprises: a user sends, to a monitoring terminal, monitoring precision setting information which includes one or more time periods and monitoring precisions corr... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110027761 | TRAINING METHOD AND SYSTEM COMPRISING MIXED REAL AND VIRTUAL IMAGES Training method for the simulation of an operation performed by at least one device which is part of a real apparatus, wherein the method comprises providing to display means overlaid images under controlled depth order of a virtual apparatus, and real images of said de... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110021511 | SUBSTITUTED 5H-PYRIMIDO[5,4-B]INDOLES, METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF AND USE THEREOF FOR TREATING NON-SOLID MALIGNANT TUMORS OF THE BLOOD-PRODUCING SYSTEM The invention relates to compounds of general formula 1 to processes for the production thereof, to pharmaceutical preparations containing said compounds and/or physiologically compatible salts and/or solvate... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110021011 | CARBON MATERIALS FOR CARBON IMPLANTATION A method of implanting carbon ions into a target substrate, including: ionizing a carbon containing dopant material to produce a plasma having ions; optionally co-flowing an additional gas or series of gases with the carbon-containing dopant material; and implanting the... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110018466 | MULTI-ELEMENT LED LAMP PACKAGE In one embodiment, a single light emitting diode lamp package includes at least two light emitting devices that can be switched independently of one another and thus may be useful in vehicular lighting applications, for example low and high beam headlights. In another e... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110008964 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DELIVERY OF FLUID-CONTAINING PROCESS MATERIAL COMBINATIONS Common sources of different (e.g., concentrated) process materials are controllably supplied to multiple blending manifolds associated with multiple process tools, processing stations, or other points of use, to create an independently controllable process material blen... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110008869 | ENGINEERED PROTEASES FOR AFFINITY PURIFICATION AND PROCESSING OF FUSION PROTEINS The present invention is directed to the identification of a protease prodomain that is capable of binding a corresponding protease with high affinity. The protease prodomain of the present invention is fused to a second protein to form a protease prodomain fusion prote... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110007684 | METHOD FOR RELAYING AND FORWARDING THE FEEDBACK INFORMATION IN HARQ SCENARIO A method for relaying and forwarding feedback information in hybrid automatic repeat request scenario is provided, wherein the method for sending feedback information includes that: a relay station receives a resource allocation message; the relay station determines the... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110006658 | SOLID STATE LIGHTING DEVICE WITH IMPROVED HEATSINK A solid state lighting device includes at least one emitter and a forged heatsink arranged to receive and dissipate heat generated by emitter(s). The heatsink may have a thickness and/or profile that varies in at leats two dimensions. Fabrication of a solid state lighti... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110003487 | METHOD FOR REDUCING THE FITTING THRUST OF GOLDEN FINGER AND PCB A method for reducing the fitting thrust of golden finger (101,103) and a PCB (100). The method and the PCB (100) solve the problem of excessive inserting force of the golden finger (101,103) of the prior art, through modifying the shape of t... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110002317 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MAPPING THE INITIAL LOCATION OF DOWNLINK PILOT A mapping method for the initial location of the downlink pilot comprises the following steps: acquiring a cell sequence number; mapping the cell sequence number to k; and setting an initial location of a downlink pilot on a first antenna as the Kth sub-carri... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110001787 | DEVICE FOR ERASING USED INK RIBBON A device for erasing a used ink ribbon comprises a heater. The heater is provided on a dye layer side of the ink ribbon at the downstream of a printing apparatus and contacts with the dye layer of the ink ribbon. The information remaining on the used ink ribbon can be e... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110001107 | HOLLOW GST STRUCTURE WITH DIELECTRIC FILL A memory cell structure, including a substrate having a via therein bound at first and second ends thereof by electrodes. The via is coated on side surfaces thereof with GST material defining a core that is hollow or at least partially filled with material, e.g., german... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100330684 | DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE AND METHOD Diagnostic devices and methods involve comparison of relative levels of first and second components and/or characteristics of a fluid sample (e.g., saliva), preferably using antibodies arranged to interact with selected components, and colorimetric indicators that are b... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100329124 | USER TERMINAL DEVICE AND A METHOD OF NETWORK ACCESSING FOR THE DEVICE A user terminal device includes: an antenna module, comprising a plurality of directional antennas and adapted to access a network through one or more directional antennas of the plurality of antennas; a processor, adapted to set the directions of the directional antenn... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100325768 | FUNEREAL GARMENT A funereal garment for use in providing a full and healthy appearance to a corpse lacking tissue necessary for such appearance. The garment includes a main garment body with compartments positioned to receive shaped inserts, wherein the compartments and shaped inserts a... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100325309 | DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR SELECTIVE FORWARDING A system and method of operating equipment and services to allow enhanced global transport of IP packets is presented. A global virtual network with guaranteed capacity is used to transport said IP packets. A number of application-specific forwarding devices are deploye... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100322991 | HONOKIOL ANALOGS AND THEIR USE IN TREATING CANCERS Compounds, pharmaceutical compositions including the compounds, and methods of preparation and use thereof are disclosed. The compounds are honokiol analogs. The compounds and compositions can be used to treat and/or prevent a wide variety of cancers, including drug res... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100322947 | PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR TREATING AVELLINO CORNEA DYSTROPHY COMPRISING AN ANTIBODY AGAINST TGF-BETA The present invention relates to a medicine for treating Avellino corneal dystrophy (ACD), and more particularly, to a pharmaceutical composition for treating Avellino corneal dystrophy containing an antibody against TGF-β as an effective ingredient. The pharmaceutical... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100317150 | ANTIMONY AND GERMANIUM COMPLEXES USEFUL FOR CVD/ALD OF METAL THIN FILMS Antimony, germanium and tellurium precursors useful for CVD/ALD of corresponding metal-containing thin films are described, along with compositions including such precursors, methods of making such precursors, and films and microelectronic device products manufactured u... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100317090 | WASTE TREATMENT SYSTEM A process for treating mixed waste material, said process comprising a) collecting said mixed waste in bags; b) autoclaving the bags under conditions in which the bags degrade; c) separating the material from step (b) into three fractions, a first fraction comprising li... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100316562 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR HYDROGEN GENERATION FROM GASEOUS HYDRIDE An apparatus and method including storage and dispensing vessels to safely store and dispense gaseous hydrides, where the storage and dispensing vessels contain a solid-phase physical sorbent medium having a physically sorptive affinity for gaseous hydrides, and wherein... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100316554 | METHOD FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF NANOPARTICLES ON A CARBON SURFACE AND PRODUCTS THEREFROM The combination of at least one substantially unfunctionalised carbon surface, such as a fullerene, graphite or amorphous carbon, graphene or pre-aligned carbon nanotubes and at least semi-conducting nanoparticle, for example CdSe, CdTe, CdS, InP and/or ZnO or a metalli... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100316549 | III-V NANOPARTICLES AND METHOD FOR THEIR MANUFACTURE A method for the manufacture of a III-V compound in the form of nanoparticles, such as those used in semi-conductors. The reaction proceeds at atmospheric pressure in a reaction solution by the reaction of a III compound source and a V compound source. The reaction proc... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100314590 | COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR LOW TEMPERATURE CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION OF SILICON-CONTAINING FILMS INCLUDING SILICON CARBONITRIDE AND SILICON OXYCARBONITRIDE FILMS Silicon precursors for forming silicon-containing films in the manufacture of semiconductor devices, such as films including silicon carbonitride, silicon oxycarbonitride, and silicon nitride (Si3N4), and a method of depositing the silicon precurso... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100313242 | NETWORK MANAGEMENT METHOD, NETWORK MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, NETWORK SYSTEM, AND INTERMEDIATE DEVICE A network management method is performed in a computer network system which includes a network device, a network management device managing the network device, and an intermediate device connecting the network device with the network management device. In the method, th... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100310755 | ULTRA-SENSITIVE DETECTION OF FAINT FINGERPRINTS ON ROUGH SURFACES AND CORRESPONDING FINGERPRINT DETECTION KIT An ultra-sensitive method for visualizing latent fingerprints using a chemical multiplier to amplify even very faint prints on rough or otherwise difficult surfaces, involving a chemical free radical reaction which produces millions of identifiable molecules from each a... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100305164 | 5-(4-METHANESULFONYL-PHENYL)-THIAZOLE DERIVATIVES FOR THE TREATMENT OF ACUTE AND CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASES A compound of formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, prodrug and/or solvate thereof, and a method for the treatment of an acute or chronic inflammatory disease by inhibiting the production of at ... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100303782 | PROBIOTIC COMPOSITION USEFUL FOR DIETARY AUGMENTATION AND/OR COMBATING DISEASE STATES AND ADVERSE PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITIONS A probiotic composition including the bacilli (1) Bacillus subtilis, (2) Bacillus coagulans, and (3) Enterococcus faecium. The composition may further include a carrier medium, such as fructo-oligo-saccharides (FOS), as incorporated in a dose form s... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100301351 | HIGH VOLTAGE SWITCHING DEVICES AND PROCESS FOR FORMING SAME The present invention relates to various switching device structures including Schottky diode, P—N diode, and P—I—N diode, which are characterized by low defect density, low crack density, low pit density and sufficient thickness (>2.5 um) GaN layers of low dop... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100298365 | TOPICAL ADMINISTRATION CARRIER COMPOSITION AND THERAPEUTIC FORMULATIONS COMPRISING SAME A topical administration carrier composition including water, glycerin and polysorbate, suitable for use in formulations with active ingredient compositions containing active ingredients such as minoxidil that are susceptible to systemic penetration, and solvents that a... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100297192 | USE OF MICROPARTICLES FOR VACCINES AND THE RELEASE OF BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE MOLECULES The invention relates to microparticles based on a PLGA biodegradable polymer and an alginate polymer which encapsulate immunologically active peptides or proteins. Said microparticles, and the pharmaceutical compositions developed from them and the uses thereof, are ap... | 11/25/2010 |
