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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100132076 | Fluid Delivery for Scanning Probe Microscopy The following invention pertains to the introduction of a gas (or fluid) around a SPM probe or nanotool™ to control chemical activity e.g. oxygen to promote oxidation, argon to inhibit oxidation or clean dry air (CDA) to inhibit moisture to control static charging due... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100131626 | Information Processing Apparatus and Method of Operating the Same Using a service server list containing addresses of servers within a service system and an application list containing names of active applications within the service system, addresses of servers on which the active applications are running, and communication source add... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100131567 | TAGGING MEDIA ASSETS, LOCATIONS, AND ADVERTISEMENTS An accessory communicates with a PMD to store tags associated with broadcasts in a file maintained in a storage medium of the accessory. In one embodiment, the accessory sends a command to the PMD to create or open a tag file that resides on the PMD. Once opened, the ta... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100130938 | DELIVERY AND EXCHANGE CATHETER FOR STORING GUIDEWIRE A support catheter for stowing and exchanging guidewires and other working elements comprises a catheter body having a proximal region and a distal region. A single, contiguous lumen is formed from the proximal region through the distal region and has a larger proximal ... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100130869 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING A FIELD OF A BRAIN OF A PATIENT AND NAVIGATION SYSTEM FOR BRAIN SURGERY A method and an apparatus for displaying a part of a brain of a patient is provided. Laser Doppler images are acquired before and after a stimulation. The laser Doppler images comprise information about a blood motion or about a perfusion at the acquired part. Then, the... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100130835 | METHODS FOR SCREENING AND TREATING PATIENTS WITH COMPROMISED CARDIOPULMONARY FUNCTION Methods are described for screening patients suffering from compromised cardiopulmonary function to determine if they will benefit from arteriovenous fistula therapy. Performance of an exercise regimen by the patients both in the presence and absence of supplemental oxy... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100130761 | Deacidification Method There is provided a process for reducing the free fatty acid content of natural oils by contacting the crude natural oil with a solvent to produce an oil product phase substantially depleted in free fatty acids and a free fatty acid rich solvent phase containing the ext... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100130593 | METHODS AND IMMUNE MODULATOR NUCLEIC ACID COMPOSITIONS FOR PREVENTING AND TREATING DISEASE This invention relates to methods and compositions for treating or preventing disease comprising the administration of immune modulatory nucleic acids having one or more immune modulatory sequences (IMSs). The invention further relates to the means and methods for the i... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100130588 | NOVEL LIPID FORMULATIONS FOR NUCLEIC ACID DELIVERY The present invention provides novel, stable lipid particles comprising one or more active agents or therapeutic agents, methods of making the lipid particles, and methods of delivering and/or administering the lipid particles. More particularly, the present invention p... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100130563 | INHIBITORS OF PLASMA KALLIKREIN The present invention provides compounds that inhibit the activity of plasma kallikrein (PK) and methods of preventing and treating the formation of thrombin during or after a PK dependent disease or condition, for example, after fibrinolysis treatment.... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100130476 | COMPOUNDS THAT INDUCE PANCREATIC BETA-CELL EXPANSION The present invention relates to compounds and compositions for inducing the expansion of pancreatic β-cells. The invention further relates to a use of these expanded pancreatic β-cells to reversibly expand pancreatic β-cells and other quiescent cells to overcome def... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100130412 | Compositions to prevent and treat type-1 diabetes The present invention is based on the discovery that Humanin and humanin analogues protect pancreatic beta cells in vitro and in vivo from apoptosis. Accordingly, humanin and its analogues are useful for preventing and treating diabetes and promoting beta cell survival ... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100130372 | ALGORITHMS FOR CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASE SUBTYPES AND FOR PROGNOSIS WITH GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING Methods for generating a normalized expression signal for microarray data based on a theoretical distribution at the unit level to produce a normalized expression signal for the single microarray that is independent of other microarrays. The method typically includes re... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100129996 | SILICON MATERIAL SURFACE ETCHING FOR LARGE GRAIN POLYSILICON THIN FILM DEPOSITION AND STRUCTURE A method of surface treatment for silicon material. The method includes providing a first silicon material having a surface region. The first silicon material has a first purity characteristics and a first surface roughness characteristics. A chemical polishing process ... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100129951 | Method and Structure for Fabricating Multiple Tiled Regions Onto a Plate Using a Controlled Cleaving Process A reusable transfer substrate member for forming a tiled substrate structure. The member including a transfer substrate, which has a surface region. The surface region comprises a plurality of donor substrate regions. Each of the donor substrate regions is characterized... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100129950 | Method and Structure for Fabricating Multiple Tiled Regions Onto a Plate Using a Controlled Cleaving Process A reusable transfer substrate member for forming a tiled substrate structure. The member including a transfer substrate, which has a surface region. The surface region comprises a plurality of donor substrate regions. Each of the donor substrate regions is characterized... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100129847 | METHOD FOR THE DETECTION OF AMYLOID-B OLIGOMERS IN BODY FLUIDS The present invention relates to a method for the detection of marker of the Alzheimer's disease, namely the amyloid-β oligomers in human CSF, using a combination of steps including demasking the epitopes responsible for antibody binding on the Aβ peptide oligomers as... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100129838 | METHODS FOR PREDICTION OF INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE (IBD) USING SEROLOGIC MARKERS The present invention provides methods, systems, and code for accurately classifying whether a sample from a pediatric individual is associated with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) or a clinical subtype thereof. In particular, the present invention is useful for classi... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100129827 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SAMPLE PREPARATION CONTROL A method for preparing a sample suspected to contain a target nucleic acid sequence for a nucleic acid amplification reaction and for verifying the effectiveness of the sample preparation comprises the step of mixing the sample with sample preparation controls. The samp... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100129526 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS A method of processing a substrate in a substrate processing apparatus that is arranged adjacent to an exposure device and includes first, second and third processing units, includes the steps of forming a film made of a photosensitive material on the substrate by said ... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100129313 | KIDNEY-SPECIFIC TUMOR VACCINE DIRECTED AGAINST KIDNEY TUMOR ANTIGEN G-250 This invention provides an anti-cancer immunogenic agent(s) (e.g. vaccines) that elicit an immune response specifically directed against renal cell cancers expressing a G250 antigenic marker. Preferred immunogenic agents comprise a chimeric molecule comprising a kidney ... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100129151 | Strike-Off Beam And Spreader Plow Assembly For Placer/Spreader In combination with a placers/spreader having a frame including at least two side bolsters standing parallel to the subgrade path and at least two cross beams spanning the subgrade path forming a conveyor supporting structure. A rail system is attached spanning the fram... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100129129 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND RECORDING METHOD USING THE SAME A recording apparatus includes a transport unit that transports a recording medium, a recording unit that performs recording on the recording medium based on record data, a moving unit that moves the recording unit in a direction intersecting a transport direction of th... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100128899 | LARGE RC TIME-CONSTANT GENERATION FOR AUDIO AMPLIFIERS A circuit for generating a large RC time-constant includes an input node for receiving an input signal making a transition from a first state to a second state characterized by a first time-constant, and an output node for providing an output signal making a transiting ... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100128898 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPERATION SEQUENCING OF AUDIO AMPLIFIERS A circuit, system and method provide the suppression of pop at power up of audio amplifiers. The output driver is tri-stated at power up and is enabled after a predetermined time constant. In one embodiment, the output driver includes a MOS transistor pair connected in ... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100128893 | Communication system There is provided a communication system having at least one headset (100) for recording speech signals with a directional information signalling device (1) for detecting directional information. The communication system further has a communication unit (<... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100128580 | Optical Disc Apparatus and Focus Offset Control Method An optical disc apparatus in which processing time is shortened and processing accuracy is ensured upon focus offset processing for plural recording layers. Regarding each of mutually adjacent recording layers, based on a signal based on reflected light from a guide gro... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100128559 | Tabletop device for mixing and discharging multi-component compounds The invention relates to a tabletop device for mixing and discharging multi-component compounds, particularly a dental impression compound, having discharging plungers (8a, 8b), a motorized drive (24) for the discharging plunger (8<... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100128288 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM Provided is a printing apparatus that prints an image of a first colorimetric system that is constructed with a plurality of pixels by using dots having a plurality of sizes, including: a print head that ejects a printing material to form the dots on a printing medium; ... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100127772 | FEEDBACK AMPLIFIER AND AUDIO SYSTEM THEREROF A feedback amplifier includes an operational amplifier having an input end and an output end. A first resistor is coupled with the input end of the operational amplifier. A second resistor has a first end coupled with the input end of the operational amplifier and a sec... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100127762 | OPEN-DRAIN OUTPUT BUFFER FOR SINGLE-VOLTAGE-SUPPLY CMOS An open-drain output buffer is operative to sustain relatively high voltages applied to an output pad. The open-drain buffer includes a number of floating wells, output switching devices and corresponding well-bias selectors to ensure that no gate oxide sustains voltage... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100126880 | DNA COMPLEXING AGENTS The invention provides a compound of structure (I): wherein X is S, O or NRN, where RN is H or alkyl; L is a linker group; Q is a group capable of binding with dsDNA; G and G′ are, independently, absent or have between 1 and 20 main chain atoms; ... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100126587 | Method and Structure for Fabricating Multiple Tiled Regions Onto a Plate Using a Controlled Cleaving Process A reusable transfer substrate member for forming a tiled substrate structure. The member including a transfer substrate, which has a surface region. The surface region comprises a plurality of donor substrate regions. Each of the donor substrate regions is characterized... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100126576 | SILICON MATERIAL SURFACE ETCHING FOR LARGE POLYSILICON THIN FILM DEPOSITION AND STRACTURE A method for forming a photovoltaic cell. The method includes providing a first silicon material characterized by a resistivity less than about 0.5 ohm cm−1 and a first conductive type impurity characteristic. The first silicon material forms a first conduc... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100126527 | APPARATUS FOR AND METHOD OF PROCESSING SUBSTRATE SUBJECTED TO EXPOSURE PROCESS A method of processing a substrate subjected to an exposure process includes the steps of: transporting a substrate subjected to the exposure process to a cleaning processing part and performing a cleaning process in said cleaning processing part on said substrate subje... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100126494 | EXHAUST HOOD WITH ADJUSTABLE SUPPLY AIR CONTAINMENT AIR STREAMS AND AIR CURTAINS An exhaust hood and related methods for exhausting fumes are disclosed. The exhaust hood comprises a housing forming a collection region having an entry portion and an upper portion disposed above the entry portion, an exhaust inlet coupled with the housing and configur... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100126156 | Exhaust manifold An exhaust gas system includes an exhaust manifold, in particular a single-wall exhaust manifold, which includes a plurality of inlet pipes for connection to exhaust gas outlets of an internal combustion engine and a collector device for the combining of the inlet pipes... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100125816 | MOVEMENT RECOGNITION AS INPUT MECHANISM The detection of relative motion or orientation between a user and a computing device can be used to control aspects of the device. For example, the computing device can include an imaging element and software for locating positions, shapes, separations, and/or other as... | 05/20/2010 |
| 20100125796 | CONTENT PUBLISHING SYSTEM, PUBLISHING METHOD FOR A CONTENT PUBLISHING SYSTEM, AND PUBLISHING TERMINAL A content publishing system, a publishing method for a content publishing system, and a publishing terminal provide a service that is particularly convenient for the customer. A content publishing system SY having a plurality of publishing terminals 204 that reco... | 05/20/2010 |
| 20100125764 | ERROR RATE ESTIMATION/APPLICATION TO CODE-RATE ADAPTION The disclosure proposes bit-error-rate (BER) and symbol-error-rate (SER) estimation techniques and its application to incremental-redundancy and rate-adaptation for modern-coded hybrid-ARQ systems. In particular, BER/SER estimators are proposed based on iterative refine... | 05/20/2010 |
