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Last date: February 17, 2011

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20110036049	Splice System for Connecting Rebars in Concrete Assemblies A splice tube assembly and corresponding system for connecting multiple fiber-reinforced polymer rebars include a polymeric tube that is externally covered by a reinforcing layer to control radial expansion of grout within the polymeric tube and of the polymeric tube it...	02/17/2011
20100329291	MULTI-SPECTRAL LASER SOURCE EMPLOYING PERIODICALLY POLED CRYSTAL MIXER A multi-spectral laser system produces first and second output frequencies by nonlinear mixing of a first, second, and third laser light frequency in a single periodically polled crystal, where the first and second output frequencies are separated by a range greater tha...	12/30/2010
20100329256	ARCHITECTURE AND SYSTEM FOR COORDINATED NETWORK-WIDE REDUNDANCY ELIMINATION A network employing redundancy-aware hardware may actively allocate decompression tasks among different devices along a single path to improve data throughput. The allocation can be performed by a hash or similar process operating on a header of the packets to distribut...	12/30/2010
20100312234	FAN-BEAM MICROWAVE HORN FOR BLOODLESS RESECTION A handheld microwave waveguide provides a planar microwave beam for rapid coagulation of a strip of tissue in an organ providing a barrier against blood loss during resection operations....	12/09/2010
20100290353	APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING NETWORK PACKET DATA A network monitor provides improved understanding of the type of data being transmitted by packets by capturing rendezvous packets, such as domain name server queries and responses, to extract text domain names that may then be associated with later packets using a comm...	11/18/2010
20100290346	METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NETWORK ANOMALY DETECTION A network anomaly detector evaluates two complementary measurements of network statistics, a time variation and correlation among those statistics, to provide an extremely robust detection of network anomalies. In one embodiment, the variability and correspondence are c...	11/18/2010
20100287340	Concurrent Execution of Critical Sections by Eliding Ownership of Locks One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates avoiding locks by speculatively executing critical sections of code. During operation, the system allows a process to speculatively execute a critical section of code within a program without fir...	11/11/2010
20100256530	METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING TISSUE ABLATION Real-time monitoring of tissue ablation is possible by using a vibrating ablation needle coupling lateral shear waves to the tissue. Ultrasonic imaging may characterize the velocity of these shear waves to reveal Young's modulus of the tissue and, at a discontinuity in ...	10/07/2010
20100254378	NETWORK ROUTING SYSTEM PROVIDING INCREASED NETWORK BANDWIDTH A network employing multiple redundancy-aware routers that can eliminate the transmission of redundant data is greatly improved by steering redundant data preferentially into common data paths possibly contrary to other routing paradigms. By collecting redundant data in...	10/07/2010
20100254377	Network Routing System Providing Increased Network Bandwidth A network employing multiple redundancy-aware routers that can eliminate the transmission of redundant data is greatly improved by steering redundant data preferentially into common data paths possibly contrary to other routing paradigms. By collecting redundant data in...	10/07/2010
20100252728	Mass Spectrometer Using An Accelerating Traveling Wave A mass spectrogram employs a set of controllable electrodes to produce a time varying axially inhomogenous electric field and enhance separation of charged particles by exposing the charged particles to different electric field strengths based on their spatial positions...	10/07/2010
20100243921	ION RADIATION THERAPY SYSTEM WITH VARIABLE BEAM RESOLUTION An ion radiation therapy machine provides a steerable beam for treating a tumor within the patient where the exposure spot of the beam is controlled in width and/or length to effect a flexible trade-off between treatment speed, accuracy, and uniformity....	09/30/2010
20100238942	LOOKUP ENGINE WITH PROGRAMMABLE MEMORY TOPOLOGY An architecture for a specialized electronic computer for high-speed data lookup employs a set of tiles each with independent processors and lookup memory portions. The tiles may be programmed to interconnect to form different memory topologies optimized for the particu...	09/23/2010
20100228125	Method and Apparatus for Acoustoelastic Extraction of Strain and Material Properties An ultrasound machine processes ultrasonic data according to acoustoelastic properties of the materials to obtain strain information without specific assumptions with respect to the material properties of the measured material or a variety of different material properti...	09/09/2010
20100222679	METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSESSING RISK OF PRETERM DELIVERY An apparatus for assessing the risk of preterm delivery and the success of induction of labor at term uses a steered ultrasound beam to assess microstructure of the cervix revealed by backscatter power attenuation at a range of angles. It is believed that objective and ...	09/02/2010
20100210963	Method for assessing anesthetization An evaluation of consciousness during the application of anesthetic evaluates causal propagation of neural activity in response to a localized stimulus, for example, by transcranial magnetic stimulation. A longer duration of invoked activity and a greater spatial disper...	08/19/2010
20100189220	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZATION OF A RADIATION THERAPY PLAN IN THE PRESENCE OF MOTION A computer-implemented method for optimizing a radiation treatment plan for a radiotherapy machine providing independently controlled radiation along a plurality of rays j directed toward a patient and configured to account for the effects of patient motion. The method ...	07/29/2010
20100176309	ION RADIATION THERAPY SYSTEM WITH ROCKING GANTRY MOTION A radiation therapy system for heavy ions employs a rocking motion of a fan beam used to treat the patient, the fan beam having individually modulated beamlets, the rocking limited in angular extent to provide improved conformance of the dose to a tumor while shielding ...	07/15/2010
20100153077	Method And System For Analysis And Shape Optimization Of Physical Structures Using A Computerized Algebraic Dual Representation Implicit Dimensional Reduction A method and system for simulating and analyzing the behavior of a structural component of a computerized model in response to a simulated event to determine an optimized shape for the component is disclosed. The shape is optimized using an implicit dimensional reductio...	06/17/2010
20100151564	Biological Work Station A biological work station for culturing and monitoring cells includes a laminar flow bench and an incubator disposed on the bench. The bench includes a work surface adjacent the incubator that allows experiments and other manipulations to be performed within the confine...	06/17/2010
20100148503	Shoelace Tying Device A shoelace tying apparatus allows individuals with limited or no use of one hand to tightly tie footwear with standard shoelaces. The apparatus is lightweight and portable. The apparatus alleviates the need for special shoelaces or shoes, such as those equipped with hoo...	06/17/2010
20100130844	Thin-Film Micro Electrode Array And Method A thin-film microelectrode array tailored for long-term, minimally invasive cortical recording or stimulation and method are provided. The microelectrode array includes a flexible element that is movable between a first contracted configuration and a second expanded con...	05/27/2010
20100129603	RETRO-PERCUSSIVE TECHNIQUE FOR CREATING NANOSCALE HOLES A method of forming extremely small pores in glass or a similar substrate, useful, for example, in patch clamp applications, that employs a backer plate to contain energy of a laser-induced ablation through the front surface of the substrate so as to create a rear surfa...	05/27/2010
20100127716	RADIO-FREQUENCY ION CHANNEL PROBE A patch-clamp system employs a high-frequency characterization of cell wall membranes. Changes in the frequency response of a tank circuit incorporating the cell wall membrane impedance provides highly sensitive and highly time-resolved measurements of ion channel activ...	05/27/2010
20100106018	ULTRASONIC STRAIN IMAGING DEVICE WITH SELECTABLE COST-FUNCTION An elasticity measuring system determines tissue displacement between a pre-deformation and post-deformation image by a matching process using a cost function accepting as its arguments continuity of the tissue motion and correlation of the tissue in making the block ma...	04/29/2010
20100100936	Secure Wireless Network Using Radiometric Signatures A network security system for wireless devices derives a fingerprint from the modulation imperfections of the analog circuitry of the wireless transceivers. These fingerprints may be compared to templates obtained when the wireless devices are initially commissioned in ...	04/22/2010
20100098138	Method And Apparatus For Improving Energy Efficiency Of Mobile Devices Through Energy Profiling Based Rate Adaptation Improved battery life for mobile wireless devices communicating using standard network protocols is obtained by measuring an energy profile of the transmitter circuitry with respect to transmission rate and transmission energy and adjusting operating conditions accordin...	04/22/2010
20100080183	System And Method For Interference Mitigation In Wireless Networks A computer-implemented method for scheduling a packet for transmission in a wireless local area network can be used to account for hidden and/or exposed terminals. The method includes determining whether the packet is to be transmitted to a computing device through a wi...	04/01/2010
20100079372	KEYBOARD SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING IMPROVED ACCESS TO AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE An interface system and method are provided for facilitating cross-disability access to an electronic device. A first screen of a plurality of screens is displayed on the electronic device. Each screen includes at least one of a non-input element and an input element. T...	04/01/2010
20100071063	SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF SPYWARE An automatic system for spyware detection and signature generation compares packets of output from a computer in response to standard user inputs, to packets of a standard output set derived from a known clean machine. Differences between these two packet sets are analy...	03/18/2010
20100070740	System and Method for Dynamic Dependence-Based Parallel Execution of Computer Software A method of dynamic parallelization in a multi-processor identifies potentially independent computational operations, such as functions and methods, with a serializer that assigns a computational operation to a serialization set and a processor based on assessment of th...	03/18/2010
20100067546	Method And Apparatus To Vary The Transmission Bit Rate Within Individual Wireless Packets Through Multi-Rate Packetization A transceiver for wireless data transmission provides for variable bit rates within a packet (intra-packet rate changes) to provide a high-speed adaptation to variations in link quality useful for continuous mobility applications. Intra-packet rate variations may be obt...	03/18/2010
20100067535	Packet Router Having Improved Packet Classification A computer-implemented method for classifying received packets using a hardware cache of evolving rules and a software cache having an original rule set. The method including receiving a packet, processing the received packet through a hardware-based packet classifier h...	03/18/2010
20100066454	HIGH-POWER COMMON-BASE AMPLIFIER EMPLOYING CURRENT SOURCE OUTPUT BIAS A common-base amplifier for a bipolar junction transistor or a heterojunction bipolar transistor employs an active current source output biasing to provide for improved power output in a power saturation region providing increased power for a given transistor area such ...	03/18/2010
20100063402	IMAGING SPECTROMETER FOR EARLY DETECTION OF SKIN CANCER An imaging spectrometer provides substantially simultaneous areal spectroscopy and image generation to provide improved analysis of possible skin cancer....	03/11/2010
20100031607	Splice System for Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Rebars A splice assembly and corresponding system for connecting multiple fiber-reinforced polymer rebars include a polymeric tube that is externally covered by a reinforcing layer to control radial expansion of grout within the polymeric tube and of the polymeric tube itself,...	02/11/2010
20100030198	DRUG DELIVERY PLATFORM UTILIZING HYDROGEL PUMPING MECHANISM A drug delivery platform is provided for delivering a controlled infusion of a drug to an individual. The drug delivery platform includes a reservoir for receiving the drug therein and a pressure source engageable with the reservoir. The pressure source is movable betwe...	02/04/2010
20100030156	DRUG DELIVERY PLATFORM INCORPORATING HYDROGEL PUMPING MECHANISM WITH GUIDED FLUID FLOW A drug delivery platform is provided for delivering a controlled infusion of a drug to an individual. The drug delivery platform includes a reservoir for receiving the drug therein and a hydrogel engageable with the reservoir. The hydrogel is movable between a first con...	02/04/2010
20100019167	FAN BEAM MODULATOR FOR ION BEAMS PROVIDING CONTINUOUS INTENSITY MODULATION An intensity modulator for controlling the intensity of ions, such as protons, controllably block a portion of sub-areas of an area beam to control the average intensity within that sub-area. A fan beam is then created by a focusing process that reforms the area beam wh...	01/28/2010
20100012479	Mechanism for Direct-Water-Splitting Via Piezoelectrochemical Effect A mechanism of initiating a redox reaction, such as hydrogen gas production by direct-water-splitting, is provided in which a piezoelectric material is mechanically stressed by actively applying a mechanical stress to the material. The mechanical stress applied to the p...	01/21/2010

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