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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7942864 | Medical device including a catheter providing wound evacuation and medicine dispensing features and related methods A medical device including a catheter having a proximal end portion, a distal end portion, and a medial portion extending therebetween. The proximal end portion may have at least one evacuation lumen extending longitudinally therethrough, and at least one evacuation... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7517258 | Hermetically sealed coaxial type feed-through RF Connector An improved feed-through RF connector uses structural materials with coefficients of thermal expansion selected to enhance the reliability of a hermetic seal. The design of the connector and the selection of materials facilitate easy installation and help avoid cycl... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7516705 | Pallet with strength plates and related methods A pallet includes a cargo layer and a base layer. The base layer includes a pair of spaced apart end deck boards, and a pair of spaced apart connector boards orthogonal to the pair of spaced apart end deck boards, with each connector board and each end deck board ha... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7515944 | Wireless headset having improved RF immunity to RF electromagnetic interference produced from a mobile wireless communications device A wireless headset has improved immunity to RF electromagnetic interference produced from wireless communications devices. A headset body is adapted to be worn by a user and includes a microphone and earpiece. An antenna receives wireless communication signals and p... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7515791 | Phase matched optical grating The invention relates to phase matched optical gratings for performing signal multiplexing and demultiplexing in optical communications networks. In prior art gratings there is a phase linearity error between the grating line and the outputs on the focal line, compa... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7515591 | Primary channel bank-resident mechanism for scheduling downstream data transmissions to ports of multiple channel banks A data transmission scheduler subsystem for a multi-channel bank communication system architecture contains a plurality of ‘per port’ schedulers. Each per port scheduler is resident in the system's primary channel bank, and is operative to controllably cause cus... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7514328 | Method for making a semiconductor device including shallow trench isolation (STI) regions with a superlattice therebetween A method for making a semiconductor device may include forming a plurality of shallow trench isolation (STI) regions in a semiconductor substrate. Further, a plurality of layers may be deposited over the substrate to define respective superlattices over the substrat... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7512306 | Polarization maintaining fiber pigtail assembly The invention provides a fiber pigtail assembly wherein a polarization maintaining fiber is soldered directly to a mounting pad without a sleeve or a ferrule therebetween. A portion of the polarization maintaining fiber near a fiber end is embedded in a vertical slo... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7512303 | Wafer scale method of manufacturing optical waveguide devices and the waveguide devices made thereby The invention relates to a wafer scale process for the manufacture of optical waveguide devices, and particularly for the manufacture of ridge waveguide devices, and the improved waveguides made thereby. The present invention has found a process for achieving sub-mi... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7512197 | System and method for removing interfering narrowband signals from wide bandwidth receive signal In accordance with the present invention, the system and method removes interfering signals from a communications signal and includes a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) circuit for taking the FFT of a received signal and segmenting the signal into segments. A frequency ... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7511452 | Portable electronic device and capacitive charger providing data transfer and associated methods The electronic apparatus includes a portable electronic device and a charger for capacitively charging the portable electronic device when the portable electronic device is temporarily placed adjacent the charger. The portable electronic device includes a device dat... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7509727 | Method of making a transformer A transformer and method of making includes first half primary and secondary windings as metallic circuits that are etched on a metallic cladding of a first liquid crystal polymer (LCP) sheet. Secondary windings are positioned in spaced relation to the primary windi... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7508930 | Technique for independent ground fault detection of multiple twisted pair telephone lines connected to a common electrical power source A method and apparatus detects a ground fault on a span-powered telecommunication wireline within a plurality of span-powered wireline segments, to respective ones of which DSL-Cs are coupled, so that a ground fault may be detected when power is delivered by the DSL... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7508884 | System and method for communicating data using constant amplitude equalized waveform A system communicates data and includes an encoder for encoding communications data with a forward error correction code. A data randomizer randomizes the communications data with a random bit sequence and a combining circuit combines the communications data with kn... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7508815 | Method and system for facilitating network troubleshooting A computer program product is embodied on a computer readable medium for using voice data traffic to reproduce a user experience for facilitating troubleshooting of at least one of a plurality of VoIP stations. The computer program product includes computer-executab... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7508684 | Handheld electronic device including multi-compartment shielding container and associated methods A handheld electronic device may include a portable housing and a shielding container within the portable housing. The shielding container may include a shielding frame and a shielding lid carried thereby. A printed circuit board may be within the shielding containe... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7508334 | Method and apparatus for processing SAR images based on an anisotropic diffusion filtering algorithm A computer system for processing synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images includes a database for storing SAR images to be processed, and a processor for processing a SAR image from the database. The processing includes determining noise in a SAR image to be processed,... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7506220 | Method of de-interleaving interleaved data samples sequences, and associated system A method for de-interleaving S2 received sequences of interleaved received data samples respectively issued from S2 physical channels and to be associated with S1 output transport channels is provided. The S2 received sequences have been ... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7505766 | System for determining conducted radio frequency (RF) receiver sensitivity and related methods A test method for determining conducted radio frequency (RF) receiver sensitivity using an RF source coupled to an RF receiver by an RF cable may include determining a bit error rate (BER) versus traffic channel (TCH) power level function for an initial channel, det... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7505009 | Polarization-diverse antenna array and associated methods The polarization-diverse antenna array includes three orthogonal loop antennas having a common center, e.g. together defining a sphere. Each loop antenna includes a loop electrical conductor. Two signal feedpoints are along the loop electrical conductor and separate... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7504802 | Portable electronic device and capacitive charger therefor and associated methods An electronic apparatus includes a portable electronic device and a charger for capacitively charging the portable electronic device when the portable electronic device is temporarily placed adjacent the charger. The portable electronic device includes a housing, a ... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7504356 | Nanoparticles of cerium oxide having superoxide dismutase activity A synthetic catalyst providing superoxide dismutase activity consists essentially of monodispersed nanoparticles of cerium oxide having a crystal lattice containing cerium in mixed valence states of Ce3+ and Ce4+ wherein the Ce4+ val... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7503449 | Multi-lane fruit guide assembly for a juice extractor and related methods A fruit guide assembly may include a frame to be positioned between a fruit conveyor and a multi-position fruit feeder, a vibrator removably fastened to the frame to be removable therefrom in the upward direction, and a fruit guide body removably fastened to the fra... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7502990 | Method and device for handling write access conflicts in interleaving for high throughput turbo-decoding A device for processing data to be interleaved and stored in target memories includes N interleaving buffers, N producers, and N cells. Each cell includes a register bank of size W, and a delay circuit. The variable M defines a maximum number of concurrent write ope... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7502985 | Method of detecting and correcting errors for a memory and corresponding integrated circuit A method is for detecting and correcting errors for a memory storing at least one code block including information data and control data. The method includes reading and decoding each element of the at least one code block to deliver an information item representati... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7502687 | Vehicle tracker including input/output features and related methods A tracking unit for a vehicle may include a vehicle position determining device, a wireless communications device, and a controller cooperating with the wireless communications device and the vehicle position determining device to determine and send vehicle position... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7502464 | Method of implementing one-to-one binary function and relative hardware device, especially for a Rijndael S-box A method for implementing one-to-one binary functions defined on the Galois field GF(28) is very useful for forming fast and low power hardware devices regardless of the binary function. The method includes decoding an input byte for generating at least o... | 03/10/2009 |
| D586554 | Self-storing carry bag for posters | 02/17/2009 |
| 7486039 | Method for determining the back electromotive force induced in a voice-coil motor driven in discontinuous mode A method to determine a back electromotive force induced in a coil of a voice-coil motor by its motion. The motor is driven in a discontinuous mode by commanding alternating on-phases and off-phases (tristate). A drive current flowing in the coil or a drive voltage ... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7487482 | Method and system for evaluating a constraint of a sequential cell The method evaluates a constraint of a sequential memory cell able to sample an input data item regulated by a clock signal. The constraint is dependent on the ramp of a first signal and on the ramp of a second signal. The method includes a characterization phase in... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7487106 | System and method for managing mobile workers A computer implemented system and method for managing mobile workers in an object oriented programming environment is disclosed. A plurality of target objects that correspond to facilities assets to be worked on by a mobile worker are classified within a database of... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7487046 | Geospatial modeling system for performing filtering operations based upon a sum of differences of a given and neighboring location points and related methods A geospatial modeling system may include a geospatial model database and a processor cooperating therewith for performing at least one noise filtering operation on data comprising elevations associated with respective location points. The at least one noise filterin... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7486241 | Low profile full wavelength meandering antenna A low profile antenna has a meander length based on the full electrical wavelength of the signal being transmitted or received. The antenna can have either an open-loop structure or a closed-loop structure with a matching network. The low profile enables the antenna... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7485174 | Electrostatic Dust Collector An electrostatic dust collector includes a dust charging section and a dust collecting section. The dust charging section includes: a discharge electrode which is made up of a plurality of paralleled discharge wires, and a counter-electrode which is made up of a met... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7463210 | Phased array antenna formed as coupled dipole array segments A phased array antenna includes a substrate that is segmented into a plurality of array tiles. An array of dipole antenna elements is formed on the substrate with each dipole antenna element positioned on a respective one of the array tiles. Each dipole antenna elem... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7459387 | Semiconductor electronic device and method of manufacturing thereof A semiconductor electronic device includes a die of semiconductor material and a support. The die of semiconductor material includes an integrated electronic circuit and a plurality of contact pads associated with the electronic circuit and connected electrically to... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7460083 | Antenna assembly and associated methods such as for receiving multiple signals The antenna assembly is circularly polarized and may be able to receive multiple independent signals. The antenna assembly includes a plurality of electrically conductive layers arranged about an axis to define a series of adjacent corner reflectors (e.g. four to ei... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7457341 | Low loss grating for high efficiency wavelength stabilized high power lasers A low optical loss and high efficiency grating is placed within a broad-area high-power laser diode or single spatial mode laser diode to narrow the spectral width and stabilize the emission wavelength. Several embodiments of grating configurations are presented, to... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7457377 | Device for estimating a sequence of N bits corresponding to a received sequence of M digital data and associated methods A system and method is provided for estimating a sequence of N bits ({circumflex over (x)}0{circumflex over (x)}1 . . . {circumflex over (x)}N−1) corresponding to a received sequence of M digital data (r0r1 . ... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7456756 | Wireless engine monitoring system A wireless engine monitoring system (WEMS) includes an engine monitoring module that is mounted directly on an aircraft engine and records, stores, encrypts and transmits full flight engine data. The system preferably interfaces to the Full Authority Digital Engine ... | 11/25/2008 |
