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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7633629 | Tuning optical cavities A tunable optical cavity can be tuned by relative movement between two reflection surfaces, such as by deforming elastomer spacers connected between mirrors or other light-reflective components that include the reflection surfaces. The optical cavity structure inclu... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7632008 | Ranking fragment types with calorimetry Test and reference groups of samples can be provided and concurrently combined and output signals can be provided. Each sample can have a volume not exceeding approximately 100 microliters, and each group can be provided in a region, such as in a cell of an array ca... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7610686 | Supporting bowsights A device can include a support structure to be supported on a bow and that, through other structures and components, can support a viewing part such as an archery sight. For example, the support structure and a structure movable in an elevation direction can have pa... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7586080 | Producing layered structures with layers that transport charge carriers in which each of a set of channel regions or portions operates as an acceptable switch Layered structures such as photosensing arrays include layers in which charge carriers can be transported. For example, a carrier-transporting substructure that includes a solution processing artifact can transport charge carriers that flow to or from it through cha... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7584580 | Underdeck drainage Drainage under a deck can be performed by a structure that includes hanging components and corrugated panels. For example, a hanging component can have connected first and second portions, with the first portion being connected to hang from one of the joists and ext... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7554673 | Obtaining information about analytes using optical cavity output light While two or more analytes within an optical cavity move relative to an array of photosensing elements, the cavity provides output light that has a position/time varying intensity function that depends on optical characteristics of the analytes and on the relative m... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7547904 | Sensing photon energies emanating from channels or moving objects Photons emanating from a channel in a fluidic structure or from moving objects are sensed using a photosensor array in an integrated circuit. The array includes subrange cells that photosense within respective subranges of a photon energy range. For example, the sub... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7545513 | Encoding optical cavity output light Output light from an optical cavity includes, for each of a set of modes, an intensity function. Analyte can be positioned in the cavity, and a mode's intensity function can be encoded to include information about an optical characteristic of an analyte. For example... | 06/09/2009 |
| 6953035 | Holding and releasing bowstrings A device to hold and release a bowstring includes a part that can be locked, held in position, or caused to move with a user-held portion such as a handle. A back tension release device can, for example, include a handle portion; a release assembly on the handle por... | 10/11/2005 |
| 7529438 | Producing fluidic waveguides Fluidic waveguides have inward surfaces or areas that face each other, separated by a channel region that can be covered. For example, an integrally formed channel component can include two walls parts and a connecting part, with inward surfaces on the wall parts an... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7522811 | Producing sandwich waveguides Complementary surface fabrication processes such as molding, casting, embossing, and so forth, are used to produce articles, structures, or components structured to operate as sandwich waveguides. Resulting complementary surface artifacts include, for example, optic... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7522786 | Transmitting light with photon energy information In detection and sensing, light is transmitted through layers or structures that vary laterally, such as with a constant gradient or a step-like gradient. After transmission, a position of a transmitted portion of the light or of output photons can be used to determ... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7521253 | Method for multiple target assay for drug discovery A method is provided for multiple target screening for drug assays utilizing a nanocalorimeter. The method includes depositing a drop containing a plurality of drug targets and another drop containing a plurality of drug candidates upon a test substrate. The drops a... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7517043 | Fluidic structures Various fluidic techniques can employ ducting structures, such as microstructures, that extend between other components, such as plate-like structures. A ducting structure can, for example, include an inlet opening toward or near one plate-like structure, an outlet ... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7502123 | Obtaining information from optical cavity output light Output light from an optical cavity includes, for each of a set of modes, an intensity function, and a mode's intensity function includes information, such as about an optical characteristic of an analyte or of a region. For example, the intensity function can inclu... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7487737 | Whistle structures Devices that emit sound audible to nearby animals can include a deflection structure or other support structure and, connected to it, at least one whistle structure. The deflection structure can, for example, be a rain guard, an insect deflector, or a rock deflector... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7479625 | Sensing photons from object in channels A fluidic structure includes a channel and along the channel is a series of sensing components to obtain information about objects traveling within the channel, such as droplets or other objects carried by fluid. At least one sensing component includes a set of cell... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7473030 | Thermal sensing In thermal sensing devices, such as for calorimetry, a support layer or central layer can have a thermometer element or other thermal sensor on one side and a thermally conductive structure or component on the other. The thermally conductive structure can conduct te... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7473031 | Resistive thermal sensing Thermal sensors for calorimetry can include vanadium oxide, heavily p-doped amorphous silicon, or other materials with high temperature coefficients of resistivity. Such thermal sensors can have low noise equivalent temperature difference (NETD). For example, a ther... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7471399 | Photosensing optical cavity output light An optical cavity, such as a laser or transmissive cavity, that can contain an analyte provides a different intensity-energy function with analyte present than when absent. The intensity-energy functions can, for example, include respective peaks that are different ... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7433552 | Obtaining analyte information Light, such as from an analyte-wavelength converter or other optical sensor, is propagated to a detector or transmission structure with an entry surface and with output positions such as in an exit surface. For example, the position of light output by such a detecto... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7420677 | Sensing photon energies of optical signals An integrated circuit includes a photosensor array with subrange cells that photosense within respective subranges of an energy range. An optical signal and the array move relative to each other, and, for segments of their relative movement, sets of subrange cells p... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7386199 | Providing light to channels or portions A fluidic structure includes a channel, a portion of which can contain fluid. Light can propagate in the portion, such as in response to illumination. The refractive index of material at the portion's boundary can be higher than that of the fluid, and more than appr... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7370601 | Whistle structures Devices that emit sound audible to nearby animals can include a deflection structure or other support structure and, connected to it, at least one whistle structure. The deflection structure can, for example, be a rain guard, an insect deflector, or a rock deflector... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7358476 | Sensing photons from objects in channels A fluidic structure includes a channel and along the channel is a series of sensing components to obtain information about objects traveling within the channel, such as droplets or other objects carried by fluid. At least one sensing component includes a set of cell... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7315667 | Propagating light to be sensed Light to be sensed is spreaded across an entry surface of a transmission structure with a laterally varying energy transmission function. For example, the light could be output from a stimulus-wavelength converter, provided through an optical fiber, or it could come... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7310358 | Semiconductor lasers Lasers, such as in laser structures, can include two or more semiconductor structures that are substantially identical or that include the same semiconductor material and have substantially the same geometry, such as in closely spaced dual-spot two-beam or quad-spot... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310153 | Using position-sensitive detectors for wavelength determination A chip-size wavelength detector includes a film with laterally varying transmission properties and a position-sensitive detector. The film transmits a different wavelength as a function of lateral position across the film. The position of a spot of light transmitted... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7291824 | Photosensing throughout energy range and in subranges An integrated circuit (IC) includes a photosensor array, some cells of which are reference cells that photosense throughout an application's energy range, while other cells of which are subrange cells that photosense within respective subranges. For example, the sub... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7288327 | Plated structures or components Various structures or components can include plated surfaces or other parts. For example, an article can include a base and a plated part with a limit artifact that results from plating adjacent a non-plateable surface; the limit artifact can be disposed away from t... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7201111 | Boat hulls with planing sections Boat hulls or assemblies have sequences of groups of downward-facing sections such as planing sections. A sequence includes a lowermost group and supplemental groups above it. Each group could, for example, be a pair, and the pairs could be port-starboard symmetrica... | 04/10/2007 |
| 6078936 | Presenting an image on a display as it would be presented by another image output device or on printing circuitry A display has sufficient resolution to present images as they would appear on other types of image output devices, such as types of printers or displays. In response to a user signal indicating a type of image output devices, data defining an image is use... | 06/20/2000 |
| 5111398 | Processing natural language text using autonomous punctuational structure A technique for processing natural language text uses a data structure that includes structure data in the text data. The structure data indicates an autonomous punctuational structure of the text, a punctuational structure that is independent of the lexi... | 05/05/1992 |
| 5107443 | Private regions within a shared workspace In a shared navigable workspace that is presented at more than one workstation, a region is made private in response to a user request. The user can also indicate the region's level of privacy by indicating levels of access of different users. The private... | 04/21/1992 |
| 5088033 | Data processing system emulation in a window with a coprocessor and I/O emulation An emulating data processor includes a host system and an emulating processor with outputs to and inputs from the host system. The emulating processor executes sequences of instructions executable by a PC being emulated, but a host processor independently... | 02/11/1992 |
| 5075896 | Character and phoneme recognition based on probability clustering Prior to character or phoneme recognition, a classifier provides a respective probability list for each of a sequence of sample characters or phonemes, each probability list indicating the respective sample's probability for each character or phoneme type... | 12/24/1991 |
| 5072412 | User interface with multiple workspaces for sharing display system objects Workspaces provided by an object-based user interface appear to share windows and other display objects. Each workspace's data structure includes, for each window in that workspace, a linking data structure called a placement which links to the display sy... | 12/10/1991 |
| 5070478 | Modifying text data to change features in a region of text A text editing system performs operations that result in text with correct punctuation at textual type boundaries. The system's processor executes a text editor, calling punctuator functions to provide appropriate fix-up data defining a sequence of operat... | 12/03/1991 |
| 5062042 | System for managing data which is accessible by file address or disk address via a disk track map An emulating data processor includes a host sytem and an emulating processor with outputs to and inputs from the host system. An input/output processor handles I/O operation requests of the emulating processor, using the host system I/O devices to emulate... | 10/29/1991 |
