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| 8183534 | Scintillating fiber dosimeter array A radiation dosimetry apparatus and method use a scintillating optical fiber array for detecting dose levels. The scintillating optical fiber detectors generate optical energy in response to a predetermined type of radiation, and are coupled to collection optical fi... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8151593 | Embedding method and apparatus for the preparation of frozen section tissue Various embodiments for an apparatus and method for preparing frozen tissue specimens are described. In an exemplary embodiment, the apparatus includes a sample container for receiving an excised tissue sample and embedding material. The sample container includes a ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8146312 | Garage door and a method of making a garage door A garage door or garage door segment is provided, and includes a base structure and a cementitious layer on the exterior face of the base structure. ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8146201 | Surface cleaning apparatus A vacuum cleaner comprises adjacent housings, which contain the filtration and suction fan motor assembly of the vacuum cleaner. ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8128479 | Accumulation of bonus points in a gambling game A dedicated gaming device or an on-line game is described wherein the player first plays a primary game. For certain outcomes of the primary game, the player accumulates a bonus point. The player accumulates the bonus points until a certain number of bonus points ar... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8113424 | System and method for tracking medical products in a two bin per medical product replenishment system The present relates to a system and method for tracking medical products in a two bin per medical product replenishment system. The system and method comprising storing medical product information including lot number and date of receipt, and recording replenishment... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111115 | Method of operation and construction of dual-mode filters, dual band filters, and diplexer/multiplexer devices using half cut dielectric resonators Novel quadruple-mode, dual-mode, and dual-band filters as well multiplexers are presented. A cylindrical dielectric resonator sized appropriately in terms of its diameter D and length L will operate as a quadruple-mode resonator, offering significant size reduction ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8085118 | Inline cross-coupled coaxial cavity filter An inline microwave bandpass filter where cross coupling between non-adjacent resonators is realized by changing the orientation of selected resonators. The microwave bandpass filter includes a cavity and three or more resonators arranged in a row (or inline) in the... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082784 | Rotary meter flexible edge impeller assembly An assembly for use in a rotary positive displacement fluid meter having an inner body wall surface that includes a first impeller having an outer surface located within the rotary positive displacement fluid meter and adapted to be directly driven by a fluid flow. ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8077760 | Digital transponder with real signal channelizer and synthesizer Embodiments disclosed herein relate generally to digital transponders. In one broad aspect, there is provided a digital transponder comprising: (a) an analog to digital converter configured to receive a real analog wideband multi-carrier signal and generate a real d... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8075891 | Antibodies that bind ALS specific epitopes and methods of making The invention relates to an epitope protection assay for use in diagnosis, prognosis and therapeutic intervention in diseases, for example, involving polypeptide aggregation, such as prion infections. The methods of the invention first block accessible polypeptide t... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8072472 | System and method for scaling overlay images A system and method for scaling a composite overlay image, wherein the composite overlay image comprises a plurality of pixels and each pixel comprises at least one color channel and at least one alpha channel, and further wherein at least one pixel of the composite... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068025 | Personal alerting device and method A personal alerting device and method for detecting an approaching sound source includes a sound detector for detecting environmental sounds and for providing an electrical signal to a sound analyzer. The sound signal is analyzed to determine a baseline sound patter... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8041156 | Single-frame and multi-frame image data conversion system and method A system and method for converting between a plurality of single-frame image data objects and a multi-frame image data object. Meta-data attributes common to each single-frame image data object from a source are considered to be shared meta-data attributes and assoc... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8031036 | Dielectric resonator and filter with low permittivity material A resonator cavity for supporting a plurality of resonant modes and filtering electromagnetic energy includes a cavity and a resonator element with a mounting flange. The cavity is defined by a top end wall, a bottom end wall and a sidewall and has a longitudinal ax... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8018597 | Slab waveguide spatial heterodyne spectrometer assembly An optical broadband micro-spectrometer containing an input optical assembly, a group of slab waveguide spatial heterodyne spectrometer (SHS) integrated circuits (ICs), a detection module and a processor for multi-line detection. The input optical assembly applies a... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8018458 | Close-packed uniformly adjacent, multiresolutional overlapping spatial data ordering A method, apparatus, system and data structure is disclosed for mapping of spatial data to linear indexing for efficient computational storage, retrieval, integration, transmission, visual display, analysis, fusion, and modeling. These inventions are based on plane ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8017532 | Quasi-unidirectional fabrics for structural applications, and structural members having same According to one aspect, a fabric for use in structural applications, having a first layer of structural yarns comprising first structural yarns aligned in a first direction, a second layer of structural yarns comprising second structural yarns aligned in a second d... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8005921 | Redundant image storage system and method for PACS using archived flags A redundant image storage system for archiving an image data file within at least two picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), said system including coupled source and destination PACS networks. The source PACS network stores and transmits the image data ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8005790 | Object cloning management system and method A system and method for automatically handling data objects within groupings in a PACS network. Where a data object belonging to one grouping is moved to or copied into another grouping, certain associated data objects will automatically be moved or copied to the ot... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7977314 | Methods and compositions to treat and detect misfolded-SOD1 mediated diseases The invention provides a method for treating a medical condition, disease, or disorder mediated by a misfolded form of superoxide dismutase (SOD) in a subject in need of treatment. The method optionally comprises administering to the subject a composition comprising... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7971998 | Apparatus and method for measuring a displacement within an eye in vivo in situ, and method of assessment The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for measuring a displacement in vivo in situ of an eye, along with a method of assessing of an eye condition. More particularly, the apparatus and method of the present invention permits measurements of a di... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7966850 | Case with securable closure and method A case has a body defining an accommodation such as may be sized to accept a squat cylindrical object such as a magnetic tape, a CD-ROM, a DVD or such like object. The case may include a locking mechanism, and that locking mechanism may be a combination locking mech... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7939061 | Cell and enzyme compositions for modulating bile acids, cholesterol and triglycerides The invention relates to immobilized or encapsulated enzyme and/or cells to lower bile acids and cholesterol. The invention also relates to methods of quantitatively measuring bile acids. The invention provides a composition for decreasing the amount of a target com... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7932085 | Modified leukotoxin gene and protein The present invention provides nucleic acid sequences encoding a modified leukotoxin protein, wherein the modification comprises the removal of nucleic acid sequences encoding amino acids within hydrophobic transmembrane domains of full length leukotoxin protein, pr... | 04/26/2011 |
| D633774 | Door hinge pin | 03/08/2011 |
| 7887803 | Methods and compositions to treat misfolded-SOD1 mediated diseases The invention provides a method for treating a medical condition, disease, or disorder mediated by a misfolded form of superoxide dismutase (SOD) in a subject in need of treatment. The method optionally comprises administering to the subject a composition comprising... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7876865 | System and method for decoding automatic identification system signals Various embodiments are described herein for a system and method of detecting Automatic Identification System (AIS) signals in space and decoding these signals. In one aspect, a system for performing this function is described which includes a receiver configured to... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7874571 | Trailer with four wheel steering and independent suspension A trailer having a frame extending along a longitudinal axis and having a front end and a rear end, a steering linkage coupled to the frame, a pair of front wheel assemblies coupled to the front end of the frame, and a pair of rear wheel assemblies coupled to the re... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7869642 | Window leveling system and method A system and method for determining a predicted window level transformation for image data associated with a loading image based on user selections of window level transformations. A learning image associated with a set of learning context characteristics is display... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7859549 | Comparative image review system and method A comparative review system for displaying views associated with studies on first and second display areas according to a screen layout, a study view mode, and a hanging protocol. The screen layout is used to determine the number of display slots to display in the f... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7857717 | Hockey stick apparatus for stick handling training and methods of stick handling training A hockey stick for training a person in stick handling, having elongate upper stick portion, an elongate lower stick portion, an elongate coupling member, and an elongate middle stick portion. The elongate upper stick portion is configured to be gripped by a control... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7857366 | Removable resilient vehicle protection assembly A removable vehicle protection assembly for installation between first and second edges of a vehicle includes a resilient strip, a first resilient clamping member with a first clamp hook element, and a second hook element. The resilient strip is extendible along its... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7853375 | Vehicle monitor A system and method is disclosed for monitoring a motor vehicle. The system includes a sensor unit for collecting at least one vehicle statistic and a portable device for displaying the vehicle statistics. The portable device requests the vehicle statistics from the... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7849812 | Method and apparatus for automated coating of electrical insulators with a silicone composition The present invention provides an automated continuous coating apparatus for coating industrial components such as porcelain, glass, and polymeric insulators. The apparatus consists of a several stage continuous inline operation. The stages are a cleaning operation,... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7833733 | Methods for detecting and treating cancer Methods and kits for detecting cancer and monitoring cancer progression are described. The method involves analyzing a sample containing nucleic acids or proteins from a patient for decreased expression of endoglycan and/or increased expression of podocalyxin. ... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7817101 | Dual polarized multifilar antenna Various embodiments are described of an antenna including a common ground plane, a first set of N approximately resonant elements with a length I2 and a second set of M approximately resonant elements with a length I1. The first set of N approximately ... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7813594 | Ownership tagging and data assurance of image data system and method A system and method for managing the archival and retention of data in a multiple-node PACS network. Data is distributed among network nodes such that a secondary node will not delete a received image study it has received from a primary node if the primary node is ... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7794692 | Methods and compositions for detecting amyotrophic lateral sclerosis The invention provides binding proteins that bind to misfolded or monomeric SOD1, and not to native homodimeric SOD1. The invention also includes methods of diagnosing, detecting or monitoring amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in a subject. In addition, the invention pr... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7790170 | Modified leukotoxin protein The present invention provides nucleic acid sequences encoding a modified leukotoxin protein, wherein the modification comprises the removal of nucleic acid sequences encoding amino acids within hydrophobic transmembrane domains of full length leukotoxin protein, pr... | 09/07/2010 |
