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...that the x-ray was discovered purely by accident? When German physicist Wilhelm Konrad von Roentgen was experimenting with cathode rays in 1895, he put an activated Crookes tube in a book and went out to lunch. When he returned, he discovered that a key that had also been placed in the book showed up as an image on the developed film!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185150 | Methods and apparatus for line selection in a communication device Embodiments of an apparatus and methods for selecting a communication line from two or more lines on a communication device are described herein. The communication device comprises a display module, an input module, a line selection module, and a communication modul... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182724 | Method of energy distribution and consumption control based on melt quality improvement for plastic injection and extrusion processes A method of improving energy consumption and/or melt quality of injection molding or extrusion machine can include controlling energy input to the melt from screw drive and heat sources. One or more sensors can measure a present value of at least one process paramet... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180522 | 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... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180301 | System and method for encoding and decoding information signals using a priori information A system and method for coding and decoding an information signal sent through a communication system. The system includes: an encoder for encoding the information signal without adding additional information and for sending an encoded information signal; and a soft... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179476 | Systems and methods for synchronizing audio and video data signals Systems and method for synchronizing audio and video signals are described. The audio and video signals are tagged in an encoder. The tagged signals are transmitted across a network. The tagged signals are analyzed to detect phase errors or lip synch errors between ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8173415 | Single cell microinjection using flexible and compliant fluidic channels and electroosmotic dosage control A microinjection device for injecting a target cell with a reagent. The microinjection device includes a flexible substrate; a target supply channel formed in the flexible substrate for receiving the target cell; a reagent supply channel formed in the flexible subst... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171292 | Systems, devices, and methods for securely transmitting a security parameter to a computing device Embodiments of the systems, devices, and methods described herein generally facilitate the secure transmittal of security parameters. In accordance with at least one embodiment, a representation of first data comprising a password is generated at the first computing... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166607 | Upright vacuum cleaner Several embodiments of an upright surface cleaning apparatus are disclosed. The surface cleaning apparatus has a first cyclonic cleaning stage and comprises a surface cleaning head having a dirty fluid inlet. A fluid flow path extends from the dirty fluid inlet to a... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166487 | Application associating based on cryptographic identification As each application is loaded for use by an operating system, a message handling application within the operating system associates the applications with relativity metrics for later use in handling interprocess messages. A cryptographic identifier associated with e... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165224 | Device and method for improved lost frame concealment Various embodiments are described herein that make use of a lost frame concealment method for processing data frames received from transmission over a communications channel. The method involves determining whether a current data frame is a bad frame, performing sou... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160504 | System, method and mobile device for displaying wireless mode indicators Embodiments relate to a mobile device comprising: a processor; a display responsive to the processor; a plurality of wireless communication subsystems responsive to the processor; and a memory. The memory is accessible to the processor and stores program code execut... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156187 | Searching for electronic mail (email) messages with attachments at a wireless communication device A set of email messages is received at a wireless communication device. Each of the email messages has at least one attachment. For each attachment, an indicator of whether any content of the attachment has been presented at the wireless communication device (e.g. d... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8152066 | Method and system for determining support for a memory card Embodiments related to methods and systems for determining support for a memory card, where the memory card is accessible to a card reader and the card reader is in communication with an accessing device. One embodiment relates to a method comprising: a) transmittin... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151407 | Surface cleaning apparatus with enlarged dirt collection chamber A surface cleaning apparatus is disclosed. The surface cleaning apparatus comprises a dirt inlet, a clean air outlet and a fluid flow path extending between the dirt inlet and the clean air outlet. The surface cleaning apparatus further comprises first and second si... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149085 | Coordinated security systems and methods for an electronic device Systems and methods for implementing security features of a mobile electronic device. The mobile electronic device comprises a first security module configured to implement a first security operation and a second security module configured to implement a second secu... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8143949 | Push-pull linear hybrid class H amplifier Several push-pull linear hybrid class H amplifiers are disclosed. A split power rail provides a positive supply rail and a negative supply rail in response to a power supply control voltage. A push-pull amplifier stage is powered by the positive and negative supply ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8143451 | Methods of preparing tertiary carbinamine compounds The present invention relates to a method for the preparation of tertiary carbinamine compounds from diastereoselective allylation and crotylation of N-unsubstituted imines derived from ketones. ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140867 | Specifying a set of forbidden passwords Various embodiments are described for providing password approval on a device. The password approval includes getting the user password, generating at least one symbolically equivalent password and then comparing the at least one symbolically equivalent password wit... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139816 | Acoustic transducer This invention relates to acoustic drivers with stationary and moving coils. Time varying signals are applied to the moving and stationary coils to control the movement of a diaphragm, which produces audible sound. The time varying signals correspond to an input aud... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8136306 | Retractable enclosure A modular retractable enclosure is provided. The retractable enclosure includes moveable bays that telescopically retract inside each other. Each bay is made from two or more vertical framing sections and a plurality of first framing members. Each vertical framing s... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135951 | Automated key management system and method A system and method for automatic key and certificate management is disclosed. In particular, a key store in a base computer contains both new and previously viewed cryptographic keys. In one embodiment, for each new key, if a corresponding certificate matches an ex... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8128826 | Ethanol processing with vapour separation membranes A process for separating vapors, for example for separating water from ethanol, uses a gas separation membrane unit. Permeate from the membrane unit is compressed and may be used for example as heating steam for distillation. The membrane unit may have two or more s... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126508 | Systems and methods for selecting a calling card to be used in placing an outgoing call A system and method for, on a mobile device having a plurality of communication lines on which outgoing calls may be made, providing a user interface for selecting a calling card to be used in making an outgoing call to a desired phone number. The method includes: a... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8119978 | Apparatus and methods for real-time verification of radiation therapy Various embodiments are described herein for an area integrated fluence monitoring sensor that can be used to measure a radiation dose. The sensor comprises at least one Gradient Ion Chamber (GIC) comprising an ion chamber having a volume gradient across a length or... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8118944 | Self-cleaning pill counting device, and cleaning method A pills counting device is provided. It comprises a tray comprising a base member and a trough member. The device also comprises a lid member mounted on the base member and being movable between two extreme positions. The device also comprises at least one port prov... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8104331 | Method and device to extract components contained in a fluid Applicants' teachings relate to a method and device to extract components contained in a fluid. More particularly, the applicants' teachings are directed towards a method and sampling device for quick extraction of targeted components from their in vivo surroundings... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103337 | Weighted gradient method and system for diagnosing disease A method for detecting and diagnosing disease states in a body part is described. The method starts with a preparatory step of modeling the body part as a grid of many finite elements, then calculating an electrical property between two finite elements at which curr... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099759 | System and method for determining a security encoding to be applied to outgoing messages A system and method for determining a security encoding to be applied to a message being sent by a user of a computing device, such as a mobile device, for example. In one broad aspect, the method comprises determining, at the computing device, whether a general mes... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099593 | System and method for retrieving related certificates A system and method for searching and retrieving certificates, which may be used in the processing of encoded messages. In one embodiment, a certificate synchronization application is programmed to perform certificate searches by querying one or more certificate ser... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099592 | System and method for controlling data communications between a server and a client device A system and method for controlling data communications between a server and a client device, such as a mobile device. Embodiments relate generally to a technique where stop data is provided to the client device. This stop data can be transmitted (e.g. by the client... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099078 | System and method for service activation in mobile network billing Embodiments described herein provide a user with the ability to select from a list of available services that can be used on a mobile device. The services include device-based services and device-network based services. The activation, usage tracking and deactivatio... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098127 | Resistor for microwave applications A resistor assembly for use at microwave frequencies, has a substrate with first and second contacts or metalizations at either end of the substrate. A third contact or metallization is provided on one side of the substrate generally in the middle thereof. First and... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8097068 | Method for treating a diamine absorbent stream A diamine absorbent that contains heat stable salts is regenerated using an ion exchange process wherein the concentration of heat stable salts in the feed stream provided to the cation exchange unit is limited. ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8087919 | Injection unit for an injection molding machine An injection drive unit includes a hollow cylindrical casing rotatably supported by a housing, the cylindrical casing having an axis and a front end and a back end spaced apart along the axis; a piston in the cylindrical casing, the piston axially slidable relative ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8084576 | Cancer associated glucose transporter 8 variant The present invention provides the amino acid and nucleic acid sequences of heavy chain and light chain complementarity determining regions of a cancer specific antibody. In addition, the invention provides cancer specific antibodies and immunoconjugates comprising ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8083784 | Photon therapy method and apparatus A system and method of administering photon therapy to a treatment site of a patient are described. The system includes a plurality of treatment modules, each treatment module including a photon emitter, and a case for housing the photon emitter. The case includes l... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8079530 | Method, system and smart card reader for management of access to a smart card The described embodiments relate generally to devices, methods and systems for managing access to a memory card, such as a smart card, by a plurality of accessing devices. Certain embodiments relate to a smart card reader (SCR) for managing concurrent access to a sm... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8078869 | System and method of protecting data on a communication device A system and method of protecting data on a communication device are provided. Data received when the communication device is in a first operational state is encrypted using a first cryptographic key and algorithm. When the communication device is in a second operat... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078867 | System and method for authenticating streamed data A system and method that facilitates the authentication of streamed data received at a device, where authentication information is not distributed over the data stream. One embodiment of a method of authenticating data comprises the steps of: receiving, at the devic... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8076453 | Kinin Breceptor peptide agonists and uses thereof The present invention provides for novel kinin B1 receptors peptide agonists of formula (I) having very good to excellent affinities and selectivity for the B1 receptor, in vitro and in vivo increased resistance to enzymatic degradation, superior pharmaco... | 12/13/2011 |
