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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7928764 | Programmable interconnect network for logic array A programmable interconnect network for an array of logic cells. Said interconnect network has a plurality of switch boxes being connected in a tree structure and providing connections to its logic cells, switch boxes located at the lowest level of the tree structur... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7817992 | Method for updating a personal data file in mobile units of communication networks The invention concerns a method for updating in at least a first mobile communication apparatus (48) of a network, in particular of the GSM type, a personal data file concerning at least a correspondent of the user of the first communication apparatus, said c... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7796001 | Method of forming magnetic blocks and equipment for carrying out that method In forming magnetic blocks, a first permanent magnet may be lowered to the bottom of an upwardly open vessel, the vessel may be already filled or may be then filled with liquid and, while forcefully maintaining the first permanent magnet in that position, further pe... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7788604 | Three state icon for operations A three state icon for a computer is disclosed. The icon prevents inadvertent starting of an operation on a computer. The icon has a first state which conceals a second state. Upon selection of the first state with a computer pointing device (i.e., mouse), the icon ... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7781174 | Proliferation markers in clinical practice and their use for cancer prognosis or diagnosis The invention relates to a method for assessing the proliferative state of cells in a human or non human biological sample, comprising using Chromatin Assembly Factor-1 (CAF-1 in short) subunits as proliferation markers. Application for cancer prognosis or di... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7779018 | Presentation of data using meta-morphing A computer-implemented method for presenting data is disclosed. The method includes determining items in a question that are contained in a predefined list of items and are defined to be measures or dimensions, determining an association based on the determined item... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7776846 | Enhancement of activity and/or duration of action of selected anti-inflammatory steroids for topical or other local application Methods and compositions for enhancing the activity and/or duration of action of soft anti-inflammatory steroids of the haloalkyl 17α-alkoxy-11β-hydroxyandrost-4-en-3-one-17β-carboxylate type and the corresponding Δ1,4 compounds and of anti-inflammato... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7773662 | Synchronizing to symbols received via wireless communications channel Synchronization techniques for reducing the effects of time dispersive wireless communications channels are presented. A synchronization technique for communications over a time dispersive wireless channel includes receiving a signal having at least identical first ... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7769074 | Detecting and synchronizing to frequency hopped packets Methods and systems for detecting and synchronizing to frequency hopped packets are presented. A technique for detecting a transmitter frequency hopping pattern includes receiving a packet of preamble symbols respectively transmitted over multiple frequency sub-band... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7758865 | Circovirus sequences associated with piglet weight loss disease (PWD) The genome sequences and the nucleotide sequences coding for the PWD circovirus polypeptides, such as the circovirus structural and non-structural polypeptides, vectors including the sequences, and cells and animals transformed by the vectors are provided. Methods f... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7722883 | Circovirus sequences associated with piglet weight loss disease (PWD) The genome sequences and the nucleotide sequences coding for the PWD circovirus polypeptides, such as the circovirus structural and non-structural polypeptides, vectors including the sequences, and cells and animals transformed by the vectors are provi... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7595080 | Method for preparing an extract of fruit of containing isoflavone The present invention relates to a method for preparing a Sohporae Fructus extract containing isoflavone. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method for preparing a Sohporae Fructus extract containing isoflavone in high concentration,... | 09/29/2009 |
| D599559 | Packaging | 09/08/2009 |
| 7581712 | Valve A valve (100) includes a body (1) having a valve seat (10) formed therein, a bonnet (2), a diaphragm (3) supporting a valve element (18) abutting against and moving away from the valve seat (10), and an elastic member... | 09/01/2009 |
| D599177 | Pair of corn cob holders | 09/01/2009 |
| 7579096 | Fuel reservoir for fuel cell The fuel reservoir for a fuel cell is a fuel reservoir detachably connected with a fuel cell main body, and it is equipped with a fuel-storing vessel of a tube type for storing a liquid fuel and a fuel discharge part; the fuel discharge part is provided with a valve... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7576262 | Modified gene-silencing RNA and uses thereof Methods and means for efficiently downregulating the expression of any gene of interest in eukaryotic cells and organisms are provided. To this end, the invention provides modified antisense and sense RNA molecules, chimeric genes encoding such modified antisense or... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7563173 | Adjustable length and torque resistant golf shaft An adjustable golf shaft having an upper shaft member, a lower shaft member and an inner rod. The upper shaft member includes an elongated bore therein with an upper bushing fixed within an upper end of the elongated bore therein. The lower shaft member has an elong... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7554005 | Corn root preferential promoters and uses thereof The invention relates to the isolation of promoters from corn capable of directing transcription of an operably linked foreign DNA sequence preferentially, selectively or exclusively in the roots of plants, such as corn plants. The invention also relates to the use ... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7543499 | Vibration detection device for attachment to a wheel and wheel with such a device A device for attachment to a motor vehicle wheel includes an arrangement which, during movement or driving of the motor vehicle, detects vibrations which occur, evaluates the vibrations for an incipient fault state of a wheel bearing of the vehicle wheel, and delive... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7538302 | Induction sealing device and method which may be used for producing packages of pourable food products An induction sealing device which may be used for producing packages of pourable food products by transversely sealing a tube of sheet packaging material having at least one layer of induction heatable material covered with plastic material. The sealing device has: ... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7521243 | Enumeration of white blood cells A sample acquiring device for volumetric enumeration of white blood cells in a blood sample that includes a measurement cavity for receiving a blood sample. The measurement cavity has a predetermined fixed thickness. The sample acquiring device also has a reagent, w... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7521182 | Selection system containing non-antibiotic resistance selection marker A selection system free of antibiotic resistance genes, which is based on the use of an araD gene as a selection marker carried on a vector which is inserted in a bacterial strain deficient of the araD gene. The araD gene from E. coli encodes the L-ribulose-5... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7490333 | Capability-based access control for applications in particular co-operating applications in a chip card The invention relieves an application programmer of the responsibility for managing access rights, by providing application code that is independent of the protection in a chip card. When an application, for example in a docking station, is given access to an object... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7486092 | Apparatus for supporting semiconductor devices during testing An apparatus supports, during a testing operation, a leadframe formed with at least one row of non-singulated semiconductor devices. The apparatus includes a main body and a leadframe support member, and the leadframe support is formed with at least one groove for r... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7454875 | Mechanical locking system for floor panels Floor panels (1, 1′) are provided with a mechanical locking system including a flexible tongue (30) in a sliding groove (40) which during a vertical folding motion is displaced. Moreover, a tongue blank (50), a production method and an ... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7431715 | Absorbent article An absorbent article includes an absorbent core (4) including a fluid storage member (18), a fluid distribution layer (17) and a fluid receiving layer (16). The distribution layer (17) is disposed to extend in the crotch portion ( | 10/07/2008 |
| 7425579 | Methods for inhibiting activity of polyamine transporters A method for inhibiting the activity of a natural polyamine transporter comprising the step of contacting the transporter with an inhibitorily effective amount of a compound of formula (I) or (II): ... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7425115 | Thermal turbomachine A thermal turbomachine is disclosed having at least one row of rotor blades. At least one first rotor blade has a greater radial length than the others and at the blade tip is equipped with a first abrasive layer. At least one rotor blade which has a shorter radial ... | 09/16/2008 |
| D569874 | User interface for computer display | 05/27/2008 |
| D569217 | Handle | 05/20/2008 |
| D568533 | Tray for use in a container | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366388 | Hollow-core optical fiber and method of making same An optical fiber having a cladding region surrounding a core region having an elongate core hole, the inner or outer surface of the core hole having a surface roughness with a spatial period equal to or less than 5 μm by a spectral power below 0.0017 nm2 | 04/29/2008 |
| D566890 | Container | 04/15/2008 |
| D566329 | Container | 04/08/2008 |
| D566278 | X-ray analysis device | 04/08/2008 |
| D564348 | Container | 03/18/2008 |
| D563814 | Scale | 03/11/2008 |
| D563812 | Scale | 03/11/2008 |
| D563813 | Scale | 03/11/2008 |
