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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7941292 | Associating observations in a multi-sensor system using an adaptive gate value In one aspect, a method to assign observations includes receiving first observations of a first sensor system, receiving second observations of a second sensor system and assigning a set of pairs of the first and second observations predicted to correspond to the sa... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7937813 | Clip A bistable clip suitable for clipping sheaves of paper, made from sheet metal with at least one hole in its upper surface (3), which toggles between a stable open position (for putting papers in or taking papers out) and a stable closed position (for gripping... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7937481 | System and methods for enterprise path management Systems and methods are provided for disabling a device in an enterprise storage system. In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving information identifying a device in a storage area network that is scheduled for an outage. The method further determines one or ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936164 | Folding current sensor The invention provides a current sensor that may be folded over a conductor without the need to sever the conductor or thread the conductor through the current sensor. In one embodiment, the current sensor includes an outer body having a first folding portion and a ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936144 | Self-calibration algorithms in a small motor driver IC with an integrated position sensor A motion control device for controlling a motor is presented. The motion control device is operable to scale or adjust an input relative to an input range that is based on calibration values and to use that scaled input to produce a drive signal to drive the motor. ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936029 | Hall effect element having a hall plate with a perimeter having indented regions A Hall effect element includes a Hall plate with an outer perimeter. The outer perimeter includes four corner regions, each tangential to two sides of a square outer boundary associated with the Hall plate, and each extending along two sides of the square outer boun... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934262 | Methods and apparatus for virus detection using journal data Method and apparatus for detecting viruses in a continuous data protection system using by scanning journal data. In an exemplary embodiment, a system stores journal data, receiving a virus signature update containing a first new virus signature, scanning the journa... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933019 | Surface plasmon resonance sensor using rotating mirror Disclosed is a surface plasmon resonance sensor having a rotating mirror, including (a) an incident light source unit for oscillating a laser as incident light; (b) a polarizer for polarizing the incident light; (c) a rotating mirror having cylindrical or planar sha... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7928808 | Selectable local oscillator A selectable local oscillator provides an output frequency signal having a selectable frequency within a desired output frequency range. The selectable local oscillator comprises first, second and third signal generators configured to provide first, second and third... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7927102 | Simulation devices and systems for rocket propelled grenades and other weapons A rocket propelled grenade (RPG) simulation device usable with a laser detector is provided. The RPG simulation device comprises a laser transmitter, a switch, a controller, and a housing. The laser transmitter is capable of directing a laser signal to the laser det... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7926269 | Method for controlling a dynamic system A method for providing a controlled force to a dynamic system includes applying a force to a first actuator, transmitting the force from the first actuator to a second actuator through a closed fluid path containing a captured volume of fluid, and providing, via the... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7923996 | Magnetic field sensor with automatic sensitivity adjustment Magnetic field sensors have a magnetic field sensing element and also a feedback circuit to provide a gain-adjustment signal to affect a sensitivity associated with the magnetic field sensing element. In some arrangements, the feedback circuit can include piezoresis... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7922491 | Methods and apparatus to provide training against improvised explosive devices In one embodiment, an explosive device (IED) simulator usable with a laser detector is provided, the IED simulator comprising a laser transmitter and a first switch. The laser transmitter is capable of directing a laser signal to the laser detector, the laser signal... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7919927 | Circuit having EMI and current leakage to ground control circuit A resonant circuit includes a feedback path for a feedback signal extending from a load terminal to an input terminal so that a potential of the load substantially tracks a potential of the input terminals. A resonant circuit extends from a load to a line terminal s... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7918910 | Unit for eliminating particles and apparatus for transferring a substrate having the same In an apparatus for transferring a substrate, a partition wall is disposed in a vertical direction in a housing to divide an interior space of the housing into a first space and a second space. A pressure generating member divides the first space into an upper space... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7911203 | Sensor having an analog processing module to generate a linear position output A sensor having a signal generation module including a first magnetic sensor, an analog signal processing module, and a signal inversion module for inverting a first waveform and a second waveform, wherein the signal inversion module outputs the first and second wav... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7908515 | Methods and apparatus for action regulation for continuous data replication systems Methods and apparatus for a continuous data protection system including replication and journaling, to detect a first problem, react to the first problem, recover from the first problem, determine whether to enter a regulation state due to repetition of the first pr... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7908040 | System and method for automated search by distributed elements A system and method for decentralized cooperative control of a team of agents for geographic and other search tasks. The approach is behavior-based and uses probability particle approach to the search problem. Agents are attracted to probability distributions in the... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7904681 | Methods and systems for migrating data with minimal disruption Methods and systems are disclosed that enable data migration from a source logical volume to a target logical volume in signal communication with the source logical volume with minimal disruption to the accessibility of that data. The coherency of data on the source... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7900189 | Computer program generating In one aspect, a method to generate executable instructions includes incorporating tacit knowledge into an artifact and actively linking electronically the artifact to at least one other artifact of a system. The artifact and the at least one other artifact form a m... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7896126 | Methods and apparatus for sound suppression Methods and apparatus for providing a sound suppressor device including a first plate, a second plate in opposition to the first plate, and a connector between the first and second plates such that the first plate, the second plate, and the connector define a sealed... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7892881 | Fabricating a device with a diamond layer In one aspect, a method includes forming a silicon dioxide layer on a surface of a diamond layer disposed on a gallium nitride (GaN)-type layer. The method also includes etching the silicon dioxide layer to form a pattern. The method further includes etching portion... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7890797 | Vehicle including a processor system having fault tolerance A vehicle includes a high assurance processing system including a plurality of data processors coupled in parallel, a bridge coupled to the input/output processor, and an input/output processor coupled to the bridge for coupling to a sensor and an effector. Sensor d... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7890664 | Methods and apparatus for non-disruptive upgrade by redirecting I/O operations Methods and apparatus for non-disruptive upgrade by redirecting I/O operations. With this arrangement, a driver upgrade does not require restarting an application. In one embodiment, a method includes installing on a computer a legacy upgrade module in a kernel havi... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7889519 | Methods and apparatus for a resonant converter Methods and apparatus for a dc-dc converter for operating at substantially fixed switching frequency, the converter including a rectifier, and a resonant inverter coupled to the rectifier, the resonant inverter including a switch and a reactive network having first,... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7888171 | Fabricating a gallium nitride layer with diamond layers In one aspect, a method includes fabricating a gallium nitride (GaN) layer with a first diamond layer having a first thermal conductivity and a second diamond layer having a second thermal conductivity greater than the first thermal conductivity. The fabricating inc... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7886957 | Method of bonding probes and method of manufacturing a probe card using the same In a method of manufacturing bonding probes, bump layer patterns are formed on terminals of a multi-layered substrate. A first wetting layer pattern having a wettability with respect to a solder paste, and a non-wetting layer pattern having a non-wettability with re... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7884373 | Gallium nitride layer with diamond layers In one aspect, a method includes fabricating a gallium nitride (GaN) layer with a first diamond layer having a first thermal conductivity and a second diamond layer having a second thermal conductivity greater than the first thermal conductivity. The fabricating inc... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7882286 | Synchronizing volumes for replication In one aspect, a method to perform synchronization in a network-based system includes notifying a source side appliance that I/O data is going to be written to a source side storage and a target side appliance, waiting for an acknowledgement that the notification wa... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7881689 | Vehicle radar sensor assembly A radar electronics module includes a support structure having a first surface having a plurality of recesses with a transmitter circuit board and a receiver circuit board disposed thereon. The transmitter and receiver circuit boards are disposed over the first surf... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7880671 | Electromagnetic (EM) solver using a shooting bouncing ray (SBR) technique In one aspect, a system to generate radar signatures for multiple objects in real-time includes a first module including at least one processor to perform a shooting and bouncing (SBR) technique to solve for physical optics and multi-bounce characteristics of the ob... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7880667 | Methods and apparatus for using interferometry to prevent spoofing of ADS-B targets Methods and apparatus for preventing spoofing of targets, such as aircraft, in an air traffic control system. In one embodiment, first and second antennas at respective ground stations can be used to receive a signal transmitted by an aircraft from which a phase sig... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7849361 | Methods and apparatus for multiple point in time data access Method and apparatus for data access, including for a host device designated as Device A within a host computer, the host device corresponding to a first logical storage unit designated as LUN A, where LUN A is configured to access data directly from a physical stor... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7875195 | Thick porous anodic alumina films and nanowire arrays grown on a solid substrate The presently disclosed invention provides for the fabrication of porous anodic alumina (PAA) films on a wide variety of substrates. The substrate comprises a wafer layer and may further include an adhesion layer deposited on the wafer layer. An anodic alumina templ... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7872669 | Photo-based mobile deixis system and related techniques A mobile deixis device includes a camera to capture an image and a wireless handheld device, coupled to the camera and to a wireless network, to communicate the image with existing databases to find similar images. The mobile deixis device further includes a process... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7869407 | Wireless router and software A broadband wireless network includes intelligent base stations and mobile units. The network includes control means to manage connectivity of the mobile units to the intelligent base stations. Software is provided to control connection of the mobile unit to an inte... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7864388 | Method and apparatus for recoding holographic diffraction gratings A method and apparatus for scanning an input beam of light in a two dimensional pattern; splitting the scanned input beam of light into two output beams of light, each one of the two output beams of light passing along a different path to a common region in a record... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7863665 | Method and structure for reducing cracks in a dielectric layer in contact with metal A method and structure for reducing cracks in a dielectric in contact with a metal structure. The metal structure comprises a first metal layer; a second metal layer disposed on, and in contact with the first metal layer, the second metal layer being stiffer than th... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7862394 | Apparatus having a buoyant structure that resists rotation Apparatus includes a buoyant structure having a central vertical axis when floating in water and having at least one feature to reduce a rotation of the buoyant structure about the central vertical axis when floating in the water. The apparatus further includes an e... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7860836 | Method and apparatus to recover data in a continuous data protection environment using a journal In one aspect, a method to recover data includes annotating metadata entries in a journal to indicate changes by an application to an object stored in a continuous data protection environment. Each entry of the metadata corresponds to one of a unique group of DO str... | 12/28/2010 |
