Did You Know...
...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 |
| 8173926 | Electrical switching device with a thermal release The invention describes an arc-quenching arrangement for an electrical service switching device, with a fixed contact piece, a movable contact piece, with an arc splitter stack having arc splitter plates, each arc splitter plate having a cutout which is open towards... | 05/08/2012 |
| D648855 | Imaging system | 11/15/2011 |
| 7782059 | Bandwidth expansion in magnetic resonance A magnetic resonance imaging system includes a primary magnet and a secondary magnet operable to produce magnetic fields within a sample being imaged. The MRI system further includes at least one RF coil that is operable to receive electromagnetic frequencies from t... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7777491 | Magnetic resonance coil system A magnetic resonance coil system 18 allows for the use of modular components and which in one embodiment is particularly well-suited for use with small animals and includes an animal receiving apparatus 202, a transmit coil module 204, and a rec... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7759935 | Apparatus and method for cryogenically cooling a coil on a magnetic resonance imaging system A magnetic resonance imaging system (10) includes a primary magnet and a secondary magnet operable to produce magnetic fields within a sample being imaged. The MRI system further includes at least one RF coil (50) that is operable to receive electromag... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7750815 | Portable monitoring apparatus with over the air programming and sampling volume collection cavity A portable monitoring apparatus includes a bracelet having a housing and a strap for connecting the bracelet with a body part of a person being monitored, and an electronic monitoring circuit disposed in the housing. The electronic monitoring circuit executes an exe... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7506081 | System and method of maintaining high bandwidth requirement of a data pipe from low bandwidth memories A Network Processor includes a Fat Pipe Port and a memory sub-system that provides sufficient data to satisfy the Bandwidth requirements of the Fat Pipe Port. The memory sub-system includes a plurality of DDR DRAMs controlled so that data is extracted from one DDR D... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7461182 | Setting device program and method for setting a memory control A program for a setting device for setting a memory control device which, in part, acquires memory attribute information indicating an attribute of the memory module, a data transfer rate setting value as a rate of an upper limit value of a data transfer rate relati... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7412546 | System method structure in network processor that indicates last data buffer of frame packet by last flag bit that is either in first or second position A method and structure for determining when a frame of information comprised of one or more buffers of data being transmitted in a network processor has completed transmission is provided. The network processor includes several control blocks, one for each data buff... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7406080 | Method and structure for enqueuing data packets for processing A method and structure is provided for buffering data packets having a header and a remainder in a network processor system. The network processor system has a processor on a chip and at least one buffer on the chip. Each buffer on the chip is configured to buffer t... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7403527 | Lookups by collisionless direct tables and cams A structure and technique for preventing collisions using a hash table in conjunction with a CAM to identify and prevent collision of binary keys. A portion of the hash value of a binary key, which does not collide with a portion of the hash value of any other refer... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7402254 | Method and structure for producing Z-axis interconnection assembly of printed wiring board elements A method of forming a core for and forming a composite wiring board. The core has an electrically conductive coating on at least one face of a dielectric substrate. At least one opening is formed through the substrate extending from one face to the other and through... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7386324 | System and method for dual path terminal connection For communication between a display device and a processing apparatus (host), two connection modes are prepared, a wired connection mode, for communication along a wired connection path, and a wireless connection mode, for communication along a wireless connection p... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7380246 | Method and system of accessing at least one target file in a computer system with an operating system with file locking implemented with byte-range locking The present invention provides a method and system of accessing at least one target file in a computer system with an operating system with file locking implemented with byte-range locking. In an exemplary embodiment, the method and system include obtaining a set of... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7378848 | Magnetic resonance coil system A magnetic resonance coil system 18 allows for the use of modular components and which in one embodiment is particularly well-suited for use with small animals and includes an animal receiving apparatus 202, a transmit coil module 204, and a rec... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7360035 | Atomic read/write support in a multi-module memory configuration Efficient transfer of data to and from random access memory is described. Multiple request sources and a memory system comprise memory modules having memory banks, each bank containing rows of data. The retrieval comprises transferring all data pursuant to a given r... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7336667 | Apparatus, method and program product to generate and use CRC in communications network The CRC for the CPS Header of an ATM AAL2 cell is generated by a CRC generator which uses the 8 bits of the CID field to generate partial 5 bits CRCs which are loaded in a first table. The 6 bits LI field and 5 bits UUI field are added to the partial 5 bits CRC to f... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7328333 | Apparatus, method and program product for selectively starting one of a plurality of operating systems and secondary storage according to whether or not a predetermined peripheral is connected to the system A computer system which includes a CPU for performing various processes by program control and storage elements which store at least one operating system and a BIOS, wherein upon starting a system, the CPU recognizes the system's own hardware configuration, and star... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7311203 | Geometrically-configured flexible packaging assembly A packaging apparatus comprising a pulp-based composition that provides protection to an equipment component (or other fragile or breakable item), provides ease in use during pre-packing and packing of an equipment component for transport, does not require the need ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7308585 | Low power residual remaining power indicator Provided is an information processing apparatus that performs a desired process by a user while preserving a low consumption power state. The information processing apparatus comprises an electric power button for starting operation of an operating system when recei... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7283530 | Apparatus and method to coordinate calendar searches in a network scheduler A system that indicates which frame should next be removed by a scheduler from flow queues within a network device, such as a router, network processor, and like devices is disclosed. The system includes a search engine that searches a set of calendars under the con... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7272522 | Method and systems for optimizing high-speed signal transmission A method and systems for automatically adjusting the parameters of signal emitter in a synchronous high-speed transmission system, is disclosed. According to the method of the invention, the quality of a high-speed received signal is analyzed for a plurality of sets... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7239511 | Toolless hand actuated device receiver for retaining a device in a computer A computer system having an opening configured to accept a device, the device assembly including at least one engagement surface. 3The computer system comprises a locking mechanism disposed in the opening to releasably latch the device assembly in the opening at a p... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7181634 | Apparatus for switching between a combination of operating modes such that the power consumed is reduced relative to the time of switching An information processor having a plurality of operating modes differing in power consumption and capable of changing the operating mode according to the amount of processing has periodic switching detection means of performing detection as to whether the informatio... | 02/20/2007 |
