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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7530473 | Thermal separating door in a vending machine A machine for vending articles, the machine including a housing, a storage area disposed within the housing and having a thermal barrier which separates the storage area from the remainder of the interior of the housing, a dispensing area having an access port dispo... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7414830 | Device having a slidable cover The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for providing an image in conjunction with a protective cover panel for a device, which device includes a component which can benefit from protection by the cover panel. The cover panel is moveable with respect... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7389916 | Method and apparatus for controlling rented or leased or loaned equipment A method and apparatus relating to the renting, leasing and/or loaning of electronic equipment operable and/or controllable by a computer, wherein one entity not in physical possession and/or control of the equipment desires control over another entity which has phy... | 06/24/2008 |
| D570901 | Bridge calculator with keypad | 06/10/2008 |
| 7334701 | Article storage magazine for an article handling device An article handling apparatus having an article storage area (215) includes a movable storage structure (219). The movable storage structure (219) has a bin segment guidance structure to form a plurality of axially aligned article storage column... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7251546 | Programming presets in a vending machine A vending machine apparatus comprising a housing defining an internal cavity and an article storage area where predetermined groups of stored articles are located at predetermined positions within the housing. An article retrieval device is associated with the housi... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7240805 | Quick release for article handling mechanism An article dispensing apparatus, such as a vending machine (10), includes a controllably positioned suction hose dispenser (220) for retrieving articles (223) from a storage area (215). In one embodiment, a quick release device (500 | 07/10/2007 |
| D538327 | Bridge calculator | 03/13/2007 |
| 7159410 | Thermal barrier for a refrigerated compartment in a vending machine A vending machine apparatus comprising a housing defining an internal cavity and an article storage compartment positioned inside the cavity. The article storage compartment has a cooling unit associated therewith for cooling the article storage compartment. The art... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7137530 | Method and apparatus for positioning an article handling device An article handling apparatus embodied, for example, as a vending machine, includes a controllably positioned hose-type dispenser for retrieving articles from an article storage area. A first end of the hose receives article securing energy (e.g., suction), and a se... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7063232 | Method and apparatus for storing articles for use with an article handling device An article storage container, comprising a bin for storing in an a columnar manner, articles to be dispensed from a dispensing end of the bin. A plurality of article supporting intrusions positioned in a spaced manner along at least a portion of the length of the bi... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7044332 | Product contact sensor for an article handler A product contact sensor of the type shown and described herein. ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7044330 | Vending machine The present invention relates generally to improvements in article dispensing, such as in a vending machine, and more particularly to improvements in product containment systems which improve product storage capacity, as well as the ease and efficiency of product ha... | 05/16/2006 |
| 6968974 | Linkage apparatus useful in an article handling device An article dispensing apparatus embodied, for example, as a vending machine, including a controllably positioned suction hose dispenser for retrieving articles from a storage area. In one embodiment, an airflow control mechanism, i.e., a vacuum or suction release (i... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6942122 | Quick release for article handling mechanism An article dispensing apparatus, such as a vending machine (10), includes a controllably positioned suction hose dispenser (220) for retrieving articles (223) from a storage area (215). In one embodiment, a quick release device (500 | 09/13/2005 |
| 6917853 | Method and apparatus for controlling rented or leased or loaned equipment A method and apparatus relating to the renting, leasing and/or loaning of electronic equipment operable and/or controllable by a computer, wherein one entity not in physical possession and/or control of the equipment desires control over another entity which has phy... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6135952 | Adaptive filtering of physiological signals using a modeled synthetic reference signal An adaptive filtering method and apparatus for reducing the level of an undesired noise component in an acquired physiological signal having a desired signal component. The acquired physiological signal is applied to one input of the adaptive filter, and ... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6130930 | Exact region of interest cone beam imaging without circle scans A scanning and data acquisition method and apparatus for three dimensional (3D) computerized tomography (CT) imaging of an ROI in an object, wherein data is calculated on a plurality of line segments L formed in cone beam projection data acquired on a det... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6105218 | Snap-type fastening device A fastener comprising first and second separable members, for engaging an elongate element. Each member includes first and second complementary shaped partial-cylindrical portions formed on a facing side thereof. The first and second partial-cylindrical p... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6084937 | Adaptive mask boundary correction in a cone beam imaging system A method and apparatus for three dimensional (3D) computerized tomographic (CT) imaging of a region-of-interest (ROI) in an object, wherein image reconstruction processing is applied to a plurality of sets of 2D cone beam projection data, each set being a... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6078638 | Pixel grouping for filtering cone beam detector data during 3D image reconstruction A method and apparatus for three dimensional (3D) computerized tomographic (CT) imaging of a region-of-interest (ROI) in an object, wherein image reconstruction processing is applied to a plurality of sets of pixels of 2D image data, each set being acquir... | 06/20/2000 |
| 6063999 | Surface mount spring gasket and EMI enclosure A method and apparatus for creating an electrically conductive path between ground conductors on a printed circuit board (PCB) and downwardly facing walls of an electromagnetic interference (EMI) housing, uses surface mountable conductive spring-like stri... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6018561 | Mask boundary correction in a cone beam imaging system using simplified filtered backprojection image reconstruction A scanning and data acquisition method and apparatus for three dimensional (3D) computerized tomographic (CT) imaging of a region-of-interest (ROI) in an object, wherein image reconstruction processing is applied to a plurality of sets of 2D cone beam pro... | 01/25/2000 |
| 6009142 | Practical cone beam image reconstruction using local regions-of-interest A method and apparatus of operating a CT imaging apparatus having a cone beam radiation source and a 2D detector arrangement, for exactly reconstructing an image of a 3D region of interest (ROI) in an object. Measurement data acquired by the 2D detector i... | 12/28/1999 |
| 5982916 | Method and apparatus for automatically locating a region of interest in a radiograph A method for automatically locating a desired region of interest (ROI) in an original digital image involving the use of histograms to determine a threshold that is used to generate a mask to detect the ROIs. Digital image intensity data is obtained and a... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5971930 | Method and apparatus for removing artifact from physiological signals A heart rate value determined from a first physiological signal that is acquired independently from a second physiological signal, is used to control a band pass filter for controllably bandpass filtering the second physiological signal. In a system havin... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5970111 | Fast and efficient multiprocessor implementation for exact for an exact cone beam image reconstruction A computed tomographic imaging apparatus performs three-dimensional (3D) image reconstruction of a region of interest of an object using a plurality of processors for processing successive sets of cone beam measurement data that are acquired by scanning a... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5967981 | Time series prediction for event triggering Delays in event detection in time-varying data can be reduced by predicting the time-varying data and then detecting the event in the predicted data. This finds application in the triggering of medical imaging devices, where physiological events can be de... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5960055 | Fast cone beam image reconstruction using a detector weight list A method and apparatus are provided for three dimensional computerized tomographic imaging of an object, wherein cone beam energy from a cone beam source is applied to at least a portion of an object to be imaged by causing relative rotational motion betw... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5947909 | Neural network polymorphic QRS detector A large universe of signals can be rapidly examined for a specific phenomenon by searching for a morphology representative of a subgroup of the universe. A detector for each such representative morphology is arranged in parallel to examine a signal input ... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5936539 | Method and apparatus for automatic configuration of a network node A monitor system of the type including at least one portable patient monitor for acquiring, processing and transferring patient data monitored from a patient, the system being distributed over at least two geographically separate patient monitoring areas ... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5914991 | Syncronizing a data acquisition device with a host Apparatus for synchronizing a reference clock signal received from a host system with an A/D converter clock signal generated in a data acquisition pod. The pod includes a decoder responsive to communication received from the host for extracting a host re... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5901195 | Two-step radon inversion processing for $c;-planes having local radon origins A two-step 3D Radon inversion processor for processing Radon data on a set of vertically oriented co-axial $c;-planes that partition Radon space, wherein each of the $c;-planes is sampled during the processing so as to have its own independent local... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5901196 | Reduction of hitlist size in spiral cone beam CT by use of local radon origins A method and apparatus for reconstructing an image of an object using a three dimensional (3D) computerized tomographic (CT) imager having a cone beam radiation source and detector arrangement for acquiring measurement data. The source and detector arrang... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5896463 | Method and apparatus for automatically locating a region of interest in a radiograph A method and apparatus for automatically locating a desired region of interest (ROI) in an original digital image having a plurality of pixel intensity values, comprising: (a) obtaining digital image intensity data representative of an original digital im... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5881123 | Simplified cone beam image reconstruction using 3D backprojection A scanning and data acquisition method and apparatus for three dimensional (3D) computerized tomography (CT) imaging of a region-of-interest (ROI) in an object, wherein image reconstruction processing is applied to a plurality of sets of cone beam project... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5878103 | Adaptive detector masking for speed-up of cone beam reconstruction A scanning and data acquisition technique for three dimensional (3D) computerized tomographic (CT) imaging of an object, wherein scanning at a plurality of positions along a source scanning trajectory causes an area detector to acquire cone beam projectio... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5871451 | Apparatus and method for providing dual output signals in a telemetry transmitter Telemetry transmitting apparatus and a method are provided for reception and transmission of heart related electrical signals, such as electrocardiogram (EKG) and/or cardiac pacemaker signals, from a plurality of electrodes coupled to the body of a medica... | 02/16/1999 |
| 5862198 | Pre-calculated hitlist for reducing run-time processing of an exact cone beam reconstruction algorithm A method and apparatus for reconstructing an image of an object using a three dimensional (3D) computerized tomographic (CT) imager having a cone beam radiation source and detector arrangement for acquiring measurement data. Before the acquisition of meas... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5832490 | Lossless data compression technique that also facilitates signal analysis A data compression method and apparatus for processing a stream of original data samples to produce a compressed data stream that comprises both compressed and not-compressed data samples. The technique includes a data compression means for applying a dat... | 11/03/1998 |