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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6626832 | Apparatus and method for detecting the bending of medical invasive tools in medical interventions An apparatus for detecting the bending of a medical invasive tool (2) during its insertion in a body (4, 6) comprises an ultrasound transducer (8), and a position measuring system (29, 22, 26, 28) including position measuring components, and/or articulate... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6577514 | Charge pump with constant boosted output voltage A charge pump regulator for providing a constant boosted voltage at the output of a charge pump includes: 1) a charge pump; 2) a clamping regulator; and 3) a clamping transistor. Certain preferred embodiments further include an auxiliary charge pump that ... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6564018 | Imaging device for digital photography An imaging device and a camera with an imaging device for imaging and digital photography are provided. The imaging device includes an imaging die having an electrical circuit on a surface thereof, a glass cover having a first surface and a second surface... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6556128 | Method for reducing power consumption in wait-mode A method and apparatus for reducing power consumption of a receiver is provided. The receiver may have an identification number and may receive a portion of a hailing message in a non-sequential manner. The portion may comprise a segment of a hailed ident... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6552387 | Non-volatile electrically erasable and programmable semiconductor memory cell utilizing asymmetrical charge trapping An electrically erasable programmable read only memory (EEPROM) having a non conducting charge trapping dielectric, such as silicon nitride, sandwiched between two silicon dioxide layers acting as electrical insulators is disclosed. The invention includes... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6552276 | Board integrated resilient contact elements array and method of fabrication According to some embodiments of the present invention, a connectable electronic component-carrying board is provided. The connectable electronic board comprises at least one resilient conductive element integrally molded onto at least part of a contact o... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6546042 | Cyclic adaptive receivers for DS-CDMA signals In a receiver receiving a signal, the signal including data which is at least modulated by a cyclic sequence, a method for operating the receiver, the method including the steps of receiving a portion of the signal, the portion being modulated by a predet... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6542602 | Telephone call monitoring system A method for monitoring agent telephonic interactions with customers, the method including a) receiving a CTI datum associated with a telephone call between an agent and a party, b) determining whether the telephone call is to be recorded by determining w... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6541454 | Phosphonates, biphosphonates and pharmaceutical compositions containing them A method for treating patients having calcium related disorders includes using di- or tripeptide derivatives of bisphosphonates to enhance oral bioavailability of such compounds.... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6535900 | Accumulation saturation by means of feedback A processor made up of a computation unit, an accumulator unit, a saturation determination unit and a saturation unit. The computation unit operates on one or more operands of W bits. The accumulator unit stores the output of the computation unit, in W bi... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6535434 | Architecture and scheme for a non-strobed read sequence An architecture and method for implementing a non-strobed operation on an array cell within a memory array in which a reference unit is provided for emulating the response of an array cell during a desired operation, for example, a read, program verify, e... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6534748 | Semiconductor purification apparatus and method A method for protecting at least one wafer from contamination, the method including the steps of heating the wafer in an apparatus for semiconductor processing having a reaction core (102), providing a first voltage level to a wafer transfer device (108),... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6532244 | Method and apparatus for providing a uniform beam from a laser-light-source An illumination system includes a multimode diode-laser and two optical fibers. Light from the diode-laser is directed into the first optical fiber having a first core diameter. The light exits the first optical fiber and is directed by an optical system ... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6531128 | Methods for treating glaucoma This invention provides a method for treating a subject with glaucoma by administrating a composition containing an agent or molecule which antagonize, inhibits, inactivates, reduce, suppresses, antagonizes, and/or limits the release, synthesis, or produc... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6514243 | Method and apparatus for electromagnetic treatment of the skin, including hair depilation Apparatus and methods for electromagnetic skin treatment, including the removal of hair. Devices include pulsed light sources such as flashlamps for providing electromagnetic treatment of the skin, including hair removal. The devices and methods provide f... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6511142 | Ink cartridge An ink cartridge is provided which includes a rigid housing and a flexible ink storage bag inserted within the housing. The storage bag, which is connectable to the ink supply line of a printer by a hollow needle, is impenetrable by the needle or similar ... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6509903 | System and method for recording an image A two-stage method for recording a quality enhanced image on a substrate has a preparation and a production stage. In the preparation stage, the digital image file is scanned for adjacent color pairs with different color values. This exhaustive list is pr... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6509835 | Filtering method and circuit particularly useful in doppler motion sensor devices and intrusion detector systems A method of filtering an input signal which includes noise cyclically repeating at a known noise frequency, to substantially remove said noise from the input signal is provided. The method includes sampling the input signal at a frequency corresponding to... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6508762 | Method for monitoring food intake The invention provides a method and a system for dietary control. The method provides information to a person under dietary limitations prior to and during a meal regarding an item positioned before the person in real time. The system includes, in combina... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6501739 | Participant-controlled conference calling system A communications system, which can be used within a conferencing communication system, is provided. The communications system includes at least one communications network, a plurality of communicators connectable to the at least one communications network... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6499506 | Vacuum distribution controller apparatus A vacuum suction force control apparatus is disclosed by way of a duct, having an entrance port and at least one exit port. Flow of suction force is controlled by moving a piston-like plunger inside the duct, connecting the entrance port to one, or simult... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6497873 | Recombinant Rhabdovirus containing a heterologous fusion protein This invention relates to a composition comprising a recombinant or genetically engineered Rhabdovirus that expresses a Fusion Protein, such as the F protein of the Paramyxovirus SV5 strain. This recombinant Rhabdovirus may express other non-Rhabdovirus a... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6497471 | Service station for inkjet printheads A service station system for cleaning printheads, particularly inkjet printheads is provided. The service station includes a body having a seal attached thereto and at least one pressure operated sprayer attached to the body within an area demarcated by t... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6493676 | System and method for charging for vehicle parking A system and method for charging for vehicle parking is provided. The parking system includes a plurality of mobile parking units, each of the mobile parking units having an unique identification for installation in a vehicle and a parking control center ... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6492554 | Selective androgen receptor modulators and methods of use thereof The present invention relates to a novel class of androgen receptor targeting agents (ARTA) which demonstrate androgenic and anabolic activity of a nonsteroidal ligand for the androgen receptor. The agents define a new subclass of compounds which are sele... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6492405 | Nitric oxide donors and pharmaceutical compositions containing them The present invention provides a compound containing at least one sulfhydryl group and at least one NO donor group, wherein said compound is a) a compound containing one or more sulfhydryl groups linked to at least one aromatic ring or a heteroaromatic ri... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6482861 | Irreversible non-steroidal antagonist compound and its use in the treatment of prostate cancer The present invention relates to an antiandrogen compound and a method of treating prostate cancer in a patient utilizing the compound. The present invention also relates to a pharmaceutical composition which includes the compound.... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6481074 | Method of producing an ink jet print head A method for producing an apparatus for ejecting liquid droplets includes the steps of providing a porous medium having a plurality of pores therein, forming a plurality of holes through the porous medium and assembling with the porous medium a plurality ... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6477955 | Laser ablatable waterless lithographic printing member An improved offset printing press has a single plate blanket image (PBI) cylinder for holding an image formed on a thin film printing plate affixed thereto. The plate may be from 0.5 to 25 microns thick and has a thin layer of ink repelling material coate... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6477084 | NROM cell with improved programming, erasing and cycling A nitride programmable read only memory (NROM) cell with a pocket implant self-aligned to at least one bit line junction. Alternatively, the bit line junction(s) can have a thin area of effective programming and erasing located nearby. Further alternative... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6475138 | Apparatus and method as preparation for performing a myringotomy in a child's ear without the need for anaesthesia A focusable imaging laser otoscope for performing laser surgery without the need for anesthesia, The apparatus includes a housing, an end member movably disposed within the housing, an imaging device attached to the housing for producing an image of a tar... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6474783 | Ink-jet printing apparatus and method using laser initiated acoustic waves A printing device including a laser for generating at least one laser beam, a controller, a print head having a plurality of orifices, and an ink supply for supplying ink to the print head. The controller modulates the at least one modulated laser beam ac... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6473532 | Method and apparatus for visual lossless image syntactic encoding A visual lossless encoder for processing a video frame prior to compression by a video encoder includes a threshold unit, a filter unit, an association unit and an altering unit. The threshold unit identifies a plurality of visual perception threshold lev... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6471692 | System and method for manipulating movement of an energy emitting device within a body cavity A system and a method for manipulating movement within a body cavity. The device includes an optical fiber coupled to an energy source and a sleeve for containing the fiber. The fiber has distal end for positioning adjacent to a surface being treated with... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6467685 | Countable electronic monetary system and method An electronic value transfer system using stored value in the form of serialized electronic coins and electronic bills, which provides efficient security monitoring without the need for full centralized accounting of each transaction. Central monitoring o... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6466906 | Noise padding and normalization in dynamic time warping A speech recognition system includes a token builder, a noise estimator, a template padder, a gain and noise adapter and a dynamic time warping (DTW) unit. The token builder produces a widened test token representing an input test utterance and at least o... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6466871 | Method for calibrating and verifying the attitude of a compass A method for calibrating the attitude of a compass in relation to the platform on which the compass is installed. The compass includes an attitude determining device and an optical sighting device and the compass is integrally mounted on a platform. The m... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6466806 | Photoacoustic material analysis Disclosed is a method and apparatus for determining the concentration of an interest component in a medium by resonant photoacoustic spectroscopy (RPAS) with a light pulse-train comprising equidistant short pulses having variable duration, frequency, numb... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6466249 | Rotatable connector for use with a video conference system A video conference system is provided having a base assembly and a loudspeaker assembly in communication with the base assembly by means of a rotable connector is provided. The rotatable connector has an array of springy contacts which are engageable with... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6463094 | Point-to-point secure modem and method A modem includes symbol converting unit and processing unit. The symbol converting unit converts between binary data and symbol data in accordance with a first constellation which is a transformed version of a standard constellation and the processing uni... | 10/08/2002 |
