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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6786697 | Turbine A fluid turbine for extraction of power from a moving fluid, and that is particularly suitable for use as a wind turbine. The fluid turbine includes, for example, a rotor mounted to a support structure for rotation about a horizontal axis, the rotor having multiple ... | 09/07/2004 |
| 7222054 | Personal ambulatory wireless health monitor Ambulatory patient monitoring apparatus including a portable housing including at least one physiological data input device operative to gather physiological data of the patient, location determination circuitry, and communications circuitry for communicating the ph... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7167511 | Modem wake-up at steady state in a modem pool environment In a communications system having a modem pool including native modems operating at steady state, a method is provided for modem wake-up at steady-state including measuring modem performance, activating a foreign modem at substantially the foreign modem's maximum da... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7034006 | Use of lipid conjugates in the treatment of disease The invention provides novel methods for treating disease based upon the medicinal use of lipids and phospholipids covalently bound to physiologically acceptable monomers or polymers. Phosphatidylethanolamine moieties conjugated to physiologically acceptable monomer... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6981247 | Cooperative software application architecture An application environment including a hosting application, and an application component operative to execute a plurality of ordered processing operations, where the hosting application is operative to effect a first call to the component, thereby invoking operation... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6977453 | Electric rotating machine provided with a field control coil In a rotating electric machine using permanent magnets and a field control coil, to allow the properties of the rotating electric machine to be readily changed and the rotating electric machine to be adapted to various applications even when it is made of common com... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6951558 | Scanning laser handpiece with shaped output beam A scanning optical system for delivering electromagnetic radiation onto tissue to be treated is cooperative with a lightguide or optical fiber. Radiation to be delivered is provided by a source thereof via the optical fiber. The optical system includes an optical pr... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6952275 | System and method for efficient printing of variable information documents A method for generating a printer-ready representation of pages having regions described by page assembly instructions is provided. The method includes analyzing the page assembly instructions to identify a complex page having one or more complex regions and assembl... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6946824 | Power delivery system having a plurality of stages and method for setting power delivery system parameters A power delivery system and a method for setting the parameters of the power delivery system. The effective resistance of the capacitors for each stage may be set to be substantially equal to the effective resistance of the previous stage, and the time capacitive co... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6937766 | Method of indexing and searching images of text in video A method for generating an index of the text of a video image sequence is provided. The method includes the steps of determining the image text objects in each of a plurality of frames of the video image sequence; comparing the image text objects in each of the plur... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6909429 | System and method for displaying content in a three-dimensional virtual environment Disclosed is a system and method for presenting content within a three-dimensional environment. A data container containing a parameter representing at least a portion of the content is rendered within the environment and a two dimensional prospective view from a vi... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6900717 | Bobbin for hybrid coils in planar magnetic components A bobbin for hybrid coils in planar magnetic components including an outer bobbin component configured to hold planar magnetic circuits and an inner bobbin component configured to hold a conventional winding of a multitude of substantially round-section insulated co... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6900338 | Scavenger compounds The present invention provides novel compounds having scavenging and anti-ROS properties and pharmaceutical composition comprising these compounds for treatment of conditions associated with oxidative stress or free radical injury. The compounds of the invention are... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6899888 | Prevention and treatment of androgen-deprivation induced osteoporosis This invention provides: 1) a method of treating androgen-deprivation induced osteoporosis and/or bone fractures and/or loss of Bone Mineral Density (BMD) in a male subject suffering from prostate cancer; 2) a method of preventing androgen-deprivation induced osteop... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6894383 | Reduced substrate micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) device and system for producing the same Briefly, a reduced substrate Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) device, for example, a low-loss Film Bulk Acoustic Resonators (FBAR) filter or a low-loss FBAR Radio Frequency filter, and a process and a system to produce the same. A reduced substrate MEMS devic... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6894269 | Configuration for detecting optical signals in at least one optical channel in a planar light circuit, attenuator including the configuration, and method for manufacturing the configuration A configuration detects optical signals in at least one optical channel in a planar light circuit. The planar light circuit contains a trench that respectively interrupts or terminates one optical channel. The trench respectively contains a detection unit detecting ... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6888757 | Method for erasing a memory cell A method for erasing a bit of a memory cell in a non-volatile memory cell array, the method comprising applying an erase pulse to at least one bit of at least one memory cell of the array, waiting a delay period wherein a threshold voltage of the at least one memory... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6885585 | NROM NOR array A NOR array includes a first plurality of word lines, a second plurality of bit lines and a third plurality of common lines. Each word line connects to the gates of a row of nitride read only memory (NROM) cells. Each bit line connects to one diffusion area of each ... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6882260 | Method and apparatus for insulating a planar transformer printed circuit and lead frame windings forms The invention relates to a planar coil circuit and provides an improved method for insulating a face of a planar circuit of the type typically used in a transformer, while leaving the terminals thereof exposed; and to a planar printed circuit or lead frame stamped o... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6873661 | π/4 QPSK modulator A method of π/4-shift QPSK modulation and π/4-shift QPSK modulator are provided. The modulator address symbols from a Precursor section of a register to a first memory portion and from a Postcursor section of the register to a second memory portion at odd times an... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6873608 | Communication system utilizing host signal processing The system utilizes host signal processing techniques applicable to cellular communication system devices which are integrated with a system incorporating a general purpose CPU running a multitasking operating system. A RF receiver processes the signals to generate ... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6870890 | Power saving in communication terminals A method of receiving messages by a communication terminal. The method includes receiving symbols of a frame of a transmitted encoded message, and decoding the frame based on fewer received symbols than the number of symbols in the frame. ... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6870523 | Device, system and method for electronic true color display A device, system and a method for displaying an expanded spectrum of colors. The present invention is suitable for various types of electronic display devices, such as televisions and monitor devices (“monitors”) for computational devices, for example. The prese... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6868186 | Visual lossless image compression An image compression method is provided including separating an image into a plurality of color channel sub-images processing each of the color channel sub-images by sub-sampling the sub-image transform coding the sub-sampled sub-image decoding the transform-coded i... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6864739 | Charge pump stage with body effect minimization A method for operating a charge pump, the method including biasing a bulk of a charge pump stage so as to reduce body effect without forward biasing diodes of the charge pump stage. ... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6861220 | Genetic screening methods A method for screening molecule which have a synthetic lethal property when in combination with a gene of interest carrying a non-lethal mutation, said method comprising the steps of: transfecting a first reporter gene into mammalian cells having a genome comprising... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6861254 | Heparan sulfate D-glucosaminyl 3-O-sulfotransferases, and uses therefor Disclosed are novel isolated nucleic acids and substantially pure protein preparations for naturally occurring and synthetic or chimeric heparan sulfate D-glicosaminyl 3-O-sulfo-transferases (3-OSTs). Also disclosed are uses for these genes and proteins, including u... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6856343 | Digital video logging system A digital video logging system including a logging apparatus able to synchronize at least two digitally formatted video input and digital storage apparatus to store the digitally formatted input is provided. ... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6857101 | Apparatus and method of storing reference vector of state metric A method of calculating recursive state metric vectors of a block of symbols wherein, the state metric vectors being supplied to an output calculating unit. The method includes calculating the state metric vectors from a first side of the block, and calculating for ... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6850334 | System and method for three dimensional model printing A system and a method for printing of three-dimensional models and apparatus for controlling the height and thickness of the layers of interface material forming the 3-D models being printed, is provided. The method includes the steps of dispensing a pre-determined ... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6850122 | Quadrature oscillator and methods thereof A quadrature oscillator includes a master tuned oscillator and two injection-locked slave tuned oscillators. ... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6846851 | Water-based inkjet inks containing an ultraviolet curable humectant A composition for ink-jet recording is provided. The composition comprises a water miscible resin and a water-soluble ultraviolet curable humectant. The concentration of the water-soluble ultraviolet curable humectant may be in the range of 5% to 50% by weight. Exam... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6848069 | Iterative decoding process Briefly, a method to decode a block of information of a turbo code to produce a decoded block. The method may determine from a structure of an error detection code one or more possible error patterns and may generate a reliability metric based on one or more of the ... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6847750 | Thermo-optical waveguide switch The invention relates to a thermo-optical waveguide switch which is located on a substrate. Said switch comprises a glass layer, through which a waveguide extends. A hollow chamber which lies beneath the waveguide thermally decouples the latter from the substrate. A... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6842383 | Method and circuit for operating a memory cell using a single charge pump According to some embodiments of the present invention, a non-volatile memory cell may be operated using a charge pump circuit. The charge pump circuit may be adapted to output a first and second voltage level, and the charge pump circuit may be connected to a first... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6838484 | Formulations comprising selective androgen receptor modulators The present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions and formulations comprising 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 defi... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6835812 | Human p-Hyde proteins This invention provides isolated nucleic acids of the rat and human p-Hyde gene, analogs, fragments, mutants and variants thereof of the p-Hyde family. The invention provides polypeptides, fusion proteins, chimerics, fusion proteins, antisense molecules, antibodies,... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6836377 | Optical system An optical system for illuminating and viewing a target (15) in which an illumination element (16) and a receiving element (13) are disposed behind a single optical window (14), and which obtains data essentially free of backscatter and s... | 12/28/2004 |
| D500047 | User interface for a gem grading display screen | 12/21/2004 |
| 6833840 | PROTO implementation in MPEG-4 A method of PROTO implementation in MPEG-4 is provided, including the steps of: defining a PROTO object class, instantiating a PROTO object, calling the PROTO object into an MPEG-4 scene graph, and rendering the PROTO object. ... | 12/21/2004 |
