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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8181493 | Position sensing A three-axis linear position sensor apparatus may include (a) a reference device adapted as a magnetic field generating element, (b) a receiver pad adapted to measure a magnetic field generated by the reference device, and (c) a signal-conditioning and signal-proces... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8174698 | MEMS tunable silicon fabry-perot cavity and applications thereof A method for fabricating a tunable Fabry-Perot cavity comprises etching a substrate to form two reflectors separated by an air gap and an electrostatic mechanism. One of the two reflectors is mobile and connected to the electrostatic mechanism. Therefore, operation ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172305 | Automotive vehicle door An automobile door containing a door frame, a door module for the incorporation of functional supports such as loudspeakers or the like, and a door soft trim for the aesthetically pleasing finish of the door on the inside of the automobile. The door soft trim and th... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8167752 | Hybrid transmission for hybrid vehicles A hybrid transmission described herein comprises a planetary gear arrangement and a clutch including two electromagnetic clutch portions used to interconnect an internal combustion engine, an electric traction motor, an electric motor/generator and driving wheels of... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8162998 | Bone screw The invention concerns a bone screw having a distal end and a proximal end, which has the distinguishing features a shaft with a core diameter “k” and having an external thread with an external diameter “d”. The external diameter “d” of the thread or the... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8162959 | Single stage hemostasis clipping device A tissue clipping apparatus comprises a clip including a proximal end received within a capsule. The clip includes a clip locking member biased to engage a first locking structure of the capsule to lock the clip in the capsule in a closed configuration. The apparatu... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161890 | Foldable table for notebook-computer A foldable table for a notebook computer comprises a table top (1), a cross beam tube (4) and a pair of foldable supporting frames (2, 3) provided at left and right ends of the cross beam tube (4). The cross beam tube (4) is movabl... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161813 | Fill level measuring in mobile containers or transport silos A fill level in a mobile container or in a transport silo is determined using a position sensor that measures the angle of inclination of the container. The fill level data is acquired using a fill level sensor. On the basis of the measured data of the position sens... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160725 | Energy saving control for a field device A control for a field device comprises a monitoring unit that is separate from a control unit for controlling the field device which monitoring unit, when the control unit is in a sleep mode, waits for an activation signal in order to switch the control unit to the ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8157870 | Prosthesis for replacing the surface in the area of the ball of ball-and-socket joints A prosthesis for replacing a surface in an area of a ball of a ball-and-socket joint includes a spherical shell section having an outer surface that is configured to lie in an articular fossa and is for attachment to a surface. The shell section having a cavity for ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8157094 | Container apparatus and container assembly A container apparatus includes a base plate, a sidewall and at least three wheels. The base plate has a first side and a second side. The sidewall is arranged on the first side of the base plate such that the base plate and the sidewall form a room. This room has an... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8152879 | Filter bag for a vacuum cleaner and also use thereof A filter bag for a vacuum cleaner made of a composite material including at least three layers, at least two layers which include a nonwoven fabric layer and at least one nonwoven fiber layer being connected by a weld. ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151026 | Method and system for secure communication between processor partitions A system and method for writing, by a sender, a message into blocks of a memory space, the memory space being shared by the sender of the message and a receiver of the message, and sending, by the sender, an interrupt corresponding to the message. ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150462 | Connection box Field devices for measuring a pressure or a fill level are connected, by way of a cable connection or a radio connection, to stationary evaluation- and display devices. To provide flexible parameterization or flexible measured-value inquiry, a connection box for the... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8147946 | Polarizing plastic optical device and process for producing the same A polarizing plastic lens comprising a polarizing film with low tendency to detachment from an optical resin layer. There is provided polarizing plastic lens comprising polarizing film constituted of a polyvinyl alcohol resin. Two optical resin layers of different t... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8147493 | Bone-fixation device The invention relates to a trochanter stabilizing device (40), especially for fixing bone fragments in the region of the hip joint (11) or for fixing the greater trochanter (12), including A) bone stabilizing means (1) consisting of a cen... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8147443 | Indirect fluid flow measurement A method for ablating tissue comprising controlling a heating element using a variable phase angle control to heat an ablation fluid to a desired temperature and determining a heating percentage corresponding to a percentage of a maximum available heating power repr... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8146420 | HTA fluid level and fluid type measurement Apparatus for measuring an amount of ablation fluid circulating in a system for ablating tissue comprises a plurality of electrical contacts located within an ablation fluid receiving chamber of the system, the contacts being located at various heights and a data pr... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145612 | System and method for multi-stage tail number acquisition A system and method for receiving data on an aircraft, the data including a tail number of the aircraft, storing the data in a database, receiving a request including further data, the further data being related to the aircraft, querying the data in the database usi... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145511 | System and method for locating aircraft passengers The present invention is directed to system and method for locating aircraft passengers. A data feed arrangement receives aircraft data points from at least one first data source and passenger information from a second data source. A data processing arrangement stor... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8142514 | Intragastric prosthesis for the treatment of morbid obesity A porous weave of bioabsorbable filaments having an open mesh configuration is formed into an oblate shape having dimensions greater than the esophageal opening and gastric outlet of a stomach. The resulting prosthesis is deployed in the stomach and is of a size to ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140199 | System and method for predicting aircraft gate arrival times A method for receiving passive data corresponding to an aircraft in a vicinity of an airport, receiving additional information corresponding to the aircraft and predicting a time of arrival at a gate based on the passive data and the additional information. In addit... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139572 | Method for bi-directional symmetric routing in multi-homed networks with stateful firewalls There are provided systems and methods for symmetric bi-directional routing in multi-homed IP networks which includes sending an IP packet having a source address from a first host and substituting the source address with an exterior routing address by a first netwo... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139502 | Method and system for network migration scheduling A method of transforming an ordered list of nodes of a network into one of a plurality of elite ordered lists, the ordered list corresponding to a deloading sequence, the deloading sequence including a temporary capacity requirement, each of the elite ordered lists ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8133240 | Multiple hemoclip system for an endoscope Spring clips are arranged end to end in a cavity of an inner shaft. Such shaft slides within an outer shaft, and a pusher member slides in the cavity behind the clips. The clips have jaws biased together, but which are wedged apart by an opener as the pusher is move... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8129986 | Angle sensor device An angle sensor device is for determining information of a movable object. The information includes angular position information and/or angular speed information. The angle sensor device includes (a) at least one magnetically encoded region arranged on the movable o... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8129866 | Mass coupling at clocked HF-elements A circuit for a fill-level measuring device is for the fast switching-on of a high-frequency element on a ground port is disclosed. The circuit comprises a switching unit with a circuit mass; a high-frequency element with a high-frequency mass; and a coupling elemen... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8128148 | Vehicle with an instrument panel which is designed for a side impact A vehicle contains a vehicle body with two A pillars and two B pillars which bound a vehicle interior, and an instrument panel which is arranged in the interior between the A pillars. The instrument panel has an instrument panel reinforcement. The instrument panel r... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8127495 | Window lift system and method for fitting a window pane A window lift system, especially for the side window of a motor vehicle, includes (i) a pulling device and (ii) a catch for a window pane, which can be moved up and down using the pulling device. The catch has a first fastening point for an upward pulling end of the... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8117307 | System and method for managing data streams A system for a data stream management system includes a filter transport aggregate for a high speed input data stream with a plurality of packets each packet comprising attributes. The system includes an evaluation system to evaluate the high speed input data stream... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8114093 | Targeting device The invention relates to an aiming, or targeting, device which is used to guide and place longitudinal bone fixing means in a predetermined direction with respect to a bone fixing device. The aiming device includes securing means, which can be detachably secured to ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8114081 | Osteosynthesis plate set A set of at least two osteosynthesis plates (2g, 2h) for implantation, anatomical reduction and internal splinting of bone fragments, in particular after fractures of the distal humerus. The two osteosynthesis plates (2g,... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8109930 | Surgical nail An intramedullary nail comprising a central axis and a transverse borehole, provided with an insert which can be introduced into the transverse borehole, said insert also containing a longitudinal slit. ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8103708 | System and method for generating statistical descriptors for a data stream Described is a system and method for receiving a data stream of multi-dimensional items, collecting a sample of the data stream having a predetermined number of items and dividing the sample into a plurality of subsamples, each subsample corresponding to a single di... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102278 | Wireless communication Described is a sensor unit having a measured signal receiver, which registers a measured signal, an A/D converter for digitizing the measured signal, a transceiver device for wireless data communication to an environmental device, and a processor. The processor is a... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8097054 | Dust filter bag A dust filter bag is in the shape of a flat bag for a vacuum cleaner, which is formed from a first layer and a second layer made of a weldable material. The layers are welded together circumferentially along the circumference thereof. ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095480 | System and method to enable training a machine learning network in the presence of weak or absent training exemplars Described is a system and method for training a machine learning network. The method comprises initializing at least one of nodes in a machine learning network and connections between the nodes to a predetermined strength value, wherein the nodes represent factors d... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8093842 | Position controlled drive mechanism A position controlled drive mechanism and a control method for positioning a drive mechanism are introduced. A sensor generates a displacement signal indicative of a displacement of a movable stop driven by an electric motor. A controller controls rotation of the el... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8091118 | Method and system to optimize efficiency when managing lists of untrusted network sites A computer readable storage medium including a set of instructions executable by a processor, the set of instructions operable to determine if a network location included in a request to connect to the network location, is included in a first list of untrusted netwo... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8091080 | User process object code installer A computer implemented method of computer implemented method for installing a code object in a user process virtual memory space, while the user process is running is provided. The user process is run in a virtual memory space. A controller process is run in a diffe... | 01/03/2012 |
