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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7941123 | Method and system for downloading data to mobile terminals and for implementing data sharing between mobile terminals The invention discloses a method and system for downloading data to mobile terminals, a mobile terminal that utilizes the method, and a method and a system for implementing data sharing between mobile terminals. The method for data downloading includes: dividing dat... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7875265 | Cosmetic composition comprising a sequenced polymer and a plasticizer A subject matter of the invention is a cosmetic composition comprising a cosmetically acceptable organic liquid medium, a block polymer and a plasticizer, characterized in that: the block polymer is a film-forming linear ethylenic ... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7840606 | Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture for performing product availability check A computer-implemented method performs a product availability check. The method comprises receiving a plurality of first data sets. The method further comprises deriving, based on the first data sets, one or more second data sets. Based on the second data sets, resu... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7835423 | Receiving device to determine the sampling rate for a received signal using a plurality of sampling rates This application discloses, among other things, a receiving device including channel signal output unit for sampling a received signal at a sampling rate switched one of in a predetermined range and between a plurality of values and outputting a channel signal, cont... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7833792 | Test strip measuring method In a test strip measuring method in which a coloration measurement is conducted while a test strip (4) is being moved, there are detected the optical characteristics R of the ground of a test strip and the optical characteristics T of a test line (4... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7832711 | Control system for transfer means A control system comprising a force measuring means (3) for measuring the magnitude of the force acting on a lower part of the rope suspending a load, which force is caused by a force imposed on the load by an operator, the mass of the load, and an accelerati... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7830107 | Safety device for power window A safety device for power window comprises a storage unit for storing the pulse width change rate of continuous pulses detected by a pulse width detector during a window glass raising operation at a reference timing, a calculation unit for calculating the pulse widt... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7828583 | Connector with an aligner with a flexible deformable arm with a slit A connector including a first connector accommodating a male terminal, a second connector accommodating a female terminal, and a movable aligner which supports a tip of the male terminal and is movable from a provisional position to a completed position according to... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7824354 | Process for controlling blood flow in an extracorporeal blood circuit Equipment for controlling blood flow in an extracorporeal blood circuit, comprising at least a first sensor, designed to measure an arterial pressure upstream of a peristaltic pump, at least a second sensor, designed to measure an angular velocity of a peristaltic p... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7823621 | Method for making flaskless upper and lower molds, an apparatus therefor, and a method for placing a core A method to efficiently make flaskless upper and lower molds that are stacked, to efficiently spray a release agent in a closed space, and to promptly place a core. The method includes the steps of holding a match-plate between one pair of cope and drag flasks that ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7799176 | Apparatus and method for degrading a web in the machine direction while preserving cross-machine direction strength An embossing system for embossing at least a portion of a web is provided comprising a first embossing roll having male embossing elements, a second embossing roll having male embossing elements, wherein the first and second embossing rolls define a first nip for re... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7797166 | Systems and methods for generating a model for income scoring Systems and methods consistent with the present invention generate a model for providing one or more scores indicating a likelihood that a stated income is faulty. In one embodiment, the method includes, for example, receiving information representative of at least ... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7794566 | Method of making a paper web having a high internal void volume of secondary fibers The present invention is a method of making a near-premium quality paper product having good strength and absorbency characteristics and a product made by that method. The invention is also a method for retaining a high ash content within a paper web formed by conve... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7780743 | Fluorescent entity, dyeing composition containing at least one fluorescent entity, and method for lightening keratin materials using said at least one fluorescent entity The invention relates to the dyeing of keratin materials using naphthylimide thiol/disulphide thiol fluorescent dyes, and to a dyeing process which has a lightening effect on keratin materials, in particular keratin fibres, especially human keratin fibres such as th... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7772479 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program The recommended playlist creating section generates several recommended candidate playlists having different reproduction orders as recommended candidate playlists each indicating a recommended reproduction order when one or more contents are sequentially reproduced... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7757504 | Air conditioning controller An air conditioning controller is provided with a room temperature-humidity combination calculation unit, a temperature-humidity setting value determination unit and a temperature-humidity control unit. The room temperature-humidity combination calculation unit is c... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7726380 | Method for manufacturing sand mold A method of producing a sand mold, comprising: after defining a mold space at least by a pattern plate, a flask, and a squeeze means, and after blow-charging molding sand held in a sand blowing device located above the mold space into the mold space by ejecting a fi... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7720725 | Systems and methods for planning a supply network in a managed supply chain Systems and methods are disclosed for planning a supply network for a product between a source location and a destination location in a managed supply chain. In one embodiment, a method is provided that comprises the steps of: creating a planned stock transfer order... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7720530 | Field-deployable concussion detector A method and apparatus for providing an on-site diagnosis of a subject to determine the presence and/or severity of a concussion is provided. The method includes placing an electrode set coupled to a handheld base unit on the subject's head, acquiring brain electric... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7711574 | System and method for providing automated value estimates of properties as of a specified previous time period Systems and methods are provided for providing, based on a model, an indication that an appraisal value for a property is likely to be faulty. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving information representative of at least one of a borrower, a property, or one... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7703029 | Grid browser component A graphical user interface (GUI) includes a graph with vectors and nodes for visualizing a computer grid, the nodes representing computers running grid managers and the vectors representing relations between pairs of grid managers, each of the relations defining a f... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7699992 | Method and apparatus for determining a patient or treatment or apparatus parameter during an extracorporeal blood treatment During a dialysis treatment carried out by a dialysis apparatus, in which a dialysis liquid is circulated to a clean dialysate filter (43) arranged before a dialyser (3), the conductivity of the dialysis liquid is altered according to an altering funct... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7689367 | Method and system of computing and rendering the nature of the excited electronic states of atoms and atomic ions A method and system of physically solving the charge, mass, and current density functions of excited-state atoms and atomic ions using Maxwell's equations and computing and rendering the nature of excited-state electrons using the solutions. The results can be displ... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7685174 | Automatic regeneration of computer files A method for regenerating computer files on a computer system having a computer with an operating system, the method includes receiving an input from a user to specify monitored files, detecting modification of at least one of the monitored files, and replacing the ... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7685022 | System and method of offering media content A system and method of offering media content is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a selection of a disaggregated media content item from a user computer at a server via an online site that offers a catalog of items. The method also include... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7682405 | Coloring composition comprising at least one pigment and at least one electrophilic cyanoacrylate monomer The present disclosure relates to a dyeing composition comprising, in an appropriate dyeing medium, at least one pigment and at least one electrophilic cyanoacrylate monomer of formula (I) in which R is chosen from alkyl ra... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7671147 | Composition of oxazolidine epoxy resin, epoxy phosphazene, phosphorus compound or polyphenylene ether and curing agent Disclosed is a flame-retardant epoxy resin composition characterized by containing (A) an epoxy resin containing 0.5-10 equivalent/kg of oxazolidone rings, (B) an epoxy group-containing phosphazene compound, (C) at least one compound selected from the group consisti... | 03/02/2010 |
| D611137 | Dialysis machine and display | 03/02/2010 |
| 7669149 | Matching user interface elements to screen reader functions Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for providing information to a screen reader. A method includes the actions of receiving at a client side information for representing a web page in a browser; setting focus initially on an element of the w... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7648477 | Process for controlling blood flow in an extracorporeal blood circuit Equipment for controlling blood flow in an extra-corporeal blood circuit, comprising at least a first sensor (11), de-signed to measure an arterial pressure (Part) upstream of a peristaltic pump (9); at least a second sensor (12), designed to me... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7648475 | Non-invasive device for measuring blood temperature in a circuit for the extracorporeal circulation of blood, and equipment provided with this device A non-invasive device for measuring blood temperature in a circuit for the extracorporeal circulation of blood includes a line in which blood taken from a patient flows. The device also includes a temperature sensor connected to the line and provided with a device f... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7648474 | Method and device for detecting the detachment of the venous needle from a patient during dialysis A method of detecting the detachment of the venous needle from a patient during an extracorporeal blood treatment in a dialysis machine having an extracorporeal blood circuit provided with an arterial branch and a venous branch. The arterial pressure (Pa) is measure... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7648032 | Effective reductive bleaching of mineral slurries Disclosed herein are a method of reductively bleaching a mineral slurry comprising adding in the mineral slurry an effective amount of a formamidine sulfinic acid (FAS) and an effective amount of a borohydride to reductively bleach the mineral slurry, compositions c... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7644825 | Membrane and use thereof The membrane producible by shaping a polymer blend or a block copolymer comprising blocks of monomer units, loading the polymer blend or block copolymer with a blowing gas concentration within the polymer blend or block polymer above a critical concentration at a te... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7641626 | Integrated blood treatment module having a support element The invention relates to support element (4) comprising a main body (6) having a front wall (25) and a peripheral wall (32) projecting away from the front wall. The front wall and the peripheral wall define a housing compartment (33 | 01/05/2010 |
| 7632474 | Device, cartridge and method for solving powder in liquid, when manufacturing a dialysis fluid The invention provides a device for use in a cartridge for on-line preparation of a solution for a medical procedure. The device comprises a hollow body, the body having a first end and a second end and is provided with through holes in its wall. The second end is c... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7625333 | Single-ply dispenser napkin The present invention is a new elongate single-ply paper napkin that achieves the necessary absorbency, strength, hand feel and softness for commercial use but which is less expensive than traditional napkin products. More particularly, the invention is a single-ply... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7624439 | Authenticating resource requests in a computer system Systems and methods consistent with the present invention authenticate resource requests in a computer system having a resource controller and a bus. Such systems and methods may monitor the bus for resource requests made to the resource controller, intercept at lea... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7621983 | Transduction-protection device A transduction-protection device for protecting medical apparatus from contamination by infectious agents comprises a containment body having an inlet destined to be set in fluid communication with an extracorporeal circuit of blood, and an outlet destined to be con... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7621884 | Tube for medical applications and circuit incorporating such tube A tube for medical applications comprises a chlorine-free material and has a layer defining an outer surface of the tube. The tube is manufactured from a polymer material having a solubility parameter within the range 9.9±1.5 (cal/cm3)1/2.... | 11/24/2009 |
