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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7943127 | Defense and counter-defense compositions and methods Contemplated compositions and methods are directed to the use of a proteinase to reduce capsaicin-induced pain sensation in a mammal. Preferably, the proteinase comprises a bromelain preparation in a liquid formulation for topical or enteral administration. In addit... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7942366 | Aircraft landing gear with integrated extension, retraction, and leveling feature Electrically controlled and/or actuated landing gear mechanisms are presented that allow for adjustment of aircraft attitude on the ground as well as for retraction and extension of the landing gear in a single unit. Most preferably, the electric actuator is positio... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7939769 | Sensor pass through assembly Contemplated device, assembly and methods include a sensor feed through assembly that protects and seals a set of wires. The assembly has a body, a first seal, a second seal and a cover. The wires thread through a first opening on the body through a second opening o... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7933681 | Postal presorting using an occurrence table A computer system utilizes an algorithm that: (a) prepares a table that includes counts of zip code occurrences in a mailing list; (b) prepares a container list that allocates counts to different containers; (c) uses the container list to allocate individual address... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7929961 | Wall mounted docking station A multi-zone audio system is provided that is portable to a handheld audio device at a plurality of locations. The system includes a multi-zone audio system controller having an audio input/output selection circuit for selectively regulating the source and distribut... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7927818 | Compositions and methods for immunodominant antigens of Contemplated compositions, devices, and methods are drawn to various antigens from the pathogen M. tuberculosis and their use in vaccines, therapeutic agents, and various diagnostic tests. In particularly preferred aspects, the antigens are immunodominant and... | 04/19/2011 |
| D636494 | Lumbar belt | 04/19/2011 |
| 7922778 | Time and temperature additive scheduling A sublimation donor has a first fabric enhancer that sublimates from the donor above a first temperature. That is followed by a second fabric enhancer that sublimates from the donor above a second temperature. Both the first and second temperatures are above 260° F... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7910077 | Configurations and methods for SOremoval in oxygen-containing gases Sulfur oxides are removed from an oxygen-containing acid gas in configurations and methods in which oxygen is removed from the acid gas using reducing gases at relatively high temperature. The so treated acid gas is then fed to a direct reduction reactor in which th... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7904602 | Distributed computing bus A distributed computing bus that provides both data transport and ambient computing power is provided. Contemplated buses comprise a network fabric of interconnected networking infrastructure nodes capable of being programmed before or after installation in the fiel... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7900288 | Drain cartridge having removable valved system Various embodiments of a cartridge for regulating a fluid flow are described that include an upper housing, and an insert that is user-removable from the upper housing. The cartridge can include one or more valves that are biased in a closed position to prevent odor... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7899252 | Object information derived from object images Search terms are derived automatically from images captured by a camera equipped cell phone, PDA, or other image capturing device, submitted to a search engine to obtain information of interest, and at least a portion of the resulting information is transmitted back... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7899243 | Image capture and identification system and process A digital image of the object (16) is captured and the object is recognized from plurality of objects in a database (20). An information address corresponding to the object is then used to access information and initiate communication pertinent to the ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7894881 | Imaging probe The design of a compact, handheld, solid-state and high-sensitivity imaging probe and a micro imager system is reported. These instruments can be used as a dedicated tool for detecting and locating sentinel lymph nodes and also for detecting and imaging radioactive ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7887730 | Self-tooling composite structure Composite structures with internal cavities are constructed with relatively stiff walls that can support additional composite laminate layers, creating a self-tooling structure. The structure is subsequently simulcured, preferably in combination with elevated temper... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7881529 | Data capture and identification system and process An identification method and process for objects from digitally captured images thereof that uses data characteristics to identify an object from a plurality of objects in a database. The data is broken down into parameters such as a Shape Comparison, Grayscale Comp... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7881498 | Autonomous wide-angle license plate recognition A system in a moving surveillance vehicle operates in background mode to capture images of license plates of neighboring moving vehicles, which may occupy lanes other than the lane in which the surveillance vehicle is moving. The images are used to determine the lic... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7848967 | Methods and systems for collaborative demand planning and replenishment The present invention provides systems and methods for generating replenishment orders for products sold to a multi-store retailer. Store trait data is mapped with planogram information and the mapped data is used to generate a fixture level safety stock for a parti... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7845911 | Shaped rotor blade for reduced loads and vibration Rotor blades are pre-bent in at least one of a flap direction and a lag direction, wherein the pre-bent portion comprises at least 20-60% of the length of the blade. Preferred methods include analyzing the rotor dynamic behavior using computational methods, deciding... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7879332 | Ultra-high yield intravenous immune globulin preparation An efficacious large-scale alcohol-free plasma fractionation production process which produces a high-yielding, non-denatured, double viral-inactivated intravenous human immune gamma globulin (IgG) product. The process employs one or more salts from a group of salts... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7879331 | Ultra-high yield intravenous immune globulin preparation An efficacious large-scale alcohol-free plasma fractionation production process which produces a high-yielding, non-denatured, double viral-inactivated intravenous human immune gamma globulin (IgG) product. The process employs sodium citrate in two initial fractiona... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7879135 | Configurations and methods for claus plant operation with variable sulfur content Contemplated plants include an acid gas enrichment unit in which acid gas unsuitable for feeding into a Claus plant from an upstream acid gas removal unit is separated into a concentrated hydrogen sulfide stream that is fed to the Claus plant and a carbon dioxide st... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7875833 | Coffee roaster and controlling method of same Contemplated fully automated coffee roaster have significantly reduced energy demands, use electrical heat as a heat source in a temperature-only driven program mode, and eliminate smoke and smell within the roaster. Most preferably, contemplated fully automated roa... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7871813 | Diagnostic device and method A method of separating a cell-containing sample into a substantially cell-depleted portion, and a cell-containing portion comprising at least one of a stem cell, a lymphocyte, and a leukocyte comprises a step in which the sample is received in a vessel with at least... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7871154 | Piezoelectric printhead Contemplated printheads include a piezoelectric material in which a channel is formed across the piezoelectric material to thereby create at least part of the nozzle through which ink is expelled from the inside of the printhead to the outside. Contemplated nozzles ... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7871034 | Rotor hub systems and methods A rotorcraft is equipped with a rotor hub of large diameter in order to accommodate high loads from a hingeless rotor. In preferred embodiments, a rotorcraft has a rotor disposed on a mast with blades attached to a hub by means of a feather bearing that receives a s... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7871033 | Tilt actuation for a rotorcraft An aircraft is equipped with hingeless rotors on tilting nacelles, and the tilt angles of the nacelles are controlled using either or both of an actuator and a mast moment generated by a hingeless rotor. An aircraft with two or more rotors on tilting nacelles can ac... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7868665 | Integrated circuit and sensor for imaging New sensors and different embodiments of multi-channel integrated circuit are provided. The new high energy and spatial resolution sensors use both solid state and scintillator detectors. Each channel of the readout chip employs low noise charge sensitive preamplifi... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7866598 | Rotorcraft engine and rotor speed synchronization Systems and methods are provided in which an electrical control system independently effects acceleration of both driven and driving elements of a clutch to engage each other. In preferred embodiments the clutch is not a friction clutch, but a dog clutch, and forms ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7861967 | Aircraft with integrated lift and propulsion system A vertical take off and landing (VTOL) aircraft is designed to be so efficient that it can be commercially competitive with runway dependent aircraft operating in a range of 100 to 1000 miles. Improvements include a high efficiency tilting rotor and wing design that... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7858012 | Automated prototyping of a composite airframe A high quality finished prototype fuselage structure of an aircraft is manufactured using a cured female tool and an automated composite layup machine, and then touched up by hand to meet a tolerance or other specification. The female tool is preferably made from a ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7842599 | Bumping electronic components using transfer substrates A method for forming solder bumps on an electronic component. Providing a transfer substrate having a plurality of solder balls, disposing the transfer substrate on the surface of the electronic component, heating to reflow the solder balls onto the electronic compo... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7840447 | Pricing and auctioning of bundled items among multiple sellers and buyers A number of sets of methods and apparatuses applicable to online shopping are disclosed. One set, “Bin Packing Methods with Approximate Membership”, includes methods in pricing and auctioning a bundle of items, some of which could belong to another bundle. Signi... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7837810 | Post weld heat treatment for chemically stabilized austenitic stainless steel Thermo-mechanical properties of welds in stainless steel is substantially improved by the implementation of a post weld heat treatment that illiminates sigma phase in the heat treated zone and favors niobium carbonitride precipitate formation in a desirable size ran... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7837083 | Forming solder balls on substrates A mask (stencil) having cells (openings) is disposed on a surface of a heater stage, and is then filled (printed) with solder paste. Then a substrate is assembled to the opposite side of the mask. Then the solder paste is reflowed. This may be done partially inverte... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7832343 | Pyrolyzer with dual processing shafts A pyrolyzer has a heated inner housing that includes first and second conveyors. Preferred conveyors have independent or at least potentially independent flows of material to be pyrolyzed. All suitable conveyors are contemplated, including especially screw conveyors... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7828352 | Box lifting devices A box lifting device places weight upon the lateral surface of lifter's forearm or hand. Preferred embodiments include a lifting body and a handle molded as a single piece of injection molded plastic, a lifting plate having metal teeth or other lifting members, and ... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7827071 | Centralized electronic sales using a consolidator The present invention provides an electronically accessible site that lists a product and associated distributors that distribute the product to customers. A customer purchases a product from the electronically accessible site, and during the purchasing process, the... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7819301 | Bumping electronic components using transfer substrates A method for forming solder bumps on an electronic component. Providing a transfer substrate having a plurality of solder balls, disposing the transfer substrate on the surface of the electronic component, heating to reflow the solder balls onto the electronic compo... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7819251 | Paper tube packaging with open end and coated cap A biodegradable tube comprises a mom-rigid paper tubular body defining a lumen for containing a semi-solid composition; a paper tubular cap that slidably mates with the body; and wherein interior surfaces of the each of the body and the cap have a coating that is su... | 10/26/2010 |
