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"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7946640 | Instrument panel, module, and vehicle An instrument panel comprising a synthetic resin base material and a skin material covering and integrated with the surface of the synthetic resin base material. The instrument panel may be disposed ahead of a seat within a driving cab in a vehicle. A metal support ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7946576 | Document stacker with fault detection Techniques include sensing electric signals from an actuator during a document stacking operation and determining whether an abnormal event has occurred based on the sensed signals. The techniques may find particular applicability, for example, to document acceptors... | 05/24/2011 |
| D638223 | Paint brush handle | 05/24/2011 |
| 7945916 | Shared persistent objects A system and method are disclosed for an interactive multimedia file (iMF), running on an interactive multimedia runtime (iMR), to store an object onto a computer, the method comprising creating a local instance of the object, storing the local instance into a memor... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7945909 | Initiating recovery of an executing task using historical information and task information Systems and techniques to manage tasks in a data processing environment. In general, in one implementation, the technique includes monitoring a task in a data processing environment and, using an instance of a distributed application, assessing when to initiate reco... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7945905 | Quality inspector tool A data processing system, method, and instructions executable on a computer inspect the quality of software code. A summary report is generated that summarizes aspects of the current status of a software project. The summary report may include which portions of code... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7945892 | Method of utilizing product proxies with a dependency graph Changes to the outputs of a dependency graph, which has attribute nodes and operator nodes, are detected by forming product proxies for the outputs of dependency graph nodes. The product proxies can be formed by entering information about the dependency graph into a... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7941457 | XML instrumentation interface for tree-based monitoring architecture An interface for providing monitoring information from any monitored component to a central monitoring system in which an XML document is created according to a DTD conforming to a tree-structured monitoring architecture and then is made available to the central mon... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941289 | Fuel dispenser calibration Systems and processes may provide calibration of a fuel dispenser. In particular implementations, fuel dispenser systems and processes may include the ability to determine whether a fuel delivery measurement of a fuel dispenser should be calibrated and adjust the fu... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941285 | Flow assurance monitoring In one oil production operation, a fluid conduit transports a fluid from a wellhead to a floating production platform. To prevent an occurrence of formations that obstruct the flow of fluid in the fluid conduit, a forecast is made as to whether a flow assurance curv... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941207 | Cardiac monitoring Systems and techniques for monitoring cardiac activity. In one aspect, a method includes collecting information describing the variability in heart rate over a series of beats, designating variability at a lower end of physiological values as being largely irrelevan... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941197 | Updating mobile devices with additional elements The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for updating mobile devices with additional elements. In some implementations, a cover for a mobile device includes side surfaces, a rear surface, a physical interface, and a circuit. The side surfaces and th... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940979 | Aggregation of check image data A method includes receiving a request for a first check image and a second check image. The request includes a first identifier associated with the first check image and a second identifier associated with the second check image. The method further includes retrievi... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940939 | Vehicle trunk woofer A vehicle trunk woofer is a low frequency speaker disposed within the trunk of a vehicle so as to be separated from the vehicle passenger compartment by a dividing portion and a rear deck. The dividing portion may be a fixed element or a movable element, such as a f... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940899 | Fraud detection, risk analysis and compliance assessment Techniques using data matching and clustering algorithms are disclosed to aid investigators in detecting potentially fraudulent activity, performing risk analysis or assessing compliance with applicable regulations. ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940742 | Method and device for providing traffic information including a prediction of travel time to traverse a link and using the same A method for identifying traffic information includes receiving traffic data including a first identifier, information corresponding to a predicted amount of time to traverse a particular link, and information corresponding to a location associated with the particul... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940741 | Providing traffic information relating to a prediction of speed on a link and using the same A method for identifying traffic information includes receiving traffic data including a first identifier, information corresponding to a prediction of travel speed for a particular link, and information corresponding to a location associated with the particular lin... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940540 | Universal AC adaptor A method and apparatus for adaptively configuring an array of voltage transformation modules is disclosed. The aggregate voltage transformation ratio of the adaptive array is adjusted to digitally regulate the output voltage for a wide range of input voltages. An in... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940529 | Storage device temperature sensing A storage device transporter is provided for transporting a storage device and for mounting a storage device within a test slot. The storage device transporter includes a frame that is configured to receive and support a storage device, and a clamping mechanism asso... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940360 | Liquid crystal display device The present invention easily provides a liquid crystal display in which conductivity between a first substrate over which a pixel electrode is formed and a second substrate over which a counter electrode is formed, can be certainly obtained even when it has a narrow... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940335 | Video signal output circuit and electronic device using the same A video signal output circuit includes a sync-tip clamp circuit fixing a sync-tip level of an input video signal at a constant voltage, a low-pass filter receiving the video signal output from the sync-tip clamp circuit and eliminating a predetermined high-frequency... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940286 | Display having controllable gray scale circuit A display that includes a circuit to receive pixel data and to generate a first set of gray-scale voltages based on the first set of reference voltages to drive pixel circuits to display respectively different gray-scale levels during a first time period in accordan... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940239 | Semiconductor device and display device utilizing the same A source-drain voltage of one of two transistors connected in series becomes quite small in a set operation (write signal), thus the set operation is performed to the other transistor. In an output operation, two transistors operate as a multi-gate transistor, there... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940171 | Machine-readable representation of geographic information A computer-implemented location identification method involves obtaining a digital image of a machine-readable representation encoded with a geographic location identifier that is associated with a geographic location, decoding the image of the machine-readable repr... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940013 | Lighting apparatus and display apparatus therewith A lighting apparatus includes light emitters to illuminate an illuminated member. Relationship information about a relationship between variations in the amount of light emitted by each of the light emitters and variations in an amount of light received on each of t... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939844 | Light-emitting-diode chip comprising a sequence of GAN-based epitaxial layers which emit radiation and a method for producing the same A light-emitting diode chip (1) comprises a GaN-based, radiation-emitting epitaxial layer sequence (3), an active region (19), an n-doped layer (4) and a p-doped layer (5). The p-doped layer (5) is provided, on its main surf... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939713 | Method for screening transgenic plants for anthelmintic activity The present invention provides DNA constructs, transgenic plants containing such constructs, and methods of making the plants. The DNA constructs encode a polypeptide that when expressed results in the production of fatty acid compounds having anthelmintic activity.... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939435 | Laser annealing method In crystallizing an amorphous silicon film by illuminating it with linear pulse laser beams having a normal-distribution type beam profile or a similar beam profile, the linear pulse laser beams are applied in an overlapped manner. There can be obtained effects simi... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939391 | III-Nitride devices with recessed gates III-nitride devices are described with recessed gates. In some embodiments, the material around the gates is formed by epitaxially depositing different III-nitride layers on a substrate and etching through at least the top two layers in the gate region. Because adja... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939373 | Manufacturing method for semiconductor device containing stacked semiconductor chips An adhesive film is formed on an electrode film, and a coating film is formed thereon. Nickel, chrome, molybdenum, tungsten, aluminum or an alloy of them is used as a constituent material of the adhesive film. Gold, silver, platinum or an alloy of them is used as a ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939310 | Systems and methods for analyzing nucleic acid sequences The invention relates to systems and methods for analyzing clinically relevant nucleic acid sequences. ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939283 | Analyte binding turbidity assay Assays, such as immunoassays, and related articles are disclosed. ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939280 | Marker for inflammatory conditions Use of pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A as a marker for inflammatory conditions, and in particular, for acute coronary syndromes is described. ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939131 | Method to provide a layer with uniform etch characteristics The present invention includes a method and a composition to form a layer on a substrate having uniform etch characteristics. To that end, the method includes controlling variations in the characteristics of a solid layer, such etch characteristics over the area of ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939111 | Lingonberry extract, methods of preparing, and uses thereof A first extract of lingonberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea L.) comprising 5-35 wt % of anthocyanin, 20-95 wt % of proanthocyanin, less than 5 wt % of resveratrol, and the balance of other components, a second extract containing 60-98 wt % of resveratrol, an... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939096 | Medical implants with polysaccharide drug eluting coatings A medical implant can include a bioerodible metal portion and a coating overlying the bioerodible metal portion. The coating can include a therapeutic agent and a polysaccharide matrix reversibly cross-linked with polyvalent metal cations. Upon implantation of the i... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939090 | System and method for the treatment of cancer, including cancers of the central nervous system The invention relates to the treatment of cancer, and particularly to the treatment of cancers of the central nervous system, such as glioblastoma multiforme. A dual therapeutic approach is provided, including the administration of a dendritic cell-based cancer vacc... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939062 | Methods for human allografting A method of preparing a human recipient for a graft from a human which includes: administering donor peripheral blood progenitor cells to the recipient, and providing a minimally ablative. ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7938967 | Safety vent structure for extracorporeal circuit A vent assembly is described for use in an extracorporeal fluid unit. A vent structure adjacent to a micro-porous membrane forms the assembly. The vent structure is porous, but expands when the vent structure becomes wet, thereby closing off the pores and inhibiting... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7938964 | Environmentally-neutral processing with condensed phase cryogenic fluids Systems, methods and apparatus are provided for utilizing a substantially condensed phase cryogenic fluid for the purpose of remediation and retrieval of, e.g., pollutant biomass from marine/aquatic and terrestrial environments. In some implementations, systems and ... | 05/10/2011 |
