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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7244022 | Clip on eyeware with spring hinge An eyeglass frame assembly for coupling clip-on auxiliary spectacles to primary spectacles. The primary spectacles having a pair of cavities formed on one of the frame and the inside surface of rear extensions. The clip-on spectacles having a pair of insertable memb... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7229677 | Knockdown corrugated box for temperature control and method of making A box for shipping temperature sensitive or perishable goods made from a double walled combined web having an inside barrier layer, a first paper liner bonded to the inside barrier layer, a first paper flute medium bonded to the first paper liner, an outside barrier... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7128284 | Sprinkling appliance A sprinkling appliance (1) comprising a reservoir (2), a metering means (3) and a preferably compressed-air actuated conveying and dispensing (5), respectively, for dispensing the sprinkling material, wherein the metering means (3)... | 10/31/2006 |
| 6938935 | Metering device for sand spreading devices, especially for rail vehicles Metering or dosing device for sand spreading apparatuses with a metering piston for sealing off and releasing the throughflow opening for the material to be spread, in which the metering piston and the opposite housing wall of the passage hole have profiles overlapp... | 09/06/2005 |
| 7461863 | Safety steering column, motor vehicle with a safety system and safety method A safety steering column which is adjustable in its axial direction whereby pyrotechnically driven steering column retraction is provided for a positioning of a safety steering column in its axial direction, to move it away from the driver in case of an accident. Fu... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7411400 | Method for testing battery condition According to this invention a battery testing device is provided. Such device activates a shortening between the battery poles using a predefined electronic circuit (in order to maximize the battery's energy potential) for a time period of 10-50 μsec. In a subseque... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7402442 | Physically highly secure multi-chip assembly A physically secure processing assembly is provided that includes dies mounted on a substrate so as to sandwich the electrical contacts of the dies between the dies and the substrate. The substrate is provided with substrate contacts and conductive pathways that are... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7399181 | Surface mapping and generating devices and methods for surface mapping and surface generation A surface mapping and generating device which has devices for the process and/or cost optimization, in particular raw material recovery devices, an automatic control of the intensity of a used laser light, devices for carrying out a calibrating procedure by evaluati... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7399930 | Method and device for repair of a contact pad of a printed circuit board Methods and devices are provided for repairing a damaged contact pad that is located on a first surface of a printed circuit board and connected to a via that passes through the circuit board. According to the method, a countersink hole is created in the first surfa... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7395437 | System and method for fast querying of encrypted databases A system, method, computer program product, and data management service that allows any comparison operation to be applied on encrypted data, without first decrypting the operands. The encryption scheme of the invention allows equality and range queries as well as t... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7392256 | Data gather scatter—redistribution machine A method, system, and computer program product to transfer data between two application data structures by copying a data gather scatter program (DGSP) from an exporting process address space where a first data structure is located, to a location in shared memory vi... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7385234 | Memory and logic devices using electronically scannable multiplexing devices A memory device or a logic device that uses an electronically scannable multiplexing device capable of addressing multiple bits within a volatile or non-volatile memory cell. The multiplexing device generates an electronically scannable conducting channel with two o... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7383350 | User input based allocation of bandwidth on a data link In a computer network, user input is used to control the bandwidth used by particular applications. Data is sent from either a data source computer or an intermediate computer (e.g. dial-up server) to a client computer according to the user input. The allocation of ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7379450 | System and method for peer-to-peer multi-party voice-over-IP services A system, method, and computer program product for establishing multi-party VoIP conference audio calls in a distributed, peer-to-peer network where any number of nodes are able to arbitrarily and asynchronously start or stop producing audio output to be mixed into ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379512 | Frequency-modulated signal receiver with digital demodulator A receiver of a frequency-modulated signal is provided. The receiver includes a frequency-transposition unit for lowering the frequency of the frequency-modulated signal, and a digital demodulator for regenerating a digital signal from the frequency-transposed signa... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7380187 | Boundary scan tester for logic devices A boundary scan tester is provided for testing logic devices. The boundary scan tester includes a boundary scan register, a data decompressor, a data compressor, and a derived boundary scan register. The boundary scan register registers the applied test vectors and ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7378692 | Integrated electronic circuit comprising superposed components An integrated electronic circuit with at least at least one passive electronic component and at least one active electronic component. The passive electronic component is formed within an insulating material disposed on a substrate. The active component is formed wi... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379203 | Data capture during print process A system, method and computer readable medium for capturing data during a print process. In an embodiment of the present invention, the method on a computer system includes observing a print command issued by an application. Next, a spool file in a condensed format,... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376810 | Integrated device with multiple reading and/or writing commands An integrated device is provided that includes a non-volatile memory having an addressing parallelism and a data parallelism, and a communication interface for interfacing the memory with an external bus. The external bus has a transfer parallelism lower than the ad... | 05/20/2008 |
| D569034 | Cutting channel of a cigar cutter | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372965 | Electric circuit management method and device The invention proposes a method of managing an electronic circuit of the type comprising a memory (EEPROM) for the storage of confidential information, the method comprising masking variations of the electrical current (I) consumed by the electronic circuit, during ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7367064 | Method of making self-sticking bibs and novel bib A method of making bibs wherein an elongated web of absorbent paper is laminated with an elongated web of plastic film to form a laminated web by embossing the absorbent paper and heat sealing the embossed area with the plastic film. The embossed areas are in the fo... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370273 | System and method for creating dynamic folder hierarchies A dynamic foldering system automatically manages the creation and deletion of run-time dynamic folders and selection of documents, items, or object graphs found in the run-time dynamic folders. The system comprises a query/predicate for a design-time folder group ba... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366676 | Method and system for in-service monitoring and training for a radiologic workstation In a method and a computer system for screening of medical cases known proven positive and/or known proven normal cases are inserted in the flow of cases during the screening. On a user's option the known cases can be infiltrated in the case stream in accordance wit... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366632 | Method and apparatus for three-dimensional measurements An apparatus and method for measuring the physical quantities of a data center during operation and method for servicing large-scale computing systems is disclosed. The apparatus includes a cart that supports a plurality of sensors. The cart is moveable within the d... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363317 | Memory efficient XML shredding with partial commit A method and system that allows efficient shredding of large instances of hierarchical data structures into relational data structures. Large instances of hierarchical data structures, which are able to be larger than the random access storage of a computer used to ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362654 | System and a method for detecting the direction of arrival of a sound signal The disclosed invention is a highly reliable cost effective sound direction detection system. In the preferred embodiment of the invention the system comprises a device which includes two microphones set at a spread of at lease 5 cm from each other, a digital signal... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7357423 | Multi-label mailing form including certified self-mailer A mailing form for facilitating the mailing of a document is disclosed. The mailing form includes a bottom ply of the mailing form and an interspersed between the first side of the bottom ply (i.e. inner side of the bottom ply) and the second side of the top ply (i.... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359820 | In-cycle system test adaptation Disclosed are a method, information processing system and computer readable medium for performing a system test on a program. The method comprises creating a test plan associated with a system test. The system test is for testing a program within an environment. At ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359335 | Automatic configuration of network for monitoring A system, method and computer readable medium are provided for configuring network interfaces grouped into nodes for monitoring functionality. According to the method, a base address and subnet mask for the network interfaces are received, and a monitoring address i... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359640 | Optical coupling device and method for bidirectional data communication over a common signal line Optical coupling device operates over a bidirectional data link between at least first and second communicators, each communicating data along a common wire of the data link. The device includes at least first and second optical couplers, each including a photon flu... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356802 | Automatic customization of classes A method and computer readable medium for automatic replacement of object classes in a library with custom classes to improve program efficiency. The method begins with static analysis preformed on a program containing a plurality of objects in order to determine ty... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356442 | End of life prediction of flash memory Disclosed are a method, electronic device, and computer readable medium for determining an end-of-life stage of the flash memory. The method includes detecting at least one life cycle event associated with a flash memory residing on an electronic device. A counter t... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353423 | System and method for improving the performance of operations requiring parity reads in a storage array system A system for improving a performance of a write process in an exemplary RAID system reduces a number of IOs required for a short write in a RAID algorithm by using a replicated-parity drive. Parity is stored on the parity portion of the disk drives. A replicated-par... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353262 | Validation of configuration settings prior to configuration of a local run-time environment A system, a computer readable medium and a method in a client-server environment, to manage a configuration of resources on client systems. This includes receiving one or more predetermined events along with one or more local run-time environmental conditions includ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352029 | Electronically scannable multiplexing device An electronically scannable multiplexing device is capable of addressing multiple bits within a volatile or non-volatile memory cell. The multiplexing device generates an electronically scannable conducting channel with two oppositely formed depletion regions. The d... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7351115 | Method for modifying an electrical connector A method is provided for modifying an electrical connector that is attached to a printed circuit board. On a wafer module of the electrical connector, a covering material is removed from an attachment area that is located above a signal pathway, and there is removed... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349922 | Method and apparatus for data clustering including segmentation and boundary detection A method and apparatus for clustering data, particularly regarding an image, that constructs a graph in which each node of the graph represents a pixel of the image, and every two nodes represent neighboring pixels associated by a coupling factor. Block pixels are s... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7346580 | Method and system of preventing unauthorized rerecording of multimedia content A method, system and computer readable medium for the blocking of recording digital content at an end user multimedia end-user-system during the rendering of encrypted digital multimedia files. Before the process of rendering of encrypted digital multimedia can be s... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7341279 | Combination mailer and confirmation post card assembly A form assembly formed by front and back plies for creating a postcard having printing on both faces from a single pass through a non-impact printing device. ... | 03/11/2008 |
