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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8155426 | Inspection of wood surface roughness The invention relates to a method for optical inspection of the hirsuteness of a surface. The method comprises directing a light beam (B) to the surface (2) of a wooden piece (1) under study in a direction (D), which deviates from the normal to the sur... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151616 | Method for manufacturing enclosures of a sheet material and an enclosure of a sheet material The invention relates to a method for manufacturing an enclosure of a sheet material and to an enclosure of a sheet material, which is manufactured of a sheet blank, of which the sides and the base of the enclosure have been folded, and the seams have been joined to... | 04/10/2012 |
| D657316 | Bonding and grounding clamp | 04/10/2012 |
| 8140933 | Buffering packets of a media stream Buffering packets of a media stream for transmission from a transmitting device to a receiving device. Media packets are formed from at least one kind of media information in a stream generator; forward error correction data is formed on the basis of the media packe... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140900 | Establishing a connection between a testing and/or debugging interface and a connector This invention relates to automatically establishing a connection between a testing and/or debugging interface to an integrated circuit and a connector of an apparatus, the connector being connectable to a testing and/or debugging apparatus configured to communicate... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139125 | Optical image recording device with small height and high resolution An optical image recording device comprises a housing having a comparatively small height and at least one comparatively broad optical image information entering surface, an optical path unit including a first lens array, a second lens array and an optical image rec... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135433 | Reduction in interference between components An apparatus is disclosed comprising a transducer, which transducer comprises at least one electrical connection point configured to enable an external electrical connection of the transducer. The transducer further comprises at least one decoupling coil configured ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135031 | Method and device for wireless transmissions of internet protocol TV The invention relates to a method for transmitting a television data stream via a wireless network connection. The method comprises receiving at least one television data stream via the User Datagram Protocol (UDP); converting the at least one UDP television data st... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8106297 | Grounded conduit bushing By providing a grounding conductor assembly affixed to a conduit bushing in a manner which enables the grounding conductor assembly to extend inwardly from the bushing, effectively being positioned coaxially with the inside diameter of the rigid metal conduit, condu... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8099896 | Rifle having a replaceable barrel A rifle with a replaceable barrel with two or more barrels for different purposes and calibers and with own magazines for different cartridges. At least one barrel (1) has the cavity (2), into which a projection or upper edge (4) in the cartridg... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8096150 | Padlocks for holding and securing zipper pulls By providing two separate and independent locking system formed in a single padlock construction which is employed for securely holding and locking zipper pull tabs, an effective, easily produced, padlock is achieved which is responsive to both a combination control... | 01/17/2012 |
| D652388 | Combination grounding rod bridge | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094825 | Integrity protection of streamed content The invention relates to a method, a system, an electronic device and a computer program for providing at least one content stream to an electronic device applying Digital Rights Management (DRM). In the method a master integrity key is obtained in a streaming node.... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094296 | Optical inspection of surfaces open to different directions in a piece of material The invention relates to a device for optical inspection of the open surfaces (19 of objects from at least two different viewing directions (P1, P2). The device comprises a telecentric imaging unit (11 or 12, an angle mirror (13... | 01/10/2012 |
| D651569 | Bonding and grounding clamp | 01/03/2012 |
| 8078192 | Supporting the use of a virtual reference station For supporting the use of virtual reference stations, an apparatus may receive a request to provide virtual measurements on beacon signals that are valid for a virtual reference station, the request including an indication of a desired location of the virtual refere... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077084 | Supporting an assisted satellite based positioning For supporting a satellite based positioning of a mobile arrangement (30,40) with assistance data, a communication network converts parameters of a dedicated orbit model describing a movement of a satellite (50,60), which dedicated orbit model is defin... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8072390 | Antenna arrangement An antenna arrangement comprises a first antenna element; a second antenna element; a coupling element for electromagnetically coupling to the first antenna element and the second antenna element; and a switching mechanism, connected to the coupling element, for swi... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8069605 | Gun equipped with camera A stun gun is disclosed having a firing mechanism, and also having a camera for automatically capturing post-firing images after the firing mechanism is activated. The post-firing image is automatically and digitally marked, or partly marked, to indicate when the ca... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8060363 | Audio signal encoding For an audio coding, noise suppression is applied to an original audio signal to obtain an audio signal with reduced noise. A coding mode is selected based on the audio signal with reduced noise. The original audio signal is then encoded using this selected coding m... | 11/15/2011 |
| D648281 | Combination grounding rod bridge | 11/08/2011 |
| D648279 | Electrical connector | 11/08/2011 |
| 8045047 | Method and apparatus for digital image processing of an image having different scaling rates A method, module, device, and computer program product for digital imaging. Providing an image within an image sensor, selecting at least one first region within image for scaling with a first scaling rate, selecting at least one second region within the image for s... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8033408 | Enclosure with a lead-through and a grommet An enclosure which has a lead-through for passing a rod-like element through a wall of the enclosure, and a grommet for sealing a rod-like element to a wall of an enclosure, the grommet having a passage for passing the rod-like element therealong through the grommet... | 10/11/2011 |
| D644613 | Combination cable or conduit strap | 09/06/2011 |
| 7992764 | Folding carton and corresponding manufacturing machine The invention relates to a folding carton for the preservation and for the transport of goods with a reduced complexity, comprising a front wall element, a rear wall element, side wall elements connected to the front wall element and to the rear wall element by fold... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7991176 | Stereo widening network for two loudspeakers The invention relates to a method, a system, a module, an electronic device and to a computer program product for widening a two-channel input. Two audio channels are input and filtered by equalizing said channels. The filtered channels are mixed with their opposite... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7990131 | Device and method for measuring a first voltage and a second voltage by means of a differential voltmeter The invention relates to a method and a device for measuring a first voltage and a second voltage by means of a differential voltmeter. The differential voltmeter comprises a first inlet and a second inlet and a known voltage potential is applied to the second inlet... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7965232 | Assistance data provision For supporting the provision of a continuous stream of assistance data for a satellite signal based positioning, a sequence of interlinked messages comprising assistance data is generated. The messages are provided for transmission to a wireless communication termin... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7962786 | Security features in interconnect centric architectures A method comprising: detecting a sub-system to be controlled in a reduced resource mode in a device having an interconnecting system architecture; sending a resource reducing request to an interconnect node of the sub-system, the interconnect node belonging to a fir... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7956317 | Fibre optic probe A bidirectional fiber optic probe comprises an optical in/out coupler and a single fiber or a bundle of fibers, each fiber having a proximal end and a distal end and a numerical aperture NA=sin θ. The numerical aperture NA describes the range of angles over which t... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7954484 | Splitting devices An apparatus for splitting stones and blocks comprises means (5A, 6A) for supporting a stone or block while it is subject to a splitting operation, a unit which includes an upper blade (1) for engaging an upper surface of the stone or block and ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7949802 | Enhanced communication via a serial interface This invention relates to a method, a computer program product, an apparatus and a system enabling a communication between a first electronic device and a compatible second electronic device via the identification (ID) pin of a serial interface of the first electron... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7944947 | Providing address information for reaching a wireless terminal The invention relates to a method of providing address information for reaching a wireless terminal, the wireless terminal being connected to a first wireless communication network, a varying public address being dynamically allocated to the wireless terminal, and t... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7938018 | Liquid flow sensing systems A liquid flow sensing system for sensing the flow of liquid within a supply line (2) of a metering pumping machine, the system including a magnetic member (4) arranged for movement relative to a pneumatic switch (8) operated by the presence or a... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7927157 | Bonding and grounding clamp/connector for electrode conductors By providing a single housing incorporating a central passageway or channel formed therein which is constructed for receiving and retaining a typical grounding rod/grounding electrode conductor and constructing the housing for being quickly and easily mounted and se... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7920706 | Method and system for managing cryptographic keys A key management of cryptographic keys has a data package including one or more cryptographic keys that are transferred to a personal device 100 from a secure processing point 150 of a device assembly line in order to store device specific cryptographi... | 04/05/2011 |
| D635520 | Electrical connector | 04/05/2011 |
| 7916697 | Handover of a mobile station The invention relates to a method for supporting a handover of a mobile station 1 from a first radio access unit 3, 8 of a wireless communication network 2 to a second radio access unit 4, 9 of a wireless communication network 2. I... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7912715 | Determining distortion measures in a pattern recognition process A method for determining a set of distortion measures in a pattern recognition process, where a sequence of feature vectors is formed from a digitized incoming signal to be recognized, said pattern recognition being based upon said set of distortion measures. The me... | 03/22/2011 |
