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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8179879 | Robust ranging method In a communication system in which data is transferred by packets, a ranging method in which a receiver, in a given ranging window, periodically compares received data with expected data to find a match. The periodic comparison includes searching for known preamble ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177094 | Pump lid and containers employing such A container for pressurized discharge of fluid contained therein, the container having a container body, a pump lid deployed on the container body for pressurizing an interior volume of the container, a release control arrangement; and an outlet nozzle. The pump lid... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176539 | Methods for protecting against cookie-poisoning attacks in networked-communication applications The present invention discloses methods, media, and gateways for protecting against cookie-poisoning attacks in networked-communication applications. Methods include the steps of: creating a protected gateway cookie, generated by a gateway, for a server cookie, gene... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175999 | Optimal test ordering in cascade architectures Methods for optimizing the cost of executing a set of tests including finding the optimal ordering of the tests for some important cases such as set of tests having series-parallel structure with no statistical dependencies, and near-optimal orderings for the rest o... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172573 | Methods and apparatus for dental implantation A method for implanting a tooth implant in an at least partially edentulous patient including the steps of anchoring at least one attachment element in a patient's jaw bone, removeably and replaceably mounting a carrier assembly bearing at least one fiducial marker ... | 05/08/2012 |
| D658012 | Cupcake carrier | 04/24/2012 |
| 8158337 | Display device uniforming light distribution throughout areas and method for manufacturing same Disclosed are an optical display device producing uniform light distribution and a method of fabricating such devices. The optical display device has waveguides arranged in vertical and horizontal directions. The waveguide has a conical shape whose cross-section dec... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8146159 | Methods for inspecting security certificates by network security devices to detect and prevent the use of invalid certificates Disclosed are methods and media for inspecting security certificates. Methods include the steps of: scanning, by a network security device, messages of a security protocol between a server and a client system; detecting the messages having a security certificate; de... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8143736 | Conversion of ocean wave energy into electrical power Devices and methods for capturing electrical energy from ocean and other waves at improved cost and efficiency are presented. The major innovations include capturing energy in two vectors simultaneously and connectedly, new applications of Bernoulli's principle, and... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8142505 | Intervertebral disc replacement An intervertebral disc replacement has two members attached to vertebral body endplates of two adjacent vertebrae. The two members are formed with respective articulation surfaces which form at least part of an articulation arrangement. When loaded with compressive ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8141949 | Computer display viewing support A computer display viewing support having a display positioning tray, including a vertical unit having a substantially vertical orientation adapted to vary a vertical location of the display tray between an uppermost position and a lowermost position, the vertical u... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140394 | Payment system A payment system transfers funds from a purchaser to a supplier of goods and services. A single use transient credit code provided to the purchaser effects the transfer. The transient credit code is redeemable to a value limited to said transfer of funds thereby pre... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8136400 | Accelerometer A 3-dimensional MEMS accelerometer fabricated on a single planar substrate deploys three co-planar sensor elements. Each sensor element is a capacitive device deploying a static electrode plate and a parallel dynamic electrode plate supported by a torsion beam. The ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135217 | Method for optimized camera position finding for system with optical character recognition The present invention relates to a method for aligning a camera sensor to significant data which is text or barcode data to be recognized comprising the steps of:—capturing an image of the significant data by means of the camera sensor; —detecting a predominant ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8128403 | Dental abutment fixated by a nut A dental abutment to be connected to a dental implant by a fixating nut, the fixating nut has a coronal end towards the oral cavity, an apical end towards the dental implant and internal thread between the coronal end of the fixating nut and the apical end of the fi... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126335 | Methods and apparatus for next generation access passive optical networks Methods and apparatuses for controlling transmission of converged data packets and for media access through a single next generation access (NGA) passive optical network (PON) which can coexist with EPON and GPON based systems and can interoperate with a 10 GEPON. A... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126010 | Methods for dynamic bandwidth allocation and queue management in Ethernet passive optical networks In a passive optical network, dynamic bandwidth allocation and queue management methods and algorithms, designed to avoid fragmentation loss, guarantee that a length of a grant issued by an OLT will match precisely the count of bytes to be transmitted by an ONU. The... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8116791 | Sending and receiving text messages using a variety of fonts A method for sending a text message over a telephone network from a sending device to a receiving device. A set of images (or font) is selected by a user of the sending device. The text message is displayed using the set of images on the sending device as a presente... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116526 | Methods and system for communication and displaying points-of-interest A method for displaying point-of-interest coordinate locations in perspective images and for coordinate-based information transfer between perspective images on different platforms includes providing a shared reference image of a region overlapping the field of view... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115768 | Methods and system for communication and displaying points-of-interest A method for displaying point-of-interest coordinate locations in perspective images and for coordinate-based information transfer between perspective images on different platforms includes providing a shared reference image of a region overlapping the field of view... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8113841 | Reading device for blind or visually impaired persons A reading device for blind or visually impaired persons for recognizing and reading text passages comprises an image capturing unit being configured to capture an image of an environment of a blind or visually impaired person and to output image data corresponding t... | 02/14/2012 |
| D653485 | Collapsible sponge mattress | 02/07/2012 |
| 8106739 | Magnetic induction devices and methods for producing them A magnetic induction device (MID) is disclosed. The MID includes a core, and at least one first winding including at least one conductive strip deposited on the core and including at least two turns which are substantially simultaneously shaped. Related apparatus an... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8104775 | Dolly with elastically suspended load-bearing surface A dolly or pallet equipped with an elastically suspended load-bearing surface so as to responsively move downwards as materials are loaded and move upwards as loads are removed thereby reducing variation in the height of the top of the stack. The elastic suspension ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102851 | End-of-burst detection for upstream channel of a point-to-multipoint link A method of signaling and detecting end-of-transmission on a data communications link that uses scrambling comprises, by a transmitting node of the network, appending an end of burst delimiter (EBD) binary sequence to burst data and transmitting the burst data and t... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099052 | Method and apparatus for effective multi-cell interference control service There are provided a method and apparatus for an effective multi-cell interference control service, to make it possible for users located at a cell boundary to dynamically select a suitable interference control technique by monitoring interference information collec... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095620 | System and method for dynamic allocation of a resource The present invention relates to a system and method for dynamic allocation of a resource. In particular, it concerns a system to dynamically designate a priority for a resource request and to allocate a resource, partially filling or completely filling the request.... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8091742 | Pump lid A pump lid assembly for use with a container, having a rotatable pump cylinder configuration and a pump piston mechanically associated with the rotatable pump cylinder configuration such that at least a portion of the piston is deployed within the pump cylinder, the... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8091482 | Warhead for intercepting system A warhead system for a projectile-intercepting munition, the warhead system includes a fuselage having an axis and one or more explosively-formed-projectile charge. The explosively-formed-projectile is with a length and configured to generate one or more explosively... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8091421 | System and method for measuring content of a bin A system for measuring the height of bin content includes a transmitter for transmitting an acoustic pulse towards the upper surface of the content, a non-collinear receiver array for receiving an echo of the pulse and producing signals in response to the echo, and ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090961 | Security switch A system and method for securing a personal device that includes a device core and a peripheral device from unauthorized access or operation. The system and method use a switch, included fully or partially within an envelope of the device and which cannot be affecte... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090727 | Methods for automatically generating natural-language news items from log files and status traces Methods, for automatically generating natural-language news items from log files, including the steps of: gathering at least one data record; filtering at least one data record according to at least one rule to produce at least one filtered data set; aggregating at ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8087295 | Dual-axis resonator gyroscope The present invention discloses an improved planar, dual-axis, resonator gyroscope with mechanical coupling of adjacent vibrating members. The primary-mode flexible hinges include a tangential torsion element that largely decouples the out-of-plane resonant frequenc... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086931 | Method and device for multi phase error-correction Data bits to be encoded are split into a plurality of subgroups. Each subgroup is encoded separately to generate a corresponding codeword. Selected subsets are removed from the corresponding codewords, leaving behind shortened codewords, and are many-to-one transfor... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085590 | Multi-bit-per-cell flash memory device with non-bijective mapping To store a plurality of input bits, the bits are mapped to a corresponding programmed state of one or more memory cells and the cell(s) is/are programmed to that corresponding programmed state. The mapping may be many-to-one or may be an “into” generalized Gray ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8080237 | Use of tellurium compounds for protection from ultra-violet radiation Methods for treating skin conditions such as basal cell carcinoma and/or actinic keratosis are provided, which are effected by administering a pharmaceutically effective amount of a tellurium-containing compound. A pharmaceutical composition for treatment of skin co... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8079981 | Device for heating a flow of liquid by electrical heating of a metallic conduit A device (100) for heating a flow of liquid from an initial temperature to a desired temperature for intravenous delivery includes an elongated conduit (120) formed from metallic material having an inlet (102) for receiving the flow of liquid at... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8052705 | Instrument and method for scrubbing the corneal epithelium A scrubbing instrument for scrubbing the human eye corneal epithelium, including a handle, having a grip portion, a scrubbing head having a curved main scrubbing surface, and a connection arrangement for enabling connection of the scrubbing head to the handle and di... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8051721 | Shock sensor system and method A surface-mountable shock sensor configuration having substantially eliminated field calibration, comprising: a housing assembly; and a shock sensor replaceably mountable within the housing assembly, wherein the shock sensor configuration yields a repeatable shock r... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8051212 | Network interface adapter with shared data send resources A network interface adapter includes an outgoing packet generator, adapted to generate an outgoing request packet for delivery to a remote responder responsive to a request submitted by a host processor and a network output port, coupled to transmit the outgoing req... | 11/01/2011 |
