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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7937621 | Transient fault detection by integrating an SRMT code and a non SRMT code in a single application Disclosed is a method for running a first code generated by a Software-based Redundant Multi-Threading (SRMT) compiler along with a second code generated by a normal compiler at runtime, the first code including a first function and a second function, the second cod... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937620 | Transient fault detection by integrating an SRMT code and a non SRMT code in a single application Disclosed is a method for running a first code generated by a Software-based Redundant Multi-Threading (SRMT) compiler along with a second code generated by a normal compiler at runtime, the first code including a first function and a second function, the second cod... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7935536 | System for water removal and solvent evaporation An apparatus and method for separating residual water from a solvent and removing a solvent. The apparatus may be sealed and automated. The method comprises providing a solution comprising solvent and residual water and an analyte. The solution may be passed through... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7935198 | Glass stability, glass forming ability, and microstructural refinement The present invention relates to the addition of niobium to iron based glass forming alloys. More particularly, the present invention is related to changing the nature of crystallization resulting in glass formation that may remain stable at much higher temperatures... | 05/03/2011 |
| D636991 | Spectacle case | 05/03/2011 |
| 7931401 | Temperature sensor A temperature sensor including a housing and a temperature sensing element at least partially disposed in the housing. A particulate media, which may include a blend of differently sized particles, is disposed in the housing and at least partially surrounds the temp... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7930996 | Durable bone with soft core The present invention, in one exemplary embodiment, relates a method of manufacturing an animal chew by molding two body portions of a first material each having at least one concave surface and one or more through holes, attaching the two portions together such tha... | 04/26/2011 |
| D636949 | Teething pet chew | 04/26/2011 |
| D636948 | Receiver pet chew | 04/26/2011 |
| D636664 | Container | 04/26/2011 |
| 7930379 | Interface for a delay-tolerant network The present disclosure provides a method for delay tolerant networking. According to one exemplary embodiment, the method may include transmitting a file from a first node associated with a first network to at least one intermediate node via a file-system interface.... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7930337 | Multiplying two numbers Techniques are described to multiply two numbers, A and B. In general, multiplication is performed by using Karatsuba multiplication on the segments of A and B and adjusting the Karatsuba multiplication based on the values of the most significant bits of A and B. | 04/19/2011 |
| 7929536 | Buffer management for communication protocols A method according to one embodiment may include storing data in a send buffer. A transmission header may be created, in which the transmission header may include a pointer to the data in the send buffer. Packets may be transmitted, in which the packets include the ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7925011 | Method for simultaneous modular exponentiations The present disclosure provides a method for performing modular exponentiation. The method may include generating a first remainder (xp) based on an encrypted message (X) modulo a first prime number (p) and generating a second remainder (xq) based on the encrypted m... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924955 | Method and article of estimating of phase and gain mismatch and corresponding method and device for receiving a digital base band signal The method is for estimating a phase and gain mismatch of a base band digital signal. It comprises: determining (10) weight coefficients depending upon the likelihood of the frequency values of a segment of said base band di... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924757 | Method for improving power efficiency of subscriber stations Disclosed is a method for improving power efficiency of subscriber stations in a communication network. A subscriber station is uniquely identified by a base station using a connection Identifier (CID). The method includes splitting CIDs of subscriber stations to fo... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924497 | System and method for gain equalization and optical communication system incorporating the same An optical amplifier including gain equalization and system incorporating the same. The amplifier includes a Raman portion and an EDFA portion with a gain flattening filter coupled between the Raman portion and the EDFA. ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7923046 | Production method of food and beverage products with high content of γ-aminobutyric acid and food and beverage products with high content of γ-aminobutyric acid A method for producing food and beverage products with a high content of γ-aminobutyric acid, wherein processed tomato products whose filtrate has a coloring degree between 0.02 and 0.2 when sugar content is adjusted to 3% are fermented with lactic acid bacteria, a... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7915365 | Absorbing materials containing polycarboxylic acid polymers The present invention relates to methods of forming absorbent materials and polymers used in absorbent materials, which are based upon vinyl type monomers that contain pendant carboxylic acid groups and ester group functionality. The polymers may be prepared under s... | 03/29/2011 |
| D635309 | Floppy pet chew | 03/29/2011 |
| 7912886 | Configurable exponent FIFO The present disclosure provides a system and method for performing modular exponentiation. The method includes loading a first word of a vector from memory into a first register and subsequently loading the first word from the first register to a second register. Th... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7911463 | Power supply topologies for inverter operations and power factor correction operations A method according to one embodiment may include generating, by a controller, a plurality of control signals to control operations of inverter circuitry to generate an AC signal from a DC signal. The method of this embodiment may also include using the control signa... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7910677 | Detergents containing polycarboxylic acid polymers The present invention relates to methods and polymers based upon vinyl type monomers that contain pendant carboxylic acid groups and ester group functionality. The polymers may be prepared under selected conditions of partial neutralization to provide relatively hig... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7910164 | Bifunctional magnetic core-semiconductor shell nanoparticles and manufacturing method thereof Provided are bifunctional magnetic core-semiconductor shell nanoparticles and a manufacturing method thereof. The method includes mixing magnetic core material precursors and a reducing agent for the core material precursors; preparing a first mixture solution; heat... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7908423 | Memory apparatus, and method of averagely using blocks of a flash memory A flash memory controller for averagely using blocks of a flash memory and the method thereof are provided. The flash memory controller is configured to process wear-leveling by allocating frequently updated data in less-erased blocks, and, allocating less-updated d... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7907418 | Circuit board including stubless signal paths and method of making same A circuit board may include first and second sides, a plurality of circuit board layers between the sides, and a plurality of signal traces located in respective circuit board layers. The circuit board layers and the signal traces may extend from a first component c... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7900022 | Programmable processing unit with an input buffer and output buffer configured to exclusively exchange data with either a shared memory logic or a multiplier based upon a mode instruction In general, in one aspect, a processing unit includes an input buffer to store data received by the processing unit, a memory, an arithmetic logic unit coupled to the input buffer and to the memory, an output buffer; and control logic having access to a control stor... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7899045 | TCP multicast system and method A method, computer program product, system (including a circuit card), and integrated circuit for identifying a plurality of recipients to receive a single data payload. An identifier concerning each of the plurality of recipients is provided to an offload engine. T... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7895906 | Sensor system including a magnetized shaft A sensor includes a shaft and a magnetic sensor. The shaft may have at least one magnetized active region. The magnetic sensor may be configured to sense a magnetic field about the shaft, and may provide an output representative of torque applied to the shaft, shaft... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7894420 | Fast path packet destination mechanism for network mobility via secure PKI channel Disclosed is a method for reducing routing overheads during data transmission to a destination mobile router of a plurality of mobile routers roaming in a network. The method comprises registering by top level mobile routers with a central authority server, sending ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7892622 | Method for manufacturing a tufted product, tufted product, and use thereof The object of the invention is to provide a method which is as simple and economical as possible for manufacturing a tufted product, in particular a tufted top layer of a carpet, having improved nep adhesion properties. For this purpose splittable fibers are used wh... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7891824 | Reflector for a lighting device and illumination system of a projection apparatus A reflector for the lighting device and an illumination system of the projection apparatus are provided. The reflector comprises a first reflecting structure and a second reflecting structure disposed on the portion of the first reflecting structure. The reflecting ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7887192 | Method and prism for improving illumination efficiency in optical projection system A method and a prism for improving illumination efficiency in an optical projection system are disclosed. Two dichroic mirrors for both red-reflecting and blue-reflecting lights are utilised for dividing illumination light in the optical projection system. Furthermo... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7886722 | Fuel tank for a motor vehicle The invention concerns a fuel tank for a motor vehicle, comprising at least one venting device which is connected to a fuel vapor filter, wherein the venting device includes at least one collecting container for receiving liquid fuel. The fuel tank is distinguished ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7884529 | Diaphragm membrane and supporting structure responsive to environmental conditions An acoustic transducer is disclosed that is capable of converting mechanical motion into acoustical energy may include a diaphragm and a support on one portion of the diaphragm. An actuator may then be provided that is operatively coupled to a second portion of the ... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7881611 | Optical fiber transmission system with noise loading A system and method for loading unutilized channels of a WDM system with noise to improve system performance. A transmitter amplifier may impart noise to unutilized channels by reducing amplifier input or providing feedback of the amplifier output. Noise signals may... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7847783 | Controller circuitry for light emitting diodes A method according to one embodiment may include supplying power to an LED array having at least a first string of LEDs and a second string of LEDs coupled in parallel, each of the strings includes at least two LEDs. The method of this embodiment may also include co... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7845243 | Torque sensor assembly A torque sensing assembly (10) includes a first sensor assembly (50) configured for sensing at least a portion of a magnetic field of a first portion (22) of a rotating shaft assembly (12) and generating a first signal (52). A seco... | 12/07/2010 |
| D631857 | Light emitting diode | 02/01/2011 |
| 7877019 | Optical receiver including a system and method of controlling gain of an optical amplifier A receiver for a differentially phase shift keying formatted optical signal, such as an RZ-DPSK formatted optical signal. Dither control loops are provided for controlling path length in a demodulator and/or for controlling the center wavelength of an optical band p... | 01/25/2011 |
