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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8182121 | Cover with attachment portion and flexible body The present invention relates to a device for covering an area, which device comprises an attachment portion and a body. Said body is designed partly spherical made of a flexible material and designed as a cover with a wall essentially extending around the entire co... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181834 | Backpack A backpack comprises a load carrying section with a forwardly facing front panel. A pair of mutually spaced sleeves are joined to and border the sides of the front panel. An injection molded generally U-shaped partial perimeter frame has a base bordering a bottom of... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8176329 | Scanned image disclosure apparatus, method and storage medium; electronic mail transmission apparatus, method and storage medium; and internet facsimile transmission apparatus A scanned image disclosure apparatus has a disclosure unit that encrypts and discloses to a disclosure destination a scanned image by using a public key or a private key relating to a public key certificate that has been verified to be valid, a re-verification unit ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8162515 | Lighting device A lighting device (10) for use within a light box or light panel and comprising a housing with generally parallel upper and lower walls (11, 12) and diverging side walls (13, 14) with one or more LEDs (18) disposed within the housing on a... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160404 | High speed and low loss GeSi/Si electro-absorption light modulator and method of fabrication using selective growth An optoelectronic device includes an input waveguide structure that receives an input optical signal. A GeSi/Si waveguide structure receives from the input waveguide the input optical signal and performs selective optoelectronic operations on the input optical signa... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154729 | Near field detector for integrated surface plasmon resonance biosensor applications A near-field surface plasmon detector is provided. The near-field surface plasmon detector includes one or more semiconductor layers that absorb one or more surface plasmons of thin metal films in the vicinity of the semiconductor layer. The surface plasmons are exc... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154063 | Ultrafast and ultrasensitive novel photodetectors A photodetector is provided that includes a FET structure with a channel structure having one or more nanowire structures. Noble metal nanoparticles are positioned on the channel structure so as to produce a functionalized channel structure. The functionalized chann... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8148001 | Devices for storing energy in the mechanical deformation of nanotube molecules and recovering the energy from mechanically deformed nanotube molecules An energy storage device includes at least one nanotube. An energy storage mechanism converts energy external to the device into the appropriate levels of strain on the at least one nanotube to produce stored energy, and an energy recovery mechanism converts the ene... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8147914 | Orientation-controlled self-assembled nanolithography using a block copolymer Disclosed is a structure made of a trench patterned substrate having a pre-determined trench period and a pre-determined mesa to trench width ratio, and a block copolymer on top of the trench patterned substrate. The block copolymer has at least an organic block and... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8146489 | System for transporting and/or washing and/or pasteurisation thermal treatment of foodstuffs, particularly leaf products The present invention relates to a system for transporting and/or washing and/or pasteurization thermal treatment of foodstuffs, particularly leaf products comprising at least a treatment section. The treatment section can be comprised of one or more sections of rec... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145118 | Image-forming system, paper curl correction apparatus, image-forming apparatus, post-processing apparatus, and computer-readable medium for controlling paper curl correction There is provided a paper curl correction apparatus including: an input curl determining unit that determines, on the basis of curl characteristic information of a first apparatus which processes a sheet, input curl information corresponding to an amount of curl of ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8143601 | Nanoscale imaging via absorption modulation An imaging system is provided. The imaging system includes a sample to be scanned by the imaging system. An absorbance modulation layer (AML) is positioned in close proximity to the sample and is physically separate from the sample. One or more sub-wavelength apertu... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8141362 | Closed cycle heat transfer device and method A closed cycle heat transfer device comprising a boiler (10) and a condenser (13), the condenser being used to recover useful heat by latent heat evaporation. A circuit defined by the boiler (10), condenser (13) and ducts (12, 15) ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140772 | System and method for maintaining redundant storages coherent using sliding windows of eager execution transactions A system and method are disclosed for maintaining a plurality of data storages coherent with one another for redundancy purposes. The system includes a first data storage system and a second data storage system. The first data storage system is coupled to a first tr... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139870 | Image processing apparatus, recording medium, computer data signal, and image processing method There is provided an image processing apparatus including a character recognition section that executes character recognition on an input document image and outputs a character recognition result, an item name extraction section that extracts a character string rele... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8138843 | Gated ring oscillator for a time-to-digital converter with shaped quantization noise Described is a compact, lower power gated ring oscillator time-to-digital converter that achieves first order noise shaping of quantization noise using a digital implementation. The gated ring oscillator time-to-digital converter includes a plurality of delay stages... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8130402 | Image forming system, storage medium, and image forming method A first acquiring unit acquires a print target image. A storage unit has stored thereon a combination image to be combined with the print target image in association with a judgment condition for determining whether the combination image is combined with the print t... | 03/06/2012 |
| D654359 | Mailing tray | 02/21/2012 |
| 8115939 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method and storage medium storing image processing An image processing apparatus has a processing condition setting section, a reference image processing section and a processing condition registration section. The processing condition setting section sets an image processing condition to input image data. The input... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115203 | Photoconductors for mid-/far-IR detection An infrared photodiode structure is provided. The infrared photodiode structure includes a doped semiconductor layer having ions of certain conductivity. An active photodetecting region is positioned on the doped semiconductor layer for detecting an infrared light s... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8114966 | Peptide-based passive immunization therapy for treatment of atherosclerosis The present invention relates to passive immunization for treating or preventing atherosclerosis using an isolated human antibody directed towards at least one oxidized fragment of apolipoprotein B in the manufacture of a pharmaceutical composition for therapeutical... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8094370 | Cladding pumped fibre laser with a high degree of pump isolation An optical fibre laser or amplifier device is disclosed, comprising: a rare-earth-doped multi-clad optical fibre having at least three cladding layers, one or more multimode pump laser diodes, and a means of multiplexing a laser signal and the pumping radiation, ada... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8089644 | Image-processing device, recording medium, and method There is provided an image-processing device having a receiving unit that receives first variable print data including a plurality of records and designation information designating a rendering program; an image generation unit that performs the image generation pro... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8088367 | Gall midge pheromone mixture The present invention relates to a pheromone composition for attracting male Hessian fly, Mayetiola destructor (Say), for monitoring and/or combating purpose, said composition consisting of (2S,10E)-I-O-tridecen-2-yl acetate (2S-E10-13:OAc), (2S)-tridecan-2-y... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086570 | Secure document management using distributed hashing The document management server includes an identification information providing unit that receives a request to obtain identification information required for accessing a document from a client, generates the identification information for the received request, and ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8084706 | System and method for laser processing at non-constant velocities A method is disclosed for on-the-fly processing at least one structure of a group of structures with a pulsed laser output. The method includes the steps of relatively positioning the group of structures and the pulsed laser output axis with non-constant velocity, a... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082931 | Apparatus for washing and drying leaf products and more generically vegetables The invention relates to an apparatus (1) for washing and drying leaf products and more generically vegetables, comprising a frame (2), a centrifugation basket (3), a container (tank) (4) within which said centrifugation basket (3)... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082840 | System for pasteurisation thermal treatment of foodstuffs, particularly leaf product The present invention relates to a system for pasteurization thermal treatment of foodstuffs, particularly leaf products, comprised of means for loading the product to be subjected to treatment and means for discharging the treated product. The system is comprised o... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8079604 | Skateboard providing substantial freedom of movement of the front truck assembly A skateboard is disclosed that includes a rear wheel system and a front wheel system. The rear wheel system includes a pair of rear wheels that are mounted on a rear axle that is coupled to a rear truck that is attached to an underside of a rear portion of a board. ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8079426 | Integrated drilling deck and bop handling A method for handling a blow-out-preventer on a drilling platform and a drilling platform having a lower pontoon structure; a plurality of columns extending upwards from the lower pontoon structure; an upper deck structure connecting the upper deck structure connect... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8079089 | Information usage control system and information usage control device A system includes: first and second devices that each register, in response to a request from a user, control information for target information in a memory, and provide, upon receipt of a request for usage information concerning the target information from the user... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077309 | Chemical analyzer for industrial process control An optical apparatus for measurement of industrial chemical processes. The analyzer uses Raman scattering and performs measurement of chemical concentrations in continuous or batch processes. The analyzer operates at a standoff distance from the analyte (or analytes... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8072676 | Programmable window: a device for controlling the opacity of small-scale areas within a large-scale transparent membrane Disclosed is a system and method to affect natural lighting profiles in a programmable window made from a single transparent membrane, wherein the method comprises: forming a matrix comprising of pixel elements within the single transparent membrane, setting (in a p... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8069243 | Document management server, method, storage medium and computer data signal, and system for managing document use There is provided a document management server including a receiving unit that receives an access request and a first ID representing a document to be an object of the access request, an ID processing unit that issues, when an operation is performed on the document ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8065743 | Content use management system, content-providing system, content-using device and computer readable medium A content use management system includes a content-providing system and a content-using device. The content-providing system includes a providing unit that provides, to the content-using device, digital content having content identification information corresponding... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064689 | Image processor, image-processing method, and computer-readable medium An image processor has: a unit that executes a conversion process on input image data represented by pixels of M grayscales (M≧3), to convert the input data into output image data represented by sub-pixels of two grayscales; and a unit that outputs the output data... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8063413 | Tensile strained GE for electronic and optoelectronic applications A semiconductor structure is provided. The semiconductor structure includes one or more III-IV material-based semiconductor layers. A tensile-strained Ge layer is formed on the one or more a III-IV material-based semiconductor layers. The tensile-strained Ge layer i... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8052835 | System and method for removing incorrect labels from a web of labels An incorrect label removal system is disclosed for removing unwanted labels from a web of labels in a labeling machine. The incorrect label removal system includes a label peel assembly positioned between two fixed points along the direction of travel of the web of ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8052324 | Thin film ceramic thermocouples A thin film ceramic thermocouple (10) having two ceramic thermocouple (12, 14) that are in contact with each other in at least on point to form a junction, and wherein each element was prepared in a different oxygen/nitrogen/argon plasma. Since each el... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8049963 | Multiple-wavelength binary diffractive lenses A dichromatic lens includes a plurality of zones being arranged on a lens structure, each of the zones having a specified radius and varying height. The lens structure focuses propagating light applicable to any intensity distribution for a plurality of wavelengths.... | 11/01/2011 |
