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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7898442 | On-line data compression analysis and regulation Data compression efficacy in a data storage system is analyzed, and data compression modified in accordance with the results of such analysis, thereby saving otherwise wasted processor time when data compression is poor. Multiple input data blocks are received for s... | 03/01/2011 |
| 6338343 | Airway device with provision for lateral alignment, depth positioning, and retention in an airway An airway device for sealing against the laryngeal opening includes an air tube with proximal and distal ends and a sealing member attached to the distal end. The sealing member has a distal portion with a pair of opposing lateral flanges for engaging the... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6320093 | Bandage for autolytic wound debridement A bandage for autolytic debridement includes a fluid-impermeable enclosure having a sidewall forming a margin defining an opening, and a skin-facing surface that surrounds the opening. An attachment means is disposed on the skin-facing to attach the enclo... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6305063 | Method of manufacturing a golf club head A golf club head of the metal wood type has a body formed entirely from one billet of high strength aluminum alloy with a separate sole plate of the same or different material secured in a machined recess on the lower face of the body. The body has an int... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6301370 | Face recognition from video images The present invention is embodied in an apparatus, and related method, for detecting and recognizing an object in an image frame. The object may be, for example, a head having particular facial characteristics. The object detection process uses robust and... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6293917 | Wound treatment device for attachment to skin A non-contact wound treatment device having a flexible portion to accommodate patient motion without peeling off. A removable heater may be included which is suspended above the wound to define a treatment volume, where the heater heats the treatment volu... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6290716 | Convertible thermal blanket One or more portions of an inflatable thermal blanket that is sized sufficiently to fully cover a patient are gathered and maintained in a non-inflated condition by a closure such that a thermally-controlled inflating medium admitted into the blanket is p... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6287327 | Inflateable thermal blanket A thermal blanket includes an inflatable covering with a head end, a foot end, two edges and an undersurface. The covering is inflated through an inlet at the foot end by a thermally-controlled inflating medium. An aperture array on the undersurface of th... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6283931 | Tissue treatment apparatus A wound treatment apparatus is provided which includes a thermally conductive bandage, a heater disposed against the bandage, aligned with a wound treatment area, an adhesive attachment device acting between the heater and the bandage, and a controller th... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6273170 | Label shuttle and clamp bar assembly for a label placement machine A label placement machine used for placing labels on articles, the label placement machine including a label supply having one or more labels, a label shuttle assembly capable of retrieving a label from the label supply and transporting the label from the... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6272160 | High-speed CMOS driver for vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers High-speed driver circuits interface with and enhance the performance of vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) diodes used within fiber optic communication systems, according to embodiments of the invention. A reference diode is formed from a fir... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6272231 | Wavelet-based facial motion capture for avatar animation The present invention is embodied in an apparatus, and related method, for sensing a person's facial movements, features and characteristics and the like to generate and animate an avatar image based on facial sensing. The avatar apparatus uses an image p... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6266098 | Function presentation and selection using a rotatable function menu Function representation and selection in a multi-function system that supports user selection of system function by means of a menu-driven graphical user interface includes displaying a rotatable function menu. The rotatable function menu includes a plura... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6264622 | Normothermic heater wound covering A non-contact controllable heater wound covering and method having a peripheral sealing ring covered by a layer to which is attached a heater and this assembly is attached to the skin with an adhesive so that the heater is held proximate the wound area in... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6262870 | Suppression of electrostatic interference from a transformer with a short ring A multi-winding transformer with a short ring includes an electrically conductive discharge path connected to the short ring for discharging the short ring and/or the transformer. Discharging the short ring suppresses or eliminates electrostatic interfere... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6254337 | Low noise air blower unit for inflating thermal blankets An air blower unit operates with reduced noise while providing a stream of warmed air. The blower unit includes a housing with an inlet at a first end and an outlet at a second end. A support positions the housing above a support surface such that the inl... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6254557 | Wound treatment apparatus with infrared absorptive wound cover A wound treatment apparatus is provided which includes a bandage that absorbs energy in the infrared (IR) range of the electromagnetic spectrum, a heater that generates heat, and an attachment apparatus for retaining the heater over or on the bandage. The... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6241698 | Near hyperthermic heater wound covering A non-contact controllable heater wound covering having a peripheral sealing ring covered by a layer to which is attached a heater and this assembly is attached to the skin with an adhesive so that the heater is held proximate the wound area in a non-cont... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6241755 | Inlet port plug for inflatable thermal blankets The present invention is a method and apparatus for conveniently and removably sealing inlet ports within an inflatable thermal blanket. In accordance with the present invention a generally planar sheet of material having a plurality of resilient side ext... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6228107 | Inlet port plug for inflatable blankets The present invention is a method and apparatus for conveniently and removably sealing inlet ports within an inflatable thermal blanket. In accordance with the present invention a generally planar sheet of material having a plurality of resilient side ext... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6224623 | Support apparatus which cradles a body portion for application of localized cooling to high contact-pressure body surface areas A weight-bearing apparatus such as a cushion, prosthetic device, or bed mattress includes a support surface having a shaped or sculpted portion that conforms to the shape of a body portion being supported. The shaped portion fits to the body portion, ther... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6222470 | Voltage/current reference with digitally programmable temperature coefficient A circuit yielding a precise, programmable, finite temperature coefficient, in the form of either current or voltage, has been provided. Temperature independent and temperature dependent currents are manipulated through the use of digital to analog conver... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6217535 | Normothermic heater wound covering A non-contact controllable heater wound covering and method having a peripheral sealing ring covered by a layer to which is attached a heater and this assembly is attached to the skin with an adhesive so that the heater is held proximate the wound area in... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6213965 | Wound treatment apparatus with infrared absorptive wound cover A wound treatment apparatus is provided which includes a bandage that absorbs energy in the infrared (IR) range of the electromagnetic spectrum, a heater that generates heat, and an attachment apparatus for retaining the heater over or on the bandage. The... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6213966 | Normothermic tissue heating wound covering A non-contact heated wound covering preferably having a peripheral sealing ring covered by a layer to which is attached a heater and this assembly is attached to the skin with an adhesive so that the heater is held proximate the wound area in a non-contac... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6211721 | Multiplexer with short propagation delay and low power consumption A digital multiplexer with low power consumption and a data to output propagation delay of about one gate includes a plurality of pairs of emitter coupled input transistors. The emitters of each pair of input transistors are connected to the collector of ... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6210427 | Support apparatus with a plurality of thermal zones providing localized cooling An apparatus for supporting a human or animal body, while selectively cooling weight-bearing areas of the body in order to prevent or reduce damage from ischemia includes a cooling layer that is partitioned into a plurality of zones, and a surface dispose... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6203567 | Surgical barrier device incorporating an inflatable thermal blanket with a surgical drape to provide thermal control and surgical access A surgical barrier device includes an inflatable thermal blanket formed integrally with, or attached to, a surgical drape. The inflatable thermal blanket is inflatable through an inlet by a thermally-controlled inflating medium. An aperture array on the u... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6201443 | Radio frequency variable gain amplifier fabricated in complementary metal oxide semiconductor technology The VGA according to the present invention generally includes a first gain cell, a second gain cell that is operably connected to the first gain cell, and a current control circuit portion that is operably connected to the first and second gain cells. The... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6201897 | Transformation and selective inverse transformation of large digital images Image transformation and selective inverse transformation is implemented by performing DWT-based transformation on very large images using single or multi-CPU architectures without requiring large amounts of computer memory. The compression of a large ima... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6198352 | Radio frequency low noise amplifier fabricated in complementary metal oxide semiconductor technology The low noise amplifier (LNA) of the present invention comprises an input stage including an input inductor and an input circuit portion. The input circuit portion is operably connected to the input inductor and includes an input gain portion. The LNA fur... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6176870 | Inflatable thermal blanket with surgical access for use with patients in the lithotomy position An inflatable thermal blanket includes an inflatable covering inflated through an inlet by a thermally-controlled inflating medium. An aperture array on the undersurface of the inflatable covering exhausts the thermally controlled inflating medium from th... | 01/23/2001 |
| 6169421 | Complementary metal-oxide semiconductor buffer A CMOS buffer for interfacing TTL-standard signals and capable of driving a high capacitance load such as a transmission line with low switching noise and low power consumption. The CMOS buffer includes two CMOS branch circuits that control the operation ... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6168612 | Inflatable thermal blanket with a multilayer sheet An inflatable thermal blanket with a multilayer sheet and a method of use are disclosed for delivering thermally-controlled air to a person. The apparatus includes an inflatable structure formed from joining a first sheet and a second sheet. An inlet is p... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6154361 | Disk-drive chassis for reducing transmission of vibrations between disk-drive units of a disk-drive array A disk-drive chassis of the invention has stiffening and damping members for reducing the transmission of vibrations between disk-drive units of a disk-drive array. The stiffening members include vertical dividers that are mechanically coupled between top... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6147576 | Filter designs utilizing parasitic and field effects A method for designing a filtering device essentially comprising the steps of determining a desired response of the filtering device at a selected frequency; and selecting a circuit element that exhibits a parasitic effect at the selected frequency, where... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6143945 | Bandage for autolytic wound debridement A bandage for autolytic debridement includes a fluid-impermeable enclosure having a sidewall forming a margin defining an opening, and a skin-facing surface that surrounds the opening. An attachment means is disposed on the skin-facing to attach the enclo... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6137494 | Method and means for evaluating a tetrahedral linear interpolation function A method of evaluating a tetrahedral linear interpolation function utilizes a table preparation process and a linear interpolating process. In the table preparation process, values v and domain points p of the function are related by two tetrahedral inter... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6131509 | Method and apparatus for perforating and crushing containers An apparatus and method of use is disclosed for a machine used for perforating and flattening or crushing containers of varying sizes and materials. The disclosed machine has a frame having an input opening and a discharge opening. A first plurality of sh... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6128668 | Selective transformation of multimedia objects Dynamically transforming transfer parameters for a media object to allow efficient transmission of the object from a first system to a second system. The transformer may receive transfer feedback and is configured such that it dynamically modifies system ... | 10/03/2000 |
