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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8154714 | Gas analyzer Gas analyzer systems and methods for measuring concentrations of gasses and in particular dry mole fraction of components of a gas. The systems and method allow for rapid measurement of the gas density and/or dry mole fraction of gases for a number of environmental ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8130379 | Gas analyzer Gas analyzer systems and methods for determining gas flux in a short intake tube configuration without using any Webb-Pearman-Leuning density correction. Gas analyzer systems and methods for measuring concentrations of gasses and in particular dry mole fraction of c... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8125626 | Hybrid gas analyzer Gas analyzer systems and methods for measuring concentrations of gasses and in particular dry mole fraction of components of a gas. The systems and method allow for rapid measurement of the gas density and/or dry mole fraction of gases for a number of environmental ... | 02/28/2012 |
| D654388 | Ball shaped squeezable whistle | 02/21/2012 |
| 8112445 | Custom entities and fields in a multi-tenant database system Systems and methods for hosting variable schema data such as dynamic tables and columns in a fixed physical database schema. Standard objects, such as tables are provided for use by multiple tenants or organizations in a multi-tenant database system. Each organizati... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8102593 | Quasi non-critical phase matched and contra-phase matched structures Adhesive-free bond non-linear optical (NLO) components, devices and systems including one or more engineered quasi non-critical phase matched or contra-phase matched NLO crystal doublets. Such systems and devices advantageously increase the efficiency of NLO frequen... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8095322 | Systems and methods for determining cross-talk coefficients in PCR and other data sets Systems and methods for determining cross-talk coefficients in curves, such as sigmoid-type or growth curves, and PCR curves and nucleic acid melting curves in particular, as well as for applying the cross-talk coefficients to produce cross-talk corrected data sets ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090934 | Systems and methods for providing security for computer systems Hardware and/or software countermeasures are provided to reduce or eliminate vulnerabilities due to the observable and/or predictable states and state transitions of microprocessor components such as instruction cache, data cache, branch prediction unit(s), branch t... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8051101 | Methods and procedures to provide complete test copy environment of hosted applications Systems and methods that create a duplicate database instance on which database testing may be performed. The techniques for creating a test database instance enable database testing to proceed without impacting other organization's access to their data in the datab... | 11/01/2011 |
| 7998293 | Surface-modified magnesium powders for use in pyrotechnic compositions Surface-modified metal fuels, which improve the stability in storage of pyrotechnics and methods for manufacturing such fuels, are provided. Improved storage stability is conferred either by alloying the precursor metal prior to the powder production process, or by ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7991562 | PCR elbow determination using curvature analysis of a double sigmoid Systems and methods for determining characteristic transition values such as elbow values in sigmoid or growth-type curves, such as the cycle threshold (Ct) value in PCR amplification curves. A double sigmoid function with parameters determined by a Levenberg-Marqua... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7991561 | Ct determination by cluster analysis with variable cluster endpoint Systems and methods for determining the cycle threshold (Ct) value in a kinetic PCR amplification curve. The PCR data set may be visualized in a two-dimensional plot of fluorescence intensity (y-axis) vs. cycle number (x-axis). The data set is transformed to produce... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7991558 | Systems and methods for determining real-time PCR cycle thresholds using cluster analysis Systems and methods for determining the elbow or Ct value in a real-time, or kinetic, PCR amplification curve data set. The PCR data set may be visualized in a two-dimensional plot of fluorescence intensity (y-axis) vs. cycle number (x-axis). The data set is transfo... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7954368 | Tire pressure monitoring system Tire pressure monitoring system for a vehicle includes sensor units mounted in each tire of the vehicle, each sensor unit being operable to output an RF signal indicative of the pressure in the tire in which it is mounted; a pair of communicator units for receiving ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7951167 | Fluidtight puncturing and occlusion device for anatomical structure A combined device for plugging and fluidtight puncturing of a wall of a hollow organ, comprising a head bearing a surgical staple for the wall of the hollow organ, a fluidtight puncturing system comprising a puncturing device and a hollow channel, a keeping means fo... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7949684 | Systems and methods for exporting, publishing, browsing and installing on-demand applications in a multi-tenant database environment In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for creating, exporting, viewing and testing, and importing custom applications in a multi-tenant database environment. These mechanisms and methods can enable embodiments to provide a vehicle... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7870479 | Electronic in-application postcards A system, method and apparatus are disclosed for generating a composite message representative of an application experience to be sent to a remote recipient by receiving a user input selecting multimedia information provided by an application, generating a message f... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7856899 | Vent and soil flux measurement system A method and apparatus are provided for maintaining pressure inside a closed chamber equal to the changing outside pressure, detecting leaks in the plumbing (i.e., air handling system) of a trace gas flux measurement system, and estimating the kinetic volume, e.g., ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7844403 | Temperature step correction with double sigmoid Levenberg-Marquardt and robust linear regression Systems and methods for improving Ct determination in PCR amplification curves by correcting PCR data for temperature shifts that may occur during the PCR process. A double sigmoid function with parameters determined by a Levenberg-Marquardt (LM) regression process ... | 11/30/2010 |
| D626873 | Ball shaped squeezable whistle | 11/09/2010 |
| 7820106 | Sensor platform, apparatus incorporating the platform and process using the platform A sensor platform for use in sample analysis comprises a substrate (30) of refractive index (n1) and a thin, optically transparent layer (32) of refractive index (n2) on the substrate, (n2) is greater than (n1 | 10/26/2010 |
| RE41822 | Tag | 10/19/2010 |
| RE41677 | Hybrid subdivision in computer graphics Different limit surfaces are derived from the same initial arbitrary polygon mesh by sequentially combining different subdivision rules. This added freedom allows for the more efficiently modeling of objects in computer graphics including objects and characters with... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7779039 | Custom entities and fields in a multi-tenant database system Systems and methods for hosting variable schema data such as dynamic tables and columns in a fixed physical database schema. Standard objects, such as tables are provided for use by multiple tenants or organizations in a multi-tenant database system. Each organizati... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7774931 | Method of fabricating an integrated intraocular retinal prosthesis device Intraocular retinal prosthesis devices and methods for fabricating the same. A prosthesis device includes a cable region that connects an electrode array region with a power and data management region. The electrode array region includes one or more arrays of expose... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7774366 | Systems and methods for implementing multi-application tabs and tab sets A sharing model enables users to easily and conveniently create and share standard and custom database objects, and applications, among users or groups of users. The sharing model includes systems and methods that allow users to conveniently create and customize tab... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7750906 | Systems and methods for light pruning The effective illumination volume (e.g., angular spread and falloff) of each light source in an object model scene can be represented by a simple geometry. Geometry-based culling techniques then can be used to automatically remove or de-activate lights for a frame, ... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7680892 | Method and system for monitoring email and website behavior of an email recipient A system for monitoring email and website behavior of an email recipient is provided. According to one exemplary embodiment, the system includes a mail enhancement server and a logging server. The mail enhancement server is configured to intercept all outgoing email... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7680868 | PCR elbow determination by use of a double sigmoid function curve fit with the Levenburg-Marquardt algorithm and normalization Systems and methods for determining characteristic transition values such as elbow values in sigmoid or growth-type curves, such as the cycle threshold (Ct) value in PCR amplification curves. A double sigmoid function with parameters determined by a Levenberg-Marqua... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7680604 | PCR elbow determination by rotational transform after zero slope alignment Systems and methods for determining the elbow or Ct value in a real-time, or kinetic, PCR amplification curve data set. A PCR data set may be visualized in a two-dimensional plot of fluorescence intensity vs. cycle number. The data set may be adjusted to have a zero... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7680603 | Systems and methods for determining real-time PCR cycle thresholds using a rotation transformation Systems and methods for determining the elbow or Ct value in a real-time, or kinetic, PCR amplification curve data set. The PCR data set may be visualized in a two-dimensional plot of fluorescence intensity vs. cycle number. A rotation transform is applied to the da... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7668663 | Levenberg-Marquardt outlier spike removal method Systems and methods for identifying and removing spikes in data sets representing PCR growth curves or other sigmoid type curves or growth curves. A double sigmoid function with parameters determined using a Levenberg-Marquardt regression algorithm is used to find a... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7648047 | Rotary screw escapement device and methods of use thereof Apparatus that receives multiple screws serially from a vibrating bowl with a single exit ramp, collects a plurality, e.g., six, of screws and distributes the plurality of screws simultaneously to different tubes in one assembly. A rotary holder having a plurality o... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7634505 | Methods and procedures to provide complete test copy environment of hosted applications Systems and methods that create a duplicate database instance on which database testing may be performed. The techniques for creating a test database instance enable database testing to proceed without impacting other organization's access to their data in the datab... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7540412 | Interactive multimedia smart affinity card A multipurpose card, including, a multimedia card portion and a second card portion wherein the two card portions releasably cover the multimedia surface of the multimedia card portion. The multimedia card portion can include CD, DVD, or other media technology, whil... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7529728 | Query optimization in a multi-tenant database system More efficient querying of a multi-tenant database using dynamic tuning of database indices. A layer of meta-data associates data items with tenants, e.g., via tags, and the meta-data is used to optimize searches by channeling processing resources during a query to ... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7492372 | Overlap density (OD) heatmaps and consensus data displays Systems and methods that generate or provide overlap displays of multiple sets of data in a manner that advantageously simplifies trend visualization in large sets of data. A 2-dimensional occurrence count array is generated for a plurality of similar data sets. Eac... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7408151 | Dynamic biasing of ion optics in a mass spectrometer A device for dynamically biasing an ion optic element, for example, in a mass spectrometer. The device includes a voltage source, a first ion optical element coupled with the voltage source, a second ion optical element resistively coupled with the first ion optical... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7404206 | Network security devices and methods An OSI layer 2 network device on the edge of a network such as a SAN is configured to replace the original source address of traffic entering the network with a known identifier or address, which is used to signify that entry point as the traffic source to the other... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7395653 | Systems and methods for automatically picking and coring lettuce and cabbage Apparatus and methods for picking and coring produce heads. A righting mechanism receives and orients planted produce heads, and when a planted head is in a position to be severed, a lift arm and clamp wheel are controlled to position a clamp proximal to the planted... | 07/08/2008 |
