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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8182855 | Fish food containing fermented soyfood The present invention relates to an enriched fish food product comprising a binder resin and a fermented soy nutraceutical. Optionally the nutraceutical may contain enzymes or coenzymes. Also, the enriched fish food product may be formed by mixing a resin with the f... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182220 | Kinetically modulated fan structure A kinetically modulated fan structure is provided. The fan structure comprises a housing, a plurality of blades and an equilibrating structure, wherein the equilibrating structure is disposed on the inner side of the housing, and formed integrally with the housing a... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180882 | Distributed messaging system and method for sharing network status data A distributed messaging system and method allows servers in a network to share data, such as network status data associated with all of the servers in the network. In one embodiment, the distributed messaging system and method may be used in element management syste... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175823 | Probing analog signals A device, comprising a monitoring slicer adapted to repeatedly sample an internal analog signal to provide a sequence of digital outputs indicating a result of a comparison of the level of the internal analog signal to a reference voltage and an operative unit adapt... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172648 | Chemical-mechanical planarization pad The present disclosure relates to a polishing pad including a chemical agent present in an amount sufficient to be released and dissolving into an aqueous abrasive particle polishing medium during chemical mechanical planarization and reducing abrasive particle aggl... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171225 | Cache for a multi thread and multi core system and methods thereof A method includes storing a plurality of data RAM, holding information for all outstanding requests forwarded to a next-level memory subsystem, clearing information associated with a serviced request after the request has been fulfilled, determining if a subsequent ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171205 | Wrap-around sequence numbers for recovering from power-fall in non-volatile memory Incrementing sequence numbers in the metadata of non-volatile memory is used in the event of a resume from power fail to determine which data in the memory is current and valid, and which data is not. To reduce the amount of metadata space consumed by these sequence... | 05/01/2012 |
| D658707 | Spectacles temple | 05/01/2012 |
| D658705 | Spectacles | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164799 | Digitally printed color anti-copy document in any resolution and processes and products therefor The present invention relates to a method and product resulting from the application of distortion security images in a digitally printed color anti-copy document, printed on demand, which may be variable use laser printers or printer/copiers and/or ink-jet printers... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8162533 | Mixing method for powder material and liquid material, and mixer A mixer of the present invention includes an outer cylinder into which powder material is loaded, a rotational axis which is located coaxially with the outer cylinder and discharges liquid material while forming the liquid material to fine particles, and a fin which... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8157883 | Compressible filter element having end caps inclined to one another A filter element, comprising a first component, a second component, and a filter medium, which is situated between the components, the components being spaced apart by the filter medium, the components and the filter medium delimiting a permeable volume, and the fil... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156839 | Vehicle gear box actuator A vehicle gear box shift actuator and apparatus including the same. The actuator includes a lead screw; a drive nut threaded on the lead screw; a plunger; a first spring disposed between the drive nut and a first end of the plunger; a second spring disposed between ... | 04/17/2012 |
| D657314 | Power connector | 04/10/2012 |
| D657238 | Container | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150981 | Flexible and extensible receive side scaling In an embodiment, a method is provided. The method of this embodiment provides in response to receiving a packet, looking up a packet characteristic in one of at least one protocol table to determine one or more fields of the packet to use as a hash value, applying ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150207 | Accelerating the hough transform The present disclosure describes a method and apparatus for accelerating computation of a Hough transform of a plurality of digital images of known width and height dimensions. The method includes determining a plurality of Hough values for each pixel location based... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150196 | Reduction filter based on smart neighbor selection and weighting (NRF-SNSW) The present disclosure describes a method and apparatus for filtering noise in a video image, comprising receiving a first video image, a second video image and motion information wherein the first image may be an image to be filtered and the second image may be a f... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149925 | Chase algorithm based differential decoder for soft decision Reed Solomon decoding in a QAM system A novel apparatus and method of differential decoding for use in a communication system such as a cable system. The differential decoding mechanism of the present invention enables the use of the Chase algorithm for Reed Solomon (RS) codes (i.e. non-binary codes). T... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149217 | Creating responses for an electronic pen-computer multimedia interactive system A system for associating a selected object on any printed material to a valid response provided by a computer system includes a maker component to define an object on a page of printed material, and to link a position of the object on the page, the contents of the p... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144262 | Projection apparatus and system A projection apparatus comprises a receiver, a processor, and a frame projector. A sensor detects a horizontal position of a user in front of a screen and transmits a horizontal position signal. The receiver receives the horizontal position signal. The processor gen... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8142696 | Method and device for the production of back-foamed air-permeable textile products A method for producing back-foamed air-permeable textile products, whereas, instead of providing a film or the like to prevent the penetration of reaction products or foam to the visible face, the pressure created during the reaction is intentionally decreased so th... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8141522 | Scent distributing decorative stone A molded decorative yard stake having a basin for containing an animal attractant and a cover removeably locking in place over, and sufficiently spaced from, the basin to permit gradual aerosolization of the animal attractant. ... | 03/27/2012 |
| D656325 | Combined hanger tie with hangers | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140781 | Multi-level page-walk apparatus for out-of-order memory controllers supporting virtualization technology The invention relates generally to computer memory access. Embodiments of the invention provide a multi-level page-walk apparatus and method that enable I/O devices to execute multi-level page-walks with an out-of-order memory controller. In embodiments of the inven... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8138473 | Mass spectrometry unit A mass spectrometry unit of the present invention includes a mass spectrometry portion that detects ion current values of a gas to be measured according to mass-to-charge ratio, to thereby measure partial pressures of the gas to be measured. The mass spectrometry un... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8137166 | Polishing pad having micro-grooves on the pad surface A polishing pad is provided herein, which may include a plurality of soluble fibers having a diameter in the range of about 5 to 80 micrometers, and an insoluble component. The pad may also pad include a first surface having a plurality of micro-grooves, wherein the... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135274 | System and method for fault identification in optical communication systems A system and method for fault identification in optical communication networks. One or more repeaters in the system includes a loop back path that couples an output a first amplifier for amplifying signals carried in a first direction through a repeater to an input ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8133333 | Processing method for the production of nanoscale/near nanoscale steel sheet The present disclosure relates to an iron alloy sheet comprising α-Fe, and/or γ-Fe phases wherein the alloy has a melting point in the range of 800 to 1500° C., a critical cooling rate of less than 105 K/s and structural units in the range of about 150... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8133325 | Dry cleaning method for plasma processing apparatus This dry cleaning method for a plasma processing apparatus is a dry cleaning method for a plasma processing apparatus that includes: a vacuum container provided with a dielectric member; a planar electrode and a high-frequency antenna that are provided outside the d... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8129189 | Finite and multiple sterilization indication method for devices The present invention relates to an indicator of sterilization and/or use, which may be affixed to or integrated in a limited use device. The indicator may include a plurality of layers wherein each of the layers includes a membrane. The indictor may also include in... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8128729 | Filter arrangement A method of providing error correction to flow velocity readings of a fluid flowing through a filter arrangement for monitoring the service life of the filter, wherein a filter arrangement, comprising a filter and a sensor device is arranged downstream of the filter... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8128265 | Device for illuminating target surface including an integrated switch A device for illuminating a target surface of a vehicle. The device includes a base and a top cover coupled to the base. The top cover includes a perimeter wall portion and an actuator portion coupled to the perimeter wall portion. The actuator portion extends gener... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8127294 | Disk drive for handling conflicting deadlines and methods thereof Disclosed is a method for handling conflicting deadlines by a disk drive. The method comprises: receiving a plurality of requests from a plurality of applications for accessing the disk drive; determining a plurality of service times for the plurality of requests; s... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125160 | Integrated circuit capable of synchronization signal detection A method according to one embodiment may include providing power to at least one light source. The method of this embodiment may also include detecting the frequency of at least one vertical synchronization signal, among a plurality of different synchronization sign... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8124550 | Thermally bound non-woven material The invention relates to a thermally bound non-woven material containing a low-shrinkage dual-component core-sheath fiber consisting of a crystalline polyester core and a crystalline polyester sheath which has a melting point at least 10° C. lower than the core, th... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8124422 | Sample collection system and method An apparatus or method for removing water and concentrating an analyte in solution, wherein the concentrated analyte sample is delivered directly to a vial, such as an autosampler vial that is capable of use in a gas chromatography autosampler. ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8124156 | Processes for forming multi-layered pet treats A process for manufacturing a multi-layer pet treat or animal chew comprising the indexing of a moveable mold portion into alignment with the first of a plurality of stationary mold portions fed a first composition by a first injection molding unit to form a first l... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121125 | Accelerated TCP (transport control protocol) stack processing In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method of this embodiment provides performing packet processing on one or more packets, and substantially simultaneously with said performing packet processing, using a data movement module to place one or more payloads c... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116404 | Diversity receiver and method for controlling power thereof The present disclosure provides a diversity receiver. The diversity receiver includes a plurality of tuners, a plurality of demodulators operatively coupled to the plurality of tuners and a controller operatively coupled to the plurality of demodulators and the plur... | 02/14/2012 |
