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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7941877 | Sound system and a head rest for a spa and a spa having a sound system A sound system and a head rest for a spa and a spa having a sound system are disclosed. The sound system includes a head rest mountable to a spa and at least one electronic speaker. The head rest includes sound emitting perforations and is mounted to the spa whereby... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7941799 | Interpreting I/O operation requests from pageable guests without host intervention Input/output (I/O) operation requests from pageable storage mode guests are interpreted without host intervention. In a pageable mode virtual environment, requests issued by pageable storage mode guests are processed by one or more processors of the environment abse... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941321 | Facilitating management of service elements usable in providing information technology service offerings A service element is defined and represented by a data structure. It includes one or more components and/or one or more other service elements. A service element providing a complete function is a service offering. Management of service elements and/or service offer... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940706 | Controlling the state of duplexing of coupling facility structures A coupling facility is coupled to one or more other coupling facilities via one or more peer links. The coupling of the facilities enables various functions to be supported, including the duplexing of structures of the coupling facilities. Duplexing is performed on ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7938943 | Supply end block for rotary magnetron A supply end block to supply a sputter cathode with a coolant and electrical voltage, includes a housing with a coolant connection and a current connection as well as a support shaft mounted to rotate, on which a target tube is fastened. The coolant connection and c... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7938582 | Self-lubricating guiding member A self-lubricating guiding element which is characterized in that the body thereof is made from a material with high resistance to wear and/or seizing and corrosion. Each of the ends of the bore in the body is equipped with at least one groove which is intended to p... | 05/10/2011 |
| D637755 | Light fixture | 05/10/2011 |
| D637426 | Seat frame | 05/10/2011 |
| D637425 | Chair backrest | 05/10/2011 |
| D637418 | Seat frame | 05/10/2011 |
| 7937679 | Method for performing failure mode and effects analysis of an integrated circuit and computer program product therefor A method for performing failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) on integrated circuits including preparing a FMEA database of an integrated circuit under design and computing FMEA results from the FMEA database. Information is automatically extracted from an integr... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936060 | Reworkable electronic device assembly and method An electronic device assembly is provided which includes a substrate, an interposer and an integrated circuit chip. The substrate is fabricated of a first material having a first thermal expansivity, and the interposer and integrated circuit chip are fabricated of a... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934623 | Washing agent dispenser for a household washing machine, in particular a dishwasher A washing agent dispenser has two washing agent distributors controlled by a same actuation system that comprises a driving member, a driven member and an actuator device. The driven member has a seat in which there is operatively inserted, with possibility of relat... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7932524 | Transparent LED display and method for manufacture thereof Described herein is a transparent device for display of information superimposed on a background, said device comprising a plurality of LED sources, addressable individually or in groups through a series of conductive paths deposited on a transparent underlayer and ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932429 | Device designed for regenerating the human dermis and process for producing said device Device designed for regenerating the human dermis presented in the form of a multilayer complex combining an absorbable polymeric internal matrix able to induce the regeneration of the dermis by contact with muscle or subcutaneous tissue, an open-work textile mesh a... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7931728 | Fertilizer granules and manufacturing process A fertilizer granule contains, as a binder, at least one organic polymer. The organic polymer is a hydrosoluble polymer that is at least partially cationic. ... | 04/26/2011 |
| D636873 | Finder tube for a surgical instrument | 04/26/2011 |
| 7928853 | Alarm unit An alarm unit, for sounding an alarm on detection of a fire emergency condition, which comprises a smoke detector, an alarm indicator and a heat detector wherein the smoke detector is capable of receiving power from a first power source and the heat detector is capa... | 04/19/2011 |
| D636519 | Light fixture | 04/19/2011 |
| 7926057 | Scheduling of computer jobs employing dynamically determined top job party A facility is presented for scheduling computer jobs of a computing environment having a plurality of computing nodes. The facility includes scheduling N sequential computer jobs of a job queue until achieving a top job party, wherein N≧2, and the number of jobs i... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7925916 | Failsafe recovery facility in a coordinated timing network A failsafe recovery capability for a Coordinated Timing Network. The recovery capability facilitates recovery when communication is lost between two servers of the coordinated timing network. The capability includes checking another system's status in order to deter... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7925728 | Facilitating detection of hardware service actions A series of state transitions is indicative of performance of hardware service actions. A transition from, for instance, a disconnected state to a connected state for a hardware component is indicative of performance of a service action for the hardware component. D... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7923624 | Solar concentrator system A solar energy concentrator system includes a supporting structure and a plurality of solar modules coupled to the supporting structure. Each module of the plurality of solar modules includes a plurality of Fresnel reflectors. The plurality of reflectors is arranged... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7923387 | Floor covering with double rollable reinforcement A floor covering having a double rollable reinforcement, of the type comprising on the front a calendered sheet of predefined thickness, a first reinforcement, a layer of foam and a second reinforcement, made from polyester material comprising a grid and a non-woven... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7923255 | Method of detecting platelet thrombosis or organ failure A method of detecting platelet thrombosis or organ failure in a patient suffering from disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) or systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), comprising analyzing a von Willebrand factor-cleaving protease and/or a cleaving fa... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7923143 | Battery separator and battery comprising same A battery separator comprising a nonwoven fabric, wherein the nonwoven fabric contains (1) superfine fibers having a fiber diameter of 3 μm or less, (2) noncircular fine fibers having a noncircular cross-sectional shape and having a fiber diameter of 3 to 5 μm (ex... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7923013 | Glycolipids and analogues thereof as antigens for NKT cells This invention relates to immunogenic compounds which serve as ligands for NKT (natural killer T) cells and to methods of use thereof in modulating immune responses. ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7922324 | Synthetic resin lens and eye lens article thereof The synthetic resin lens has a function to generate heat by selectively absorbing infrared rays with wavelengths of 780 to 3000 nm. The synthetic resin lens includes an infrared absorber. Selective absorption of infrared rays allows the synthetic resin lens itself t... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7918973 | Process for distilling solid organic products A process for treating solid organic materials, especially for recycling treated wood, uses energy provided by hot gases at the bottom of a reactor column to perform a distillation operation which ensures splitting of organic bonds in the material and uses, as the d... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7916483 | Open flow cold plate for liquid cooled electronic packages A method and associated assembly is provided for cooling of a computing embodiment having electronic components. The heat generating components are disposed in the vicinity of at least one cold plate providing direct liquid cooling. Coolant is provided to the cold p... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7915858 | Localized charging, load identification and bi-directional communication methods for a planar inductive battery charging system Methods and principles are described for systematizing localized charging, load identification and bi-directional communication in a planar battery charging system. Also described is control circuitry for selectively energizing a primary winding when a load is place... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7915779 | Stator winding for a slotless motor A stator winding for a slotless motor is parallel with the longitudinal axis of the motor except at the end turns of the coil windings. The coils have concentrated windings with a pair of coils wired in series to form one phase of the stator windings. Each of the pa... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7915002 | Method for controlling the therapy of patients suffering from cardiac insufficiency by means of in vitro determination of threshold values of vasoactive peptides Disclosed is a method for controlling the therapeutic treatment of a patient suffering from cardiac insufficiency. In said method, it is determined how the concentration of at least one of the vasoactive peptides adrenomedullin (ADM), endothelin-1 (ET-1), and... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7914401 | Goalpost upright verticality adjustment system and method Rotatable sleeves are disposed adjacent the ends of the crossbar of a goalpost. A stub is integrally formed with each of the sleeves and each stub protrudes through an opening in the crossbar. The opening in the crossbar is dimensioned to permit back to front moveme... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7914227 | Thermally and electrically insulated composite manhole covers A manhole cover includes a support having an upper surface and a peripherally-extending portion. An outer insulating member is disposed over the entire upper surface of the support, and the support comprises a first material and the outer insulating member comprises... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7914193 | LED light fixture An LED light fixture system includes an LED module having a plurality of LEDs attached thereto and directed inwardly toward a secondary optic. The LED module is releasably attached to an interior surface of a peripheral frame. The frame includes an openable portion ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7913598 | Format selecting device for wiping material dispensing arrangement A format selecting device makes it possible to control distribution of material band formats in a one-to-two ratio, wherein the position of the format selecting device enables a cutting blade to come out from a drum at each revolution thereof, for a small format and... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7913243 | Method and system for generating and applying patches to a computer program concurrently with its execution A method, a computer program product, and a system for generating and applying patches to a computer program concurrently with its execution. It provides full support for function pointers, transparent to the programmer and nearly transparent to the concurrent loade... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7911971 | Mapping tool for configuring communications environments Configuring of a communications environment is facilitated. A mapping tool is provided that aids in the configuring of various components of a communications environment, such as an input/output (I/O) subsystem of the environment. Data generated from an order proces... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7910857 | Laser machine tool A laser machine tool for carrying out cutting or welding operations includes a laser head carried by a moving member which is displaceable with respect to a workpiece along two horizontal cartesian axes in a relatively wide space with movements involving relatively ... | 03/22/2011 |
