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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7931310 | Pipe coupler A coupler for use with a sealing member for releasably securing together adjacent ends of grooved end pipe and forming a fluid-tight seal therebetween. The coupler includes a pair of arcuate segments, each segment having a generally inverted U-shaped cross-section s... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7919968 | System and method for distortion analysis A method, circuit and system for determining at least one of an amplitude and a relative phase of a signal under test. A reference signal is generated based, at least in part, upon the at least one of the amplitude and the relative phase of the signal under test. Th... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7919028 | Method of manufacturing noise attenuating flexible cutting line for use in rotary vegetation trimmers A process for forming flexible noise attenuating cutting line for use in rotary vegetation trimmers formed of at least two monofilament polymer strands bonded together in a twisted disposition or a single strand twisted about its central axis in which the strand or ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7918794 | Method and system for determining total body fat, and method and system for determining body composition A method of determining the total body fat of a person comprising measuring a subcutaneous fat thickness at four points on the person's body, located in the right anterior part of the left mid-thigh, in the left anterior part of the right mid-thigh, in the right dor... | 04/05/2011 |
| D634357 | Point of sale terminal with advertising monitors | 03/15/2011 |
| D634356 | Point of sale terminal with advertising monitors | 03/15/2011 |
| 7902461 | Fault current limiting HTS cable and method of configuring same A cryogenically-cooled HTS cable is configured to be included within a utility power grid having a maximum fault current that would occur in the absence of the cryogenically-cooled HTS cable. The cryogenically-cooled HTS cable includes a continuous liquid cryogen co... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7900930 | Game apparatus The game apparatus has a plurality of elongate coloured building blocks. During the course of a game a number of the blocks are built up block by block in a desired orientation on an associated plinth forming an upright structure until this structure collapses. Each... | 03/08/2011 |
| D633902 | Accessory for portable electronic devices | 03/08/2011 |
| 7898977 | Using signal characteristics to determine the physical location of devices in a data network A method of determining a physical location of a device connected to a data network infrastructure including a plurality of connection points at different physical locations, the method including establishing a connection with the data network infrastructure via a c... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7890795 | Auto-adapting cache memory system and memory A system, method and computer program product for detecting a failed storage device within an “n” device array. The “n” device array is configured to store “n” device array formatted data. The “n” device array is reconfigured into an “n−1” devi... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7882642 | Trimmer head for use in flexible line rotary trimmers having improved line loading mechanism A trimmer head for use with a length of flexible cutting line in a rotary trimmer comprising a housing operatively connected to the trimmer to effect rotation of the head and a spool for carrying the cutting line thereon. The spool is operatively connected to the ho... | 02/08/2011 |
| D632328 | Shell for a point of sale terminal | 02/08/2011 |
| 7848512 | Personal audio device accessory A personal audio device accessory includes a collar having a semi-circular back portion and two side members extending from the semi-circular back portion. The side members form an opening to enable the collar to be placed around a user's neck. An adjustable mountin... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7848237 | System and method for selective packet discard for the transport of multiple transportation streams of streaming media in packet-based networks A system and method is provided for reducing the bandwidth of MPEG transport streams during transmission over a packet-switched network. The system and method identifies characteristics of a plurality of media fragments disposed within each of a plurality of packets... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7879537 | Reticle and technique for multiple and single patterning Double patterning is achieved with a single reticle while maintaining the integrity of in-scribe patterns and without blading the reticle. In-scribe structures may or may not be double patterning. For example, elements such as electrical test structures might have f... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7878191 | Solar collector stabilized by cables and a compression element A solar collector system including solar elements connected to form an array for intercepting the sun's radiation, a compression element that is positioned substantially perpendicular to the array, and pairs of cables that run from opposite sides of the array to the... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7870922 | Forklift trucks A forklift truck (10) comprising a truck body, a fork mechanism at one end of the body, and at least one wheel (18) at an opposite end of the body, said at least one wheel (18) being mounted on the body for translational movement relative to the... | 01/18/2011 |
| D631019 | Light emitting diode packaging array | 01/18/2011 |
| 7870212 | System and method for embedding a record of activity within electronic messages An indication of a creation of an electronic message is received. An activity report is generated in response to, at least in part, the indication, wherein at least a portion of the activity report is based, at least in part, upon a determined activity level of a co... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7865545 | System and method for independent room security management Collaboration space object model provides for a Place consisting of rooms. A room is made up of pages. Folders are used to organize pages. Members belong to rooms, and are those users authorized to access them. Place type controls the creation of a place, including ... | 01/04/2011 |
| D630068 | Trimmer head for use in flexible line rotary trimmers | 01/04/2011 |
| 7856294 | Intelligent system and method for spacecraft autonomous operations The intelligent system for autonomous spacecraft operations includes an on-board Autonomous Operations subsystem integrated with an on-ground Web-based Remote Intelligent Monitor System (RIMS) providing interface between on-ground users and the autonomous operations... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7853594 | System and method for determining founders of an information aggregate A knowledge Management (KM) tool that allows persons in an organization to more rapidly locate the people and information they need to answer their questions. Identification and visualization of information aggregate founders, including category creators, helps in l... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7849526 | Odorless toilet A toilet is provided which transports malodorous air from the bowl to the sewer line. The tank of the toilet is equipped with a fan which draws air from the bowl through the flush holes, located in the rim of the bowl, into a sealed fan box. An intake tube is used t... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7844977 | Identifying unnecessary synchronization objects in software applications Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for identifying unnecessary synchronization objects in software applications. A computer-implemented method for determining a usefulness of synchronization objects includes, in a multi-threaded application ... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7843866 | System and method for mirroring data A method and computer program product for defining a multicast group within a local area network. The multicast group includes a storage initiator device and a plurality of storage targets. A write request for storing a data segment within the multicast group is rec... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7839706 | Dual mode accessing signal control apparatus and dual mode timing signal generating apparatus A dual mode accessing signal control apparatus for being used in a dummy cells set of a memory, and a dual mode timing signal generating apparatus comprising a dual mode accessing signal control apparatus are provided. The dual mode accessing signal control apparatu... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7836457 | Hybrid contextual floor plans for object instances Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for hybrid contextual floor plans for object instances. A method for providing a user interface for running business entities wherein data related to a process instance and data related to an object instanc... | 11/16/2010 |
| D627526 | Pet toy | 11/16/2010 |
| 7827492 | System and method for presentation of room navigation Collaboration space object model provides for a Place consisting of rooms. A room is made up of pages. Folders are used to organize pages. Members belong to rooms, and are those users authorized to access them. Place type controls the creation of a place, including ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7825333 | Pad-mounted termination enclosure A pad-mounted termination enclosure is provided having a pair of side panels on opposite sides of the termination enclosure, each side panel having attached thereto a plurality of buss bar attachment means, with the buss bar attachment means cooperating in pairs to ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7823104 | Determination of single-fix rectification function Some aspects provide determination of a function to rectify functional differences between netlist G1 and netlist G2 having inputs V. The determination may include determination of a signal s of netlist G1 that can be re-synthesized ... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7801127 | System and method for creating a sequence number field for streaming media in a packet-based networks utilizing internet protocol Streaming media network streams are modified using a sequence field with the IP layer 3 protocol compatible with already deployed IP switching systems except as noted for device and system testing and operational monitoring which can be used to detect the loss or ou... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7797839 | Trimmer head for use in flexible line rotary trimmers having improved line loading mechanism A trimmer head for a rotary line trimmer including a housing operatively connected to the trimmer and a spool for carrying cutting line thereon. The spool is operatively connected to the housing for rotation therewith and defines a line receptor channel having oppos... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7797314 | Adaptive searching A method and computer program product for receiving a search result set including one or more search results, and defining one or more ranking cues based upon, at least in part, ancillary user data. The one or more search results are ranked based upon, at least in p... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7786692 | Signal transmission apparatus of a DC brushless motor for a ceiling fan A signal transmission apparatus of a DC brushless motor for a ceiling fan is provided. The signal transmission apparatus comprises a transmitting line. The transmitting line is configured to transmit processed output signals of a plurality of electromagnetic sensors... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7783697 | Method and apparatus creating network services As supposed to the common hard coding method, the invention provides the ability to create a module/mechanism (a template) that produces code that may be utilized to create a web service. A template has a list of features, and a model (a run time model—RTM) and is... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7783078 | Tunable object detection A computer-implemented method includes defining a valid scan or range of valid scans as a valid activity of an object in an application-specific activity taking place through a light curtain sensing area of a light curtain, defining an invalid scan or range of inval... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7780312 | Backlight assembly for liquid crystal display device and liquid crystal display device using the same A backlight assembly for a liquid crystal display device includes a bottom frame having an inner surface, printed circuit boards on the inner surface, and a plurality of light emitting diodes in rectangular-shaped clusters on each of the printed circuit boards, each... | 08/24/2010 |
