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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7803545 | Induced heteroduplex generators Heteroduplex band resolution is found to be improved by modifying the induced heteroduplex generator (IHG) molecule such that the identifier is spaced apart from the nucleotide position immediately adjacent to the site of the polymorphism which is to be genotyped. U... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7797016 | Wireless LAN with central management of access points A method for mobile communication includes arranging a plurality of access points in a wireless local area network (WLAN) to communicate over the air with a mobile station using a common basic service set identification (BSSID) for all the access points. Upon receiv... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7792176 | Narrow-band laser device for exposure apparatus A narrow-band laser device for exposure apparatus that allows to reduce damage to, and to hence extend the life of, optical elements such as chamber windows, output coupling mirrors or the like. A ring resonator is provided in an amplification stage laser of the nar... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7786958 | EL display device and electronic device In an EL display device in which color purity of each of red, blue and green is different, the EL display device displaying an image of a desired balance of red, blue and green is provided. A video signal supplied to each EL element is gamma (γ)-corrected by a corr... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7776250 | Imprinted polymer support There is disclosed an imprinted polymer support for solid phase organic synthesis (SPOS). The polymer support being obtainable from a method that comprises providing a substrate and a mold, the mold having a defined surface pattern. A composition is placed between t... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7767874 | Medical device and process A patient-friendly medical device is provided for removal of excess fluids from body tissue and is particularly useful to treat soft tissue inflammation, damage, edema and/or lymphedema. The comfortable medical device comprises a composite multilayered assembly that... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7767020 | Method for manufacturing single crystal semiconductor A method for manufacturing a single crystal semiconductor, in which, in a process of pulling up the single crystal semiconductor from melt for growing it, an impurity is incorporated more uniformly into the single crystal semiconductor so that a variation in impurit... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7765834 | Double-cylinder circular knitting machine for hosiery or other knitted articles A double-cylinder circular knitting machine for hosiery or other knitted articles comprises a lower needle cylinder with a vertical axis and an upper needle cylinder arranged above and coaxially to the lower needle cylinder. Aligned axial slots are formed on the lat... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7756201 | System for random access to content A method for accessing a desired point in time-synchronized data within a stream, the stream being associated with time information, the method including providing a desired presentation time associated with a desired point within a time-synchronized data stream, de... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7754585 | Method of heat treatment of silicon wafer doped with boron A method of subjecting a silicon wafer doped with boron to a heat treatment in an argon atmosphere, wherein the argon atmosphere is replaced with a hydrogen atmosphere or a mixed gas of an argon gas and a hydrogen gas in a proper fashion, to thereby uniformize a bor... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7744471 | Tactical defense device having baton and spray dispensing capabilities A non-threatening combination baton and spray dispenser that can be readily employed was a baton or as a dispenser without requiring complex re-orientation or concentrated aiming, including an expandable baton having a mounted connector coupling that facilitates con... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7732321 | Method for shielding integrated circuits A method for adding an additional layer to an integrated circuit, the method including providing an integrated circuit having an interconnect layer, depositing, over substantially all of an exposed surface of the integrated circuit, an additional layer of material w... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7727334 | Apparatus for pulling single crystal by CZ method In a Czochralski (CZ) single crystal puller equipped with a cooler and a thermal insulation member, which are to be disposed in a CZ furnace, smooth recharge and additional charge of material are made possible. Further, elimination of dislocations from a silicon see... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7718792 | Stereospecific reduction of sapogen-3-ones A method to stereospecifically prepare a steroidal sapogenin or a derivative thereof by reducing a 3-keto,5β-H steroidal sapogenin with a hindered organoborane or an organo-aluminium hydride. A 3β-hydroxy,5β-H steroidal sapogenin or derivative thereof may be prep... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7697549 | Wireless LAN control over a wired network Apparatus for mobile communication includes a switch and a plurality of access points, which are arranged in a wireless local area network (WLAN) to communicate over the air on a common frequency channel with a mobile station using a common basic service set identif... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7693034 | Combined inverse fast fourier transform and guard interval processing for efficient implementation of OFDM based systems A circuit for converting frequency domain information to time domain information includes an Inverse Fast Fourier Transform circuit having a length of N coefficients. The Inverse Fast Fourier Transform circuit is adapted to receive input data of length N coefficient... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7692601 | Dipole antennas and coaxial to microstrip transitions The invention relates in part to a folded dipole having a dipole axis and a pair of arms which together have a profile which is concave on one side and convex on the other when viewed along the dipole axis. The dipoles may be arranged as a dipole box around a centra... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7692183 | Polarity inversion of type-II InAs/GaSb superlattice photodiodes The subject invention comprises the realization of P-on-N type II InAs/GaSb superlattice photodiodes. A high-quality InAsSb layer lattice-mismatched to GaSb is used as a buffer to prepare the surface of the substrate prior to superlattice growth. The InAsSb layer al... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7691371 | Preparation comprising batroxobin for inhibiting local invasion of malignant tumors A preparation for inhibiting local invasion of malignant tumors is provided which comprises batroxobin and therefore can inhibit local invasion of malignant tumors. A preparation for encapsulating malignant tumor tissues is also provided which comprises batroxobin a... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7687429 | Catalysts for oxychlorination of ethylene to 1,2-dichlorethane Catalysts for oxychlorination of ethylene to 1,2-dichlorethane, comprising compounds of copper and magnesium supported on gamma alumina, wherein the copper, expressed as metal, is present in a quantity from 7 to 12% by weight and the Mg/Cu ratio is from 0.05 to 1, w... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7686891 | Method and apparatus for collecting chemicals from semiconductor wafer An apparatus and a method are provided for accurately analyzing and evaluating a degree of contamination on a chamfered part without mixing impurities from parts other than the chamfered part into chemicals. At a position in which, on a front plane flat part of a se... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7659859 | Antenna element, feed probe; dielectric spacer, antenna and method of communicating with a plurality of devices A multiband base station antenna for communicating with a plurality of terrestrial mobile devices is described. The antenna including one or modules, each module including a low frequency ring element; and a high frequency dipole element superposed with the low freq... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7654883 | Polishing apparatus, polishing head and polishing method A polishing apparatus comprises a polishing plate (24), an abrasive cloth (25) attached to the surface of the polishing plate (24), a chuck (19) for holding and pressing one surface of a wafer (39) against the abrasive cloth (25... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7650715 | Plant sheet and manufacturing method for plant sheet A light-weight plant sheet including plant pieces between a base sheet and a top sheet is able to make growth by tearing the base sheet and top sheet, each having a mesh structure. The top sheet contains a paste to adhere the top sheet to the base sheet and to hold ... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7616168 | Method and system for increasing the isolation characteristic of a crossed dipole pair dual polarized antenna A method and system for increasing an isolation characteristic of a crossed dipole pair, dual polarized antenna can include a feedback system comprising a feedback element for generating a feedback signal in response to a transmitted RF signal produced by each radia... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7596945 | Load control device for engine of work vehicle A load control device for an engine of a work vehicle that purposes to render the work vehicle, such as a wheel loader or the like, capable of raising a vehicle speed in a short period of time by providing a sufficient traction force when a high traveling load is im... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7591704 | Cloth doll head and a method for making same A cloth doll's head and a method for manufacturing the same comprising the assembly of a soft cloth scalp cap, a soft cloth face portion, and stitching of synthetic or organic hair fibers directly to the soft cloth scalp cap. The hair and selected human facial featu... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7580416 | System for data stream processing A method for processing a data stream including receiving a transport stream (TS), storing at least a portion of the TS, the at least a portion of the TS having a beginning and including a plurality of TS packets, determining, from among the plurality of TS packets,... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7578435 | Couponing system A method and apparatus are provided for a method of offering coupons to a consumer at a point of sale. The method includes the steps of detecting entry of an identifier of an item to be purchased by the consumer at the point of sale, searching a database to identify... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7578404 | Tamper evident band closure assembly A two-piece closure and tamper evident band assembly for use with a container neck having a peripheral bead is shown. The closure includes a top having a depending skirt. The skirt includes a break-away band frangibly connected to a bottom periphery of the skirt. Th... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7574733 | System and method of using the public switched telephone network in providing authentication or authorization for online transaction An authentication or authorization system to facilitate electronic transactions uses simultaneous or substantially simultaneous communications on two different networks to verify a user's identity. When a user logs onto a site, via the internet, a telephone number, ... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7572752 | Method for preparing a catalyst for oxidation of methanol to formaldehyde Process for preparing a catalyst for the oxidation of methanol to formaldehyde, comprising reacting iron powder and molybdenum trioxide in a Mo/Fe ratio from 1.5 to 5 in an aqueous suspension at temperatures from 20 to 100° C., and subsequently, optionally simultan... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7562225 | Timeline protection A method and system for timecode generation including: receiving an encryption key and an implemented encryption method, for each one of a plurality of frames, receiving a timecode and an associated presentation time stamp (PTS) associated with the one frame, for ea... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7558399 | Vibrating plate of dynamic microphone and method of manufacturing the same It is an object of the present invention to provide a vibrating plate of a dynamic microphone and a method of manufacturing the vibrating plate. The vibrating plate includes a center dome and a sub-dome which includes a damping thin film having stable quality. | 07/07/2009 |
| 7556586 | Shift control device and shift control method for vehicle A shift control device and a shift control method for a vehicle for reducing shift shock by taking into account the difference in vehicle speeds before and after shifting. In one of the main inventions, the clutch pressure of another clutch (forward clutch) is contr... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7555482 | Automatic detection of abnormal data access activities Methods and systems are provided for evaluating atypical user data access activities within the scope of an automatically generated file security policy in organizations with multiple diverse access control models and multiple diverse file server protocols. The syst... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7551599 | Layer-3 network routing with RPR layer-2 visibility Routing tables of OSI layer-3 network elements are modified in order to enable entry to a RPR subnet at different entry points. This enables virtual tunnels or routing paths to utilize all existing entry links to the RPR subnet and to minimize cost factors, such as ... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7545516 | Full-field three-dimensional measurement method A method and system for full-field fringe-projection for 3-D surface-geometry measurement, referred to as “triangular-pattern phase-shifting” is disclosed. A triangular grey-scale-level-coded fringe pattern is computer generated, projected along a first directio... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7540098 | Sandal with removable upper Sandals, particularly sandals known as thongs or flip-flops that have removable and interchangeable uppers that allow the wearer to have a single pair of soles and multiple uppers so that they can have multiple colors and styles of sandals without having to buy and ... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7538213 | Methods for preparation of olanzapine polymorphic form I The invention relates to the methods for preparation of olanzapine polymorphic Form I. The invention also provides new mixed solvates of olanzapine, which are valuable intermediates used in the preparation of pure olanzapine polymorphic Form I. ... | 05/26/2009 |
