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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7763449 | Nucleic acid encoding a novel ribonuclease having an amino acid sequence made up of the amino acid sequence of a known ribonuclease and an N-terminal leader sequence that is at least one residue long A nucleic acid encodes a novel RNase. The RNase has an amino acid sequence in which an amino acid sequence disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 6,239,257 B1 is preceded by a different N-terminal residue or leader sequence. ... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7708227 | Energy-efficient electro-thermal ice-protection system A region of an airfoil to be protected from accreted ice is heated to reduce the strength of the bond between the ice and the airfoil, and is mechanically deformed to shed the accreted ice after the bond has been sufficiently weakened. Heating ceases before substant... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7191029 | Rapid prototype fabrication of a monolithic hearing instrument housing with an integrally-fabricated faceplate The benefits of rapid modeling and prototyping of a hearing instrument housing can be increased by fashioning the housing as a monolithic unit, incorporating the faceplate as an integral part of the housing. An opening in the faceplate region of the housing can be c... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7127790 | Method for inserting a wax guard into the receiver tube of a hearing instrument Insertion of a wax guard with a bridge into the receiver tube of a hearing instrument may be accomplished with a tool that grasps the wax guard securely, inserts the wax guard into the tube, and then slides off of the wax guard, leaving the wax guard within the tube... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7106872 | Locking mechanism for electronics module for hearing instruments A force opposing tab on the peripheral surface of an electronics module will prevent inadvertent dislodging of the module from the hearing instrument housing when force is applied the battery door. ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7054457 | Hearing instrument receiver mounting arrangement for a hearing instrument housing A hearing instrument and method of assembly are disclosed. The hearing instrument comprises an electronic assembly for providing received sound to the ear canal of a hearing instrument user. The electronic assembly is placed within a chamber in a housing sized to fi... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6816601 | Microphone and battery configuration for hearing instruments The dimensions of a hearing instrument can be minimized by positioning the internal components in a configuration that occupies the least amount of volume. A pocket for situating the microphone on a diagonal aids in decreasing the required size of the instrument's s... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6681021 | Directional ITE hearing aid using dual-input microphone A microphone of the dual-inlet type is installed in an In-The-Ear ("ITE") hearing aid. First and second outwardly-diverging channels are located in the faceplate, to connect the inlets of the microphone to two spaced-apart ports in the faceplate.... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6501272 | Application-specific optimization of echo time in MR pulse sequences for investigating materials with susceptibilities different from that of the background in which they are embedded The echo time in an MR pulse sequence is optimized in accordance with the application desired. Advantageously, the echo time is selected to cause a partial volume signal cancellation from veins as compared with background tissue, and the MR pulse sequence... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6434412 | Cardiac cine imaging with a short repetition time and high contrast between the blood and the myocardium A segmented cine MR pulse sequence of the "TrueFISP"-type having a short repetition time TR is used to acquire MR data during a single breath hold. In the resulting cine images, the blood and the myocardium have distinctly different image contrasts.... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6299444 | Aspirator apparatus A disposable saliva ejector has a strainer tip at its distal end. The strainer tip has a plurality of slots through which saliva, blood etc. can be extracted from the patient's mouth. A protective flange is located adjacent the strainer tip, extends paral... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6295465 | Myocardial perfusion studies using magnetic resonance imaging Gadolinium-based MR contrast agent is administered to a patient. Acquisition of MR data begins at the latest when the bolus of MR contrast agent reaches the patient's heart and continues throughout the first-pass of contrast agent through the coronary cir... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6285793 | Method and apparatus for automatically determining a quantization factor value that produces a desired average compression ratio of an image sequence using JPEG compression A sequence of angiographic images is made up of frames of data. A sample sequence, made up of a number of such frames, is compressed using a lower value of the quantization factor and the resulting average compression ratio is determined. The same sample ... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6240310 | Method of acquiring MR data especially for cardiac cine data sets During acquisition of one frame of MR data, the phase-encoding gradient oscillates between a maximum phase-encoding gradient and a minimum phase-encoding gradient. Each oscillation includes a zero phase-encoding gradient.... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6224666 | Forging cylindrical alkali halide ingots into rectangular plates A cylindrical alkali halide melt-grown single-crystal-type ingot is axially compressed in a heated dual-platen press while in a plastic state. The ingot is located mid-way between two parallel, planar, vertically extending barriers. By properly orienting ... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6205349 | Differentiating normal living myocardial tissue, injured living myocardial tissue, and infarcted myocardial tissue in vivo using magnetic resonance imaging By administering MR contrast agent such as Gd-DPTA, waiting for a predetermined period of time and then acquiring T1-weighted MR image data, infarcted myocardial tissue can be distinguished from injured myocardial tissue. An in vivo cine MR study is used ... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6183417 | Docking station for a patient monitoring system A docking station for a portable patient monitor is adapted for use in a system which includes a communications network and, optionally, a bedside display. The portable monitor is coupled to sensors for receiving patient data signals. The docking station ... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6088465 | Door-dependent system for enabling and adjusting options on hearing aids A programmable hearing aid circuit is programmed by making electrical connections between contacts that are connected to the circuit. The connections are made by conductive region(s) located on the body of the battery door.... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6083441 | Method for making a stackable and inexpensively transportable splash bar structure An elongated tubular structure of plastic strands is bisected along its axis to form open-topped self-supporting half-shells that can be used in cooling towers. The half-shells are stackable and can be transported in densely packed bundles.... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6073042 | Display of three-dimensional MRA images in which arteries can be distinguished from veins An intravascular MR contrast agent is administered to a living patient. A series of three-dimensional dynamic MR datasets is acquired from the Volume of Interest ("VOI"), beginning after administration of the contrast agent and continuing for a sufficient... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6049618 | Hearing aid having input AGC and output AGC A hearing aid has input AGC and output AGC using only one attack/release circuit and only one variable gain amplifier. An input AGC signal and an output AGC signal are summed and the summed signal, processed through the attack/release circuit, is used to ... | 04/11/2000 |
| 6009341 | Three-dimensional magnetic resonance angiography of coronary arteries To conduct a three-dimensional MRA study of the coronary arteries, the locations in space of the arteries is determined using a scout MR study. Segments (composed of phase-encoding lines, three-dimensional partitions, or both) are created in the volume of... | 12/28/1999 |
| 5993936 | Anti-slip device and method An anti-slip separator sheet that increases friction and reduces slippage when handling, storing and shipping goods and packages. The sheet is preferably a plastic net with polymer beads protruding from the top and bottom surfaces of the net. The polymer ... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5990770 | Electromagnetic relay An electromagnetic relay includes a winding, a magnetic core disposed within the winding, and an armature mounted for movement at a first end of the winding. At least one movable circuit contact is operably associated with the armature and movable with re... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5940955 | Method of making a polarized electromagnetic relay A polarized electromagnetic relay includes a base, an electromagnet with a coil and a pair of pole pieces extending perpendicularly from the end of said coil, a balanced armature and spring system which when actuated pivots between two fixed contact point... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5913822 | Optimization of parameters in nuclear medicine studies before the studies are concluded Data from a nuclear medicine study is classified in real time into categories which include image data relating to image pixels which are essential covarient. The results of the classification process permit a determination of, e.g., whether the camera is... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5915031 | Modularized hearing aid circuit structure A support structure for use in a hearing aid has a plurality of support stations where circuit boards may be mechanically supported. The structure is mounted to the faceplate of the aid in front of the opening where the battery is inserted. The support st... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5875254 | Binaural hearing aid with integrated retrieval line and microphone One microphone of a binaural Completely-In-Canal ("CIC") hearing aid is located at the distal end of the retrieval line. This reduces coupling between the microphones and receiver. Additionally, by locating the microphone at the distal end of the retrieva... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5857970 | Method and apparatus for cardiac-synchronized peripheral magnetic resonance angiography A subtraction MRA image is formed by subtracting a mask image formed from diastolic MR image data from an angiographic image formed from systolic MR image data. To permit acquisition of diastolic MR image data during regurgitation of arterial bloodflow, a... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5847395 | Adaptive baseline correction for gamma camera Signal processing circuitry for use in medical imaging includes a flash analog-to-digital converter (FADC) for digitizing signals from a sensor; a memory for storing a plurality of digitized signals prior to a current event; and a processor for generating... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5846197 | Compensating for magnetization transfer effects in multislice and three-dimensional MRI blood flow mapping studies To compensate for magnetization transfer effects that result from use of a labeling pulse to label inflowing blood, at least two control pulses are used. The control pulses have a total compensating flip angle that equals the flip angle of the labeling pu... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5835606 | Hearing aid with integrated retrieval line and volume control A line is secured to the rotor of a potentiometer which serves as the volume control for a Completely In the Canal ("CIC") hearing aid. The patient can change the volume of the aid by rotating the line and can remove the aid from the ear canal by pulling ... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5799095 | Beside-the-door programming system for programming hearing aids A system for programming hearing aids uitilizes a multi-electrode programming strip. The strip is inserted into the aid through a narrow slot in the faceplate; the slot is bounded by the faceplate and by one of the edges of the battery door. When the door... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5768397 | Hearing aid and system for use with cellular telephones The light output of an IR LED mounted on a cellular telephone is modulated by the audio output of the telephone and made incident upon a photodiode mounted to an ITE-type or canal-type hearing aid. The electrical signal output from the photodiode is route... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5758645 | Automatic detection and correction of body organ motion and particularly cardiac motion in nuclear medicine studies A SPECT study is carried out on a patient's body organ, such as the heart, and frames of image data are thereby acquired. The image data in these frames are subjected to a series of mappings and computations, from which frames containing a significant qua... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5757006 | Articulating detector array for a gamma camera An articulating detector array for gamma cameras is disclosed which is adaptable to perform different imaging techniques in a single apparatus. The articulating detector array is adapted to detect incident gamma radiation from diverse directions as well a... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5729138 | Slice-by-slice variation of pulse sequence parameters in multislice two-dimensional image acquisitions Techniques for conducting two-dimensional fat-saturated multislice MR studies are disclosed. The frequency of saturation pulses is varied on a slice-by-slice basis. In a second preferred embodiment, the phase, or the phase and frequency, of one or more el... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5717213 | Collimator and scintillation camera system for use in carrying out attenuation-corrected spect studies of small body organs such as the heart and brain In the axial direction, a collimator is a fan-beam collimator. In the transverse direction, the collimator has a set of central magnifying fan beams located between two sets of peripheral magnifying fan beams.... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5694934 | MR studies in which a paramagnetic gas is administered to a living patient A paramagnetic gas such as oxygen is administered twice at different concentrations to a living patient, as by causing the patient to breathe air and causing the patient to breathe pure oxygen. Two T1-weighted MR images are then acquired of a region in wh... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5692508 | Cardiac-gated 3-dimensional MR angiography A three-dimensional gadolinium-enhanced MR study of e.g. the patient's thoracic vasculature is carried out while the patient holds his or her breath. Acquisition of all data in each three-dimensional partition takes place during one and only one heartbeat... | 12/02/1997 |
