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...that the x-ray was discovered purely by accident? When German physicist Wilhelm Konrad von Roentgen was experimenting with cathode rays in 1895, he put an activated Crookes tube in a book and went out to lunch. When he returned, he discovered that a key that had also been placed in the book showed up as an image on the developed film!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8095520 | Event recording with local event record locking Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with event recording are described. One example method includes locally locking a record in an event data store corresponding to an event having a same event type as a given event when a prior occurrence of the give... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090722 | Searching related documents Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with logically expanding a document and determining the relevance of the logically expanded document to a query are described. One method embodiment includes searching an index to locate a document identifier for a ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8078611 | Query modes for translation-enabled XML documents Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with providing query modes for translation-enabled XML documents are described. One method embodiment includes receiving an XPath query to an XML document that may store a translation for a data element. The method ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8060208 | Action potential conduction prevention An example method for selectively and reversibly preventing the conduction of action potentials in a targeted nerve region is presented. The method includes generating an electrical waveform having two phases and selectively depolarizing a nerve membrane using the e... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059907 | Constant variance filter Systems and methods associated with a constant variance filter are described. One system embodiment includes a memory to store a spatially dependent filtered data set having a first degree of homogeneity. The system embodiment may also include a filter logic to prod... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8049500 | Dynamically selectively configuring wireless transmitter associated with MRI detector coil Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with dynamically selectively configuring wireless transmitters associated with MRI detector coils are described. One example apparatus includes a detector coil to receive an NMR signal. The apparatus includes a dyna... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8049499 | Controlling multi-channel transmitter effects on specific absorption rate Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with controlling the specific absorption rate (SAR) in a patient associated with a conductor are described. The conductor may be, for example, a wire associated with a pacemaker, a wire associated with a neurostimul... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8046047 | Extended-coverage imaging coil Extended-coverage magnetic resonance imaging coils with optimized homogeneity in longitudinal sensitivity are described. One exemplary coil includes four elements, where two of the elements are opposed-solenoid imaging elements and two of the elements are single loo... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8040128 | Scanning susceptometer According to one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a magnet assembly to produce a static magnetic field and a set of high-Tc flux transformers to detect a flux change from an item when the item is subjected to the static magnetic field produced by the ma... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8037088 | Change management Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with artifact type neutral change management are described. One example method includes maintaining an access table for each artifact in a collaborative software environment that records a most recent access of an a... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8036109 | Network communication handling Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with set transparent network communication are described. In one embodiment, in response to receiving a listen signal from a listen requestor, where the listen signal contains a handle identifying a set of interface... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8030921 | Methods for fat signal suppression in magnetic resonance imaging This application is directed to methods for chemical species signal suppression in magnetic resonance imaging procedures, where Dixon techniques are enhanced by continuously sampling techniques. K-space data is acquired during a period of read gradient associated wi... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8030919 | Dark blood balanced steady state free precession imaging Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with controlling a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) apparatus to perform a balanced steady state free precession (bSSFP) technique that includes magnetization preparation with differentiated velocity encoding and sp... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8027979 | Document summarization Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with automatically summarizing a document are described. One method embodiment includes computing term scores for members of a set of terms in a document to be summarized and computing sentence scores for sentences ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8015180 | Queries with hard time constraints Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with supporting queries with hard time constraints are described. One exemplary system embodiment includes logic for accepting a query having a hard time constraint. The example system may also include ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7996062 | Double-contrast technique for MRI-guided vascular interventions Methods for confirming location of a catheter tip relative to a targeted location in a blood vessel of a subject and improving visualization of the blood vessels downstream of the catheter tip are provided. The methods comprise acquiring and displaying a first modif... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7979422 | Hybrid optimization strategies in automatic SQL tuning Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with hybrid optimization strategies in automatic SQL tuning are described. One example method includes receiving a first (e.g., cost-based) execution plan for a user structured query language statement (User SQL) fr... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7979410 | Maintaining referential integrity while masking Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with maintaining referential integrity while masking database columns are described. One example method includes determining a transitive closure for dependency relationships involving a column to be masked and othe... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7979266 | Method and system of language detection Systems, methods, computer-readable media and other embodiments are provided for automatically determining a language of a document from a set of candidate languages. In one embodiment, a system includes a logic for setting an assumption value associated with each o... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7970755 | Test execution of user SQL in database server code Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with test execution of user SQL in server code are described. One example method includes producing a reproduced execution environment that reproduces a portion of an execution environment in which a user SQL runs. ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7958346 | Multilayered security for systems interacting with configuration items Systems, methodologies, and other embodiments associated with providing multi-layered security for configuration items are described. One exemplary system may include a security logic configured to process the contents of a configuration item based on the source of ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7953728 | Queries with soft time constraints Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with supporting queries with soft time constraints are described. One exemplary system embodiment includes logic for accepting a query having a soft time constraint. The example system may also include ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7949384 | Method to correct magnetic field/phase variations in proton resonance frequency shift thermometry in magnetic resonance imaging PRF shift MRI data is acquired. The PRF shift MRI data may include signals affected by both a desired PRF shift and an undesired PRF shift. Thus, example systems and methods describe manipulating the PRF shift MRI data to make it substantially free of the effects of... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7945533 | Index replication using crawl modification information Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with index replication using crawl modification information are described. One exemplary system embodiment includes an enterprise search system comprising a target search system comprising an index logi... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7930707 | Optimizing code motion with delayed exception handling Systems, methods, media, and other embodiments associated with optimizing code motion with delayed exception handling are described. One exemplary system embodiment includes a data store to store information about a relocated instruction, a relocation logic to reloc... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7930288 | Knowledge extraction for automatic ontology maintenance Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with extracting knowledge from application data and maintaining an ontology based on the extracted knowledge are described. One example system includes a mapping logic to store mappings between application objects a... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7925674 | Management of a distributed database Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with managing of a distributed database are described. One exemplary system embodiment includes an input logic configured to obtain information associated with a distributed database where the distribut... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7902823 | Dynamic parallel magnetic resonance imaging(DpMRI) with sparse data Example methods, apparatus, and systems associated with dynamic parallel magnetic resonance imaging (DpMRI) are presented. One example system facilitates separating data associated with a dynamic portion of a dynamic magnetic resonance image from data associated wit... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7882134 | Non-repeating random values in user specified formats and character sets Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with producing non-repeating random values for use in data masking are described. One example method includes accessing data describing a mask for a value in a database table column to be masked. The ex... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7882069 | Tag based backup and recovery Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with selective tag-based file backup and recovery are described. One example method includes selectively tagging a file for inclusion in a snapshot-based backup image by associating a tag with the file. The associat... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7849113 | Query statistics Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with selectively acquiring and utilizing query statistics are described. One example method includes selectively acquiring statistics associated with search queries submitted to a search process during a sample peri... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7849077 | Document ranking with sub-query series Systems, methods, media, and other embodiments associated with ranking documents by providing a search engine with a series of sub-queries generated from an original query are described. One example system includes input logic for receiving a query. The example syst... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7863893 | Dynamic pMRI using GRAPPA-operator with under-sampled time interleaved frames Example systems, methods, and apparatus facilitate providing a k-space line that is missing in an under-sampled time frame. The missing line is computed by applying a GRAPPA-operator to a known k-space line in the under-sampled time frame. One example method include... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7856598 | Spelling correction with liaoalphagrams and inverted index Systems, methods, media, and other embodiments associated with (non)contiguous n-gram based spell correction are described. One exemplary system embodiment includes logic for creating contiguous and non-contiguous trigrams, logic for creating an inverted index relat... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7844600 | Materialized views with user-defined aggregates Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with supporting materialized views with user-defined aggregates are described. One example system includes logic for exposing a set of interface actions to support a user-defined aggregate in a material... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7840553 | Recommending materialized views for queries with multiple instances of same table Systems, methods, computer-readable media and other embodiments are provided that relate to processing database queries. In one embodiment, a query analysis logic can be configured to analyze a query to identify multiple instances of the same table. Instance numberi... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7831075 | Imaging system Systems, methods, media, and other embodiments associated with episcopic, histological, autoradiographic, and/or other imaging are described. One exemplary system includes a cryomicrotome, an episcopic imaging device and a histological imaging device, logic for regi... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7814477 | Packaging system for customizing software In one embodiment, a system for customizing executable software code is provided. The system can include a scan logic configured to scan the executable software code to determine an execution trigger point in the executable software code. A packager logic can be con... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7814463 | User interface debugger for software applications In one embodiment, a system for debugging a software application is provided. A debug agent, being in an executable form, is configured to be combined with an executable form of the software application, and is configured to monitor events from the software applicat... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7814413 | System and method for controlling web pages In one embodiment, a system for controlling content on a web page is provided. In the embodiment, the system includes a display map configured to identify selected content to be displayed to a selected position within one or more web pages. Moreover, the system incl... | 10/12/2010 |
