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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8057470 | Integrated smoke evacuation electrosurgical pencil and method An electrosurgical pencil includes an adjustable-length suction tube which surrounds a stationary electrode to evacuate smoke and electrosurgical byproducts from a surgical site. An electrode anchor unit is located within the interior of the suction tube to allow re... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8051335 | Recovery from transitory storage area network component failures Lun communications between a storage server and a storage subsystem for a particular lun are assigned both a current path and an alternate path. Lun communications use the current path unless the current path is determined to be faulty. Path errors may result in the... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8049980 | Partial disk failures and improved storage resiliency A mass data storage system including a hard disk drive comprising heads and platter surfaces determines when a head of the disk is faulty and the disk continues to operate as a partially failed disk with respect to the remaining heads which are not faulty. A striped... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8028577 | Gravity survey with relative and absolute gravimeters A gravity survey is conducted by obtaining relative gravity measurements from a plurality of survey points using a relative gravimeter, obtaining absolute gravity measurements from a subset of a lesser plurality of the survey points designated as combination survey ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7991750 | Application recovery from network-induced data corruption A source application reads a body of data in data block sized units and calculates a checksum value for each data block before sending the data block, the calculated checksum value and the identifier. Upon receipt, a destination application independently calculates ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7972335 | Coaptive tissue fusion method and apparatus with current derivative precursive energy termination control Biological tissue is sealed or fused to occlude an opening by compressing apposite sidewall portions of the tissue and applying sufficient energy to cause the fibers of the compressed apposed sidewall portions to intertwine and fuse with one another to form a perman... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7972334 | Coaptive tissue fusion method and apparatus with energy derivative precursive energy termination control Biological tissue is sealed or fused to occlude an opening by compressing apposite sidewall portions of the tissue and applying sufficient energy to cause the fibers of the compressed apposed sidewall portions to intertwine and fuse with one another to form a perman... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7972329 | Electrosurgical generator and method for cross-checking output power The functionality and the output power delivered are evaluated in an electrosurgical generator by calculating first and second values related to the output power delivered by using separate first and second computations. The two calculated values are compared, and a... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7971093 | Apparatus and method to proactively address hard disk drive inefficiency and failure The input/output (I/O) performance of a hard disk drive in a mass storage computer system is evaluated to maintain efficiency by addressing I/O commands to sectors of the disk drive, evaluating the execution of the I/O commands to the sectors to obtain performance i... | 06/28/2011 |
| D637288 | Surgical handpiece | 05/03/2011 |
| 7926702 | Adjustable-size reusable gift wrap and method A gift wrapping enclosure encloses a gift which has been inserted within an interior of a main body formed of flexible material. An end portion of the main body surrounding an open end is folded back to form a cuff. An interior surface is exposed at the cuff, and th... | 04/19/2011 |
| D635255 | Combination slide clamp and occlusion clamp actuator | 03/29/2011 |
| 7861107 | Dual access pathways to serially-connected mass data storage units A group of data storage units are serially connected in a sequential data communication path to communicate read and write operations to first and second interfaces of each data storage unit in the group. A data management computer device (“filer”) manages read ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7836025 | Method and apparatus for using pointers within a nonvolatile system memory of a network file computer system A nonvolatile system memory of a server of a network file computer system temporarily stores data received from client computers prior to the data being stored on a mass storage device. A single copy of the data and pointers which corresponds to the memory addresses... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7818408 | Automated virtual interface failover in a mass storage cluster Virtual interfaces on a cluster of servers in a mass data storage system are automatically reconfigured by transferring an internet protocol (IP) address hosting responsibility from one operative port to another operative port within the cluster, in response to a ch... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7799020 | Near-instantaneous responsive closed loop control electrosurgical generator and method An electrosurgical generator has a control system formed by an array of logic gates programmed to execute mathematical algorithms for regulating at least one parameter of output power, output voltage or output current of an output electrosurgical signal in a closed ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7797821 | Tool for pulling and cutting a Z-axis electrical interconnector A connection portion of a z-axis interconnector is assembled into contact with a plurality of aligned vias in a corresponding plurality of stacked printed circuit boards by gripping and pulling a leader portion of the interconnector connected to the connection porti... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7795263 | Pharmaceutical combination for and method of anesthetizing and immobilizing non-domesticated mammals Non-domesticated mammalian animals are anesthetized and immobilized by injecting an effective amount of an anesthetizing and immobilizing drug comprising pharmaceutically active ingredients of butorphanol tartrate, azaperone tartrate and medetomidine hydrochloride (... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7766899 | Partial-length, indwelling prostatic catheter using coiled inflation tube as an anchor and methods of draining urine and flushing clots An indwelling catheter is positioned in a urinary tract to drain urine from the bladder to a position distally adjacent to a sphincter muscle. A balloon of the catheter is inflated through an inflation tube extending through the urinary tract. A coiled section of th... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7736358 | Electrosurgical generator and method for simulating output signals Voltage and current of an electrosurgical output signal which is conducted by a transformer are accurately simulated by executing a simulation algorithm to compensate for inherent distortion in the values of the current and voltage induced between primary and second... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7731922 | Apparatus and method for cleaning, neutralizing carbon monoxide and recirculating exhaust air in a confined environment Exhaust air containing particulate and carbon monoxide gas contaminants is withdrawn from a confined environment, such as a food cooking area, by a circulation system which liquid scrubs particulate contaminants from the exhaust flow, removes liquid mist from the fl... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7705721 | Apparatus and method for sensing and responding to environmental conditions of a computer system at non-uniform polling intervals Environmental sensors are distributed in a computer system to sense environmental conditions, and the sensors are polled at polling intervals which are adjusted in response to changing environmental conditions, thus allowing deteriorating or improving conditions to ... | 04/27/2010 |
| D612744 | Reusable gift wrap | 03/30/2010 |
| 7678105 | Method and apparatus for precursively controlling energy during coaptive tissue fusion A sidewall of biological tissue which surrounds and defines an opening in the tissue is sealed or fused to occlude the opening by compressing apposite sidewall portions and applying sufficient energy to cause the fibers of the compressed apposed sidewall portions to... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7672590 | Data center with mobile data cabinets and method of mobilizing and connecting data processing devices in a data center using consolidated data communications and power connections Data processing devices in a data center are more easily relocated by consolidating the data and power connections to the data processing devices within a mobile data cabinet. The mobile data cabinet includes an access switch to consolidate communications and connec... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7662145 | Partial-length indwelling urinary catheter and method permitting selective urine discharge A partial-length catheter, or an extendable tube or sleeve member of the catheter, is selectively movable within the prostatic urethra to open a urine drainage passageway through and obstructed portion of the prostatic urethra or to open the external urinary sphinct... | 02/16/2010 |
| D608039 | Accent light | 01/12/2010 |
| D607414 | Nine port coaxial cable terminal adapter | 01/05/2010 |
| D607413 | Five port coaxial cable terminal adapter | 01/05/2010 |
| 7627008 | Laser apparatus and method for harmonic beam generation A second harmonic laser beam is generated by passing a fundamental frequency laser beam through a single second harmonic generator (SHG) crystal more than two and preferably four times, to increase the amount of power converted from the fundamental beam into the sec... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7626810 | Apparatus and method for inhibiting high-frequency, electromagnetic interference from non-metallic hard disk drive carriers A high-frequency energy absorbing member is used with a disk drive carrier to attenuate high-frequency electromagnetic radiation emitted from a hard disk drive housed within the disk drive carrier. The use of the high-frequency energy absorbing member allows various... | 12/01/2009 |
| D602612 | Metal simulated log siding panel | 10/20/2009 |
| 7594134 | Dual access pathways to serially-connected mass data storage units A group of data storage units are serially connected in a sequential data communication path to communicate read and write operations to first and second interfaces of each data storage unit in the group. A data management computer device (“filer”) manages read ... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7544086 | Torque indications for coaxial connectors A male coaxial connector is rotatably tightened onto a female coaxial connector to a recommended torque specification by visually observing relative positions of indicators of both connectors, beginning at a pre-torque relationship and continuing tightening with a w... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7540871 | Integrated three-port receptacle and method for connecting hand and foot switched electrosurgical accessories A three-port receptacle connects both single-prong and three-prong electrical connectors of electrosurgical accessories to an electrosurgical generator. The receptacle includes two control ports for accepting the two control prongs of the three-prong connector and a... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7459053 | Flux guide induction heating device and method of inductively heating elongated and nonuniform workpieces An elongated workpiece is inductively heated by a difference in an amount of magnetic flux flowing in a portion of the elongated workpiece compared to an amount of magnetic flux around the same portion of the elongated workpiece. The flux differential induces circum... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7451645 | Test mass for gravimeters and gradiometers The present invention provides devices and methods for reducing or eliminating sources of systematic errors in the measurement of absolute gravity or gravity field gradients; specifically, an improved test mass for an interferometer is disclosed that reduces the inf... | 11/18/2008 |
| RE40472 | Method and device for combined heat treatment of body tissue The invention relates to a method and a device for heat treatment of prostatic tissue. The device comprises a treatment catheter with an expandable fluid reservoir and first heating means which is arranged within the treatment catheter and emits electromagnetic radi... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7406390 | Accurate dynamic gravity measurement method and apparatus Gravity information for a gravity survey is obtained by using an array of relative gravimeters whose relative gravity measurement signals have been calibrated by using an absolute gravimeter to approximate absolute gravity measurements. The absolute gravimeter is mo... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7395566 | Method of reinforcing and adjusting a contoured seat cushion A flexible seat cushion, such as a wheelchair cushion, has an upper surface with a support contour for establishing relatively less pressure on skin adjacent to the bony prominences of the person's pelvic area and relatively more pressure on skin covering adjacent t... | 07/08/2008 |
