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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7379574 | Quantification of vascular irregularity A method to quantify the vascular irregularity of aortoiliac arteries is provided. Inner wall and/or outer wall outlines of a vessel of interest are determined. The cross sectional area is determined for the area outlined by each outline. Using this cross sectional ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376652 | Personal portal and secure information exchange The present invention provides a secure information exchange mechanism that can be seen as a portal or gateway to his or her digital information. The invention is sometimes referred to as an “n-by-m lockbox” because it allows n suppliers to submit information ac... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7341800 | Fuel cell A simple, inexpensive and highly efficient fuel cell has boundary structures made of a photo-sensitive material in combination with selective patterning. Printed circuit board (PCB) fabrication techniques combine boundary structures with two and three dimensional el... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7333774 | Method of optimizing wireless communication links using stored channel characteristics of different locations Techniques for location-assisted wireless communication use real-time location(s) of wireless transceiver(s) together with stored location-indexed channel information to improve communication over a wireless channel between the transceiver(s). The stored channel inf... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330256 | Spectrophotometric system with reduced angle of incidence A system uses reflectance spectrophotometry to characterize a sample having any number of structures. The system uses toroidal mirrors that are shaped in such a way that the angle of reflectance off of the target is small. The small angle of reflectance may allow fo... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330576 | Quantification method of vessel calcification A method that allows the quantification of the true mass of a calcium fragment located along a vessel is provided. The method is independent of the level of arterial contrast enhancement, does not require protocol-specific or scanner-specific calibration scans, and ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7326771 | Long-wavelength FPs Two long-wavelength fluorescent proteins isolated from the strawberry anemone, Corynactis californica are provided. These proteins are homologous to known fluorescent proteins, but their unique properties, including yellow or red color of emission, can find u... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327445 | Enhanced surface plasmon resonance sensor using Goos-Hänchen effect An improved surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor is provided based on direct measurement of the Goos-Hänchen effect. Sensor sensitivity is enhanced by selecting the thickness of the metallic layer of the SPR sensor to be close to a critical thickness dcr | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327457 | Apparatus and method for optical characterization of a sample over a broadband of wavelengths while minimizing polarization changes An apparatus and method for optically characterizing the reflection and transmission properties of a sample with a beam of light having a small diameter on a surface of the sample over a broadband of wavelengths, from 190 nm to 1100 nm. Reflective optical components... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7326772 | Peptide for assaying hERG channel binding The present invention provides compositions and methods useful for assaying binding of compounds to the hERG K+ channel. According to a method of the present invention, a compound of interest is added to the hERG K+ channel in the presence of a... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324675 | Quantification of aortoiliac endoluminal irregularity A method to quantify the radial endoluminal irregularity of aortoiliac arteries is provided. Radial endoluminal outlines of a vessel of interest are determined. The cross sectional area is determined for the area outlined by each endoluminal outline. Using this cros... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324666 | Methods for assigning geocodes to street addressable entities A method for assigning of geocodes to addresses identifying entities on a street includes ordering a set of entity geocodes associated with a street segment based on ordering criteria such as the linear distance of the geocodes along the length of the street segment... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7319639 | Acoustic concealed item detector The present invention is directed towards an acoustic concealed item detector and related methods for detection using acoustics. In an illustrative embodiment, a multi-frequency ultrasonic wave generator generates in a gaseous medium at least first and second ultras... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7320031 | Automatic, personalized online information and product services A method for providing automatic, personalized information services to a computer user includes the following steps: transparently monitoring user interactions with data during normal use of the computer; updating user-specific data files including a set of user-rel... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7317184 | Kinematic sensors employing atom interferometer phases An apparatus and method for determining the coordinates of a body, where the coordinates express the body's inertial or kinematic properties, including, for example, its trajectory. The apparatus and method employ atom interferometers provided in a body frame X of t... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7305883 | Chemical micromachined microsensors The present invention provides sensors based on micromachined ultrasonic transducer technology. The sensors preferably include a plurality of sensor elements, but may include only one sensor element. Arrays of sensors are also provided. Sensor elements include a fun... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7302412 | Method for reiterative betting based on supply and demand of betting shares A betting method determines rate of return on a bet by employing supply and demand forces. The bet can be made on any uncertain future event that has at least two outcomes (e.g. sporting events, financial market fluctuations, and elections). Investors that place a b... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7300165 | Guardrail reflector/delineator and mounting device therefor The invention provides new reflective markers, reflectors, and delineators with a variety of mounting apparatuses for attaching the same onto standard guardrails in an efficient and effortless manner, without affecting the safety feature, display utility, and visibi... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7292613 | Half-wavelength micropost microcavity with electric field maximum in the high-refractive-index material A micropost microcavity device has a maximum field intensity at the center of a high-index spacer as well as a small mode volume. The device has an approximately half-wavelength thick low-index spacer [400] sandwiched between two quarter wave stacks [410, ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289214 | System and method for measuring overlay alignment using diffraction gratings A system and method for optical offset measurement is provided. An offset between two grating layers in a compound grating is measured by illuminating the gratings with light having a plane of incidence that is neither parallel with nor perpendicular to the grating ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289261 | Design of quasi-phasematched optical frequency converters Quasi-phasematching design to provide an approximation to a desired spectral amplitude response A(f) is provided. An initial phase response φ(f) corresponding to A(f) is generated. Preferably, d2φ(f)/df2 is proportional to A2(f). A... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7274684 | Method and system for implementing and managing a multimedia access network device In a complete network-in-a-box system acting as an enterprise network demarcation point, packets such as voice, video and data packets, are routed over common network connections, such as LAN and WAN. The packets are mapped from a public address field (such as an IP... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7272251 | Method for detecting and classifying a structure of interest in medical images A method to detect and classify a structure of interest in a medical image is provided to enable high specificity without sacrificing the sensitivity of detection. The method is based on representing changes in three-dimensional image data with a vector field, chara... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7268956 | Solid catadioptric lens with two viewpoints A dual viewpoint solid catadioptric lens has a first spherical refractive surface S1 having a center C1 located on an optical axis of the lens and having a radius r1, and a second spherical refractive surface S2 having a center C2 ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7265896 | Optical power combining for optical frequency conversion having nonlinear feedback Wavelength combining for nonlinear frequency conversion is provided having nonlinear feedback to the sources being combined. Power that is fed back to the sources is obtained from within a wavelength conversion device. Therefore, the feedback power to a source has a... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7262946 | Integrated electronic disconnecting circuits, methods, and systems Merged devices for transient blocking. A pass transistor is placed so that its body potential drives the gate of a depletion-mode JFET-type blocking transistor. Thus a transient which appears on an external terminal is very rapidly propagated to shut off the blockin... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7260984 | Power generation utilizing tire pressure changes A method of powering one or more electronic devices in a tire monitoring system using a tire pressure based energy scavenger is provided. With this method, a tire is rotated on a surface to generate pressure changes within the tire. These pressure changes are then c... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7259856 | Method for the precise measurement of the wavelength of light Improved cavity ring down spectroscopy is provided by binning decay time vs. wavelength data into wavelength bins defined by discontinuities in a wavelength monitor signal. Average decay times and average wavelengths are computed for each bin. The optical loss of a ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7259751 | Input systems and methods for the evaluation and optimization of same A method for evaluating an input system interfacing a human user with an electronic device uses empirically determined bi-action times for users to perform a second input action (e.g., pressing a second key) immediately after performing a first input action (e.g., p... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7255871 | Nanotube mat with an array of conduits for biological cells A nanotube mat is provided with an array of conduits to support, direct growth, select or interface one or more biological cells or cell processes. The carbon nanotube mat provides mechanical stability, is biocompatible, will support cell growth, can desirably be de... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7254802 | Standard cell library having cell drive strengths selected according to delay A cell library which enables reduced quantization over-design in large scale circuit design is provided. Library cells having the same cell function have drive strengths selected to provide delays about equal to a predetermined set of design delays, at a nominal loa... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7253409 | Electrochemical nano-patterning using ionic conductors The present invention provides nano-patterning based on flow of an ion current within an ionic conductor to bring ions in proximity to a microscope probe tip touching a surface of the conductor. These ions are then electrochemically reduced to form one or more featu... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7253909 | Phase shift measurement using transmittance spectra An apparatus and method for determining a physical parameter of features on a substrate by illuminating the substrate with an incident light covering an incident wavelength range Δλ, e.g., from 190 nm to 1000 nm, where the substrate is at least semi-transparent. A... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7253268 | Light-driven energy generation using proteorhodopsin A light-driven energy generation system using proteorhodopsin is provided. Proteorhodopsin sequences were retrieved and amplified from naturally occurring members of the domain Bacteria using proteorhodopsin-specific polymerase chain reaction primers. Proteorhodopsi... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7248160 | Computerized indelible tracking system A new computerized tracking system, IndeliTrak, that incorporates the state-of-the-art technologies including cell phones, GPS, Internet, and scanners to gather and distribute up-to-the-minute tracking data with little effort. As an example, a courier carries a mobi... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7248297 | Integrated color pixel (ICP) An integrated color pixel (ICP) with at least one integrated metal filter is presented. Rather than utilizing a separate color filter, the wavelength responsivity of the ICP is specified and integrated at pixel level into the ICP itself using metal materials already... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7248364 | Apparatus and method for optical characterization of a sample over a broadband of wavelengths with a small spot size An apparatus and method for optically characterizing the reflection and transmission properties of a sample with a beam of light having a small diameter on a surface of the sample over a broadband of wavelengths, from 190 nm to 1100 nm. Reflective optical components... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7242521 | Dual-axis confocal microscope having improved performance for thick samples An optical head for confocal microscopy that is especially advantageous for measurements on thick samples is provided. An interface between the optical head and the sample is index matched, to avoid beam aberration at this interface. The optical head includes a wind... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7238486 | DNA fingerprinting using a branch migration assay A method of determining the length of a polynucleotide target is provided. With this method, a target is first hybridized to an array of first probes having different, determined lengths, resulting in the formation of duplexes between the polynucleotide target and t... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7235323 | Fuel cell assembly and method for making the same In a fuel cell assembly with at least one cell including an electrolyte layer, a pair of gas diffusion electrode layers interposing said electrolyte layer between them, and a pair of flow distribution plates (5) for defining passages (10, 11) for fuel ... | 06/26/2007 |
