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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7496181 | X-ray collimator for imaging with multiple sources and detectors Reduced source spacing for multi-source, multi-detector X-ray imaging systems is provided by allowing channels within an X-ray collimator to intersect within the body of the collimator. As a result, the channels are not independent, and the source spacing can be sig... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7460436 | Apparatus and method for hydraulic fracture imaging by joint inversion of deformation and seismicity A method for hydraulic fracture imaging consistently integrates ground deformation data and microseismic data. A time sequence of hydraulic fracture images is computed from the combined data by first computing an orientation and location of the fracture. A size of t... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7458013 | Concurrent voice to text and sketch processing with synchronized replay The present invention facilitates transparent and cost effective capture, sharing, and re-use of knowledge in informal media such as audio, video, and individual sketching actions. Sketches, handwritings, verbal comments and the likes captured during a session are t... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7452406 | Device and method for removing water and carbon dioxide from a gas mixture using pressure swing adsorption A pressure swing adsorption (PSA) dryer for separating water and carbon dioxide from a gas stream includes two compound adsorbent columns [32, 42]. Each column comprises a primary adsorption material for adsorbing water and a secondary adsorbent that adsorbs ... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7448131 | Method of making gate for charged particle motion A Bradbury-Nielson gate (BNG) includes a set of evenly spaced, co-planar, and parallel wires. The wires alternate in a repeating ABAB pattern, where all of the A wires are electrically connected to each other, all of the B wires are electrically connected to each ot... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7447547 | Neural prosthesis based on photomechanical deflectors and tactile sensory cells An interface for selective excitation of a biological neural network is provided. The interface includes a microelectromechanical (MEMS) device having a deformable membrane, and a tactile-sensitive neural cell disposed on the deformable membrane. The cell on the def... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7446311 | Method of coating an electrospray emitter The present invention provides a method of coating an electrospray emitter with silver and then gold utilizing wet-coating processes. First, the electrospray emitter is immersed in a silver-containing liquid solution to coat the electrospray emitter in a layer of si... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7444856 | Sensors for electrochemical, electrical or topographical analysis Sensors and systems for electrical, electrochemical, or topographical analysis, as well as methods of fabricating these sensors are provided. The sensors include a cantilever and one or more probes, each of which has an electrode at its tip. The tips of the probes a... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7441178 | Low complexity decoding of low density parity check codes An improved decoder and decoding method for low density parity check (LDPC) codes is provided. Decoding proceeds by repetitive message passing from a set of variable nodes to a set of check nodes, and from the check nodes back to the variable nodes. The variable nod... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7436192 | Probe skates for electrical testing of convex pad topologies A probe for engaging a conductive pad is provided. The probe includes a probe contact end for receiving a test current, a probe retention portion below the contact end, a block for holding the probe retention portion, a probe arm below the retention portion, a probe... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7430721 | Pointright: a system to redirect mouse and keyboard control among multiple machines The present invention provides a software system, PointRight, that allows for smooth and effortless control of pointing and input devices among multiple displays. With PointRight, a single free-floating mouse and keyboard can be used to control multiple screens. Whe... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7430513 | Data storage management driven by business objectives Storage organization of data according to business objectives is provided to manage data storage consumption among data storage consumers. Data is not managed at the file level, but organized, coordinated and enforced at a global level based on business logic. The b... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7426710 | 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... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7426634 | Method and apparatus for rate based denial of service attack detection and prevention The present invention provides a method and apparatus for detecting and preventing a plurality of denial of service (DOS) and distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks. The apparatus includes classifiers for parsing packets; meters storing statistics for the clas... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7423265 | Near-field aperture having a fractal iterate shape Near-field electromagnetic devices having an opaque metallic screen with a fractal iterate aperture are provided. More specifically, the aperture is obtained by application of a self-similar replacement rule to an initial shape two or more times. Alternatively, the ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7422191 | Bistable miniature valve A bistable minivalve includes a movable component, an actuator that is electrostatically, magnetically, or mechanically coupled to the movable component for controllably switching the movable component between open and closed states, and a casing providing structura... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7420686 | Wavelength measurement method based on combination of two signals in quadrature In a dual etalon wavelength monitor, improved performance is obtained by identifying first and second dead zones where the first and second etalon signals respectively have significantly reduced sensitivity. When a measurement is in the first dead zone, only the sec... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7419639 | Multilayer microfluidic device The present invention provides microfluidic devices constructed from four layers. The layers include a rigid substrate layer, a patterned rigid layer having thickness t, a patterned elastomeric layer having thickness greater than t, and a rigid support layer. Microf... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7417447 | Probe cards employing probes having retaining portions for potting in a retention arrangement Method and apparatus using a retention arrangement with a potting enclosure for holding a plurality of probes by their retention portions, the probes being of the type having contacting tips for establishing electrical contact with pads or bumps of a device under te... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7414730 | High precision interferometer apparatus employing a grating beamsplitter Measurement of a distance change between a reference surface and a target is provided. A substrate has a first surface facing the target and including a grating. The grating and target combine to form an optical interferometer responsive to changes in distance betwe... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7412107 | System and method for robust multi-frame demosaicing and color super-resolution An integrated method for both super-resolution and multi-frame demosaicing includes an image fusion followed by simultaneous deblurring and interpolation. For the case of color super-resolution, the first step involves application of recursive image fusion separatel... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7409876 | Authentication system having a flexible imaging pressure sensor A sensor for a textured surface (e.g., a fingerprint) is provided. The sensor includes a flexible substrate and a flexible membrane supported above the substrate by one or more spacers. The sensor also includes multiple pressure sensor elements responsive to a separ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7410133 | Miniature trailing edge effector for aerodynamic control Improved miniature trailing edge effectors for aerodynamic control are provided. Three types of devices having aerodynamic housings integrated to the trailing edge of an aerodynamic shape are presented, which vary in details of how the control surface can move. A bu... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7405531 | Torque-position transformer for task control of position controlled robots Torque control capability is provided to a position controlled robot by calculating joint position inputs from transformation of the desired joint torques. This is based on calculating the transfer function 1/E(s), which relates the desired joint torque to joint pos... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7397554 | Apparatus and method for examining a disk-shaped sample on an X-Y-theta stage An apparatus and method for examining features of a planar, disk-shaped samples on a stage that holdings the sample and has an X-drive, a Y-drive and a θ-drive for rotating the stage about a center of rotation defined in the stage coordinates. The sample is placed ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7397030 | Integrated local and global optical metrology for samples having miniature features This invention relates to an apparatus and method for integrated measurement of a sample that has miniature features. The apparatus has an optical measuring unit for illuminating the sample with a global test radiation over an optical test region and obtaining an op... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7394254 | Magnetic resonance imaging having radiation compatible radiofrequency coils Improved compatibility of MRI with radiation imaging is provided by MRI RF coils having transmissive coil sections. The transmissive coil sections are substantially transparent to the penetrating radiation employed by the radiation imaging system. Thus the transmiss... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7391524 | System and method for efficient characterization of diffracting structures with incident plane parallel to grating lines A system and a method for optical characterization of a symmetric grating illuminated at off-normal incident angle are provided, where the plane of incidence is parallel to the grating lines. In this case corresponding positive and negative diffraction orders have t... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7379612 | Dynamic reconstruction of high-resolution video from color-filtered low-resolution video-to-video super-resolution A method is provided of solving the dynamic super-resolution (SR) problem of reconstructing a high-quality set of monochromatic or color superresolved images from low-quality monochromatic, color, or mosaiced frames. The invention includes a joint method for simulta... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7380231 | Wire spreading through geotopological layout The present invention provides a layout yield improvement tool that performs wire spreading to optimize integrated circuit (IC) designs in the physical design stage after detail routing. Preferably, the wire spreading is performed on a geotopological layout. Each mo... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7375942 | Flexible secondary overcurrent protection A protection system in which a shunt protection device at the interface terminals is optically triggered by sensor components within the circuit. This permits a variety of appropriate overvoltage detection thresholds to be defined at different nodes within the circu... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7374363 | Safe removable bollard A removable bollard is provided. A bollard is attached to a bollard plate with a catch fixed to one end and a lock juncture fixed near the opposite end of the bollard plate. Additionally provided is a base plate with a catch receiver at one end of the base plate, a ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7373843 | Flexible imaging pressure sensor A sensor for a textured surface (e.g., a fingerprint) is provided. The sensor includes a flexible substrate and a flexible membrane supported above the substrate by one or more spacers. The sensor also includes multiple pressure sensor elements responsive to a separ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7372688 | Protection devices and methods for preventing the flow of undesirable differential mode transients A differential mode surge protection apparatus includes first and second solid state protection devices in series between respective input and output connection points. The apparatus may be provided in conjunction with a common mode protection apparatus such as an i... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7367614 | Multi-panel sunshade device In a multi-panel sunshade device for a vehicle comprising a drive panel and a plurality of follower panels slidably supported between the right and left guide rails to selectively open and close the roof opening, the right and left guide rails each comprises an uppe... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369387 | Apparatus and method for temperature-dependent transient blocking An apparatus and method for temperature-dependent transient blocking employing a transient blocking unit (TBU) that uses at least one depletion mode n-channel device interconnected with at least one depletion mode p-channel device. The interconnection is performed s... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7363198 | Long elements method for simulation of deformable objects Long Elements Method (LEM) for real time physically based dynamic simulation of deformable objects. The LEM is based on a new meshing strategy using long elements whose forms can be straight or arbitrary. The LEM implements a static solution for elastic global defor... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356663 | Layered memory architecture for deterministic finite automaton based string matching useful in network intrusion detection and prevention systems and apparatuses The present invention provides a method and apparatus for searching multiple strings within a packet data using deterministic finite automata. The apparatus includes means for updating memory tables stored in a layered memory architecture comprising a BRAM, an SRAM ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7347060 | Systems for regulating the temperature of a heating or cooling device using non-electric controllers and non-electric controllers therefor Described here are systems for regulating the temperature of a heating or cooling device without adjusting the input power. In general, the systems described here comprise a heating or cooling device and a controller. The heating or cooling device typically comprise... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349103 | System and method for high intensity small spot optical metrology An apparatus and method for examining features of a sample with a broadband beam of light obtained from a long-wavelength source that may include two distinct emitters that emit a long-wavelength radiation and a short-wavelength source that emits a short-wavelength ... | 03/25/2008 |
