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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8110258 | Glazing unit with transparent filler A glazing unit has a at least one self-supporting insert of light-transmissive insulation material in the form of honeycomb arrangement of cells sandwiched in a gap between a pair of glass lites. A granular, light-transmissive, thermally insulating filler, such as s... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107256 | Serviceable networking appliance chassis A networking appliance includes a chassis, an off-the-shelf motherboard mounted on said chassis, said motherboard including at least one expansion bus, one or more separately removable expansion module mounted on said chassis, and a number of card slots in the expan... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8090316 | Digital FM radio transmitter A digital FM transmitter has a digital controlled oscillator for generating a modulated RF carrier. A digital signal processor receives digital input samples and generates a modulating signal for input to the digital controlled oscillator. A bandpass filter for filt... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8089951 | Method of transferring timing information over packet network Timing information is transmitted over a network by sending time-stamped packets between a transmitter and receiver. The time-stamped packets are used to compute an estimate of the frequency deviation between the transmitter clock and the receiver clock. The local r... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8071486 | Method for removing residues formed during the manufacture of MEMS devices A method of removing residues from an integrated device, in particular residues resulting from processing in HF vapor, is disclosed wherein the fabricated device is exposed to dry water vapor for a period of time sufficient to dissolve the residues in the dry water ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8061713 | Three dimensional geometric puzzle Disclosed is a geometric puzzle comprising a plurality of three-dimensional components of at least one type, each component of the same type being derived by notionally dividing a fundamental shape into a plurality of equal parts, said fundamental shape being select... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8057852 | Microdevice for a fluorescence-based assay, and a method for making the microdevice Glass as a substrate for fluorescence-based assays is expensive. Disclosed is a poly(cyclic olefin) alternative to glass that is of comparable sensitivity. More specifically, disclosed is a method of making a microdevice for the immobilization of biomolecules for th... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8050893 | Method and system for the design of an enclosure to house internal components Disclosed are a method, a computer-based system and a computer-readable medium having computer-readable code embodied therein for creating the specifications for the fabrication of a fully customized enclosure housing internal components. First a suitable three dime... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8041028 | Double-talk detection Within audio telecommunications for audio-visual conferencing a means of reliable double-talk detection is required for several reasons, including control of residual echo, and control of adaptive algorithms used to estimate the echo. Existing techniques tend to eit... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8028479 | Interlocking structural glazing panels Disclosed is an interlocking glazing panel comprising a pair of transparent or translucent lites, and rigid structural spacer located between, and firmly attached to, said lites to define a gap therebetween, said rigid structural spacer extending around at least par... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8023641 | Spectral domain, non-linear echo cancellation method in a hands-free device Disclosed is a non-linear echo canceller and method for cancelling echo during full duplex communication in a hands free communication system. An input signal from a far-end talker and an input signal from the output from an echo canceller are received. K spectral s... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8023571 | Impulse ultra-wideband radio communication system A method and apparatus are provided for implementing an impulse ultra-wideband communications system which combines the technique of transmitted reference (TR) with a code-sifted reference scheme that separates the reference and the data pulses with a sequence of co... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8010355 | Low complexity noise reduction method A method of reducing noise in a speech signal involves converting the speech signal to the frequency domain using a fast fourier transform (FFT), creating a subset of selected spectral subbands, determining the appropriate gain for each subband, and interpolating th... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7997729 | Method for correcting patient motion when obtaining retina volume using optical coherence tomography A computer-implemented method of correcting for motion of a sample during OCT imaging obtains a series of cross-sectional volume scans through the sample at different positions on a first coordinate axis, obtains at least two cross-sectional alignment scans in plane... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7991941 | Memory access assist A method and apparatus are provided for facilitating access from a control system to the memory of a processor across two buses, one of which acts as a bottleneck to communication between the control system and the processor. A bridge between the two buses acts as a... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7975986 | All-air vehicle lifting jack Disclosed is an all-air jack for lifting a vehicle, comprising: a frame assembly; a first bellow at an upper portion of the frame assembly; a second bellow at a lower portion of the frame assembly; an air bellow attachment plate positioned between the first and seco... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7973707 | Method for geofencing A method for determining that a GPS receiver is located within a predetermined geofence volume. An embodiment of the invention includes the steps of receiving global positioning system signals from a plurality of GPS satellites; calculating a solution set of possibl... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7965115 | Soft reference switch for phase locked loop A phase locked loop includes a digital controlled oscillator and a number of phase detectors, each having a first input connected to a reference source and a second input coupled to the output of the digital controlled oscillator, and an output for producing a phase... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7961727 | Method and apparatus for forwarding packets An internetworking system operating over an ATM backbone. The physical internetworking devices within the system are shared to provide the internetworking functions while servicing two or more distinct and isolated user networks. This is accomplished by logically pa... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7927904 | Method of making BIOMEMS devices A MEMS device is manufactured by first forming a self-aligned monolayer (SAM) on a carrier wafer. Next, a first polymer layer is formed on the self-aligned monolayer. The first polymer layer is patterned form a microchannel cover, which is then bonded to a patterned... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7926949 | Dual-mode three-dimensional projection display A dual-mode stereoscopic three-dimensional (3D) projection display with two micro-display panels is provided. In a passive 3D mode, the 3D projection display simultaneously projects left-eye and right-eye images with first and second polarizations on the screen. The... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7924730 | Method and apparatus for operations, administration and maintenance of a network messaging layer A method of performing connectivity verification in a content routed network including a plurality of routers and wherein messages are transported through the network over a message transport layer, involves sending from an originating router a ping request message ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7913119 | Method and device for verifying integrity of data acquisition pathways Disclosed is a method of verifying the integrity of data acquired from a device emulating a hard disk to a host computer over a data transfer pathway. A storage medium containing known data is connected to the data transfer pathway, the storage medium capable of emu... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7908138 | Low complexity noise reduction method To reduce noise in an input signal that may contain speech, first an estimate of the noise level in the signal is obtained. The level of the input signal is then compared with the noise level estimate signal to determine whether speech is dominant. Less aggressive n... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7895299 | Dynamic links in content-based networks In a method of managing a content-based network including a plurality of content routers, such as XML routers, dynamic links are established between the content routers which are not direct neighbors. ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7895158 | Data logging in content routed networks A method of managing a content routed network, involves distributing published documents through said network for delivery to subscribers; maintaining data logs pertaining to said published documents at different points in the network; and correlating the data logs ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7889738 | Shared application inter-working with virtual private networks A method of providing a shared application infrastructure simultaneously to multiple independent virtual private networks with potentially overlapping IP addresses, involves connecting to an underlying layer 1, 2 or 3 virtual private network offering one or more vir... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7872761 | Method for reliable optical coherence tomography scans of volumes of retinal tissue A method of building up a three dimensional OCT image of an object having a limited region sensitive to movement of a scanning beam performs an OCT scan in a scanning pattern that results in said limited region, typically the fovea of the eye, being scanned last. | 01/18/2011 |
| 7863632 | High performance light-emitting devices An organic light emitting device consists of a layered structure including a top multilayer stack, a bottom multilayer stack, a cavity layer between the top multilayer stack and the bottom multilayer stack, and an organic light emitting region within the cavity laye... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7859992 | Router redundancy in data communication networks A method of providing router redundancy within a distributed network of routers, wherein messages are routed within the network based on virtual router identifiers, involves organizing the routers into one or more redundancy groups; assigning a physical identifier t... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7844733 | Content router with multiple forwarding elements instantiated on hardware entities A carrier grade content router, includes a distinct management plane for housing externally visible management applications, and coordinating and relaying external management requests to appropriate underlying application code in the router; a distinct control plane... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7843954 | Scaleable VoIP telephone line circuit A telephone subscriber line device for providing an interface between a legacy telephone circuit based on circuit-switched technology and a packet network has a legacy interface for connection to telephone circuit; a packet interface for connection to a packet netwo... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7835314 | Physical layer interface system and method for a wireless communication system Physical layer interface system for use in a broadband wireless access communication network is provided. The broadband wireless access communication network comprises a base station, a subscriber station and a wireless communication link for transmitting wireless c... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7829872 | UV reactive spray chamber for enhanced sample introduction efficiency An analyte for atomic spectrometry detection is prepared by introducing an aerosol of the analyte into a chamber, and irradiating the aerosol with ultraviolet light in the presence of a low molecular weight organic acid or other suitable photoactivatable ligand dono... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7820047 | Integrated multi-zone wastewater treatment system and method A wastewater treatment system has two separate but interlinked tanks containing four different zones, namely aerobic, microaerophilic, anoxic and anaerobic, for the biological treatment of the wastewater, as well as two clarification zones and a filtration unit for ... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7810378 | Monitoring of leakage in wastewater force mains and other pipes carrying fluid under pressure A method of detecting leakage in a force main involves placing at least two spaced sensors on the force main. Liquid is pumped through the pipe by means of a pump. The pump is shut down for an interval of time, and during the period following pump shutdown while neg... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7807550 | Method of making MEMS wafers A wafer level package for a MEMS device is made by bonding a MEMS wafer and a lid wafer together to form a hermetically sealed cavity. One or more vias filled with conductive or semiconductive material is etched one of the wafers to form one or more rods extending t... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7799656 | Microchannels for BioMEMS devices A method is disclosed for making a MEMS device wherein anhydrous HF exposed silicon nitride is used as a temporary adhesion layer allowing the transfer of a layer from a Carrier Wafer to a Device Wafer. ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7799376 | Method of controlling film stress in MEMS devices A structural film, typically of silicon, in MEMS or NEMS devices is fabricated by depositing the film in the presence of a gas other than nitrogen, and preferably argon as the carrier gas. ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7786811 | Phase locked loop with adaptive filter for DCO synchronization A digital phase locked loop has a digital controlled oscillator, a feedback loop coupled to the output of said digital controlled oscillator, a phase detector for comparing a feedback signal from said feedback loop with a reference signal to produce a phase error si... | 08/31/2010 |
