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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| D637413 | Textile product with surface pattern | 05/10/2011 |
| 7934700 | Netting or fence with retro-reflective strips A net/fence includes retro-reflective elements such as tapes that extend in horizontal and/or vertical directions with respect to the fence. The tapes are attached to the netting by thread or glue. One method for weaving the net/fence includes dragging the tape exte... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7933509 | Device and method for reducing optical blurring A camera-movement compensation device includes a first liquid-crystal cell with a pair of parallel transparent plates and a first voltage source coupled to the first liquid-crystal cell and able to apply and alter a first voltage gradient across the plates of the fi... | 04/26/2011 |
| D636602 | Shopping bag | 04/26/2011 |
| 7923679 | Method and device for handling objects In relation with a laser-induced transport process of an object from a carrier to a collecting device, the invention provides a collecting medium in the collecting device in a liquid state. Prior to the laser-induced transport process, the object is separated from a... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7918887 | Body parameter detecting sensor and method for detecting body parameters A method for detecting biometric parameters includes the steps of performing a bone graft procedure on a vertebra of a spine, providing a biometric sensor at the vertebra, and measuring a biometric parameter at the vertebra with the sensor. The sensor is capable of ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7913983 | Stair, ramp, or balcony railing system In a preferred embodiment, an apparatus, including: a plurality of members disposed inside generally vertical balusters; each of the members having formed therethrough a hole; a plurality of wires, cables, rods, pipes, tubes (round, oval, or multi-sided) or the like... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7911405 | Multi-band low profile antenna with low band differential mode An antenna assembly includes a ground plane and an element coupled to the ground plane. The element has a center point, a first element portion extending away from the center point on a first side of the center point for a first distance in a first direction, bendin... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7909002 | Avian hut An avian hut includes a plurality of walls, each wall having an upper edge and a lower edge and coupled to at least one other of the plurality of walls, the plurality of walls together defining an avian hut interior and an avian hut exterior, the lower edges togethe... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7900927 | Portable, carriage driven, moving target system for training in marksmanship and target identification A small arms training target system including a portable, battery powered, rail guided, motor driven carriage, with stationary and moving targets connected thereto. A target-rotate control device operatively connects an electric motor and rotational arm assembly to ... | 03/08/2011 |
| D632934 | Knife | 02/22/2011 |
| 7883503 | Illuminating balloon catheter and method for using the catheter A directionally limited illuminating balloon catheter includes a multi-lumen shaft having a distal end and a hollow balloon portion disposed at the distal end and inflated through the shaft, the balloon portion having a light source illuminating only a portion of th... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7882808 | Protective hen apron A protective bird apron includes a main body area with a length and a width and a pair of opposing lateral sections attached to the main body area at corresponding opposing edges thereof, each lateral section having a length less than the length of the main body are... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7849126 | System and method for fast matrix factorization The Present invention provides a system and method for fast computing the Cholesky factorization of a positive definite matrix. In order to reduce the computation time of matrix factorizations, the present invention uses three atomic components, namely MA atoms, M a... | 12/07/2010 |
| D631250 | Handle bag | 01/25/2011 |
| D631227 | Gloves | 01/25/2011 |
| 7868448 | Electrical component and production thereof A modularly constructed electrical component having a module substrate, preferably, of Si, and having one or more preferably un-housed chips placed on the module substrate while being electrically connected thereto and each joined to the module substrate, e.g., by d... | 01/11/2011 |
| D630440 | Textile product with marigold pattern | 01/11/2011 |
| 7828811 | Surgical clip application assembly An apparatus for the transoral invagination and fundoplication of the stomach to the esophagus includes a clip applier having sharp toothed jaws for grasping and damaging the fundus prior to applying the clip. The clip applier has an overall diameter of less than 7 ... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7820343 | Method for producing a photomask, method for patterning a layer or layer stack and resist stack on a mask substrate Methods for producing a photomask or layer or stack patterning include applying two resists to a layer, a layer stack, or a mask substrate (collectively “the layer”). Sensitivity of the first resist with respect to the exposure dose is greater than sensitivity o... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7812071 | Decorative floor and deck finish and method for creating and applying such a finish A veneer composition that includes a mixture of at least one of an acrylic emulsion and one or more hard resins and also includes at least about 60% by volume of translucent, uniformly spherical, non-resin, absorbent beads of at least one of acrylic and polypropylen... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7811727 | Method for determining an exposure dose and exposure apparatus A method of determining an exposure dose for writing a pattern using an electron beam writer determines a target dose in the exposure region to obtain a predetermined energy deposition in a specific position of the exposure region, the predetermined energy depositio... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7805820 | Method of producing a thin-film resonator A thin-film resonator and a method for producing a thin-film component includes, for the purpose of structuring an upper first dielectric layer, a mask that comprises a second dielectric layer facing the upper dielectric layer and a photoresist layer. Initially, the... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7789964 | Method for cleaning a surface of a photomask A method of cleaning a surface of a photomask by removing contaminants from its surface that includes placing the photomask in a vessel, which is held under an elevated pressure and feeding a supercritical fluid, in particular, CO2 in a supercritical stat... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7735832 | Moving target system for training in marksmanship and target identification A target moving configuration includes a weighted base, a shooter's target, a target-moving assembly rotationally connected to the base and a hinge pivotally connecting the target thereto. A target-fall control device operatively connects the hinge to selectively pi... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7731655 | Tissue retractor and method for using the retractor A tissue retractor includes a body having proximal and distal ends. The retractor also includes a retraction device having a head connected to the distal end of the body and defining two opposing openings, a connector movably disposed in the body, and two flexible n... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7714239 | Force switch A mechanical force switch to be disposed along a longitudinal device axis of a medical device includes an electrically conductive switching piston to form a first electrical contact of the switch, a hollow body, an end stop, a bias device, and an electrically conduc... | 05/11/2010 |
| D613864 | Tattoo applicator | 04/13/2010 |
| 7678122 | Method of performing a treatment for gastroesophagheal reflux disease (GERD) A method of performing a treatment for gastroesophagheal reflux disease (GERD) includes providing a distal end of a shaft of a medical instrument with a proximally facing end effector having a laterally offset clevis defining a shaft-clevis plane and opposing mutual... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7651856 | Mounting device for mounting a retainer means for a biological object and corresponding method for laser micro-dissection To enable contactless laser microdissection in a closed container (10, 11), for example in the form of a Petri dish, it is proposed according to the invention to use a holding device which comprises a receiving portion (4) for arrangement in the contai... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7634357 | Systems and methods for off-board voice-automated vehicle navigation A method of providing navigational information includes processing destination information spoken by a mobile processing system user. The processed voice information is transmitted to a remote center wirelessly. The processed voice information is voice recognition a... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7578839 | Method for treating abdominal aortic aneurysms using a combined laparoscopic/open and endovascular technique A method for releasing an aortic prosthesis includes positioning an introducer in femoral arteries of a patient. Guiding balloon catheters are positioned through the introducers to locate balloons thereof in terminal parts of common iliac arteries. The proximal aort... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7572078 | Electronic key depth sensing device and method for interpreting keystroke levels of the device A method for recording shadow keystrokes in an electronic stenographic recording machine having keys forming stenographic keystrokes when actuated includes the steps of sensing an extent of an actuation of a subset of the keys as a stenographic keystroke, recording ... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7559916 | Catheter with controllable stiffness and method for operating a selective stiffening catheter A method and device for treating a Chronic Total Occlusion provides a controllable stiffness catheter with a shaft having a stiffness sheath and an access lumen. The device has a stiffness device in a stiff state below a given temperature and in a soft state above t... | 07/14/2009 |
| D595544 | Knife | 07/07/2009 |
| 7537963 | Device and method for manufacturing the same In a method for manufacturing a device, at first a plurality of components each having at least a first terminal region are provided. Furthermore, a support with a first surface, in which a plurality of recesses are formed, is provided. The components provided are i... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7479608 | Force switch A mechanical force switch to be disposed along a longitudinal device axis of a medical device includes an electrically conductive switching piston to form a first electrical contact of the switch, a hollow body, an end stop, a bias device, and an electrically conduc... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7454866 | Façade covering A façade covering for covering an outer wall of a building comprises a plurality of façade covering boards formed by circuit boards mountable to the outer wall of the building. ... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7454178 | Low-loss transmitter module A transmitter module of a wireless transmission system with at least one transmission path having a power amplifier disposed at the input side includes a low-pass filter disposed at the output side and an impedance converter disposed therebetween. The power amplifie... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7449405 | Method for producing bumps on an electrical component A method for producing contacts in the form of bumps on a component that comprises a base body includes, first, positioning a template on the base body. Through holes are produced through the template. By filling the through holes with an electrically conductive mat... | 11/11/2008 |
