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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8143890 | Spectral resolution enhancement of magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging A method and apparatus for enhancing the spectral resolution of magnetic resonance spectroscopic (MRS) measurements include receiving time domain echo data from an MRS measurement for an MRS volume in a subject. Also received are high spatial resolution complex sign... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8135602 | Techniques for delivering coordination data for a shared facility Techniques for delivering data for coordinating multiple party use of a facility include producing conditions data by measuring without human intervention current condition of a facility that is used by multiple human parties. Availability data that indicates presen... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8118336 | Door stop A doorstop includes a flange connected to a floor contacting portion. The flange is deflectable under transverse pressure. During operation, a door-engaging end portion of the flange contacts a vertical face of a door. Upon deflection, the end portion drops below th... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8107703 | Quantitative real-time 4D stress test analysis Stress test analysis is facilitated through the acquired and manipulated use of a sequence of volumetric data regarding the heart (and may particularly comprise the left ventricle) for the assessment of the health state of the heart. Several provided and illustrated... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8034629 | High precision scanning of encoded hydrogel microparticles Techniques are provided for high precision scanning of hydrogel microparticles. The high precision is achieved by one or more modifications to the microparticle composition, or microfluidics apparatus that align the microparticles in a detection channel, or method o... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8031211 | Techniques for 3-D elastic spatial registration of multiple modes of measuring a body Techniques for registration of multiple measurement modes of a body include receiving first and second data from different modes. Each includes measured values with coordinate values. For two mechanically aligned modes, any non-rigid registration is performed. For s... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7989220 | Metal-enhanced fluorescence for polarization-based affinity assays A method and kit for determining the quantity of an analyte include providing a functionalized substrate and a reagent. The functionalized substrate includes metallic nanoparticles and a plurality of substantively identical bioactive target molecules affixed to a su... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7949192 | Techniques for converting analog medical video to digital objects Techniques for converting analog medical video data to digital objects include receiving a digital video signal. The signal is produced by converting an analog video signal from playing a legacy analog medical video medium on an appropriate analog video player. With... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7948503 | Techniques for 3-D elastic spatial registration of multiple modes of measuring a body Techniques for registration of multiple measurement modes of a body include receiving first and second data from different modes. Each includes measured values with coordinate values. For two mechanically aligned modes, any nonrigid registration is performed. For so... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7483996 | Techniques for migrating a point to point protocol to a protocol for an access network Techniques for exchanging point to point protocol (PPP) information among network nodes using an arbitrary network protocol include determining whether a PPP payload includes PPP control data. If so, then an outbound protocol frame is generated with the PPP control ... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7471224 | Broadband analog to digital conversion using analog spectral recording A method and apparatus for converting an analog waveform to a series of digital values includes receiving an input analog waveform to be digitized over a particular frequency band. A phase-sensitive frequency-domain representation of the input analog waveform is rec... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7464243 | Method and apparatus for arbitrarily initializing a portion of memory Techniques for initializing an arbitrary portion of memory with an arbitrary pattern includes using a memory controller for performing sequenced read and write operations. The memory controller receives address data, length data and pattern data on a data bus connec... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7461180 | Method and apparatus for synchronizing use of buffer descriptor entries for shared data packets in memory Techniques for synchronizing use of buffer descriptors for data, such as packets transmitted over a network, include receiving private index data that indicates a particular buffer descriptor owned by a DMA controller, for moving data between a data port and a corre... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7420933 | Techniques for zero touch provisioning of edge nodes for a virtual private network by pushing configuration from a server A method and apparatus for configuring a network interface to support a virtual private network includes storing configuration data at a server on a host computer on the provider network. It is determined without human intervention whether conditions are satisfied f... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7391550 | Method and apparatus for optical broadband frequency chirp Techniques for producing an optical broadband frequency sweep or chirp, include generating a narrowband frequency chirp and a frequency-shifted replica. The narrowband chirp has an optical carrier frequency, a pulse duration and a pulse bandwidth. A frequency-shifte... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7379652 | Method and apparatus for detecting optical spectral properties using optical probe beams with multiple sidebands Techniques for detecting optical spectral properties of a target are described. The technique includes providing an optical carrier which has an optical frequency bandwidth which is narrow compared to the width of the narrowest spectral feature of the target to be d... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7333501 | Techniques for determining network nodes to represent, multiple subnetworks for a routing protocol A method and apparatus are presented for determining network nodes for aggregating addresses in routing information used for routing data packets over a network. Link data and reachability data are received. Link data indicates direct links between each of multiple ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7328032 | Method and system for customizing distributed short message routing Short messages are formatted as control messages in a communication network but do not control the communication network. Techniques for dynamically distributing short messages include remotely reprogramming a control node that processes control messages for the com... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7307781 | Techniques for using chirped fields to reconfigure a medium that stores spectral features Techniques for reconfiguring spectral features stored in a medium based on a two-state atomic system with transition dipole moment μ includes causing a chirp to pass into the medium. The chirp includes a monochromatic frequency that varies in time by a chirp rate Î... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7265712 | Method and apparatus for processing high time-bandwidth signals using a material with inhomogeneously broadened absorption spectrum Techniques for analog processing of high time-bandwidth-product (TBP) signals use a material with an inhomogeneously broadened absorption spectrum including multiple homogeneously broadened absorption lines. A first set of signals on optical carriers interact in the... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7209759 | Method and system for customizing distributed short message routing Techniques for dynamically distributing short messages include storing action data and parameter data. Action data indicates actions for forwarding a short message and includes an action to bypass a short message service center (SMSC). Parameter data indicates param... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7193879 | Techniques for multiple frequency chirp readout of material with inhomogeneously broadened absorption spectrum Techniques for reading the spectral content of a spatial-spectral grating in an inhomogeneously broadened transition (IBT) material include directing multiple probe waveforms to probe a spatial mode of the IBT material. Each probe waveform is a linear frequency modu... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7145713 | Techniques for recovering optical spectral features using a chirped optical field Techniques for recovering optical spectral features include receiving a detected time series that represents a temporally varying intensity of an optical signal. The optical signal is formed in response to an interaction between a target optical spectrum and a chirp... | 12/05/2006 |
