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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8131312 | Method and system for construction of radio environment model A system and method for constructing a signal propagation model in a wireless communication system such as a cellular system based on at least one received wireless signal correlated to a geographic location. ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8125516 | Device and system for in vivo imaging The present invention provides a system and method for obtaining in vivo images. The system contains an imaging system and a transmitter for transmitting signals from a camera to a receiving system located outside a patient. ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8045830 | Apparatus and method for excitation of a single mode in a waveguide A wave-guiding system and method for mode-selective transmission of a spatially coherent light beam is disclosed. The system comprises a wave-guide with an inlet and an outlet for transmitting one or more modes; a first mode-shaping optical element for shaping the s... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8035272 | Carbon brush with raw graphite particles A rotating electrical machine, which is a direct current motor, includes carbon brushes. Each carbon brush contains graphite grains, metal particles, and solid lubricant, which are sintered in a dispersed state. The graphite grains are each formed of granulated subs... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8029012 | Device, system and method for automated tow coupling A tow hook coupling device to automatically align and couple a tow hook of a first vehicle onto a female member of a second vehicle when the two vehicles are brought into proximity. The female member has a lateral attachment that is suitable to be grabbed by a hook,... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7994998 | Dual polarization planar array antenna and cell elements therefor An RF antenna structure (e.g., a planar array) includes at least one radiation cell (and typically many, e.g., 16 or 32 or 64, etc.) having a conductive enclosure and an upper probe and a lower probe located at different heights within the enclosure. The enclosure b... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7991498 | Method and system for building painted three-dimensional objects Embodiments of the invention are directed to a method for printing a painted three-dimensional object. Each layer of the object is printed so that only the external circumference of the layer contains colored material. The building material used may be transparent, ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7899206 | Device, system and method for determining compliance with a positioning instruction by a figure in an image A device, system and method for calculating location coordinates for a figure in an image that is illuminated by visible light, comparing such location coordinates to location coordinates of a figure, and evaluating compliance by such figure to an instruction to ass... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7878376 | Dry goods dispenser and dispensing mechanism A device is provided for holding dispensing and conveying substances such as dry foods such as, for example, flour, breakfast cereal or granola. The device may include a stand holding a possibly hermetically sealed container which may include a conveyor, having a fl... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7866252 | Gasket, cover with gasket, and pneumatic cylinder with cover and gasket A gasket includes a damping buffer (1) for a piston (2) that can be charged with a pressure medium and that can be moved back and forth axially in a cylinder pipe (3) and includes at least one static seal (4) for sealing the cylinder pipe... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7865822 | Method and apparatus for parallel validation of documents A method for validating a document by fragmenting the document, validating elements fully contained in each single fragment and validating elements spanning two or more fragments. ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7859159 | Electric motor An electric motor having a stator and a mover is disclosed. The stator has excitation coils of three phases, and the mover is movable relative to the stator. The mover has an opposed surface facing the excitation coils. Field poles or protrusions are provided on the... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7857322 | Sealing ring The present invention provides a sealing ring having at least eight sealing edges. Sealing rings, such as O-ring seals, are generally known. These universal sealing rings can be used for statically or dynamically sealing machine elements. They have the advantage of ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7828433 | Assymetrical progressive lens Progressive lens for viewing a field of vision having at least a first portion including objects in a first range of distances from a viewer and a second portion including objects in a second range of distances from the viewer, the lens comprising: at least two diff... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7826866 | System, apparatus and method to route radio frequency signals Briefly, a wireless communication device having two or more different wireless radio frequency (RF) units operably coupled to a router by two or more respective buses. The router is able to route bit streams of radio frequency signals from a digital baseband unit to... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7813590 | System and method for displaying an in-vivo image stream The present invention relates to a system and method for displaying an image stream captured by an in vivo imaging device and for displaying an image stream in a consolidated manner. ... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7800695 | Video storage device, and method of controlling a video storage device and video mixer A video mixer is employed to form a transition between two video compositions, for example a fade or a wipe. A video storage device is associated with the video mixer and plays out a video signal, the timing of which is controlled in dependence upon the progress of ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7787928 | Methods, device and system for in vivo detection A system and method for in vivo diagnosis are provided. A composition including for example a radioactive marking agent and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier is administered to a patient and an autonomous in vivo device, which may include for example an illumina... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7748753 | Pipes coupling with integrated grip A band coupling for straight line interconnection of flangeless pipes and a built in pipe grip mechanism to resist axial separation forces is provided. The band-clamp coupling comprises an outer housing of cross-section resembling a wide, low-wall channel, the walls... | 07/06/2010 |
| D614069 | Ring | 04/20/2010 |
| D607364 | Earring | 01/05/2010 |
| 7620770 | Device and method for storing and processing data units A device and method for storing and processing data units. The method includes: storing, at a read request dual port random access (DPR) memory unit, at least one request to read data from a double data rate (DDR) memory unit; storing, at a write request dual port r... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7597950 | Nanoparticles having sub-nanometer features An article has a surface, at least a portion of which has a local radius of curvature of about 1000 nm or less. For example, the article may be a nanoparticle or a surface, a portion of which has a roughness characterized by a radius of curvature of about 1000 nm or... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7590913 | Method and apparatus of reporting memory bit correction Briefly, a method, main processing unit and a computer system to report a failure in a bit of a memory line by updating first and second counters for a first time and a second time correction of bit failures in a line, respectively. The updating of first and second ... | 09/15/2009 |
| D597681 | Door | 08/04/2009 |
| 7561908 | System and method for changing transmission from an in vivo sensing device A device and system enables obtaining data such as in vivo images from within body lumens or cavities, such as images of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. A device may include an imaging system and a radio frequency (RF) transmitter for transmitting signals from an i... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7560704 | Method, device and system of illumination-based disinfection Some demonstrative embodiments of the invention include a method, device and/or system illumination-based disinfection. A disinfector may include, for example, a conduit to carry a flowing medium to be disinfected, the conduit having an inlet to receive the medium a... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7553941 | Long-acting polypeptides and methods of producing same A polypeptide and polynucleotides encoding same comprising at least two carboxy-terminal peptides (CTP) of chorionic gonadotrophin attached to a peptide-of-interest are disclosed. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising the polypeptide and polynucleotides of the inve... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7553940 | Long-acting EPO polypeptides and derivatives thereof and methods thereof A polypeptide and polynucleotides encoding same comprising at least two carboxy-terminal peptides (CTP) of chorionic gonadotrophin attached to an EPO peptide are disclosed. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising the polypeptide and polynucleotides of the invention a... | 06/30/2009 |
| D593156 | Memo board | 05/26/2009 |
| 7523751 | Device and method for providing a controlled mixture of gas and vapor to a patient A method including: providing a device that includes multiple tilted heating elements, and a housing that includes a fluid reservoir inlet that is adapted to receive an inverted fluid reservoir, a gas inlet that is adapted to receive pressurized gas from a gas pipe,... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7504384 | Use of lipid conjugates in the treatment of infection This invention provides compounds and methods of use thereof in suppressing, inhibiting, preventing, or treating a pathogenic effect on a cell, including, inter alia, infection with intracellular pathogens. Also provided are compounds and methods of use thereof in s... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7503457 | Screening system for objects in transit The present invention relates to the screening of objects in-transit and materials, for security purposes (i.e. explosives detection). The invention provides an adjustable computerized system suitable for use at airports, seaports, land terminals, distribution cente... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7490936 | Enhanced electro-active lens system A lens system and optical devices that provide enhanced vision correction are disclosed. The lens system includes an electro-active layer that provides correction of at least one higher order aberration. The higher order correction changes dynamically based on a use... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7485093 | Device and method for in-vivo sensing An in vivo device for sensing a lumen such as the GI tract, such as an in vivo imaging device or other sensing device, may include a substantially spherical housing and an oblong appendage attached to the housing. The appendage may be detached in vivo, for example i... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7479635 | Infrared detector package In an infrared detector package, a first annular metallized layer (6a, 6b) is formed along the annular shoulder (4a) of a casing member (4), and a second annular metallized layer (7) is formed along the annular... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7475985 | System, apparatus, and method for correcting vision using an electro-active lens A spectacle lens is disclosed. The disclosed lens provides a vision correcting area for the correction of a wearer's refractive error. The viewing correction area provides correction for non-conventional refractive error to provide at least a part of the wearer's vi... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7477686 | Apparatus and method of adaptive filter Briefly, according to some embodiments of the invention a method and apparatus to generate a filter are provided. The apparatus may include a phase modulation unit to vary a phase component of a signal, a measurement unit to measure a parameter of the phase modulati... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7477627 | Method and device of adaptive control of data rate, fragmentation and request to send protection in wireless networks A method and device for adaptive control of transmission parameters such as data rate, fragmentation and request to send protection. Packet error rates for frames transmitted with and without request to send protection are computed and compared to determine whether ... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7468587 | All wheel drive vehicle The present invention relates to the field of electric-motor-driven vehicles such as cars, motorcycles, scooters, electric-motor trains, etc. Embodiments of the invention seek to provide an economic all-wheel-drive (AWD) vehicle possessing high dynamic characteristi... | 12/23/2008 |
