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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8177151 | Separation of materials comprising super absorbent polymers using reduced water Embodiments of the present disclosure include a method for separating a material comprising a super absorbent polymer, a fiber and a plastic to separate the material into components thereof, one method comprising shredding the material, adding salt to the material, ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 7991509 | Augmented surgical interface The present invention is a system comprising surgical units and operator interface units configured to provide multiple capabilities within a surgical environment, or within a surgical training environment. The system may provide such capabilities in a modular fashi... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7909731 | Vehicle shift module assembly A shift module assembly for controlling the movement of a vehicle transmission out of a park condition responsive to a condition of the ignition system of the vehicle and responsive to a position of the vehicle brake pedal includes a moveable swing arm adapted to se... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7830519 | Method and device for analyte measurement A device for non-invasively measuring concentration of one or more analytes in a living subject or a biological sample, wherein the device includes several light sources, a system for controlling the timing and intensity of the light source outputs, a system for pas... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7657455 | Method and system for analyzing a plurality of parts The present invention includes a method and system configured to analyze a plurality of parts, each of the parts having at least one part characteristic. The method includes the steps of establishing at least one repository of the part characteristics, establishing ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7603080 | Multiple channel wireless communication system A wireless headphone device may include a receiver for receiving a wireless digital signal containing a plurality of digital audio streams combined with control codes according to a predetermined format, a manually operated selector switch for selecting one or more ... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7239442 | Optical frequency comb generator An optical frequency comb generator includes an oscillator (117) for oscillating modulating signals of a preset frequency, and an optical resonator (110) formed by an incident side reflecting mirror (112) and an outgoing side reflecting mirror (... | 07/03/2007 |
| 6750781 | Appliance control system utilizing bidirectional power line communications A control system for controlling operations of a plurality of electric appliances in distributed arrangements. Each of a plurality of controllers is connected between the power line and respective electric appliance. A remote controller is used to provide a control ... | 06/15/2004 |
| 7470670 | Peptide inhibitors of cyclin-dependent kinase activity and uses thereof Novel polypeptides or derivatives comprising cdk2 binding site are disclosed. The novel polypeptides or derivatives have growth suppressive activity. Nucleic acids encoding those polypeptides are also disclosed. The polypeptides identified herein are also useful in ... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7333842 | Method for the spectroscopic determination of the oxygen saturation of blood in the presence of optical disturbance variables The invention is directed to a method for the spectrometric determination of the oxygen saturation of blood in the presence of optical disturbance variables in which transmission measurements and reflection measurements are carried out in at least two wavelengths th... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7328568 | Device and method for correcting a flexible material web guided to a processing machine A device for correcting a flexible material web that is guided to a processing machine, wherein the underside of the material web incorrectly points upward due to wrongly connected web ends or due to twisting. The device comprises a rotatable pair of cylinders that ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327212 | Plate member, magnetic element using the same, and magnetic element manufacturing method A plate member includes a frame portion (51) provided in a state of coupling both one end portion and other end portion and mounting terminal portions (44) protruding from the one end portion and the other end portion of said frame portion (51) ... | 02/05/2008 |
| D559393 | Hip and groin wrap for applying cooling and compression | 01/08/2008 |
| 7310954 | Cryogenic system A cryogenic system includes a space formed between a cooling stage of a cryocooler unit and an element to be cooled, and a thermal joint placed in the space, wherein the thermal joint is composed of a substance that has a melting point higher than the cooling temper... | 12/25/2007 |
| D557615 | Combined container and dispenser | 12/18/2007 |
| 7296246 | Multi-domain clock skew scheduling The present invention provides a process for constrained clock skew scheduling which computes for a given number of clocking domains the optimal phase shifts for the domains and the assignment of the individual registers to the domains. For the within domain latency... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7285167 | Fiber reinforced concrete/cement products and method of preparation Concrete and/or cement products and mixes with reinforcing carbon graphite fibers having a length of about 2½ inches to about 3½ inches, and/or nano and/or micron sized carbon fibers, and a method of reinforcing concrete. ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283571 | Method and system for performing wavelength locking of an optical transmission source A system for locking the operating wavelength of an optical transmission source, the system including: a pattern of nanostructures being optically coupled to the optical transmission source and adapted to perform notch filtering; at least one photodetector optically... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7281088 | Disk array apparatus and disk array apparatus controlling method Times at which requests for a data read or data write from/to a logical volume are received are stored in memory as access times of a RAID group making up the logical volume. When a predetermined time has elapsed after the access time, a number of the hard disk driv... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277817 | Position sensing device A position sensing device having an insulating board, a first conductive sensing element, a second conductive sensing element, an oscillator, conductive material, a differential amplifier, and a processor. The first and second spaced conductive sensing elements are ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7265154 | Valproic acid and derivatives thereof as histone deacetylase inhibitors The present invention relates to the use of the drug valproic acid and derivatives thereof as inhibitors of enzymes having histone deacetylase activity. The invention also relates to the use of those compounds for the manufacture of a medicament for the treatment of... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7258586 | Method for manufacturing an organic electroluminescence display When any of pixels is not lit in an organic EL display having an organic EL layer between a first electrode and a second electrode, an organic layer of the pixel is observed. If the organic layer of the pixel contains foreign matter, the second electrode is separate... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7257230 | Impulse response collecting method, sound effect adding apparatus, and recording medium A TSP signal that is a measurement signal is generated N times by a signal generating portion. The generated TSP signals are supplied to a steel-echo apparatus. Reverberation generated by the steel-plate echo apparatus corresponding to the TSP signals is arranged N ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7244431 | Allergy vaccines and their preparation The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition containing a peptide and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier or diluent wherein the peptide has a length of 8 to 50 amino acids, at least three preferably consecutive amino acids of the peptide are iden... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7198093 | Compliant heat exchange panel A heat exchange panel for use in an active heat exchange system. The heat exchange panel includes first and second layers having seals between the layers at a common border, at fences, and at dots of a dot matrix. The dot matrix is organized into first parallel line... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7191925 | Clean carry apparatus A clean carry apparatus provides a clean surface for use and a clean exterior after use. A storage area and base area are connected to a changing area at at least one hinge point. The base area and changing area pivot away from each other at a second hinge point to ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7192346 | Systems and methods for skill game awards Systems and methods for providing awards to players of skill games where the awards are selected, based upon various factors, prior to playing the skill game. The method includes paying, by the player, a buy-in fee, selecting an award, playing the skill game, and pr... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7184218 | Method and apparatus for increasing quality and resolution of a projected image A lens includes mechanical dithering that displaces pixels adjacent to undithered pixels. The dithering, for example, precisely places pixels above, below, and on both sides of the undithered pixel. Image data is supplemented with interpolation and/or new data in ad... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7175281 | Method and apparatus to increase the contrast ratio of the image produced by a LCoS based light engine A transmissive LCD is placed in optical series with pixels of an image. The transmissive LCD is set to full transmissivity when bright pixels of the image pass through the transmissive LCD. Transmissivity is decreased where pixels darker than a darkening threshold p... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7178161 | Method and apparatus for creating a connection speed detecting movie and rich media player customization on the fly A master movie and player are created on the fly. The master movie is created based on characteristics of a movie or other asset to be viewed by the player. The player is constructed from a template having rudimentary player capabilities for a predetermined connecti... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7168041 | Method and apparatus for table and HDL based design entry Views for signals and instances are provided in a table based design entry system. The signal view allows a designer to enter signals to be used in a design. The signals may be individually entered or imported from pre-defined or external packages of signals. The in... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7155590 | Method and apparatus for computer memory protection and verification A method and apparatus are provided for computer memory protection and verification. In one example, the apparatus is a secure memory device (SMD) including means to independently read the program memory device and compute and store a signature or other means of ver... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7149188 | Distributed processing for optimal QOS in a broadband access system A method for distributing the QOS processing in a broadband access system to the system modems and the head-end equipment. Requests for a change in the operating parameters are transmitted on an exception basis, thereby greatly reducing the amount of system over-hea... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7143020 | Method and system for generic inference of sequential elements A method for inferring a requested data input function of a sequential cell from a library of candidate cells, wherein the requested cell and the candidate cell are expressed as polynoms and then divided. The method generates polynomial expressions of the inhibition... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7143159 | Method for correlating and presenting network management data NIC collected network statistics are captured by agent devices resident on Host machines of a network. A probe (software or hardware) retrieves the collected statistics from one or more monitored hosts (each host on the network, for example) and places them in RMON ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7143341 | Method and apparatus for concurrent engineering and design synchronization of multiple tools Concurrent engineering among multiple design groups is facilitated by maintaining design changes in a data model of a design being developed. Design changes for each group are made from a baseline design. Changes are tracked by maintaining change information from al... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7123650 | Offset carrier frequency correction in a two-way broadband wireless access system A method for correcting for the offset carrier frequency in a wireless modem is provided. The method further allows for the periodic correction of the offset of the carrier frequency. A Fine tuning method is implemented that uses fine tuning frequency increments to ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7105180 | Stable galenic preparations comprising a benzimidazole and method for the production thereof The invention relates to a novel benzimidazole formulation and to a process for its production. The benzimidazole formulation comprises a layer comprising the benzimidazole compound together with an acidic reacting compound. ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7100254 | Method of manufacturing an ink-jet printhead A method of manufacturing a piezoelectric actuator, formed of multiple concave parts which are provided on one surface. First, a first sheet is formed of pliant piezoelectric materials and a second sheet is formed of pliant predetermined materials, forming an upper ... | 09/05/2006 |
