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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7942657 | Rotary combustion apparatus A combustion apparatus having a housing including an inner surface that defines at least one chamber, a rotor, a rotor shaft, an intake shaft, an exhaust shaft, and a gearing mechanism. The chamber includes an intake valve port and an exhaust valve port, and the rot... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7484933 | Method for controlling a wind turbine A method is provided for controlling a wind turbine, and a wind turbine is provided with a control device for controlling a wind turbine. A method and a wind turbine are developed so that losses of yield, particularly as a result of variations in the conversion of t... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7487055 | Estimating of the jitter of a clock signal A method and a device for estimating the jitter of a first periodic signal with respect to a second periodic signal, comprising steps of: sampling the first signal by means of the second one; providing the result of the sampling to the input of a shift register trig... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7485087 | Fistula blocker In order to create a treatment device for clearing up fistulas with which fistulas can be treated as sparingly as possible, and where the functions of the adjacent anatomical structures are to remain as intact as possible, the invention proposes a fistula blocker fo... | 02/03/2009 |
| D585961 | Showerhead | 02/03/2009 |
| 7486150 | Electric circuit and oscillator comprising said electric circuit An electric circuit includes a circuit path from a first reference voltage to a second reference voltage lower than the first reference voltage. The path includes a current generator, a capacitor, a first switching element suitable for connecting or disconnecting th... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7462357 | Compounds and methods for treatment and diagnosis of chlamydial infection Compounds and methods for the diagnosis and treatment of Chlamydial infection are disclosed. The compounds provided include polypeptides that contain at least one antigenic portion of a Chlamydia antigen and DNA sequences encoding such polypeptides. Pharmaceu... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7462946 | Method for operating a wind energy plant The present invention relates to a method for operating a wind turbine with a generator, drivable by a rotor, for supplying electrical power to an electrical load, in particular an electric grid. In order to compensate for fluctuations in the grid as far as possible... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7461553 | Self-calibrating oversampling electromechanical modulator and self-calibration method An oversampling electromechanical modulator, including a micro-electromechanical sensor which has a first sensing capacitance and a second sensing capacitance and supplies an analog quantity correlated to the first sensing capacitance and to the second sensing capac... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7462463 | Fusion protein microarrays and methods of use The present invention provides a microarray having one or more fusion proteins non-covalently attached to a solid support. Non-covalent attachment is achieved by designing a fusion protein having a polyanionic domain attached to a subject protein, and attaching the ... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7462625 | Gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptor antagonists and methods relating thereto GnRH receptor antagonists are disclosed that have utility in the treatment of a variety of sex-hormone related conditions in both men and women. The compounds of this invention have the structure: wherein A, Q, R1 | 12/09/2008 |
| 7463067 | Switch block for FPGA architectures A switch block for FPGA architectures combining hardware and software techniques in order to reduce both active and standby leakage power. ... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7462947 | Method for operating a wind turbine A system and method for operating a wind turbine with a generator, drivable by a rotor, for supplying electrical power to an electric load, in particular an electric grid, are disclosed. Briefly described, one embodiment generates electrical power from an electrical... | 12/09/2008 |
| D582611 | Pet bed | 12/09/2008 |
| 7463997 | Pedometer device and step detection method using an algorithm for self-adaptive computation of acceleration thresholds In a pedometer device for detecting and counting steps of a user on foot, an accelerometer sensor detects a vertical acceleration generated during the step. A processing unit, connected to the accelerometer sensor, processes an acceleration signal relating to the ac... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7461232 | Translation look-aside buffer supporting mutually untrusted operating systems A translation look-aside buffer that stores address translations each of which associate a VPN with a PPN, and which are usable in a first mode of operation of a processor incorporating the buffer for accessing data stored in physical memory. Each entry in the buffe... | 12/02/2008 |
| D581733 | Round-ended slicing knife | 12/02/2008 |
| D581732 | Round-ended santoku knife | 12/02/2008 |
| D581731 | Round-ended paring knife | 12/02/2008 |
| 7459458 | Polymorph of N-methyl-N-(3-{3-[2-thienylcarbonyl]-pyrazol-[1,5-α]-pyrimidin-7-yl}phenyl)acetamide and compositions and methods related thereto Polymorph Form III of N-methyl-N-(3-{3-[2-thienylcarbonyl]-pyrazol-[1,5-α]-pyrimidin-7-yl}phenyl)acetamide, and use thereof as a sedative-hypnotic, anxiolytic, anticonvulsant, and/or skeletal muscle relaxant agent. Related compositions and methods are also disclose... | 12/02/2008 |
| D581730 | Round-ended cook's knife | 12/02/2008 |
| 7460581 | Method for transmitting signals using antenna diversity, for instance in mobile communication systems, transmitter, receiver and computer program product therefor Encoded digital symbols are transmitted via a first pair of antennas and at least one second pair of antennas. The sets of symbols used for the transmission via the second pair of antennas are re-ordered temporally into subsets of symbols with respect to the symbols... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7460401 | Method for checking block erasing of a memory and circuit thereof A method checks the state of a set of memory cells of a memory having memory cells arranged in a memory array, row and column decoders for selecting a memory cell, and a sense amplifier for supplying a state of the selected memory cell depending on whether the selec... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7460349 | Protection of a power transistor A method and a circuit for protecting a transistor that controls the supply of an at least partially inductive load, including lowering the demagnetization voltage of the inductive load with respect to a demagnetization voltage set by a break-over component connecte... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7459479 | Benzylated PDE4 inhibitors The present invention is directed to a method for reducing the emetogenic effects of PDE inhibitors, and more particularly is directed to compounds having PDE4 inhibition activity with little or no emetogenic side-effects, and chemical methods including benzylation ... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7459271 | Method for detecting whether an organism is homozygous or heterozygous using labelled primers and RFLP The invention is a method for detecting whether an organism is homozygous or heterozygous in a target nucleotide. The method combines hybridization of two differently labelled probes A and B on either side of a restriction site, restriction endonuclease digestion, a... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7459165 | Polypeptides of The present invention relates to polypeptides of Pseudomonas aeruginosa which may be used to prevent, diagnose and/or treat Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection. ... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7458159 | Folding knife having a locking mechanism A folding knife includes a handle and a blade attached thereto and configured to rotate between an open position and a closed position. A locking element is coupled to the handle, while a pawl is coupled to the blade and configured to engage the locking element as t... | 12/02/2008 |
| D581742 | Shaker | 12/02/2008 |
| D581734 | Round-ended steak knife | 12/02/2008 |
| 7454954 | Knocking presence evaluation circuit for an internal combustion engine, knocking identification and control system and corresponding pressure signal processing method A knocking presence evaluation circuit in an internal combustion engine having a pressure sensor facing a combustion chamber for each cylinder in the engine and suitable to produce a pressure signal, the circuit having an input terminal; a processing block connected... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7457215 | Method for reproducing data and an apparatus for recording and reproducing data A method for reproducing data according to the present invention is adapted for reproducing data recorded in an optical recording disc including a multi-layered body formed by forming a decomposition reaction layer containing noble metal oxide as a primary component... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7456508 | Hosting structure of nanometric elements and corresponding manufacturing method A hosting structure of nanometric components is described comprising a substrate, a first multi-spacer level comprising a first plurality of spacers including first conductive spacers parallel to each other, and at least a second multi-spacer level realized above sa... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7456153 | Compounds and methods for modulating functions of classical cadherins Modulating agents and methods for enhancing or inhibiting classical cadherin-mediated functions are provided. The modulating agents comprise at least a tryptophan-containing cell adhesion recognition sequence of a classical cadherin molecule, a conservative analogue... | 11/25/2008 |
| D581221 | Mandolin slicer | 11/25/2008 |
| 7454644 | Integrated circuit with low current consumption having a one wire communication interface An integrated circuit having a connection terminal for receiving an electric data carrying signal, a circuit for delivering a first clock signal having clock pulses sent after each falling edge of the electric data carrying signal and inside a data sampling window, ... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7453732 | Method for programming memory cells including transconductance degradation detection The present invention relates to a method for programming a memory cell having a determined transconductance curve. The programming of the memory cell comprises a series of programming cycles each comprising a step of verifying the state of the memory cell. Accordin... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7451933 | Optoelectronic device, process and article for acquiring machine-readable symbols, such as bar codes A device and a process for acquiring symbols by interleaving data samples in a plurality of data sets gathered during sampling of returns from a plurality of scanning passes. In one embodiment, the sampling frequency is proportional to the scanning frequency by a qu... | 11/18/2008 |
| D580844 | Ship | 11/18/2008 |
| D580702 | Emulsifier | 11/18/2008 |
