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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7533068 | Analog processor comprising quantum devices Analog processors for solving various computational problems are provided. Such analog processors comprise a plurality of quantum devices, arranged in a lattice, together with a plurality of coupling devices. The analog processors further comprise bias control syste... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7531997 | Control device of a switching converter and relative switching converter A control device for a switching converter having an input terminal and an output terminal, a half-bridge of a first and a second transistor coupled between the input terminal and a reference voltage the control device including a first circuit structured to detect ... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7531897 | Process for sealing and connecting parts of electromechanical, fluid and optical microsystems and device obtained thereby A process for connecting two bodies forming parts of an electromechanical, fluid and optical microsystem, wherein a welding region is formed on a first body; an electrically conductive region and a spacing region are formed on a second body; the spacing region exten... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7531150 | Method of separating and purifying cesium-131 from barium carbonate The present invention provides a method of separating and purifying Cesium-131 (Cs-131) from Barium (Ba). Uses of the Cs-131 purified by the method include cancer research and treatment, such as for the use in brachytherapy. Cs-131 is particularly useful in the trea... | 05/12/2009 |
| D592019 | Utensil | 05/12/2009 |
| D591953 | Washing brush | 05/12/2009 |
| 7529299 | Method and system for processing image signals and computer program product therefor A digital video image is compressed by determining for a group of adjacent pixels the global error values that result from the available combinations of truncation and integration of data strings associated with the group of pixels. A combination of truncation and i... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7529145 | Method for reading electrically programmable and erasable memory cells, with bit line precharge-ahead The present invention relates to a method for reading memory cells by means of sense amplifiers, the memory cells being linked to bit lines, the reading of each memory cell comprising a phase of precharging the bit line to which the memory cell is linked and a phase... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7528245 | Efficient protein expression system Nucleic acid expression control sequence cassettes and vectors containing the same are provided for use in making abundant quantities of recombinant polypeptides of interest. The modified transcriptional control sequences, which include a T5 promoter sequence, are h... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7527924 | Method and apparatus for viable and nonviable prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell quantitation A rapid method for the quantitation of various live cell types is described. The method may include a variety of steps including: 1) suspending the cells in a detergent-like compound, 2) isolating the washed cells by centrifugation or filtration, 3) resuspending the... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7527210 | Fuel injector for an internal-combustion engine The fuel injector comprises a hollow casing, fixed on which is a nozzle having a nebulizer for the fuel under pressure, a needle axially mobile for opening and closing the nebulizer by means of a first end thereof, and a control rod, substantially coaxial with the n... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7526665 | Electrically controlled suspension system An electronically controlled suspension system according to the present invention comprises a sensor unit for extracting and providing a vertical acceleration component of a vehicle body of a vehicle; a signal processing unit for calculating a vertical velocity of t... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7526425 | Method and system for extending keyword searching to syntactically and semantically annotated data Methods and systems for extending keyword searching techniques to syntactically and semantically annotated data are provided. Example embodiments provide a Syntactic Query Engine (“SQE”) that parses, indexes, and stores a data set as an enhanced document index w... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7525891 | Method for recording data in optical recording medium, an apparatus for recording data in optical recording medium and optical recording medium It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for recording data in an optical recording medium which can record data in a write-once type optical recording medium at a high linear recording velocity using a laser beam having a low recording power. Th... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7525400 | Band pass filtering circuit fitted with acoustic resonators A band pass filtering circuit based on a quadripole includes a serial branch having a first acoustic resonator presenting a frequency of resonance and a frequency of anti-resonance and mounted in serial with a first capacitor; a parallel branch having a second acous... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7525390 | Circuit for converting a differential signal into a non-differential signal, and RF transmitter comprising such a circuit A circuit for converting a differential signal into a nondifferential signal comprising first and second inputs respectively receiving first and second components of a differential signal. The circuit comprises a single bipolar transistor having an emitter, a base a... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7525268 | Control device for an electric motor and related method A control device controls an electric motor that includes a winding and generates a back electromotive force. The device comprises a first circuit suitable for setting time periods each centered on the time instant of an expected zero crossing of the winding current... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7525208 | Method for operating a wind turbine during a disturbance in the grid There is provided a method of operating a wind power installation. Under first operating conditions in a normal operating mode the wind power installation delivers a first power to a connected electrical network. That first power is proportional to the wind speed. T... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7524879 | Ion channel modulating compounds and uses thereof Ion channel modulating compounds are disclosed. The compounds of the present invention may be incorporated in compositions and kits. The present invention also discloses a variety of in vitro and in vivo uses for the compounds and compositions, including the treatme... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7524509 | Proteosome-liposaccharide vaccine adjuvant An adjuvant complex composed of bacterial outer membrane protein proteosomes complexed to bacterial liposaccharide is prepared to contain the component parts under a variety of conditions. The complex can be formulated with antigenic material to form immunogenic com... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7524123 | Scented mechanical writing implement A fragrant mechanical writing implement comprises a rigid, hollow, elongated barrel of absorbent material to which a writing implement mechanism for extending and retracting from one end thereof a writing tip. The absorbent material is impregnated with a fragrance b... | 04/28/2009 |
| D591411 | Water condenser | 04/28/2009 |
| D591051 | Brush | 04/28/2009 |
| 7523259 | Asynchronous read cache memory and device for controlling access to a data memory comprising such a cache memory A cache memory includes a memory array comprising logic latches, and a circuit for reading the cache memory arranged for receiving a reference tag at input, comparing tags present in the cache memory relative to the reference tag and, if a tag is identical to the re... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7522681 | Method and device for synchronizing a radio transmitter with a radio receiver A method and a device are proposed for the synchronization of a radio transmitter and a radio receiver, notably for UMTS, while utilizing a Golay correlator, which synchronization should be performed reliably without imposing severe requirements as regards the frequ... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7521984 | Driving configuration of a switch A driving circuit of a switch includes first and second transistors connected in series to each other and to relative intrinsic diodes in antiseries and driven by a driving device that includes at least one first and one second output terminal connected to the switc... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7521764 | One-time programmable memory device A one-time programmable, dual-bit memory device comprises one MOS storage transistor having a semiconductor substrate, first and second active regions formed under the surface of the substrate being separated by a part of the substrate forming a channel region, a ga... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7521138 | Apparatus and method for hybrid power module systems A hybrid power module suitable for use in an array of hybrid power modules comprises a fuel cell stack, an energy storage device, charger circuit operable to charge the energy storage device from the fuel cell stack and/or an external power source at approximately a... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7520434 | Reader for reading machine-readable symbols, for example bar code symbols A machine-readable symbol reader for reading machine-readable symbols such as barcode symbols employs a first reflective surface having a first perimeter to create a pointer beam, and a movable second reflective surface with a second perimeter small than the first p... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7520171 | Micro-electromechanical structure with self-compensation of the thermal drifts caused by thermomechanical stress In a micro-electromechanical structure of semiconductor material, a detection structure is formed by a stator and by a rotor, which are mobile with respect to one another in presence of an external stress and are subject to thermal stress; a compensation structure o... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7519562 | Automatic identification of unreliable user ratings Techniques are described for enhancing the reliability of information received from users in various ways, such as by analyzing votes or other ratings supplied by a user in order to identify fraudulent and other unreliable ratings. Such analysis may be based at leas... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7519109 | Process for configuring an xDSL modem and xDSL modem having such a process Process for configuring an xDSL-type symmetric modem, comprising the following: detecting a predetermined criterion corresponding to an asymmetric operating mode, in particular an ADSL-type; and in response to said detection, disabling a number of carriers in order ... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7518518 | RFID transducer alignment system A radio frequency identification (RFID) system having the capacity to detect conditions of alignment, wherein the system may be used with hand-held, fixed-in-place, stationary, and permanently mounted apparatus. The system includes an RF interrogator configured for ... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7517980 | Glycomimetric inhibitors of the PA-IL lectin, PA-IIL lectin or both the lectins from Compositions and methods are provided related to Pseudomonas bacteria. The compositions and methods may be used for diagnosis and therapy of medical conditions involving infection with Pseudomonas bacteria. Such infections include Pseudomonas aerugi... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7517952 | Compositions and methods for the therapy and diagnosis of prostate cancer Compositions and methods for the therapy and diagnosis of cancer, such as prostate cancer, are disclosed. Compositions may comprise one or more prostate-specific proteins, immunogenic portions thereof, or polynucleotides that encode such portions. Alternatively, a t... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7517508 | Method of separating and purifying Yttrium-90 from Strontium-90 The present invention provides a method of separating and purifying Yttrium-90 (Y-90) from Strontium-90 (Sr-90). In addition, a zirconium (Zr) clean-up step for the Y-90 is provided. Uses of the Y-90 purified by the method include cancer research and treatment. Y-90... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7516439 | Method and system for creating reusable software components through a uniform interface A method for designing software components for integration into any system without additional coding is provided. The method includes adopting a uniform application programming interface that breaks down external objects to include the characteristics of object, att... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7514962 | Configurable I2C interface A synchronous serial data two-wire communications bus that can transfer data at rates up to 100 kbit/s (standard mode), 400 kbits/s (fast mode), or 3.4 Mbit/s (high-speed mode). The load of I2C bus can vary from 10 pf to 400 pf. Data transfer on the I2C bus takes pl... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7513950 | Vertical stamp pad A stamp pad is composed of a main body and a cover, and has two legs on a side portion of the main body for standing the stamp pad upright. Said main body and cover can be separated from each other. Said legs support the main body to keep it standing upright, and th... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7513445 | Metering solenoid valve for a fuel injector The metering servo valve comprises a valve body, an open/close element, and an electromagnet, and is housed in a shell of the injector. The electromagnet actuates a mobile armature for a travel defined by an arrest element, carried by the electromagnet, which is hou... | 04/07/2009 |
