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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7538014 | Method of producing crystalline semiconductor material and method of fabricating semiconductor device Disclosed are a method of producing a crystalline semiconductor material capable of improving the crystallinity and a method of fabricating a semiconductor device using the crystalline semiconductor material. An amorphous film is uniformly irradiated with a pulse la... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7536077 | Method for sending information on a network, and electronic information equipment Electronic information equipment for recording contents are connected to a network. One of the pieces of electronic information equipment manages information of the dispersed storage state. The managing device gives output instructions to the other electronic inform... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7535840 | Information processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program Information can be transferred while ensuring real-time characteristics without increasing the circuit size of an apparatus. A high-order layer packet is divided into a plurality of fragmented packets of fragment numbers, and these are transmitted via a wireless net... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7535543 | Liquid crystal display apparatus and cooling device A liquid crystal display device constrains the injection of air bubbles in a cooling fluid into a display panel. In the display device, the cooling fluid is supplied to a receiving space of a receiving unit placed and opposed to a surface of a liquid crystal panel t... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7535073 | Solid-state imaging device, camera module and electronic equipment module To provide a back-illuminated type solid-state imaging device capable of color separation of pixels without using a color filter, and a camera module and an electronic equipment module which incorporate the solid-state imaging device. A solid-state imaging device in... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7534943 | Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH910249 According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH910249. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH910249, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing ... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7534932 | Root-specific phosphate transporter promoters The current invention provides plant promoter sequences. Compositions comprising the promoter sequence are described, as are methods for the expression of transgenes in plants comprising the use of these sequences. The methods of the invention include the direct cre... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7534721 | Semiconductor device manufacturing device A process for production of a semiconductor device having a multi-layer wiring of dual damascene structure in a low-dielectric constant interlayer insulating film. The process consists of the following steps. A first insulating film and a second insulating film are ... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7534644 | Solid-state imaging device, production method and drive method thereof, and camera A solid-state imaging device capable of reducing an eclipse (blocking) of an incident light at a circumferential portion of a light receiving portion and realizing a larger angle of view and high-speed driving. A single-layer transfer electrode configuration of form... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7534525 | Battery pack and method for producing battery pack A battery element is housed and sealed in a package body, and further, packed together with a connecting board and a frame by the package body. A laminate material for sealing the battery element is used as an outer package material of a battery pack. Thus, the incr... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7498494 | Plants and seeds of corn variety I354076 According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated I354076. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety I354076, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn pl... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7498490 | Soybean variety 4010165 The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 4010165. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 4010165. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 4010165 and the plants regenera... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7498486 | Soybean variety 4880500 The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 4880500. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 4880500. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 4880500 and the plants regenera... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7498484 | Soybean variety 4256323 The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 4256323. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 4256323. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 4256323 and the plants regenera... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7497710 | Jack assembly having actuator with dual-beam bifurcated contacts A jack assembly having a body, a first conductor extending longitudinally through the body between a first jack at the first end of the body and a second jack at the second end of the body, a second conductor extending longitudinally through the body between a third... | 03/03/2009 |
| D587426 | Package of an infusible substance | 03/03/2009 |
| 7495157 | Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH434931 According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH434931. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH434931, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing ... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7495155 | Plants and seeds of high oil corn variety HOI001 According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated HOI001. This invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety HOI001, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn pla... | 02/24/2009 |
| D586984 | Pair of women's shoes | 02/24/2009 |
| 7492705 | Changing line cards associated with a communications network A method and system is provided for replacing a first set of line cards with new line cards. A call-processing unit (CPU) is provided that includes a primary memory unit and a secondary memory unit. A line-card holder is populated with a second set of line cards tha... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7493407 | Method and apparatus for controlling the allocation of bandwidth of a network access point to an application having a message transmitted on the network An automated bandwidth monitoring and control method and system provides for real time, dynamic control of the allocation of bandwidth to selected applications in a communications network based on the selected operational context and the fixed bandwidth available at... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7491813 | Promoter polynucleotides identified from for use in plants The present invention provides non-coding regulatory element polynucleotide molecules isolated from Zea mays and useful for expressing transgenes in plants. The invention further discloses compositions, polynucleotide constructs, transformed host cells, trans... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7492882 | C2P provisioning late-breaking scenarios A system for managing circuit-to-packet provisioning late breaking scenarios. The system comprises an order entry system operable to receive orders for services, each order having a network type related to the order; a migrated system operable to manage provisioning... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7486349 | Polymer network liquid crystal element with predetermined gap for dimming device having image processing, temperature detecting and pulse width control units therefor To provide a light control device including a liquid crystal element which does not need a polarizing plate and an alignment layer and is compact and high in contrast ratio, and can be driven at low applied voltage and can exhibit stable performance even if environm... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7485527 | Nonvolatile semiconductor storage device and its manufacturing method There is provided a nonvolatile semiconductor storage device less subject to variances of electric characteristics among memory cells. A floating gate electrode provided on a substrate is made of two or more materials different in carrier trapping efficiency so as t... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7485781 | Soybean variety 4175567 The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 4175567. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 4175567. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 4175567 and the plants regenera... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7485783 | Plants and seeds of corn variety I222066 According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated I222066. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety I222066, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn pl... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7485430 | Methods and compositions for evaluation of fertility The present invention concerns compositions and methods for evaluating fertility in humans and animals. The invention may also be used to identify reproductive cancers such as testicular cancer. In various embodiments of the invention, an Sptrx-3 enzyme is used as a... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7484060 | Systems and methods for protecting customer secrets during vendor troubleshooting Systems, methods, and computer products for protecting information during troubleshooting are provided. A dumping mechanism includes marking at least one of a plurality of memory regions in the computer-readable medium as non-dumpable, initiating a core dump, determ... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7482516 | Soybean variety 0387907 The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 0387907. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 0387907. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 0387907 and the plants regenera... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7483374 | Method and apparatus for achieving dynamic capacity and high availability in multi-stage data networks using adaptive flow-based routing Methods and systems for determining paths for flows within a multi-stage network made up of clusters of processing nodes. The flow paths may be determined without knowledge of whether or not packets of a particular flow will actually traverse specific ones of the cl... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7483576 | System and method for decoding video A method for decoding a compressed video file comprises receiving the encoded video file, wherein the encoded video file includes a plurality of encoded video data tables and a plurality of reference pixel value sets. The plurality of encoded video data tables are d... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7483932 | Method and system for computing multidimensional fast Fourier transforms Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention compute a multidimensional fast Fourier transform of an original matrix having rows and columns of data. The original matrix is divided into a number of blocks of data, each block in... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7484246 | Content distribution system, content distribution method, information processing apparatus, and program providing medium A content distribution is performed by a secure container including a content encrypted by a content key and container information set for a content transaction. The container information includes a person identification certificate identifiers list. Usage control s... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7482275 | Plasma treatment method and method of manufacturing semiconductor device An insulation film on a substrate is subjected to a plasma treatment using a gas containing at least either of a CH-based gas and a CO-based gas, whereby variations in the dielectric constant of the insulation film and adsorption of water onto the insulation film ca... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7479589 | Plants and seeds of corn variety CV553210 According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV553210. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV553210, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn ... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7479583 | Soybean variety 4336643 The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 4336643. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 4336643. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 4336643 and the plants regenera... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7479582 | Soybean variety 4671685 The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 4671685. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 4671685. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 4671685 and the plants regenera... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7480928 | Optical recording medium and method of producing the same An optical recording medium capable of suppressing warps arising during a long time use and a method of producing the same, which has the configuration of comprising a substrate 13, an optical recording layer 14 formed on the substrate 13 and a ... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7479585 | Plants and seeds of corn variety I774019 According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated I774019. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety I774019, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn pl... | 01/20/2009 |
