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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7941636 | RISC microprocessor architecture implementing multiple typed register sets Disclosed herein is an apparatus that implements multiple typed register sets, and applications thereof. The apparatus includes an execution unit and a register file. The execution unit is configured to execute instructions including one or more fields. The register... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940105 | High-resolution parametric signal restoration Provided are high-resolution parametric signal restoration systems, and applications thereof. Such systems include a multi-output module and a parametric compensator. The multi-output module provides a reference gain output signal and one or more higher gain output ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7934984 | System and method for providing a plurality of games A system for providing a plurality of games is disclosed in which a plurality of user-operable terminals (1) provide respective players with a primary game, and generate primary game information messages relating to the primary game. A second game controller ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7931301 | Traveling vehicle The purpose of the present invention is to make supplying fuel to a fuel tank easier without making the fuel tank interfere with a drive shaft or a front wheel drive shaft and without lowering the minimum ground clearance of a traveling vehicle. A fuel tank is dispo... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7929575 | System for maintaining synchronization between multiple asynchronous communication links An apparatus for maintaining synchronization with a plurality of asynchronous communication links includes a first counter that generates a first local network clock, and a second counter that generates a second local network clock. The apparatus also includes an of... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7922083 | Payment programs for healthcare plans The invention is a computer-implemented method and system to facilitate a purchase utilizing a tax-advantaged account. A request for payment for an item is received from a requester. A determination is made whether the item qualifies for pre-tax treatment. If the it... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7921827 | Accumulator fuel injection device To provide an accumulator fuel injection device, so as to stabilize the operation of a pressure control valve for controlling a fuel pressure in an accumulator. The accumulator fuel injection device includes a pressure control valve 6 for controlling the fuel... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7921826 | Fuel supply device for engine To make it possible to pump a fuel from a supply pump into an accumulator, even when a pressure control means provided with a pressurized fuel pathway is out of action. In a fuel supply system of an engine, which is provided with pressure control means controlling a... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7921310 | Unified powered device (PD) controller and LAN on motherboard (LOM) in a personal computing device (PCD) A Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) communication system dynamically provides power and data communications over a communications link. In a computing environment made up of one or more personal computing devices (PCD) and/or one or more powered devices (PD), power source e... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7919269 | Whitefly ecdysone receptor nucleic acids, polypeptides, and uses thereof The present invention relates to a novel isolated whitefly ecdysone receptor polypeptide. The invention also relates to an isolated nucleic acid encoding the whitefly ecdysone receptor polypeptide, to vectors comprising them and to their uses, in particular in metho... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7913816 | Transaxle with brake A transaxle has an axle, an input shaft drivingly connected to a prime mover and a brake disposed around the input shaft so as to brake the input shaft. A reduction drive train is drivingly interposed between the input shaft and the axle. The transaxle also has a re... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7913430 | Screening, crushing or mixing bucket A screening, crushing or mixing bucket which is designed as the bucket of an excavating machine or a bucket loader, comprising a bottom plate (1), side walls (2), and working drums (3), which are rotatable about their axes at a rear part of the ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7907921 | Wireless transmitter having multiple power amplifier drivers (PADs) that are selectively biased to provide substantially linear magnitude and phase responses A method and apparatus are provided for enabling a transmitter to have a substantially linear magnitude response and a substantially linear phase response. The transmitter includes first and second power amplifier drivers (PADs) having respective first and second no... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7889318 | Methods of characterizing similarity between measurements on entities, computer programs product and data carrier A method for characterizing the similarity between measurements on a plurality of entities comprising a first entity and a second entity comprises receiving measurements taken at a plurality of measurement points per entity. A model is defined comprising a stochasti... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7888830 | Dynamo apparatus for boat A casing (31) is provided around a power transmission shaft (3a) interposed between a crankshaft (2a) of an engine (2) and a power transmission device (3). A dynamo apparatus (10) and a cooling fan (23) ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7887859 | Methods of treating epiphora The present invention is related to a method for treating epiphora, the method comprising administering to a nasal area of a subject in need thereof a composition comprising camphor, eucalyptus oil, and menthol, wherein the composition is substantially free of lipid... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7885323 | Asymmetric multi-channel adaptive equalizer An apparatus is disclosed to compensate for non-linear effects resulting from the transmitter, the receiver, and/or the communication channel in a communication system. A receiver of the communication system contains an image cancellation module that compensates for... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7878979 | Methods and systems for determining dynamic hyperinflation This invention provides methods and systems for non-invasively determining the presence (and amount) or absence of dynamic hyperinflation in a subject. The invention is based on a novel combination of respiratory parameters that can be measured in a way that is non-... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7869667 | Method for automatic alignment of raster data with vector data in a geographic information system The present invention relates to methods for aligning raster and vector data. In an embodiment, a raster/vector aligner receives raster data and an approximate vector of a feature within the raster data. The raster/vector aligner generates an edge signal by edge fil... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7865177 | Method and system for down-converting an electromagnetic signal, and transforms for same, and aperture relationships Methods, systems, and apparatuses, and combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for down-converting an electromagnetic (EM) signal are described herein. Briefly stated, in embodiments the invention operates by receiving an EM signal and recursively operating on ap... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7863591 | Radiation system and lithographic apparatus comprising the same An optical sensor apparatus for use in an extreme ultraviolet lithographic system is disclosed. The apparatus includes an optical sensor comprising a sensor surface and a removal mechanism configured to remove debris from the sensor surface. Accordingly, dose and/or... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7861069 | System and method for handling load and/or store operations in a superscalar microprocessor The present invention provides a system and method for managing load and store operations necessary for reading from and writing to memory or I/O in a superscalar RISC architecture environment. To perform this task, a load store unit is provided whose main purpose i... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7860911 | Extended precision accumulator A multiply unit includes an extended precision accumulator. Microprocessor instructions are provided for manipulating portions of the extended precision accumulator including an instruction to move the contents of a portion of the extended accumulator to a general-p... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7835851 | Fuel injection system There is well known that the more the timing of fuel injection is advanced, the more the start ability of an engine is improved. However, with regard to the conventional fuel injection system, when a stopping process of the engine is performed, a timer piston determ... | 11/16/2010 |
| D627231 | Container | 11/16/2010 |
| 7831220 | Methods and systems for calibrating for gain and phase imbalance and local oscillator feed-through Methods and systems to calibrating a transmitter for I/Q imbalance and local oscillator feed-through include generating a test tone, frequency up-converting the test tone, monitoring one or more features of the up-converted test tone, and adjusting one or more featu... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7822191 | Multi-modal address book A method is provided for synchronizing disparate customized address books which each include contact information including an email address for a customer. The method includes storing identification information for each communications partner. Each communications pa... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7809433 | Method and system for limiting interference in electroencephalographic signals This invention provides methods and systems for removing or limiting interference and artifacts often found in EEG signals and/or EOG signals and/or other physiological signals, and produces output signals that can be of greater use for analytic or diagnostic purpos... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7807417 | Ecdysone receptor-based inducible gene expression system This invention relates to the field of biotechnology or genetic engineering. Specifically, this invention relates to the field of gene expression. More specifically, this invention relates to a novel inducible gene expression system and methods of modulating gene ex... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7805297 | Classification-based frame loss concealment for audio signals A system and method for performing frame loss concealment (FLC) when portions of a bit stream representing an audio signal are lost within the context of a digital communication system. The system and method utilizes a plurality of different FLC techniques, wherein ... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7804356 | Amplifier with automatic gain profile control and calibration Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for automatic amplifier gain profile control, including a method for automatically configuring a variable gain profile amplifier according to received input and a variable gain profile amplification sy... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7792034 | Hierarchical flow-level multi-channel communication A communication system that includes a supervisory node (e.g., a headend) and one or more remote nodes (e.g., cable modems). Packets are transmitted between the supervisory node and the one or more remote nodes via RF channels. A plurality of the RF channels are bon... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7773688 | Method, system, and apparatus for balanced frequency up-conversion, including circuitry to directly couple the outputs of multiple transistors A balanced transmitter up-converts a baseband signal directly from baseband-to-RF. The up-conversion process is sufficiently linear that no IF processing is required, even in communications applications that have stringent requirements on spectral growth. In operati... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7773621 | Transaction selector employing round-robin apparatus supporting dynamic priorities in multi-port switch An apparatus for selecting one of N transaction queues from which to transmit a transaction out a switch port. P round-robin vectors of P queue priorities each have N bits that are a 1-bit left-rotated and subsequently sign-extended version of an N-bit input vector ... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7768653 | Method and system for wavefront measurements of an optical system A wavefront measurement system includes a source of electromagnetic radiation. An illumination system delivers the electromagnetic radiation to an object plane. A source of a diffraction pattern is in the object plane. A projection optical system projects the diffra... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7767664 | Plant growth regulation The present invention relates to a new class of plant growth regulators. In particular, the invention relates to fused azepinone derivative of general formula (I) or an agriculturally acceptable salt thereof wherein X is CO2R2 or H; Y is OH; NH... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7765388 | Interrupt verification support mechanism The present invention relates to a device for an interrupt verification support mechanism and the method for operating said device comprising a processor and an input for external interrupt requests or interrupt pseudo-instructions communicatively coupled to the pro... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7764788 | Methods and apparatus for performing authentication and decryption Methods and apparatus are provided for performing authentication and decryption operations. A record including multiple encrypted blocks is received. An encrypted block in the record is extracted and decrypted first in order to obtain context information for perform... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7760635 | Apparatus and method for latency control in a communications system The present invention provides a method for controlling transmission latency in a communications system, wherein the communications system is subject to a noise signal having at least a first noise phase and a second noise phase. The method includes determining a fi... | 07/20/2010 |
| D619964 | Light emitting diode bulb connector | 07/20/2010 |
