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| 8411728 | Method and system for a delta quantizer for MIMO pre-coders with finite rate channel state information feedback A MIMO pre-coding system for a delta quantizer for MIMO pre-coders with finite rate channel state information feedback may include quantizing a change in channel state information in a MIMO pre-coding system onto a codebook, which comprises one or more unitary matri... | 04/02/2013 |
| 8411287 | Metrology method and apparatus, lithographic apparatus, device manufacturing method and substrate A metrology apparatus is arranged to illuminate a plurality of targets with an off-axis illumination mode. Images of the targets are obtained using only one first order diffracted beam. Where the target is a composite grating, overlay measurements can be obtained fr... | 04/02/2013 |
| 8411254 | Device manufacturing method, control system, computer program and computer-readable medium A device manufacturing method in a lithographic apparatus includes determining a plurality of positions on a substrate. The plurality of positions on a measurement substrate are scanned in a first direction to determine a first substrate map of the substrate levels ... | 04/02/2013 |
| 8410928 | Systems and methods for evaluating chromatography column performance Methods and systems for evaluating and/or monitoring chromatography column performance are provided. Embodiments apply multivariate analysis (MVA) methods to process data as well as transition analysis data to provide a comprehensive evaluation of chromatography col... | 04/02/2013 |
| 8410141 | Insecticidal arylpyrrolines The invention relates to novel arylpyrroline compounds of formula (I) which have excellent insecticidal activity and which can thus be used as an insecticide. ... | 04/02/2013 |
| 8410106 | Hydrazine-substituted anthranilic acid derivatives The present invention constitutes new hydrazine-substituted anthranilic acid derivatives of the general formula (I), in which R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, Qx, A, ... | 04/02/2013 |
| 8410075 | Mannich base N-oxide drugs Disclosed are Mannich base N-oxides of drugs containing acidic N—H groups. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising a therapeutically effective amount of Mannich base N-oxides, or a N-oxide rearrangement product, pharmaceutically acceptable salt or prodrug thereof, ... | 04/02/2013 |
| 8410021 | Compositions for the control of plant pests The present invention provides a composition comprising synergistic amounts of a compound of the formula (I) wherein X, E, R, A and Z are as defined herein, and at least one fungicidal active compound as defined herein. The... | 04/02/2013 |
| RE44129 | System and method for instruction-level parallelism in a programmable multiple network processor environment A system and method process data elements with instruction-level parallelism. An instruction buffer holds a first instruction and a second instruction, the first instruction being associated with a first thread, and the second instruction being associated with a sec... | 04/02/2013 |
| 8407722 | Asynchronous messaging using a node specialization architecture in the dynamic routing network A network routes update messages containing updates to properties of live objects from input sources to clients having the objects. When the clients receive live objects, the clients identify the object IDs associated with the objects and register the object IDs wit... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8406709 | Carrier recovery in re-modulation communication systems A communication apparatus includes transmission circuitry and a frequency conversion unit. The transmission circuitry is configured to down-convert an input Intermediate Frequency (IF) signal using a transmit (TX) Local Oscillator (LO) signal so as to produce a TX b... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8406031 | Read-only memory (ROM) bitcell, array, and architecture Embodiments provide improved memory bitcells, memory arrays, and memory architectures. In an embodiment, a memory cell comprises a transistor having drain, source, and gate terminals; and a plurality of program nodes, with each of the program nodes charged to a pre-... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8405825 | Method of detecting a particle and a lithographic apparatus A detector detects radiation from a mask to form an image, but the focal plane of the image is in front of the mask. Any particles arranged on the mask will be in focus. However, the pattern on the mask will be out of focus. It is therefore possible to detect the ex... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8405707 | Dichroic cut filter for wide-angle imaging An image device for wide-angle imaging may include an integrated optical system with a wide-angle dichroic cut filter. The dichroic cut filter may be an ultra-violet/infrared (UV/IR) cut filter to block UV and IR wavelengths of light and to transmit visible light. T... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8405314 | Tubular LED light source A tubular LED light source, based on a tube manufactured in a heat conducting material (1). The LED's (2) are mounted on a part of the outer surface of the tube. Thereby they conduct their heat to the tube, which transfers the heat to the surroundings ... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8405152 | System and method for ESD protection An integrated receiver with channel selection and image rejection substantially implemented on a single CMOS integrated circuit is described. A receiver front end provides programmable attenuation and a programmable gain low noise amplifier. Frequency conversion cir... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8404659 | Pharmaceutical compositions for treatment of MicroRNA related diseases The present invention provides compositions and methods of treatment of diseases that are sensitive to drugs that downregulate the function of microRNA's, mRNA, non-coding RNA, or viral genomes. In particular, it has been discovered that a very long term effect of a... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8404237 | Antibodies to the NOTCH1 receptor The present invention relates to compositions and methods for characterizing, diagnosing, and treating cancer. In particular the invention provides the means and methods for the diagnosis, characterization, prognosis and treatment of cancer and specifically targetin... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8403848 | Assessment of sleep quality and sleep disordered breathing based on cardiopulmonary coupling An assessment of sleep quality and sleep disordered breathing is determined from the cardiopulmonary coupling between two physiological data series. In an embodiment, an R-R interval series is derived from an electrocardiogram (ECG) signal. The normal beats from the... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8402953 | Engine It is an object to provide an engine that makes it possible to constantly detect the number of rotations of a supercharger with a calculation load of an ECU reduced. An engine 1 is provided with an engine base 8 comprised of a plurality of cylinders an... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8402492 | System for displaying via a network of an interactive movie The present invention relates to a system for transferring an interactive walkthrough movie located at a server via a network and displaying the same at a user station, which comprises: (a) a display unit at the user station for displaying movie frames; (b) a contro... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8402367 | Smart reload pages Methods and systems for reloading one or more browser tabs containing an incomplete display of web page are disclosed. A request is provided for one or more web pages for display in one or more browser tabs of a browser. There is a one to one mapping between the one... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8402309 | Item-level restoration and verification of image level backups Systems and methods for item-level restoration from and verification of an image level backup without fully extracting it. The method receives backup parameters and selection of an image level backup to restore or verify and initializes virtual storage. The method a... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8402233 | Method and apparatus for high throughput mass storage device interface in a microprocessor for handheld systems Certain embodiments of a method and apparatus for high throughput mass storage device interface in a microprocessor for handheld systems may comprise interleaving accesses to a plurality of mass storage devices communicatively coupled to a portable media processing ... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8401626 | System and method for assessing sleep quality An assessment of sleep quality and sleep disordered breathing is determined from cardiopulmonary coupling between two physiological data series. An R-R interval series is derived from an electrocardiogram (ECG) signal. The normal beats from the R-R interval series a... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8401591 | System and method for channel-adaptive antenna selection Systems and methods that provide channel-adaptive antenna selection in multi-antenna-element communication systems are provided. In one embodiment, a method that selects a subset of receive antennas of a receiver to receive a transmitted RF signal may include, for e... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8401502 | Method and system for a control scheme on power and common-mode voltage reduction for a transmitter Provided is a method and system for controlling current characteristics in a transceiver having a transmitter. The transmitter includes a plurality of current cells. Each cell is configurable for operating in different modes. The method includes determining a first ... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8401175 | Internet protocol telephone system An internet protocol telephone includes a substrate having an input and an output that are capable of being connected to the internet protocol (IP) network. A relay is disposed on the substrate and is connected between the input and the output of the substrate. The ... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8401132 | Interference cancellation with time-varying interference and/or distortion A communications receiver includes a noise analyzer to characterize the composition of the interference and/or distortion impressed onto a transmitted communications signal in the presence of one or more time-varying conditions. The noise analyzer may provide a sele... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8400354 | Method and system for calibrating group delay errors in a combined GPS and GLONASS receiver A combined GPS and GLONASS receiver receives GPS signals and GLONASS signals. A calibration signal is generated utilizing the received GPS signals and/or the received GLONASS signals to offset group delay errors in the received GLONASS signals. The generated calibra... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8399679 | Aryl-substituted pyrazoles The present invention relates to a process for preparing 1-aryl-substituted pyrazoles, comprising the reaction of alkoxy enones and enamino ketones with arylhydrazine derivatives to give 1-aryl-substituted dihydro-1H-pyrazoles, the further reaction thereof with elim... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8399514 | Treatment for multiple sclerosis Provided are certain methods of screening, identifying, and evaluating neuroprotective compounds useful for treatment of neurological diseases, such as, e.g., multiple sclerosis (MS). The compounds described upregulate the cellular cytoprotective pathway regulated b... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8399486 | Benzenesulfonyl compounds and the use thereof The invention relates to pyrrolidinyl, piperidinyl, and hexahydroazepinyl compounds of Formula I: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, prodrugs, or solvates thereof, wherein R1, R2, Z and m are defined as set forth in the specification. The i... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8399481 | Compounds A compound of formula (I) Or its salts or pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives thereof wherein; A represents a chemical moiety with the general formula (II): ... | 03/19/2013 |
| 8399383 | Protein chips for high throughput screening of protein activity The present invention relates to protein chips useful for the large-scale study of protein function where the chip contains densely packed reaction wells. The invention also relates to methods of using protein chips to assay simultaneously the presence, amount, and/... | 03/19/2013 |
| D677866 | Shoe | 03/19/2013 |
| 8397237 | Dynamically allocating threads from a thread pool to thread boundaries configured to perform a service for an event Each of a plurality of thread boundaries comprises functionality to be performed for a given event by a single thread. A plurality of queues through which events may be routed may be coupled to the thread boundaries. A plurality of tasks may be configured in a defin... | 03/12/2013 |
| 8397093 | Physical separation and recognition mechanism for a switch and a power supply for power over ethernet (POE) in enterprise environments A Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) communication system dynamically provides power and data communications over a communications link. In an enterprise environment, a table top network switch uses a power supply to provide power for PoE and data communications to one or mo... | 03/12/2013 |
| 8396886 | Continuous processing language for real-time data streams A computer software language capable of expressing registered queries that operate on one more or more data streams continuously. The language of the present invention is based on a publish/subscribe model in that queries subscribe to data streams and publish to dat... | 03/12/2013 |
| 8396287 | Landmarks from digital photo collections Methods and systems for automatic detection of landmarks in digital images and annotation of those images are disclosed. A method for detecting and annotating landmarks in digital images includes the steps of automatically assigning a tag descriptive of a landmark t... | 03/12/2013 |
