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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7941645 | Isochronous pipelined processor with deterministic control An isochronous processor includes a state register, a functional unit, a control module, and an activation unit. The state register includes an arm buffer and an active buffer. The functional unit performs a transformation operation on the data stream in response to... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941353 | Impacted financial statements A system for displaying financial information includes a financial statement having a set of financial accounts, a set of business processes associated with the set of financial accounts, and an financial statement manager for displaying the financial statement and ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7936691 | Replication of static and dynamic databases in network devices Methods, apparatuses, and systems are presented for replicating data from a first network device to a second network device involving selecting a plurality of data sections containing data accessed by the first network device, systematically assigning at least one r... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7923683 | Method for treatment of samples for transmission electron microscopes A method for analyzing a sample for the manufacture of integrated circuits, e.g., dynamic random access memory devices, commonly called DRAMS. The method also provides an integrated chip including a thickness, a width, and a length. In a specific embodiment, the int... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7918881 | Stent deployment systems and methods A stent deployment system includes a catheter shaft, an expandable member mounted to the catheter shaft, and one or more stents or stent segments slidably positioned on the expandable member. The stent deployment system is adapted for deployment of stents or stent s... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7918846 | Method and system for laser treatment of refractive errors using offset imaging An ophthalmological surgery system and method for performing ablative photodecomposition of the corneal surface by offset image scanning. The image of a variable aperture, such as a variable width slit and variable diameter iris diaphragm, is scanned in a preselecte... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7918795 | Method and device for uterine fibroid treatment Methods and devices for both imaging and treating uterine fibroid tumors in one real-time system are provided. One minimally invasive method comprises introducing a sheath into a uterus and determining a location of a fibroid using a visualization element within or ... | 04/05/2011 |
| D635466 | Paper bag with a transparent vertical window for salad ingredients | 04/05/2011 |
| 7916382 | Scratch and MAR resistant PDLC modulator A PDLC modulator is fabricated using at least one of a selection of specially-formulated UV curable organic hard coatings as a protective layer on the exposed side of polyester (Mylar) film. The hard coatings of various related types show good adhesion on a polyeste... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7914789 | HEMCM42 antibodies The present invention relates to novel human secreted proteins and isolated nucleic acids containing the coding regions of the genes encoding such proteins. Also provided are vectors, host cells, antibodies, and recombinant methods for producing human secreted prote... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7912930 | System and method for resource provisioning Systems and methods for resource provisioning. Resources for which provisioning could be performed might include, for example, software, devices, directories, and/or databases. Where performance of an operation involved in provisioning requires interface with a reso... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7911686 | Optical module and optical communication system An optical module, which is arranged in an optical transmission path, includes an optical amplifying unit configured with a semiconductor, wherein the optical amplifying unit amplifies light input from the optical transmission path, and an optical element configured... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7911616 | Sensor and method of detecting the condition of a turf grass A method of detecting the condition of a turf grass is described. According to one aspect of the invention, the method comprises steps of attaching an active sensor to a mower; traversing a section of turf grass; and processing the output of the sensor. A device for... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7911465 | Techniques for displaying information for collection hierarchies Techniques for displaying information related to collection hierarchies. In one embodiment, an integrated direct-manipulation image-based interface is provided for displaying information related to collections. The interface also enables operations to be performed o... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7910296 | Methods for quantitative determination of methylation density in a DNA locus The present invention is a novel method of determining the average DNA methylation density of a locus of interest within a population of DNA fragments. ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7908415 | Method and system for controlling video selection and playback in a portable media player A method and system in accordance with the present invention provides a system that allows a portable media player to control settings of portable media player when receiving video from an accessory, to control playback of the portable media player and to provide fo... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7907480 | Optical disk apparatus with an improved track jump performance An optical disk device for recording or reproducing an optical disk has: an objective lens for irradiating a laser beam to the optical disk; an actuator for moving the objective lens in the radial direction of the optical disk; and a spindle motor for rotating the o... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7904307 | Health-care e-commerce systems and methods A virtual health-care electronic commerce community includes a network to communicate information relating to the community; one or more patients coupled to the network; one or more treating professionals coupled to the network; and a server coupled to the network, ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7903654 | System and method for ECMP load sharing A packet classifier and a method for routing a data packet are provided. The packet classifier includes a content addressable memory, a translation table and a parameter memory. The method includes looking up a content addressable memory for a base address into a pa... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7902831 | Methods of performing electrostatic discharge testing on a payment card Methods of performing electrostatic discharge testing on a transaction card are disclosed. A transaction card may be placed on an insulated surface. A grounding probe may be placed at a first location on the transaction card. A discharge probe may be charged to a kn... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7901880 | Differential enzymatic fragmentation The present invention provides methods for detecting the presence of methylation at a locus within a population of nucleic acids. ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7901708 | Liposomal apparatus and manufacturing methods The present invention provides apparatus and processes for producing liposomes. By providing a buffer solution in a first reservoir, and a lipid solution in a second reservoir, continuously diluting the lipid solution with the buffer solution in a mixing chamber pro... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7899941 | Displayport IC speed control Circuits, methods, and apparatus that allow a DisplayPort compatible host device to control data transactions over an I2C bus when communicating with a legacy monitor. One example includes an adapter having a compatibility register that may have a number ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7899867 | SpIM blocking and user approval techniques for real-time messaging networks Techniques for processing instant messages (IM) received from entities destined for IM clients are provided. An IM module is used to receive the instant messages and process them. In one embodiment, the IM module may be used to determine if a message is spam (or spi... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7898549 | Faster clears for three-dimensional modeling applications A graphics processing subsystem defines a bounding area as the portion of the display buffer and other memory buffers occupied by one or more rendered objects. When clearing the memory buffers, only the portions of the buffers corresponding to the bounding area need... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7898459 | Adaptive specific differential phase in dual-polarization radar Systems and methods are provided for adaptively estimating the specific differential phase (Kdp) from dual-polarization radar data in the complex domain. Some embodiments adapt for wrapped differential propagation phases by estimating the specific differe... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7897848 | Control of fruit dehiscence in plants by genes The present application provides methods and compositions that modulate fruit dehiscence in plants. ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7897387 | Fungal cell wall synthesis gene A reporter system reflecting the transport process that transports GPI-anchored proteins to the cell wall was constructed and compounds inhibiting this process were discovered. Further, genes conferring resistance to the above compounds were identified and methods o... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7897329 | Method for diagnosing non-small cell lung cancers by tRNA-dihydrouridine synthase activity of The present invention features a method for determining t-RNA dihydrouridine-synthase activity of a polypeptide and screening for modulators of t-RNA dihydrouridine-synthase activity. The present invention further provides methods or pharmaceutical compositions for ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7895583 | Methods and apparatus for grammar-based recognition of user-interface objects in HTML applications The present invention provides methods and system for building a computer program, such as a dynamically linked library, capable of recognizing graphical user interface objects in HTML applications. The program accepts HTML DOM structures as input and processes the ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7890432 | Infrastructure with meter communication capabilities A system for providing franking services includes one or more networks, one or more postage meters, and a postal infrastructure data center connected to the one or more meters through the one or more networks, wherein the postal infrastructure data center establishe... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7890173 | Implantable transducer devices Receiver-stimulators comprise a nearly isotropic transducer assembly, demodulator circuitry, and at least two tissue contacting electrodes. Use of near isotropic transducers allows the devices to be implanted with less concern regarding the orientation relative to a... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7890158 | Apparatus and method of biometric determination using specialized optical spectroscopy systems Methods and apparatuses for performing biometric determinations using optical spectroscopy of tissue. The biometric determinations that are disclosed include determination or verifications of identity, estimation of age, estimation of sex, determination of sample li... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7889204 | Processor architecture for executing wide transform slice instructions A programmable processor and method for improving the performance of processors by expanding at least two source operands, or a source and a result operand, to a width greater than the width of either the general purpose register or the data path width. The present ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7888314 | Compositions and methods for treating peripheral vascular disease The present invention relates to methods of treating intermittent claudication comprising administering glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) molecules to subjects suffering therefrom. ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7888206 | Method for manufacturing semiconductor device A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a recess with a device separating film and a first hard mask layer so that a pad nitride film for defining a recess gate region may remain with a conventional mask. The method additionally the recess... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7887812 | Live attenuated vaccines Targeted disruption of the centrin gene leads to attenuation of growth in Leishmania. Preferred embodiments of the invention provide attenuated strains of Leishmania useful for the preparation of immunogenic preparations including vaccines against a di... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7886352 | Interstitial pages A reverse proxy server can provide access to web applications. The reverse proxy system can produce interstitial pages not generated with the web application code and optionally block access to the web application until the interstitial pages have been processed. | 02/08/2011 |
| 7886297 | Program control process for an information processing apparatus In an information processing apparatus which executes first and second threads which executes methods, the first thread transmits a stop instruction for terminating execution of the second thread to the second thread. In response to the reception of the stop instruc... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7885922 | Apparatus and method for creating a real time database replica A method of processing data includes identifying a capture redo byte address, initiating a capture process at the capture redo byte address, creating a clone of a source database to a logical change number, and initiating an apply process at a target database. ... | 02/08/2011 |
