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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7993733 | Index modified coating on polymer substrate The invention includes the structure of a multilayer protective coating, which may have, among other properties, scratch resistance, UV absorption, and an effective refractive index matched to a polymer substrate such as polycarbonate. Each layer may contain multipl... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7993647 | Monoclonal antibodies to HIV-1 and methods of using same The present invention provides monoclonal antibodies to HIV-1 Vpr and hybridoma cell lines that produce the monoclonal antibodies to HIV-1 Vpr. Methods for use of such antibodies in the detection of HIV-1 infection are also provided. ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7895337 | Systems and methods of generating a content aware interface Systems and methods for generation of a content aware internet application interface including multiple content regions. A primary region populated by content including a content parameter for use in selecting, retrieving or configuring content of a secondary region... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7887164 | Liquid jet head, a liquid jet apparatus and a piezoelectric element A piezoelectric layer is formed of a plurality of ferroelectric films containing lead (Pb), zirconium (Zr), and titanium (Ti) above a first electrode. A boundary portion between a first ferroelectric film closest to the first electrode and a second ferroelectric fil... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7884992 | Photochromic optical article A photochromic optical article comprises a substrate, and a photochromic coating coated on an outer surface of the substrate and having at least two photochromic layers. Each of the photochromic layers has a composition that contains a carrier and at least one photo... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7884276 | Music transcription Methods, systems, and devices are described for automatically converting audio input signal data into musical score representation data. Embodiments of the invention identify a change in frequency information from the audio signal that exceeds a first threshold valu... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7882132 | Support for RDBMS in LDAP system A mapping scheme is disclosed so that data can be communicated between a relational database and a system that represents data in a manner different than the relational database. In one embodiment, the mapping scheme uses a mapping catalog that identifies attributes... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7881205 | Configurable delay limit for error control communications Systems, methods, and devices for novel error detection and retransmission processes are described. These processes may be implemented on intermediate communication links between two end terminals, wherein the intermediate links are via satellite. Error control mech... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7880770 | Camera control Tools for controlling cameras (and other objects), using an input device. Some such tools may establish a threshold, above which the input from the input device is fed directly to the object being controlled, and below which the input signal is processed to provide ... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7880396 | Projector device employing ballast with flyback converter A projector device employing ballast with a flyback converter is disclosed. For example, one embodiment comprises a lamp driver circuit including a power stage circuit including a flyback converter to output a direct current signal to a bridge circuit, the bridge ci... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7849134 | Transaction accelerator for client-server communications systems In a network having transaction acceleration, for an accelerated transaction, a client directs a request to a client-side transaction handler that forwards the request to a server-side transaction handler, which in turn provides the request, or a representation ther... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7847868 | Subpixels of a light valve pixel having characteristics adapted to complement light within a range of wavelengths An apparatus, system, and method for subpixels of a light valve pixel having characteristics adapted to complement light within certain wavelength ranges are disclosed herein. ... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7847442 | Linear motor In a linear motor (1) having a stator (2) and an armature (3), the stator (2) comprises a winding former (21) and a drive winding (22) provided on the winding former (21). Further, means are provided for preventing an... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7878631 | Liquid jet head, a liquid jet apparatus and a piezoelectric element A piezoelectric layer held between a first electrode on a substrate side and a second electrode formed on a surface of the piezoelectric layer facing away from the first electrode is formed of a ferroelectric material with a perovskite crystal structure, and the rat... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7878142 | Device to coat food products such as potato crisps A device (10) to coat food products such as potato crisps or chips and biscuits. The device (10) includes a flavor dispenser 21 that delivers granular flavor material to the products (12) being coated. The device (10) further inclu... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7875829 | Thermal flux processing by scanning a focused line beam The thermal processing device includes a stage, a continuous wave electromagnetic radiation source, a series of lenses, a translation mechanism, a detection module, a three-dimensional auto-focus, and a computer system. The stage is configured to receive a substrate... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7874696 | Wall luminaire A wall luminaire is described having a housing intended for the reception of the electrical components and having at least one light permeable element mounted to the housing whose special feature consists of the fact that light generated by a plurality of LEDs with ... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7874262 | Masking system for the masking of a crank chamber of an internal combustion engine The invention relates to a masking system (1) for the masking of a crank chamber (2) of an internal combustion engine (3) during a surface treatment of a cylinder running surface (4, 41, 42) of a cylinder bore (5, 51, 52) of a cyli... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7873622 | Multi-column search results interface Graphical user interfaces that are well suited for displaying search results from multiple search categories are described. In one aspect of the invention, a graphical user interface is provided that includes a window having at least two panes that are arranged to d... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7872209 | Thermal flux processing by scanning a focused line beam The thermal processing device includes a stage, a continuous wave electromagnetic radiation source, a series of lenses, a translation mechanism, a detection module, a three-dimensional auto-focus, and a computer system. The stage is configured to receive a substrate... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7870608 | Early detection and monitoring of online fraud Various embodiments of the invention provide solutions (including inter alia, systems, methods and software) for dealing with online fraud. In particular, various embodiments of the invention can provide early warning of an online fraud, for instance by finding susp... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7870412 | Passing client or server instructions via synchronized data objects Methods, systems, and machine-readable media are disclosed for passing executable instructions via synchronized data objects. According to one embodiment, passing executable instructions from a first device to a second device during a synchronization operation betwe... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7870307 | DMA and graphics interface emulation An emulator schedules emulation threads for DMA emulation and other emulation functions in a time-multiplexed manner. Emulation threads are selected for execution according to a load balancing scheme. Non-DMA emulation threads are executed until their execution time... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7869788 | Device billing agent Access devices using billing agents and methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises capturing, at an access device, a communication to be transmitted from the access device. The method further comprises determining billing information about the co... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7866876 | Device for degassing and filtering plastic melts The invention relates to a device for the extrusion of thermoplastic synthetic material featuring an extruder screw (2) which is mounted on a housing (1) including a plasticizing section (P) at the inlet side, a degassing section which is mounted upstr... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7864702 | Control and recruitment of client peripherals from server-side software A client-server arrangement permits recruitment and control of client peripherals to be effected from the server side is described. A client server system has a server device, a client device, and a peripheral device. The client device is in communication with the s... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7864408 | Beam deflection using PZT resonance Beam deflection devices and methods using piezoelectric tube resonance. A beam deflection device may include a laser that produces a beam of light. The beam of light may then be directed through a piezoelectric tube that includes a light guide and one or more piezoe... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7864176 | Translucent object rendering methods and apparatus A computer system method includes determining a first surface illumination on an object based upon a respective irradiance, determining a first surface reflection based upon the respective irradiance, determining a second surface illumination on the object based upo... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7860851 | Tiered processing for XDM and other XML databases Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for processing of XDM operation to access XML documents in a database or other repository. According to one embodiment, a system for processing requests for information in a data repository can comprise a firs... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7860774 | System and method for providing financial advice for an investment portfolio A method in a financial advice system for providing specific recommendations regarding the purchase and sale of specific assets for a client's portfolio. The method can operate to provide specific reasons for each recommended action, and can provide alternative acti... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7860685 | Method for clustering signals in spectra Methods for processing spectra are disclosed. The method includes obtaining a plurality of spectra, each spectrum in the plurality of spectra comprising a signal including a signal strength as a function of time-of-flight, mass-to-charge ratio, or a value derived fr... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7860233 | System and method for tracking alerts A method and apparatus for generating alerts which prompt a customer representative to initiate communications with a customer relative to the alert. Further provided is a tracking template which is provided to the customer representative, whereby the customer repre... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7859530 | Subsurface rendering methods and apparatus A method for a computer system includes receiving a three-dimensional model of an object, wherein the object includes a surface region, determining an incident irradiance associated with the surface region, determining a plurality of voxels associated with the three... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7857493 | Luminaire A standing lamp, wall lamp or pole-mounted lamp having a base member unit and a column unit which carries illuminants at least in the region of its free end and whose special feature consists of the fact that the column unit has an at least substantially planar func... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7856873 | Apparatus for reducing the friction between two bodies The apparatus is suited to reduce the friction between two bodies (1, 2) moving relative to each other. The two bodies (1, 2), which move relative to each other, can contact each other constantly or occasionally or have a small distance from one anothe... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7853647 | Network agnostic media server control enabler Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for interacting with a media server on a network and/or protocol agnostic basis. According to one embodiment, a method for controlling a media server can comprise receiving a request to perform a media control... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7853579 | Methods, systems and software for identifying and managing database work Various embodiments of the invention provide solutions to allow more sophisticated management of the relationship between a database and its clients (which can be, inter alia, end users, business applications, etc.). Merely by way of example, some embodiments can fa... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7851338 | Graded core/shell semiconductor nanorods and nanorod barcodes Graded core/shell semiconductor nanorods and shaped nanorods are disclosed comprising Group II-VI, Group III-V and Group IV semiconductors and methods of making the same. Also disclosed are nanorod barcodes using core/shell nanorods where the core is a semiconductor... | 12/14/2010 |
| RE41994 | Web member for concrete form walls The invention provides a building component comprising first and second high density foam panels each having inner and outer surfaces, top and bottom, and first and second ends, the panels arranged in spaced parallel relationship with their inner surfaces facing eac... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7844827 | Method of key generation using biometric features A system and method for generating an encryption key using physical characteristics of a biometric sample is described. In one embodiment, the biometric feature(s) from a sample are analyzed to generate a feature vector. After discretizing the feature(s), the result... | 11/30/2010 |
