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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7783979 | Methods and apparatus for generation and execution of configurable bookmarks Methods and apparatus for configuring a bookmark are disclosed. A bookmark is configured such that the bookmark has one or more variables and/or one or more commands associated therewith. A value is dynamically substituted for each variable of the bookmark. The book... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7745389 | Methods for treatment of age-related macular degeneration The invention relates to Factor H gene polymorphisms and haplotypes associated with an elevated or a reduced risk of AMD. The invention provides methods and reagents for diagnosis and treatment of AMD. ... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7706097 | Magnetic disk drive with head retraction control Embodiments of the invention improve utility of a magnetic disk drive in which a head is retracted if the magnetic disk drive is in a dropping state. In one embodiment, an HDC/MPU provided in a magnetic disk drive judges whether the magnetic disk drive is in a dropp... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7641109 | Money transfer cards, systems and methods The present invention provides systems and methods to initiate, facilitate, process and/or perform money transfers. One such method includes establishing a money transfer record (310) and receiving, from a vendor location, a money transfer activation request ... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7588766 | Treatment of amyloidogenic disease The invention provides improved agents and methods for treatment of diseases associated with amyloid deposits of Aβ in the brain of a patient. Such methods entail administering agents that induce a beneficial immunogenic response against the amyloid deposit. The me... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7562813 | System and method for activating telephone-based payment instrument A payment instrument in the form of a cell phone is loaded with account information and activated as a payment instrument by reading account information from a nearby RFID device, and entering a user PIN or password. In one embodiment, the account information is rea... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7543610 | Thread clamp for a rapier head A thread clamp for a rapier head (1) is presented which contains a clamping part (4) for firmly clamping a weft thread (3) and an actuator (5) for moving the clamping part (4). The actuator (5) includes a ferromagnetic core ... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7502349 | System and method for sending data to a mobile device in a wireless network A device for wirelessly transmitting data under a wireless protocol is contemplated. A remote wireless network device initiates a session with a network. In this manner, information is sent to a gateway associated with the access point that couples the remote wirele... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7462459 | LAT1 transporters expressed in blood brain barrier cells LAT1 is consistently expressed at high levels in brain microvessel endothelial cells. Disclosed herein are assays for determining whether a test material/molecule is a substrate for, and/or is actively transported by, the LAT1 transporter, and therefore a candidate ... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7460340 | Disk drive, and actuator and head actuator assembly Embodiments of the invention improve the impact-resisting performance of a disk drive. In a head actuator assembly according to an embodiment of the invention, the difference in resonance frequency between an arm bending mode and a coil bending mode is set at a pred... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7456116 | Gap-fill depositions in the formation of silicon containing dielectric materials A method to form a silicon oxide layer, where the method includes the step of providing a continuous flow of a silicon-containing precursor to a chamber housing a substrate, where the silicon-containing precursor is selected from TMOS, TEOS, OMTS, OMCTS, and TOMCATS... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7454652 | System for and method of managing resource operations In a storage system including an information processing apparatus and a storage apparatus that is communicably connected to the information processing apparatus via a communication network and that writes or reads data to or from a storage device in response to a da... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7435591 | Compositions and methods for increasing animal size growth rate The present invention relates to germ line and somatic cells comprising a mutant p27kip1 protein lacking a Cdk2 phosphorylation site. Also provided are transgenic animals and methods of making such transgenic animals which have increased size and/or growt... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7417821 | Information recording apparatus According to embodiments of the present invention, tracks can be formed on a magnetic recording medium on a zonal area at intervals of either a first track pitch or a second track pitch, both of which differ from each other. For a reference track defined in each zon... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7404206 | Network security devices and methods An OSI layer 2 network device on the edge of a network such as a SAN is configured to replace the original source address of traffic entering the network with a known identifier or address, which is used to signify that entry point as the traffic source to the other... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7391013 | Scanning beam device with detector assembly The present invention provides scanning beam devices that have one or more detectors positioned within a housing of the device. The detector(s) may be disposed anywhere within the housing to receive light reflected from the target area. In one embodiment, an optical... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7375016 | Method for fabricating semiconductor device Disclosed herein is a method for fabricating a memory device. According to the present invention, during an etching process for forming a recess gate region, a device isolation film is etched using a mask partially exposing a channel region and its neighboring devic... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7352840 | Micro CT scanners incorporating internal gain charge-coupled devices The present invention provides internal gain charge coupled devices (CCD) and CT scanners that incorporate an internal gain CCD. A combined positron emission tomography and CT scanner is also provided. ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7319938 | Method and system for processing commonality of semiconductor devices A method and system for processing commonality of semiconductor devices. The method includes providing a first plurality of semiconductor devices, providing a second plurality of semiconductor devices, obtaining a first plurality of measured values corresponding to ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7303524 | Folder unit for processing sheet-like materials Methods and devices for folding a continuous web of material are provided. Systems can include a spiral folder assembly having first and second sets of rotatable spirals, a deflection means to guide the continuous web toward the first set of spirals and the second s... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7281158 | Method and apparatus for the takeover of primary volume in multiple volume mirroring A multiple disk system comprises plural physical drives organized as plural groups of disks. Each group is accessed as a plurality of logical volumes. One of the logical drives is considered a primary volume and one or more other logical volumes are considered as se... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7250555 | Methods for enhancing a plant stress response The invention provides novel methods useful for enhancing a stress response in plants. Specifically, the methods of the present invention are useful for increasing the tolerance of a plant to stresses such as hyperthermia, hypothermia, hyperosmolarity, hypoosmolarit... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7216210 | Data I/O system using a plurality of mirror volumes A data I/O system comprises a plurality of storage devices and a controller which controls the storage devices. In the data I/O system, the controller further includes a read/write unit, responsive to the subsequent receipt of a read request and a write request, for... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7120699 | Document controlled workflow systems and methods The document controlled workflow techniques are provided that can be represented by refinable Petri nets. A document may contain a control code that indicates to the document controlled workflow system to implement specified operations (i.e., functions) at a refinab... | 10/10/2006 |
| 6851490 | Apparatus and process for drilling casing with environmentally contained mud annulus A large diameter bore—in the range of 30 inches or more—is made through a geologic formation, such as the active surf zone and into the maritime zone. The drill head is provided with a mud powered motor (typically of the Moyno variety) which drives a hydraulic p... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6799065 | Image shifting apparatus and method for a telerobotic system Improved teleoperator techniques often make use of at least one input device which can be selectively operatively associated with, for example, either a surgical instrument to treat tissues, or with an image of a surgical worksite shown to a system operator. A novel... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6786724 | Mold compound ejection tip for dentistry An intra-oral molding compound ejection tip is provided to provide a substantially uniform expanding solid angle of the mixed molding compound upon molding compound ejection. A prior art intra-oral tip typically includes an ejection orifice defined about an axis par... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6751415 | Reduction of polarization-dependent loss from grating used in double-pass configuration A wavelength router is provided for receiving, at an input port, light having a plurality of spectral bands and directing some of those spectral bands to various output ports. The wavelength router includes an optical arrangement configured to provide optical paths ... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6664072 | Kits for screening for modulators of the motor protein HsKip3b The invention provides isolated nucleic acid and amino acid sequences of HsKip3b, antibodies to HsKip3b, methods of screening for HsKip3b modulators using biologically active HsKip3b, and kits for screening for HsKip3b modulators.... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6637702 | Nested beam deployable solar array A solar array includes a plurality of panels that are individually supported by beams that nest within each other in the stowed position to minimize the volume of the structure prior to deployment. The beams are pivotally connected to each other are deplo... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6506407 | Colon-specific drug release system A system for releasing a drug specifically in the colon of the gastrointestinal tract, which comprises a drug (b) coated with an organic acid-soluble polymer material (a), and a saccharide (c) which rapidly generates an organic acid by the action of enter... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6368768 | Organic anti-reflective coating material and its preparation Polymers are provided having the following formula I, II or III: ##STR1## Polymers of the present invention can be used to provide an anti-reflective coating (ARC) material useful for submicrolithography processes using 248 nm KrF, 193 nm ArF and 157 nm F... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6359007 | Clinical uses for L-arginine ascorbate and various metalloarginate complexes Various clinical uses for L-arginine complexes are presented. The active agents have individual and complementary physiological functions especially as these relate to conditions and functions, which influence endothelial biochemistry and physiology. The ... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6272914 | Device for indicating caliper pad wear in disc brakes Device for indicating wear of the pads of friction material in so-called floating calipers used in the disc brakes of vehicle wheels and generally comprising a caliper body (13) which is mounted so that it can slide axially by means of at least one hole (... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6174749 | Fabrication of multiple-wavelength vertical-cavity opto-electronic device arrays The present invention provides multiple-wavelength vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser ("MW-VCSEL") arrays. These arrays are fabricated in a molecular beam epitaxy system or the like using two patterned-substrate growth techniques. The growth technique... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6044113 | Digital pulse width modulator A digital pulse width modulation circuit and method includes a first pulse width clock signal modulated by a second pulse width clock signal that represents a converted analog voltage input. The first and second pulse width signals are provided to a count... | 03/28/2000 |
| 5910108 | Method and apparatus for improving the durability of a sensor The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for improving the durability of a sensor, specifically one attached by an adhesive material to a subject. Specifically, the present invention discloses a method and apparatus for laminating a sensor ... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5875175 | Method and apparatus for time-based download control A network transmitter schedules packets so that packets are transmitted to a host or group of hosts so as not to overload any particular part of the network. In an embodiment, the transmitter uses packet data structures with a schedule indication for pack... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5839302 | Locking device with two simultaneously actuated cylindrical plugs A locking device includes a lock body with two blind bores and a shackle with two parallel arms for insertion into the bores. The lock body further includes two key-actuated cylindrical plugs, an accommodation chamber disposed therein proximate to the plu... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5806005 | Wireless image transfer from a digital still video camera to a networked computer A portable image transfer system includes a digital still camera which captures images in digital form and stores the images in a camera memory, a cellular telephone transmitter, and a central processing unit (CPU). The CPU controls the camera memory to c... | 09/08/1998 |
