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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8154666 | Spectrum sensing function for cognitive radio applications A method and system are disclosed to detect a broad class of signals including Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) digital television (DTV) and wireless microphone signals. This signal detection method performs in Gaussian noise, employing Higher Order Stat... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8142078 | Material-filled package A filling-packaging body formed to have both such a durability that can withstand a large amount of filled material filled therein and easily unsealing property. The filling-packaging body (1) is formed by filling the filled material in a three-side seal bag ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8117956 | Magazine for a hand gun The present invention relates to a magazine for a hand firearm, which is detachably mountable to the weapon, incorporating a drum-like, approximately cylindrical housing (10) which accommodates a greater number of cartridges in an orientation parallel to the ... | 02/21/2012 |
| RE43199 | Arrangement and method for regulating bottom hole pressures when drilling deepwater offshore wells An arrangement and a method to control and regulate the bottom hole pressure in a well during subsea drilling at deep waters: The method involves adjustment of a liquid/gas interface level in a drilling riser up or down. The arrangement comprises a high pressure dri... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8117098 | Flexible and adaptive accrual method and apparatus for calculating and facilitating compliance with taxes and other obligations A computer-based system and method calculates and facilitates revenue accrual, for making larger, less frequent payments of estimated taxes or other obligations. Payer preferences are applied to satisfy variable payment intervals, amounts, and available resources. T... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8114321 | Method and apparatus for thermally controlling a mold, die, or injection barrel A method and apparatus are disclosed for managing thermal energy transfer between a mold, die or cavity and a thermal transfer fluid. The thermal energy being exchanged with the mold, die or cavity is calculated in real time as a function of the temperature differen... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8100450 | Food service tongs and mold therefor Food service tongs and a mold and method for making them, the tongs having first and second arms connected to a fulcrum end, and first and second grasping ends on the arms disposed in a mutually opposing and spaced-apart relationship and moveable in a common plane t... | 01/24/2012 |
| D652797 | Dual power quad signal board-mountable connector | 01/24/2012 |
| D652796 | Dual power quad signal board-mountable connector | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099583 | Method of and apparatus and architecture for real time signal processing by switch-controlled programmable processor configuring and flexible pipeline and parallel processing A new signal processor technique and apparatus combining microprocessor technology with switch fabric telecommunication technology to achieve a programmable processor architecture wherein the processor and the connections among its functional blocks are configured b... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8096786 | Three dimensional micro-fluidic pumps and valves A system is disclosed for the control of fluid flow in a micro-fluidic system, the system having: a substrate; at least one micro-fluidic channel having disposed in a microchannel layer atop the substrate; a conformable layer disposed on the micro-fluidic layer; a r... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8085178 | Multiplying-adding return to zero digital to analog converter circuit and method A digital to analog converter (DAC) method and apparatus employs a multiplying-adding DAC, eliminating digital adder circuitry. Examples are given for multiplying a 3-bit binary number by a 2-bit binary number; however, there are no limitations to the bit-widths of ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8083573 | Dust collection and containment in a rotary floor sanding machine A rotary floor sanding machine has a vertically oriented bell housing with a backside floor support and a dust suction port for removing dust from within. The bell housing encloses the sides and backside of a disk casing and rotary sanding pad. The floor support is ... | 12/27/2011 |
| D651275 | Pistol | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082185 | Quotation system and method A quotation system and method are provided (see FIG. 1). A relational database (10) allows various departments (14, 16, 18, 20) to prepare a quotation. The relational database centralizes data to increase efficiency, and the data may be modified... | 12/20/2011 |
| D650752 | Dual power quad signal board-mountable connector | 12/20/2011 |
| D650751 | Dual power quad signal board-mountable connector | 12/20/2011 |
| D650750 | Dual power quad signal board-mountable connector | 12/20/2011 |
| D650749 | Dual power quad signal board-mountable connector | 12/20/2011 |
| D650748 | Dual power quad signal board-mountable connector | 12/20/2011 |
| D650747 | Dual power quad signal board-mountable connector | 12/20/2011 |
| D650746 | Dual power quad signal board-mountable connector | 12/20/2011 |
| D650745 | Dual power quad signal board-mountable connector | 12/20/2011 |
| D650744 | Dual power quad signal board-mountable connector | 12/20/2011 |
| D650743 | Dual power quad signal board-mountable connector | 12/20/2011 |
| 8078833 | Microprocessor with highly configurable pipeline and executional unit internal hierarchal structures, optimizable for different types of computational functions The invention resides in a flexible data pipeline structure for accommodating software computational instructions for varying application programs and having a programmable embedded processor with internal pipeline stages the order and length of which varies as fast... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077031 | Position locating by polyhedral morphing Objects are located within at least one mapped field region. Environments for location tracking are mapped through a configuration setup flexibly supporting multiple objects with precision and speed. Host and Repeater devices are located at vertices of polyhedra def... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8076218 | Method for the production of photo-patterned carbon electronics A method for the manufacture of carbon based electrical components is herein presented. In the method a wafer substrate is provided upon which a first layer of carbon based semiconductor is deposited. The first layer of carbon based semiconductor is introduced to a ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8074890 | Wearable data transceiver with coupled antenna A flexible antenna capacitively coupled to related circuitry components for an active wearable data transceiver electronic location and identification device. Wearable data transceivers (WDXs) are employed as bracelets, badges, and may be incorporated with back pack... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073640 | Controlled compressional wave components of thickness shear mode multi-measurand sensors The current invention relates to a conductivity-dielectric (CD) electrode design with apertures that allow compressional waves to propagate away from the surface of the acoustic wave device unimpeded. This prevents reflection of compressional waves that would intera... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068066 | X-band turnstile antenna An X-band, crossed dipole turnstile antenna configured to be omni-directional with horizontal polarization is disclosed. It comprises a set of two dipole antennas aligned at right angles to each other attached to a common 50 ohm coaxial feedpoint and fed 90 degrees ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8063848 | X, K, K band omni-directional antenna with dielectric loading An X, Ku, and K-band omni-directional antenna with dielectric loading is disclosed. It comprises a conductor with a loading dielectric resonator and a ground plane. Broad frequency coverage from 7.5 to 26 GHz includes uniform azimuthal coverage from +10 t... | 11/22/2011 |
| RE42955 | GaN-based permeable base transistor and method of fabrication An etched grooved GaN-based permeable-base transistor structure is disclosed, along with a method for fabrication of same. ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8059798 | System for VOIP based emergency stand alone service Method and apparatus for ad hoc cooperative routing in an IP network. Included is an emergency stand alone (ESA) system that provides a bypass to a failed TDM switch for multiple communication devices in communication with one or more TDM switches. One or more inter... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8055480 | Method for representing flexible elongate volume objects The invention relates to a method for the simplified, physically correct representation of flexible elongate volume objects. The volume object is divided up into sections and each section begins and ends with an interaction point and is connected to an adjacent sect... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8052397 | Polygon rotor attachment device A rotor and shaft assembly for turbomachinery has a polygon shaped drive collar interposed between corresponding polygonal mating surfaces of a drive shaft and a rotor hub. The mating surfaces of the polygon collar, the drive shaft and the rotor hub may be sized bot... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8038462 | Water-tight electrical connector with laterally compressed O-ring An electrical connector housing system provides a water-tight o-ring seal between a receptacle housing and a plug housing without compressing the o-ring in the mating direction. The housing system includes at least two latch sliders that can be engaged to trap latch... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036959 | System and method for automatic payment of estimated tax due Embodiments of the present invention may provide a method and system for accepting financial information from a customer for generating an estimated tax due to the taxing authority and a date by which the estimated tax is due, and periodically impounding an amount o... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8016344 | Vehicle impact absorbing member Provided is a shock absorber for a vehicle, which, when it is crushed, can break and open a part of the wall thereof earlier than the time of the break of an explosion inducing section, to thereby exclude the effect of the air being present inside a hollow portion a... | 09/13/2011 |
| D643371 | Plug for water-tight electrical connector with laterally compressed O-ring | 08/16/2011 |
