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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7941647 | Computer for executing two instruction sets and adds a macroinstruction end marker for performing iterations after loop termination A computer. A processor pipeline alternately executes instructions coded for first and second different computer architectures or coded to implement first and second different processing conventions. A memory stores instructions for execution by the processor pipeli... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941151 | Method and system for providing channel assignment information used to support uplink and downlink channels A method and wireless communication system for providing channel assignment information used to support an uplink (UL) channel and a downlink (DL) channel. The system includes at least one Node-B and at least one wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). The WTRU commu... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940238 | Liquid crystal display A novel method for driving the data signal transmission and the photo signal readout in a pixel of a display as well as the novel pixel structure corresponding thereto is provided to overcome the lightness uniformity issue of the conventional touch sensitive display... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939703 | Method for photocatalytic isomerization of 1,2-diphenylethylene analogues The present invention relates to methods for accelerating the trans-cis isomerization of 1,2-diphenylethylene analogues by using photocatalyst. According to this invention, in the presence of polypyridyl platinum(II) complex with catalytic dosage, a solution contain... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939599 | Substantially completely biodegradable high starch polymer This invention is a substantially completely biodegradable high starch polymer using completely biodegradable high polymer polyvinyl alcohol [PVOH] that is made to be compatible with starch. The two ingredients are mixed with the optional addition of elasticity enha... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939110 | Composition and method for treating autoimmune disease and mucosal disorder The present invention provides the composition and the method for treating autoimmune diseases and a mucosal disorder via oral-tolerance induction and innate immunity promotion. The composition for treating the autoimmune disease and mucosal disorder includes the po... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7937553 | Controlling virtual memory in a storage controller A storage controller of the present invention partitions and allocates a virtual memory area to each of a plurality of functions operating simultaneously. Microprocessors inside a higher-level communications controller can respectively execute a plurality of program... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937542 | Storage controller and storage control method for accessing storage devices in sub-block units Provided are a storage controller and a storage control method capable of improving the transaction performance. This storage controller includes a disk controller for receiving a read command and a write command from a host computer, and an external disk controller... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937140 | Detection and diagnostic system and method A method and apparatus for detecting the presence of substances, compositions, constituents, proportionalities, of examined objects, and abnormalities and diseases associated with human tissue responsive to detected amplitudes and/or frequencies, such as resonant fr... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937090 | Shorthand connection identifier with embedded subfield A base station can communicate resource allocation to a wireless mobile station in an uplink map information element. The base station can identify destination mobile stations using a shorthand connection identifier. The base station parses the connection identifier... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937061 | Signal interfacing techniques to simplify integrated circuit radio designs A signal interfacing technique for connecting signals between a signal processing device and a MIMO radio integrated circuit (IC) involving multiplexing two or more signals on a connection pin between the radio IC and a signal processing device. According to one tec... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936807 | Method and apparatus for reducing the processing rate of a chip-level equalization receiver A method and apparatus for reducing the processing rate when performing chip-level equalization (CLE) in a code division multiple access (CDMA) receiver which includes an equalizer filter. Signals received by at least one antenna of the receiver are sampled at M tim... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936728 | System and method for maintaining timing of synchronization messages over a reverse link of a CDMA wireless communication system A service option overlay for a CDMA wireless communication in which multiple allocatable subchannels are defined on a reverse link by assigning different code phases of a given long pseudonoise (PN) code to each subchannel. The instantaneous bandwidth needs of each ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7935728 | Cyclic palladium compounds having coordinated thereto bis (diphenylphosphine) ferrocene ligands which inhibit the activity of proteins and enzymes and treatment of diseases and disorders associated therewith The invention relates to cyclopalladated compounds containing bis-diphenylphosphine-ferrocene ligands and their analogues which are active inhibitors of proteins and enzymes, for example, those of the serine peptidase, cysteine-protease, metalo-protease and endopept... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7935225 | Papermaker's forming fabrics including monofilaments comprised of a blend of poly(ethylene naphthalate) and poly(ethylene terephthalate) Papermaker's forming fabrics including extruded thermoplastic monofilaments formed from a polymer blend consisting of from about 51%-90% pbw (parts by weight) of a poly(ethylene naphthalate) (PEN) polymer having a melt point of from 249° C. to about 278° C., most ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934534 | Method and device for producing moulds or cores, in particular for foundry purposes To produce moulds or cores for foundry purposes from a mixture (M) of moulding material or sand and a binder, the mixture (M) is shot using a shooting unit (2) or from a shooting tube (3) and a shooting head (4) through at least one discharge op... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934479 | Camshaft adjuster comprising a locking mechanism A camshaft adjuster (10) for an internal combustion engine which includes a locking mechanism is provided. At least one locking element (21, 22) which can be locked in the zone of a central position (20) as well as at least one additional lockin... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934478 | Camshaft adjuster A lubricant circuit of a camshaft adjuster is provided. In conventional camshaft adjusters, lubricant is supplied from a cylinder head to the camshaft adjuster via a supply channel (66) and a receiving channel (69), with an annular groove that encircle... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934454 | Projectile, projectile core, and method of making A projectile core is provided formed from a carrier and a colorant. The carrier and colorant are mixed into a core mixture, which is formed into a predetermined core shape. The core mixture is cured until substantially firm, such as by drying, heating or freezing. A... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934381 | Fuel lance for a gas turbine installation and a method for operating a fuel lance A fuel lance for a gas turbine installation with sequential combustion, in which hot gas is produced in a first combustion chamber and expanded in a subsequent turbine, and then flows through a subsequent second combustion chamber in which the fuel lance for injecti... | 05/03/2011 |
| D637163 | Power supply for tattoo machine | 05/03/2011 |
| 7933249 | Grade of service and fairness policy for bandwidth reservation system A scheme for assigning priority levels to users based upon a history of their request for access to the resources. If a user has, over a historical period of time, made fewer demands than a stated amount, that user is given a higher priority than a user who has made... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933245 | Media independent handover for mobility A media independent handover (MIH) device communicates with an 802 technology medium access control (MAC) layer and an 802 technology physical (PHY) layer utilizing an 802 technology management entity (ME) device. Handover information messages are produced by the MI... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933233 | Method and apparatus for providing service availability information in a wireless communication system A method and apparatus for providing service availability information includes receiving a signal transmitted from a base station. A power level and interference level of the received signal is measured and an estimate of a power level of each potentially available ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7931001 | Valve train of an internal combustion engine having a cylindrical valve tappet The invention proposes a push-rod valve train having an adjustable valve tappet (1). This has an outer part (2a, 2b), an inner part (8) and a lost-motion spring (10), which forces the inner part (8) towards a r... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7929498 | Adaptive forward power control and adaptive reverse power control for spread-spectrum communications A wireless code division multiple access (CDMA) communication system, including a base station (BS) and a subscriber unit (SU), uses adaptive forward power control (AFPC) and adaptive reverse power control (ARPC) to control the transmit power of forward and reverse ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7929410 | Protocol engine for processing data in a wireless transmit/receive unit A protocol engine (PE) for processing data within a protocol stack in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) is disclosed. The protocol stack executes decision and control operations. The data processing and re-formatting which was performed in a conventional proto... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7927714 | Barium-doped bond coat for thermal barrier coatings A metallic article for high temperature applications such as a turbine engine component is protected by a thermal barrier coating system on the article's metallic substrate. The thermal barrier coating system includes a bond coat layer of aluminum containing alloy o... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7927107 | Assembling structure of network patch panel and patch module A network patch panel is provided. The network patch panel includes a frame having a plurality of first indentations and a plurality of second indentations; and a patch module having a plurality of first protrusions and a plurality of second protrusions, wherein the... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7927006 | Device for extracting, fragmenting, mixing and homogenizing especially infectious, malodorous, chemically corrosive or sterile substances A device for extracting and fragmenting substances, especially infectious or malodorous substances, in a laboratory test vessel (3) is provided. The device includes a processing tool (11) and a stirrer element (33). An interior of the laboratory... | 04/19/2011 |
| D636465 | Flow regulator | 04/19/2011 |
| D636411 | Sewing machine | 04/19/2011 |
| D636233 | Flower shaped wood cheese container | 04/19/2011 |
| 7925846 | Computer system and garbage collection method of disk space A processor of a management computer acquires the free disk space amount of a disk pool, acquires the invalid disk space amount from a plurality of host computers, determines a host computer to which the instruction for the physical disk space collection is issued o... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7925263 | Handover in a wireless local area network (WLAN) In triggering a handoff by a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) from a current basic service set (BSS) in a wireless local area network (WLAN), the following are performed. A highest class of traffic service and quality of service (QoS) is determined for the high... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7925067 | Focusable virtual microscopy apparatus and method A virtual microscope slide includes images of a specimen for a given level of optical magnification which are associated and stored in a data structure. The forming of the data structure having the multiple Z-plane images preferably includes automatically focusing a... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924961 | Base station synchronization A method, implemented in a user equipment (UE), of maintaining base station synchronization, comprises receiving a measurement message from a radio network controller (RNC) directing the UE to measure a time difference of arrival (TDOA) between signals transmitted f... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924785 | Method and system for switching a radio access technology between wireless communication systems with a multi-mode wireless transmit/receive unit A method and system for switching a radio access technology (RAT) between wireless communication systems connected to each other while implementing different RATs with a multi-mode WTRU are disclosed. A plurality of wireless communication systems are deployed with o... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7921837 | Gas governor, snatch grip, and link pin for paintball gun A paintball marker has an inline cylinder that includes a gas governor that reduces gas flow from a compressed gas source to a valve area when the bolt is in a firing position. This bolt operates independent of the valve pin, which increases cycle speed and enables ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7921835 | Wireless projectile loader system A wireless projectile loader system is provided. The system includes at least one sensor for detecting a firing operation of a compressed gas gun and sending a signal to a wireless transmitter. The system further includes a wireless transmitter in communication with... | 04/12/2011 |
