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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185212 | Chair pad charging and communication system for a battery-powered microstimulator A system and method are provided for both recharging and communicating with a stimulator having a rechargeable battery, which stimulator is implanted deeply in the body, in particular where the stimulator is a microstimulator, the system includes a base station and ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184142 | Method and system for composing video images from a plurality of endpoints The present application discloses a method and apparatus for a multipoint video conferencing system that can offer a wide variety of layouts and the ability to support a large number of conferees. A received stream of NALs from a plurality of endpoints can be proces... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8175716 | Multiple telemetry and/or charging coil configurations for an implantable medical device system Embodiments of an improved implantable medical device system for orientation-independent telemetry to and from the device are disclosed. The system includes an external controller which produces an electromagnetic field to induce a current in a coil in the implantab... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170200 | Method and apparatus for percussive noise reduction in a conference A conferencing unit reduces or eliminates percussive noise in audio that it outputs to a far-end. The unit filters near-end audio into a plurality of bands and calculates instantaneous energies for each band. The energies in first and second ranges of the bands are ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165951 | Implied market trading system A computer based trading system implies spread markets from multiple real or implied spread markets. In particular, one aspect of the invention permits implication of a spread market from a combination of inter-commodity and inter-calendar spread orders. Furthermore... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164050 | Multi-channel source assembly for downhole spectroscopy A multi-channel source assembly for downhole spectroscopy has individual sources that generate optical signals across a spectral range of wavelengths. A combining assembly optically combines the generated signals into a combined signal and a routing assembly that sp... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161332 | Pluggable transceiver module with enhanced circuitry Pluggable transceiver modules with additional functions and circuitry contained within the module. In a first embodiment, additional circuitry is added to determine bit error rates at the point of the module itself. This allows a much better diagnostic evaluation of... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155752 | Implantable medical device with single coil for charging and communicating A combination charging and telemetry circuit for use within an implantable device, such as a microstimulator, uses a single coil for both charging and telemetry. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, one or more capacitors are used to tune the single coil ... | 04/10/2012 |
| D657247 | Beverage bottle | 04/10/2012 |
| D657246 | Beverage bottle | 04/10/2012 |
| 8144497 | Self-identifying stacked die semiconductor components A semiconductor die having a functional circuit (e.g., a memory array) and a decode circuit suitable for use in a stacked die semiconductor component (e.g., a random access memory component) is described. The decode circuit permits individual die in a stacked die st... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144186 | Appearance matching for videoconferencing Methods and systems for presenting video images generated by multiple endpoints in a videoconference such that the displayed images have consistent appearance, for example consistent brightness levels are disclosed. Sampling methods and algorithms are used to calcul... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140642 | Network connection-independent updating system and method A system, method and computer program product are provided for communicating over a network without a direct connection to the network. A process is first initiated on a first computer without a direct connection to a network. In response to the process, a second co... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8136605 | Swellable packer with fluid supply A downhole apparatus, such as a wellbore packer, is provided with a swellable member and a fluid supply assembly. The fluid supply assembly is to receive fluid and expose the swellable member to the fluid to cause expansion of the swellable member, and comprises a s... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8136428 | Non-reversible fastener Non-reversing fasteners include a bolt having a groove defined along the thread, and a nut having a biased tooth disposed in an internal pocket. When the nut is threaded onto the bolt, the biased tooth does not engage the groove. When the nut is reversed off the bol... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135858 | Isolation switch for fibre channel fabrics in storage area networks An isolation switch blade Fibre Channel switch presents F_ports to form a first Fibre Channel fabric and N_ports to a second Fibre Channel fabric to appear as node devices. The isolation switch blade may be used to connect a plurality of blade servers to a Fibre Cha... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8134891 | Apparatus for generating a seismic source signal A seismic source signal generator having feed-forward control uses pressure, current, and/or valve position sensors to detect system component parameters. Initial and operating parameters are processed during source operation to remove, partially or wholly, harmonic... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130977 | Cluster of first-order microphones and method of operation for stereo input of videoconferencing system An arbitrarily positioned cluster of three microphones can be used for stereo input of a videoconferencing system. To produce stereo input, right and left weightings for signal inputs from each of the microphones are determined. The right and left weightings corresp... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130237 | Resolution independent user interface design Graphical user interface material map objects are specified by a collection of attribute-value pairs, the collection of which comprises a complete description of the material map and may be used by a rendering engine to create a visual representation of the material... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130231 | Framework for graphics animation and compositing operations A framework for performing graphics animation and compositing operations has a layer tree for interfacing with the application and a render tree for interfacing with a render engine. Layers in the layer tree can be content, windows, views, video, images, text, media... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130226 | Framework for graphics animation and compositing operations A framework for performing graphics animation and compositing operations has a layer tree for interfacing with the application and a render tree for interfacing with a render engine. Layers in the layer tree can be content, windows, views, video, images, text, media... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130024 | Temperature compensation via power supply modification to produce a temperature-independent delay in an integrated circuit A method and circuitry for adjusting the delay of a variable delay line (VDL) in a delay locked loop (DLL) or other delay element or subcircuit on an integrated circuit is disclosed. Such delay circuitry will inherently have a delay which is a function of temperatur... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126968 | System and method for coordinating a conference using a dedicated server A system and method are described for initiating and conducting a data conference between a plurality of conference endpoints linked in communication by a private or public computer network. A first conference endpoint then sends a conference initialization request ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126029 | Voice interference correction for mixed voice and spread spectrum data signaling A method, a process and an audio system for embedding bit stream in a voice signal is disclosed. A voice/data interference signal is composed and supplied to the mixer of the voice signal and the data signal such that the resulting mixed signal effectively cancels t... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8118538 | Offshore vertical-axis wind turbine and associated systems and methods An offshore wind turbine has a vertical-axis wind turbine (VAWT) mounted on a platform. The VAWT has a vertical rotor and curved blades coupled to a gearbox and an electric generator. The VAWT can fixedly extend from the platform or may be capable of reclining on th... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8111820 | Audio conference platform with dynamic speech detection threshold The present invention comprises a method for audio/video conferencing. In a preferred embodiment, the method comprises using a dynamic threshold value to determine whether there is speech on a line. One aspect, the method comprises determining a dynamic threshold va... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108454 | Address assignment in Fibre Channel over Ethernet environments A method of initializing a Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) link between a Fiber Channel over Ethernet node (ENode) and Fiber Channel Forwarders (FCFs) in a network by discovering the presence of FCFs available to the ENode and other FCFs, assigning second MAC add... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8100181 | Surface controlled subsurface safety valve having integral pack-off A safety valve apparatus has a housing with a bore and a projection in the bore. A flapper rotatably disposed on the housing is movable relative to the bore between opened and closed positions, and a packing element disposed on the housing is compressible to engage ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8095397 | Variable annuity with a guaranteed minimum accumulation benefit based on an external index Products, methods and system for guaranteeing the minimum accumulation benefit of an investment account owned by an entity are described. The steps of the guarantee include determining an external index or method to use to calculate the guarantee at the end of the d... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8087459 | Packer providing multiple seals and having swellable element isolatable from the wellbore A packer provides multiple seals when deployed downhole. Exposed to an activating agent, a swellable element on the packer's mandrel expands radially outward to form a seal with the borehole wall. Deformable elements, are disposed on the mandrel adjacent the swellab... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8087458 | Removable hydraulic-set packer A removable hydraulic set packer has a piston activated by fluid in the bore of the packer's mandrel. The piston disengages from the mandrel and pushes a lower wedge unit towards an upper wedge unit. The wedge units push a slip outward from the mandrel toward the su... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8083504 | Quintuplex mud pump A quintuplex mud pump has a crankshaft supported in the pump by external main bearings. The crankshaft has five eccentric sheaves, two internal main bearing sheaves, and two bull gears. Each of the main bearing sheaves supports the crankshaft by a main bearing. One ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081925 | Transceiver for an implantable medical device having switchable series-to-parallel tank circuit An improved transceiver circuit particularly useful in an inductively coupled wireless communication system such as an implantable medical device system is disclosed. The improved transceiver circuit is switchable to assume a serial L-C configuration in the transmit... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8074723 | Ring member for a swellable downhole packer A ring member for a downhole apparatus includes a swellable material selected to increase in volume on exposure to at least one triggering fluid. The ring member is configured to cooperate with a swellable member disposed on a body of the apparatus, and may function... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8074241 | Process for displaying and navigating panoramic video, and method and user interface for streaming panoramic video and images between a server and browser-based client application A method for providing panoramic videos and images to a user using a server-client architecture while minimizing the wait time necessary before still images are available for viewing or videos begin playing. A series of location-referenced panoramic images are separ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8069918 | Magnetic slip retention for downhole tool A downhole tool, such as a packer or liner hanger, has a mandrel on which slips are disposed for engaging a surrounding tubular downhole. When the tool is being run in or out of the hole, at least one magnetic component magnetically retains the slip adjacent the man... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068146 | Opponent color detail enhancement for saturated colors A method, system and device for enhancing detail in areas of saturated color in an image are described. As areas of saturated color are detected in an image the opponent color channel is used to calculate a factor to apply to the original pixel value. By calculating... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068103 | User-interface design Graphical user interface objects are specified by a collection of attribute-value pairs, the collection of which comprise a complete description of the object and may be used by a rendering element to create a visual representation of the object. In practice, each o... | 11/29/2011 |
| D649369 | Student desk with stool | 11/29/2011 |
| D649368 | Student desk with seat | 11/29/2011 |
