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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120130678 | WIND TURBINE MONITORING DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM Status monitoring of a wind turbine is automatically performed, and evaluation of that status is quantitatively performed according to an appropriate criterion. Provided is a wind turbine monitoring device including a first storage unit in which a diagnostic data file i... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120084057 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PREDICTING AN OPTICAL FIBER PERFORMANCE PARAMETER A method for predicting an optical fiber performance parameter includes measuring N values for the optical fiber performance parameter at N stages during manufacture or installation of a first optical fiber, where N is an integer. A first set of correlation values is ge... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120053896 | Method and System for Comparing Performance Statistics with Respect to Location One embodiment of an invention which computes a location based alignment of two tracks over a set route. Once aligned, a comparison of performance statistics is made at each position along the track. Time and distance gap information is also computed at each position. T... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120053895 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING THE CONDITION OF A COLLECTION OF SIMILAR ELONGATED HOLLOW OBJECTS A tester that evaluates the condition of a plurality of elongated hollow objects by emitting a signal into the objects and measuring the reflected signals at particular sample points, generating a statistically related base signal based on the values at each such sample... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120048234 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR KNOCK DETECTION BASED ON ETHANOL CONCENTRATION IN FUEL A knock detection system for an engine includes an intensity module, a knock threshold module, and a detection module. The intensity module determines an engine vibration intensity during a first period of engine operation. The knock threshold module determines a knock ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120041715 | AUTOMATED HYPOTHESIS TESTING A method of automatically applying a hypothesis test to a data set. The method reduces errors made in failing to appreciate predicate assumptions of various statistical tests, and elicits a series of indications from the user regarding characteristics of interest embodi... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120025529 | System and Methods for Monitoring Oil Conditions of a Wind Turbine Gearbox A method for monitoring the condition of oil contained within a gearbox of a wind turbine is disclosed. The method generally includes receiving a signal corresponding to a measurement of an oil parameter of the gearbox, comparing the measurement to a predetermined limit... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120029872 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING RELIABILITY OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE A system and method analyze reliability of an electronic device using a computing device. The method generates a component coding rule for components of the electronic device, establishes a BOM table for the electronic device according to the component coding rule, and ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120022921 | CONTROL ASSET COMPARATIVE PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS SYSTEM AND METHODOLOGY A system and method is provided for determining the variability induced on a process output. The method includes the analysis of input variable values to determine the total variability. A series of processes may be analyzed and ranked so that a process owner may gain a... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120010852 | METHOD FOR MONITORING WIND TURBINES A method for determining damage to a rotor blade of a wind turbine, includes at least the following time-domain-analysis steps: measuring the vibrations of a rotor blade by means of an acceleration sensor; obtaining event-time intervals, in which the amplitudes of the m... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120004849 | EFFICIENT WINDOWED RADON TRANSFORM One or more computer-readable media including computer-executable instructions to instruct a computing system to define a Radon transform convolution mask; specify an angle that defines a line extending at least partially across a pixel image; and apply the mask success... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120004120 | SELF-ENCODING SENSOR WITH MICROSPHERES Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for combining the output obtained from redundant sensor elements in a sensor array.... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110320167 | Method and System for Evaluating Analyte Sensor Response Characteristics Apparatus, method, system and kit for receiving a plurality of continuous analyte sensor values for corresponding reference analyte values, calculating a rate of change value for the continuous analyte sensor values, defining a plurality of data range windows of the ref... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110320103 | Exhaust Treatment Methods and Systems A method of evaluating a particulate filter of an exhaust treatment system is provided. The method includes: selectively enabling at least one of data collection and resistance evaluation based on a particulate matter level in the particulate filter; when data collectio... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110320166 | GLUCOSE SENSOR SIGNAL STABILITY ANALYSIS Disclosed are methods, apparatuses, etc. for glucose sensor signal stability analysis. In certain example embodiments, a series of samples of at least one sensor signal that is responsive to a blood glucose level of a patient may be obtained. Based at least partly on th... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110320138 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING HEALTH OF AIRFOILS A method for monitoring the health of a plurality of blades is presented. The method includes determining delta TOAs corresponding to the plurality of blades, determining a standard deviation utilizing the delta TOAs corresponding to the plurality of blades, determining... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110320137 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING HEALTH OF AIRFOILS A method for monitoring the health of one or more blades is presented. The method includes the steps of determining a delta TOA corresponding to each of the one or more blades based upon respective actual time of arrival (TOA) of the one or more blades, determining a no... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110313726 | CONDITION-BASED MAINTENANCE SYSTEM FOR WIND TURBINES A condition-based maintenance system having instrumentation for collecting data from one or more wind turbines and having a performance monitor for analyzing the data. Also, the system may have a wind turbine anomaly detector. Information from the performance monitor an... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110313727 | DATA CENTER PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE THRESHOLD ANALYSIS Analyzing one or more physical infrastructure elements of a data center by generating a plurality of outputs from a stochastic process for a set of inputs to the stochastic process. The inputs comprise one or more inputs of certainty and one or more inputs of uncertaint... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110301917 | AUTOMATIC ANALYZER Abnormality causes are automatically identified during daily quality control, based on the focused consideration of complex uncertainty factors and, especially, of the causes of device-side abnormalities (i.e., abnormalities of the optical system and the dispenser mecha... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110295554 | Equipment For Manufacturing Semiconductor Device And Seasoning Process Method Of The Same Disclosed is an apparatus for processing a semiconductor and a method for generating a seasoning process of a reaction chamber. The method may include generating plasma in the reaction chamber using a production process recipe, obtaining at least one reference measureme... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110295555 | Method and System for Determining a Lithographic Process Parameter The present invention relates to a method for determining parameter value related to a lithographic process by which a marker structure has been applied on a product substrate based on obtaining calibration measurement data, with an optical detection apparatus, from a c... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110294148 | TISSUE INHIBITOR OF MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASES TYPE-1 (TIMP-1) AS A CANCER MARKER AND POSTOPERATIVE MARKER FOR MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE OR RECURRENT DISEASE IN PATIENTS WITH A PRIOR HISTORY OF CANCER The present invention describes a method for determining whether an individual is suffering from cancer by determining a parameter representing the TIMP-1 concentration in body fluid samples from the individual. The present invention furthermore describes a method for d... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110282626 | CYCLE DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS FOR REMOTE MACHINE MONITORING Methods for decomposing event information for a machine are described. In one aspect, a method includes receiving event data identifying events associated with a machine on a first communications channel, and receiving trend data for the machine associated with the iden... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110282628 | Testing Linearity Of Methods Of Chemical Analysis With Various Statistical Tests A method for testing the linearity or non-linearity of an actual analyte concentration and a test result, where the actual concentration of the analyte and a test result are determined so that a computation based upon an algorithm may be performed, which allows computat... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110282627 | METHOD AND SERVER OF DETERMINING ADVISORY SAFETY SPEED BASED ON ROAD SURFACE STATES AND STATISTICAL TRAFFIC CONDITIONS Provided are a method and an apparatus of determining safety speed based on road surface states and statistical traffic conditions. The exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a driver with the advisory safety speed according to the speed information, the... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110272161 | Windowed Statistical Analysis For Anomaly Detection In Geophysical Datasets Method for identifying geologic features from geophysical or attribute data using windowed principal component (22), or independent component, or diffusion mapping (61) analysis. Subtle features are made identifiable in partial or residual data volumes. Th... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110257932 | METHOD FOR DETECTING VARIANCE IN SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSES A method of detecting variance by regression model has the following steps. Step 1 is preparing the FDC data and WAT data for analysis. Step 2 is figuring out what latent variable effect of WAT data by Factor Analysis Step 3 is utilizing Principal Component Analysis to ... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110257894 | METHOD FOR DECONVOLVING SINGLE-MOLECULE INTENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS FOR QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS A method for quantifying fluorescent puncta comprising acquiring at least one first intensity distribution comprising fluorescence intensity values from a plurality of first fluorescent puncta; acquiring at least one second intensity distribution comprising fluorescence... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110257591 | VOLUME MONITORING FOR IMPLANTABLE FLUID DELIVERY DEVICES Unexpected changes in the volume of therapeutic fluid in the reservoir of a fluid delivery device are detected based on changes in the pressure of the reservoir measured over a period of time by a pressure sensor. Additionally, an ambulatory reservoir fluid volume gauge... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110251811 | METHOD TO DETERMINE A QUALITY ACCEPTANCE CRITERION USING FORCE SIGNATURES A method is provided to determine a quality acceptance criterion using force signatures measured on a first and a second set of elements. The first set has no quality defect and the second set has a deliberate quality defect. Selection of an initial subset of time point... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110251976 | COMPUTING CASCADED AGGREGATES IN A DATA STREAM A method for efficiently approximating cascaded aggregates in a data stream in a single pass over a dataset, with entries presented to the methodology in an arbitrary order includes receiving out-of-order data entries in the data stream, aggregating particular data entr... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110246108 | PRESENTATION OF UNBALANCE INFORMATION FOR ELECTRICAL ASSET MANAGEMENT Disclosed herein is an approach that presents unbalance information obtained from electrical assets in a manner that facilitates management of the electrical assets. In one aspect, a screen view is generated that provides a visual representation of the electrical assets... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246409 | DATA SET DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION PROCESSES AND MACHINES Provided in part herein are processes and machines that can be used to reduce a large amount of information into meaningful data and reduce the dimensionality of a data set. Such processes and machines can, for example, reduce dimensionality by eliminating redundant dat... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246134 | Real Time Statistical Triggers on Data Streams Logic analyzers and real-time spectrum analyzers use real-time statistical processes as a basis for creating a trigger. The statistical displays within a test and measurement system such as a Logic Analyzer (LA) or Spectrum Analyzer (SA) or other instrument are used in ... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246135 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND LOGIC FOR GENERATING STATISTICAL RESEARCH INFORMATION In one embodiment, a system for generating a statistical analysis output is disclosed. The system receives and processes input from a user to perform statistical analysis and generate an output. The input includes at least one statistical variable from a plurality of st... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110231144 | PHYSICAL AMOUNT MEASURING DEVICE AND PHYSICAL AMOUNT MEASURING METHOD It is possible to rapidly or highly accurately estimate a highly reliable offset according to situations and improve further the reliability of the estimated offset even if a measurement data is not obtained in a space in which the magnitude of a vector physical quantit... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110231132 | Systems And Methods For Baseline Correction Using Non-Linear Normalization Systems and methods are provided for calibrating emission data or other information signals collected during a polymerase chain reaction (PCR), amplification reaction, assay, process, or other reaction. Calibration of multiple detectable materials can be achieved during... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110224947 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING, INFERRING STATE OF HEALTH, AND OPTIMIZING EFFICIENCY OF REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS Systems and method for operating and monitoring refrigerators are described. Temperature cycles within the compartment are characterized using statistical, frequency and pattern analysis techniques to derive a steady-state characteristic of temperature within the compar... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110218768 | Sequential Sensing Scheme for Cognitive Radio Based on a Block of Received Samples A method and system for determining whether a given electromagnetic frequency is in use includes applying a transformation to an amplitude of received samples, adjusting the transformed samples by a constant based on a minimum detection signal-to-noise ratio; combining ... | 09/08/2011 |
