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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7106439 | Elementary analysis device by optical emission spectrometry on laser produced plasma This device comprises a pulsed laser source (6), means (8, 10, 12) for focusing light from this source onto an object to be analysed (2) to produce plasma on the surface of the object, means (16, 18) of analyzing a plasma radiation spectr... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7103401 | Colonic polyp discrimination by tissue fluorescence and fiberoptic probe A system and method for the in situ discrimination of healthy and diseased tissue. A fiberoptic based probe is employed to direct ultraviolet illumination onto a tissue specimen and to collect the fluorescent response radiation. The response radiation is observed at... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7099529 | Flexible band tunable filter A flexible band tunable filter design is disclosed which is capable of selecting any single channel or multiple of adjacent channels in a waveband of an optical signal in an optical communication network. The flexible band tunable filter has particular application i... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7099004 | Digital spectral identifier-controller and related methods A portable high speed, low cost, wide spectrum light scanning unit with an aiming device for receiving reflected light from an object and diffracting the light into segments of wavelengths and a linear sensor array having elements positioned to receive the segments ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7097450 | Methods for determining color or shade information of a dental object using an image generation device without operator identification of the position of a reference implement in the field of view of the image generation device Color measuring systems and methods such as for determining the color or other characteristics of teeth are disclosed. Perimeter receiver fiber optics are spaced apart from a central source fiber optic and receive light reflected from the surface of the object/tooth... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7099365 | Oscillation method and device of fluorine molecular laser An oscillation method and a device of fluorine molecular laser with narrow spectral line width are provided. For this purpose, the device includes main electrodes (14, 15) for performing main discharge (50) in substantially a same direction as an optic... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7095032 | Focusing of microscopes and reading of microarrays Microscopes, including viewing and other microscopic systems, employ a hinged, tiltable plate to adjust focus on a flat object such as a microscope slide or biochip by motion, achieved by tilting, which is substantially normal to the focus point on the plane of the ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7092085 | Sample holder with intense magnetic field The present invention is directed to a sample holder that generates an intense magnetic field for inducing a signal proportional to the magnetic field in a molecular sample while enabling the simultaneous exposure of the sample to one or more measurement light beams... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7089782 | Polishing head test station A test station for testing polishing heads for planarizing semiconductor wafers and other substrates has a head positioning control system which can precisely position the polishing head at one of many electronically controlled positions above the test station platf... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7088446 | Optical measurement of the chemical constituents of an opaque slurry An opaque slurry chemical constituent measurement system includes a cross-flow or membrane filter having a porous filter element connected between a global slurry loop and a spectrometer. The opaque slurry particles cannot pass through the filter element but pass th... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7087901 | High speed analyzer using near infrared radiation transmitted through thick samples of optically dense materials The present invention relates to an instrument for measuring in relatively short periods of time concentrations of constituents in optically dense materials using the spectra near infrared radiation transmitted through thick samples of the material while the materia... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7087877 | Auto focus for a flow imaging system A pair of optical gratings are used to modulate light from an object, and the modulated light from either grating is used to determine the velocity of the object. Each optical grating is offset from a reference focal point by the same distance, one grating being off... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7087732 | Nucleotides and analogs having photoremovable protecting groups A synthetic strategy for the creation of large scale chemical diversity. Solid-phase chemistry, photolabile protecting groups, and photolithography are used to achieve light-directed spatially-addressable parallel chemical synthesis. Binary masking techniques are ut... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7087561 | Cleaning composition useful in semiconductor integrated circuit fabrication A composition for use in semiconductor processing wherein the composition comprises water, phosphoric acid, and an organic acid; wherein the organic acid is ascorbic acid or is an organic acid having two or more carboxylic acid groups (e.g., citric acid). The water ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7084973 | Variable binning CCD for spectroscopy An apparatus includes a source of spectral light indicative of a sample to be measured, a camera to sense a spectrum, and a chromatic dispersion device to spatially separate light from the sample to be measured into the spectrum. The camera includes a sensor and con... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7081955 | Photodetector and spectrometer using the same A spectrometer is configured by using a photodetector 1B which comprises a semiconductor substrate 10 having an upper surface 10a, a photodiode array 11 having a plurality of photodiodes 12 aligned on the upper surface 10... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7080912 | High-resolution, all-reflective imaging spectrometer An imaging spectrometer includes an all-reflective objective module that receives an image input and produces an objective module output at an exit slit, and an all-reflective collimating-and-imaging module that receives the objective module output as an objective-e... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7079708 | Method and apparatus for correcting crosstalk and spatial resolution for multichannel imaging A multichannel imaging system generates an ensemble of images for each field of view of an object. Each image in the ensemble is intended to contain information from only one source among a plurality of sources for the object. However, due to crosstalk, at least a p... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079241 | Spatial positioning of spectrally labeled beads Devices, systems, kits, and methods for detecting and/or identifying a plurality of spectrally labeled bodies well-suited for performing multiplexed assays. By spectrally labeling the beads with materials which generate identifiable spectra, a plurality of beads may... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7078696 | Microspectrometer system with selectable aperturing Mirror elements are selectively interposable in the beam paths in a dual aperture microspectrometer system to selectively bypass the aperture element in transmission or reflection modes to increase optical throughput and field of view. The system may be operated in ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7075963 | Tunable laser with stabilized grating A line-narrowing module for a laser includes a prism beam expander and a grating preferably attached to a heat sink. A pressure-controlled enclosure filled with an inert gas seals the grating and/or other elements of the line-narrowing module. The pressure in the en... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7075716 | Arrangement for spectrally sensitive reflected-light and transmitted-light microscopy The arrangement for spectrally sensitive reflected-light and transmitted-light microscopy comprises an illuminating device which illuminates a sample under study in two dimensions. A scanning device is provided which respectively directs the light emanating from a d... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7075644 | Depolarizer and spectroscope and polychromater A depolarizer includes a second birefringent plate having a thickness which continuously changes in a direction of an optical axis of the second birefringent plate; and a third birefringent plate having a thickness which continuously changes in a direction of 45 deg... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7075643 | System for distributing and controlling color reproduction at multiple sites In the color imaging system, multiple rendering devices are provided at different nodes along a network. Each rendering device has a color measurement instrument for calibrating the color presented by the rendering device. A rendering device may represent a color di... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7072041 | System and method for optical spectrum fast peak reporting A system and method for fast peak finding in an optical spectrum prioritizes the information it first generates and how the information is then forwarded from the system to a host computer, for example. A spectrum detection subsystem generates a spectrum of an optic... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7069186 | Method for remotely controlling a spectral measurement device utilizing predicted service life or a remotely provided software upgrade including color reference or shade guide data Optical characteristic measuring systems and methods such as for determining the color or other optical characteristics of teeth are disclosed. Perimeter receiver fiber optics preferably are spaced apart from a source fiber optic and receive light from the surface o... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7068903 | Optical element using one-dimensional photonic crystal and spectroscopic device using the same An optical element, composed of an one-dimensional photonic crystal of a triangular prism shape and a multilayer film and a phase modulation unit are used together, with the phase modulation unit adjacent or abutting to a light input end surface of the optical eleme... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7068825 | Scanning system and calibration method for capturing precise three-dimensional information of objects A scanning system includes a hand-held scanning device that generates two-dimensional images of a pattern reflected off an object. The system also includes a memory and processing unit. The memory stores a calibration table for the scanner and received scanned bitma... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7068817 | Method for on-line machine vision measurement, monitoring and control of product features during on-line manufacturing processes A method for extracting feature information from product images using multivariate image analysis based on Principal Component Analysis (PCA) which is used to develop predictive models for feature content and distribution on the imaged product. The imaging system is... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7068369 | Apparatus for measuring fruit properties including a function for automatically controlling the intensity of light from a light source An apparatus for measuring fruit properties, in order to classify fruit according to internal qualities, measures the sweetness of a fruit sample using near-infrared spectroscopy. The apparatus includes a pair of waveguides (12), a pair of optic emitter/senso... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7068368 | Two-side multiple lamp online inner part inspection apparatus An internal qualities inspection system having a receiving tray for placing an inspecting object thereon with a receiving seat and a transmission light passage formed in the receiving tray is arranged to detect light transmitted through the object from below the rec... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7067836 | Confocal scanner system and method A radiation image that has been stored in an image plate (19), such as a photostimulable phosphor screen is read by stimulating an information-bearing target area (13) with stimulating light (1). The information bearing target area responds to t... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7067819 | Systems and methods for measurement or analysis of a specimen using separated spectral peaks in light A system configured for measurement of a specimen is provided. The system includes an optical subsystem configured to perform measurements of the specimen. The optical subsystem includes a light source that is configured to generate light having a relatively large n... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7067466 | Cleaning composition useful in semiconductor integrated circuit fabrication A composition for use in semiconductor processing wherein the composition comprises water, phosphoric acid, and an organic acid; wherein the organic acid is ascorbic acid or is an organic acid having two or more carboxylic acid groups (e.g., citric acid). The water ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7067465 | Cleaning composition useful in semiconductor integrated circuit fabricating A composition for use in semiconductor processing wherein the composition comprises water, phosphoric acid, and an organic acid; wherein the organic acid is ascorbic acid or is an organic acid having two or more carboxylic acid groups (e.g., citric acid). The water ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7067436 | Method of forming silicon oxide film and forming apparatus thereof In a method of forming a silicon oxide film, the silicon oxide film is formed on a substrate by the use of a plasma CVD method. A plasma-generating region is separated from a deposition region which includes excitation oxygen molecules and excitation oxygen atoms. P... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7064823 | Consumable tube for use with a flow cytometry-based hematology system The present invention is a flow cytometry-based hematology system useful in the analysis of biological samples, particularly whole blood or blood-derived samples. The system is capable of determining at least a complete blood count (CBC), a five-part white blood cel... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7061606 | Near infrared chemical imaging microscope A chemical imaging system is provided which uses a near infrared radiation microscope. The system includes an illumination source which illuminates an area of a sample using light in the near infrared radiation wavelength and light in the visible wavelength. A multi... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7061607 | Engine spectrometer probe and method of use The engine spectrometer probe and method of using the same of the present invention provides a simple engine spectrometer probe which is both lightweight and rugged, allowing an exhaust plume monitoring system to be attached to a vehicle, such as the space shuttle. ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7061605 | Apparatus and method for high-throughput preparation and spectroscopic classification and characterization of compositions Systems and methods are described that allow the high-throughput preparation, processing, and study of arrays of samples, each of which comprises at least one compound. Particular embodiments of the invention allow a large number of experiments to be performed in pa... | 06/13/2006 |
