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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7986411 | Imaging of a turbid medium An imaging system for imaging of a turbid medium comprises a radiation source to illuminate an object to be imaged. A detection system detects radiation from the object and includes a separation module which separates and distinguishes radiation components having re... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7961326 | Method of detecting the concentration of an analyte A system and method is provided for detecting concentration of an analyte in a fluid. The method comprises detecting an optical property of a first region of two or more regions in a system, the first region located in a container having a reservoir for one or more ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7961325 | Optical arrangement for determining the concentration of a substance in a fluid An arrangement for determining concentration of substances in a fluid comprising a light source (2) for generating primary light pulses within a wavelength interval, a light pulse splitter (5) adapted to split up the primary light pulses into a predete... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7855787 | Method of determining the pretilt angle in a liquid-crystal cell To determine the tilt angle in a twisted nematic liquid-crystal cell, the transmission of the cell is calculated as a function of the angle of incidence of a light beam of given wavelength λ using apparent values of the thickness of the cell cavity, of the extraord... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7609382 | System and method of detecting entangled photons A system and method of detecting entangled photon pairs, each pair including a signal photon and an idler photon, is disclosed. Entangled photon pairs are provided having an entanglement time and an entanglement area selected to substantially increase an associated ... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7414702 | Reverse logic optical acquisition system and method The present invention is a system and method of acquiring airborne objects utilizing a reverse logic algorithm. The system includes an optics component for detecting the intensity of light from a light source as well as determining the location of the light source. ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7375813 | Method and system for diffusion attenuated total reflection based concentration sensing A system for measuring light absorption levels for a liquid for use in a printing system includes a light source adapted to provide a divergent beam of light, a liquid container with a hole that acts as a focusing lens, and a prism disposed over the hole to split th... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7372572 | Device for photometrically measuring the concentration of a chemical substance in a solution to be measured An apparatus for photometric measurement of the concentration of a chemical substance in a solution, wherein a cuvette is provided containing the solution The cuvette is transmissive at least in predetermined regions for electromagnetic radiation, wherein a transmit... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7355699 | Optical detector for a particle sorting system An optical system for acquiring fast spectra from spatially channel arrays includes a light source for producing a light beam that passes through the microfluidic chip or the channel to be monitored, one or more lenses or optical fibers for capturing the light from ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7347971 | Spreading layers and their use in test strips A spreading material is described which comprises a porous flat-shaped structure impregnated with a wetting agent, wherein the wetting agent is N-oleoyl-sarcosinate. ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7330262 | Methods and apparatus for determining the content materials of a liquid employing a piston movable within a measuring chamber The contents of a liquid medium are determined using a light source and an optical detector, for example a spectrometer. A longitudinally displaceable piston sucks the medium into a cylindrical glass measuring chamber and evacuates the liquid from the chamber. At le... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7323085 | Basis weight of the liner in a fibrous web A method for determining the basis weight of a first ply of a fibrous web, which covers a second ply of the fibrous web including the steps of positioning an electromagnetic transmitter and an electromagnetic receiver, radiating the fibrous web, receiving a measurin... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7317532 | Flow sensing for determination of assay results An assay result reading device for reading the result of an assay performed using a liquid transport carrier may include at least one light source capable of emitting light incident upon at least one of two or more spatially separated zones of the carrier, a photode... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7315378 | Optical arrangement for assay reading device Disclosed, in one aspect, is an assay result reading device for reading the result of an assay performed using a test strip, the device comprising: a light source or sources, said light source/s emitting light incident upon at least two, spatially separated zones of... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7295319 | Method for measuring concentration of nitrogen dioxide in air by single-wavelength laser induced fluorescence method, and apparatus for measuring concentration of nitrogen dioxide by the method A method and apparatus for measuring the concentration of a trace nitrogen dioxide contained in the atmosphere on a pptv level with excellent accuracy by a single-wavelength laser induced fluorescence method. The device comprises a laser light source unit, a light e... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295318 | Apparatus and method for evaluating the interior quality of fruits and vegetables One form of evaluation apparatus comprising a plurality of light sources vertically arranged by one side of a carrier line in width direction Y perpendicular to carrying direction X of the carrier line; and a light-receiving section arranged by an opposite side of t... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7276380 | Transparent liquid inspection apparatus, transparent liquid inspection method, and transparent liquid application method The present invention provides a transparent liquid inspection apparatus capable of identifying a boundary between a transparent liquid applied on a base material which provides a multi-piece product and the base material, and automatically inspecting an applied con... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7271912 | Method of determining analyte concentration in a sample using infrared transmission data A method determines an analyte concentration in a sample. The sample includes the analyte and a substance. The method includes providing absorption data of the sample. The method further includes providing reference absorption data of the substance. The method furth... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7268881 | Light scattering detector The invention concerns high sensitivity light scattering detection and its application to evaporative light scattering detection in liquid chromatography. The exemplary embodiment includes a detection cell to accept particles suspended in a gas stream and permit a p... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7251033 | In-situ reticle contamination detection system at exposure wavelength A system and method are provided for detecting contaminants or defects on a reticle in-situ. The system and method provide a system that measures the optical transmission through clear areas on a reticle and determines whether the optical transmission of a reticle h... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7241399 | Synthesis of nanoparticles Methods for the preparation of inorganic nanoparticles capable of fluorescence, wherein the nanoparticles consist of a host material that comprises at least one dopant. The synthesis of the invention in organic solvents allows to gain a considerably higher yield com... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7242479 | Gas sensors The present invention relates to a device for accomplishing noise reduction in a photoacoustic gas detector using a sound damping element and/or a background or reference microphone where a preferably larger external volume that acts as a sound damping element (SDE)... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7223503 | Method for repairing opaque defects on semiconductor mask reticles A method is disclosed for repairing an opaque defect on a mask substrate. After examining one or more opaque patterns in a predetermined area of the mask substrate, at least one opaque defect in the opaque patterns is identified based on a difference between its lig... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7220387 | Disposable sensor for use in measuring an analyte in a gaseous sample The present invention is a disposable sensor for use with a device that quantifies analytes in a gaseous sample. It comprises (i) a sensing element, (ii) a means for interfacing the disposable sensor with a gas analysis device, and (iii) a housing. When used with a ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7195923 | Ratiometric determination of glycated protein The present invention provides methods for determining a ratio of an amount of a glycated form of a protein to a total amount of the protein in a sample containing the glycated protein, the glycosylated protein, or the glycoprotein. The method incorporates lateral f... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7180595 | Gas detection method and gas detector device A gas detector device comprises at least a VCSEL source (34, 36) and at least a light sensor (54, 56) for detecting a light beam (50, 52) having passed through a sample chamber (48) containing a given gas to be detected. The sensor is a p... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7170609 | Sensor systems and methods for quantification of physical parameters, chemical and biochemical volatile and nonvolatile compounds in fluids A system and method employing optical disc drives for quantitative analysis of physical, chemical and biochemical parameters are provided. The system including a disc drive for supporting and rotating an optical disc including at least one sensor spot; a light sourc... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7154593 | Method and apparatus for measuring blood sugar In a method for the measurement of the concentration of a substance in a liquid, especially for blood sugar measurement, the liquid to be measured is applied to the measuring field of a test strip, which measuring field is composed of a hydrophilic material, and the... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7151603 | Overhead transparency clarity simulator A method and apparatus for evaluating the scattering properties of a transparency image comprises projecting radiation through the transparency image to form a transmitted beam of radiation; splitting the transmitted beam of radiation into at least two distinct beam... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7151606 | Method for evaluation of vegetables and fruits and evaluation apparatus therefor One form of evaluation apparatus comprising a plurality of light sources vertically arranged by one side of a carrier line in width direction Y perpendicular to carrying direction X of the carrier line; and a light-receiving section arranged by an opposite side of t... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7130055 | Use of coefficient of a power curve to evaluate a semiconductor wafer A coefficient of a function that relates a measurement from a wafer to a parameter used in making the measurement (such as the power of a beam used in the measurement) is determined. The coefficient is used to evaluate the wafer (e.g. to accept or reject the wafer f... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7113875 | Humoral testing unit and a humoral testing apparatus A plurality of different kinds of reagents are supported at different positions on a reagent layer. A humoral testing apparatus irradiates measuring light which has a wavelength adapted to one of the plurality of the reagent areas which forms a color, and detects th... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7107852 | Method of inspecting food stuffs and/or associated packaging A system to perform measurements on liquids, meat, viscous sugar or starch-based materials, and other foodstuffs using air-coupled ultrasound is provided. The technique uses ultrasonic transducers (advantageously capacitive transducers with polymer membranes), to ge... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7091869 | Optoacoustic measuring arrangement and use thereof The measuring arrangement contains a measuring cell and a reference cell, respectively, and microphones assigned to these cells, to which microphones an electronic evaluation circuit is connected and in which a subtraction of the signals of the microphones takes pla... | 08/15/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7067812 | Multispectral selective reflective Lidar A multispectral selective reflection Lidar system generates alternating pulses of at least two wavelengths and senses returns for determining the presence of a predetermined material absorbing and reradiating one wavelength as selective reflections, but not the othe... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7069191 | Methods for reducing the susceptibility of a peak search to signal noise A method to minimize noise is used to analyze data generated from a measurement system such as a flow cytometer. One embodiment of a computer-implemented method includes determining sums of different subsets of sample values. The method also includes determining the... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7064833 | Double path microdrop optical biometric system A double path microdrop optical biometric system comprises a micro container, a corner cube array, a collimator, a beam splitting device, a light source selector, a detector and a signal comparator unit. It utilizes the beam to penetrate a specimen with specific col... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7061608 | Apparatus and method for calibration of spectrophotometers An apparatus and related method for optical calibration of spectrophotometers is described. The apparatus is a calibration plate including one or more cuvettes filled with solutions of interest. The cuvettes are sealed to prevent evaporation. The cuvettes also posse... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7034943 | Gas sensors The present invention relates to a device for accomplishing noise reduction in a photoacoustic gas detector using a sound damping element and/or a background or reference microphone where a preferably larger external volume that acts as a sound damping element (SDE)... | 04/25/2006 |
