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...that in 1800 ether was first used by partyers as a fun diversion? Sniffing the gas led to hilarious and raucous laughter as people watched each other become more and more intoxicated and silly. Several doctors independently realized the value ether would have to anesthetize surgery patients. Of those who claimed rights to the "discovery," none had a happy ending. One had a seizure and died defending his rights. Another spent his life in an asylum because he had been denied acclaim. A third became addicted to chloroform and, in a New York City jail, he soaked a cloth in the drug, severed an artery and bled to death.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7657328 | Device control system, device control method, and control program According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided with a device control system including: an acquiring unit which acquires a BML document which can be delivered in digital broadcasting; a BML interpreting unit which interprets a description describe... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7356536 | Optimized load prediction for security constrained unit commitment dispatch using linear programming for electricity markets The present invention is a method for optimizing security constrained unit commitment in the day ahead wholesale electricity market using mixed integer linear programming techniques. The wholesale electricity market uniquely requires the submission of offers to supp... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353201 | Security constrained unit commitment pricing optimization using linear programming for electricity markets The present invention is a method for optimizing security constrained unit commitment in the day ahead wholesale electricity market using mixed integer linear programming techniques. The wholesale electricity market uniquely requires the submission of offers to supp... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349883 | Optimized transmission and load security constrained unit commitment dispatch using linear programming for electricity markets The present invention is a method for optimizing security constrained unit commitment in the day ahead wholesale electricity market using mixed integer linear programming techniques. The wholesale electricity market uniquely requires the submission of offers to supp... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349882 | Optimized security constrained unit commitment dispatch using linear programming for electricity markets The present invention is a method for optimizing security constrained unit commitment in the day ahead wholesale electricity market using mixed integer linear programming techniques. The wholesale electricity market uniquely requires the submission of offers to supp... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349887 | Security constrained optimal dispatch for electricity markets The present invention is an apparatus for optimizing security constrained dispatch and pricing for the wholesale energy trading market. The imbalance market uniquely requires a real-time market for bidding and for providing the energy generation adjustments required... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7288921 | Method and apparatus for providing economic analysis of power generation and distribution An economic dispatch program optimally allocates load demand specifying real power and reactive power to be generated by a power plant among various power generators in a manner so that each of the power generators are operated within its optimal operating space as ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7181321 | Method and device for operating a multiple component technical system, particularly a combustion system for producing electrical energy In a technical system a plurality of values associated respectively with a component are stored in at least one computer unit. The computer unit is enabled to trigger an evaluation of at least one other component with a value when a component begins or terminates op... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7138989 | Display capable of displaying images in response to signals of a plurality of signal formats A display is capable of displaying images in response to signals of a plurality of signal formats. The display includes a controller that is coupled to a plurality of image data interfaces. When the plurality of image data interfaces are simultaneously operating, th... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7113839 | System for providing indexed machine utilization metrics A system and method for providing indexed work machine utilization data. The system implementing the method includes an operator identification device for identifying an operator of a work machine based on operator identification data and a work data collection devi... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7069159 | Electric power transmission network state estimation In a method, computer program and system for estimating a state of an electric power transmission network, time-stamped phasor measurements are made by phasor measurement units (1) located at a first set of locations (11,12) throughout the network, and... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7003593 | Computer system architecture and memory controller for close-coupling within a hybrid processing system utilizing an adaptive processor interface port A computer system architecture and memory controller for close-coupling within a hybrid computing system using an adaptive processor interface port (“APIP”) added to, or in conjunction with, the memory and I/O controller chip of the core logic. Memory accesses t... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6941175 | Method of operating an industrial controller Mechanisms for operating an industrial controller (S) equipped with a runtime system (RTS), in particular for production machines, which enable a user to wait in the program flow for any desired condition are provided, the program flow being immediately continued wh... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6865425 | State machine for a pulse output function At least one exemplary embodiment comprises a system comprising an arithmetic logic unit; a memory comprising a pre-computed table of target pulse widths, changes in pulse width, and pulse counts distributed according to a constrained semi-logarithmic distribution, ... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6584365 | Electronic trip device with offset correction means An electronic trip device including an analog measuring for measuring electrical signals, analog-to-digital conversion having an input connected to the analog measuring an output having a first output signal, a digital processing means connected to the co... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6493597 | Print monitoring system and method using slave signal processor/master processor arrangement A print monitoring system is disclosed using combination of analog signal processing circuits and signal processors on the slave processing boards to avoid the need for analog-to-digital converters and dedicated frame buffers between the slave processor a... | 12/10/2002 |
| 5784297 | Model identification and characterization of error structures in signal processing A method for finding a probability density function (PDF) and its statistical moments for an arbitrary exponential function of the form g(x)=xm e-ଲx.spsp.n,0-1 are real constant... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5778024 | Dual-mode communications processor A dual-mode communications processor disposed to be incorporated within a dual-mode communications device is disclosed herein. The dual-mode communications processor comprises a dual-mode voiceband signal processor having an input port for receiving digit... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5771174 | Distributed intelligence actuator controller with peer-to-peer actuator communication A distributed intelligence control system for controlling a cross direction profile characteristic of a traveling sheet, such as paper, during production, includes a scanner for measuring a property of the sheet at a plurality of cross direction locations... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5764288 | Analog processing element (APE) and related devices Disclosed is an analog processing element (APE) for the analog processing of charge packets present in an analog signal. The APE utilizes CCD-based elements in a semi-conductor device to move and process charge packets present in an analog signal. In one ... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5634067 | Systolic array processor A systolic array processor is provided which is adapted to virtually constitute a number of analog type pipelining processors which operate in a parallel manner on an analog type shift register array such as a CCD or the like. The processor is composed of... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5524217 | System having different signal transfer modes for detecting and restoring logical levels and blocking operation when restored signal outputs are on a predetermined level To enable wired-OR signal lines to be connected without interlock in a bus linkage unit for connecting the bus of a computer system with the bus of an expansion device or the bus of another computer system through a signal transfer path in which the signa... | 06/04/1996 |
| 5173949 | Confirmed boundary pattern matching A method of aligning two images of the same scene by matching features in a first image to features in a second image is disclosed. The method comprises edges of objects in the first image using two different processes. The edges identified using both pro... | 12/22/1992 |
| 5168530 | Confirmed boundary pattern matching A method of aligning two images of the same scene by matching features in a first image to features in a second image is disclosed. The method comprises identifying edges of objects in the first image using two different processes. The edges identified us... | 12/01/1992 |
| 5097158 | Digital noise feedthrough reducer and synchronizer for mixed-signal integrated circuit A solution to the problem of analog decision making in a "mixed-signal" integrated circuit removes pulses of the local clock from the analog decision trigger whenever chip select is active, thereby freezing the mixed-signal circuit while it is accessed.... | 03/17/1992 |
| 5052045 | Confirmed boundary pattern matching A method of aligning two images of the same scene by matching features in a first image to features in a second image is disclosed. The method comprises identifying edges of objects in the first image using two different processes. The edges identified us... | 09/24/1991 |
| 5027422 | Confirmed boundary pattern matching A method of aligning two images of the same scene by matching features in a first image to features in a second image is disclosed. The method comprises identifying edges of objects in the first image using two different processes. The edges identified us... | 06/25/1991 |
| 4613204 | D/A conversion apparatus including electrooptical multipliers Apparatus (FIG. 1) receives electrical input potentials (11A-11D) representing components, e.g. coefficients (zero or one), of weighted digital input data, and provides analog optical output (12) proportional to the sum of the weighted digital values in t... | 09/23/1986 |
| 4587470 | Multiplex control system A multiplex control system including a plurality of controllers, the main controller being arranged by hardware, while the subsidiary controller being accomplished by software. Each of the controllers has a PID operator for calculating the proportional, d... | 05/06/1986 |
| 4013877 | Combined cycle electric power plant with a steam turbine having an improved valve control system A combined cycle electric power plant includes two gas turbines, a steam turbine, and a digital control system with an analog or manual backup. Each of the gas turbines has an exhaust heat recovery steam generator connected to a common header from which t... | 03/22/1977 |
| 3956883 | Smooth and highly responsive gas turbine temperature limit control especially useful in combined cycle electric power plants A combined cycle electric power plant includes gas and steam turbines and steam generators and a digital/analog control system. An automatic digital portion of the control system functions with temperature and other detectors to provide temperature limit ... | 05/18/1976 |
