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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185221 | Multifunction receiver-on-chip for electronic warfare applications What is provided is a receiver-on-a-chip comprising a monolithic integrated circuit that reduces the receiver to a cigarette-pack-sized assembly mountable directly at an antenna element, with a much-increased operational bandwidth and instantaneous bandwidth, increa... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8170699 | Metering system and method of operation A metering system for measuring the electrical power used to charge a vehicle is provided. The metering system includes an electrical meter operably coupled to a conductor connected to the vehicle and an electrical outlet. A controller receives signals from the mete... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8140386 | Delivery, organization, and redemption of virtual offers from the internet, interactive-TV, wireless devices and other electronic means Disclosed are methods and systems for redeeming virtual coupons by associating the coupons with a consumer and a payment system associated with the consumer. In some embodiments, the method includes distributing the enabled promotional offers, from one or more sourc... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8131388 | Electronic controller for power converter and motor drive circuit The electronic controller fetches an external signal and performs an input process such as A-D conversion. Upon receipt of processing results for executing operations according to a predetermined program, an output process is performed for sending a signal to the ou... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8116889 | Method, system, and computer program product for managing controlled residential or non-residential environments A control server, or similar central processor, manages the distribution of data (including audio and video), voice, and control signals among a plurality of devices connected via a wired and/or wireless communications network. The devices include audio/visual devic... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8103368 | Information processing system using nucleotide sequence-related information A system for processing information for providing semantic information and/or information associated with the semantic information useful for each individual organism through effective utilization of differences in nucleotide sequence-related information among indiv... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8060224 | Music genre judging device and game machine having the same A music genre judging device able to judge a genre of music in a relatively simple structure. The music genre judging device is provided with a signal input part 4 which takes in music reproduction signal outputted from a music reproduction device 1... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8036934 | Delivery, organization, and redemption of virtual offers from the internet, interactive-TV, wireless devices and other electronic means Disclosed are methods and systems for redeeming virtual coupons by associating the coupons with consumers' credit cards for redemption. In disclosed methods, coupon databases are associated with consumers and associated with the consumers' credit cards. Coupon offer... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7870021 | Delivery, organization, and redemption of virtual offers from the internet, interactive-TV, wireless devices and other electronic means Disclosed are methods and systems for redeeming virtual coupons by associating the coupons with consumers' credit cards for redemption. In disclosed methods, coupon databases are associated with consumers and associated with the consumers' credit cards. Coupon offer... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7818076 | Method and apparatus for multi-system remote surgical navigation from a single control center A system and method are provided for performing remote surgical navigation in multiple systems from a single control center, where there are at least two remote navigation systems in separate procedure rooms having respective control computers. The system includes a... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7792599 | Electrical field device for use in process automation In one aspect, an electric field device for use in process automation is provided to simplify supply of an electric field device located at an installation site in the process with information originating from its process environment. At least one transponder is arr... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7698005 | Reception device and management device of service advertisement information A transmission unit of an information processing device transmits user identification information which identifies users, a password, and device identification information which identifies the information processing device to a management device which manages the in... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7551971 | Operation ready transportable data center in a shipping container A movable data center is disclosed that comprises a portable container in which an operable computer system is assembled. A data link, power supply link and cooling system are provided through ports on the exterior of the container. The computer system is assembled ... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7542812 | Multifunction receiver-on-chip for electronic warfare applications What is provided is a receiver-on-a-chip comprising a monolithic integrated circuit that reduces the receiver to a cigarette-pack-sized assembly mountable directly at an antenna element, with a much-increased operational bandwidth and instantaneous bandwidth, increa... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7532942 | Method and apparatus for generating a technologist quality assurance scorecard The present invention provides a quality assurance system and method that generates a quality assurance (QA) scorecard for technologists that use digital devices in a radiological-based medical imaging study. According to one embodiment, client computers, servers, i... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7505822 | Optical interconnect structure in a computer system and method of transporting data between processing elements and memory through the optical interconnect structure A multi-chip processor/memory arrangement replacing a large computer chip, includes a number of modules each including processing elements, registers, and/or memories interconnected by an optical interconnection fabric providing an all-to-all interconnection between... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7477953 | Data processing system adapted to integrating non-homogeneous processes A data processing system comprises at least one resource manager (RM) for managing changes to respective system resources in accordance to a commit/backout protocol, and a resource manager coordinator (RMC) for coordinating the commit/backout activities of the at le... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7438855 | Apparatus for measuring glucose concentration An apparatus for measuring a glucose concentration is noninvasive, accurate, and compact. The apparatus includes a detection unit (10) and a principal component analysis (PCA) unit (20). The detection unit includes a light source (11) to emit mi... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437212 | Location based programming and data management in an automated environment A method and system for providing information related to a set of automated resources that may cooperate in an environment to perform an automated process, the method comprising the steps of associating a specific environment location with the automated process, det... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7428901 | Cooking stove A cooking stove that prevents the execution of a process such as ignition of a burner when a touch switch changes from a non-sensing state to a sensing state. In STEP201, when a first touch switch, which is one of the touch switches provided in an operation, ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7430453 | Remote replication of local actuator mode selection A system comprising a local site served by at least one remote site in digital logic communication therewith, the system further comprising mode selection logic including a hierarchy that prioritizes modes available at the local site. The hierarchical priority of a ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7422010 | Cooking stove A cooking stove that prevents a burner from being ignited when a touch switch shifts from a non-sensing to a sensing state. An operation portion having a touch switch is provided on a glass top plate of a cooking stove main body which accommodates burners. The touch... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7418283 | Adiabatic quantum computation with superconducting qubits A method for quantum computing using a quantum system comprising a plurality of qubits is provided. The system can be in any one of at least two configurations at any given time including one characterized by an initialization Hamiltonian HO and one chara... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7418303 | System for and method of customizing an animal feed based on nucleic acid material content A system for and method of determining a formulation for an animal feed having a customized nucleic acid material content. The system can include an animal profile, an animal nutrient requirement profile, an evaluation criteria, and/or ingredient nutrient content pr... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7412293 | Process control The invention relates to a method for process control, wherein at least one process device to be controlled is controlled by at least one process module and by at least one safety module, in that process signals not relevant to safety are transmitted to a local cont... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7412397 | System and method for forecasting demanufacturing requirements Demanufacturing workload is forecast based on anticipated volumes of equipment to be disassembled and/or salvaged, as well as equipment complexity factors determined by disassembly prototyping. Staffing requirements are unique for each customer and are based on the ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7409269 | Methods of analyzing the vibro-acoustic optimization potential and optimizing the vibro-acoustic behavior of a structure A method of analyzing the vibro-acoustic optimization potential of a structure of vibro-acoustically coupled subsystems having internal and coupling loss factors by means of statistical energy analysis (SEA). The method optimizes the vibro-acoustic behavior of the s... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7408548 | Triangulating procedural geometric objects A complex procedural surface can be expressed based on some constructive solid geometry operations performed on primitive procedural surfaces. The domain based representation of the complex procedural surface includes implicit curves of intersection. During pre-proc... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7400936 | Mechanism for rapidly installing and detaching hard disk The present invention is to provide a mechanism for rapidly installing and detaching a hard disk, comprising a U-shaped handle pivotally mounted at both sides of the hard disk and having a latch in a forward side, and a frame for receiving the hard disk having an el... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7398138 | Swimming pool and spa controller systems and equipment Systems for controlling aspects of recreational or other environments are described. Such systems are especially, but not exclusively, useful for controlling either or both of pool or spa settings and operations and include equipment that may be connected, in any ap... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7392165 | Simulation system for multi-node process control systems A simulation system attaches to a configuration database for one or more fully configured nodes of a process control system and copies the modules within those nodes into one or more simulation computers as simulation modules. The simulation system includes an algor... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7383156 | Apparatus for inspecting wafer surface, method for inspecting wafer surface, apparatus for judging defective wafer, method for judging defective wafer, and apparatus for processing information on wafer surface It is possible to inspect scratches and staining on a wafer surface on the basis of an LPD map obtained from a particle counter 11, by providing a means 21 for detecting aggregation of clustered point defects (LPD) from two-dimensional distribution inf... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7379778 | System and methods for home appliance identification and control in a networked environment A home control and automation system and method. The system generally includes one or more wireless remote controls, a plurality of appliances (including network enabled appliances and traditional legacy appliances in the exemplary system), associated control centri... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7375035 | Host and ancillary tool interface methodology for distributed processing A host and ancillary tool interface methodology for distributed processing is described. The host tool manages a process, except for the generation of a product used in the process. To generate the product, the host tool provides an indication to an ancillary tool t... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7370649 | Cooking stove A touch switch which prohibits a child from actuating heating means, while permitting a child to deactivate heating means. A cooking stove including an electrical capacitance operation switch 10 which switches the cooking stove between an operation state in w... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369912 | Batch execution engine with independent batch execution processes A process plant control system includes a batch execution engine that spawns or creates an individual batch process application in a separate application process space for each batch to be run within a process plant. The batch execution engine includes communication... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7364509 | Systems and methods for facilitating a wager Methods and systems of facilitating a wager include, a computer implemented method of facilitating a wager between players. The method may include receiving an initial offer from an initial player and a challenging offer from a challenging player. The initial and ch... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366972 | Dynamically mediating multimedia content and devices A mediator having at least a ranking component, a listening component, and a control component, selectively controls a group of devices from a plurality of network devices in a network environment to reproduce multimedia content. The mediator correlates the multimed... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7367018 | System and method for organizing and sharing of process plant design and operations data Computer method and apparatus for managing process and plant engineering data for chemical or other engineering processes across applications. The method and apparatus include a respective class view for each of multiple software applications, a composite class view... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363502 | Systems and methods for powering up controllers In one embodiment of the present invention, a system for powering up a controller is described. The system includes a power source, a heat generator adapted to receive power from the power source, and a controller adapted to receive power from the power source and a... | 04/22/2008 |
