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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190370 | Change management of process flow descriptions A computer-implemented method for managing change of sets of processing information that describe a process flow includes receiving a first activity description describing a first activity for performing a process flow, receiving a first formula description describi... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190373 | Methods for identifying DNA copy number changes Methods of identifying allele-specific changes in genomic DNA copy number are disclosed. Methods for identifying homozygous deletions and genetic amplifications are disclosed. An array of probes designed to detect presence or absence of a plurality of different sequ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190371 | Methods and applications for target quantification The present invention provides methods and software applications for quantifying a target in an experimental sample by collecting and processing initial signal data from the experimental sample and at least two standard control samples containing known target copy n... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190372 | Sensor device for and a method of sensing magnetic particles A sensor device for sensing magnetic particles, the sensor device including a substrate and a sensing unit provided on and/or in and/or near the substrate. The sensing unit is configured to sense a detection signal indicative of the presence of the magnetic particle... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185320 | Systems and methods for automated analysis of cells and tissues Systems and methods for rapidly analyzing cell containing samples, for example to identify morphology or to localize and quantitate biomarkers are disclosed. ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185319 | Method of compensation of dose-response curve of an assay for sensitivity to perturbing variables Assays and methods of compensating for changes in a dose-response curve of an assay due to variations in a perturbing variable by firstly measuring the dose-response curve, the individual assay parameters, at different values of the perturbing variable. Next, unknow... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185321 | Method for predicting interaction between protein and chemical The present invention provides a method for configuring a pattern recognizer using versatile, readily available data, comprehensive protein data, and comprehensive chemical data, as well as a method for predicting an unknown interaction of a pair by using the patter... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185318 | Method of compensation of dose-response curve of an assay for sensitivity to perturbing variables The present invention provides assays and methods of compensating for changes in an assay where such changes are due to variations in a perturbing variable. This is achieved by a two-step method, the first step of which involves measurements of the dose-response cur... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185317 | Method and system of determining the stain quality of slides using scatter plot distribution Methods, systems, and computer software for determining the stain quality of a plurality of biological specimens. A number of objects of interest are identified in a biological specimen. A first feature of each object of interest (e.g., nuclear area) and a second fe... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185322 | User interface improvements for medical devices A method and system is disclosed for operating a medical device with or without a cassette in place. A method is disclosed for adding additional VTBI to an ongoing infusion without stopping the infusion and with maintaining the infusion parameters. A method and syst... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180574 | Simplified peritoneal equilibration test for peritoneal dialysis A simplified peritoneal equilibration test (S-PET) is disclosed. Instead of a lengthy peritoneal equilibration test (PET), the simplified procedure requires no blood sample and may use data from as few as two or three samples to classify a peritoneal membrane of a u... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180572 | High-resolution melting analysis The present invention relates to methods and systems for the analysis of the dissociation behavior of nucleic acids and the identification of nucleic acids. In one aspect, methods and systems are disclosed for resolving a denaturation curve of a sample containing a ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180573 | Sample processing apparatus, method of outputting processing result by sample processing apparatus, and computer program product Disclosed is a sample processing apparatus, comprising: a sample processing unit for processing a sample with an auxiliary item used to process the sample; an output device for outputting a processing result by the sample processing unit; and a controller for determ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175809 | Fluorescence analyzing method, fluorescence analyzing apparatus and image detecting method A fluorescence analyzing method includes the steps of irradiating a board, to which oligonucleotide is fixed, with light for fluorescence measurement; focusing produced fluorescence to form an image; and detecting the fluorescence with a two-dimensional sensor. Here... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175813 | Computational methods for synthetic gene design The present invention is drawn to methods for designing synthetic nucleotide sequences encoding polypeptides of interest. The methods involve organizing a database of sequences as a set of N-length oligomer sequences and compiling a list of probability scores for ea... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175810 | Sample processing apparatus and sample processing method A sample processing apparatus prevents samples and reagents from being degraded due to a prolonged waiting time other than for reaction and improves the operation efficiency of the apparatus. The apparatus includes a plurality of processing sections for causing at l... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175808 | Method for determining disease treatment duration Techniques for determining optimal duration for treatment of disease include receiving an untreated series of measurements and a treated series of measurements. The untreated series indicates temporal progression of a physical property related to a disease while the... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175814 | Synthetic microfluidic microvasculature network A synthetic microfluidic microvasculature network and associated methods mimic the structure, fluid flow characteristics, and physiological behavior of physiological microvasculature networks. Computational methods for simulating flow and particle adherence in synth... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175811 | Scientist domain-centric user interface and enabling “soft” Translation The scientist domain-centric user interface system may prompt the user to supply scientist-centric information expressed utilizing terminology of a scientific domain, such as biology or analytical chemistry. A translation system then generates control parameters to ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175812 | Method, system, and computer program product for calculating daily weighted averages of glucose measurements (or derived quantities) with time-based weights A method and system for calculating daily weighted averages of glucose measurements (or derived quantities) with time-based weights are disclosed. The present invention computes an average daily glucose value using the time based weights based on only consecutive gl... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170805 | Method for selecting statistically validated candidate genes Provided herein are methods for evaluating associations between candidate genes and a trait of interest in a population. The methods include a combination of genome-wide association analysis and one or more of nested association mapping (NAM), expression QTL analysi... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170806 | Methods of populating data structures for use in evolutionary simulations In particular, this invention provides novel methods of populating data structures for use in evolutionary modeling. In particular, this invention provides methods of populating a data structure with a plurality of character strings. The methods involve encoding two... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170803 | Transcutaneous analyte sensor The present invention relates generally to systems and methods for measuring an analyte in a host. More particularly, the present invention relates to systems and methods for evaluating sensor data from a continuous analyte sensor including receiving first and secon... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170807 | Managing body composition Among other things, at least two different independent providers of body composition management services are enabled to have online access through respective graphical user interfaces to body composition information and plans that are associated with respective clie... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8168568 | Combinatorial therapy for protein signaling diseases A method for selecting combinations of drugs for treatment of diseases that arise from deranged signaling pathways is disclosed. The method involves measuring the activity states for signaling proteins in a diseased cell and determining whether the activity states a... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170804 | Determination of melting temperatures of DNA Numerical determinations of the first derivatives of a melt curve data set are made. A model function, such as a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) function, with parameters determined using a Levenberg-Marquardt (LM) regression process is used to find an approximation to... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165819 | Modeling wound healing Provided are methods of simulating tissue healing. The methods comprise using a mechanistic computer model of the interrelated effects of inflammation, tissue damage or dysfunction and tissue healing to predict an outcome of healing of damaged tissue in vivo, thereb... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165820 | Methods and apparatus for performing retention-time matching A method for matching a precursor ion with one or more related product ions includes providing input data sets obtained from sample injections, each of the data sets including a precursor ion and one or more product ions, normalizing the input data sets in accordanc... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165821 | System and methods for indel identification using short read sequencing Systems, methods, and analytical approaches for short read sequence assembly and for the detection of insertions and deletions (indels) in a reference genome. A method suitable for software implementation is presented in which indels may be readily identified in a c... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165818 | Method and apparatus for searching molecular structure databases I describe several methods for organizing databases of molecular structures and searching such structures. Also described are methods for characterizing molecules based on the shapes of their fields that can be used in conjunction with the methods of organizing and ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165822 | Reverse progeny mapping Provided is a method for mapping traits in organisms, in particular in plants. The method comprises a) providing a population of SDR-0 organisms, in particular plants, that each arise from one member of a population of unreduced cells resulting from second division ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160817 | Method for determining the resistance of the respiratory system of a patient A method for automatically determining the resistance of the respiratory system of a spontaneously breathing intubated patient. The method includes measuring flow (V′) and airway pressure (Paw)) as a function of time; determining the airway pressure at the end of ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160818 | System and method for determining clinical equivalence of test methods A system, method and computer readable medium of instructions are provided which are useful for determining whether an evaluation testing method or device is clinically equivalent to a reference testing method or device. The report can include a modified mean differ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155888 | Method and apparatus for assessing polypeptide aggregation A method of determining aggregation rate data predicting an aggregation rate of a polypeptide defined by an amino acid sequence, the method comprising determining a hydrophobicity value, a charge value, and at least one shape propensity value for said sequence; iden... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155886 | Automated clinical system to facilitate secondary review and authentication of clinical laboratory result values A method in a computer system for the review and authentication of clinical laboratory result values is provided. The method includes receiving patient data. The method also includes accessing review criteria. The method further includes comparing the patient data a... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155887 | Computer visualized drug interaction information retrieval Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for computer visualization of drugs for drug interaction information retrieval. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for computer visualization of drugs for drug intera... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150628 | Establishing a biological recording timeline by artificial marking A method and system are described for transmitting a timing estimate record responsive to a systemic flow of one or more artificial markers. ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150629 | Method and apparatus for computer modeling of the interaction between and among cortical and subcortical areas in the human brain for the purpose of predicting the effect of drugs in psychiatric and cognitive diseases Computer modeling of interactions between and among cortico and subcortical areas of the human brain, for example in a normal and a pathological state resembling schizophrenia which pathological state has inputs representing the effects of a drug(s), for the purpose... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150630 | Method for characterisation of the quality of sialoglycoproteins via an isoform number I A method is described for characterization of the quality of a sialoglycoprotein via its isoform number I which is calculated from the isoform distribution of the capillary electrophoretic analysis of the sialoglycoprotein and represents a quality feature for the ba... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150631 | Method, apparatus and system for quantifying the content of genetically modified material in a sample A method including providing an initial test sample including a primary material and a relatively smaller amount of at least one adventitious material; combining the initial test sample with a standard addition of at least one adventitious material to form a final t... | 04/03/2012 |
