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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8180575 | Process and system for on-line and in situ counting of cells in a biological culture medium A process for on-line and in situ counting of cells in a biological culture medium, including a plurality of steps of measuring the capacitance of the medium or a plurality of steps of measuring the conductance of the medium, at distinct frequencies varying within a... | 05/15/2012 |
| 7957915 | Process of statistic validation of corneal endothelial cells analysed samples Process of statistic validation of corneal endothelial cells analysed samples”, refers to a process complementary to the conventional process known as cornea specular microscopy, by incorporating information obtained by currently available apparatuses, inferring t... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7930110 | Method and device for biomass determination in a medium, in particular a medium containing biological cells, and measurement apparatus implementing same Method for biomass determination in a medium, in particular a medium containing biological cells suspended in a conductive fluid, the biomass concentration (X) being obtained from a difference between a first capacitance signal (C′1) of the medium, measured... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7853411 | System for cell-based screening The present invention provides systems, methods, and screens to measure receptor internalization in a single step with appropriate automation and throughput. This approach involves luminescent labeling of the receptor of interest and the automated measurement of rec... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7788045 | Systems and method for homeostatic blood states Decades of investigations were focused on finding “gold standard” for evaluation of plasma dilution and osmolality, blood loss evaluation and prediction of bleeding or transfusion induced changes in hematocrit and hemoglobin concentration. Addressing deficiencie... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7711495 | Methods for automatically identifying microorganisms collected on a carrier For automatic identification of microorganisms collected on a carrier, a color image of the carrier surface with collected microorganisms is recorded and digitalized. The digitalized image is converted into a grayscale image and optionally converted subsequently int... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7539580 | Method and apparatus for detecting artifactual output from a chemical analyzer A computer implemented method for examining data from a chemical analyzer for artifactual results is provided. A set of rules are established to identify artifactual results based upon experience with the analyzer. Each rule can be associated with a sample collectio... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7436522 | Method for determining the 3D coordinates of the surface of an object A method serves to determine the 3D coordinates of an object. The 3D coordinates of a partial surface (6) of the object are determined by a 3D measuring device (3), which includes one or more detectors (4) and whose position is determined by a t... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7430478 | Blood processing information system with blood loss equivalency tracking A blood component collection system with data manipulation and optimization capabilities. The system comprises a central database, a data manipulation device, and a communication subsystem connected to the central database and the data manipulation device, and one o... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7415144 | Cell observation device and cell observation method The cell observation device and method aims to easily study the correlation between initial states of cells and their reactions without using a synchronous culture method. For this purpose, the cell observation device includes an image acquisition unit acquiring an ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7412333 | Method for prognostic factor analysis regarding cancers A method for treating a patient with cancer includes the steps of obtaining cells from a cancerous tumor in the patient. Then there is the step of performing multiple correlated measurements on each cell to obtain cell data for each cell regarding each cell's place ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7395159 | Method, system and devices for converting venous blood values to arterial blood values A methodology for converting venous blood values to arterial blood values provides the advantage of obviating the need for taking arterial blood samples. The method entails (i) measuring arterial oxygenation, (ii) measuring and estimating values of venous blood acid... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7372566 | Cytometer A flow cytometer capable of forming a drop containing two or more particles comprising: (a) means (38) for moving particles in a liquid flow stream (35); (b) detector or analyser means (46A, 46B) adapted to detect or analyse particles in ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373557 | Performance monitor for data processing systems A portable scalable performance monitoring system is provided for monitoring the performance of one or more data processing systems in real time. The portable scalable performance monitoring system may include data capture and control mechanisms such as data samplin... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369696 | Classification of cells into subpopulations using cell classifying data A method of classifying cells into subpopulations using cell classifying data is described. The method comprises receiving and analyzing image data to identify object areas in the image data to determine, for at least one selected first cell, one or more measurement... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369304 | Cytological autofocusing imaging systems and methods The present invention relates to the analysis of specimens. Specifically, the invention relates to methods and apparatus for reviewing specimen slides, including apparatus for holding the slides. The invention also relates to an automatic focusing method for an imag... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7364563 | Continuous volume detection for a flexible venous reservoir in a cardiopulmonary bypass circuit A continuous volume detection system for a flexible venous reservoir in a cardiopulmonary bypass circuit is described. The volume detection system is based on a pressure measurement that is manipulated via application of fluid mechanics. Next-generation cardiopulmon... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7354415 | Extra-corporeal blood processing method and apparatus based on donor characteristics Methods and apparatus particularly involving the separation of blood into blood components and the collection of such components are disclosed. In one aspect, an extra-corporeal method for the collection of plasma and red blood cells is provided, wherein the collect... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355696 | Method and apparatus for sorting cells Apparatus for sorting and orienting sperm cells has a pair or walls in confronting relationship forming a flow chamber having inlet, a downstream outlet, and intermediate detector region. The inlet receives first and second spaced apart streams of input fluid and a ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7330793 | Method for searching heterogeneous compound databases using topomeric shape descriptors and pharmacophoric features Heterogeneous compound databases can be searched for compounds which are likely to have the same biological activity as a known (query) molecule. Query molecules and the molecules in the database are split into fragments according to common fragmentation rules. Frag... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7328206 | Extensions for adding and removing calculated members in a multidimensional database Systems, clients, servers, methods, and computer-readable media of varying scope are described in which, two extensions for a multidimensional database query language extensions, AddCalculatedMembers and StripCalculatedMembers, allow an OLAP client to easily control... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327867 | Methods for recognizing nucleus area and constructing cell lineage A cell lineage can be constructed in a less labor intensive manner and in less time by using a computer. Areas, which are misidentified as nuclei, are efficiently removed. The invention comprises the steps of: selecting one or more nuclei for making a forward link f... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324694 | Fluid sample analysis using class weights Most automatic particle classification methods produce errors. The invention provides a method for improving the accuracy of particle classification while shortening the amount of manual review time required from the operator. The method uses class weights, which ar... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7300800 | Analyte detection system An analyte detection system utilizing a combination of fluorescent labels for labeling particles and an analyte specific fluorescent analyte detection dye. The particles contain a combination of fluorescent labels for coding the particles and an analyte specific flu... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7299135 | Methods for identifying discrete populations (e.g., clusters) of data within a flow cytometer multi-dimensional data set Systems and methods for identifying populations of events in a multi-dimensional data set are described. The populations may, for example, be sets or clusters of data representing different white blood cell components in sample processed by a flow cytometer. The met... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7294307 | Apparatus for pumping and directing fluids for hematology testing An apparatus is provided for hematology testing, which has a sensing unit defining a counting orifice for the flow of a blood sample through the counting orifice to analyze the blood sample, and a pump unit having three syringes. A first syringe is coupled in fluid ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7282723 | Methods and apparatus for processing spectral data for use in tissue characterization The invention provides methods for processing tissue-derived spectral data for use in a tissue classification algorithm. Methods of the invention comprise application of spectral and/or image masks for automatically separating ambiguous or unclassifiable spectral da... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7269278 | Extracting shape information contained in cell images Methods and apparatus are provided for the analysis of images of cells and extraction biologically-significant shape-related features from the cell images. The extracted features may be correlated with particular conditions induced by biologically-active agents with... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7267798 | Multi-analyte diagnostic system and computer implemented process for same A multi-analyte diagnostic system for use with a computer. The diagnostic system includes a flow analyzer including a co-planar light source-optical detector array, the flow analyzer being communicatable with the computer. The diagnostic system also includes a memor... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7248972 | Computer code for portable sensing The present invention relates to a computer program product or code in memory for detecting and transmitting sensory data from a portable field device 10 to a processor 12 via a computer network 10 for analytic purposes. The product includes a c... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7228237 | Automatic threshold setting and baseline determination for real-time PCR The invention discloses a system and methods for quantitating the presence of nucleic acid sequences by evaluation of amplification data generated using real-time PCR. In one aspect, the methods may be adapted to identify a threshold and threshold cycle for one or m... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7212670 | Method of feature identification and analysis A method for efficiently and accurately inventorying image features such as timber, including steps of segmenting digital images into tree stands, segmenting tree stands into tree crowns, each tree crown having a tree crown area, classifying tree crowns based on spe... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7208571 | In vivo production of cyclic peptides The present invention relates ti methods and compositions utilizing inteins to generated libraries of cyclic peptides in vivo. ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7181267 | Electronically scanned coherence tomography with frequency modulated signals An improved Optical Coherence Domain Reflectometry (OCDR) system is provided. One embodiment of this OCDR system outputs a detector signal carrying image depth information on multiple modulation frequencies, where each modulation frequency corresponds to a different... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7171030 | Systems for analyzing microtissue arrays A tissue microarray imaging system autonomously images, analyzes, and stores data for samples in a tissue microarray. The system may include a tissue microarray, a robotic microscope, and an imaging workstation that executes software to automatically control operati... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7165060 | Information access, collaboration and integration system and method The present invention provides a computer implemented collaboration system and method for accessing multiple domain data sources and allowing data from those sources to be analyzed and manipulated within a multi-user distributed environment where all visualization, ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7158660 | Method and apparatus for detecting structures of interest A method to detect a structure of interest includes shading a target from ambient light. A first plurality of images is acquired from the target. Background in the first plurality of images is reduced to minimize or eliminate brightness variation in the images and t... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7157293 | Method for making a semiconductor light emitting device A method for making a semiconductor light emitting device comprises the steps of: (a) forming a plurality of buttresses on a first supporting substrate such that the buttresses are separated by a plurality of intercommunicated spaces thereamong; (b) forming a base l... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7142987 | Apparatus, system, and method of archival and retrieval of samples A sample archive method and system implement a plurality of sample carriers configured to support a plurality of sample nodes in a predetermined spatial relationship, sample storage devices for selectively placing the plurality of sample carriers in an archive, and ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7143392 | Hyperbolic tree space display of computer system monitoring and analysis data A method for displaying a computer system runtime information includes the steps of displaying a plurality of runtime information items in different hyperbolic trees. The method further comprises the steps of navigating and inspecting runtime information within each... | 11/28/2006 |
