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| 8190376 | System and method for source identification for a chemical release A system for predicting a source location and release rate of a hazardous substance uses the basic knowledge of meteorological information (wind speed, direction, and stability) and two or more concentration measurements of the chemical released. Horizontal dispersi... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190375 | System and method for characterizing a chemical sample A method for characterizing a sample containing at least one compound is disclosed. Initially, a three-dimensional set of data is generated through sample analysis using time resolved and mass resolved separation techniques. The data comprises at least one signal as... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8160821 | Method for supporting a diagnosis of an effect of a treatment by using anthracycline anticancer drugs and a device for supporting a diagnosis for an effect of a treatment by using anthracycline anticancer drugs A method of supporting a diagnosis of an effect of a treatment by using anthracycline anticancer drugs is disclosed. The method provides a new value for judging an effect, a judgment score, which is calculated based on expression levels and activity values of two cy... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8145438 | Method for quantitating substance to be measured A method for quantitating a substance to be measured including: storing a database with which a relative calibration curve is registered; measuring an internal standard substance having a known concentration; calculating the peak area or the height of an internal st... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140272 | System and method for unmixing spectroscopic observations with nonnegative matrix factorization Systems and methods for unmixing spectroscopic data using nonnegative matrix factorization during spectrographic data processing are provided according to various embodiments. In an embodiment, a method of processing spectrographic data may include receiving optical... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8108153 | Method, apparatus, and program product for creating an index into a database of complex molecules The disclosed technology relates to the creation of creating an indexing system. The indexing system is created by selecting a macromolecule structure and determining a reference mass and an adjacent ion mass. The reference mass and the adjacent ion mass associated ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108154 | NOemission estimation systems and methods A NOx estimation system includes an operating mode determination module that determines an operating mode of an engine, and an emission prediction module. The emission prediction module estimates NOx emission based on the operating mode, a plur... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8090544 | Method for determining concentration of impurity element A method for shortening a waiting time from the setting of a sample in a chamber to the stabilisation of the intensity for a secondary ion for SIMS analysis (mass analysis of the secondary ion) using a raster variation method is provided. By approximating so that th... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8082111 | Optical emission spectroscopy qualitative and quantitative analysis method The invention relates to a method for the qualitative and quantitative analysis of samples by optical emission spectroscopy with laser excitation (18), using a database created on single-element aqueous solutions all having the same pure element concentration... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8073635 | Method of quantitation by mass spectrometry Quantitation is performed using data from a mass spectrometer. A calibration ion mass spectrum is acquired for each of a plurality of known quantities of a material. From the calibration spectra a plurality of ions that identify the material is determined, and for e... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8041516 | Identifying and generating olfactory cohorts based on olfactory sensor input A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for generating olfactory cohorts. Olfactory data is received from a set of chemical sensors. The olfactory data describes a set of olfactory patterns for an air sample. The olfactory data is proc... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8019556 | Inspection system and method A method and system for nuclear substance revealing using muon detection technique is presented. In some aspects, naturally occurred muons are selected from the flow of charged particles. Muon coordinate and incidence angle measured above and below the interrogated ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8014962 | Method and apparatus for analyzing multi-channel chromatogram A method for analyzing a multi-channel chromatogram is realized for accurately resolving overlapping peaks on a multi-channel chromatogram to permit analysis of the composition of a sample. First, components of overlapping peaks are specified. A data matrix Dij is d... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7996158 | Method and apparatus for providing data processing and control in a medical communication system Methods and apparatus for providing data processing and control for use in a medical communication system are provided. ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7966131 | Analyte sensors and methods Methods of determining analyte concentration. The methods use a fraction of the predicted total charge, from analyte electrolysis, instead of using time, for determination of a data collection endpoint. The total charge is then extrapolated from the data collection ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7953558 | Method and apparatus for determining gas flux Disclosed embodiments of the present invention provide means to obtain correct gas density and flux measurements using (i) gas analyzer (open-path, or closed-path gas analyzers with short intake tube, for example 1 m long, or any combination of the two); (ii) fast t... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7949477 | Method for monitoring an arrangement for determining the concentration of an analyte in a body fluid The invention relates to a method for monitoring an arrangement for determining a concentration of an analyte in a body fluid. The determination of the concentration of the analyte by means of the arrangement involves a procedure in which the analyte from the body f... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7949476 | Method for estimating molecule concentrations in a sampling and equipment therefor A method for estimating molecule concentrations in a sample, the method including: obtaining a signal generated by a sample analyzing apparatus, the signal including at least one spectrum, the spectrum including peaks representative of the molecule concentrations in... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7945394 | Detecting incomplete fill of biosensors A method of detecting incomplete filling of an electrochemical biosensor by collecting a series of electrical current values when a constant electrical potential is applied across the working and counter electrodes during a preliminary burn period. The slope of a li... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7937226 | Method and device for backscatter spectroscopy A method and a device determine a physical property of a medium, such as a concentration of a substance in the medium. The device includes a light source; a probe with optical fibers positioned alongside each other, with a first optical fiber delivering radiation fr... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7925449 | Products and processes for analyzing octane content Products and processes are provided herewith for analyzing octane content in a fuel sample that include the step or steps of receiving an octane measurement of a fuel sample from a octane analyzer, rounding the octane measurement to a nearest recognized octane ratin... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7917308 | Process for determining a molecular weight distribution in a polymer The invention relates to a process for determining a molecular weight distribution in a polymer. When a polymer is prepared, chains of different length are formed. Correspondingly, a distribution of the molecular weights of the chains of a polymer arises. It ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7912655 | Meter having multi-level user interface A meter adapted to determine and store an analyte concentration reading, in particular a glucose concentration reading, and including an interface having a plurality of predefined levels of user features. The predefined levels may be selected by a user based on the ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7908093 | Mass spectrometer and method for enhancing resolution of mass spectra A mass spectrometer comprises an ion detector, an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter, a sample adjuster, and an adder. The A/D converter is configured to generate digital samples representing an analog signal received from the ion detector during a mass scan. The add... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7890269 | Method and device for acoustic measurement of the specific density of a gaseous or liquid medium There is described a method and device for measurement of the specific density of a gaseous or liquid medium, whereby a pulsed acoustic signal is injected into the measured medium by means of a transmitting transducer, the signal is detected by a receiver transducer... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7865314 | Method for determining the salt content of liquid and device for carrying out said method Known methods use the temperature of the water bath which surrounds the liquid sample as the adjusting parameter. The aim in these methods is to maintain the water bath at a constant temperature in order to fulfill the prerequisites for calibration. In contrast, in ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7826981 | System and methods for processing analyte sensor data Systems and methods for processing sensor analyte data, including initiating calibration, updating calibration, evaluating clinical acceptability of reference and sensor analyte data, and evaluating the quality of sensor calibration. During initial calibration, the ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7822557 | Analyte sensors and methods Methods of determining analyte concentration. The methods use a fraction of the predicted total charge, from analyte electrolysis, instead of using time, for determination of a data collection endpoint. The total charge is then extrapolated from the data collection ... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7822558 | Fluorescence detecting device and fluorescence detecting method A fluorescence detecting device irradiates an object to be measured with a laser beam, receives fluorescence generated from the object and processes a fluorescence signal generated when receiving the fluorescence. The device includes a laser light source section out... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7818132 | Test system A test system for measuring the concentration of an analyte in a biological fluid sample comprises: a plurality of test members (16) in a container (10), each test member (16) including reagent means for indicating the catalytic activity of an e... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7809512 | Biosensor coding system A biosensor system determines an analyte concentration using one or more calibrated correlation equations for an optical and/or electrochemical analysis of a biological fluid. The biosensor system may be implemented using a measurement device and a sensor strip. The... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7805255 | Deriving fixed bond information Fixed bond information is derived. A fixed bond representation of a chemical structure is derived from a delocalized representation. A path is conceptually traced through the represented structure and an examination is conducted, for each atom, of each possible elec... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7725268 | Sensing module and method for gas concentration measurement Method and sensing module for sensing pollution of outside air. The sensing module (1) comprises an electro chemical sensing element (3), and a processor (2). A sensing module output signal is provided based on the measurement signal and a basel... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7684932 | Systems and methods for dynamically adjusting sampling rates of mass spectrometers A mass spectrometer includes an ion detector, an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter, and a decimator. The analog-to-digital (A/D) converter is configured to receive and sample an analog signal from the ion detector thereby providing a first plurality of samples at a ... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7680608 | Method of determining a spatial distribution of magnetic particles The invention relates to a method of determining a spatial distribution of magnetic particles in an examination area, in which a magnetic field is generated which has a first part-region having a relatively low magnetic field strength and a second part-region having... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7676330 | Method for processing a particle using a sensor structure A method for processing KStore sensors for use by a KEngine in a KStore system to process a K includes providing a stream of particles, instantiating a KStore sensor structure, identifying particles to be included in a sensor set and processing said identified parti... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7653493 | Proteomic sample analysis and systems therefor Analysis of a group of proteomic samples is facilitated. According to an example embodiment of the present invention, ion mass spectrometry data is collected for a group of samples. For each sample, at least one grouping of ions is identified and used to generate an... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7653494 | Method and machine for identifying a chemical compound The present invention is designed to efficiently calculate isotopic distribution in order to simulate mass spectra data for any chemical compound of interest. The simulated spectra considers the various isotopes of the compound based upon a probability calculation t... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7640117 | Chromatograph analyzing device for processing a waveform of chromatograph data A chromatograph analyzing device for automatically executing a base line setting process on an unseparated peak using preset base line conditions. The chromatograph analyzing device comprises a separation unit for separating a component included in a sample, and a d... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7634364 | Methods and systems for mass defect filtering of mass spectrometry data The present teachings relate to a method of filtering mass spectrometer data using a variable filter window. The width of the window can depend on the mass itself and the mass defects for a family of compounds. The teachings can be used with a plurality of compounds... | 12/15/2009 |
