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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8175817 | Reciprocal symmetry plots as a new representation of countercurrent chromatograms Various methods for visualization of output from a liquid-liquid chromatographic instrument are provided. One or more analytes detected by a liquid-liquid chromatographic instrument are visualized by providing a data set comprising a plurality of data points corresp... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8160822 | Apparatus and method for measuring optimum water quality and informing quality of water An apparatus for measuring optimum water-quality and informing quality of water 100 measures an amount of impurities of water, keeps to renew an optimum value by a lowest amount of the impurities until the present use, compares the optimum value with the pres... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155891 | Integrated in-line oil monitoring apparatus Various embodiments of an oil monitoring apparatus are provided. In one embodiment, an oil monitoring apparatus includes a probe and an analyzing module in-line connected to the probe. The probe includes: a first sensor for measuring respective optical intensities o... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8082112 | Apparatus and method for air-in-line detection The concentration of air or other agents in a fluid delivery line is determined by monitoring agent signals and processing those agent signals along with information regarding the age of each agent signal. The processor determines a primary agent concentration value... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8082113 | Sample analysis system and reagent preparation device A sample analysis system includes a reagent preparation unit and a measurement unit. The reagent preparation unit has: a state detector which detects at least one of a state of the reagent preparation unit and a state of the reagent preparation; and a transmission u... | 12/20/2011 |
| 7983851 | Measuring device and method for determination of at least one chemical property in an oil and a data storing device obtainable by said method A measuring system for determination of at least one chemical property in an oil under transportation from a first container to a second container, where a pipe inlet is arranged to withdraw a sample part from the oil in flow and a sample handling arrangement is arr... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7957917 | Copper contamination detection method and system for monitoring copper contamination A computer system. The computer system including a processor and memory unit coupled to the processor, the memory unit containing instructions that when executed by the processor implement a method for monitoring a solution in a tank used to fabricate integrated cir... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7945395 | Method for determining the density of fluid media The actual density of liquids is determined with a flexural oscillator that is excited at two different natural vibrations. The presence of air/gas inclusions or other inhomogeneities in a liquid is detected and their influence can be eliminated. In an initial step,... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7840360 | Optical system and method for inspection and characterization of liquids in vessels A system and method for non-invasively inspecting one or more vessels capable of transmitting IR light containing liquid is provided, which uses a near-infrared (NIR) imaging device in combination with one or two NIR light sources, a diffuser plate, and an optical w... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7813882 | Method for determining average properties of molecules in solution A new method is presented for measuring the molecular properties of an unfractionated solution of macromolecules. Sample aliquots spanning a range of concentrations are injected sequentially into a stream of solution and flow towards the detectors. Each aliquot prod... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7799740 | Systems and methods for monitoring and controlling combinatorial processes Method for monitoring and controlling a combinatorial process are presenting including: receiving a substrate; executing the combinatorial process, wherein the combinatorial process includes an in-line chemical preparation; analyzing the in-line chemical preparation... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7720615 | System for detection and prediction of water quality events A method of evaluating a water sample for the presence or possible future presence of nitrification comprises obtaining data values of a number of parameters, processing the data values to determine correlation coefficients, to identify any linear dependencies, to s... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7684933 | Automated intelligent system for lubricant manufacture optimization A method and system to blend components to form a lubricant having a predetermined characteristic. The method includes determining the characteristic from a model that relates that characteristic as a function of the amount of its components and properties of the co... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7647189 | Method and device for inspection of drugs concealed in liquid articles A method and a device are provided for inspection of liquid articles to determine the presence of drugs concealed in the liquid articles without opening the outer packages. The method includes emitting radiation beams having a single energy to transmit through the l... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7474966 | Apparatus having an array of piezoelectric film sensors for measuring parameters of a process flow within a pipe A apparatus 10,110,170 is provided that measures the speed of sound and/or vortical disturbances propagating in a single phase fluid flow and/or multiphase mixture to determine parameters, such as mixture quality, particle size, vapor/mass ratio, liquid/vapor... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7463982 | Liquid class predictor for liquid handling of complex mixtures A method of establishing liquid classes of complex mixtures for liquid handling equipment. The mixtures are composed of components and the equipment has equipment parameters. The first step comprises preparing a response curve for the components. The next step compr... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7424399 | Systems and methods for fluid quality sensing, data sharing and data visualization A service provider receives fluid test data generated from multiple different entities and permits authorized users affiliated with the different entities, as well as others, to visualize information associated with that data to via the Internet using graphical comp... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7409299 | Method for identifying components of a mixture via spectral analysis Spectra data collected from a mixture defines an n-dimensional data space (n is the number of data points), and application of PCA techniques yields a subset of m-eigenvectors that effectively describe all variance in that data space. Bach member of a library of kno... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7403860 | Method using magnetostrictive probe buoyancy for detecting fuel density A magnetostrictive fuel level probe includes a spring-loaded foot. The probe shaft of the fuel level probe moves up and down within the spring-loaded foot as a function of fuel density. The spring-loaded foot includes a reference magnet whose height relative to the ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7398161 | Sampling method and sampling device, and logD measuring method and logD measuring system A sampling method sampling a lower-layer liquid from a liquid body comprised of two layers of liquids, an upper-layer liquid (octanol) and the lower-layer liquid (buffer solution), without mixing the layers. An extracting device is provided with a tubular apical end... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7398163 | Sensing apparatus An object of the present invention is to provide a sensing instrument capable to detect a substance existing in a very small quantity, such as environmental pollutants, instantly with a high degree of precision. As a specific means for solving the problem, a frequen... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7392142 | Method to determine predictive tests and device applying same to lubricant formulations The present invention is directed to a method that determines the necessary and sufficient tests to relate a variety of apparently non-related tests to desired final test results. The present invention also provides a method to determine those tests which, having be... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7392138 | Method for determining the content of at least one given gas in a drilling mud, associated device and rig A method includes the phases of measuring the quantity of a given gas in the gases extracted from a calibration sample of a calibration mud, in at least two stages for extraction under predetermined conditions. A family of curves representing the extraction, under t... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7380438 | Apparatus and method for providing a fluid cut measurement of a multi-liquid mixture compensated for entrained gas An apparatus for determining a fluid cut measurement of a multi-liquid mixture includes a first device configured to sense at least one parameter of the mixture to determine a fluid cut of a liquid in the mixture. A second device is configured to determine a concent... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7383128 | Implementing two dimensional segment inversions with inversion-conforming data sets processing being rendered to include generalized composite weight factors in the processing of error-affected multivariate data samples Representations of data inversions are generated by alternate forms of maximum likelihood estimating and associated least-squares and regression analysis which are rendered in correspondence with either single component residual deviations or projections between dat... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7369923 | Control system and method A control system of the invention for regulating a quantity to be controlled based on a deviation of the controlled quantity from a target value thereof and control parameters includes a behavior feature value calculator, a basic state judgment data calculator and a... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369952 | Quantification of disease progression by means of interpolation between parameters based on electromagnetic spectra The invention relates to analysis methods for diagnosing diseases on human and animal samples. Said invention also relates to an evaluation method for diagnosing the individual stages of a disease in such a way that it is possible to display the progression thereof.... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7368917 | Electronic circuit for ion sensor with body effect reduction An electronic circuit for ion sensor with the body effect reduction includes a bridge-type floating source circuit provided with an input terminal, an output terminal reflecting the change in the potential dependent on ion concentration, and an ion-sensitive field e... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7363800 | Apparatus and method for measuring compositional parameters of a mixture An apparatus for measuring compositional parameters of solid, liquid, and gas components of a mixture flowing in a pipe is presented. The apparatus combines three different compositional measurements (e.g., the speed of light (microwave), the speed of sound (sonar),... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366920 | System and method for selective memory module power management A memory module includes a memory hub that monitors utilization of the memory module and directs devices of the memory module to a reduced power state when the module is not being used at a desired level. System utilization of the memory module is monitored by track... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7359803 | Apparatus and method for measuring parameters of a mixture having solid particles suspended in a fluid flowing in a pipe An apparatus 10,70 and method is provided that includes a spatial array of unsteady pressure sensors 15-18 placed at predetermined axial locations X1-XN disposed axially along a pipe 14 for measuring at least one par... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7349831 | River assessment, monitoring and design system A method, apparatus and program product to facilitate the analysis and monitoring of stream and river conditions, with emphasis on Natural River Design. To this end, the invention uses and processes channel data to provide analysis and monitoring information and opt... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343275 | Method for modelling the production of hydrocarbons by a subsurface deposit which are subject to depletion A method for forming a model simulating production, by an underground reservoir subject to depletion, of hydrocarbons comprising notably relatively high-viscosity oils. From laboratory measurements of the respective volumes of oil and gas produced by rock samples fr... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340409 | Computer based process for strategy evaluation and optimization based on customer desired outcomes and predictive metrics A computer program product for use with a computer system for providing a process for strategy evaluation and optimization, having a computer-readable medium of instructions for directing a computer to evaluate data for optimizing strategic options. The product incl... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7337075 | Apparatus and method for measuring parameters of a mixture having liquid droplets suspended in a vapor flowing in a pipe An apparatus 10,70 and method is provided that includes a spatial array of unsteady pressure sensors 15-18 placed at predetermined axial locations x1-xN disposed axially along a pipe 14 for measuring at least one par... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7334450 | Water cut measurement with improved correction for density Methods of correcting on-line analyzer measurements of the content of a first component, e.g., water, in a multiple-component fluid, e.g., petroleum, are provided. The first component content measurements in a flowing multiple-component fluid may be taken using an o... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7308820 | Piezocable based sensor for measuring unsteady pressures inside a pipe A piezocable based sensor for measuring unsteady pressures inside a pipe comprises a cable wrapped around the pipe and an outer band compressing the cable towards the pipe. The cable provides a signal indicative of unsteady pressure within the pipe in response to ex... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7299682 | Method and apparatus for estimating basicity of a used, all-loss cylinder lubricant A method and apparatus for determining the total base number of a used lubricant from an open, all loss, lubricating system. An AC voltage signal is applied between electrodes immersed in the used lubricant and a used-lubricant dependent response to the applied sign... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7302349 | System and a method for observing and predicting a physiological state of an animal A system for observing and predicting a physiological state of an animal has been provided. The system includes a computer including a processor and being operatively connected to a database, at least one sample providing device for repetitively providing at least o... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7297408 | Antifouling coating for sensor transducers used for monitoring fluid properties A coating for sensor transducers that transmit a signal to—and/or receive a signal from—a fluid, either liquid or gas, in contact with the transducer. In particular the coating minimizes or eliminates fouling of the transducer surface by the fluid, reducing the ... | 11/20/2007 |
