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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190389 | Adapter for attaching electromagnetic image guidance components to a medical device Devices and methods wherein an adapter is used to attach an electromagnetic image guidance component to a medical device such that an electromagnetic image guidance system may be used to track the location of the medical device within the body of a human or animal s... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185335 | Magnetic resonance system and method for spatially-dependent adjustment of system parameters A magnetic resonance apparatus is operated with continuous movement of an examination subject through a measurement volume of the apparatus. At each successively-occupied position of the examination subject within the measurement volume during the continuous movemen... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8175832 | Automatic sensor-calibration method Provided is an automatic sensor-calibration method in which a state change of a sensor, caused by aging characteristics or contamination of the sensor, is sensed by a sensor input unit to adjust, according to the sensed state change of the sensor, a slice level used... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170825 | Method and apparatus for calibrating seeders A calibration device for calibrating a metering system that dispenses a product to a seeder towed by a farm vehicle is provided for obtaining and maintaining a desired rate of delivery of the product from the seeder. The calibration device includes a first console p... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165839 | Calibration of an instrument location facility with an imaging apparatus A method is proposed for calibrating an instrument location facility with an imaging apparatus. The instrument location apparatus and the imaging apparatus are synchronized temporally with one another. According to such synchronization at least three points of the p... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165838 | Laser system calibration Disclosed is a method to determine behavior characteristics of one or more modules of a laser system. The method includes applying inputs to the one or more modules of the laser system, measuring outputs resulting from the application of the inputs, and determining ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8155908 | Systems and methods for real-time system monitoring and predictive analysis A system for providing real-time modeling of an electrical system under management is disclosed. The system includes a data acquisition component, a virtual system modeling engine, and an analytics engine. The data acquisition component is communicatively connected ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8145444 | Asset surveillance system and method comprising self-calibrating fault detection A computer-implemented asset surveillance system and method for self calibrating at least one fault detector providing asset surveillance by calibrating at least the one fault detector with statistics associated with expected asset behavior, acquiring observed data ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8135552 | Flow meter and method for detecting a cable fault in a cabling of the flow meter A method for detecting a cable fault in a cabling of a flow meter is provided according to an embodiment of the invention. The method includes testing one or more first pickoff wires and one or more second pickoff wires of the cabling for pickoff open wire faults. T... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131493 | Method of automated calibration and diagnosis of laboratory instruments Method and system providing an automated workflow for installing and/or calibrating laboratory equipment. The workflow empowers an end user to perform installation and calibration thereby reducing the costs associated with such activities. The automated workflow tau... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126670 | Method and device for calibrating a network analyzer for measuring at differential connections A method for calibrating vectorial network analyzers, which provide exactly n test ports, for the testing of electrical components with differential connections, where several calibration measurements are implemented, and where several different calibration standard... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8108170 | Method and system for increasing optical instrument calibration and prediction accuracy within and across different optical instrument platforms A method and system for increasing optical instrument calibration and prediction accuracy within and across different optical instrument platforms can comprise two main submethods or routines. The first routine can include one for correcting differences among optica... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103471 | 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. ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8082120 | Hand-held self-referenced apparatus for three-dimensional scanning A method and hand-held scanning apparatus for three-dimensional scanning of an object is described. The hand-held self-referenced scanning apparatus has a light source for illuminating retro-reflective markers, the retro-reflective markers being provided at fixed po... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8060328 | Method and apparatus for quantitating surface-binding optical resonance profiles An apparatus for quantitation of surface-binding optical resonance profiles includes a calibration module including a calibration scan result fetcher, a calibration profile creation module, and a fitting module. The fitting module includes an experimental scan resul... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8055466 | Global calibration for stereo vision probe A method for global calibration of a multi-view vision-based touch probe measurement system is provided which encompasses calibrating camera frame distortion errors as well as probe form errors. The only required features in the calibration images are the markers on... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8046184 | Calibration method and calibration manager A calibration manager comprises means for receiving information relating to the calibration of at least one component. Means for setting a trigger condition for executing a calibration in dependence on said received information is provided. Means are provided for ex... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041528 | Arrangement for calibrating a vector network analyzer An arrangement for calibrating a vector network analyzer (VNA) is substantially secure against operating errors and offers cost-effective calibration by connecting calibration components. Each calibration component includes a transponder and a non-volatile memory wh... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8041527 | System and method for translating variation information between computer 3D variation models and geometric dimensioning and tolerancing callouts Systems and methods are disclosed for consistently translating or converting between geometric dimensioning and tolerancing information and variation parameters for a three dimensional variation analysis tool. The methods and systems may receive geometric dimensioni... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036843 | Computer readable medium and method of improving ras characteristics relating to calibration algorithms in an automated robotic system An automated data library system employs a calibration sensor, the fiducial target and a controller in electrical communication with the calibration sensor to create a calibration sensor pixel image of a calibration area surrounding an expected location of the fiduc... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8024144 | Surveying instrument and method of providing survey data of a target region using a surveying instrument A surveying instrument (11) comprises a telescope unit having imaging optics and an array of optical detector elements, orientation sensors detecting an orientation of the telescope unit, rotation drives for rotating the telescope unit about a horizontal and ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8020130 | Timing analysis apparatus and method for semiconductor integrated circuit in consideration of power supply and ground noises In a timing analysis apparatus for use in a semiconductor integrated circuit, which analyzes operation timing of a semiconductor integrated circuit having a logic gate circuit including a plurality of logic gates, a controller detects at least one of a power supply ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8014966 | Calibration and setup unit for barrier operator control system A setup and calibration unit for a barrier operator is operable to communicate with the operator's own controller. The calibration unit includes a control circuit connected to a visual display and to a set of switches controlled by switch actuators for placing the o... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8010306 | Methods for calibrating mass spectrometry (MS) and other instrument systems and for processing MS and other data A method for obtaining at least one calibration filter for a Mass Spectrometry (MS) instrument system. Measured isotope peak cluster data in a mass spectral range is obtained for a given calibration standard. Relative isotope abundances and actual mass locations of ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7996172 | System and a method for managing sample test results and respective sample result context information A system and method for managing sample test results and respective sample result context information within a laboratory environment are disclosed. The system provides an analytical unit configured to run at least one test on a sample, and a management unit connect... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7996171 | Intelligent electronic device with broad-range high accuracy A method and apparatus provides high-accuracy measurements of an electrical parameter across a broad range of parameter input values. In one embodiment, an intelligent electronic device (IED), e.g., a digital electrical power and energy meter, with a plurality of in... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7979227 | Calibration in a laboratory reference method In a method for calibrating a measuring device, a signal of a first sensor is mapped to a measured value based on a mapping specification. A current measured value of the measuring device is recorded as current calibration measured value; a laboratory reference samp... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7979226 | Production of color coatings gradients, application methods and uses therefor This invention pertains to a system and methods for the production of color coatings gradients on a surface using a blender and applicator, sensors and to computer memory containing stored color gradient representation information to be used for color composition cu... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7966142 | Multi-variable regression for metrology A method for assessing metrology tool accuracy is described. Multi-variable regression is used to define the accuracy of a metrology tool such that the interaction between different measurement parameters is taken into account. A metrology tool under test (MTUT) and... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7966141 | Method for evaluating and correcting total measurement signals An improved and more accurate method for evaluating and correcting total measurement signals (TS(n)) of measuring devices. The invention concerns a method for evaluating and correcting total measurement signals (TS(n)) of a measuring device, wherein measuring signal... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7953568 | Flow meter and method for detecting a cable fault in a cabling of the flow meter A method for detecting a cable fault in a cabling of a flow meter is provided according to an embodiment of the invention. The method includes testing one or more first pickoff wires and one or more second pickoff wires of the cabling for pickoff open wire faults. T... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7937235 | Scanner calibration robust to lamp warm-up Systems and methods are described that facilitate calibrating a scanner by capturing a plurality of white calibration files and generating a mathematical function that models the scanner. For instance, a white calibration file can be captured before and after a page... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7930124 | Protection control measurement system This invention provides a protection control measurement system, with excellent economy and maintainability. In the protection control measurement terminal 1, electric quantity acquisition and transmitter 14-1 determines synchro-phasor quantitie... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7930626 | Determining a location for placing data in a spreadsheet based on a location of the data source Data from a data source is received. A location in a spreadsheet is determined for placing at least a portion of the data from the data source based on location information for the data source. ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7912662 | System and method for improving the distortion tolerance of an electromagnetic tracking system A system and method for improving the tolerability of metal distorters within the electromagnetic field of an electromagnetic tracking system through the use of transmission frequency optimization techniques and/or solution subset measurements. ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7908106 | Apparatus for correcting position and attitude information of camera and method thereof Provided is an apparatus for precisely correcting position and attitude information of a camera by analyzing image information received through a three line scanner in operation of the camera obtaining the position and attitude information from a Global Navigation S... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7899637 | Method and apparatus for creating a gate optimization evaluation library The invention can provide a method of processing a substrate using Gate-Optimization processing sequences and evaluation libraries that can include gate-etch procedures, COR-etch procedures, and evaluation procedures. ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7899636 | Calibration of optical analysis making use of multivariate optical elements A method of calibrating an optical analysis system uses multivariate optical signal analysis. The method includes determining a parameter of a reference sample, and comparing the actually determined parameter with a reference parameter that represents a precise and ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7881893 | Method for correcting biparametric spectra A method for processing a two-parameter spectrum including selecting a profile parameter for the spectrum and an initial correction function, for any profile selected according to this parameter, carrying out at least a correction operation by multiplying this selec... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7881892 | Standardization methods for correcting spectral differences across multiple spectroscopic instruments The invention relates to systems and methods for measuring properties of samples with standardized spectroscopic systems. The methods can include (i) measuring, with a first spectroscopic system, spectra of at least three different reference targets; (ii) calibratin... | 02/01/2011 |
