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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7424242 | Method and apparatus for securing a printing device A printing device securing apparatus includes a printing device having a first securing member operable to couple to an external locking device. An input tray includes a second securing member operable to couple to an external locking device, wherein the input tray ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7354698 | Imprint lithography An imprinting method is disclosed which involves irradiating a photo-curable imprintable medium in a flowable state on a substrate with radiation to initiate curing of the medium, after the irradiating, contacting the medium with a template to form an imprint in the... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7327479 | Information management device for printing apparatus and information management method The technique of the present invention reads job management data including an ID allocated to a printing apparatus receiving each print job and an ID allocated to a printing apparatus executing the print job from each of printing apparatuses 50a and | 02/05/2008 |
| 7322683 | System and a method for on-axis separate ink and silicon ink delivery A system providing ink to a printing device includes a carriage including a fluid interconnect probe, a plurality of ink supply cartridges, and an autoloader configured to fluidly couple one of the ink supply cartridges to the carriage. ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7280788 | Image forming apparatus and transferring method An image forming apparatus according to the present invention is provided with a plurality of image bearing members, an intermediate transfer member, a plurality of first transfer devices, a second transfer device, and a charge amount adjustment section. The image b... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7273589 | Samples delivering device, method of manufacturing samples applicator, method of delivering samples, and base activation device The present invention relates to a samples delivering device, a method of manufacturing a samples applicator, a method of delivering samples, and a base activation device which can handle a plurality of various samples, efficiently and promptly. The invention is con... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7268901 | Intelligent printing by a kiosk A publication is distributed by an automated publication delivery system. Activity around a physical location of the automated publication delivery system is monitored. In response to detection of an increased activity level around the physical location of the autom... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7266267 | Microfluidic, optical, and electrical input output interconnects, methods of fabrication thereof, and methods of use thereof Input/output (I/O) interconnects, fluidic I/O interconnects, electrical, optical, and fluidic I/O interconnects, devices incorporating the I/O interconnects, systems incorporating the I/O interconnects, and methods of fabricating the I/O interconnects, devices, and ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7258839 | Temperature controlled microfabricated two-pin liquid sample dispensing system A cooled liquid sample dispensing system comprises a pair of pins for holding a droplet of liquid therebetween and a cooling element. Each pin includes a tip spaced predetermined distance from the other pin to define a sample acquisition region. The pins acquire and... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7258432 | Inkjet printer cartridge with controlled refill A printer cartridge for an inkjet printer including an ink storage reservoir; a printhead in communication with said ink storage reservoir; a refill port in communication with the ink storage reservoir and arranged to receive refill ink for replenishing the ink stor... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7245408 | Systems and methods for producing wide field-of-view holographic displays Hologram recording devices and techniques can be employed to produce wide-field-of-view holograms. In one embodiment, a specialized lens is used to couple an object beam into a holographic recording material without substantially changing the angle of incidence of t... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7214347 | Printhead mounting system for a microarray spotting instrument A microarray spotter printhead is mounted to a bracket with a semi-kinematic mounting system for avoiding the need for calibration when replaced. ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7201880 | Sample dispenser The invention relates to a sample dispenser, for the application of liquid samples on to a sample absorbing area, with a sample dispenser body (1) having at its end a sample pick-up surface (5) bounded by a continuous edge (6), wherein the sampl... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7198758 | Microarraying head and microarrayer A microarraying head 51 has a base portion 57 and a plurality of needles 53. The needles 53 are arranged in parallel with one another on the base portion 57. The needles 53 place a solution on substrates 3 with the to... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7190496 | Enhanced environment visualization using holographic stereograms Hologram production techniques can combine source data representing realistic information describing an environment with source data providing representational information describing a feature of the environment and/or some object interacting with the environment. T... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7184158 | Print management apparatus and print management method A system gives top priority to the printing information of any image ID having the time limit of printing set today, by taking into account printability information with regard to the paper species and the ink species set in each printer. The system then gives secon... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7182915 | Pipette configurations and arrays thereof for measuring cellular electrical properties The present application is directed to pipette configurations, arrays of the same and methods for using such pipettes and arrays to accomplish electrical measurements, including whole cell and on cell measurements. In one aspect of the present invention, a pipette i... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7181501 | Remote data acquisition, transmission and analysis system including handheld wireless equipment A remote data acquisition, transmission and analysis system including handheld wireless equipment to obtain operational data and the status of remote machines is disclosed. A plurality of application controllers are interfaced with the remote machines from which ope... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7171903 | Ratioing algorithm for a label printing system using plates A system and method of producing labels at remote locations worldwide in communication with a server and central database via the internet is shown and described. The present invention accommodates vastly different printing methods including thermal printing, lithog... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7171451 | Remote data acquisition and transmission system and method A remote data acquisition and transmission system and method are disclosed. A plurality of application controllers are interfaced with remote equipment from which operation data is acquired by the application controllers. The application controllers communicate with... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7167892 | System, method and apparatus for vending machine wireless audit and cashless transaction transport The present invention provides a system, method and apparatus for collecting, storing and communicating vending machine transaction data. The system preferably includes an embedded data collection and storage device that, when placed inside a vending machine, will c... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7164884 | Method and system for interfacing a machine controller and a wireless network A wireless interface module interfaces a machine control system, such as a vending machine controller, with one of plural wireless networks through one of plural removably coupled wireless transceivers. Communication between geographically distributed vending machin... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7161707 | Digital printer Comprising a data reader 31 for reading digital camera image data, a means 32 for setting, for example, the number of prints, a plurality of printers 33, a printer selector 34 for selecting which of the plurality of printers to use, and a... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7144477 | Wear indicator for seal strip in a suction box of a paper machine A suction roll assembly includes a suction roll having a perforated shell, and a suction box positioned within the suction roll. The suction box includes a holder, a seal strip adjacent the shell and carried by the holder, at least one target carried by the seal str... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7139616 | Real-time alert mechanism for monitoring and controlling field assets via wireless and internet technologies An apparatus and system are disclosed for real-time monitoring and control of field assets. A monitoring device may be coupled to a field asset to determine the occurrence of one or more error conditions. Error conditions may be detected either as they occur or by t... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7124687 | Positioning device, especially for offset plates The invention relates to a device for positioning an element with respect to at least two reference points (4a, 4c), in which said device acts upon a working point on the element to be positioned and comprises a positioning arm attached t... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7077773 | Drive assembly with dynamic tensioning device A drive assembly for a closed loop cable system in which a flexible driver member drives a door or the like back and forth has the flexible drive member wrapped around and driven by a drive pulley. The drive assembly includes a motor unit having a motor shaft that r... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7073788 | Protective device for a delivery device A method for operating a machine that processes printing substrates in sheet form, in particular, a printing press, including a delivery device (1) which contains a drive (2) for conveying the substrate sheets and at least one opening (8) throug... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7069851 | Gravure printing method and gravure printed item This invention provides a gravure printing method and a gravure printed item under application of cells of AM screen and cells of FM screen. The cells corresponding to the letters and the lettering images requiring a dark ink concentration and the like are formed by... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7069859 | Planographic printing plate packaging structure and method for packaging planographic printing plate A stack of planographic printing plates is accommodated in a packaging box for planographic printing plates in a manner such that imaging surfaces of the planographic printing plates are directed toward a bottom face plate. Therefore, when the packaging box for plan... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7067174 | Self-adhesive labelstock, a face paper for self-adhesive labelstock, a print carrier and a method for making the face paper and the print carrier for self-adhesive labelstock A self-adhesive labelstock comprises a face paper that has an adhesive layer formed on its one side. The face paper is finished in contact over a long distance with a smooth, hot drying surface, which finishes the smoothness of the paper, such as a Yankee cylinder o... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7054035 | Method and system for management of color through conversion between color spaces A method of mapping a color produced by an image device in a presentation color space to a destination color space including steps of receiving the color from the image device, determining if color is to be preserved, converting the color to the destination color sp... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7048651 | Golf Ball A golf ball having an indicia produced by ink jet printing is disclosed. An ink composition containing a coloring agent and a resin is dispensed on a transfer medium, using an ink jet printer, to form an indicia. The indicia is transferred from the transfer medium t... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7040221 | Method of producing paste container for screen printing apparatus To keep a printing paste, which is most influential to a printing performance, always in a uniform state, carry out printing at a high accuracy and in a stable manner, and use an expensive paste with no waste, there is provided a printing paste automatic supplying a... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7041257 | Microfabricated two-pin liquid sample dispensing system A two-pin liquid sample dispensing system is provided. The two-pin dispensing system comprises a pair of separately movable pins for holding a droplet of liquid therebetween. Each pin includes a tip spaced predetermined distance from the other pin to define a sample... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7043073 | Distortion correcting rendering techniques for autostereoscopic displays Characterization of hologram elements (hogels) produced using specially designed test pattern images provides more accurate information that can be used to render images for use in hogel production. Once a test pattern is selected, one or more hogels are recorded in... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7033761 | Expression miniarrays and uses thereof The present invention provides methods and devices for making new and inexpensive miniarrays suitable for gene expression analysis. Also provided herein are methods of diagnosis for specific tissue or condition using specialized diagnostic miniarrays that exhibit sp... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7031929 | Method to support the coordination of distributed production-printing The present invention provides a method to support the coordination of geographically distributed printing and, in particular, identification of possibilities for distributing print jobs to other shops for production. The technique involves the forwarding of product... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7020680 | System and method for monitoring and control of beverage dispensing equipment A remote data acquisition and transmission system and method are disclosed. A plurality of application controllers are interfaced with remote beverage dispensing equipment from which operation data is acquired by the application controllers. The application controll... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7011728 | Container-labeling and-printing synchronization apparatus and process An apparatus for printing and labeling an object such as a container is provided. The apparatus includes a printer and a label applicator. The object is presented to both the printer and the label applicator during processing. ... | 03/14/2006 |
