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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185228 | Automated process for manufacturing radiation filters for radiation treatment machines including tracking thereof Automating the process for providing a radiation filter is based on different software programs executed by a computer system. The software programs include customer interface software, tool path generation software and manufacture scheduling software. The customer ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8170705 | Interactive on-demand orthotic vending machine and method of producing orthotic including disc version An orthotic vending machine may comprise a measuring apparatus and an orthotic fabricating apparatus. The measuring apparatus may comprises a plurality of probes capable of sensing pressure at various pixels on the underside surfaces of the person's feet at various ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165708 | Customized manufacturing method for an optoelectrical device The disclosure provides a customized manufacturing method for an optoelectrical device. The customized manufacturing method comprises the steps of providing a manufacturing flow including a front-end flow, a customized module subsequent to the front-end flow, and a ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8155773 | Automated process for manufacturing radiation filters for radiation treatment machines including manufacture scheduling Automating the process for providing a radiation filter is based on different software programs executed by a computer system. The software programs include customer interface software, tool path generation software and manufacture scheduling software. Each software... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8145340 | Method and system for designing and producing dental prostheses and appliances A virtual model of an intraoral cavity is provided, wherein this process is initialized by a dental clinic, and the design and manufacture of a suitable dental prosthesis for the intraoral cavity is shared between a dental lab and a service center. ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8131394 | Method of and system for labeling containers of prescribed medicine A method of and system for labeling containers of prescribed medicine is provided wherein a photograph of a patient is taken using a camera. The photograph is then stored on a computer as a computer software object. When a prescription is filled for the patient, the... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126582 | Medicine trial production supporting system A computer system (100), an ingredient manufacturer system (200), and composition manufacturers can be connected online, and a system of the ingredient manufacturer obtains composition information from a system (300), and provides it for the sys... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8068929 | System for designing and producing custom layouts for storage or transporting molds An automated system for producing custom layouts for storage or transport molds made of foam or any other malleable material used for storage or package items, which is capable of identifying the type of item depicted by each image file, automatically generating the... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8050788 | Apparatus and method for optimizing an assembly process with local positioning using inertial guidance capabilities An apparatus includes a handheld tool for executing an assembly process within a confined work space. A local positioning module (LPM) is connected to the tool to collect raw data describing motion of the LPM and tool within the work space. A control unit communicat... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8046096 | Analytical server integrated in a process control network A process control system integrates the collection and analysis of process control data used to perform certain computationally expensive process control functions, like adaptive model generation and tuning parameter generation, in the same control device in which o... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8014888 | Methods and systems for customizing lighting control panels A design module is a software module that is implemented in a computer system that comprises instructions stored in a machine-readable medium and a processor that executes the instructions. The design module receives inputs from a person to create a custom insert fo... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8000828 | System and method for movement control A system for controlling object movement on a machine. The system controls a speed of a working point of the machine according to a dynamic decay speed determined through an exponential function after the working point passes by a buffer distance. A related method a... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7966091 | Automatic thin-section slides manufacturing system and method Thin-section slide samples are manufactured from respective embedding blocks containing a biological sample and held in an embedding cassette having imprinted thereon individual data. The embedding cassette is transported to a cutting position where an embedding blo... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7941238 | Method and device for operating a machine A machine consumes a consumable material during operation, which consumable material can be provided in material units, wherein the machine can be operated in at least one first operating mode, in which the consumable material is consumed. A material unit comprises ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7933674 | Tobacco product stamping machine interface Disclosed herein are embodiments of a user interface associated with a tobacco product stamping machine. In one embodiment, the user interface includes a visual representation of a batch of tobacco product containers. The visual representation includes an indication... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7920936 | Volume element printing system for simultaneously printing multiple layers A three dimensional object creation system for printing a three dimensional object comprised of layers stacked vertically with respect to each other includes a series of printheads for printing the layers, the series of printheads simultaneously printing at least tw... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7840301 | System and method for optimizing transmission component life and transmission power A power transmission system including a component having a surface and a plurality of micro-defects is provided. The surface has a distribution of asperities has a second resonance frequency distribution that is substantially outside of the resonance frequency distr... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7831327 | Precision abrasive machining of work piece surfaces The spacing between an abrasive type surface polishing tool and the surface of the work piece that is being polished is controlled dynamically so that variations in the area of the abrasive pad in contact with the surface of the work piece compensated, thereby elimi... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7738989 | Method and system for designing and producing dental prostheses and appliances A virtual model of an intraoral cavity is provided, wherein this process is initialized by a dental clinic, and the design and manufacture of a suitable dental prosthesis for the intraoral cavity is shared between a dental lab and a service center. ... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7734366 | Method and a device for preparing a job of two ophthalmic lenses belonging to the same pair of eyeglasses for mounting Method of automatically preparing an ophthalmic lens for mounting, includes the following steps: automatically measuring centering characteristics of the lens; blocking the lens on cutting-out elements; ... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7620471 | Method of managing a system for the manufacture of tobacco products A system for manufacturing tobacco products whereby, a number (Pn) that represents a nominal production target for products of a given brand, and a number (Cmax) representing the maximum output capacity of the system, or in practice the maximum... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7454261 | Tablet automatic packaging machine and method for automatically recognizing cassettes coupled to cartridges thereof Tablet automatic packaging machine and method for automatically recognizing cassettes of the cartridges of the tablet automatic packaging machine are disclosed. The tablet automatic packing machine includes a plurality of cartridges arranged in multiple layers. Each... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7447557 | Method and system for reducing production cycle time of a hard disk drive by featuring an inventoried generic hard disk drive with customized microcode A method and system for reducing production cycle time of a hard disk drive and a generic hard disk drive ready for customization. A generic disk drive is provided for stocking until a shipment order is issued. When a shipment order defining customer requirements is... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7444199 | Method for preparing mask and wafer data files A method for converting a data file into a writer file for a mask writer is provided. A plurality of sub-files is created from the data file. The plurality of sub-files is transferred to the mask writer. A plurality of writer files is created from the plurality of s... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444198 | Determining physical property of substrate A method of determining a physical property of a substrate includes recording a first spectrum obtained from a substrate, the first spectrum being obtained during a polishing process that alters a physical property of the substrate. The method includes identifying, ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7433749 | Adhesive system configuration tool A computerized design system for configuring an adhesive dispensing configuration. The system enables a user to graphically or otherwise manipulate markers representative of dispensing components. Programmatic rules associated with the markers guide the design proce... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7428443 | Measurement transmission for material processing A system for processing material includes a measuring device, a processing apparatus, and a mechanism for transmitting measurement information from the measuring device to the processing apparatus. ... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7425172 | Customized polish pads for chemical mechanical planarization A polishing pad for chemical mechanical planarization of a film on a substrate is customized by obtaining one or more characteristics of a structure on a substrate. For example, when the structure is a chip formed on a semiconductor wafer, the one or more characteri... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7426422 | Wood tracking by identification of surface characteristics A “Woodprint™” characterization and identification technique employs cameras (16), lighting (14), camera interface hardware (18), a computer (20), and/or image processing software to collect and analyze surface characteristics of pi... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7417561 | Acoustic or pneumatic pulse transfer system for event counting An event sensing component includes a housing, wherein the housing includes a first tube that is provided along an entire length of the housing, and a second tube that is provided along the entire length of the housing. The housing also includes a first connector pr... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7412297 | Method and system for designing and manufacturing lens modules A method for designing and manufacturing lens modules includes selecting design parameters from a design database stored with the design parameters suitable for a lens module desired to be manufactured to design the lens module according to characteristics of the le... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7409256 | Footwear measurement and footwear manufacture systems and methods Foot measurement and footwear manufacture systems and methods. A three-dimensional foot frame of a foot and pressure data corresponding to a bottom of the foot are measured, and a first and a second group of characteristic points are respectively determined accordin... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7406190 | Wood tracking by identification of surface characteristics A “Woodprint™” characterization and identification technique employs cameras (16), lighting (14), camera interface hardware (18), a computer (20), and/or image processing software to collect and analyze surface characteristics of pi... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7406357 | Transforming a product description into a process network and specifying product creation Product descriptions (e.g., brochures) and processing instructions required to create a product (impose, print, fold, staple) can be abstracted into common vocabularies that link one to the other. A link from a product description to the processing instructions is m... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7398585 | Method for manufacturing an internal core for injection mold tool An internal core is separated along a horizontal plane delineated at the transition point between the tapered wall portion and the parallel wall portion of the core to divide the core into a tapered wall component part manufactured by a WEDM process to obtain the de... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7392104 | Material reservation distribution system and method The present invention relates to a system and methodology facilitating material-driven processing in an industrial controller environment. Various models supported by database objects are provided to automatically and dynamically map inventory systems/processes to c... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7386359 | Device and method for testing machine tools and production machines A test device and a test method for testing a machine tool or production machine are disclosed. A control and monitoring unit processes at least one predefined instruction sequence and generates control commands for operating the machine controller in order to test ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7377037 | Fillet machining method without adaptive probing A method for finishing a part having excess material includes generating one or more surfaces on a model of the part to be machined, creating a machining tool path drive geometry, using the machine tool path drive geometry and one or more surfaces on the model to be... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7375035 | Host and ancillary tool interface methodology for distributed processing A host and ancillary tool interface methodology for distributed processing is described. The host tool manages a process, except for the generation of a product used in the process. To generate the product, the host tool provides an indication to an ancillary tool t... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7370797 | Pill printing and identification Drug dosages and bar code labels are within a tamperproof, sealed container. A printer is configured to mark a drug dosage with an imprint in a form of a machine readable bar code. A method and product are provided to enable both the source of manufacture and distri... | 05/13/2008 |
