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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190321 | Electronic control unit with permission switching An electronic control unit installed in a vehicle performs diagnosis of plural diagnosis objects based on sensor signals, and stores diagnosis results that indicate abnormality of the diagnosis objects in a DTC storage area only when the DTC storage area does not st... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185353 | Determining computer system usage from logged events Described is a technology by which logged events such as in a security event log (e.g., within a defined timeframe) are processed to determine logon times and logoff times, which are then used to determine system usage. Logoff times may correspond to an actual logof... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185354 | Method of determining the dynamic location of a protection device The method uses a location device and a timing element to determine the location of a protection device at various periods of time. During these periods of time, the human may be participating in a variety of activities and positions. ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180522 | Vehicle monitor A system and method is disclosed for monitoring a motor vehicle. The system includes a sensor unit for collecting at least one vehicle statistic and a portable device for displaying the vehicle statistics. The portable device requests the vehicle statistics from the... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8170836 | Low-power triggered data acquisition system and method A low-power triggered data acquisition system and method utilizes low-powered circuitry, comparators, and digital logic incorporated into a miniaturized device interfaced with self-generating transducer sensor inputs to detect, identify and assess impact and damage ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165848 | Method of inspecting equipment A method of inspecting equipment to ensure quality control that employs a computer program to assist in the inspection. The program contains an inspection protocol adapted to specific equipment. The inspector follows the protocol to inspect component parts of the eq... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8126680 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for locating and tracking objects Methods, systems, and computer program products for locating and tracking objects are disclosed. According to one system, a locating device can be configured to determine a location of an object. According to another system, an identifying device can be configured t... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8117009 | Data recorder for munitions Disclosed is a data recorder for munitions. The data recorder includes a power source, a processor, and an acceleration sensor. The data recorder further includes a trigger validation feature which is operably coupled to the data recorder to verify the occurrence of... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8103482 | Sensor evaluation system, sensor evaluation method, and storage medium recording sensor evaluation program A sensor evaluation system communicating to a plurality of sensors and an analysis system providing analysis service using time series sensor data obtained from at least one of the plurality of sensors includes a time series data recorder recording a time series dat... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103481 | Processing irregularly occuring data events in real time A system, method and program product for processing irregularly occurring data events in real time. A system is provided for processing a stream of data events occurring over irregular time periods, including: a system for updating a running estimate each time a new... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8078430 | System and method for providing notes in measurement devices A measurement device. The measurement device comprises a note control component, adapted to obtain and record a note that is input with respect to a measuring event of the measurement device; and a Central Processing Unit (CPU), adapted to link the note with the mea... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8065114 | Ubiquitous monitoring system There is provided a ubiquitous monitoring system comprising a plurality of sensor nodes, one or more agent adapters receiving sensing data from the plurality of sensor nodes and determining to where the sensing data is transmitted according to one of characteristics... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8000936 | Data analysis system for determining coating conditions of a buried pipeline A data analysis program operable for displaying at least one representation of a buried pipeline in a geographical area and associated on-pipe current values at various locations along the pipeline. The data analysis program is storable in a memory device and execut... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8000937 | Method and apparatus for waveform analysis of physiological parameters A method and an apparatus are provided for performing waveform analysis on physiological parameters. In one embodiment, a method includes reading measurement values of a first physiological parameter relating to time, and displaying them as a trend display graph in ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7996185 | Machine data acquisition system with data compression A machine data acquisition system is disclosed. The data acquisition system may include a sensor disposed on a machine and configured to produce a signal indicative of an operational parameter of the machine. The system may also include a data processor and controll... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7962315 | Gathering data concerning publication usage Methods and systems for measuring and gathering data relating to publication usage by participants in publication readership studies. Some methods and systems employ portable monitors carried by participants of the studies along with publications fitted with various... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7899648 | System and a method for determining the region searched by a moving scent detector (organ or apparatus) in the presence of wind A system for determining a region searched (3003, 5001, 5002, 7002, 7003, 8001, 8002, 8003) by a moving scent detector (201) in the presence of wind, said moving scent detector having pre-calibrated scent capabilities, the system comprises: positioning... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7895017 | System to increase SNR of CPV-generated power signal A system may include acquisition of power information from a signal line in accordance with a first signal characteristic. The power information is associated with power generated by a solar collector, and the first signal characteristic is substantially orthogonal ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7890299 | Providing event-controlled continuous logging for a mobile operating environment Providing for event-controlled continuous logging for a mobile operating environment is described herein. For instance, collection of mobile device operating system (OS) log data can be initiated and terminated as a result of one or more predetermined events. The ev... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7877234 | System and method for statistically monitoring and analyzing sensed conditions A system and method of monitoring and analyzing a plurality of attributes for an alarm condition is disclosed. The attributes are processed and/or unprocessed values of sensed conditions of a collection of a statistically significant number of statistically similar ... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7877233 | Selectively presenting timestamped time-series data values for retrieved supervisory control and manufacturing/production parameters A process control and manufacturing information database client application is disclosed for rendering and displaying a filtered set of received time-series data. A client application, such as a trending client that graphically displays a series of data point values... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7865336 | System and method for statistically monitoring and analyzing sensed conditions A system and method of monitoring and analyzing a plurality of attributes for an alarm condition is disclosed. The attributes are processed and/or unprocessed values of sensed conditions of a collection of a statistically significant number of statistically similar ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7848905 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for locating and tracking objects Methods, systems, and computer program products for locating and tracking objects are disclosed. According to one system, a locating device can be configured to determine a location of an object. According to another system, an identifying device can be configured t... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7840382 | Methods and apparatus for network re-creation in controlled environments Methods and apparatus for network re-creation in controlled environments. In an aspect, a method for network re-creation is provided. The method includes determining a logging window, logging at least one re-creation parameter during the logging window to produce a ... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7813898 | Processing sensing measurements Software (140) for processing measurements from a distributed sensing system (100) receives the measurements, and generates a graphical representation of the measurements indicating their location or time sequence, and a representation of locations of ... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7809528 | Waveform analyzing method and apparatus for physiological parameters A method and an apparatus are provided for performing waveform analysis on physiological parameters. In one embodiment, a method includes reading measurement values of a first physiological parameter relating to time, and displaying them as a trend display graph in ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7809685 | Secure and efficient methods for logging and synchronizing data exchanges A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for logging and/or synchronizing data exchanges. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a request from a requester to post data to a first log, identifying the log based on a context identifier in the request ind... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7805280 | Method and device for analyzing a technical process A method for analyzing technical processes is disclosed, which is characterized in that measuring data of the technical process is generated by at least one decentralized measuring unit, image data associated with a mechanical course of the technical process is prod... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7778802 | Wireless devices as guard tour checkpoint data collection and checkpoint data communication devices A system that utilizes wireless devices as guard tour checkpoint data collection and checkpoint data communication devices is disclosed. The wireless devices have the capability of reading various types of checkpoints and communicating the collected checkpoint data ... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7756682 | System and method for statistically monitoring and analyzing sensed conditions A system and method of monitoring and analyzing a plurality of attributes for an alarm condition is disclosed. The attributes are processed and/or unprocessed values of sensed conditions of a collection of a statistically significant number of statistically similar ... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7756681 | Power supply circuit Embodiments of power supply circuits are disclosed in which a filter function is performed on a count value from a counter that counts the number of times of enabling of a power supply circuit. ... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7747415 | Sensor powered event logger A system includes a structure and a circuit. The circuit is mounted to the structure. The circuit includes a sensor, a non-volatile memory, and a voltage sensitive switch. The memory and the voltage sensitive switch are connected for recording an event sensed by sai... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7729885 | Coriolis type flow measuring system with analog to digital converters having an adjustable sampling frequency Coriolis type flow measuring system for measuring the mass flow rate of a flowing medium, includes a flow tube and sensors associated with the flow tube for generating analog signals corresponding to the movement of the tube, analog to digital conversion elements fo... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7725298 | Event tracing with time stamp compression An improved method, apparatus, and computer instructions for generating trace data. In response to detecting a new trace event, a determination is made as to whether the new trace event occurred at an expected period of time with respect to a prior trace event. A ti... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7725297 | Control device and analyzer The present invention quickly resolves troubles in an analyzer and performs effective external quality control management. An analyzer (2) and a control device (1) are connected by a network (3). Error data and sample data taken from assay of a ... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7711522 | Systems and methods for monitoring a machine Systems and methods are provided for monitoring a machine. In one implementation, a system for monitoring the machine includes a monitoring server in communication with a machine. The monitoring server receives data from the machine, estimates, based on the received... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7707010 | Sample analyzer and error information displaying method The invention provides a sample analyzer by which a position of any error status in the sample analyzer can be easily found by a user to allow the user to carry out an error recovery operation in an accurate and prompt manner. The sample analyzer 1 comprises ... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7680629 | System and method for providing notes in measurement devices A measurement device with capabilities of note taking. The measurement device comprises at least one measurement component, adapted to perform measurement in at least one measuring event of the measurement device; a note control component, adapted to obtain and reco... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7627457 | Using highly skewed clocks for application based tracing and application based normalization of processor clocks in an SMP environment A computer-implemented method, for application based tracing and for normalization of processor clocks in a symmetric multiprocessor environment. By deliberately establishing a large skew among processor clocks, it is possible to perform application based tracing by... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7627456 | Dynamically tasking one or more surveillance resources In one embodiment, a system for dynamically tasking one or more surveillance resources includes a first logical layer identifying a collection requirement (CR) and a second logical layer identifying one or more surveillance resources in the CR. Each of the surveilla... | 12/01/2009 |
