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| 8364431 | Field device calibration A calibrator for field devices is provided. In one aspect, the calibrator has the ability to communicate in accordance with at least two process communication protocols, and tests an attached process connection before engaging communication. In another aspect, the c... | 01/29/2013 |
| 8190369 | System and method for stress field based wellbore steering A system and method for the geomechanical steering of the orientation of a wellbore is disclosed. In one embodiment, any available a priori data regarding the stress characteristics of a region of interest are used to develop a preliminary stress model for the regio... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8117000 | Measuring quantum states of superconducting resonators A method for measuring the quantum state of a resonator includes, exciting an input port of a circuit with signal, measuring a phase shift of the signal at an output port of the circuit, wherein the resonator is coupled to the input and the output ports, and calcula... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8103477 | System and method for measuring and reporting changes in walking speed A system and method for identifying a change in walking speed of a person is provided. The system comprises a plurality of sensors disposed in various rooms of a structure. The system may also include a processor-based system that may receive signals representative ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8082114 | Method for characterizing the endurance limit of a part from its surface profile The invention concerns a method for characterizing the endurance limit of a part from the state of its surface including the following steps: reading geometrical data describing the surface profile of the zone the endurance limit of which is to be determined, applyi... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8073635 | Method of quantitation by mass spectrometry Quantitation is performed using data from a mass spectrometer. A calibration ion mass spectrum is acquired for each of a plurality of known quantities of a material. From the calibration spectra a plurality of ions that identify the material is determined, and for e... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073650 | Dimension measuring apparatus An exemplar dimension measuring apparatus includes a objective, a stage for fixing a workpiece, a projecting member located between the objective and the stage, a light source under the stage, configured for illuminating the workpiece such that a projection of the w... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073643 | Semiconductor device A semiconductor device which includes a power switch connecting an internal power supply in which power is not shut down and an internal power supply in which power is shut down, and an internal voltage determining circuit for determining the voltage of the internal... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073624 | Technique and system to process a seismic signal to determine an attribute of a geological layer A technique includes receiving seismic data indicative of a signal, which is produced by the interaction of reflection interfaces with a source wavelet. The reflection interfaces are associated with boundaries of a geological layer. The technique includes processing... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8069014 | Methods and systems for high confidence utilization of datasets Methods and systems for high-confidence utilization of datasets are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes selecting a metric for determining substantially optimal combination of true positives and false positives in a data set, applying an optimization t... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8060312 | System and method for migrating seismic data A system and method that enable the processing of seismic data. In one embodiment, a system comprises a plurality of processing nodes and a server. The plurality of processing nodes are configured to process seismic data for migration. The server is operatively link... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8050886 | Motion plane correction for MEMs-based input devices An electronic motion-based input device and method for correcting errors in acceleration due to a deviation from a horizontal plane of motion by correcting for gravitational acceleration components due to the deviation in the plane of motion. ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8046176 | Device and method for determining material moisture by thermogravimetry A device and a method for determining material moisture by thermogravimetry. Included in the device are: a test chamber (2) delimited by a chamber cover (8); a microwave field that can be generated by a magnetron (5) and supplied to the test cha... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041542 | Method and apparatus for equipment health monitoring The present invention provides for monitoring the health of a system. In one embodiment, a method includes storing benchmark data in a memory, storing a second plurality of system data indicative of system conditions during system operations, determining from the se... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8041541 | Methods and apparatus for data analysis A method and apparatus for data analysis according to various aspects of the present invention is configured to automatically identify a characteristic of a fabrication process for components based on test data for the components. ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036852 | Methods, systems and formats for data, such as data used in laser projection of fasteners used in manufacturing A system and method provides data for a laser projection process used in manufacturing involving fasteners. For example, the laser projection process may include projecting a laser image associated with fasteners used to assemble objects. Fastener attribute data may... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8027794 | System and method for measuring properties of liquid in multiphase mixtures This disclosure describes measuring properties of a multiphase mixture flowing in a pipe using probes with different sensitivity depths. By generating annular flow of the multiphase mixture in the pipe, the probes may be contacted with the liquid phase of the mixtur... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8024133 | System for detecting and estimating concentrations of gas or liquid analytes A sensor system for detecting and estimating concentrations of various gas or liquid analytes. In an embodiment, the resistances of a set of sensors are measured to provide a set of responses over time where the resistances are indicative of gas or liquid sorption, ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8011021 | Correlation of data of a control and/or data transmission system and of a system model representing it Methods are disclosed for testing the functionality of a system element to be used inside a control and/or data processing system as well as, in essentially the opposite direction, for designing a system model having at least one transmission function for modeling a... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8010323 | Information providing system and analyzer An information providing system comprises an analyzer and an information server communicatively connected to the analyzer through a network, which stores coping information regarding apparatus abnormalities of the analyzer, and the analyzer obtains the coping inform... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8010302 | Tool path display apparatus for machine tool First and second screens are set for a tool path display apparatus for displaying a path of the tip of a tool attached to a machine tool. The first screen displays the three-dimensional path of the tip of the tool obtained by synthesizing the position information of... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7996170 | System and method for sorting data A method and apparatus that enables a user to sort data from one or more sample lots, which may be obtained via a network, such as the Internet, into a composite parameter structure. The composite parameter structure is a function of one or more parameters correspon... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7991568 | Digital multimeter with automatic measurement selection function A digital multimeter comprising a measured object input terminal, conversion circuit for a fast analog/digital converter, microprocessor, auxiliary program-controlled voltage or current source, potential divider network, electronic switches, and display. Compared wi... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7991586 | Device for transmitting measured values A device for transmitting measured values having a sensor module including miniaturized components and an evaluation unit, in which the sensor module has connections for different sensors, one or more sensors are connected to the sensor module, and the sensor detect... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7991581 | Method and system for analyzing interlinked production processes for manufacturing a product A method and system for analyzing interlinked production processes for manufacturing a product are provided. Static and dynamic input data for at least one product parameter or process parameter are acquired. At least one degree of freedom of the at least one produc... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7987066 | Components and configurations for test and valuation of integrated optical busses An apparatus and method is provided for the testing of an optical bus, that method having: loading transmission test data and address information for at least one receiving cell via an electronic bus in a first register; setting a clock rate for the optical bus; emp... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7983860 | Method and system for monitoring power consumption of a computer component A system (10) and method for monitoring power consumption of a computer system component, such as a central processing unit (CPU), of a desktop computer system. The component is supplied with supply power from a power supply unit (22) of the computer t... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7979229 | Displacement control signal correction method, displacement control device, construction machine and displacement control signal correction program The present invention includes: a displacement altering unit for generating a displacement control pressure corresponding to a displacement control signal; an input unit for inputting a target displacement; a pressure calculating unit for calculating a displacement ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 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 |
| 7974805 | Image sensor and method Described herein are methods that may improve yield of an image sensor. In one embodiment, a method that may improve yield of an image sensor includes generating output values of control logic associated with an array of light sensitive elements. The method further ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974791 | Method for the optimization of stress distribution in acoustic thermography applications In a method for the optimization of stress distribution on an object to be tested for flaws by ultrasound excitation and evaluation based on resulting surface temperature distribution,—a simulation is performed under test conditions on a CAD model of the object pr... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974796 | Fully-charged battery capacity detection method A fully-charged battery capacity detection method detects first and second no-load voltages (VOCV1, VOCV2) of a battery at first no-load timing and second no-load timing, respectively. Further, first and second remaining capacities (SOC1 [%], SO... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7970556 | System and method for monitoring the condition of a gear assembly A system and method for monitoring the condition of a gear assembly analyzes a signal output by a vibration detector that is attached to the gear assembly. Each time that an amplitude of the signal output from the vibration detector exceeds a threshold value, the sy... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970583 | Degraded actuator detection An actuator control system is disclosed that includes an actuator continuously movable between multiple positions. The controller is configured to command the actuator to a desired actuator position and to apply the command to an actuator model. The controller is co... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970573 | Techniques for determining orientation of a three-axis accelerometer A method, apparatus, and article containing computer instructions are described. Embodiments may use accelerometer data regarding forward motion by a wearer of a three-axis on-body accelerometer. Embodiments may further measure an acceleration due to gravity on each... | 06/28/2011 |
| 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 |
| 7962307 | Integrated apparatus for measuring static pressure An apparatus for measuring a static pressure inside a component is provided. The apparatus includes a housing coupled to the component, the housing includes a moveable component disposed therein, the moveable component operably extendable into the component and retr... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7962296 | Module for data acquisition and control in a sensor/control network A data acquisition and/or control module (101) for interfacing with a device (115) is provided. The module (101) and device (115) form part of a sensor/control network. The module (101) comprises a transceiver (103) for rece... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7957929 | Drug dispensing apparatus A drug dispensing apparatus including a cassette for containing drugs in an aligned state, a rotor disposed at one open end of the cassette, a pushing unit for pushing the drugs toward the rotor, a drive mechanism for pivoting the rotor alternately between a dispens... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7953563 | Determining effects of turbine blades on fluid motion Disclosed is a technique for simulating wind interaction with wind turbines. A turbine blade is divided into radial sections. The effect that each of these radial sections has on the velocities in Eulerian computational cells they overlap is determined. The effect i... | 05/31/2011 |
