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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7463989 | Waveform recorder apparatus and method A method for recording and having analyzed waveform data associated with an electronic circuit breaker having an electronic trip unit is disclosed. The electronic trip unit has a communication port and is capable of providing to the communication port a first signal... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7463991 | Mass flow verifier with flow restrictor A flow verifier for verifying measurement of a flow rate of a fluid by a device includes a flow restrictor that renders the flow rate verification substantially insensitive to elements upstream of the flow restrictor. The flow verifier includes a vessel that receive... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7464003 | System and method for change detection of information or type of data A method is provided of determining the how information from any information system changes over time. WebPages A through WebPages Z with nodes A through Z, are located, where A through Z are integers. Timestamp values for each of a node from A through Z are retriev... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7460983 | Signal analysis system and calibration method A method and apparatus adapted to calibrate a signal path of a signal analysis system such that loading effects of the system are substantially removed from measurements of a device under test. A signal under test from the device under test is coupled to a test prob... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7460977 | Method and apparatus for alignment of components Methods and apparatus are described for aligning components. Misalignment is calculated based on sensed values with a controller illustrating a process for data acquisition with graphical icons and indicia that include and/or are based on sensed data. The alignment ... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7460981 | Methods and systems for determining a presence of macro and micro defects on a specimen Methods and systems for monitoring semiconductor fabrication processes are provided. A system may include a stage configured to support a specimen and coupled to a measurement device. The measurement device may include an illumination system and a detection system. ... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7460972 | Methods and systems for performing real-time wireless temperature measurement for semiconductor substrates A monitor device includes a substrate and a plurality of temperature sensors disposed in the substrate. The monitor device also includes a processor coupled to the substrate and adapted to receive one or more signals from the plurality of temperature sensors. The pr... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7457721 | Method and apparatus for measuring small displacement Without using an interferometer, small displacement and/or three-dimensional shape of an object is detected in a noncontact way with high accuracy using pseudo-phase information calculated from e.g., a speckle pattern having a spatially random structure. A speckle i... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7454315 | System and method for automatic redirection of a product under transport using an environmental sensor Systems and methods disclosed herein use environmental sensor technology to enhance the tracking and transporting capabilities of a product delivery system. The systems and methods provide the capability to track and verify the environmental condition(s) to which a ... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7454292 | Inverse-vector method for smoothing dips and azimuths A system and method using inverse-vector processing to iterate through a loop of three steps: set a guide direction, invert opposite vectors, and average vectors to update the guide direction, for smoothing seismic amplitude data. The inverse-vector method can overc... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7454299 | Device and method for detecting an end of a movement of a valve piston in a valve A device is embodied for detecting a first variable that is representative of an induced voltage induced by a movement of a valve piston in the coil of a valve. The device is further embodied for determining a second variable representative of a first derivation of ... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7451054 | Method of using a wafer-temperature-dependent profile library A method for facilitating an ODP measurement of a semiconductor wafer. The method includes obtaining real time wafer characteristic data for a measurement site on said wafer and detecting a measured diffraction signal from a structure within the measurement site of ... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7451049 | Automatic delays for alignment of signals In one embodiment, a system comprises a delay determining unit that may be operable to determine a relative delay between the first signal provided by the first source and the second signal provided by the second source, based upon a travel path of the first signal ... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7447611 | Power generation performance analysis system and method A system and method is described herein that includes a software-based functionality to assess the relationship between reliability, operational, maintenance and plant betterment activities and to determine the frontier of efficient spending and other measures of pe... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7447597 | Data processing/visualization method for two (multi) dimensional separation gas chromatography xmass spectrometry (GCxMS) technique with a two (multiply) dimensional separation concept as an example This invention is a data processing/visualization method which includes the software development and operation to apply to any multi-dimensional separation. The GC-MS analysis of diesel is an example to demonstrate this software development and operation. The steps ... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7444253 | Air bridge structures and methods of making and using air bridge structures A probe card assembly, according to some embodiments of the invention, can comprise a tester interface configured to make electrical connections with a test controller, a plurality of electrically conductive probes disposed to contact terminals of an electronic devi... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7433785 | Method for predicting grain size distribution from reservoir thickness The present invention is a method for predicting the grain size distribution at a designated location within a water-lain sedimentary deposit. Initially, the vertical thickness of the sedimentary deposit at the designated location must be determined, as well as the ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430491 | Tractor-trailer having self-contained apparatus on-board tractor for estimating trailer weight A method and system for estimating weight of a trailer (10) being towed by a tractor (22) along a generally horizontal underlying surface. A portion of the trailer weight is borne on the tractor fifth wheel (26) and the remainder by rear wheels ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7426439 | Method and apparatus for marine seismic data acquisition The present invention provides a method and apparatus for seismic data acquisition. One embodiment of the method includes accessing data acquired by at least two particle motion sensors. The data includes a seismic signal and a noise signal and the at least two part... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7424403 | Low power vibration sensor and wireless transmitter system A low power vibration sensor and wireless transmitter system has one or more sensors that sense parameters of a machine including vibration and produces dynamic signals representing the sensed parameters. The system converts the signals to a digital format, digitall... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7424388 | Motion determining apparatus and storage medium having motion determining program stored thereon Acceleration data which is output from an acceleration sensor is obtained. A rotation motion of an input device around a predetermined direction as a rotation axis is determined by comparing a start point in a two-dimensional coordinate system which is represented b... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7421369 | Activity recognition apparatus, method and program There is provided an activity recognition apparatus for detecting an activity of a subject. The apparatus includes: a sensor unit including a plurality of linear motion sensors configured to detect linear motions and a plurality of rotational motion sensors, the lin... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7421360 | Method and apparatus for handling a user-defined event that is generated during test of a device In one embodiment, and in response to an ordered sequence of events corresponding to execution of a plurality of tests on at least one device under test (DUT), 1) a plurality of data objects are created, the data objects including A) some data objects that correspon... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7421349 | Bearing fault signature detection A device, and method, detects the presence of developing faults in rolling element bearings. Detection is accomplished by measuring the vibration of the apparatus in which the bearing is operating (motor, generator, engine, etc.) and searching for signatures unique ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7421359 | Detecting back electromotive force voltage A Bemf detect circuit is configured for modeling Bemf error via calculation of time correlations associated with two or more different non-calibrated sense resistor gain values to derive a calibrated sense resistor gain value. A method is provided for calibrating a ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7421375 | Organic electroluminescent device and driving method thereof The present invention relates to an organic electroluminescent device and a driving method thereof. The organic electroluminescent device according to the present invention comprises a plurality of scan lines in a first direction, a plurality of data lines in a seco... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7415376 | Valve tester control enhancements A valve tester system is disclosed that comprises a valve tester assembly for rotating a valve stem of a valve. The valve tester assembly may include a support, a rotation element mounted on the support for rotating a valve during a rotation event, a control element... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7415383 | Compiling method, apparatus, and program Brings response time of a Web server and the like closer to a targeted value. A controller controlling the average response time elapsed between reception by information processing apparatus of a processing request and response of information processing apparatus to... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7412338 | Radio frequency device within an energy sensor system An energy measurement system including a radio frequency (“RF”) device powered by a solar panel. The RF device comprising a wireless communication port operative to transmit and receive communication over a wireless network of additional RF devices. The energy m... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7412356 | Detection and quantification system for monitoring instruments A method of detecting real events by obtaining a set of recent signal results, calculating measures of the noise or variation based on the set of recent signal results, calculating an expected baseline value based on the set of recent signal results, determining sam... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7403857 | Enhanced measurement of azimuthal dependence of subterranean parameters with filters and/or discretely sampled data A method for estimating an azimuthal dependence of a parameter of a borehole using logging sensor measurements acquired as a function of azimuth of the logging sensors is provided. The method includes acquiring at least one logging sensor measurement and a correspon... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7403874 | Method and system for prioritizing formatting actions of a number of data formatters In one embodiment, a method of prioritizing formatting actions of a number of data formatters 1) instantiates a number of threads for execution by a processing system, the number of threads sharing thread processing resources, and the number of threads including at ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7401007 | Method, computer program and apparatus for extracting large size signal data samples with an automatically adjusted decimation ratio A method for rapidly extracting data file samples with an a signal monitor and an automatically adjusted decimation ratio is provided to solve the long-standing problems caused by large data files and small buffers by reducing a large data segment to a smaller, more... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7398171 | Automated quality control method and system for genetic analysis Aspects of the present invention describe a method and apparatus for automating quality control for gene expression data. A computer based device receives gene expression data associated with a spectral species and genetic sample in each well of a plate. Gene expres... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7398182 | Method and device for detecting degradation of performance of an aircraft An aircraft performance degradation detection system may include information sources, a central unit connected to the information sources, and a warning device that is connected to the central unit. Using information received from the information sources, the centra... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7398180 | Vehicle technician time clock tool A vehicle technician time clock tool comprises a computer-implemented interface to a database, wherein the database contains vehicle service task-related information and time-related information, the vehicle service task-related information and time-related informat... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7398176 | Battery testers with secondary functionality An electronic vehicle tester includes a battery tester configured to measure a parameter of a battery of a vehicle. A tire tester is configured to receive a parameter of a tire of the vehicle. A wireless receiver can be configured to receive pressure information fro... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7392159 | Method and apparatus of capacity learning for computer systems and applications The present invention provides a method of determining a metric of capacity in computing systems and computer applications. Capacity in this sense refers to the ability of computer systems and computer applications to perform work. Many applications and multi-hop sy... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7389200 | Incremental encoding and decoding apparatus and method An incremental encoding and decoding apparatus and method are provided. The incremental encoding and decoding apparatus comprises current converters, which respectively receive the pair of analog signals and convert the received analog signals into current signals e... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7383144 | Method and apparatus for calibration of an on-chip temperature sensor within a memory device According to embodiments of the present invention, an automatic trim or calibration for a temperature sensor of a chip or memory device is performed on that chip. An embodiment of the present invention includes a calibration unit that increments trim or calibration ... | 06/03/2008 |
