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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190393 | Helicopter blade position detector A position detector for detecting the position of a helicopter blade includes a sensor to generate a signal in dependence on the position of a helicopter blade with respect to the sensor, and a data processing module arranged to receive the signal from the sensor an... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190398 | Environmental radioactivity measurement system of administration and an analysis method of the radioactivity At a worksite of a client, progeny nuclides of radon and thoron are collected into a filter, then making the gross measurement on α-ray amount within an hour from the collection. Next, the filter is sent to an analysis center with information added thereto, such as... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185345 | Device and method to monitor consumables consumed by animal Described is a consumption monitoring device for monitoring the amount of consumables consumed by an animal during a monitoring period. More specifically, the consumption monitoring device measures the weight of the consumables, which are contained within a receptac... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185358 | Apparatus for measuring distortion power quality index and method of operating the apparatus A method of measuring a power quality index. A total current waveform of an ingress from a customer, and a current waveform and a voltage waveform of each of at least one load installed at the customer are measured. A load composition (LC) of the customer using the ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180576 | Data processor for mass spectrometer When a target substance's composition formula is deduced by using a mass spectrometer, if the target substance's composition formula is deduced based on an MSn spectrum and candidates are found, a composition formula candidate list including all the compo... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180589 | System for managing recipes for operating a measurement device A semiconductor wafer inspection device which identifies an operator when an operation is performed and checks if the requested operation is permitted is provided. In a device that has already performed an operator authentication, the operator identification is furt... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180581 | Systems and methods for identifying correlated variables in large amounts of data Groups of correlated representations of variables are identified from a large amount of spectrometry data. A plurality of samples is analyzed and a plurality of measured variables is obtained from a spectrometer. A processor executes a number of steps. The plurality... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175844 | Determining an encoding type of data Implementations of the present disclosure provide for determining an encoding type of data. Implementations include receiving a data set from a computer-readable storage medium, decoding the data set using a first encoding type to provide a first plurality of number... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170832 | Measurement and endpointing of sample thickness A method for Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) sample creation. The use of a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)—Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope (STEM) detector in the dual-beam focused ion beam (FIB)/SEM allows a sample to be thinned using the FIB, ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170831 | Apparatus and method for measuring dimension of circular object The invention provides an apparatus and a method for measuring a dimension of a circular object. First to third sensors arranged in a straight line are disposed above a track to respectively measure time instants when the circular object moves past the first to thir... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165836 | Measurement apparatus and computer readable medium storing program for measuring error of a quadrature demodulator or quadrature modulator A measurement apparatus that measures, as an error under measurement, at least one of a gain error and a phase error of a quadrature demodulator or a quadrature modulator as a measurement target. The measurement apparatus includes an output control section that caus... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165835 | Complex wavelet filter based power measurement and calibration system A power measurement and calibration system provides power and line frequency measurements by using a bandpass filter having complex voltage and current outputs from which real and imaginary power components can be determined. Calibration of the filter may be omitted... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160838 | Apparatus and method for visualizing environmental conditions in a data center using wireless sensor networks Various embodiments provide an apparatus and method for visualizing environmental conditions in a data center using wireless sensor networks. An example embodiment includes: establishing communication with a plurality of networked environmental sensors deployed at p... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155891 | Integrated in-line oil monitoring apparatus Various embodiments of an oil monitoring apparatus are provided. In one embodiment, an oil monitoring apparatus includes a probe and an analyzing module in-line connected to the probe. The probe includes: a first sensor for measuring respective optical intensities o... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155897 | Test apparatus, transmission system, program, and recording medium Provided is a semiconductor test apparatus that tests a device under test, comprising a test unit that tests a device under test; and a serial transmitting section that transmits transmission data back and forth between the test unit and a control section controllin... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150644 | Femtosecond spectroscopy using minimum or maximum phase functions A method determines a transient response of a sample. The method includes providing a measured magnitude of the Fourier transform of a complex electric field temporal profile of a pulse sequence comprising a first pulse indicative of the transient response of the sa... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150656 | Detection of objects or other materials in a receptacle Sensors and techniques for an automated data acquisition and notification system having a plurality of receptacles adapted to store items. In each of the plurality of receptacles, at least one sensor is operated to detect a presence of an item in that receptacle. Li... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150643 | Method of detecting system function by measuring frequency response Real-time battery impedance spectrum is acquired using a one-time record. Fast Summation Transformation (FST) is a parallel method of acquiring a real-time battery impedance spectrum using a one-time record that enables battery diagnostics. An excitation current to ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145442 | Fast and accurate estimation of gate output loading Embodiments of a computer system, a method, an integrated circuit and a computer-program product (i.e., software) for use with the computer system are described. These devices and techniques may be used to analyze an electrical characteristic of a logic gate electri... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8135560 | Sensor system for semiconductor manufacturing apparatus A chamber monitoring system may include a parallel architecture in which a single sensor control system is coupled to a number of different processing chamber control board sensor lines. In an illustrative embodiment, a single rotation sensor such as a tachometer ma... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135563 | Apparatus and method for evaluating the performance of systems having time-varying output characteristics An apparatus for evaluating a system. The apparatus can include a storage element for receiving at least one time-varying output characteristic of the system, the time-varying output characteristic comprising a plurality of raw data points representing a plurality o... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135547 | Detection apparatus and method utilizing membranes and ratio of transmembrane pressures The failure of an upstream filtration membrane, or the presence of a foulant in a fluid is detected using a membrane-based detector. The fluid or an effluent from the filtration membrane is directed to permeate through a first permeable membrane, and from the first ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8126678 | Methods of monitoring electronic displays within a display network Methods of monitoring one or more electronic displays are disclosed. A method may include performing at least one diagnostic operation on at least one electronic display having at least one camera, a display element, and a display server. Further, the method may inc... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126664 | Detection, localization and interpretation of partial discharge In order to detect, localize and interpret a partial discharge occurring in a partial discharge site along an electrical equipment, two measurement probes and a synchronization probe are installed along the electrical equipment. The measurement probes detect pulses ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8116998 | Battery health assessment estimator A battery state of health estimator and similar method, system and computer product is disclosed providing for a estimate of a state of health (SOH) of one or more batteries, comprising, estimating a sampling of internal resistances of the one or more batteries, gen... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116996 | System and method utilizing virtual switching for upgrading multifunction devices A system and method utilizing virtual switching in an electrical panel meter or multifunction device is provided. The virtual switching enables the meter or multifunction device to be upgraded or downgraded through a switching signal, by activating or deactivating m... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112247 | Resource adaptive spectrum estimation of streaming data Introduced herein is a “resource adaptive” algorithm for spectrum and periodicity estimation on a continuous stream of data. The formulation is based on the derivation of a closed-form incremental computation of the spectrum, augmented by a load-shedding scheme ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112240 | Method and apparatus for providing leak detection in data monitoring and management systems Method and apparatus for providing a leak detection circuit for a data monitoring and management system using the guard trace of a glucose sensor by applying a leak detection test signal to determine whether a leakage current is present is provided. The leak detecti... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8103479 | Two dimensional exponential smoothing A method of estimating the average response time and average I/O size that can be used as an alternative for or addition to existing response time and I/O estimation techniques. One method involves initializing values for an average response time and an average I/O ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103468 | Methods and devices for evaluating the operating characteristics of a DBR laser diode In accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure, a method of evaluating the operating characteristics of a Distributed Bragg Reflector (DBR) laser diode is provided. According to the method, a diagnostic electrical current is injected into the wavelength... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8095328 | Systems and methods for monitoring moving surfaces This present specification provides, amongst other things, an electro-optical monitoring system for obtaining a once-per-revolution signal based on the surface reflection of a rotating device that mandates non-contacting sensor input in potentially hostile environme... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8095336 | Systems and methods for determining whether to add a landmark for visual simultaneous localization and mapping The invention is related to methods and apparatus that use a visual sensor and dead reckoning sensors to process Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). These techniques can be used in robot navigation. Such visual techniques can be used to autonomously genera... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090556 | Power distribution network performance data presentation system and method A visualization system for monitoring performance data of an electrical power distribution network is provided. In one embodiment, a user may select a network circuit and view a network circuit diagram that includes indicia representing transformers and other electr... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086419 | Systems and methods for adding landmarks for visual simultaneous localization and mapping The invention is related to methods and apparatus that use a visual sensor and dead reckoning sensors to process Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). These techniques can be used in robot navigation. Such visual techniques can be used to autonomously genera... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086425 | Autonomous fitness for service assessment Autonomous fitness for continuing service assessment equipment interacts with the operator through natural speech, voice and sound and provides active failure prevention through automatic and/or continuous fitness for service assessment of a material under evaluatio... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082117 | Optical image processing using minimum phase functions A method utilizes an optical image processing system. The method includes providing a measured magnitude of the Fourier transform of a complex transmission function of an object or optical image. The method further includes providing an estimated phase term of the F... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8082122 | Mobile device having a motion detector A system and method for detecting motion by a mobile device is provided. The mobile device determines whether motion is detected by a motion detector. The motion detection is sampled at a first sampling rate when no motion is detected for a specified time. The motio... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8073656 | High bandwidth oscilloscope for digitizing an analog signal having a bandwidth greater than the bandwidth of digitizing components of the oscilloscope A method for improving bandwidth of an oscilloscope involves, in preferred embodiments, the use of frequency up-conversion and down-conversion techniques. In an illustrative embodiment the technique involves separating an input signal into a high frequency content a... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073636 | Method and device for determining the composition of a gas mixture of a fuel tank of a motor vehicle filled with CNG Systems and methods for determining the gas composition of a gas mixture in a fuel tank of a motor vehicle filled with a compressed natural gas (CNG) mixture are provided. A pressure sensor and a temperature sensor are used to measure a gas pressure and a gas temper... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073639 | Method for identifying a convolved peak A method for identifying a convolved peak is described. A plurality of spectra is obtained. A multivariate analysis technique is used to assign data points from the plurality of spectra to a plurality of groups. A peak is selected from the plurality of spectra. If t... | 12/06/2011 |
