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Patent No. 6099319

Neuroimaging as a Marketing Tool

Neuroimaging as a means for validating whether a stimulus such as advertisement, communication, or product evokes a certain mental response such as emotion, preference, or memory, or to predict the consequences of the stimulus on later behavior such as consumption or purchasing.

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Examiner: Wong, K.


Primary examiner statistics: 430 patents; average approval time: 430 days
Assistant examiner statistics: 334 patents; average approval time: 1207 days

Patents as Primary Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
8189284 Quiet retraction system
8184394 Transducer head assemblies and modules
8164578 Linear shape processing device, linear shape processing method, i...
8159775 Vibration identification and attenuation system and method
8154491 Overdrive method for anti-double edge of LCD
8144417 Dynamic system control method
8144419 Disk drive detecting head touchdown from microactuator signal
8144421 Radial position seek tuning for acoustic performance
8144416 Hard disk driving circuit and method of driving spindle motor
8139309 Negative biasing a slider with respect to a disk to reduce slider...
8139311 Apparatus, method and program for controlling writing of data by ...
8139310 Fly height sensor control circuit
8134793 Methods and systems for fast release of data from a host by a dis...
8125727 Disk drive and method for adjusting common-mode voltage of an ele...
8125728 Disk drive, head-slider and method for controlling clearance of a...
8111476 Disk drive spin control
8107183 Method and device for hard drive shock event detection
8098452 Flying height measurement
8098451 Systems and methods for variable fly height measurement
8093888 Head assembly drive mechanism, head holder, magnetic head tester ...
8085491 Method of determining flying height of magnetic head
8085490 Slider fly-height control in a hard disk drive
8085038 Method for testing noise of thin-film magnetic head, and magnetic...
8081395 Continuous digital offset cancellation
8077428 Disk drive correcting position error signal based on velocity of ...
8077423 Fly-height touchdown detection circuits and methods
8077420 Method and apparatus for adaptive control and/or use of a vibrati...
8072703 Disk drive detecting when head is parked on ramp
8068306 Write quality of HDD heads experiencing temporary fly-height prob...
8068298 Harmonic selection for track following on a hard disk drive
8059356 Disk drive and method for head servo control of the disk drive
8059359 Data sector phase correction method and disk drive apparatus usin...
8059355 Dual stage head actuator assembly for tape drive
8045287 Self-servo-write method with repeatable runout compensation
8023220 Method for writing servo data to a disk and disk drive configured...
8023221 Position gain calibration in disk drives
8018673 Disk drive, method for measuring clearance and method for writing...
8014092 Method of detecting bad servo track in hard disk drive
8009380 Disk drive and method for controlling clearance in the disk drive
8004789 Detection and acquisition of a servo pattern subject to lateral m...

Patents as Assistant Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
7099099 Mobile device and disk drive restricted from reading a data stora...
7019927 Information signal recording and playback method and apparatus th...
6995944 Head positioning control method for a storage device and head pos...
6987638 Method and apparatus for applying adaptive non-linear repeatable ...
6977788 Method and apparatus for adjusting angular position of magnetic h...
6975477 Micro actuator DC gain calibration scheme for HDD dual-stage actu...
6970317 Recording medium control method and recording medium adapter
6967806 Electrostatic actuator with multilayer electrode stack
6965487 Controller for information recording and reproducing device and c...
6958882 Shock control for rotational recording apparatus
6958877 Brushless motor and disk drive apparatus
6958878 Forced backhitch for speed matching in a multi-speed tape drive
6950272 Method and apparatus for the acoustic improvement of the pulsed c...
6950267 Disk drive measuring pole tip protrusion by performing a write op...
6947244 Servo pattern writing method and apparatus thereof
6943975 Automatic library for data storage tape cartridges
6940674 Recording medium and apparatus for protecting copyrighted digital...
6940679 Method and apparatus for increasing track density by adapting wri...
6940676 Triple push-pull optical tracking system
6937424 Repeatable runout (RRO) compensation methods and apparatus for da...
6937410 Apparatus and method employed in disk drive to enable single sign...
6937417 Disk drive device
6934110 Apparatus to generate an adaptive track zero crossing signal in a...
6930850 Head clamping apparatus for magnetic disk tester and magnetic dis...
6930852 Method of and apparatus for preventing generating of off-tracking...
6927934 Magnetic disk apparatus
6924958 Read/write transducer for hard disk drives with optical position ...
6922300 Actuator latch device of hard disk drive
6920007 Load/unload method and a magnetic disk drive using the method
6917489 Apparatus and method for performing seek-servo routine of hard di...
6912101 INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND METHOD OF AUTOMATICALLY SELECTING AN INTER...
6909572 Disk drive system and method for operating same
6898043 Dual stage enclosure for servo track writer utilizing low-density...
6894859 Apparatus and method for reproducing information, and storage med...
6891692 Disk drive apparatus, head position control method, and hard disk...
6888692 Method and apparatus for implementing intelligent spin-up for a d...
6885515 Library for data storage tape cartridges
6882494 Sensor system for disk device using floating head
6879457 Timing based servo with fixed distances between transitions
6876509 Integrated electrostatic slider fly height control
 
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