Data processing: generic control systems or specific applications inventions 12/07

20070299545 - Control of washing machines using color sensors: A system, method, and computer-readable medium encoded with software for monitoring and controlling a bath liquid, such as the wash water in a clothes washing machine, using a light source to illuminate the wash water, a light sensor for receiving light transmitted through or reflected off of the wash water,... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rhf)

20070299547 - Method, apparatus, and program product for efficiently adding entities and relationships in a comprehension state of a collection of information: Aspects of the disclosed technology present a workspace window responsive to a relationship data structure that represents a comprehension state including a presentation set of an ordered set of text strings from an electronic document. The presentation set includes one or more identified strings. The workspace window can then receive... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070299551 - Predicting movement of soft tissue of the face in response to movement of underlying bone: Predicting movement of soft tissue of the face in response to movement of underlying bone includes storing, for first subjects, data identifying movement of soft tissue of the face in response to movement of underlying bone, and using the data to predict, for a second subject, movement of soft tissue... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070299552 - Audio processing circuit and method: An audio processing circuit includes a clock synthesizer, a clock divider, a digital interpolator module, a sampling rate converter and a digital-to-analog converter. The clock synthesizer generates a base clock signal according to a sampling clock signal and a first reference clock signal. The clock divider generates a multiple frequency... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20070299546 - Automated, low profile drilling/bolting module with single button operation: A module is for use in drilling a borehole in a face of a mine passage using a drilling element and installing a bolt in the borehole once formed. The module may include a bolt holder for holding a plurality of bolts and a drilling element holder for holding a... Agent: King & Schickli, PLLC

20070299548 - Method for optimizing the operation of wind farms: A method for optimizing the operation of wind energy installations includes operating target and reference wind energy installations to optimize the target installation first using a first set of operating parameters and then using a second set of operating parameters different from the first operating parameters, recording target variables for... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070299549 - Nesting negotiation for self-mobile devices: Disparate robotic devices can be automatically recharged and reprogrammed by self-scheduling individual time slots for the available recharging area(s) of a charging station. These charging stations provide a nest to which each robot must return periodically for power. These nests can also provide new tasking or patches for the robotic... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070299550 - Three-dimensional guidance system and method , and drug delivery system: A three-dimensional guidance system of the present invention includes a bed (1) horizontally driven by a bed drive motor (11), a position detecting sensor (6) for detecting a position of a magnetic particle carrier (8), a plurality of electromagnets (3, 4, 5) arranged to surround the bed (1), and a... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070299553 - System and methods for automatic generation of component data: A method of manufacturing electronic circuits including generating CAD data, a bill of materials and an approved component vendor list for an electronic circuit and employing the CAD data, the bill of materials and the approved component vendor list for automatically generating a pick & place machine-specific component loading specification,... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070299554 - System and methods for automatic generation of component data: A method of manufacturing electronic circuits including generating CAD data, a bill of materials and an approved component vendor list for an electronic circuit and employing the CAD data, the bill of materials and the approved component vendor list for automatically generating a pick & place machine-specific component loading specification,... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070299555 - Products and processes for managing a vending machine transaction: Accordingly to an embodiment, a method includes providing an offer to receive a benefit in lieu of receiving change that is due from a transaction with a vending machine.... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20070299556 - Robot system and method for scrap bundling in metal smelting and refining processes: The scrap, which is the residual left from the anodes used, is obtained as waste material from the electrorefining process. The scrap should be bundled for commercialization purposes, and the current bundling process is performed manually, which implies high operating costs and a high physical demand from operators. Due to... Agent: Hugo Salamanca P.

20070299557 - Robot program correcting apparatus: A robot program correcting apparatus, which displays three-dimensional models of a robot (16) and a workpiece (17) simultaneously on the screen of a display apparatus (12), and corrects an operation program for said robot, comprises: a unit (25, 32) retrieving a robot operation program and a working position based on... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20070299558 - System and method having arm with cable passage through joint to infrared lamp: In one embodiment, a system is provided with a rotatable arm having a movable joint, an infrared lamp coupled to the rotatable arm, and an electrical cable extending through the rotatable arm and the movable joint. In another embodiment, a system is provided with a base and an arm coupled... Agent: Tait R. Swanson Fletcher Yoder

20070299559 - Evaluating visual proto-objects for robot interaction: An interactive robot comprises visual sensors, manipulators and a computer. The computer is configured to generate proto-objects from output signals from the visual sensors and store the proto-objects in memory of the computer. The proto-objects represent blobs of interest in an input field of the visual sensors identified at least... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070299560 - Energy-saving control methodology for engine-off hvac module used in over-the-road applications: An energy saving HVAC system for a passenger compartment of an over the road vehicle comprises a controllable air conditioner system for directing cooled air flow through the passenger compartment. A controllable heater system directs heated air flow through the passenger compartment. A user control panel includes user input devices... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20070299561 - Feedback mechanism for smart nozzles and nebulizers: Nozzles and nebulizers that can be adjusted to produce an aerosol with optimum and reproducible quality based on the feedback information obtained using laser imaging techniques are provides. Two laser-based imaging techniques based on particle image velocimetry (PIV) and optical patternation are provided to map and contrast the size and... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070299562 - Method and apparatus for temperature-based load management metering in an electric power system: A system for load control in an electrical power system is described, wherein one or more temperature-monitoring devices are provided to control power service to relatively high-load devices such as, for example, pool pumps, electric water heaters, electrics ovens etc. When ambient temperatures are relatively high, and thus, electrical power... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070299563 - Wound irrigation device: An apparatus includes a fluid permeable dressing and a cover membrane configured to extend over the fluid permeable dressing. A tube is coupled to the fluid permeable dressing and is configured to apply suction through the fluid permeable dressing. A fluid reservoir is coupled to the cover membrane, the fluid... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070293950 - Web content extraction: A system for extracting and saving web content for future reference, the system comprising an identifying means for allowing a user to identify the web content to be extracted and saved, a manipulation means for allowing the user to manipulate the identified web content such that it is extracted and... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070293953 - Power line communication terminal apparatus: A power line communication terminal apparatus disposed between a network device and a power line forming a power line network, comprises a disconnection detector detecting a disconnection state with the network device; and a state transition controller switching the internal circuits to a dormant state (energy saving mode), or to... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070293960 - Signal processing method, signal processing apparatus and recording medium: Provided is a signal processing method which can enhance the resolution of a spectrum round off by quantization and compensate energy of a spectrum truncated to zero by quantization so as to achieve reproduction without dissatisfaction or uncomfortable feeling. The selecting circuit selects a plurality of coefficients from coefficients of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070293966 - Specialty stents with flow control features or the like: Methods and systems are described for receiving a parameter relating to a specific patient and for configuring a stent with a flow occlusion portion in response to receiving the parameter relating to the specific patient.... Agent: Searete LLC

20070293963 - Stent customization system and method: Methods and systems are described for receiving a parameter relating to a specific patient, and for customizing one or more attributes of a stent ex situ as an at-least-roughly contemporaneous response to receiving the parameter relating to the specific patient or for customizing one or more junctions of a stent... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070293965 - Stent customization system and method: Methods and systems are described for receiving a parameter relating to a specific patient, and for customizing one or more attributes of a stent ex situ as an at-least-roughly contemporaneous response to receiving the parameter relating to the specific patient or for customizing one or more junctions of a stent... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070293951 - Monitoring apparatus: A monitoring apparatus that captures data in a router into a monitoring apparatus to cope with a communication abnormality in a monitoring system that uses the router, a modem, and a network. The monitoring apparatus comprises input modules 343, 345 for being input with a signal from a monitored object... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070293952 - Application and service management for industrial control devices: The subject invention provides systems and methods that facilitate accessing and management of information (e.g., instructions, executables, classes, objects . . . ) associated with a control system. The systems and methods enable a control system entity the ability to leverage functionality of another control system entity, for example, to... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20070293954 - Compact modular card system and communications protocols for a power controller: A 1/16 DIN power controller configuration is provided that includes a housing, a circuit board carrier disposed within the housing and capable of engaging at least three circuit boards within the housing, a power supply circuit board disposed within the housing and engaged by the circuit board carrier, and a... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070293955 - Audio/visual data communication system, audio/visual data transmitting device, and audio/visual data reproducing device: The present invention provides an audio/visual data communication system including an audio/visual data reproducing device capable of changing the type of data to be transmitted. Further, the present invention provides an audio/visual data transmitting device and an audio/visual data reproducing device forming the audio/visual data communication system. An audio data... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070293956 - Control system for plant and internal combustion engine: There is provided a control system for a plant and an internal combustion engine, which is capable of enhancing controllability and control accuracy in controlling a plurality of control amounts while eliminating a mutual interaction existing between a plurality of control inputs and the control amounts. The control system 1... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20070293957 - Control object model generation device and generation method: A control object model generation device of this invention includes a simulation computing unit (5) which executes simulation of a control system including a controlled system represented by a mathematical model and a controller represented by a controller algorithm, a model control feature amount computing unit (8) which computes a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070293958 - Optimizing traffic predictions and enhancing notifications: Travel-demand forecasting methods are described for predicting traffic volume based, at least in part, on user-entered data in the form of origin/destination data pairs, user preferences, demographic data and other types of socioeconomic data. This data can source a prediction algorithm or be used to calibrate or more make accurate... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070293959 - Apparatus, method and computer product for predicting a price of an object: A prediction apparatus that creates a prediction model using learning data, and calculates a prediction value using the prediction model, includes a model creating unit that creates a plurality of prediction models using the learning data, a residual-prediction-model creating unit that creates a residual prediction model that predicts a residual... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070293961 - Support method for treatment of products, support system for treatment of products and information processing apparatus: The information processing apparatus, according to a processing/control program, performs a treatment for identifying the product corresponding to the data capable of identifying products on the basis of the received data capable of identifying products and the plural product data stored in the memory means, and a treatment for generating... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070293962 - Design method for industrial product using clothoid curve, industrial products designed by the design method, and method and device for numerical control using the clothoid curve: A. [1] A trajectory of motion of the mechanical element is designed by using a three-dimensional curve (referred to as a three-dimensional clothoid curve) in which each of a pitch angle and a yaw angle in a tangential direction is given by a quadratic expression of a curve length or... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070293964 - Method for engineering a control system: The present method is a method to automate the repeatible process of application engineering microprocessor based control systems and creating the related documentation to submit for engineer approval and construct the control system. Prior to this method engineering every decision about point assignment, part selection, controller addressing et al was... Agent: Loeffler Jonas & Tuggey, LLP

20070293967 - Optimum shape design method and design system: An object of the present invention enables provision of an optimum shape design method in which an optimum shape of a cushioning material used in cushioning packaging can easily and adequately be designed, and an optimum shape design system in which the optimum shape design method is used. In a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070293968 - Automatic methods and systems for manufacturing recipe feedback control: Automatic methods and systems for manufacturing recipes feedback control. Relationships among manufacturing recipes are determined. Wafers are processed based on the manufacturing recipes. The wafers are measured by metrology tools after processing. Feedback information for the manufacturing recipes is acquired from the metrology tool. The manufacturing recipes are automatically modified... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley LLP

20070293969 - Mounting condition determining method, mounting condition determining device, and mounter: According to the present invention, mounting conditions are determined to become closer to a setting value of a parameter regarding electricity consumption. The present invention provides a method of determining mounting conditions under which a piece of equipment mounts a component onto a substrate. The method includes: obtaining a setting... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070293970 - Substrate processing apparatus and carrier adjusting system: An object of the present invention is to perform replacement of parts of a substrate processing apparatus more rapidly than that by the prior art. The present invention is a substrate processing apparatus constituted of a plurality of component parts for performing predetermined processing for a substrate, identification marks being... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070293971 - Brochure inventory and distribution tracking system: A brochure inventory and tracking system provides a method and apparatus for distributing and tracking brochures. A brochure inventory route is assigned to a driver of a vehicle. The brochure inventory route includes at least one brochure distribution point having at least one brochure rack having at least one brochure... Agent: Luedeka, Neely & Graham, P.C.

20070293972 - Preserving localization information from modeling to assembling: For manufacturing a hearing device a three-dimensional model (9) of the application area for the device at an individual is made. When digitally treating such model a three-dimensional orientation system is applied (11). When the shell is produced (13) assembling of units to the shell is performed relative to the... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070293973 - Device manufacturing method and computer program product: A method is provided wherein a lithographic projection apparatus is used to print a series of test patterns on a test substrate to measure printed critical dimension as function of exposure dose setting and focus setting. A full-substrate analysis of measured critical dimension data is modeled by a response model... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070293974 - Substrate processing system managing apparatus information of substrate processing apparatus: A substrate processing apparatus and an information storage server are connected with each other through a network. A storage part of the substrate processing apparatus stores set information and a control program, for controlling operation of the substrate processing apparatus according to the set information and the control program. The... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070293975 - Sheet material patterning apparatus, and method and program for same: The shape of a leather sheet is inputted though a digitizer. The shape of the leather sheet is disposed inside a rectangle, and dummy parts are arranged around the leather sheet. Assuming the dummy parts as arranged parts, other parts are blocked and other parts are arranged inside the shape... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20070293976 - Device for forming a jacquard type shed, a loom fitted with such a device, and a method of forming the shed on such a loom: This device for forming a Jacquard type shed comprises a plurality of electric actuators (61) and control means (C1, C21) for controlling each actuator (61) suitable for generating a signal (S211) representative of the value of at least one parameter (A). The control means comprise an analyzer (C′21) suitable for... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20070293977 - Preventative maintenance indicator system: A real time method and apparatus for indicating preventative maintenance in a molding system. The molding system could be a metal molding system or a plastics molding system. Real time threshold data is compared to real time operational parameter data as measured by sensors located on the molding system. If... Agent: Husky Injection Molding Systems, Ltd Co/amc Intellectual Property Grp

20070293978 - System and method for transporting inventory items: A method for transporting inventory items includes moving a mobile drive unit to a first point within a workspace. The first point is a location of an inventory holder. The method further includes docking the mobile drive unit with the inventory holder and moving the mobile drive unit and the... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070293979 - Method of sorting composite drugs: A method of sorting composite waste is provided. In some embodiments, the composite waste comprises two or more drugs, or two or more components. Composite waste is sorted efficiently and effectively using information regarding the different components in said waste, thus enabling proper disposal.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070293981 - Mail processing system: A mail processing system in which an estimated group of mail pieces is sorted in a mailroom area and delivered to a preset number of mailboxes is provided. The mail processing system includes a memory for storing information related to sorting and delivery and a processor that uses the sorting... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070293980 - Method and a system for tracking food items: The invention relates to an apparatus for processing food wherein food items are conveyed through processing stations where they are cut into pieces and optionally mixed with items originating differently. In particular, the invention relates to a system wherein information related to each food item and the positions of the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070293982 - Automatic prescription drug dispenser: An automatic prescription drug dispenser including a remote dispenser, a prescription entry system, and a communications network. The remote dispenser transmits and receives information from the communications network and dispenses prescription drugs to the patient. The prescription entry system transmits and receives information from the communications network and provides an... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070293983 - Prescription dispensing system: A prescription dispensing system having a dispensing station for holding an inventory of prescription medications, a secure internet connection to the dispensing station for access by a potential prescription medication recipient, by healthcare personnel in a physician office and by pharmacy personnel at the pharmacy distribution center in a remote... Agent: Husch & Eppenberger, LLC

20070293984 - Method for command transmission between systems: A method for command transmission between systems is introduced. The command transmission between the systems, such as a north bridge chip, a south bridge chip and a central processing unit (CPU), employs the signals transmission specified by a PCI Express bus originally for the communication between system chips or peripheral... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070293985 - Method, apparatus, and medium for building grid map in mobile robot and method, apparatus, and medium for cell decomposition that uses grid map: Provided are a method, apparatus, and medium for building a grid map in a mobile robot and a method, apparatus, and medium for cell decomposition using the grid map building method and apparatus. A mobile robot for building a grid map includes a grid map building unit obtaining grid points... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070293987 - Robot control apparatus: A robot control apparatus includes a control apparatus body fixedly installed and connected to a robot and a portable teaching pendant connected to the control apparatus body to operate the robot through the teaching pendant. The teaching pendant includes an imaging device connector for connecting an imaging device to the... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20070293986 - Robot simulation apparatus: A robot simulation apparatus, which lays out a shape model of a robot equipped with a hand, and shape models of a case and of work pieces contained therein on a display screen in a prescribed positional relationship, and simulates a picking operation of the robot, which picks the work... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20070293988 - Electromagnetic communication and connection system for self structuring and computing modules: An electromagnetic communication and connection system for self structuring and computing modules includes one or more inductors located on a connecting plate of a first module for communicating signals to one or more inductors located on a connecting plate of a second module. A computer processor and algorithm are utilized... Agent: Diederiks & Whitelaw, PLC

20070293989 - Multiple mode system with multiple controllers: The present invention relates to a system and method for intelligent mobile vehicles that can be used in unmanned robotic or manned modes, the system having a plurality of controllers, with a low-level controller that controls basic operating functions for the mobile vehicles, and a high-level controller used to issue... Agent: Deere & Company

20070293990 - Irrigation water conservation with temperature budgeting and time of use technology: The present invention provides numerous methods, systems and apparatus that use a novel form of water budgeting technology for water conservation without the use of complex ET (Evapotranspiration) data or methods. Embodiments include incorporating the technology directly into irrigation controllers, into modules added on to existing controllers, or into central... Agent: Mark D Miller Kimble, Macmichael & Upton

20070288098 - Computer and method for saving electricity consumed thereby: Disclosed is a method for saving electricity consumed by a computer. The method includes the steps of defining a plurality of items of service so that a user can select one of the items of service, identifying at least one device, driver and application corresponding to the selected item of... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070288099 - Navigation between application locations of resources in automation systems: There is described a method and a system allowing the use of at least one resource of a first automation system in at least one second automation system, whereby the resource is made available by the first automation system and an identification characteristic is used for the unique identification of... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070288101 - Method, system and computer program for generic synchronized motion control for multiple dynamic systems: The present invention provides a generic synchronized motion control system for multiple dynamic systems. Free choices of synchronization strategies are allowed with no implementation modification. Furthermore, synchronization selections are converted into a numerically searchable parameter space that enables systematic development, automated process, and performance optimization. In addition, the present invention... Agent: Miller Thompson, LLP

20070288105 - Method and apparatus for processing data, and computer product: Abnormal values of an objective variable are removed. A degree of association between an objective variable and a plurality of explanatory variables is calculated. A plurality of explanatory variables having a high degree of association are extracted. A degree of independence between the explanatory variables is calculated. A plurality of... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20070288110 - Audio signal processing apparatus and audio signal processing method: An audio signal processing apparatus includes a high-frequency components extraction means for extracting high-frequency components higher than a predetermined cutoff frequency from the input audio signal and supplying them to satellite speakers by way of a predetermined high frequency range amplifier, a low-frequency components extraction means for extracting low-frequency components... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070288108 - Process and system of energy signal detection: A process and system of energy signal detection, which improves sensitivity, performance and reliability thereof and reduces false alarms by distinguishing between noise and real signals, includes the steps of receiving a plurality of data samples and generating a predetermined number of constructed sample windows of constructed samples in time,... Agent: Raymond Y. Chan Suite 128

20070288109 - Sound system and method for electric model trains: An electronic sound chip stores digitized sounds. A PIC processor controls sound card operation, utilizing a free comparator present in the PIC processor that detects variable DC offsets, and thereby activates at least one “voice” or channel of sound. The system self-calibrates on the initial power on, and the calibration... Agent: Donald W. Meeker Patent Agent

20070288111 - Systems and methods for calculating alerts based on pegging: A system and method for performing supply chain planning, includes providing a plurality of demand orders, each demand order including at least one input interface node, each input interface node identifying a type of material required by said demand order, a quantity of the material required by said demand order... Agent: Richard F. Jaworski Cooper & Dunham LLP

20070288100 - Heat trace control panel: A heat trace control panel to monitors heat trace control circuits for fault conditions. Upon occurrence of a fault condition in a heat trace control circuit an alarm is generated and the heat trace control circuit is monitored for a clear condition. Upon determination of a clear condition, the heat... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP - Slc

20070288102 - Device for managing power supply of a motor vehicle multimedia system: The invention concerns a device for managing power supply of a motor vehicle multimedia system, comprising a number of modules each having at least one function requiring electrical power supply, in particular in standby mode, such that it consists of a module receiving in input: a permanent electrical power supply... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070288103 - Detection and quantification of stiction: An effective non-intrusive data-based monitoring method may reduce the cost of control loop performance maintenance by screening and short-listing those control loops or valves that need maintenance. The invention comprises a data-based, model-free, non-invasive method that can automatically detect and quantify stiction present in control valves. The method does not... Agent: Edward Yoo C/o Bennett Jones

20070288104 - Grasp state judging system and method: A grasp state judging system capable of satisfactorily judging the grasp state in which an object to be grasped is held by grasping means. The grasp state judging system is characterized in comprising a plurality of RFID tags that are mounted on an object to be grasped and that transmit... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20070288106 - Interactive virtual library system for expeditiously providing user-desired information from content providers, at least one of which is commercial, to a user without the need for the user to access the content providers individually: The present invention provides an interactive library system having a computer in telecommunication link with at least one user computer and computer of at least one content provider requiring payment for information access. The interactive library system performs the following: Receiving, by the library system computer, user identification and password... Agent: Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & Mccloy LLP

20070288107 - Systems and methods for screening submissions in production competitions: The invention relates to a system and method for screening submissions in a production contest system. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a production competition submission from a contestant, automatically screening the submission with a screening system to verify that the submission meets predetermined requirements, and providing feedback to... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20070288112 - Self-adjusting inventory management process for personalizing and re-personalizing parts: A process for managing a supply chain by automatically analyzing shifting demand for personalized parts is provided. A plurality of orders is received. The plurality orders form a demand. The demand results in a set of parts that need to be personalized. The demand is analyzed against the current parts... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.C.

20070288113 - Aligner evaluation system, aligner evaluation method, a computer program product, and a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device: An aligner evaluation system includes (a) an error calculation module configured to calculate error information on mutual optical system errors among a plurality of aligners; (b) a simulation module configured to simulate device patterns to be delineated by each of the aligners based on the error information; and (c) a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070288115 - Methods and apparatus for electronic device manufacturing system monitoring and control: In a first aspect, a computer program product is provided. The computer program product includes a medium readable by a computer. The computer readable medium has computer program code adapted to (1) create a band map that indicates an expected status of one or more positions along a band of... Agent: Dugan & Dugan, PC

20070288114 - Methods of integrating computer products with pharmaceutical manufacturing hardware systems: Methods of integrating computer products with pharmaceutical manufacturing hardware systems are described and disclosed herein. Consequently, the methods provide a means to perform validation and quality control on an integrated level whereby a pharmaceutical manufacturer can ensure data and product integrity and minimize cost.... Agent: Shane M. Popp Smp Logic Systems LLC

20070288116 - Method, system and medium for controlling semiconductor wafer processes using critical dimension measurements: Methods, systems, and mediums of controlling a semiconductor manufacturing process are described. The method comprises the steps of measuring at least one critical dimension of at least one device being fabricated on at least one of the plurality of wafers, determining at least one process parameter value on the at... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20070288117 - Taste analyzing apparatus: The present invention provides an apparatus for analyzing easily not only the overall taste of a sample but also what kind of components, synergetic effects and diminishing effects contribute to the taste. A sample to be analyzed is injected into a mobile phase by a liquid sending pump, and the... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070288118 - Method and system for profiling and manufacturing curved arches: A system and method for profiling and manufacturing curved arches includes cutting out the outer dimensions of individual curved sections from sheet material, each curved section including an outer radius, an inner radius, a top surface, a bottom surface, a male end and a corresponding female end. Assembling together the... Agent: Mark A Koch

20070288119 - Automatic data configuration strategy, such as for storing and manipulating product manufacturing data: Managing product design and specification information in accordance with the invention may include receiving input information providing design data for a product comprising a collection of parts. The input information may be published into a computer aided design environment. In addition, processing may take place to allow for classifying aspects... Agent: Perkins Coie, LLP

20070288120 - Apparatus for closing a hinged molded part: Disclosed, amongst other things, is a method, molding machine, and computer-readable product for post-mold cooling a molded article (2), comprising balancing cooling rates between portions (2′, 2″, 2′″) of the molded article (2).... Agent: Husky Injection Molding Systems, Ltd Co/amc Intellectual Property Grp

20070288121 - Movable body drive method, movable body drive system, pattern formation method, pattern forming apparatus, exposure method, exposure apparatus, and device manufacturing method: Positional information of a movable body in a Y-axis direction is measured using an interferometer and an encoder whose short-term stability of measurement values excels when compared with the interferometer, and based on the measurement results, a predetermined calibration operation for obtaining correction information for correcting measurement values of the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070288122 - Systems and methods for controlling load motion actuators: Systems, methods and computer program code for the control of load motion actuators in load transportation systems are provided which may include selecting actuator control strategies to move loads in accordance with desired load behaviors.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070288123 - Method and system for transporting inventory items: A system for transporting inventory items includes an inventory holder capable of storing inventory items and a mobile drive unit. The mobile drive unit is capable of moving to a first point with the inventory holder at least one of coupled to and supported by the mobile drive unit. The... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070288124 - Evaluating system and evaluating method of robot: There are provided an evaluating system of a robot and its evaluating method capable of measuring a movement state amount, particularly, a position or a speed or an acceleration, or an angle or an angular speed or an angular acceleration of an arm of a robot by a simple system... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070288125 - Power over ethernet (poe) - based measurement system: Ethernet-enabled measurement systems are disclosed that are POE compatible. The measurement systems are configured to measure a physical variable, and to generate and communicate data representative of the measured physical variable. The physical variable may include, but is not limited to, fluid pressure, fluid flow rate, and fluid flow ratio.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070288126 - System and methods for implementing a non-linear electrical circuit dynamic fuel cell model: A nonlinear electrical circuit dynamic model for different fuel cells is provided. The model provides a nonlinear electrical circuit equivalent, the parameters of which correspond to the particular fuel cell being modeled. The parameters can be theoretically or experimentally derived from the responses of the particular fuel cell. The resulting... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070282458 - Control apparatus, control method and monitoring control system: A control device includes a CPU generating a control instruction for a control apparatus according to an instruction inputted from an OPS or a server and a radio communication unit performing a radio communication with each of the control apparatuses and measurement apparatuses. The control and the measurement apparatuses include... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070282462 - Displaying interrelated changes in a grid: Displaying interrelated changes in a grid may be provided. Grid cells in a document may be modified when either a grid cell is directly changed by a user, or when a grid cell changes due to information residing in another cell changing. The modified grid cells allow the user to... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070282463 - Apparatus and method for converting between device description languages in a process control system: A device description language (DDL) converter is provided for converting a first DDL file into one or more second DDL files. The DDL files may be associated with wireless field devices that are or could be used in a process control system, such as wireless sensors or wireless actuators. The... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070282469 - Data processing unit and data processing method: There are provided a data processing unit and a data processing method capable of reducing a burden involved in packaging and control, and of presenting multiple types of data blocks having different viewpoints with a simple operation. A correlating means correlates objects with multiple types of data blocks having different... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070282467 - Removable digital audio recording interface device: A digital recording interface device is provided, which consists of a base unit and a remote unit that are removably coupled to each other. The base unit includes one or more input connections configured to be coupled to one or more external analog audio sources, such as microphones, musical instruments,... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070282470 - Method and system for capturing and reusing intellectual capital in it management: A method and system for generating a graph-based model of an IT system that experiences certain undesirable events. The graphical representation of the IT system and its events is used to resolve other undesirable events occurring on the same system or a similar system and is also used to manage... Agent: Cahn & Samuels, LLP

20070282471 - Bluetooth audio chip with multiple input/output sources: A Bluetooth audio chip with multiple input/output sources is implemented on a monolithic integrated circuit. The Bluetooth audio chip includes a Bluetooth Baseband/RF module, an encode/decode module, a stereo ADC/DAC codec module, a USB module, a UART module, and a flash memory. Each one of the modules receives/transmits one kind... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070282472 - System and method for customizing soundtracks: A system and method for replacing all or part of the original audio of a digital program with other audio enables a user to customize a digital program soundtrack. The method includes receiving the audio portion of the digital program as an audio data stream including multiplexed associated audio and... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070282475 - Method and system for determining utilization of process tools in a manufacturing environment based on characteristics of an automated material handling system: By determining a metric for tool utilization in a manufacturing environment on the basis of tool-specific characteristics and a probability distribution for the transport capability of an automated material handling system, the influence of the transport system on the tool performance may be effectively determined. For this purpose, an average... Agent: J. Mike Amerson Williams, Morgan & Amerson, P.C.

20070282474 - Method and system for dynamically changing the transport sequencing in a cluster tool: By dynamically adapting the transport sequencing rules of a cluster tool, the overall performance of the tool may be increased. In some illustrative embodiments, the transport sequencing rule for a robot handler may be dynamically changed when a lot of small size is present in one of the load ports... Agent: J. Mike Amerson Williams, Morgan & Amerson, P.C.

20070282457 - Programmable controller: A programmable controller having self-diagnosis unit 60 (70) for self-diagnosis, wherein the self-diagnosis unit 60 (70) comprises data storage unit 61 (71) for storing data pertaining to an inspection unit for which the inspection is completed, and inspection start unit 62 (72) for starting the inspection from the next inspection... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070282459 - Method and device for monitoring signal processing units for sensors: The invention relates to a method and a device for monitoring signal processing units for sensors which detect the individual process control quantities or process measured values of a process. In order to improve the reliability of the sensor data of a vehicle, an at least redundant processing of the... Agent: Continental Teves, Inc.

20070282460 - Control system for a motor vehicle: A control system for a motor vehicle has a manual actuator with degrees of freedom for selecting and/or activating entries in a menu structure with menu levels and a screen display having display areas for displaying the menu structure. Each of the display areas has at least field one for... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070282461 - Single winding back emf sensing brushless dc motor: A method and controller for electronically commutating a permanent magnet brushless dc motor (21) under closed loop control where current is commutated (22) through successive combinations of two out of three stator windings to produce a rotating flux. Commutations are determined by each 60° angular position of the rotor by... Agent: Trexler, Bushnell, Giangiorgi, Blackstone & Marr, Ltd.

20070282464 - Nonlinear controller and nonlinear control method: The controller 1 of the present invention comprises a first module 3 having dynamic behavior as a nonlinear system and a second module 4 as a feedback system. The first module 3 creates a synchronous state with the controlled object 2 through an entrainment effect in an interaction therewith. When... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070282465 - Remote maintenance system: A remote maintenance system 1 is provided with a linear motor apparatus 2, a motor driver 3 for controlling a motor of the linear motion apparatus 2, and a user terminal 4. The motor driver 3 includes a memory which stores parameters relating to motor control. The user terminal 4... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070282466 - Frequency control in closed loop control systems: Process controllers, methods, and systems provide for frequency control to account for the effects of periodic disturbances in the feedback signal of closed loop control systems. The frequency components of the feedback signal are determined, including the magnitude and phase of each. Waveforms for each frequency component are generated with... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070282468 - Function control method, and terminal device: When, from a standby screen of a terminal device, a user depresses a motion key (S11) and performs a registered movement (S13), a sensor unit observes the movement of the terminal device, and a movement parameter calculation unit calculates a movement parameter. A movement parameter change decision unit decides (S15... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20070282473 - Method, system and program for designing power converter: After specifications of a power converter are determined, circuit parameter values, a semiconductor device to be used, and an equivalent circuit of the semiconductor device are determined, and parameter values of the equivalent circuit are extracted. Semiconductor device loss is calculated from semiconductor device equivalent circuit parameter data, circuit parasitic... Agent: Mcglew & Tuttle, PC

20070282476 - Dynamic workflow scheduling: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for workflow scheduling. A workflow scheduling system, such as a computer system, is used to coordinate and schedule tasks in complex scheduling environments. The system accepts incoming orders and dynamically schedules them according to the constraints of the resources required for the order and any... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070282477 - Method and system for controlling process tools by interrupting process jobs depending on job priority: By enabling an interleaved mode when supplying substrates from a plurality of load ports to a respective process module, a reduction of non-productive time of the process tool and/or a reduction of cycle time may be achieved compared to a conventional sequential processing of carriers. Upon arrival at a load... Agent: J. Mike Amerson Williams, Morgan & Amerson, P.C.

20070282478 - Parameter upgrade system: A physiological monitor has a sensor port configured to attach and communicate with a sensor. A processor board is in communications with the sensor port and has a board digital signal processor (DSP). Firmware residing on the processor board is executable by the board DSP so as to calculate physiological... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070282479 - Work movement analysis method, work movement analysis apparatus, and work movement analysis program: The work movement analysis method for dividing a moving picture of a worker's work movement into a plurality of movement sections in an apparatus having display, storage, and processing units includes in the processing unit the steps of: defining a plurality of movement section classification buttons and providing the buttons... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070282480 - Methods and systems for controlling a semiconductor fabrication process: Software for controlling processes in a heterogeneous semiconductor manufacturing environment may include a wafer-centric database, a real-time scheduler using a neural network, and a graphical user interface displaying simulated operation of the system. These features may be employed alone or in combination to offer improved usability and computational efficiency for... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070282481 - Systems and methods for programming motion control: Systems, methods and computer program code for the programming of motion control in load transportation systems are provided which may include programming motion control by specifying desired load motions.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070282482 - Asset localization identification and movement system and method: A system and method for identification and location of an asset by tracking the mover of the asset using a locating device associated with the mover and identifying the asset using an identification reader associated with the mover and a passive identification tag associated with the asset. A single mover... Agent: James Richards

20070282484 - Method, medium and apparatus classifying and collecting area feature information according to a robot's moving path, and a robot controlled by the area features: A method of classifying and collecting feature information of an area according to a robot's moving path, a robot controlled by area features, and a method and apparatus for composing a user interface using the area features are disclosed. The robot includes a plurality of sensor modules to collect feature... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070282485 - Robot simulation apparatus: A robot simulation apparatus (10) capable of creating and executing a robot program includes a virtual space creating unit (31) for creating a virtual space (60), a workpiece model layout unit (32) for automatically arranging at least one workpiece model (40) in an appropriate posture at an appropriate position in... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20070282483 - Robotic master controller: A robotic master controller having a series of linking members interconnected by pivots to each other and a hand grip with relative position sensors therein and sensing yaw and pitch of the hand grip due to movement of the user. The final linking member including an arched section that terminates... Agent: Law Office Of John C. Mcmahon

20070282486 - Same code base in irrigation control devices and related methods: Various embodiments are described in which different irrigation controllers in an irrigation control system have machine code having a same code base. In one implementation, a first irrigation control unit comprises a processor and a medium storing a first set of machine code to be executed by the processor. The... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20070282487 - Methods and apparatus for model predictive control in a real time controller: Methods and apparatus for controlling load on a machine are provided. The method includes determining a maximum value of a process variable using a predictive model of the machine while holding a control output associated with the process variable substantially constant over a prediction period, incrementing the control output if... Agent: John S. Beulick (17851)