Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing inventions 04/07

20070093964 - Method for generating data set: A computer method of generating a probabilistic dataset relating to a weather event includes inputting data representative of an historical weather event, and generating data representative of a plurality of alternative events. The data for the alternative events are generated, in certain embodiments, by a dependent sampling process. In particular... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20070093967 - Accessing data related to tissue coding: An apparatus, device, methods, computer program product, and system are described that accept an identification of at least one instance of at least one treatment parameter, the at least one treatment parameter including at least one target-related tissue ancestry-correlated binding agent, at least one direct end target, at least one... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070093966 - Drug candidate selection by hydrogen exchange characterization of ligand-induced receptor conformation: A method is provided of selecting a compound that (a) binds a receptor, and (b) on binding the receptor, induces a perturbation in the conformation of the receptor, which conformational perturbation is correlated with a particular pharmacological activity.... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20070093968 - Selection of genotyped transfusion donors by cross-matching genotyped recipients: Disclosed are methods for establishing the compatibility between two blood types on the basis of cross-matching (under a designated rule of stringency) the minor blood group genotypes of recipient and prospective donors. To determine compatibility, the blood group genotypes are mapped to corresponding phenotypes according to the expression states associated... Agent: Eric P. Mirabez

20070093965 - Use of infrared thermography in live animals to predict growth efficiency: The invention provides a method for predicting growth efficiency of an animal by using infrared thermography by generating a predictive model, comprising selecting a sample population from a group of animals; scanning each animal to obtain a thermographic image represented as an array of pixels providing temperature data; calculating a... Agent: Greenlee Winner And Sullivan P C

20070093969 - Molecular nephrotoxicology modeling: The present invention is based on the elucidation of the global changes in gene expression and the identification of toxicity markers in kidney tissues or cells exposed to a known renal toxin. The genes may be used as toxicity markers in drug screening and toxicity assays. The invention includes a... Agent: Cooley Godward LLP

20070093970 - Architectures of sensor networks for biological and chemical agent detection and identification: A sensor network provides the ability to detect, classify and identify a diverse range of agents over a large area, such as a geographical region or building. The network possesses speed of detection, sensitivity, and specificity for the diverse range of agents. Different functional level types of sensors are employed... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070093971 - Physics-based signal processing algorithms for micromachined cantilever arrays: A method of using physics-based signal processing algorithms for micromachined cantilever arrays. The methods utilize deflection of a micromachined cantilever that represents the chemical, biological, or physical element being detected. One embodiment of the method comprises the steps of modeling the deflection of the micromachined cantilever producing a deflection model,... Agent: Eddie E. Scott Assistant Laboratory Counsel

20070093972 - Treadwear indicator system: A treadwear indicator system includes a processor having an algorithm that monitors various signals to determine the remaining treadwear of the tires. In one example, the treadwear algorithm is a function of pressure and temperature of the tire, mileage on the tire, G forces and load exerted on the tire,... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070093973 - Digital communication system for monitoring the structural integrity of a building and sensor therefor: Digital communication system for monitoring structural integrity of a building and sensor therefor. The system includes a sensor that communicates structural integrity information to a gateway via a digital communication link. The digital communication link is preferably a bidirectional wireless link that supports packetized data transfer between the sensor and... Agent: Scot A. Reader, Esq. Suite 228

20070093975 - Link establishment in a system for monitoring the structural integrity of a building: A system for monitoring the structural integrity of a building uses a frequency hopping spread spectrum (FHSS) hunt protocol to establish a digital communication link between a sensor and other nodes of the system. The sensor's role in the FHSS hunt protocol is limited, thereby minimizing the sensor's power consumption... Agent: Scot A. Reader, Esq. Suite 228

20070093974 - Remote configuration of a sensor for monitoring the structural integrity of a building: Remote configuration of a sensor for monitoring the structural integrity of a building involves the sensor, a gateway and a Web server. The gateway transmits configuration changes to the sensor over digital communication links established between the sensor and the gateway for interrogation of structural integrity information. Configuration changes are... Agent: Scot A. Reader, Esq. Suite 228

20070093976 - Repair announcement method and apparatus for electric injection molding machine: White noise is applied to a servocontrol system of a servomotor in order to measure a frequency characteristic of a mechanical component in an electric injection molding machine, and a signal from an encoder is applied to a fast Fourier converter. Data from the fast Fourier converter is applied to... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20070093977 - Fault management of hts power cable: A method and system for providing protection for a superconducting electrical cable located in a utility power network includes detecting a fault current on the superconducting electric cable, determining the cumulative total energy dissipated in the superconducting electrical cable from the fault current and at least one prior fault current... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070093978 - Detection of islanding in power grids: A method for detecting islanding conditions in an electrical grid having a power line voltage includes monitoring a detectable signal different from the power line voltage at a generating station, superimposing the detectable signal onto the power line voltage at a grid point outside the generating station, and switching the... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche (22402)

20070093979 - Computer device configuration system and method: A configuration method for a computer device comprises generating a load condition on at least one serial bus link using a plurality of differential voltage levels, determining a minimum voltage differential value for producing an eye compliance diagram at a receiver of the at least one serial bus link, and... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070093980 - Position determining: A position determining system for determining a position of a rotor of a rotating motor (M) has sensors (HS1, HS2) that are coupled to the rotor. The sensors (HS1, HS2) generate, in response to a rotation of the rotor, a quadrature signal (QS) that has a sine component (VH1) and... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070093981 - System for testing tire sidewall irregularities and related methods: A device for testing a tire that has a tread and extending sidewalls includes an apparatus for receiving and rotating a tire and at least one measurement device operatively placed to measure at least one of the sidewalls as the tire is rotated wherein the measurement device is radially moveable... Agent: Renner, Kenner, Greive, Bobak, Taylor & Weber

20070093982 - Remote monitoring system: A remote monitoring system is disclosed. In one such embodiment, a system may comprise a first measuring unit disposed within a structure, a first processor disposed in operative communication with the first measuring unit, and a second processor disposed within the structure. The first measuring unit may comprise a first... Agent: Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP

20070093983 - Mapping system and method for determining optimal radio transponder placement: A mapping system and method. The mapping system comprises an electromagnetic field generator, a layer of electromagnetic field absorbing material over an object, and an infrared camera. The electromagnetic field generator is adapted to generate an electromagnetic field and expose the electromagnetic field absorbing material and object to the electromagnetic... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20070093984 - Counter circuits and distance estimation methods: Counting circuits applied to distance estimation for ultra wideband (UWB) application, in which a first counting unit generates a sequence of pseudo-random number series not including zero, a first recoding unit records a first series and a second series from the sequence according to a first signal and a second... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070093985 - Aid device for setting inspection standard: An aid device is provided to an inspection device for judging whether a target object of inspection is normal or not normal based on results obtained by calculating a characteristic quantity of waveform data obtained from the target object of inspection. The aid device provides data for determining an effective... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070093986 - Run-time performance verification system: A method and apparatus that allow packet based communication transactions between devices over an interconnect bus to be captured to measure performance. Performance metrics may be determined by capturing events at various locations as they pass through the system. Performance may be verified at run time by computing performance metrics... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070093987 - Knowledge generation support system, parameter search method and program product: A system is disclosed which can easily search and determine the effective feature amount suitable for determining the normality/abnormality of an object to be inspected in an inspection/diagnosis apparatus and the various parameters for calculating the effective feature amount. A parameter search unit searches for the various parameters used for... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070093988 - Method and apparatus for planning major outages for gas turbines: A system and method for planning outages for a power generation installation comprising a gas turbine power plant. The system and method utilizes a computer to receive requests from users to create maintenance plans for the power plant by generating templates, applying the templates to a database containing gas turbine... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070093989 - Method and apparatus for reducing errors in screening-test administration: A system for detecting a screening-test error includes a measurement device that measures at least one performance parameter related to at least one screening-test task and a computational device, in communication with the measurement device. The computational device receives the at least one measured performance parameter, calculates at least one... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20070093990 - Systems and methods for sensor-based computing: Various embodiments of the invention provide devices, methods and systems, including without limitation data acquisition systems, that can provide flexible sensing and/or data acquisition solutions. An exemplary sensing device, which may be in communication with one or more computers, such as a server, etc., can include one or more sensor(s),... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070093991 - Initialization of a sensor for minitoring the structural integrity of a building: Initialization of a sensor for monitoring the structural integrity of a building involves the sensor, a gateway and an installer device. An automated initialization brings the sensor online and enables the sensor for remote monitoring without requiring on-site manual configuration. Through the automated initialization, the sensor joins a logical communication... Agent: Scot A. Reader, Esq. Suite 228

20070093992 - Data processing apparatus: A data processing apparatus, includes: a first storage unit which comprises a plurality of memory blocks separated corresponding to predetermined number of data and sequentially stores a plurality of time series measurement data; a block operation unit which performs an operation for the measurement data stored in the memory blocks... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070088504 - Detection of lightning: A lightning detector for lightning detection and a lightning detection method, wherein the mobile lightning detector is provided with an antenna, an amplifier front-end, an A/D converter and a digital signal processor, and wherein the lightning detector is a mobile RF device provided with an audio codec whereby the preamplifier... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070088505 - Method and apparatus for dynamic application management in sub-sea well installations: A method for updating a software of a sub-sea controller (31) located under the sea level. The sub-sea controller manages a plurality of tools in a sub-sea well. An application module (35) is downloaded into the sub-sea controller. The application module is executed using a virtual machine (36) implemented within... Agent: Schlumberger Oilfield Services

20070088508 - Cocrystallization methods: Methods for preparing cocrystals wherein solutions of active agents in suitable liquids are combined with solutions of guests, both with and without suitable liquids, in an interface region are described herein. Methods for analyzing the cocrystals are also described.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070088506 - Detecting protein similarity: The disulfide bridges in a protein sequence can be described by a disulfide signature that includes information about cysteine spacing and disulfide topology. Proteins with similar disulfide signatures can be structurally similar despite low overall sequence homology. A database of disulfide signatures can be compiled from publicly available sequence data.... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20070088507 - Systems and methods for automating environmental risk evaluation: Aspects of the present invention comprise systems and methods for conducting automatically generated environmental risk evaluations for properties. A computerized method preferably uses known data of property records and compares those properties to environmental evaluation factors according to rules contained in environmental scoring databases to produce a risk report comprising... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070088510 - Method and system for faster and more sensitive homology searching: An area of research in the field of bioinformatics deals with the identification of similarities within one, or between two DNA sequences. Current techniques are quite slow and many matches are missed. The invention provides a faster and more sensitive solution, by using “optimised spaced seeds” to perform these biological... Agent: Hayes, Soloway P.C.

20070088509 - Method and system for selecting a marker molecule: Method for selecting at least one potential marker molecule indicating an user defined phenotype feature of an organic object, comprising the steps of providing genotype data of genes of a group of organic objects and phenotype data of said group of organic objects, categorizing said genotype data and said phenotype... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070088511 - Electromagnetic flowmeter: An electromagnetic flowmeter includes a measuring tube, an electrode, an exciting unit, a signal conversion unit, and a flow rate calculating unit. The signal conversion unit extracts a ∂A/∂t component irrelevant to a flow velocity of the fluid and a v×B component originating from the flow velocity of the fluid... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070088512 - System and method for computing the frequency of a low frequency wave: The present invention provides a system for computing the frequency of a low frequency wave. The system includes: a wave producer (3) configured for sending out a first wave with a high frequency; a device (4) configured for sending out a second wave with a low frequency to be computed,... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070088513 - Producing system and its control device, control method, control system and control program: An IJ-system reagent inspection device 3 that instructs an ejection device to eject a reagent and reads an inspection result from a detachable DNA chip module 2. The method is carried out based on inspection information of inputted inspection items to produce and output inspection data along with inputted examinee-identification... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070088514 - Apparatus and method for sampling eye diagrams with window comparators: Apparatus and method for determining characteristics of a bit stream of binary pulses. The apparatus has control apparatus for defining a window comparator and logic apparatus for accumulating and mapping numbers derived from a count of the number of times the bit stream pulses fall at points inside the window... Agent: PeninsulaIPGroup A Professional Law Corporation

20070088515 - Carrier phase independent symbol timing recovery methods for vsb receivers: The present invention provides a novel symbol timing recovery method for VSB receivers. Systems are described that comprise a timing error detector (TED) that produces an exact symbol timing error even in the presence residual carrier phase offset, loop filter that controls the characteristics of acquisition and tracking of digital... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070088516 - Low bandwidth reduced reference video quality measurement method and apparatus: A new reduced reference (RR) video calibration and quality monitoring system utilizes less than 10 kilobits/second of reference information from the source video stream. This new video calibration and quality monitoring system utilizes feature extraction techniques similar to those found in the NTIA General Video Quality Model (VQM) recently standardized... Agent: Robert Platt Bell Registered Patent Attorney

20070088517 - Parameter correction circuit and parameter correction method: In a parameter correction circuit in an LSI, a reference resistor element with high precision having a resistance value set to a target value is connected to an external terminal of the LSI. A constant current from a mirror circuit connected to a current supply flows through the reference resistor... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070088518 - Automated method for generating program modules, to be used for controlling field devices, from a machine-readable parameterized specification of the field devices: Disclosed is an automated method for generating program modules used for controlling field devices by means of a machine-readable parametered description of the field devices. The inventive method is used with a control unit controlling the field devices. Each of said field devices comprises control devices with at least one... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070088519 - Electronic circuit comprising a secret sub-module: The invention relates to an electronic circuit including a sub-module assembly (2) connected to the rest of the circuit, the sub-module assembly including:—a secret sub-module (4) for performing a function, and comprising scan chains,—a built-in self test circuit including a pattern generator (5) to apply input signals to the scan... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070088520 - System and method to synchronize and coordinate parallel, automated fault injection processes against storage area network arrays: A system and method for synchronizing and coordinating parallel, automated fault injection processes against storage area network arrays. In an exemplary embodiment, the stress test system includes a hierarchical lock file acting as a repository for lock and state data of storage area network resources. Further, such embodiment includes a... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation

20070088522 - Calculating required energy: A battery powered device (1) for playback of a media title from a storage medium (6). The device comprises reading means (7, 8) for reading the media title and for retrieving playback control information concerning the media title from the storage medium (6). Playback control information may contain for example... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070088523 - Device for monitoring and controlling a machine: A device is provided for monitoring and controlling a machine having at least two sensors for recording measurement variables, particularly motion variables, and with an electronic control loop for evaluating the recorded measurement variables and correspondingly controlling machine components by means of which the measurement variables can be influenced.... Agent: Burr & Brown

20070088521 - Portable wireless gateway for remote medical examination: A remote monitoring system that includes a portable measuring device that can be coupled to a portable wireless gateway. The portable measuring device obtains measurements including physiological data, movement data and ambient measurements and provides these measurements to the portable wireless gateway. The portable wireless gateway can interface with a... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20070088524 - Method and device for controlling an installation for producing steel: In a method for controlling an installation for producing steel having specific material properties, the material properties depend on the structure and can be influenced by operating parameters of the installation. The operating parameters are determined by a computing program for structure optimization, whereby the set values of the chemical... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20070088525 - Method and system for representation of current and historical medical data: A method and system for reporting medical data including both current and past medical results for medical tests performed on a patient is provided. The medical data is output in columns, and the current results and past results of the same medical test are presented in the same row. In... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070088527 - Electromagnetic method and apparatus for the measurement of linear position: A method and apparatus are disclosed for monitoring a linear position, such as the distance between a sensing element and a movable object, and/or related parameters, such as displacement, direction, speed, velocity, and/or acceleration. The method utilizes a sensing element and an electrically conductive portion of the movable object, or... Agent: David S. Nyce

20070088526 - System and method for carrying out and visually displaying simulations in an augmented reality: The invention relates to a system and method inside an augmented reality system for visually displaying simulation results in a mixed virtual-real environment. The system and method permit one or more users to carry out simulation processes in the context of a real environment, particularly in the field of industrial... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070088528 - Statistical signatures used with multivariate statistical analysis for fault detection and isolation and abnormal condition prevention in a process: A system and method for monitoring a process in a process plant and detecting an abnormal condition includes collecting data representative of the operation of the process, performing a multivariate statistical analysis to represent the operation of the process in a known state based on a set of collected reference... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (fisher)

20070088529 - Analog display of signal swing and logic analyzer thresholds: A Logic Analyzer has an intuitive and informative analog presentation of signal activity and threshold settings formed by gathering a collection of factors pertaining to the measurement to be performed, such as information about which channels are members of labeled collections. A scan of signal activity is performed for each... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070083328 - Server and vehicle-mounted navigation apparatus, vehicle employing the same, and meteorological information distribution system related to the same: A server specifies a sending range for meteorological information that it has received, for each type of meteorological information. The server also specifies constitution and size of area meteorological data distributing for each area segment. This will enable the server to provide necessary meteorological information more efficiently. Furthermore, a vehicle-mounted... Agent: Rankin, Hill, Porter & Clark LLP

20070083329 - Location-based interactive web-based multi-user community site: The present invention comprises a system for creating a multi-user internet community site with location-based information (Geographic Information System). Location-based information is maintained by the community of users in a manner similar to blog content (text, photos) and is managed in a manner similar to presently existing multi-user sites (such... Agent: Fox Rothschild LLP Princeton Pike Corporate Center

20070083330 - Fast method for reconstruction of 3d formation rock properties using modeling and inversion of well-logging data: A method and apparatus for interpretation of well log data. An inversion of the data is carried out using a sequence of short window inversions.... Agent: Madan, Mossman & Sriram, P.C.

20070083331 - Methods and systems for determining reservoir properties of subterranean formations with pre-existing fractures: Methods and systems are provided for evaluating subsurface earth oil and gas formations. More particularly, methods and systems are provided for determining reservoir properties such as reservoir transmissibilities and average reservoir pressures of formation layer(s) using quantitative refracture-candidate diagnostic methods. The methods herein may use pressure falloff data from the... Agent: Robert A. Kent Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.

20070083332 - Method and system for assessing pore fluid pressure behaviour in a subsurface formation: A method and system for assessing pore fluid pressure behaviour in a region of interest in a subsurface formation below an earth surface. A stress value representative of formation stress is determined in a measurement region in the subsurface formation. Signals representing the stress are produced using a measurement arrangement.... Agent: Shell Oil Company

20070083335 - Method and device for utilizing analyte levels to assist in the treatment of diabetes: A health-monitoring device assesses the health of a user based on levels of two analytes in a biological fluid. A first analyte that is utilized to assess a user's health is a fat metabolism analyte, such as ketones, free fatty acids and glycerol, which is indicative of fat metabolism. A... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP

20070083334 - Methods and systems for annotating biomolecular sequences: A method of annotating biomolecular sequences. The method comprises (a) computationally clustering the biomolecular sequences according to a progressive homology range, to thereby generate a plurality of clusters each being of a predetermined homology of the homology range; and (b) assigning at least one ontology to each cluster of the... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20070083333 - Modeling of systemic inflammatory response to infection: Models for the systemic inflammatory response to infection, which involve the use of immunocompromised animals, and methods of using the models are described. These models can be used in identifying analytes or biomarker panels that can be used in staging or monitoring sepsis. The models can also be used for... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20070083336 - Method for determining the resolution of blood glucose: The present invention provides a method for calculating the resolution of blood glucose which corresponding with the peak value of the rising curve. The average peak value is obtained from calculating the plurality of peak value, which determined after the pre-setting sampling time. Then, the average peak value is calculated... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20070083337 - Method of using data binning in the analysis of chromatography/spectrometry data: Disclosed herein is a method of analyzing three-dimensional data obtained from a chromatography/spectrometry process, in particular an LC/MS process using a two-dimensional multi-variant statistical analysis. The LC portion permits separation of analytes within a sample. The information obtained from such a procedure typically depends on retention time (Rt). As the... Agent: Waters Investments Limited C/o Waters Corporation

20070083338 - Fundamental mistuning model for determining system properties and predicting vibratory response of bladed disks: A reduced order model called the Fundamental Mistuning Model (FMM) accurately predicts vibratory response of a bladed disk system. The FMM software may describe the normal modes and natural frequencies of a mistuned bladed disk using only its tuned system frequencies and the frequency mistuning of each blade/disk sector (i.e.,... Agent: Jones Day

20070083339 - Broadband differential coupling devices, systems and methods: Disclosed are various devices, systems and methods for testing broadband differential coupling circuits that are capable of measuring the amount of extraneous interference and noise in such circuits. In preferred embodiments, NEXT and FEXT crosstalk performance characteristics of differential coupling circuits are provided.... Agent: Avago Technologies, Ltd.

20070083340 - Apparatus and method for measuring settlement of solids in a multiphase flow: A method and apparatus for measuring a parameter of a flow passing through a pipe is provided, wherein the apparatus includes at least two spatial array of sensors disposed at different axial locations along the pipe, wherein each of the sensors provide a signal indicative of unsteady pressure created by... Agent: Cidra Corporation

20070083341 - 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 (18) rolling on the underlying surface. The... Agent: International Truck Intellectual Property Company,

20070083342 - Electronic timer and system lsi: An electronic timer having a parallel unit, a current detecting unit, and a time measuring unit. The parallel unit is formed of a plurality of aging devices connected in parallel and configured to be turned on or off for a predetermined time after storing electric charges. Each aging device is... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070083343 - Statistical models for improving the performance of database operations: A method for performing an automatic software-driven statistical evaluation of a large amount of data to be assigned to statistical variables in a database contained in at least one cluster. The method is characterized by using a statistical model to model an approximate description of a relative frequency of the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070083344 - Medication management system: A medication management system (MMS) includes a medication management unit (MMU) associated with a medical device. The MMU downloads a medication order to the medical device only if information from a first input matches information from a second input. The medical device receives delivery information only from the MMU. The... Agent: Brian R. Woodworth

20070083345 - Method and apparatus for reducing gyro aliasing, noise, and quantization: A method and apparatus for filtering sensor measurements is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of digitally integrating the sensor measurements at a first processing rate to produce a first intermediate signal, digitally integrating the first intermediate signal at the first processing rate to produce a second intermediate signal, sampling... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP

20070078603 - Method of seismo electromagnetic detecting of hydrocarbon deposits: A method of seismo electromagnetic detecting of hydrocarbon deposits has the steps of simultaneously initiating an electromagnetic field and a seismic wave in investigated geological region so that an electromagnetic signal originates by vibrating of hydrocarbon deposit surface excited by the electromagnetic field and travels from the surface, recording the... Agent: Ilya Zborovsky

20070078604 - Method for rapid fault interpretation of fault surfaces generated to fit three-dimensional seismic discontinuity data: A method to extract fault surfaces from seismic data (1,3) is disclosed. The method comprises: (a) generating at least two fault sticks (5) from the same fault from at least two slices of the seismic data wherein each slice comprises at least one fault stick from the same fault, (b)... Agent: Exxonmobil Upstream Research Company

20070078605 - Molecular docking technique for screening of combinatorial libraries: A high-throughput molecular docking facility is presented for screening combinatorial libraries to identify binding ligands and ultimately pharmaceutical compounds. The facility employs a pre-docking conformational search to generate multiple solution conformations of a ligand. The molecular docking facility includes: generating a binding site image of the protein, the binding site... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070078607 - Interpretation: An improved method of comparing a first data set with a second data set is provided, particularly suited for data sets arising from the analysis of DNA samples, in which both first and second data set are compared with one another, the comparison occurring before any processing of the data... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070078606 - Methods, software arrangements, storage media, and systems for providing a shrinkage-based similarity metric: The present invention relates to systems, methods, and software arrangements for determining associations between two or more datasets. The systems, methods, and software arrangements used to determine such associations include a determination of a correlation coefficient that incorporates both prior assumptions regarding such datasets and actual information regarding the datasets.... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070078608 - Pre-calibrated gas sensor: A pre-calibrated gas sensor is disclosed. The gas sensor includes a cathode and an anode for outputting a current signal responsive to a sensed oxygen concentration and a signal processing module in communication with the cathode and the anode and configured to receive the current signal and to output a... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20070078609 - System and computer program product for non-destructive quantification of thermal barrier coating temperatures on service run parts: System and computer program product for non-destructively inspecting and characterizing micro-structural features in a thermal barrier coating (TBC) on a component, wherein the micro-structural features define pores and cracks, if any, in the TBC. The micro-structural features having characteristics at least in part based on a type of process used... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070078610 - System enabling remote analysis of fluids: The present invention provides a system enabling the remote analysis of a fluid, wherein the analysis of the fluid and collection of data relating thereto can be provided at a plurality of remote locations by a plurality of remote devices. Each remote device is connected directly or indirectly to a... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman PC

20070078611 - System and method of analyzing vibrations and identifying failure signatures in the vibrations: An apparatus, computer program product and method of analyzing structures. Intrinsic Mode Functions (IMFs) are extracted from the data and the most energetic IMF is selected. A spline is fit to the envelope for the selected IMF. The spline derivative is determined. A stability spectrum is developed by separating the... Agent: Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center

20070078613 - Near-field photo-lithography using nano light emitting diodes: An embodiment of the present invention is a technique to pattern features. An array of nanowires is placed at a distance to a resist layer. The array forms a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs). The distance corresponds to a near-field region of the light emitted by the LEDs with... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070078612 - Offset determination for measurement system matching: Dynamic offset determination for each of a plurality of measurement systems for matching the systems is disclosed. One embodiment uses an artifact which is periodically run across the measurement system to be matched. Inputs for each run include the current offsets and historical data for the entire fleet and the... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070078614 - Integration of intelligent motor with power management device: A method and apparatus provide for reduced cost and complexity in managing an intelligent motor in an architecture in which information is transferred between a power management device and the intelligent motor. The information may be used by an embedded processor of the motor to provide diagnostics and/or prognostics of... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(slwk)

20070078615 - Method and device for communication with a plant: The invention relates to a method and a device for communication with a plant, in particular, for the operation and monitoring of an automated plant in industrial manufacture. The state of charge of the battery, in a battery-operated communication device, for exchange of data with the plant, is recorded. The... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070078616 - Method and apparatus of voltage measurement: The present invention is to provide a method and apparatus of voltage measurement with a high resolution. An apparatus of voltage measurement includes: a buffer circuit for separating a voltage between terminals of a capacitor or an equivalent voltage into a first voltage region corresponding to a full scale of... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070078617 - System and method for press signature tracking and data association: In an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a method for tracking printing press operation comprises the steps of generating unique individual signature identification information, tracking printing press operation information and associating the printing press operation information with the unique signature identification information.... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070078618 - Method and system for enabling automated data analysis of multiple commensurate nondestructive test measurements: A method for analyzing test data from nondestructive evaluation of an aircraft includes generating a model of the aircraft with an inspection point. The aircraft is mapped to the model of the aircraft. Then, measurement data is generated by nondestructive testing an area of the aircraft corresponding to the inspection... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070078619 - Apparatus of automatically detecting type of cable connected to network and method thereof: The present invention is to provide an apparatus of automatically detecting the type of a cable connected to a network and method thereof, which comprising a memory having an automatic detection program, a switch, a network controller adapted to switch the state of the switch based on a predetermined switching... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070078620 - Methods and kits for delivering pharmaceutical agents into the coronary vascular adventitia: Methods and kits for delivering pharmaceutical agents to the adventitia surrounding a blood vessel utilize a catheter having a microneedle. The microneedle is positioned in the perivascular space and delivers an amount of pharmaceutical agent sufficient to circumferentially permeate around the blood vessel and, in many cases, extend longitudinally along... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070078621 - System for evaluating a parts carrier: A method is disclosed for evaluating a parts carrier that is operatively associated with a material handling process. The method includes determining a plurality of parts to be processed, determining one or more types of the plurality of parts to be processed, and determining a quantity of the parts to... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070078622 - Improved high resolution torque measurement on a rotating shaft withmovement compensation: An improved apparatus and method is disclosed for determining a torque imposed on the rotatable shaft based on its torsional displacement, said apparatus comprising a rotatable shaft with at least four paired probes positioned at each end of the shaft to detect and compensate for motion induced errors. Paired first... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20070078624 - Method and system for three-dimensional measurement and method and device for controlling manipulator: A method and system are provided which can easily determine relative positions and postures of a three-dimensional measurement device and an object when the measurement device is used to measure the object using a manipulator. The method includes fixing one of the measurement device and the object, supporting the other... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20070078623 - Precision position determining method: A method for generating a surface profile of a microstructure. The profile is processed to determine positions of at least two edges and an approximate center point of the profiled surface. Segments of points on the determined profile are fit to a straight line centered at the approximate center point.... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070078625 - Tool to facilitate safer computer usage of individual users: In one embodiment, a method for facilitating safer computer usage of individual users includes collecting data pertaining to user interactions with a cursor control device and a keyboard, and providing feedback to the user based on the collected data. The feedback concerns the usage of the computing device by the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070078626 - Generation of flow cytometry data files with a potentially infinite number of dimensions derived from the fusion of a group of separate flow cytometry data files and their multidimensional reconstruction with both actually measured and estimated flow cyto: The present invention relates to a method that generates new flow cytometry data files with a potentially infinite number of dimensions, each event contained in these data files having associated information for each of the whole set of parameters evaluated, such information deriving from data which was either directly measured... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20070078627 - Screw tightening designing method and screw tightening designing apparatus: A method and apparatus for designing a screw-tightening element are disclosed for designing the screw-tightening element (mechanical element). The design method comprises representing material characteristics of the screw component with factors including at least one of an elastic limit, an endurance strength, a true breaking power and a tension strength,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070078629 - Distributed control system diagnostic logging system and method: A logging system is provided for a distributed automation application, such as an on-machine motor controller or the like. The logging system can access raw data, processed data, event data, error data, and so forth from a controller local to the applicational power to a load, such as an electric... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(fy)

20070078628 - Interactive diagnostics having graphical playback and solution implementation capabilities: A system(s) and method(s) that facilitates diagnosing a HMI system and automatically applying a solution to correct and/or update the HMI system. According to a feature is an interactive diagnosis system for an human machine interface (HMI) system. The interactive diagnosis system includes a data capture component that captures HMI... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20070078630 - Apparatus and method for determining the minimum zone for an array of features with a true position tolerance: A method and apparatus for determining the minimum zone for an array of features with a true position tolerance. In one embodiment, a target function is defined according to a deviation value of each of at least two features from an array of features having a maximum deviation between an... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070078631 - Sample analyzer, processing computer for sample analysis, method of displaying operation screen of sample analyzer and computer program product for processing computer for sample analysis: A sample analyzer which performs analysis processing on a sample measurement result is provided, which displays a plurality of first icons to call up the display of a plurality of function screens provided in correspondence with a plurality of functions of the sample analyzer fixedly in part of the icon... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC