Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing inventions 03/08

20080077329 - High-throughput automated cellular injection system and method: An automated cell injection system and method are described, which can perform automatic, reliable, and high-throughput cell injection of foreign genetic materials, proteins, and other compounds. The system and method overcome the problems inherent in traditional manual injection that is characterized by poor reproducibility, human fatigue, and low throughput. The... Agent: Miller Thompson, LLP

20080077330 - Method for detecting erroneous measurement results obtained with ion-selective electrodes: A method for measuring the concentration of at least two analytes in a biological liquid sample by using a set of ion selective electrodes is disclosed. The method comprises obtaining from the ion selective electrodes first voltage values representative of the concentration of sodium and potassium respectively in those biological... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl, LLP One Dayton Centre

20080077331 - Methods for remote characterization of an odor: Provided are compositions and systems useful in remote monitoring of chemical hazards, air quality, and medical conditions, for example, robotic systems to search for and detect explosives, mines, and hazardous chemicals. In addition, the methods, systems and compositions of the invention provide the ability to mine data from a database... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney LLP

20080077333 - Apparatus and method for detecting tampering in flexible structures: A system for monitoring or detecting tampering in a flexible structure includes taking electrical measurements on a sensing cable coupled to the structure, performing spectral analysis on the measured data, and comparing the spectral characteristics of the event to those of known benign and/or known suspicious events. A threshold or... Agent: Robert J. Lauf

20080077332 - Fatigue measurement method for coiled tubing & wireline: A method for determining fatigue life reduction in a string; the method, in at least certain aspects, including providing at least one sample from a string that has been subjected to corrosion, fatigue testing the at least one sample to determine a measured remaining fatigue life, calculating an expected remaining... Agent: Guy Mcclung

20080077334 - Flow sensor: A flow sensor need not have any special terminal for voltage value supply, and can obtain a ratiometric output function at low cost and small size. A calculation circuit calculates, as a reference voltage Vr, a voltage value Vref of an A/D conversion reference power supply in a fuel injection... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080077336 - Power line universal monitor: The invention is primarily directed to hot-stick mountable wireless High Voltage Power Line Universal Monitors (PLUM) upon energized electrical power conductors. The PLUM wireless sensors monitor parameters associated with normal, overload and emergency operation of the power line. The present invention provides 0.2% metering grade voltage measurement accuracy through unique... Agent: Zuber & Taillieu LLP

20080077339 - Battery management system and driving method thereof: Battery management system and a driving method thereof including a sensing unit and an MCU. The sensing unit measures a battery current and a battery voltage. The MCU sets an OCV during a no-load state period at time increments measured from the beginning of the no-load state period, and estimates... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080077338 - Method and apparatus for measuring remaining coulomb of electrical energy storage device: A measuring apparatus is used for measuring a remaining coulomb of a rechargeable electrical energy storage device. The measuring apparatus includes a storing module, a measuring module, and a processing module. The storing module is used for storing data on relations between voltage and charge of the rechargeable electrical energy... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080077340 - Method, apparatus, and system for power source failure prediction: Some embodiments of a method, apparatus, and system for power source failure prediction are described. According to some embodiments, the system may include, among other things, a display device to draw power from a direct current power source, two or more electrical lines positioned on either side of the direct... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080077341 - System for transmitting dynamic data: Disclosed is a system for transmitting dynamic data over a network to a computer resource, the system including at least one receiver configured to receive dynamic data and convert dynamic data into a digitized sinusoidal signal, and a computing resource configured for communication with the network and configured to receive... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080077342 - Jitter measurement apparatus, jitter measurement method, and recording medium: There is provided a jitter measurement apparatus for measuring a jitter of a data signal having a substantially constant data rate. The jitter measurement apparatus includes therein a signal converting section that converts the data signal into a clock signal, where the clock signal retains timings of data transition edges... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080077335 - Method to evaluate a performance of a control valve and a system thereof: measuring an actual flow rate across the control valve, comparing the actual flow rate with the expected flow rate to determine the difference in value between the actual and expected flow rate, determining if the difference is within an acceptable range of values from the expected flow rate and establishing... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080077337 - Electromagnetic interference reduction calculation method, device, and program, and its electronic circuit: A calculation method of electromagnetic interference reduction through spectrum diffusion that is a means for reducing the electromagnetic interference, in which, when a center frequency of a measurement bandwidth is changed so that a spectrum having the maximum amplitude is included in the measurement bandwidth, of a plurality of spectra... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080077343 - Implementation of coded optical time-domain reflectometry: An implementation of coded time-domain reflectometry that can be incorporated in a transmitter as a built-in test function is disclosed. A sequence of a signal that is being transmitted is captured, delayed and used for correlation to a received reflected signal from the transmission medium. A correlation signal is obtained... Agent: Leif Johansson Freedom Photonics LLC

20080077344 - Method for calibration, controlled by means of measurement technology, of at least one device unit of a device system, particularly a standard light device in color management workflow: A method for calibration is controlled using measurement technology of at least one device unit of a device system which includes a monitor for image processing and a standard light device. The monitor is calibrated, and the luminance is measured at the calibrated monitor and at a standard light device.... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.C.

20080077345 - Method for determining a characteristic of a sensor arrangement: The invention relates to a method for determining a characteristic of a sensor arrangement having at least one measuring sensor and at least one reference sensor for recording the same physical variable, and having an analysis unit electrically connected thereto, said characteristic being determined from measured values of the at... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080077346 - Apparatus and method of feeding internal calibration signal through electro-static discharge protection circuitry: An apparatus and method for internally calibrating a direct conversion receiver (DCR) through feeding a calibration signal via ESD protection circuitry is disclosed. The apparatus includes an internal signal generator for generating a calibration signal, a front-end input stage for receiving an RF signal at an input node, an ESD... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080077347 - Offset compensation for rail-to-rail avereraging circuit: An averaging circuit includes an averaging unit and an offset compensation unit. The averaging unit generates an average signal from first and second input signals. The offset compensating unit is coupled to the averaging unit for conducting away bias currents from the averaging unit for preventing an offset in the... Agent: Law Office Of Monica H Choi

20080077348 - Integrated circuit and method for determining the operating range of an integrated circuit: Method for ascertaining an operating range for an integrated circuit which has a plurality of system components, in which a test routine is performed for testing at least one system component from the plurality of system components, where the at least one system component is not in operation and at... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080077349 - Semiconductor testing device: A semiconductor testing device includes: a data memory which stores a test program, said test program generating a test command for testing a plurality of functions within one function area of a plurality of function areas of a semiconductor device, said test command being generated for said function area; a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080077350 - Instrument with interface for synchronization in automatic test equipment: A test system with multiple instruments. Some instruments act as controller instruments and others act as controlled instruments. Each instrument includes a clock generator that synthesizes one or more local clocks from a reference clock. The reference clock is a relatively low frequency clock that can be inexpensively but accurately... Agent: Teradyne, Inc. C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080077351 - Calibration curve fit method and apparatus: A data analysis method includes automatically generating a set of curve fits for a data set from a mass spectrometer. The set of curve fits includes a plurality of suggested curve fits, each associated with a curve fit equation type. For each suggested curve fit, a fit metric is generated... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080077352 - Methods and apparatus for using an optically tunable soft mask profile library: The present invention provides methods and system for improving the accuracy of measurements made using optical metrology. The present invention relates to methods and systems for changing the optical properties of tunable resists that can be used in the production of electronic devices such as integrated circuits. Further, the invention... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080077353 - Pedometer: To enable to measure a number of steps highly accurately by dispensing with an operation of selecting a measuring mode when the number of steps is measured in walking and in running. A detecting signal detected by a walking sensor is amplified and outputted by first amplifying means by way... Agent: Bruce L. Adams, Esq.

20080077354 - Pedometer: To provide a pedometer capable of measuring a number of steps in walking and in running by using one sensor and by a small circuit scale. A sensor is mounted on the arm such that a sensitivity axis on the sensor is disposed in a length direction of the arm... Agent: Bruce L. Adams, Esq.

20080077355 - Methods and systems for statistical based monitoring and power management: Embodiments of the present invention provide devices and techniques for detecting anomalies in monitored environments. In one embodiment of the invention, data may be acquired by monitoring an environmental variable. Based on the acquired data, statistics may be calculated which model the behavior of the environmental variable. Based on the... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080077356 - Efficient deployment of mobile test units to gather location-dependent radio-frequency data: A technique for designing and testing drive-test plan for gathering location-dependent RF data is disclosed. In accordance with some embodiments of the present invention, one candidate drive-test plan is chosen for implementation over a second based on an economic cost-benefit analysis of both plans. This is in marked contrast to,... Agent: Demont & Breyer, LLC

20080077357 - Noise separating apparatus, noise separating method, probability density function separating apparatus, probability density function separating method, testing apparatus, electronic device, program, and recording medium: There is provided a noise separating apparatus that separates a probability density function of a predetermined noise component from a probability density function of a signal under test. The noise separating apparatus includes a domain transforming section that is supplied with the probability density function of the signal under test... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080077359 - Biometric authentication device: In a biometric authentication device that includes biometric-authentication-data generating means for generating biometric authentication data from biometric data of a user, and authentication means for performing authentication of the biometric authentication data on the basis of reference biometric data of the user, a matching ratio of the reference biometric data... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080077358 - Self-learning integrity management system and related methods: An integrity management system predicts abnormalities in complex systems before they occur based upon the prior history of abnormalities within the complex system. A topology of the nodes of a complex system is generated and data is collected from the system based on predetermined metrics. In combination with dynamic thresholding,... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20080077360 - Astronomical calculations in lighting control panel with pre-populated cities: An electrical distribution system for selectively connecting an electrical power source to a load device uses astronomical calculations. The system comprises a switching device electrically connected between an electrical power source and a load device for selectively delivering electrical power to the load device. A control system controls operation of... Agent: Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer

20080077363 - Led-based optical system and method of compensating for aging thereof: An LED-based optical system and a method of compensating for aging thereof are provided. The LED-based optical system includes LED blocks composed of a predetermined number of LEDs; a sensor which senses output values of the respective LED blocks; and a control block which generates compensation rates by comparing initial... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080077361 - Method for fast computation of optimal contact forces: A method for rapidly determining feasibility of a force optimization problem and for rapidly solving a feasible force optimization problem is disclosed. The method comprises formulating the force optimization problem or force feasibility problem as a convex optimization problem, formulating a primal barrier subproblem associated with the convex optimization problem,... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080077362 - Methods and apparatus for using an optically tunable soft mask to create a profile library: The present invention provides methods and system for improving the accuracy of measurements made using optical metrology. The present invention relates to methods and systems for changing the optical properties of tunable resists that can be used in the production of electronic devices such as integrated circuits. Further, the invention... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080071477 - Method for producing underground deposits of hydrocarbon from an earth formation using fault interpretation including spline fault tracking: A method is disclosed for determining a fault surface in a formation, comprising: determining a first plurality of crosscorrelation values for a 3D Volume associated, respectively, with a corresponding first plurality of 3D Volumes, and selecting a first minimum one of the first plurality of crosscorrelation values, a first derived... Agent: Schlumberger Information Solutions

20080071479 - Method for an automatic optical measuring of an opc structure: The invention relates to a method for optical measurement of an OPC structure (306), having a pre-determined structure (302) on a photo-mask, in order to determine a measurement of the structure in at least one direction, whereby, firstly, a region (300) is determined on the photo-mask, which comprises the OPC... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080071482 - apparatus, method, and system for wide-area protection and control using power system data having a time component associated therewith: An apparatus, system and method in an electrical system using power system information or data associated therewith having a time component associated therewith sampled or obtained from the electrical system at a local and a remote location, wherein the local and remote data are time aligned and used to provide... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler Ltd

20080071485 - Apparatus for measuring average power consumption of computer system: An apparatus for measuring average power consumption of a computer system includes a current to voltage converter for receiving an operating current of the computer system and transforming the operating current into a voltage signal; an analog-digital converter connected to the current to voltage converter for receiving the voltage signal,... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080071486 - Semiconductor device with its test time reduced and a test method therefor: In a semiconductor device, when a voltage regulator is halted from operating and a test supply voltage is supplied to second logics, the device is initialized by a reset signal. A register included in the device is then reset by an input signal via first logics. The voltage regulator is... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080071489 - Integrated circuit for measuring set-up and hold times for a latch element: An integrated circuit (IC) includes circuitry for measuring accurately at least one of set-up and hold times of a flip-flop included in the IC design. The circuitry uses data determined at the location of the flip-flop in the IC, and includes a first delay element driven by a first clock... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080071490 - Industrial process evaluation system, industrial process evaluation method and recording medium storing industrial process evaluation program: An alarm detection part 103 monitors each element of a manufacturing device 1, and detects an abnormality generated in the execution of a manufacturing process. In a process evaluation part 105, an alarm severity judgment part 1051 judges an influence (“alarm severity”) exerted by this abnormality upon an object such... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080071491 - System and method for controlling operations of a measuring machine: A method for controlling operations of a measuring machine is provided. The method includes the steps of: clearing faults when there are the faults occur in a measuring machine; sending a restart instruction via a control card to the measuring machine for controlling the movable arm to return to an... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080071492 - Method, apparatus, and medium for calibrating compass sensor in consideration of magnetic environment and method, apparatus, and medium for measuring azimuth using the compass sensor calibration method, apparatus, and medium: A method of calibrating a compass sensor in consideration of a magnetic environment is provided. The method includes (a) acquiring magnetic force data by rotating a compass sensor 360 degrees, the compass sensor including a biaxial magnetometer, (b) fitting the acquired magnetic force data to an ellipse function, (c) transforming... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080071478 - Method for characterizing and analyzing 3-d shapes of molecules utilizing steric multiplets: Steric features inherent in the three dimensional disposition of atoms in molecules can be represented as multiplets using a defined set of steric descriptors. The resulting multiplets can be encoded in a compressed form of bitstring known as a bitmap. Such bitmaps can be generated in compressed form and used... Agent: Laurence A. Weinberger Attorney At Law

20080071480 - Method and system for integrated inertial stabilization mechanism: The present invention provides a method and system for an innovative design of the automatic stabilization and pointing control of a device based on the MEMS technology, which is small enough and has acceptable accuracy to be integrated into many application systems, such as, laser pointing systems, telescopic systems, imaging... Agent: Raymond Y. Chan

20080071481 - Motion tracking apparatus and technique: An apparatus to be attached to a user's hand to detect its movement and functions as a multiple computer input device replicating the output of real computer input devices such as the keyboard, mouse, touch-pad, pointing stick, or digital template. The apparatus can be attached to a human body, animal... Agent: Cherif Atia Algreatly Mathematical Inventing - Silicon Valley

20080071483 - Battery health monitor: A device is disclosed for providing information related to the state of health of rechargeable batteries. The device (10) permanently attaches to the battery and measures key parameters such as battery current, voltage and temperature. Using this information, the device can derive information on the general age and health of... Agent: Stephen S. Eaves

20080071484 - Device and method for battery state determination: A method for battery state determination includes statistically assessing at least one determined characteristic variable for the battery state by means of a statistical process check.... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080071487 - Impedance analysis technique for frequency domain characterization of magnetoelastic sensor element by measuring steady-state vibration of element while undergoing constant sine-wave excitation: m

20080071488 - Method and apparatus for evaluating data: A method and apparatus for evaluating data are provided. The method comprises the steps of acquiring waveform data, performing one or more measurements on the waveform data to generate measurement data, applying a filter to the generated measurement data and generating a histogram in accordance with the filtered measurement data.... Agent: Lecroy Corporation

20080071493 - Temperature detector: A temperature detector for outputting a temperature signal comprises: a temperature sensing diode formed on the same chip as a semiconductor switching device and having a specific temperature vs. voltage characteristic, wherein the temperature detector outputs the anode potential of the temperature sensing diode as the temperature signal; a constant... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080071494 - Modulated differential scanning calorimeter solvent loss calibration apparatus and method: A modulated differential scanning calorimeter that accounts for heat flow due to evaporative solvent loss. The calorimeter modulates the temperature applied to a sample and a reference to determine the amount of heat flow that is due to evaporation. By calculating the amount of heat flow due to evaporation, the... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20080071495 - Object tracker: Object tracking using ultrasonic signals. A receiver receives a signal transmitted from a transmitter. The receiver uses at least two receiving elements for forming at least two analysis signals on the basis of the received signal. The receiver includes a detector, such as a phase detector, which examines the analysis... Agent: Venable LLP

20080071496 - Method and apparatus for measuring wall thickness, ovality of tubular materials: The wall thickness and ovality of a tubular are simultaneously determined. The theoretical radius of a pipe is computed from a measurement of its circumference. An ultrasonic device conventionally used to measure the wall thickness of tubulars is adapted to also measure the maximum and minimum diameters and ovality by... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20080071497 - Processing data to maintain an estimate of a running median: A method, apparatus and software are disclosed for simulating a running median value for a set of input data values, and for simulating a selected percentile value other than the median. A current estimated value is compared to an input data value. If the input data value is greater than... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080071498 - Method and system for computer-assisted test construction performing specification matching during test item selection: A method and system for constructing a test using a computer system that performs specification matching during the test creation process is disclosed. A test developer determines one or more test item databases from which to select test items. The test item databases are organized based on psychometric and/or content... Agent: Mayer Brown LLP

20080071499 - 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

20080071500 - Analysis system: An apparatus for analyzing the condition of a machine having a rotating shaft, comprising: at least one input for receiving measurement data from a sensor for surveying a measuring point of the machine, the measurement data being dependent on rotation of the shaft; a data processor for processing condition data... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080071501 - Kernel-based method for detecting boiler tube leaks: A method and apparatus are provided for diagnosing faults in a monitored system that is monitored by sensors. An empirical model is generated for a targeted component of the monitored system. The empirical model is trained with an historical data source that contains example observations of the sensors. Substantially real-time... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080071502 - Method and system of recording time of day clock: A method is provided for obtaining time-of-day (“TOD”) clock records on an information processing system. In accordance with such method, a first instruction is issued for recording a TOD clock value. In response to issuing the first instruction, a truncated version of a first current TOD clock value is obtained... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20080071503 - Sample measurement device, measurement information display method, and computer system: A measurement information display method includes: generating measurement information of a sample according to progress of measurement of the sample by a measurement unit for measuring the sample, and accumulating the measurement information in a storage part, the measurement information including state information indicating a state of the measurement by... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080071504 - Library accuracy enhancment and evaluation: The accuracy of a library of simulated-diffraction signals for use in optical metrology of a structure formed on a wafer is evaluated by utilizing an identity relationship inherent to simulated diffraction signals. Each simulated diffraction signal contains at least one set of four reflectivity parameters for a wavelength and/or angle... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080065330 - Electromagnetic data processing: A method of determining the source radiation pattern of at least one source (2) of electromagnetic radiation is provided. The method comprises the steps of at at least one sensor (3), measuring the electric and magnetic fields due to the at least one source; formulating a surface integral over the... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080065333 - Migrating composite seismic response data to produce a representation of a seismic volume: A subterranean structure is characterized using composite seismic response data received from a plurality of sources. Phase encoding is applied to the data in which phase shifts are selected based on frequency variation of noise terms. The phase-encoded data is then migrated and a representation of the subterranean structure is... Agent: Jeffrey E. Griffin Westerngeco, L.L.C.

20080065334 - Method for detection of selective chemicals in an open environment: The present invention relates to a space-invariant independent component analysis and electronic nose for detection of selective chemicals in an unknown environment, and more specifically, an approach to analysis of sensor responses to mixtures of unknown chemicals by an electronic nose in an open and changing environment... Agent: Cary Tope-mckay

20080065336 - Battery management system and driving method thereof: A battery management system to estimate a state of charge of a battery and a driving method thereof includes a sensing unit and a micro control unit. The sensing unit measures a battery voltage. The MCU measures a first time and a second time, detects first and second battery voltages... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080065337 - Noise-assisted data analysis method, system and program product therefor: An apparatus, computer program product and method of analyzing complex signals. Independent versions are generated for the complex signal, e.g., by adding multiple instances of white noise. Intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) are extracted from each of the independent versions, e.g., using Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD). Corresponding IMFs from each independent... Agent: Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center

20080065338 - Outlier screening technique: Multiple parameters of manufactured units are continually measured until some of the units fail, where failure can be accelerated by adjusting operating conditions. Pre-failure data is then examined to find outliers or aberrant parameter values that may have contributed to the failures. The data is normalized to allow different parameters... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080065341 - Surface-profile measuring instrument: The movement-estimating unit (600) has a nominal model setting unit (311) in which a nominal model as a frequency transfer characteristics from the scanning vector commanding unit to the probe of the scanning probe is set. The correction-calculating unit (700) includes a correction-amount calculating unit (720) that calculates a correction... Agent: Oliff & Berridge

20080065329 - System and method for displaying storm tracks: A system and method for displaying storm tracks is provided. The method includes combining topographic imagery, preferably high-resolution photographic images, with storm path vectors. The method further comprises panning along the storm path vector, in a “zoomed-in” mode, to allow site-specific depiction of geographic landmarks and expected times of arrival.... Agent: Bradley Arant Rose & White LLP

20080065331 - Method and apparatus for collecting drill bit performance data: Drill bits and methods for sampling sensor data associated with the state of a drill bit are disclosed. A drill bit for drilling a subterranean formation comprises a bit body and a shank. The shank further includes a central bore formed through an inside diameter of the shank and configured... Agent: Trask Britt

20080065332 - Method for continuous interpretation of monitoring data: It is shown that a pressure pulse originating in a well is correlated to a pulse observed at a distant well with a characteristic time. The correlation time is directly related to the diffusion time scale arising out of the pressure diffusion equation. The relationship is affected by the source-observer... Agent: Schlumberger-doll Research Attn: Intellectual Property Law Department

20080065335 - Method and apparatus for legacy comparison: A line device monitors at least one power parameter of an electric power line and produces at least one representation thereof. The at least one representation is communicated to a microprocessor based device. The representation is compared with a measurement of the at least one power parameter produced by legacy... Agent: Schneider Electric / Square D Company Legal Dept. - I.p. Group

20080065339 - Method and system for measuring patterned structures: A method and system are presented for determining a line profile in a patterned structure, aimed at controlling a process of manufacture of the structure. The patterned structure comprises a plurality of different layers, the pattern in the structure being formed by patterned regions and un-patterned regions. At least first... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080065340 - Particle-measuring system and particle-measuring method: The present invention provides a particle measuring system which is provided in a processing system 40 which generates an atmosphere obtained by exhausting air or a gas in a processing chamber 48 by a vacuum pump 98 and applies a process concerning semiconductor manufacture to a wafer W in the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080065342 - Apparatus and method to provide power grid diagnostics: A system, apparatus and method that may enable recognition, identification and/or diagnosis of malfunctioning elements in a power grid. The system includes a processor running a diagnostics algorithm to determine grid element problems from measured transmission signals.... Agent: Mainnet Communications

20080065343 - Measurement control method of an injection molding machine: An ending target position Xes corresponding to the measurement ending position Xe, a rotation rate pattern Ar to rotate a screw 2, and a hypothetical retraction rate pattern Ab for the screw 2 to retract are set in advance, the remaining rotation rate pattern Ar to stop the screw 2... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080065344 - Processing sensing measurements: Software (140) for processing measurements from a distributed sensing system (100) receives the measurements, and generates a graphical representation of the measurements indicating their location or time sequence, and a representation of locations of physical features along the path (50), or times of external events, the representations being scaled and... Agent: Anthony R. Barkume

20080065345 - Colour feedback with single optical sensor: A method for controlling an illumination system comprises determining first drive settings for each of a plurality of coloured light sources, the first drive settings generating an ON time and an OFF time of the light sources; for each of the light sources of a first colour and the light... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080065346 - System and method for measurement of existing structures with known or assumed to be known geometrical properties: A measurement system intended for use in the existing structures which comprises of a distance measurement device, an angle measurement device which is capable of measuring angles in two-dimensional or three-dimensional space, and a software interface which is capable of receiving, evaluating recording, transferring and processing measured angles and distances... Agent: Dmitry Shkipin

20080065348 - Duct geometry measurement tool: A measurement tool for use in creating a customized duct segment for connecting existing adjacent HVAC ducts. The tool includes a handheld unit and a flag, each of which is configured for mounting to a respective duct. A measuring unit, such as a laser rangefinder, of the tool is capable... Agent: Synnestvedt & Lechner, LLP

20080065347 - Statistical surface-scanning method and system: The invention relates to a method of scanning a complex surface (202) defined at least partially by a physical barrier and/or comprising obstacles. The inventive method comprises the following steps: (a) a step consisting in sufficiently scanning a first zone such as to obtain absolute location data in said zone,... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20080065349 - method of producing aerial photograph data: A method of producing aerial photograph data is provided which is capable of positively utilizing stored photograph data and an image of a desired object included in a photographed image. The method includes a step of determining a distance between a position of a virtual photographic principal point (virtual photographic... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20080065350 - Profiling complex surface structures using scanning interferometry: A method including comparing information derivable from a scanning interferometry signal for a first surface location of a test object to information corresponding to multiple models of the test object, wherein the multiple models are parameterized by a series of characteristics for the test object. The derivable information being compared... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080065351 - Thickness measurement based navigation apparatus and methods: Thickness measurement based navigation apparatus and methods are described. An apparatus includes a thickness sensor system and a processing system. The thickness sensor system produces a respective set of measurements of thickness of an object at six or more locations through a surface of the object during each of multiple... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20080065352 - Method for checking the appropriateness of a mass value of an aircraft: The field of the invention is that of checking the appropriateness of a mass value of an aircraft. The invention relates to a method for checking the appropriateness of an aircraft ground mass value Ms, communicated to a flight management system of the aircraft by a crew member of the... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080065353 - Non-disruptive embedding of specialized elements: A system including at least (1) specialized elements that are restricted to a particular domain of data analysis or processing and (2) configurable data that permits the specialized elements to be tailored to a particular application. The configurable data expands applicability of the specialized elements to plural applications within the... Agent: Swernofsky Law Group PC

20080065356 - Anomaly monitoring method of an injection molding machine: In monitoring anomalies in a measurement process comprising a main measurement process Sa which performs a measurement by forward rotating a screw 3 having a back-flow prevention valve 2 installed on the tip and a post-measurement process which performs a post-measurement process Sb for closing said back-flow prevention valve 2... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080065354 - Condition detection apparatus, condition detection method, condition detection program, information recording medium therefor, and condition display apparatus, condition display method, condition display program, information recording medium therefor: A condition detection apparatus comprising an AE sensor 1 that detects AE waves, which elastically-occur when a plurality of balls included in an LM system self-rotate and revolve within a circulation section at the same time, and generates detection signals Sae, and a signal processing unit 4 that generates a... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080065355 - Diagnostic device for at least one pneumatic value actuator arrangement: A diagnostic device for at least one pneumatic valve actuator arrangement comprises a pressure sensor, a volumetric flow sensor, a control means for producing control signals for the valve actuator arrangement and position sensors for detecting the position of at least one moving actuator member. The diagnostic device also includes... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20080059071 - Meteorological aerodrome report to joint variable message format formatted message conversion system and method: According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for converting a Meteorological Aerodrome Report (METAR) formatted message to a Joint Variable Message Format (JVMF) formatted message comprises receiving a METAR formatted message and converting the METAR formatted message to a JVMF formatted message. The METAR formatted message and the... Agent: Baker Botts LLP

20080059074 - Systems and methods for imaging waveform volumes: Systems and methods for imaging waveform volumes. An image of the waveform volume may be drawn on a display device as a two-dimensional image or a three-dimensional image of a sampling probe and redrawn in real-time at interactive rates using a graphics accelerator or a graphics card. The image of... Agent: Crain, Caton & James

20080059075 - Methods and apparatus for geophysical exploration via joint inversion: Methods and apparatus are provided for generating velocity models for pre-stack depth migration (“PSDM”). Seismic, gravity and electromagnetic joint inversion input data are generated based on observed seismic, gravity and electromagnetic data (e.g., magnetotelluric and/or controlled source electromagnetic), and velocity, density and resistivity models. A joint inversion is performed to... Agent: Law Office Of James Trosino

20080059076 - Method for classifying leaves utilizing venation features: A method for classifying a plant leaf by utilizing the feature points of venation has been developed. A sample image of the venation can be extracted by utilizing a Curvature Scale Space (CSS) Corner Detection Algorithm. The sample image is treated to thicken the venation and increase the contrast through... Agent: Gwips Peter T. Kwon

20080059078 - System, method and computer program product for dna sequence alignment using symmetric phase only matched filters: Methods, systems and computer program products of DNA sequence alignment using a symmetric phase only matched filter (SPOMF) are described herein. SPOMF is useful for both global alignment and local alignment. Also described herein is a prime-length cross correlation algorithm for enhancing the robustness of the SPOMF.... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080059079 - Chromatograph analyzing device: There is provided a chromatograph analyzing device, in which results of a quantitative calculation process on an unseparated peak have less dispersion. The chromatograph analyzing device according to the present invention automatically executes a base line setting process on the unseparated peak using base line setting conditions set in advance.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080059080 - Method and system for selective, event-based communications: A method for selective, event-based communication of machine data includes receiving, in an on-board controller, operation data associated with a component of a machine and comparing the operation data with predetermined threshold data associated with the component. An event alert is generated if the operation data is inconsistent with the... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080059081 - Systems and methods for monitoring a machine: Systems and methods are provided for monitoring a machine. In one implementation, a system for monitoring the machine includes a monitoring server in communication with a machine. The monitoring server receives data from the machine, estimates, based on the received data, an operating condition of the machine, and estimates a... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080059085 - Device for determining and/or monitoring the volume flow rate and/or mass flow rate of a medium to be measured: s

20080059087 - Apparatus and method for identifying electrical faults: A method of identifying an electrical fault in an electrical system may include coupling an electronic service tool to an electronic control module. The method may also include instructing the electronic control module to disable an enable condition and modify a trip condition set by the electronic control module. The... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080059089 - Energy source monitoring and control system for power tools: An energy source monitoring system evaluates the state of an energy source and responsively controls a power tool or other device. The energy source may be, for example, a power tool battery pack that includes multiple individual battery packs connected in series. The energy source monitoring system may be incorporated... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080059090 - Capacitance measurement method employing floating gate of semiconductor device: A capacitance measurement method employing a floating gate of a semiconductor device in a circuit having a MOSFET in which a drain is connected to a ground and a source and a gate are connected to each other, and a capacitor having a capacitance Cr connected to the gate, includes:... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080059091 - Signal generator, test apparatus, and circuit device: There is provided a signal generator for generating an output signal corresponding to pattern data supplied thereto. The signal generator includes (i) a plurality of timing generators that, based on a reference clock supplied thereto, generate a plurality of periodic signals each having a different phase with respect to the... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20080059096 - Electromagnetic radiation pulse timing control: The present invention relates to a method to reduce the effect of jitter in a pulsed laser system, the method comprising the actions of sending a trigger signal to a power system for producing laser pulses, delaying said trigger signal a first period of time, detecting a period of time... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20080059070 - Systems for autofluorescent imaging and target ablation: Apparatus, devices, methods, systems, computer programs and computing devices related to autofluorescent imaging and ablation are disclosed.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080059072 - Estimating noise at one frequency by sampling noise at other frequencies: A method, apparatus and computer program for improving the signal-to-noise ratio of a signal S(t), S(t) containing Signal and noise, are disclosed. A measurement of S(t) at a frequency-of-interest is obtained. Noise measurements of S(t) at a plurality of noise frequencies where the Signal portion of S(t) is expected to... Agent: J. Paul Plummer Exxonmobil Upstream Research Company

20080059073 - Methods and apparatus for handling and drilling with tubulars or casing: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for handling tubulars and drilling with tubulars such as casing into a formation. In one aspect of the invention, the apparatus comprises a circulating head and a cementing head operatively connectible to a gripping member. The circulating head is used to circulate... Agent: William B. Patterson Moser, Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20080059077 - Methods and systems of common motif and countermeasure discovery: Disclosed are computational methods, and associated hardware and software products for identifying a set of target pockets for broad-spectrum drug development based on a provided set of protein motifs. A method of identifying the provided set protein motifs based on a plurality of protein motifs in also disclosed herein. Additional... Agent: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC

20080059082 - Hose assembly analysis apparatus and methods: An in-situ lifespan is predicted for a hydaulic or pneumatic hose assembly for a particular installation, so that the hose assembly may be replaced before failure. A user of the apparatus, e.g. whilst on-site, is prompted to enter basic hose data together with a rating for a number of lifespan... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080059083 - Method for inspecting defect and system therefor: Based on a plurality of defects' position-coordinates and attribute detected by an inspecting apparatus, defects that are easily detectable by an observing apparatus are selected. With these selected defects employed as the indicator, the observing apparatus detects and observes the defects. Moreover, creating a coordinate transformation formula for representing a... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080059084 - Multi-gas flow device: A system and method of characterizing or controlling a flow of a fluid is provided that involves a sensor conduit and a bypass. A plurality of fluids may be utilized in the flow control device based on characteristic information of the device generated during calibration thereof. The characteristic information, in... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20080059086 - System and method for determining and detecting stability loss in structures: A significant number of rescue workers are killed or injured each year as they conduct searches within damaged or burning structures, unaware that the structure is unstable. The present invention provides a system and method for real-time detecting and monitoring structural instability that may lead to inevitable collapse of a... Agent: Bartunek & Bhattacharyya, Ltd.

20080059088 - Method and system for state estimation in power systems: A method of state estimation is provided, including: (a) acquiring a plurality of positive sequence voltage and current phasor measurements; (b) designating a reference positive sequence voltage phasor measurement from the acquired phasor measurements; (c) correcting the acquired phasor measurements to account for the reference phasor measurement; (d) calculating complex... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080059092 - Virtual probing: A method and apparatus for generating one or more transfer functions for converting waveforms. The method comprises the steps of determining a system description, representative of a circuit, comprising a plurality of system components, each system component comprising at least one component characteristic, the system description further comprising at least... Agent: Lecroy Corporation

20080059093 - Microwave sensing for determination of loading of filters: Method for determining loading of a filter. The filter has a first dielectric constant. The filter becomes loaded with contaminant material that has a second dielectric constant. The filter, such as a diesel particulate filter, is contained within a metallic enclosure forming a microwave cavity. The method includes establishing microwave... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20080059094 - Defect inspection apparatus and defect inspection method: A defect inspection apparatus includes: stages each mounting an inspecting object on which a circuit pattern having a group of parallel lines is formed, and each running perpendicular or parallel to the group of lines; an illumination optical system which illuminating a surface of the inspecting object with a slit... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080059095 - Electronic device handling apparatus and defective terminal determination method: Standard positional information of respective terminals of an electronic device to be a standard is stored in advance, an image of terminals of an electronic device to be tested held by a conveyor apparatus is taken by an image pickup apparatus, obtaining positional information of respective terminals from image data... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080059097 - Digital scale: A scale is provided that switches a scale interval according to the degree of variation of sampled data and acquires a highly reliable weight value based on the switched scale interval. The scale is a digital scale which computes a weight value based on a predetermined scale interval, comprising data... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080059098 - Method and apparatus for suppressing noise in a doppler system: Present application provides a method for suppressing noise in a spectral Doppler system, comprising the steps of: obtaining a power spectrum of Doppler signals demodulated in the spectral Doppler system, by performing spectral analysis on the Doppler signals; estimating an average noise power of the spectral Doppler system; designing a... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080059099 - Apparatus and method for calibrating displacement of reflective parts in diffractive optical modulator: Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method for calibrating displacement of reflective parts. The apparatus includes memory, a sampling data output unit, an optical modulator drive circuit, a light detection unit, a control unit, and a calibration value calculation unit. The calibration value calculation unit receives a measured light intensity... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080059100 - Method for correcting a spectral image for optical aberrations using software: A spectral image is corrected for optical aberrations. Tissue is exposed to a high-intensity, narrow band of light. The narrow band of light is scattered by at least one analyte in the tissue. Raman signals are optically collected from the scattered light. The Raman signals are directed to a wavelength-separating... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP

20080059102 - Method and device for verifying output signals of an integrated circuit: A system and method for testing an integrated circuit is provided. In one embodiment, a method includes comparing the signal level of the output signal of the integrated circuit to the signal level of a reference signal, wherein a comparison signal is output, which has a first or a second... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP Gero Mcclellan / Qimonda

20080059103 - System and method for implementing a programmable dma master with date checking utilizing a drone system controller: A method, system, and computer-usable medium for implementing a programmable DMA master with date checking utilizing a drone system controller. According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a drone processor generates a collection of random data and stores a first and second copy of the collection of random... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080059104 - Integrated portable electronics tester: A device and method for testing the functionality of various electronic device components. The device is portable and is capable of being upgraded with changes in technology. The device is enclosed within a housing, which comprises a power supply and a display. The disclosed device incorporates a tester for computer... Agent: Lambert & Associates, P.l.l.c.

20080059105 - Memory-daughter-card-testing apparatus and method: A memory daughter card (MDC) is described, having a very high-speed serial interface and an on-card MDC test engine that allows one MDC to be directly connected to another MDC for testing purposes. In some embodiments, a control interface allows the test engine to be programmed and controlled by a... Agent: Lemaire Patent Law Firm, P.l.l.c.

20080059106 - Diagnostic applications for electronic equipment providing embedded and remote operation and reporting: A system for running a diagnostic on a piece of equipment comprises a testing apparatus, embodied within the piece of equipment, the apparatus executing diagnostic tests responsive to test execution commands, and producing diagnostic test results. A command receiver, embodied within the piece of equipment, receives the test execution commands.... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080059107 - Methods and apparatus for testing an ic using a plurality of i/o lines: In a first aspect, a first method is provided for testing an integrated circuit (IC). The first method includes the steps of (1) employing one of a plurality of input lines to receive a test signal for a processor; (2) employing one of a plurality of output lines to send... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law

20080059108 - Automatic test equipment platform architecture using parallel user computers: The present invention provides a system of testing semiconductor devices. The system comprises a central host computer, an array of user computers (the array), and a HU (Host-User) network as the mean of communication between them. Two user computers are dedicated to one test instrument via UI connections in the... Agent: Fish & Associates, PC Robert D. Fish

20080059109 - Method and apparatus to measure force-travel profile of a shifter in a vehicle environment: Generally provided is a system and method that determines a force-travel profile of a shifter in a vehicle having a shifter having an associated shifter shaft for a transmission. The feel of the shifter to a user of the shifter may be improved by using present system. Additionally, accurate measurements... Agent: Randy Tung Ford Global Technologies, LLC

20080059110 - Semiconductor integrated circuit supplying temperature signal as digital value: A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a temperature detecting unit that detects the temperature of a chip, and an A/D converter that converts an analog output VBE from the temperature detecting unit into a digital output. The A/D converter includes an up/down counter, a D/A converter that converts an output T2... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080059111 - Method and system for real-time estimation and prediction of the thermal state of a microprocessor unit: A method (and system) of predicting a thermal state of a transient thermal system, includes combining sensor outputs and thermal parameters to construct a consistent set of estimates of internal temperature of a transient thermal system.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080059112 - Adhesion control system for off-highway vehicle: A system and method for controlling adhesion of a wheel of an off-highway vehicle to a surface supporting the wheel measures a parameter of a traction motor of the off-highway vehicle driving the wheel. The parameter is analyzed to determine if wheel slip is present and the severity of the... Agent: Senniger Powers

20080059113 - Pedometer: An acceleration sensor outputs a walk signal having a charge corresponding to a walk. The walk signal is converted by charge-voltage conversion means into a voltage walk signal, removed of noise by filter means, amplified by amplification means and converted by binarization means into a digital signal, followed by being... Agent: Bruce L. Adams, Esq. Suite 1231

20080059114 - Device and method for the dimensional characterization of a cylindrical object: A device for the dimensional characterization of an object comprising a cylindrical surface which is symmetrical about a longitudinal axle. Said device comprises at least six probes used to emit six pulsed waves, each probe being respectively oriented towards a separate measuring point of the cylindrical surface, and to collect... Agent: Patzik, Frank & Samotny Ltd.

20080059115 - System and method for computing analytics on structured data: A system, method and computer storage medium is provided for computing analytics on structured data. The method for computing analytics on structured data comprises providing at least one data source, providing a statistics object for computing statistical estimates, providing software capable of performing any of the data processing methods selected... Agent: Ryndak & Suri LLP

20080059117 - Analysis system: data processing means for processing condition data dependent on said measurement data; said data processing means comprising means for performing a plurality of condition monitoring functions (F1, F2, Fn), wherein said data processing means includes a Field Programmable Gate Array circuit coupled to said at least one input.... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080059116 - Arrangement, method and computer program product for enhanced prognostics: A method, a computer program product, a device and a monitoring arrangement for monitoring operation of an exchangeable unit in a machine. The monitoring arrangement includes at least one sensor, a control unit and a memory, that is arranged on the exchangeable unit.... Agent: Venable LLP

20080059119 - Anomaly monitoring device and method: An anomaly monitoring device includes: a signal input unit for receiving a periodic target signal generated by an operating apparatus; a storage unit for storing therein segmented target signals provided from the target signal in a form of a queue; a dividing unit for providing comparing portions of each segmented... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080059118 - Sliding mode method for device predictive diagnostics: A diagnostics subsystem for performing predictive diagnostics on a machine such as a vacuum pump. The subsystem has one or more parameter sensors providing measurable data (30), a process model (50) for modelling machine operation and en generating at least one estimated operating parameter, a comparator (54) for comparing the... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080059120 - Using fault history to predict replacement parts: Embodiments herein include a method, computer program, etc., that establishes a first database of part replacement and fault occurrence history based on maintenance records and device data for a plurality of very similar or identical devices (fleet of identical (e.g., same model number) devices, such as electrostatic printing devices). The... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080059121 - Method and system for measuring the performance of a computer system on a per logical partition basis: Disclosed are a method and system for measuring the performance of individual logical partitions of a logically partitioned computer system. Preferably, the method and system both hardware and firmware to allow measurement samples to be collected only for user specified zones of interest. In one embodiment, the method comprises the... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080059122 - Transportation management system: A transportation management system includes: a communication device having a communication module and a communication antenna provided at a storage box for transmitting predetermined data to the outside world via a communication network, and a controller provided at the storage box for transmitting, during transportation by the communication module and... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080059123 - Management of host compliance evaluation: A compliance management system aligns data used to determine technical compliance of a computer system with business groups associated with the computer system. An operator may configure target compliance information, identify target computers to test for compliance, schedule compliance checks and manage ongoing compliance checks through a user interface. After... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20080059124 - System for remote monitoring and control of an instrument: The invention relates to a web-based instrument interface including software executing on an instrument controller computer system that receives a web file from a web browsing software executing on a remote computer. The web-based interface also extracts a command or a request for status information from the web file, generates... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20080059125 - Generating histograms of population data by scaling from sample data: Histograms formed based on samples of a population, such as histograms created from random page-level samples of a data store, are intelligently scaled to histograms estimating distribution of the entire population of the data store. As an optional optimization, where a threshold number of duplicate samples are observed during page-level... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080059126 - System and method for measuring straightness of a line built based on point cloud: A computer-based method for measuring straightness of a line built based on point cloud data is provided. The method includes the steps of: receiving point cloud data; receiving parameters set by a user; computing an equation of a line based on the point cloud data; computing a residual value of... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp