Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing inventions 06/08

20080154505 - Rapid method for reservoir connectivity analysis using a fast marching method: Methods for analyzing the connected quality of a hydrocarbon reservoir are disclosed. A model of a portion of the reservoir is divided into cells, each cell having a volume and some attributes, and wherein a speed function is assigned to a portion of the cells. A reference cell is chosen.... Agent: J.paul Plummer Exxonmobil Upstream Research Company

20080154506 - High accuracy survey-grade gis system: A method of coordinating surveys of different origins and which may be projected into different coordinate systems. The method provides a translation and rotation of the surveys to be coordinated without disturbing the internal geometry of each survey. A geographic information system including a procedure for coordinating surveys of different... Agent: Godfrey & Kahn S.c.

20080154507 - High accuracy survey-grade gis system: A method of coordinating surveys of different origins and which may be projected into different coordinate systems. The method provides a translation and rotation of the surveys to be coordinated without disturbing the internal geometry of each survey. A geographic information system including a procedure for coordinating surveys of different... Agent: Godfrey & Kahn S.c.

20080154508 - High accuracy survey-grade gis system: A method of coordinating surveys of different origins and which may be projected into different coordinate systems. The method provides a translation and rotation of the surveys to be coordinated without disturbing the internal geometry of each survey. A geographic information system including a procedure for coordinating surveys of different... Agent: Godfrey & Kahn S.c.

20080154509 - Method and apparatus for integrating nmr data and conventional log data: A method to determine one or more properties of a substance in a downhole region of investigation is disclosed. The method includes obtaining NMR measurements from the region of investigation, obtaining at least one additional well log measurement from the region of investigation, expressing the NMR measurements in terms of... Agent: Schlumberger Oilfield Services

20080154510 - Method and system for automated choke control on a hydrocarbon producing well: The present invention includes a method and system for automated choke control on a hydrocarbon producing well. The method includes sensing parameters such as sand production, well head tubing pressure, flow rate through the well system, and pressure differential between downhole tubing and an adjacent producing formation. The opening size... Agent: Chevron Corporation

20080154511 - Baseline identification method and system for amplification data: Aspects of the present invention describe a method and apparatus for automating analysis of genetic samples. The initial operation receives amplification data associated with at least one spectral species and a genetic sample in each well of a plate. A putative growth signal is identified for the genetic sample from... Agent: Wiesner & Associates

20080154515 - Hepatic disease-evaluating apparatus, hepatic disease-evaluating method, hepatic disease-evaluating system, hepatic disease-evaluating program and recording medium: In a hepatic disease-evaluating apparatus, an indicator calculating unit calculates an index indicating the degree of hepatic fibrosis from amino acid concentration data to be evaluated including amino acid concentration value, based on one or more indices of fractional expression having amino acid concentration as variable. A disease state evaluating... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080154516 - Information processing system using nucleotide sequence-related information: This invention constructs a highly safe system for processing information for providing semantic information and/or information associated with the semantic information useful for each individual organism through effective utilization of differences in nucleotide sequence-related information among individual organisms. This system comprises steps of: (a) obtaining positional information representing a position... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080154514 - System and method for selectively classifying a population: A technique is disclosed for classifying a population of subjects into various sub-populations for a selected biological condition. Patients are categorized in accordance with numeric scores for a affected status for the selected biological condition and a risk status for the selected biological condition. The numeric scores for an overall... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20080154512 - Systems and methods for baselining and real-time pcr data analysis: Systems and methods according to embodiments of the present teachings incorporate a set of possible signal transforms that can be used to examine the baseline region of an amplification profile for noise. In embodiments, a difference time series analysis can be performed to determine deviations of detected fluorescent or other... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group, LLP

20080154513 - Systems, methods and computer program codes for recognition of patterns of hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia, increased glucose variability, and ineffective self-monitoring in diabetes: A method, system, and computer program product related to the maintenance of optimal control of diabetes, and is directed to predicting patterns of hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia, increased glucose variability, and insufficient or excessive testing for the upcoming period of time, based on blood glucose readings collected by a self-monitoring blood glucose... Agent: Novak Druce Deluca + Quigg LLP

20080154517 - Method, system and computer program product for providing a dna str profile: A method is disclosed for providing a certified biochemical profile of a biological sample. The biochemical profile includes a plurality of data objects for a plurality of molecular markers. The method comprises: (1) providing a first data set for the plurality of molecular markers of the biological sample by a... Agent: Myriad Genetics Inc. Intellecutal Property Department

20080154518 - Non-contact condensation detecting method and non-contact condensation detecting apparatus: A disclosed detector element includes a substrate including a void, a heating unit including a heat generating electrode bridged across the void, and a temperature sensor including a temperature sensor electrode provided above the void. The heat generating electrode and the temperature sensor electrode are warped, cantilevered, and standing up... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080154519 - Quantification of adsorbed molecular contaminant using thin film measurement: A test method for measuring adsorbed molecular contamination uses a test structure that includes a substrate comprising a plurality of separated test sites having a plurality separate thicknesses having a base design thickness and a designed thickness interrelationship. The test structure is exposed to a molecular contaminant environment to provide... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.c.

20080154520 - Computational method for load enhancement factors and apparatus for executing same: A method and computer system for executing a program for calculating Load Enhancement Factor that includes the steps of obtaining coupon test data and storing the coupon test data on an information storage device. Analyzing the coupon test data for fit with a Weibull distribution and other analysis criteria and... Agent: Baker & Hostetler, LLP For Boeing Company

20080154521 - Systems and methods for utilizing scanning probe shape characterization: A scanning probe microscope's probe tip dimensions as they exist or existed for a certain data or measurement are inferred based on probe activity taking place since a probe characterization procedure was performed. The inferred probe tip dimensions can be used to correct nanoscale measurements taken by the probe to... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.a.

20080154522 - Automatic parasitic echo storage: Described is a method for automatically initiating an update of a parasitic echo storage device in a fill level meter operating according to a runtime method. In this method individual echoes of echo curves of different ages are allocated, according to their typical echo characteristics, to global echo groups so... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080154523 - Intelligent electronic device having network access: An electric power meter is disclosed. The meter comprises means for digitally sampling voltage and current. The meter further comprises means for storing the digitally sampled voltage and current. The meter further comprises means for performing power calculations upon the digitally sampled voltage and current, and converting the calculations and... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/pml

20080154524 - Method and apparatus for remote sensing of objects utilizing radiation speckle: Disclosed are systems and methods to extract information about the size and shape of an object by observing variations of the radiation pattern caused by illuminating the object with coherent radiation sources and changing the wavelengths of the source. Sensing and image-reconstruction systems and methods are described for recovering the... Agent: John J. Brooks, Iii

20080154525 - Exponential smoothing of aperiodically measured values with staleness reporting: A computer program for performing a method of providing a parameter estimate from noisy data with aperiodic data arrival. The parameter of the measurement is estimated as a numerator divided by the denominator. The method involves setting a fixed time interval and then waiting for the time interval to expire... Agent: James M. Stover Teradata Corporation

20080154526 - Method and system for restoration of a navigation data loss in image-guided navigation: A method for restoring navigation failure information in a fluoroscopy-based imaging system is disclosed. The method includes obtaining a plurality of receiver navigation information using a calibration target rigidly attached to a supporting member of the imaging system. The calibration target may include a plurality of receivers providing navigation information... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20080154527 - Method for determining correction values for correcting positional measurement errors in a machine having at least one translational axis of movement: In a coordinate measuring machine or any other kind of machine having at least one translational movement axis, correction values are determined by moving the mobile head of the machine along a defined path of movement. First and second position data are recorded by means of first and second position... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080154528 - Abnormality diagnostic device and abnormality diagnostic method for air-fuel ratio sensor: In an abnormality diagnostic device and an abnormality diagnostic device for an air-fuel ratio sensor that detects the air-fuel ratio of exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine, a system extending from a fuel injection valve to the air-fuel ratio sensor is model by a first order response delay, and... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080154529 - Method for pole-zero adjustment in radiation measurement systems: A method for automatic Pole-Zero adjustment in a radiation measurement system, the method including steps of: receiving a plurality of pulses from a radiation detector; for each of the plurality of pulses, synthesizing a multiple-peak pulse shape; and using the amplitude measurement of individual peaks in each of the multiple-peak... Agent: John H Crozier

20080154530 - Method for normalized test line limits with measurement uncertainty: A method is provided for performing a diagnostic test on a piece of equipment, the equipment including a plurality of components and defining various pathways through respective subsets of the components, the equipment having an operator. The method comprises setting test limits, performing the test and obtaining test results, and... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080154531 - Testing tool for electric bicycle devices: A testing tool for electric bicycle devices includes a tester circuit and a connector. The tester circuit is configured and arranged to test and diagnose operability of at least one electric bicycle device. The connector extends from the tester circuit and is configured and arranged to connect to the electric... Agent: Global Ip Counselors, LLP

20080154532 - Versatile method and device for monitoring and controlling a test bench: A method and a device (1) for monitoring and controlling a test bench (2) provided with control elements (3) for controlling the bench (2) and with an interface (4) including display elements (41) and also communication elements (42), the control elements (3) being suitable for controlling the test bench (2)... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080154533 - Apparatus, computer-readable medium, and method for calibrating an input mechanism: Embodiments of the present invention provide an apparatus, a computer-readable medium, and a method for calibrating an input mechanism. For example, the apparatus includes an input mechanism configured to receive user input and at least one sensor configured to measure at least one excursion value of the input mechanism in... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080154534 - Apparatus state determination method and system: In a method for determining a state of an apparatus, detected temperatures are received from a plurality of sensors and are compared to at least one preset condition. The state of the apparatus is determined based upon the comparison.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080154535 - Sensing and analysis system, network, and method: A sensing and analysis system, method, and network that make use of a very portable and compact sensor unit and a physically separate electronic unit that serves to power and control the sensor unit, process and optionally display the output of the sensor unit, and transmit the sensor output to... Agent: Hartman & Hartman, P.c.

20080154536 - Detecting faulty cpu heat sink coupling during system power-up: The present invention is directed to the detection of faulty CPU heat sink coupling during system power-up. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: monitoring a slope of a CPU temperature rise from initial system power-up; determining if the slope of the CPU temperature rise... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & Dalessandro Llc

20080154537 - Acquisition system for detecting the angular position of a gas twist grip in a motorcycle: A system for acquiring the angular position of a gas twist grip in a motorcycle; the acquisition system is provided with a fixed supporting body; a rotating shaft turnable mounted in the supporting body; a transmission device mechanically connected to the gas twist grip and to the revolving shaft to... Agent: Fsp Llc

20080154538 - System for accurately and precisely locating and marking a position in space using wireless communications and robotics: A system comprising a Master station and a substation under the control of the Master station is able to generate graphical drawings of a multidimensional space in real time. Information regarding the physical dimensions of a multidimensional space and location an orientation objects and/or structures therein are exchanged between the... Agent: Paul J. Sutton, Esq., Barry G. Magidoff, Esq. Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080154539 - System and method for measuring the wheelbase of a railcar: A system for measuring the wheelbase of a railcar that includes a track having a first rail positioned parallel to second rail. An alternating electrical circuit having a feed point is located on the first rail at which an electrical alternating current is introduced to the first rail. A shunt... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P.a.

20080154540 - Roundness measurement apparatus: According to the present invention, in a manual type roundness measurement apparatus comprising a measurement device which measures a state of a peripheral surface of an object to be measured; a columnar measurement base capable of adjusting a misalignment and a tilt of the object to be measured on the... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080154542 - Method and apparatus for determining the confidence index of the estimated location for a target device in a wireless system: Disclosed is a method for determining the confidence index of the estimated position for a target device in a wireless system. In the online location determining phase, after knowing the observations of the radio signal for a target device, the target device's probability distribution of location and its motion model... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080154541 - Method for maintaining a sample synopsis under arbitrary insertions and deletions: A method of incrementally maintaining a stable, bounded, uniform random sample S from a dataset R, in the presence of arbitrary insertions and deletions to the dataset R, and without accesses to the dataset R, comprises a random pairing method in which deletions are uncompensated until compensated by a subsequent... Agent: Shimokaji & Associates, P.c.

20080154543 - Liquid waste management system: m

20080154544 - Monitoring and fault detection in dynamic systems: A system and method for monitoring and fault detection in dynamic systems. A “cross-covariance” matrix is used to construct and implement a principle component analysis (PCA) model and/or partial least squares (PLS) model. This system is further utilized for monitoring and detecting faults in a dynamic system. Time series information... Agent: Kris T. Fredrick, Attorney, Intellectual Property Honeywell International Inc.

20080154546 - Energy usage display unit: s

20080154547 - Event tracing with time stamp compression: An improved method, apparatus, and computer instructions for generating trace data. In response to detecting a new trace event, a determination is made as to whether the new trace event occurred at an expected period of time with respect to a prior trace event. A time stamp in the trace... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080154545 - Method and device for analyzing a technical process: A method for analyzing technical processes is disclosed, which is characterized in that measuring data of the technical process is generated by at least one decentralized measuring unit, image data associated with a mechanical course of the technical process is produced by at least one decentralized image detection unit, the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080154548 - Beltless detector systems for combat vehicles: A beltless system for attaching MILES, laser signal-type, sensors to sides of combat vehicles during combat simulations includes at least one mounting magnet attached to each MILES sensor for a vehicle. The sensors can be mounted on respective sides of the vehicle in an arcuate pattern. A common receiver can... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20080154549 - Noise-component removing method: A noise-component removing method for removing a noise component from multipoint spectral data that has been generated through measurements performed at measurement points of a sample surface, the method comprising: a PLS analysis step of determining components of the multipoint spectral data for each measurement point in a descending order... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20080147325 - Method and system for providing augmented reality: Embodiments consistent with the present disclosure provide method and systems for providing customized augmented reality data comprising. The method includes Some embodiments consistent with the present disclosure provide a method for providing customized augmented reality data. The method includes receiving geo-registered sensor data including data captured by a sensor and... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080147326 - Method and system of processing information derived from gas isotope measurements in association with geophysical and other logs from oil and gas drilling operations: A system and method of interpreting well log isotopic information in a drilling operation of a target area. The method begins by inputting a template for indicating a trend from analyzed mud gas samplings into a computing system. Next, a plurality of mud gas samplings are profiled through a well... Agent: Michael L. Diaz Diaz And Associates

20080147327 - Method of seismic signal processing: A method of assessing acquisition errors in seismic images in a seismic data volume. The method comprises selecting a seismic attribute in a seismic data volume and then stacking seismic quality image measurement taken along the selected attribute. The stacked measurements are then related on the basis of any vertical... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.a.

20080147328 - Generating a geographic representation of a network of seismic devices: Information from a network of seismic device is received, and a geographic representation of the network of seismic devices is generated. The geographic representation contains information regarding the seismic devices.... Agent: Westerngeco L.l.c. Jeffrey E. Griffin

20080147330 - Method and apparatus for combining sub-therapeutic dosages: A method and apparatus are disclosed for combining sub-therapeutic dosages. A practitioner and/or computer program product selects at least one primary effect and selects a plurality of ingredients that have the at least one primary effect. In addition, the practitioner and/or computer program product scores a strength of the at... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080147329 - System and method for heightening an immune response: The present application relates, in general, to a system or method for detection or treatment. In one aspect, a method includes but is not limited to: providing one or more antigenic attributes of one or more agents associated with at least a part of an immune response in a host;... Agent: Searete Llc Clarence T. Tegreene

20080147331 - Irreversible-reaction measurement method: An irreversible-reaction measurement method comprising: a step in which a perturbation is applied to one of the divided portions of a measurement sample placed in a light path of a Fourier-transform spectrophotometer to cause an irreversible-reaction while a mirror of the spectrophotometer remains at a data point; a step in... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20080147332 - System for and method of fluid delivery, monitoring and/or mangement: There are many inventions described and illustrated herein. In one aspect, the inventions relate to a system and method to monitor, control, manage and/or measure the delivery of one or more fluids (for example, liquid, gas and/or gas vapor forms of oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, and/or propane) from a... Agent: Neil Steinberg

20080147333 - Wafer center finding: A number of wafer center finding methods and systems are disclosed herein that improve upon existing techniques used in semiconductor manufacturing.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080147334 - Metering device with control functionally and method thereof: A metering device of a power substation and method are provided for operating on a secondary analog waveform output by a transformer assembly receiving a primary waveform. The method includes stepping down the secondary waveform and generating a corresponding output signal; operating on the corresponding output signal for generating a... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080147337 - Light management system having networked intelligent luminaire managers with enhanced diagnostics capabilities: A network operation center for a light management system having networked intelligent luminaire managers. A plurality of networked luminaire managers, each collocated with a respective luminaire, monitor the status of their respective luminaires. The luminaire managers include transmitters for transmitting status information about their respective luminaires and third-party devices to... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080147336 - Measuring arrangement for registering chemical and/or physical, measured variables, as well as measuring device therefor: A measuring arrangement of the invention includes: At least one measuring device, which generates, repeatedly during operation, measured values, especially digital, measured values, representing the at least one measured variable to be registered; as well as an electronic data processing system superordinated to the at least one measuring device, especially... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080147335 - Monitoring of distributed power harvesting systems using dc power sources: A monitoring system and method for monitoring performance of individual powers sources in a distributed power source system. A monitoring module is coupled to each of the power sources, or to each string of serially connected power sources, to monitor and collect data regarding current, voltage, temperature and other environmental... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080147338 - Fiber optic gyroscope deadband circumvention apparatus and method: A fiber optic gyroscope signal process dither system permits application of a low amplitude dither signal for many sampling periods without increasing the noise in the sampled outputs due to residual dither signals. A dither loop and an accumulator are added to a closed loop fiber optic gyroscope rotation sensing... Agent: John H. Lynn, Lynn & Lynn

20080147339 - Method and apparatus for determining particle size and composition of mixtures: A method for determining characteristics of a material includes illuminating the material with coherent light so as to produce scattered light; autocorrelating the scattered light; preprocessing a signal representative of the scattered light to produce a processed signal; and associating the analyzed data with particular characteristics of the material. At... Agent: David Aker

20080147340 - Method and system for measuring signal characteristics of data signals transmitted between integrated circuit chips: Data signals received in an integrated circuit are coupled to a receiver and to an on-chip data acquisition system which takes measurement samples of the data signal in response to a measurement request. The measurement request is synchronized with an asynchronous sample clock signal generating a capture signal and a... Agent: Ibm Corp (wsm) C/o Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.c.

20080147341 - Generalized harmonicity indicator: The invention disclosed herein provides a method and apparatus for analyzing periodic signals so as to determine the degree of harmonicity in real time. Harmonicity estimates are generated for each segment of a signal without the need to process subsequent segments. Harmonicity estimates can be generated in the absence of... Agent: Air Force Research Laboratory Rij

20080147342 - Long data record analysis: A data analysis technique for a long data record in a memory uses a reference, either user-provided or calculated from the data in the long data record, as a representative event. Each event in the long data record is compared with the reference to determine whether there are significant deviations... Agent: Thomas F. Lenihan Tektronix, Inc.

20080147343 - Method and apparatus for metrology sampling using combination sampling rules: A method includes defining a plurality of simple sampling rules for selecting material for metrology. Each simple sampling rule has an associated penalty. At least one combination sampling rule relating a subset of at least two simple sampling rules is defined. The combination sampling rule has an associated penalty. The... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20080147344 - Physimetric property identification of physical object for process control: The present invention relates to a method of automated process control operation wherein a physical object is directed into a read zone, information stored on an ID Container attached to the physical object is retrieved, physimetric property of the physical object is captured, the retrieved information is processed to provide... Agent: Attn: Maquita Wong The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

20080147345 - Remote sensing digital angle gauge: A remote sensing angle gauge includes a sensor responding to physical stimulus and transmitting a resulting impulse for measuring an angle, and a user interface separate and remote from said sensor and in communication with said sensor unit. The user interface receives a signal from the resulting impulse of said... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20080147346 - Method and apparatus for aligning patterns on a substrate: A system and method for aligning prior patterning positions formed by a first SPM tip with a second SPM tip in combination with an SPM system includes identifying first location information that includes a location of the first SPM tip and a sample reference location on an SPM sample and... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080147347 - Non-destructive testing and imaging: A method of non-destructive testing includes non-destructively testing an object over a range of test levels, directing coherent light onto the object, directly receiving the coherent light substantially as reflected straight from the object, and capturing the reflected coherent light over the range of test levels as a plurality of... Agent: William J. Schramm William J. Schramm, P.c.

20080147348 - Computer-implemented method and apparatus for matching paint: A computer implemented method for matching paint on a vehicle, having the steps of receiving in a central computer, from a remote terminal, vehicle identifying information relating to a specific vehicle and a first set of paint color data from a portion of the body of the vehicle. The central... Agent: Ppg Industries Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080147350 - Apparatus, system and methods for collecting position information over a large surface using electrical field sensing devices: An apparatus, system and methods are provided for collecting information on the geographic positions of several moving or immobile objects simultaneously. A plurality of large scale printed circuits having charge transfer capacitance sensing properties are linked by a communication network in order to form a coherent sensing surface for the... Agent: Moetteli & Associates Sarl

20080147349 - Control and/or regulating device for a supporting roll frame of a continuous casting device for metal, especially steel: A controlling and/or regulating device for a supporting roll stand (2) of a continuous casting installation (1) for metals, especially for steel materials (3), comprises a plurality of successive roll segments (8) with lower frames (11) and upper frames (12) which can be adjusted relative to the other and pairs... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20080147352 - Jacobian scaling parameter system and method for automatic grid generation: A system and method for automatically generating a computation mesh for use with an analytical tool, the computation mesh having a plurality of ξ-grid lines and η-grid lines intersecting at grid points positioned with respect to an inner boundary and an outer boundary. The method includes receiving from a user... Agent: Downs Rachlin Martin Pllc

20080147351 - Source decay parameter system and method for automatic grid generation: A system and method for automatically generating a computation mesh for use with an analytical tool, the computation mesh having a plurality of ξ-grid lines and η-grid lines intersecting at grid points positioned with respect to an inner boundary and an outer boundary. The method includes receiving from a user... Agent: Downs Rachlin Martin Pllc

20080147353 - System and method of generically detecting the presence of emulated environments: A method of determining that protected software is running in a virtualized environment includes obtaining a set of baseline measurements of system call timings in native operating system environments. Statistical thresholds are established based on the baseline measurements such that there is a predetermined probability that protected software running in... Agent: Ip Strategies

20080147354 - System and method for participation in a cross platform and cross computerizied-eco-system rating service: A system and method for participation in a cross platform and cross computerized-eco-system rating service. A computerized rating service identifies a plurality of users of the computerized rating service. Each user may interact with a computerized entity via a user display and computerized user controls associated with that display. Ratable... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080147356 - Apparatus and method for sensing inappropriate operational behavior by way of an array of acoustical sensors: An apparatus and method for detecting behavior of one or more pieces of equipment of a system within a facility are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the apparatus includes an array of acoustic sensors respectively positioned at a variety of respective locations within the facility, where each of the... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc. / Whd Attention: Susan M. Donahue

20080147355 - Die and wafer failure classification system and method: A system and method for classifying failures of semiconductor integrated circuit dies using a unique input vector created from die level characterization data to classify wafer (process related) and die level (defect related) patterns. The failure classification may then be used to assign the appropriate yield loss by die. The... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, Llc

20080147357 - System and method of assessing performance of a processor: Methods of and corresponding systems for assessing performance of a processor in a thread based system are discussed. One method comprises: registering with an operating system kernel as a coprocessor; capturing, responsive to the registering, thread events for the processor; managing memory allocation corresponding to a multiplicity of threads; monitoring... Agent: Law Offices Of Charles W. Bethards, LLP

20080147358 - Detectors and techniques useful with automated acquisition and notification systems: Sensors and techniques useful with operating an automated data acquisition and notification system having a plurality of receptacles adapted to store items. In each of the plurality of receptacles, at least one sensor is operated to detect a presence of an item in that receptacle. Light is emitted from a... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.a. 4800 Ids Center

20080140317 - Microscope image pickup apparatus, microscope image pickup program product, microscope image pickup program transmission medium and microscope image pickup method: This is a microscope image pickup apparatus for shooting and forming the observation images of a specimen in order to observe it by a microscope. The microscope image pickup apparatus comprises an image pickup unit for shooting and forming the observation images, a display unit for dynamically displaying the observation... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20080140318 - Weather monitoring techniques: Arrangement and method for monitoring weather includes a sensor system arranged in vehicles for obtaining information about the weather in the vicinity of the vehicle, a communication system arranged in each vehicle and coupled to a respective sensor system for communicating the obtained weather information to a control station or... Agent: Brian Roffe, Esq

20080140319 - Processing of stratigraphic data: A method of processing stratigraphic data comprising a plurality of stratigraphic features, such as horizon surfaces, within a geological volume is provided. The method includes the steps of: extending a plurality of spaced sampling traces through the volume to traverse the stratigraphic features; and assigning the stratigraphic features respective relative... Agent: Schlumberger-doll Research Attn: Intellectual Property Law Department

20080140320 - Biometric analysis populations defined by homozygous marker track length: An association or linkage between a genetic locus and a disease phenotype is identified by confirming that a test population comprising a plurality of humans is an index founder population (IFP). This is accomplished by determining that (i) the consanguinity rate of a test population is greater than ten percent... Agent: Jones Day

20080140321 - Method and a control system for monitoring the condition of an industrial robot: A method for monitoring the condition of an industrial robot having a plurality of links movable relative to each other about a plurality of joints. A first value for a first mechanical property for at least one of said joints is calculated based on measured data from the joint. Whether... Agent: Venable LLP

20080140322 - Method and system for performing and utilising load measurements in the maintenance of machine components and devices relating to papermaking: The invention concerns a method and a system in the maintenance of machine components, devices and systems relating to papermaking, where the condition, state and/or performance of machine components, devices and systems relating to papermaking are monitored by monitoring systems, which are used for performing load measurements and for collecting... Agent: Stiennon & Stiennon

20080140323 - Check support apparatus and computer product: A check support apparatus includes a design-data acquiring unit, a connector-information display unit, and a pin-information sorting unit. The design-data acquiring unit acquires design data including pin information that indicates association between a pin name and a net name of each pin of the first connector and a pin name... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080140325 - Light control unit, optical tomographic imaging method and apparatus: A light control unit that combines and outputs a plurality of light beams, including: a light emission section capable of outputting three or more light beams swept in wavelength within different wavelength ranges from each other; a wavelength combining section having wavelength selectivity, that combines and outputs at least two... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080140324 - Optical displacement sensor: It is an object to provide an optical displacement sensor capable of correctly detecting a target object, even if the position of the target object is changed more largely than the thickness of the target object. An optical displacement sensor is constituted by a light projection device for directing projected... Agent: Kilyk & Bowersox, P.l.l.c.

20080140326 - Estimation of real-time power system quantities using time-synchronized measurements: Phasor measurement units (108) provide phasor data from various locations (102) in an electrical power system. The phasor data is referenced to a common timing signal. Non-phasor measurement data is also obtained at various locations in the power system. A phasor assisted state estimator (120) uses the phasor data and... Agent: Driggs, Hogg, Daugherty & Del Zoppo Co., L.p.a.

20080140327 - Method for controlling the electrical energy quality in an electrical power supply system: A method for controlling the quality of the electrical energy of an electrical power supply system, which allows the quality of the electrical energy to be controlled so as to correspond largely to the required threshold values. The method comprises the following steps: a first test curve of measured values... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080140329 - Calculating zernike coefficients from fourier coefficients: Systems, methods, and devices for determining an optical surface model for an optical tissue system of an eye are provided. Techniques include inputting a Fourier transform of optical data from the optical tissue system, inputting a conjugate Fourier transform of a basis function surface, determining a Fourier domain sum of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080140328 - Optical tomographic imaging apparatus: Light beams swept in wavelength repeatedly within first and second wavelength ranges respectively are outputted from a light source unit at the same time. Each light beam is split into measuring and reference beams. Reflected beams from a measuring object when the measuring beams are irradiated on the measuring object... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080140330 - Semiconductor device yield prediction system and method: With respect to a reference product, whose wiring pattern is different from the prediction target product but manufactured by the same manufacturing process, a monthly electric fault density is calculated from actually measured data. Respective average fault ratios are obtained from product characteristics of the prediction target product and the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080140331 - Method of calibrating temperature compensated sensors: A method of calibrating an individual sensor whose output varies with at least one operating condition. A generic calibration curve is produced for the variation of the sensor reading with the at least one operating condition for the particular sensor type of the individual sensor. Calibration readings are then taken... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.c.

20080140332 - Vehicle compass compensation: A compass compensation system is provided for automatically and continuously calibrating an electronic compass for a vehicle, without requiring an initial manual calibration or preset of the vehicle magnetic signature. The system initially adjusts a two axis sensor of the compass in response to a sampling of at least one... Agent: Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn & Burkhart, LLP

20080140333 - Method and apparatus for optical chassis measurement: Optical chassis measurement of motor vehicles is carried out by a measuring arrangement equipped with at least one measuring device, in which one or more image capturing devices associated with one another in terms of their position and location record the surface geometry of a vehicle or measurement points arranged... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20080140334 - Semiconductor package capable of performing various tests and method of testing the same: A semiconductor package includes an input pin that receives a first signal from the outside of the semiconductor package, a pad that is coupled to the input pin, and a test mode driving circuit that receives the first signal from the pad and outputs a plurality of test mode signals... Agent: Venable LLP

20080140335 - Systems and methods for a distributed execution environment with per-command environment management: Systems, methods and media for providing a distributed execution environment with per-command environment management are disclosed. In one embodiment, a plurality of digital systems are connected to a serving device. The serving device comprises a sequencer to originate environment attributes and commands to be executed within the environment. Each digital... Agent: Ibm Coporation (rtp) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson Pllc

20080140336 - Digital gas meter: A digital gas meter which includes a CPU programmed with conversion relationship between environmental temperature and gas pressure inside a gas tank, a pressure sensor for detecting pressure of gas in a gas tank, a temperature sensor for detecting environment temperature, a power source connected with the CPU to supply... Agent: Leong C Lei

20080140337 - Overpressure protection device: The present invention relates to overpressure protection systems and methods for use on a production system for transferring hydrocarbons from a well on the seafloor to a vessel floating on the surface of the sea. The production system includes a subsea well in fluid communication with a turret buoy through... Agent: Chevron Services Company Law, Intellectual Property Group

20080140338 - Mobile device having a motion detector: A system and method for detecting motion by a mobile device is provided. The mobile device determines whether motion is detected by a motion detector. The motion detection is sampled at a first sampling rate when no motion is detected for a specified time. The motion detection is sampled at... Agent: Conley Rose, P.c.

20080140339 - Six face, multi-event, orientation sensor: An apparatus and a computer implemented method for monitoring and recording the orientation data for an object. The orientation apparatus comprises an outer casing. Inside the outer casing is an orientation device that comprises six chambers, with a ball sensor in each chamber, and a ball. The orientation apparatus also... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.c.

20080140340 - Method for determining the anglular position of the steering wheel of an automobile vehicle electric power-assisted steering system: The method consists in: determining in which actually sector the booster motor is located, a sector of the booster motor being defied by two successive poles; determining a relative angle position of the steering wheel in relation to the booster motor; identifying a sector, known as neutral, in which the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080140342 - Assessment and optimization for metrology instrument: Methods and related program product for assessing and optimizing metrology instruments by determining a total measurement uncertainty (TMU) based on precision and accuracy. The TMU is calculated based on a linear regression analysis and removing a reference measuring system uncertainty (URMS) from a net residual error. The TMU provides an... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro Llc

20080140341 - Interferometric synthetic aperture microscopy: Methods and apparatus for three-dimensional imaging of a sample. A source is provided of a beam of substantially collimated light characterized by a temporally dependent spectrum. The beam is focused in a plane characterized by a fixed displacement along the propagation axis of the beam, and scattered light from the... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20080140343 - All-digital cantilever controller: An All-in-one Digital Cantilever Controller applicable to all SFM systems is disclosed that can perform many relevant experiments for cantilever control in Scanned Force Microscopy. It is comparable in speed to analog components, especially when performing experiments that must resolve the smallest possible frequency shift. It is compact in the... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080140344 - Electronic timer and system lsi: A system LSI including a semiconductor chip which receives power from a power supply, and an electronic timer which measures a time from an interruption of power supplying to the semiconductor chip to a resumption of power supplying to the semiconductor chip.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080140346 - Real time analytics that accounts for shifts: A system, method and program product for processing a stream of data events based on shifts. A system is provided comprising: a real time statistical processing system for updating a statistical summary each time a new data event is obtained, wherein the statistical summary is calculated based on the new... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro Llc

20080140345 - Statistical summarization of event data: A system, method and program product for processing data events. A system is provided that includes a system for processing a set E of data event values Ei, comprising: a system for selecting a function F(D); a system for estimating a value of X such that the sum of F(X−Ei)... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro Llc

20080140347 - Real time analytics using hybrid histograms: A system, method and program product for processing a stream of data events using hybrid histograms. A system is provided that includes: a hybrid histogram that provides a running statistical summary of the stream of data events, wherein the hybrid histogram includes a plurality of percentile ranges, a set of... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro Llc

20080140348 - Systems and methods for predictive models using geographic text search: Under one aspect, a computer-implemented method of generating a predictive model includes accepting search criteria from a user, the search criteria including information identifying a past event, a domain identifier identifying a domain in which the past event occurred, and a time identifier identifying a time period preceding the past... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080140350 - Junction temperature prediction method and apparatus for use in a power conversion module: A method and apparatus for predicting junction device temperature of at least a first switching device in a power conversion module that includes the first switching device and at least a second switching device, the method comprising the steps of identifying a cross thermal impedance value indicative of how the... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(qb)

20080140351 - Junction temperature prediction method and apparatus for use in a power conversion module: A method and apparatus for predicting junction device temperature of at least a first switching device in a power conversion module that includes a plurality of switching devices, the method comprising the steps of, during switching activity, identifying at least one operating characteristic of the first switching device and solving... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(qb)

20080140349 - Method and system for estimating life of a gearbox: A gearbox life estimation system includes a single sensor or multiple sensors configured for obtaining field operational data related to loading of a gearbox from a single gearbox component or different gearbox components. The system further includes a processor configured for receiving signals representative of the field operational data from... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20080140352 - System and method for equipment life estimation: A method to predict equipment life is disclosed. The method includes making available a set of input parameters, and defining a model of a health of the equipment as a function of the set of input parameters. The method continues with receiving at least one signal representative of a respective... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20080140354 - Arc fault detector with circuit interrupter: There is here disclosed a method and apparatus for detecting the occurrence of arcing of a conductor by monitoring the current on an AC power line. The signal detected is split and directed along four separate paths to generate four signals having separate characteristics which represent the current in the... Agent: Leviton Manufacturing Company Incorporated (cdfs) C/o Carter, Deluca, Farrell & Schmidt, LLP

20080140353 - Pump controller system and method: A method and apparatus for a pump control system. One or more embodiments of the invention include a pump controller that can perform a self-calibrating procedure, can provide precise motor speed control, can provide a limp mode before shutting down the motor when system parameters are exceeded and/or fault conditions... Agent: Greenberg Traurig (phx)

20080140355 - Processing irregularly occuring data events in real time: A system, method and program product for processing irregularly occurring data events in real time. A system is provided for processing a stream of data events occurring over irregular time periods, including: a system for updating a running estimate each time a new data event is detected, wherein the running... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro Llc

20080140356 - Services portal: An apparatus for monitoring performance of an industrial process includes a service portal for collecting, transmitting and analyzing parameter data from process field devices that includes a network connection that connects to a process control system of the industrial process, a remote collector that collects parameter data from process field... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080133137 - Software-based quality control analysis of well log data: Software-based quality control analysis of well log data. At least some of the various embodiments are computer-readable mediums storing a program that, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to read data from a well log, and perform a quality control analysis on the data.... Agent: Conley Rose, P.c. David A. Rose

20080133138 - Method for determining an effective formation conductivity for induction log borehole correction: A method for correcting induction conductivity well log measurements for conductivity of a wellbore and a formation proximate the wellbore includes estimating an effective formation conductivity for the formation proximate the wellbore from measurements made by an induction receiver proximate an induction transmitter. The effective formation conductivity is used to... Agent: Schlumberger Oilfield Services

20080133139 - System and method for determining a more accurate resistivity model of a geological formation using time-lapse well logging data: A system and a method for estimating a model of a geological formation are provided. The geological formation has a wellbore extending therethrough. The method includes obtaining a first resistivity log associated with the geological formation from a LWD sensor in the wellbore. The method further includes obtaining a second... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP- Baker Atlas

20080133140 - Processing seismic data using interferometry techniques: Method for processing seismic data. In one implementation, the method includes converting a common midpoint (CMP) gather of seismograms into one or more interferogram common midpoint (ICMP) gathers, generating a semblance spectrum for each ICMP gather, stacking the semblance spectrum from each ICMP gather to generate a combined semblance spectrum... Agent: Westerngeco L.l.c.

20080133143 - Methods, systems, and software for identifying functional biomolecules: The present invention generally relates to methods of rapidly and efficiently searching biologically-related data space. More specifically, the invention includes methods of identifying bio-molecules with desired properties, or which are most suitable for acquiring such properties, from complex bio-molecule libraries or sets of such libraries. The invention also provides methods... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080133142 - Sequence pattern descriptors for transmembrane structural details: The relationship between an amino acid sequence of a protein and its three-dimensional structure is at the very core of structural biology and bioinformatics. The occurrence and conservation of non-canonical conformations is a “local” phenomenon, i.e., non-canonical conformations are encoded intra-helically by short peptide sequences (heptapeptides at most). Effective descriptors... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080133141 - Weighted scoring methods and use thereof in screening: The present invention relates among other things to methods for scoring one or more biomarkers in or associated with a test sample and determining a subject's risk of developing a medical condition.... Agent: Paul D. Yasger Abbott Laboratories

20080133144 - Method of systematic analysis of relevant gene in relevant genome region (including relevant gene/relevant haplotype): It is intended to provide a systematic analysis method wherein the virtual haplotype of a gene polymorphism serving as a marker is assumed and then a relevant haplotype block and a gene or a genome domain relating to a phenotype are successively determined from the whole genome domain or a... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080133145 - System and method for heightening a humoral immune response: The present application relates, in general, to a system and/or method for detection and/or treatment.... Agent: Searete Llc Clarence T. Tegreene

20080133146 - Device having a trend-indicating display: A test device (10) for determining the analyte concentration in a current sample. A measuring unit (28) is included in the test device and is adapted to measure the reaction of a reagent and the analyte and to generate a signal indicative of the measured reaction. The test device (10)... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP

20080133148 - Method for checking indoor environment: In assessing the effect of indoor emission sources, such as furniture and building materials which emit hazardous chemical substances to indoor environment, with respect to chemical substances emitted from each emission source; calculating a emission amount (Qn) of each emission source per time using parameter of a emission rate (Fn)... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080133147 - Method for predicting concentration distribution of microparticles, device for analysis, program product for predicting concentration distribution of microparticles, building and device for diffusing microparticles designed by using the method for predict: A method for predicting local concentrations of short-lived microparticles having an unstable composition in a room simply and in a short time is provided. The method for predicting the concentration distribution of microparticles includes the steps of determining a flow field in a room, determining the age-of-air distribution in the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080133150 - Method, apparatus, and system for monitoring amount of liquid poured from liquid containers: Some embodiments of the invention provide a system for monitoring liquid consumption at one or more establishments. At each establishment, the system includes one or more spouts and a local computer. Each spout is mounted on a liquid container. Also, each spout generates data regarding the amount of liquid poured... Agent: Adeli & Tollen, LLP

20080133149 - Sensor fault detection and compensation: A method of measuring a gas turbine engine operating parameter is provided. The method includes providing at least one engine component and a plurality of sensors, positioning each of the plurality of sensors relative to an index location, defining a periodic gas flow operating parameter distribution profile to extend across... Agent: John S. Beulick (12729) C/o Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080133151 - System and method for determining pipe flow parameters: A method is disclosed for providing one or more fluid parameter values of a piping system. The method includes providing one or more initial fluid parameter values as an initial set of fluid parameter values, providing one or more piping parameter values for a first segment of the piping system... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.l.p.

20080133152 - Method and apparatus for fluid leak detection: Certain embodiments of the invention relate to an apparatus for fluid leak detection. The apparatus comprises a fluid supply conduit for supplying fluid to an external structure and a fluid return conduit for carrying fluid away form the external structure, wherein the fluid supply conduit and the fluid return conduit... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080133153 - Self test, monitoring, and diagnostics in grouped circuitry modules: A rotary capacitor electrical test system for providing a power source to a capacitor under electrical test can include at least one programmable voltage source, at least one programmable current source, and a controller for programming the voltage and current sources. Random access, non-volatile, memory can be provided for storing... Agent: Young & Basile, P.c.

20080133154 - System and method for detecting non-cathode arcing in a plasma generation apparatus: A system and method for detecting the potential of non-cathode arcing in a plasma generation apparatus, such as a physical vapor deposition chamber. The system and method involve computing a statistical parameter of cathode-arcing event data in the chamber and performing a pattern recognition technique to a moving average of... Agent: Schneider Electric / Square D Company Legal Dept. - I.p. Group (b&w)

20080133155 - Method and apparatus to generate circuit energy models with multiple clock gating inputs: A method, a computer program, and an apparatus are provided for generating circuit energy models for a macro using multiple clock gating inputs. Circuit energy models are used to estimate system power consumption. The present invention enables circuit energy models to be created for macros that contain multiple clock gating... Agent: Ibm Corporation (cs) C/o Carr LLP

20080133156 - Integrated non-destructive method and device for electrochemical energy system diagnostics: The resultant eddy current signal generated at the initial state of the battery and the gradients of the eddy current signal and of the ultrasonic signal versus the battery capacity is determined. Deviations of these parameters from the corresponding average values preliminary obtained on the training sample set of batteries... Agent: Elena Shembel

20080133157 - Nickel-hydride battery life determining method and life determining apparatus: Data indicating a relationship of life of a battery to a value of load power applied to the battery in discharge and environmental temperature of a place where the battery is installed are prepared beforehand. Next, the load power and the environmental temperature when the battery is discharged are measured,... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080133158 - Method and apparatus for detecting forward/reverse speeds of continuously variable transmission for vehicles: A method and apparatus for detecting forward/reverse speeds of a continuously variable transmission for vehicles determines whether a vehicle is in a forward speed state or in a reverse speed state by using one speed detector having two sensors. The method for detecting forward/reverse speeds of the continuously variable transmission... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (sf)

20080133159 - Instrument check system: There is implemented an instrument check system capable of storing check data of an instrument for a long period of time in an instrument body in a stylized format. The instrument check system comprises an instrument provided with either an AD converter for converting a voltage value applied to an... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080133161 - Methods for discretized processing and process sequence integration of regions of a substrate: The present invention provides methods and systems for discretized, combinatorial processing of regions of a substrate such as for the discovery, implementation, optimization, and qualification of new materials, processes, and process sequence integration schemes used in integrated circuit fabrication. A substrate having an array of differentially processed regions thereon is... Agent: Martine Penilla Gencarella, LLP

20080133160 - System and method for determining reticle defect printability: A method and software program for determining printability of a defect on a reticle or photomask onto a substrate during processing. That is performed by creating a pixel grid image having a plurality of individual pixel images showing the defect. A gray scale value is assigned to each pixel image... Agent: Peters Verny , L.l.p.

20080133163 - Dynamic metrology schemes and sampling schemes for advanced process control in semiconductor processing: Systems, methods and mediums are provided for dynamic adjustment of sampling plans in connection with a wafer (or other device) to be measured. The invention adjusts the frequency and/or spatial resolution of measurements on an as-needed basis when one or more events occur that are likely to indicate an internal... Agent: Applied Materials/blakely

20080133162 - Process control system to manage materials used in construction: Systems and methods are disclosed for designing and tracking construction material usage by estimating volumetric properties for one or more mix designs; determining an optimum mix based on laboratory data; and field testing a sample of the optimum mix; and tracking and managing construction material usage based on the optimum... Agent: Tran & Associates

20080133164 - Using statistical signatures for testing high-speed circuits: A method and system for testing a high-speed circuit is disclosed. The method and system include obtaining a high-speed statistical signature of the high-speed circuit using a conventional tester. The method and system further include comparing the high-speed statistical signature of the high-speed circuit to an expected signature. Consequently, it... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080133166 - Automatic testing method to be used by an ic testing system equipped with multiple testing sites: An automatic testing method to be used by an IC testing system equipped with multiple testing sites. In this method the testing procedural information for each IC is stored in different sets of image files that are to be read by the testing system. Thus by inputting into the testing... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080133165 - Test apparatus and device interface: The test apparatus includes: a plurality of test modules that transmit/receive signals to/from the plurality of DUTs; a test head on which the plurality of test modules are placed; a plurality of device interface sections each of which is disposed between the test head and the plurality of test modules,... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080133167 - Testable electronic circuit: An electronic circuit contains groups of flip-flops (12a-c), coupled to data terminals (11a-c) of the circuit and to a functional circuit (10). Each group (12a-c) has a clock input for clocking the flip-flops of the group. Each group (12a-c) can be switched between a shift configuration and a functional configuration,... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080133168 - Synchronizing control of test instruments: A method and apparatus for synchronizing plural test devices coupled to a host. A counter of each of the devices is initialized, and each of the counters is incremented, such as by a periodic signal indicating a start of a data stream. An action, typically either a source signal or... Agent: Young & Basile, P.c.

20080133169 - Methods and apparatus for testing a link between chips: In a first aspect, a first method of testing a link between a first chip and a second chip is provided. The first method includes the steps of, while operating in a test mode, (1) transmitting test data of sufficient length to enable exercising of worst case transitions from the... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law

20080133170 - Temperature sensor configuration detection in process variable transmitter: A process variable transmitter for measuring a temperature of a process includes a first, a second, third, and fourth terminal configured to couple to the temperature sensitive element. Measurement circuitry measures an electrical parameter between a pair of the terminals. A microprocess identifies a location of the temperature sensitive element... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.a.

20080133171 - Method and device for evaluating displacement signals: A process for evaluating motion signals in three-dimensional space is disclosed. The process includes obtaining a first initial measurement value in a first initial direction which is also a first desired direction; obtaining a second initial measurement value in a second initial direction which is different from the first initial... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20080133172 - Velocity detection apparatus: This disclosure concerns a velocity detector comprises a memory storing preset tentative angles and a trigonometric function value corresponding to each of the preset tentative angles; a first register storing a first coordinate (x1, y1) of a body; a second register storing a second actual coordinate (x2, y2) of the... Agent: Dla Piper Us LLP

20080133173 - Method and system for measuring an image of an object: A system for measuring an image of an object is provided. The system includes a measuring machine and an application server. The application server includes: an edge searching module for finding outlines of an image of an under-measurement object based on gray scale of points in the image and around... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080133174 - Population-sample regression in the estimation of population proportions: s

20080133175 - Test interface for software-based sequence of event recording systems: A method for verifying the reliability and robustness of sequence of event recorders includes transmitting a number of precise signals to a software based sequence of event recorder, detecting and recording a number of voltage changes and comparing the number of precise signals against the number of voltage changes.... Agent: General Electric Co. Global Patent Operation

20080133176 - Fault monitoring method for work machine: A fault monitoring method for a robot (10) or other work machine (30) is disclosed, in which the period that starts when the robot or the work machine starts moving and ends when the work machine stops moving is set as one unit, the difference between the maximum torque and... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20080133177 - Method for diagnosing an internal combustion engine: A method for diagnosing an internal combustion engine including at least one microphone associated with the internal combustion engine, the sound of the internal combustion engine being recorded and converted into an electrical signal. The electrical signal representing the sound is used for the diagnosis of the operating state of... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080133178 - Maintenance management of a machine: Methods of providing maintenance management of a machine are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method involves identifying a machine component failure that, if not repaired, will result in a functional failure of the machine. A criticality factor is assigned to the machine component failure based on at least a probability... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.l.p.

20080133179 - Maintenance mediation apparatus, maintenance target apparatus maintenance method, and maintenance system: A maintenance mediation apparatus mediating maintenance operation instruction information in which a maintenance center gives an instruction for a maintenance operation to a corresponding one of maintenance target apparatuses connected thereto through a network is disclosed. The maintenance mediation apparatus includes a reception part receiving the maintenance operation instruction information... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080133180 - Weighted event counting system and method for processor performance measurements: A weighted event counting system and method for processor performance measurements provides low latency and low error performance measurement capability. A weighted performance counter accumulates a performance count according to a plurality of event signals provided from functional units in the processor. Differing weights are applied to the event signals... Agent: Ibm Corporation (mh) C/o Mitch Harris, Attorney At Law, L.l.c.

20080133181 - Locally powered water distillation system: A system for distributed utilities including electrical power and water. A generation device is provided for converting an available resource to a desired utility; the resource may be water, in which case the generator is a purifier for purifying untreated water, or, alternatively, the generator may convert a fuel to... Agent: Michelle Saquet Temple

20080133182 - Method and apparatus for measuring parameters of a stratified flow: Various methods are described for measuring parameters of a stratified flow using at least one spatial array of sensors disposed at different axial locations along the pipe. Each of the sensors provides a signal indicative of unsteady pressure created by coherent structures convecting with the flow. In one aspect, a... Agent: Cidra Corporation

20080133183 - Multi-step non-linear time-discrete processing: A non-linear processing device (1) is presented, in which fractional-delay filtering (20)—fractional as compared with a sample rate used in the processing steps—is used between successive processing steps (10). A corresponding method is also presented. The fractional delay (20) exposes the signal in-between the original samples to the non-linear processing... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080133184 - Circle spectrum method in analyzing electrical properties of materials, biological tissues, body, devices, and systems and its applications in medical care, industry, and scientific research, etc.: A method to precisely differentiate the heavily overlapped electrical properties (electrical impedance or complex dielectric permittivity) measured from a system (a biological tissue, a body, a material, or a device, etc.).... Agent: Yu Zhi