Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing inventions 07/08

20080183389 - Pervasive network for environmental sensing: Data pertaining to environmental information is acquired using sensors on a multiplicity of networked pervasive devices, and analyzed to determine occurrence of at least one environmental event. Such data can be obtained, for example, from an inventive wireless communications device including an antenna, transmit circuitry coupled to the antenna for... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080183391 - Method for acquiring and interpreting transient electromagnetic measurements: A method for interpreting transient electromagnetic survey data includes measuring response of subsurface Earth formations to a plurality of time separated transient electromagnetic fields imparted thereto. An amplitude time decay of a selected one of the measured responses is modeled. An amplitude from the modeled amplitude time decay is added... Agent: Dewipat Incorporated

20080183390 - Nmr echo train compression: NMR spin echo signals are acquired downhole. An independent component analysis is used to determine parameters of a parametric model of the T2 distribution whose output matches the measurements. The model parameters are telemetered to the surface where the properties of the formation are reconstructed. It is emphasized that this... Agent: Madan, Mossman & Sriram, P.C.

20080183392 - Downhole multi-phase flow imager: Dynamic gain setting is provided for a multiphase flow measuring device that measures in-phase and quadrature signals. The average current at a plurality of measure electrodes is determined and subtracted from the individual measure currents to give a measurement with improved dynamic range.... Agent: Madan, Mossman & Sriram, P.C.

20080183393 - Method and system for forecasting earthquakes: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that forecasts earthquakes. During operation, the system generates a relative intensity (RI) map of a geographic region, wherein the RI map represents a normalized intensity in seismic activity over the geographic region during a time period from t0 to t2, wherein... Agent: Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080183398 - Device for detecting and displaying one or more of body weight, body fat percentage, blood pressure, pulse and environmental temperature: A device for measuring and displaying body parameters includes a sensor that generates a signal representing a detected body parameter, such as body fat, body water and weight, and blood pressure of an individual; a transmitter to wirelessly transmit the signal; a receiver to receiver and display the sensed measurements... Agent: HowardIPLaw Group

20080183395 - Gene expression profiling for identification, monitoring and treatment of multiple sclerosis: The present invention provides methods of characterizing multiple sclerosis or inflammatory conditions associated with multiple sclerosis using gene expression profiling.... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 30623

20080183397 - Method for measuring the incidence of hospital acquired infections: Disclosed is a method and system for analyzing patient hospitalization data to determine a Nosocomial Infection Marker (NIM), the method comprising receiving from a database hospitalization data associated with at least one patient, calculating from the hospitalization data the number of specimens with non-duplicate hospital isolates (SNDHI) markers, calculating from... Agent: Needle & Rosenberg, P.C.

20080183394 - Polymorphisms in mitochondrial transcription factor a (\"tfam\") gene and their associations with carcass traits: The physiological regulation of intake, growth and energy partitioning in animals is under the control of multiple genes, which may be important candidates for unraveling the genetic variation in economically relevant traits in beef production. The present invention relates to the identification of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within the bovine... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080183396 - Systems and methods for transmitting pathogen related information and responding: The present disclosure relates to methods and systems that may be used for detection of one or more pathogens and determining one or more agents in response to pathogen detection.... Agent: Searete LLC

20080183399 - System and methods for processing analyte sensor data: Systems and methods for processing sensor analyte data, including initiating calibration, updating calibration, evaluating clinical acceptability of reference and sensor analyte data, and evaluating the quality of sensor calibration. During initial calibration, the analyte sensor data is evaluated over a period of time to determine stability of the sensor. The... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olsen & Bear, LLP

20080183400 - Deriving fixed bond information: Fixed bond information is derived. A fixed bond representation of a chemical structure is derived from a delocalized representation. A path is conceptually traced through the represented structure and an examination is conducted, for each atom, of each possible electronic and bonding state that is consistent with what has come... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080183401 - Apparatuses and methods for wireless monitoring and control of enviromental sampling and chromatographic apparatuses: A liquid chromatographic system includes columns, column mounting fixtures to which the columns are mounted, a detector, a collector, a controller and a plurality of RFIDs. A first RFID communicates with the controller and cooperating RFIDs mounted to other components provide information such as the history of components, parameters and... Agent: Vincent L. Carney Law Office

20080183402 - Methods and systems for automatically assessing and reporting structural health: Structural analysis systems and methods are disclosed. One embodiment provides a method for analyzing a structure includes receiving damage image data; converting the received image data into analysis data in an analyzable format; performing a structural analysis on the analysis data; and outputting the results of the structural analysis. The... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20080183404 - Monitoring heater condition to predict or detect failure of a heating element: An embodiment of the invention is a technique to generate warning of a failure of a heating element. An operational value of at least one of operating parameters of the heating element in a heater zone of a heating unit is monitored. A remaining life value of the at least... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080183403 - System and method for detecting onset of structural failure: A system for detecting the onset of structural failure in a structural element subject to a mechanical load comprises a metering array, a signal processor, and an output processor. The metering array measures physical quantities associated with the structural element. The signal processor transforms the measured physical quantities into a... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20080183405 - Torque estimator for ipm motors: In an embodiment of a method, the method includes measuring currents and voltages that are coupled to a motor that includes an internal permanent magnet and determining a reactive power in response to the measured currents and voltages. The method further includes estimating a first flux orthogonal to an axis... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080183406 - Online ied fault diagnosis device and method for substation automation system based on iec61850: Disclosed is a fault diagnosis device for diagnosing a fault in a bay Intelligent Electronic Device (IED) for a substation automation system, which includes an online IED diagnosis device and a backup IED. The online IED diagnosis device includes an IED selection unit, an IED switch unit, a fault diagnosis,... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20080183407 - System and method for testing power intensify of rfid tags: The invention provides a system and method for testing the power intensity of RFID tags. The method is applicable to the system for testing power intensity, which comprises a RFID reading device, a signal transmitting device electrically coupled to the RFID reading device, a signal separating device electrically coupled to... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20080183408 - Battery condition monitor: An object of the present invention is to provide a battery condition monitor that is capable of reducing labor and equipment costs for parameter setting for evaluation of the battery's condition and capable of readily responding to variations due to individual differences among the same model of vehicles. The battery... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080183409 - Embedded time domain analyzer for high speed circuits: A method of providing an on-chip high-speed time domain digital analyzer for the characterization and analysis of signals within an integrated circuit is provided. The method involves processing the signal being characterized/analyzed in the digital domain irrespective of it's starting format. The approach performs a voltage-to-time conversion using predetermined voltage... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20080183410 - System and method for verifying the contents of a filled, capped pharmaceutical prescription: A probe for a system for determining the chemical signature of a pharmaceutical compound. The probe comprises: a housing; an inlet in the housing adapted to be connected to a transmitting optical fiber; a scanning aperture in the housing; a receiving outlet in the housing adapted to be connected to... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20080183411 - Method of using a wafer-thickness-dependant profile library: A method for facilitating an ODP measurement of a semiconductor wafer. The method includes obtaining real time wafer characteristic data for a measurement site on said wafer and detecting a measured diffraction signal from a structure within the measurement site of the wafer. The measured diffraction signal is matched with... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080183412 - Real-time parameter tuning using wafer thickness: The invention can provide a method of processing a wafer using a Real-Time Parameter Tuning (RTPT) procedure to receive an input message that can include a pass-through message, a real-time feedforward message, or a real-time optimization message, or any combination thereof. The RTPT procedures can use real-time wafer thickness data... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080183413 - Method of using a wafer-temperature-dependant profile library: A method for facilitating an ODP measurement of a semiconductor wafer. The method includes obtaining real time wafer characteristic data for a measurement site on said wafer and detecting a measured diffraction signal from a structure within the measurement site of the wafer. The measured diffraction signal is matched with... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080183414 - Apparatus and method for trimming multiple sensing elements with a single trim resistor: A sensing system, comprising: a sensing assembly, the sensing assembly having: a trim resistor integrally formed with the sensing assembly, the trim resistor having a resistance value; a first sensing element for providing a first signal in response to a first sensed condition; a second sensing element for providing a... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080183415 - Methods to monitor system sensor and actuator health and performance: A method for assessing health and performance of a system. In one example, the system comprises subsystems (preferably physically coupled subsystems), at least some of which are characterizable by transmitted signals. Some of these signals are transformed into a comparable form and compared, so as to identify signals that are... Agent: John W. Wustenberg

20080183416 - Semiconductor integrated circuit: A semiconductor integrated circuit having a test circuit for collecting test data at any time based on interaction with an external source is provided. A communication circuit receives a data frame that is transferred to a data buffer. Data portions are transferred to a test unit of a test circuit.... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080183417 - Apparatus for determining a number of data transmissions in sensor network and method using the same: An apparatus and method of determining a number of data transmissions in a sensor network are provided. More particularly, an apparatus for determining a number of data transmissions preferably includes an interest zone detector for detecting an interest zone based on a user query, a zone determination unit for determining... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080183418 - Method and system for evaluation of signals received from spatially modulated excitation and emission to accurately determine particle positions and distances: A method is provided for extracting the position of a particle, e.g., a moving or stationary particle that is excited or is emitting light. The method includes, among other steps, detecting and recording a signal based on, for example, the movement of the particle, a correlation step to eliminate noise... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Parc

20080183419 - Road curvature estimation system: A processor operatively coupled to a speed sensor adapted to generate a measure of a longitudinal speed of a vehicle on a roadway, and to a source of a measure of yaw rate of the vehicle, provides for selecting a most likely roadway model of a plurality of different roadway... Agent: Raggio & Dinnin, P.C.

20080183420 - Method of evaluating a film: A method of directly measuring hydrogen permeability of a film is provided. The method of evaluating a film includes acquiring, with respect to a specimen including a plurality of films stacked on each other, ion dose-dependence data of intensity of γ-beam generated by hydrogen resonant nuclear reaction, and fitting the... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080183421 - Apparatus and method for determining obesity-related disease risk indicators of a human subject: A measurement device and method that in one aspect provides a simple-to-use measurement device that determines and displays obesity-related disease (metabolic syndrome) risk indicators that are calculated based on anthropometric measurements and additional information such as the subject's age and/or gender. The device may also provide classification information, such as... Agent: Kenneth L. Stein Jenner & Block LLP

20080183422 - Process for software support resource allocation based on analysis of categorized field problems: A method and system estimates future software support requirements based on statistical models of previous observations of support requests, either for the same product or for a different product having features previously identified as correlated with features of a new product. The estimates include an estimated volume of support requests... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P.C.

20080183423 - Scoring method for correlation anomalies: Within aspects of the present invention, correlation anomalies are calculated in four stages for a reference data set, and a target data set, respectively, the four stages are: Initially, a similarity matrix K of the variables to be diagnosed is calculated. This similarity matrix is embedded in a low-dimensional vector... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080183424 - Method and system for assessing performance of control systems: A method and system is disclosed for scaling performance indicators of control applications in an environmental control system. The method and system include receiving more than one performance indicator from a first control application, wherein the first control application includes a modulating control output and receiving more than one performance... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080183425 - Robust distance measures for on-line monitoring: An apparatus and associated method are utilized for monitoring an operation of a system characterized by operational parameters. A non-parametric empirical model generates estimates of parameter values in response to receiving a query vector of monitored parameters for a model characterizing the system. A distance estimation engine (a) determines robust... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080183428 - Correlating power signatures with automated equipment: A system for monitoring an activity of a tape drive system having one or more electro-mechanical components, said electro-mechanical components receiving electrical current from a power supply. The system comprises a mechanism for sampling an actual current supplied to said electro-mechanical component from said power supply during said activity; a... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC- Ibm

20080183427 - Heat exchanger fouling detection: Detection of one or more abnormal situations is performed using various statistical measures, such as a mean, a median, a standard deviation, etc. of one or more process parameters or variable measurements made by statistical process monitoring blocks within a plant. This detection may include determination of the health and... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (fisher)

20080183426 - System and method for continuous online safety and reliability monitoring: A system and method for managing a plurality of instrumented function components is disclosed. In one embodiment, operating information about the plurality of instrumented function components is received from an online safety availability application and status information for the plurality of instrumented function components is updated, within an asset management... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080183429 - Enhancement of periodic data collection by addition of audio data: A portable route-based machine data collector stores audio files to supplement associated machine performance data, such as vibration data. The audio files, which may include voice comments, audio segments of raw vibration data, or frequency-shifted components of the vibration data, are stored in the data collector as standard-format digital audio... Agent: Luedeka, Neely & Graham, P.C.

20080183430 - Performance monitor device and information processing apparatus: An information processing apparatus includes a receptor for receiving an event signal occurring in hardware during program execution in time series, a feature event counter for counting the number of occurrences of a feature event to determine the feature of the program, a stored event counter for counting the number... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080183431 - Sample analyzer and sample analyzing method: A sample analyzer optically measures reaction of a sample mixed with reagent, and obtains optical information therefrom; generates a reaction curve representing change in the optical information over time; determines a first area prior to an evaluation target time (t0) and a second area after the evaluation target time (t0)... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080183432 - Environmental information aggregating apparatus and method: An environmental information aggregating apparatus for transmitting information on an environmental aspect having a stratum structure to an external apparatus, includes: a storage unit for storing, in correspondence with an aspect identifier for identifying the environmental aspect, measured aspect information including a measured value of the environmental aspect and a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080183433 - Detection and quantification system for monitoring instruments: A method of detecting real events by obtaining a set of recent signal results, calculating measures of the noise or variation based on the set of recent signal results, calculating an expected baseline value based on the set of recent signal results, determining sample deviation, calculating an allowable deviation by... Agent: Assistant Laboratory Counsel Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

20080177473 - Method and apparatus to determine a planet vector: The present invention relates to a method for a low cost Planet vector Sensor based on imaging atmospheric oxygen emission at 762 nm or at 557.7 wavelengths using either CMOS, CCD or arrays of single photon avalanche diodes (SPADs). In both daytime and night time, there is continuous emission at... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20080177474 - Systems and methods for determining turbulence and turbulent mixing in the free atmosphere: Systems may methods may be provided for determining turbulent mixing characteristics. The systems and methods may include obtaining sounding data associated with an atmospheric column and determining first vertical potential temperature profiles from the sounding data. The systems and methods may further include determining second vertical profiles of displacement scales... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20080177475 - Distance determination from a magnetically patterned target well: Methods for determining the distance and relative axial position between twin and target wells are disclosed. In one exemplary embodiment the magnitude and direction of the interference magnetic field vector are processed to determine the distance and the axial position. In another exemplary embodiment, a change in direction of the... Agent: W-h Energy Services, Inc.

20080177476 - System and method for fault identification: A system, which may be and/or may include a computer system (1, 100), and method (3) for 910 identifying a fault patch position from a seismic data volume (103). The system and method may include defining an initial active surface (310) in the seismic data volume (103); identifying (914) one... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080177477 - Compositions and methods comprising biological samples for quality controls: A quality control system for testing biological samples is provided, comprising: a support having at least one surface capable of receiving one or more predetermined quantities of a biological sample from one or more known donors. A computerized system for testing biological samples is also provided.... Agent: Kalow & Springut LLP

20080177479 - Describing and storing method of alignment information: A description and storing method of an alignment information characterized by the separation of an alignment information on an amino-acid sequence or a nucleic-acid sequence into a sequence information and a gap information expressing correspondence between sequences.... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080177478 - Method for predicting enzyme-catalyzed reactions: The reactivity of given metabolites is assessed using selected empirical atomic properties in the potential reaction center. Metabolic reactions are represented as biotransformation rules. These rules are generalized from the patterns in reactions. These patterns are not unique to reactants but are widely distributed among metabolites. Using a metabolite database,... Agent: John P. O'banion O'banion & Ritchey LLP

20080177480 - Procedure for the acquisition, treatment and transmission of data linked to human energy consumption during daily activity, and/or sporting practices and a device therefor: The present invention relates to a field of procedures for the acquisition, treatment and transmission data linked to human energy consumption. A first activation phase (1a) of a device containing at least one acceleration sensor element and at least one temperature element and a microcontroller element is followed at least... Agent: Pyle & Piontek Attn: Thomas R. Vigil

20080177481 - Method for classifying scientific materials such as silicate materials, polymer materials and/or nanomaterials: A method is provided for characterizing a scientific material, such as a silicate material, a polymer material and/or nanomaterial. The method can include the steps of irradiating a measuring light of a predetermined wavelength range into material specimens, recording the measuring light reflected and/or reemitted by the material specimens, determining... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080177482 - Structure monitor system: A structure monitor system comprising a measuring unit 3 for measuring distortions of the structure S at respective points on a boundary by using an optical fiber sensor 2 laid on the boundary of the structure, numerical analysis unit 5 for calculating a distortion at a specified point on the... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080177483 - Method of evaluating surface deformation: The present invention generally relates to methods for rapidly calculating the surface displacement that results from an arbitrarily shaped load on the surface of a layered substrate. Some embodiments include sparse direct calculations of surface displacement in combination with interpolation methods for estimating surface displacement at other points. Some embodiments... Agent: Roetzel And Andress

20080177484 - Advanced transmitter isolation feature: A signal representative of a pressure is received from an industrial transmitter. An isolation indicator signal may be obtained by control signals from an isolation valve assembly or by signals from a DCS to indicate that isolation has occurred.... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080177485 - System and method for providing vibration detection in turbomachinery: A system and method for providing blade vibration analysis of a turbine is provided. Generally, the system contains a non-contacting sensor capable of determining a distance or velocity of a blade, of the series of blades, in relationship to the sensor. The system also contains a tachometer capable of determining... Agent: Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green, Pa C/o Peter Nieves

20080177486 - System for fault determinations for high frequency electronic circuits: A positioning system is provided for mounting a circuit board or device to be tested, and for mounting a sensor assembly, the positioning system has having the capability of moving the sensor assembly in three dimensions. The sensor assembly is positioned on the mounting assembly such that it is not... Agent: Jensen + Puntigam, P.s.

20080177487 - Estimating static power consumption of integrated circuits using logic gate templates: A method, system and computer program product for estimating a static power consumption of an integrated circuit are disclosed. The static power consumption of a cell of the integrated circuit is characterized based on contributions of an input node(s) and an output node(s) of the cell. A contribution considers a... Agent: Hoffman Warnick Llc

20080177488 - Method and apparatus for analyzing power consumption: Disclosed is a power consumption analysis method capable of reducing an analysis time of power consumption. The method is performed on a design circuit having a characteristic signal for specifying an operating mode of a circuit block and the method comprises the steps of: measuring an operating rate of the... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080177489 - System and circuit for constructing a synchronous signal diagram from asynchronously sampled data: A system and circuit for constructing a synchronous signal diagram from asynchronous sampled data provides a low cost and production-integrable technique for providing a signal diagram. The data signal is edge-detected and asynchronously sampled (or alternatively a clock signal is latched). The data signal or a second signal is compared... Agent: Ibm Corporation (mh) C/o Mitch Harris, Attorney At Law, L.l.c.

20080177490 - Method and system for the detection and/or removal of sinusoidal interference signals in a noise signal: A method and a system for the detection and/or removal of sinusoidal interference signals in/from a noise signal transforms a measured signal (x(t), x(μ·Δt)) composed of a limited number of sinusoidal interference signals (Ak·ej(ωkt+φk), Ak·ej(μ·ωkΔt+φk)) and a white noise signal (w(t), w(μ·Δt) into a subspace containing its white noise components... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.c.

20080177491 - Correction of interpolation errors of a machine, such as a coordinate measuring machine: A machine, such as a coordinate measuring machine, uses a material measure with a periodic division in order to determine spatial positions of a working or measuring head. The periodic division of the material measure is further subdivided by means of interpolation values. For the purpose of correcting interpolation errors,... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080177492 - Method and system for calibrating sensors: A method for calibrating a sensor includes providing a fixture that defines a first coordinate system, providing a chassis, and orienting a plurality of sensor elements to form a misaligned coordinate system, wherein the misaligned coordinate system axes are oriented at other than right angles with respect to each other.... Agent: John S. Beulick (17851)

20080177493 - In-service calibration of temperature measurement devices using plant monitoring system data: System for automating the determination of cross calibration coefficients based on data stored by a plant computer and data storage unit or a plant monitoring system. The automated system includes a processor executing software for retrieving data, determining average temperatures, determining deviations, and determining new calibration curve coefficients for deviating... Agent: Knox Patents

20080177494 - Process and device for the parameterization of measuring device: In a measuring device, the measured data of a data recording component (10) are transmitted to an evaluating component via an output device (12). Parameters of the measuring device are stored in a memory (18). For the purpose of parameterization, parameters from the evaluating component can be stored in the... Agent: Nath & Associates

20080177495 - Automated measurement derivation: A system and method for deriving an estimated measurement from the basis of acquired real world measurements is provided. The system and method include establishing a relationship between the components of the estimated measurement and the components of the acquired real world measurements, and where the algorithms express the value... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20080177496 - Electronic clinical thermometer, method of controlling the same, and control program: An electronic clinical thermometer capable of high-precision measurement within a shorter period of time. The electronic clinical thermometer for predicting an equilibrium temperature based on a temporal change in actual measurement value of a measurement target temperature detected by a temperature detection element includes a prediction value derivation unit which... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080177497 - Storage medium having acceleration data processing program stored thereon, storage medium having game program stored thereon, and acceleration data processing apparatus: The data acquisition means acquires the acceleration data at predetermined time intervals. The change amount calculation means calculates a change amount vector representing a change amount of the acceleration by using the acceleration data having been acquired by the data acquisition means. The accumulation vector calculation means calculates an accumulation... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.c.

20080177498 - System for determining inflating pressures of tyres mounted on a motor vehicle wheels: The invention concerns a system for determining inflating pressures of tires mounted on a motor vehicle wheels, this system comprising means (12, 13) for acquiring vertical accelerations of a front wheel and of a rear wheel of the vehicle and means (34) for estimating coefficients of stiffness of the tires... Agent: Nicolas E. Seckel Patent Attorney

20080177499 - Apparatus and method for detecting a reversion of direction of a relative movement: An apparatus for detecting a reversion of direction of a relative movement between a periodic scale for defining a periodic field and a field sensor includes a determiner for determining a difference and a detector for detecting the reversion of direction of the relative movement dependent on the certain difference.... Agent: Slater & Matsil LLP

20080177500 - Position detecting circuit and apparatus using the same: A position detecting circuit including: a plurality of magnetic field detecting devices discretely disposed for outputting a signal corresponding to a magnetic field strength produced by an oppositely disposed magnetic field generation means; a correction parameter arithmetic section for computing correction parameters for bringing to a predetermined constant value a... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080177502 - Determination of the absolute angular position of a steering wheel by incremental measurement and measuring the differential speed of the wheels: The system for determining the absolute angular position θ of a steering wheel (1) of a motor vehicle with respect to the chassis thereof comprises a device for incrementally measuring the relative angular position δ of the steering wheel, a device (2) for measuring the differential velocity ΔV/V of the... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080177501 - Device and method for sensing a position of a drive unit: The invention relates to a device and a method for sensing a position of a drive unit, in which the position can be sensed by an incremental signal transmitter having a first degree of accuracy which is described by a first travel increment or angle increment, and can be fed... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080177503 - Multiple display electronic caliper: In addition to other aspects disclosed, a caliper is configured to measure at least one physical dimension. The caliper has a display configured to present a first representation and a second representation of a measurement provided by the caliper. The format of the first representation is different from the format... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20080177504 - Method, system, signal and program product for measuring educational efficiency and effectiveness: An application for a method for measuring educational efficiency and effectiveness of a teacher and a group of students includes measuring amounts of effort and/or expense expended during teaching activities and accumulating the amounts of effort and/or expense into an accumulated effort and/or expense. The knowledge level of the group... Agent: Larson And Larson

20080177505 - Process for adapting measurement suite configuration for gas turbine performance diagnostics: A method and system is described that estimates gas turbine engine module performance changes from gas path measurement data using a linear predictor-corrector estimation process. A measurement configuration matrix MC and a fault configuration FC matrix are assembled. The configuration matrices MC and FC are used to adapt a typical... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.c. (p&w)

20080177506 - Method and system for testing processor cores: Systems, methods and program codes are provided for testing multi-core processor chip structures. Individual processor core power supply voltages are provided through controlling individual power supplies for each core, in one aspect to ensure that one or more cores operate at clock rates in compliance with one or more performance... Agent: Driggs, Hogg, Daugherty & Del Zoppo Co., L.p.a.

20080177507 - Sensor data processing using dsp and fpga: A system for managing sensor data, such as video data, includes a processing component for generating processed data based on the sensor data. The processing component can include a digital signal processor (DSP), the DSP including a computer usable medium for storing the processed data, a field programmable gate array... Agent: Hoffman Warnick Llc

20080177508 - Noise reduction filter for trigger circuit: A noise rejection filter for a trigger circuit uses an algorithm that updates the filter output monotonically so long as the signal slope remains unchanged, maintains the filter output at a constant level when the signal slope changes but the difference between the sample value and the filter output is... Agent: Thomas F. Lenihan Tektronix, Inc.

20080177509 - Method of determining the state of a body: In a process and apparatus for determining the state of a body, a number n of measured values {right arrow over (x)}i of a state of the body with i=1, . . . , n are measured and recorded, the measured values {right arrow over (x)}i representing points in the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080172179 - Method and system for assessing exploration prospect risk and uncertainty: A method and system for integrating multiple analytical processes for evaluating risk and uncertainty elements of a petroleum system. The integrated environment provides a consistent means of analysis for evaluating multiple petroleum systems including exploration prospects and reservoirs, wherein multiple evaluation tools can be used and each of the tools... Agent: Chevron Corporation

20080172180 - Correction method for processing seismic traces: This invention relates to a method for processing seismic data comprising a collection of seismic traces with different offsets, comprising the steps of: a) breaking up one or several first trace(s) of the collection of seismic traces into a series of trace segments according to a predetermined segmentation interval; b)... Agent: David M. Ostfeld Adams And Reese

20080172181 - Diagonal gather trace interpolation: Diagonal gather trace interpolation systems and methods are disclosed. In some embodiments, the method includes obtaining seismic traces from a marine seismic survey performed using typically two seismic sources fired in a flip-flop pattern. The seismic traces are processed in common field file trace groups from each cable by performing... Agent: E. Eugene Thigpen Petroleum Geo-services, Inc.

20080172182 - Monitoring z-values for clinical data interpretation: Clinical data that are measured at a plurality of sequential time points are interpreted by monitoring the Z-value of the clinical data. The Z-value of the measured data is calculated at each of the time points. The calculated Z-values are plotted and compared against a pre-selected Z-value, which may be... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080172184 - Proteomic profiling method useful for condition diagnosis and monitoring, composition screening, and therapeutic monitoring: A method of diagnosing or monitoring a condition of interest in a subject includes comparing thermograms generated using differential scanning calorimetery. A signature thermogram contains a protein composition pattern for a sample obtained from the subject. The signature thermogram is compared to a standard thermogram. Standard thermograms can include a... Agent: Stites & Harbison, PLLC

20080172183 - Systems and methods for methylation prediction: A method is provided for predicting an amount of methylation of at least one target region. The method includes establishing an observed size of a plurality of oligonucleotides relative to a size standard and correlating the observed size to a number of each of nucleotide base in each of the... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group, LLP

20080172185 - Automatic classifying method, device and system for flow cytometry: An automatic classification method for flow cytometry includes characterizing cells or particles as a vector based on at least two-path optical signals generated when the cells or particles pass through an irradiated area one by one, calculating a distance between the effective cells or particles, in which a shorter distance... Agent: Mindray C/o Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080172186 - Method and apparatus for analyzing multi-channel chromatogram: A method for analyzing a multi-channel chromatogram is realized for accurately resolving overlapping peaks on a multi-channel chromatogram to permit analysis of the composition of a sample. First, components of overlapping peaks are specified. A data matrix Dij is determined, and compressed in the wavelength direction to obtain a data... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080172187 - Impedance spectroscopy (is) methods and systems for characterizing fuel: The present invention relates to methods and systems or apparatuses for analyzing fluids. More particularly the present invention relates to apparatuses and methods that employ impedance spectroscopy (IS) for analyzing fuels. Fuels of interest include biofuel, particularly biodiesel. Hand-held and “in-line” IS apparatuses are disclosed.... Agent: Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.c.

20080172188 - Torque measuring apparatus and rotation center measuring apparatus: A front wheel is placed on a lifting table, which is rotated by an actuator together with the front wheel. By rotating the lifting table by means of the actuator, the front wheel is rotated under constraint of a steering mechanism of an automobile. The rotation angle of an arm... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080172189 - Determining die health by expanding electrical test data to represent untested die: A method includes receiving a first set of parameters associated with a subset of a plurality of die on a wafer subjected to testing. The first set of data is expanded to generate estimated values for the first set of parameters for at least one untested die not included in... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20080172190 - Defect analysis methods for semiconductor integrated circuit devices and defect analysis systems: A defect analysis method includes storing, in a database, data indicative of defects and analog characteristics of corresponding defective bits in a database. A first defective area in a first wafer is found, and analog characteristics of defective bits in the first defective area are measured. The measured analog characteristics... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080172192 - Intelligent electronic device with board-range high accuracy: A method and apparatus provides high-accuracy measurements of an electrical parameter across a broad range of parameter input values. In one embodiment, an intelligent electronic device (IED), e.g., a digital electrical power and energy meter, with a plurality of independently-adjustable gain factors measures a parameter, and calculates and stores calibration... Agent: Electro Industries/ Gaugetech C/o Casella & Hespos, LLP

20080172191 - Method and system for managing energy in sensor network environment using spanning tree: A method for managing energy in a sensor network environment using a spanning tree includes the steps of collecting amount of remaining energy of nodes at a predetermined cycle by a base station in a region having a number of clusters a number of nodes forming a spanning tree in... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080172193 - Method and apparatus for on-chip phase error measurement to determine jitter in phase-locked loops: An apparatus includes a phase-locked loop (PLL) circuit including a phase-frequency detector configured to output phase error signals. A phase error monitor circuit is configured to determine instantaneous peak phase error by logically combining the phase error signals and comparing pulse widths of the logically combined phase error signals to... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C. Suite 210

20080172195 - Semiconductor device, and test circuit and test method for testing semiconductor device: A semiconductor device includes a CDR (Clock Data Recovery) circuit and a frequency tracking control circuit. The CDR (Clock Data Recovery) circuit executes a clock data recovery on a serial data inputted synchronously with a spread spectrum clock. The frequency tracking control circuit controls a bandwidth of frequency which can... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080172194 - Time interval measuring apparatus and jitter measuring apparatus using the same: In order to stably measure an input interval time of a pulse signal with high precision, a time interval measuring apparatus includes a reference signal generator, a phase shifter, first and second A/D converters, an error correction unit, an instantaneous phase calculation unit, and an interval time calculation unit. The... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080172196 - Method for detecting defects in a substrate having a semiconductor device thereon: An inspection apparatus and a method for detecting defects in a substrate having a semiconductor device thereon are provided. The method includes establishing a first inspection region including first patterns repeatedly formed in a first direction and a second inspection region including second patterns repeatedly formed in a second direction... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080172197 - Single laser multi-color projection display with quantum dot screen: A display (1100) comprises a passive screen (106, 502, 700, 1114) printed with a pattern (404) of different color quantum dots (602, 604, 606) that is excited by scanning a laser (130, 1108) over the screen (106, 502, 700, 1114). The display (1100) can be incorporated into a handheld device... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080172198 - Correction of sensor non-equipotentiality in a resistivity imaging device: A method for correcting data from at least one sensor electrode in a sensor includes determining a potential difference (V) between two electrodes; from the potential difference (V), determining a by-pass current (Ic) for the at least one sensor electrode; and from the by-pass current (Ic) and a measured current... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP- Baker Atlas

20080172199 - Method of efficiently determining pressure-based combustion parameters for an ic engine: Pressure-based combustion parameters of an IC engine are determined based on engine cylinder pressure measurements and crank angle dependent cylinder volume data, where the pressure in a given engine cylinder is periodically sampled at scheduled crank angles to provide a measurement resolution that varies over the combustion cycle for that... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080172200 - Custom configuration strategy for on-package genset controllers: A method of setting up a genset system for operation includes selecting one of a plurality of different sensors to monitor an operating parameter of a genset system, and coupling the selected sensor with a data processor of the genset system. The method further includes configuring the data processor for... Agent: Caterpillar C/o Liell, Mcneil & Harper

20080172201 - Information processing apparatus and method: Three pieces of candidate position information are calculated based on a plurality of pieces of sensing position information, and three pieces of candidate orientation information are calculated based on a plurality of pieces of sensing orientation information. Sets each of which combines one candidate position information and one candidate orientation... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080172202 - Short-circuit detection circuit, resolver-digital converter, and digital angle detection apparatus: Potentials at both ends of an exciter coil to which an exciting signal is sent by a push-pull method are compared, and at least one of a short circuit to ground and a short circuit to a power supply of a signal line for the exciting signal is detected based... Agent: Gallagher & Lathrop, A Professional Corporation

20080172203 - Accurate step counter: A device may obtain samples from an accelerometer and a gyroscope, determine kinematics signals based on the samples, and compute a number of steps taken by a user based on the kinematics signals.... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080172204 - Step counter and method of counting steps: An uniaxial acceleration sensor senses an acceleration. An analog to digital (AD) converter converts the acceleration into a digital sensor value. A square-value calculating unit calculates a square value of the sensor value. A zero-point determining unit determines whether the square value is zero and every time the square value... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080172205 - Method, system and computer program product for real-time detection of sensitivity decline in analyte sensors: Method, system and computer program product for providing real time detection of analyte sensor sensitivity decline is continuous glucose monitoring systems are provided.... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20080172206 - Methods for detecting and analyzing piled-up x-rays in an x-ray spectrometry system: A method of processing signals relating to a plurality of X-rays received in an X-ray spectrometry system that includes a pulse processor having a main channel and zero or more fast channels includes steps of receiving a main channel dead time signal and zero or more fast channel dead time... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080167822 - Climatic forecast system: A climatic forecast system for generating an optimized forecast includes: a computer including a processor and a storage unit; means for remotely acquiring digital data via a digital network, said digital data including observations and at least one model digital forecast; and means for hybrid forecasting, including, means for inputting... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20080167823 - Impedance spectroscopy (is) methods and systems for characterizing fuel: The present invention relates to methods and systems or apparatuses for analyzing fluids. More particularly the present invention relates to apparatuses and methods that employ impedance spectroscopy (IS) for analyzing fuels. Fuels of interest include biofuel, particularly biodiesel. Hand-held and “in-line” IS apparatuses are disclosed.... Agent: Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.c.

20080167824 - Systems and methods for sequencing carbohydrates: In many aspects, the systems and methods of the invention are directed to sequencing of carbohydrates by mass spectrometry using computational approaches. The systems and methods utilize data derived from sequential mass spectrometry, in which a carbohydrate is fragmented to form products, each of which may then be fragmented further,... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080167825 - Methods of facilitating pipeline management, systems, and software: Methods for facilitating pipeline management, systems, and software, are provided. A method can include forming digitized map segments to provide for display of a geographical relationship between terrain featured in the map segments and a pipeline network, forming pipeline equipment records to provide for detailed engineering analysis on associated pipeline... Agent: Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

20080167826 - Method of recognizing signal mis-wiring of a three-phase circuit: A signal analyzer for calculating the power consumption and power factor of a three-phase power system driving a motor includes logic that determines whether the analyzer's own input terminals are wired in a proper or inverted manner. To do this, the signal analyzer observes a pattern of zero crossing slope... Agent: William O'driscoll - 12-1 Trane

20080167827 - Two-stage high impedance fault detection: A method and apparatus detect and localize of electric faults in electrical power grids and circuit. Readouts from remote sensors are pre-analyzed by remote processor units using pre-defined updateable fast algorithms to make an initial identification of a high impedance electrical fault. Whenever the data is remotely qualified as potentially... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.

20080167828 - Systems and methods for determining the configuration of electronic connections: Systems and methods for determining the configuration of a connection between two devices by measuring an electrical characteristic are provided. Using the measured electrical characteristic, a device is able to select an appropriate communication interface, such as serial, Universal Serial Bus (USB), FireWire, parallel, PS/2, etc., and configure itself appropriately.... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080167829 - Methods and systems for using electrical information for a device being fabricated on a wafer to perform one or more defect-related functions: Various methods and systems for using electrical information for a device being fabricated on a wafer to perform one or more defect-related functions are provided. One computer-implemented method includes using electrical information for a device being fabricated on a wafer to perform one or more defect-related functions. The one or... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP

20080167830 - Providing a dynamic sampling plan for integrated metrology: A computer program product and system of providing a dynamic sampling plan for integrated metrology is disclosed. The computer program product may include a computer readable medium that includes a computer readable program, wherein the computer readable program when executed on a computer causes the computer to: model a sampling... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080167831 - Laser intensity noise rejection for interferometric apparatus: A laser interferometric apparatus for measuring a displacement of an object is disclosed, the apparatus comprising a laser source for producing a laser beam having a given intensity, a beam splitter for dividing the laser beam into a reference beam and an object beam to be directed to the object,... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20080167832 - Method for determining when a force sensor signal baseline in a force-based input device can be updated: Disclosed is a method for determining a force sensor signal baseline in a force-based input device. The method includes accepting a signal associated with touch activity and determining a signal range, wherein the signal range decays with time and is reset when the signal exceeds the current range. A touch... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20080167833 - Methods and systems for monitoring structures and systems: Methods and systems for structural and component health monitoring are provided. A system includes a plurality of sensor systems positioned about an object to be monitored and a processing system communicatively coupled to at least one of said plurality of sensor systems wherein the processing system includes an ontology and... Agent: John S. Beulick (24691) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080167834 - Using ambient light sensor to augment proximity sensor output: Apparatuses and methods to sense proximity of an object and operate a proximity sensor of a portable device. In some embodiments, a method includes receiving an ambient light sensor (ALS) output, and altering, based on the ALS output, an effect of a proximity sensor output on control of a proximity... Agent: Apple Computer, Inc./blakely

20080167835 - Method and apparatus for detecting sources of projectiles: What is provided is the use of an array of E-field sensors to detect the closest approach of incoming projectiles and to determine through time difference of arrival the bearing of the incoming projectile, thus to identify the bearing of the source of the projectile. dE/dT processing of the individual... Agent: Bae Systems

20080167836 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for performing differential media time calculation and display: Methods, systems, and computer program products for performing differential media time calculation and display are provided. A method includes determining a time of media origination, determining a current time, and calculating a differential media time as a difference between the current time and the time of media origination. The method... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20080167837 - Determining a window size for outlier detection: A window size for outlier detection in a time series of a database system is determined. Strength values are calculated for data points using a set of window sizes, resulting at least in one set of strength values for each window size. The strength values increase as a distance between... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080167838 - Bivariate histogram for impulse noise monitor: A network component comprising at least one processor configured to implement a method comprising creating a bivariate histogram using impulse noise data comprising a plurality of variables, wherein the bivariate histogram describes the joint statistics between at least two of the variables. Also disclosed is an apparatus comprising an impulse... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20080162047 - Cross correlation technique to delineate groundwater recharge potential zone in hard rock terrain: In the semi-arid region, particularly in hard rock terrain, shallow aquifers are major source of potable groundwater. These aquifers are indiscriminately exploited to meet the growing demand of water for domestic, irrigation as well as industrial use. In order to achieve a sustainable development, it is essential not only to... Agent: Luedeka, Neely & Graham, P.c.

20080162048 - Distance measuring apparatus capable of controlling range and resolution: There is provided a distance measuring apparatus having system flexibility by varying a distance measuring range and a distance measuring resolution according to an environment and circumstance. The apparatus includes a reference pulse generator and a delay pulse generator capable of controlling frequencies of a reference pulse and a delay... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080162049 - Method for interpreting seismic data and controlled source electromagnetic data to estimate subsurface reservoir properties: A method for mapping a property of a subsurface reservoir includes determining a value of at least one reservoir property from measurements obtained from a well drilled through the reservoir. A relationship is determined between the at least one property of the reservoir and at least one seismic attribute and... Agent: Richard A. Fagin

20080162050 - Method for interpreting seismic data and controlled source electromagnetic data to estimate subsurface reservoir properties: A method for mapping a property of a subsurface reservoir includes determining a value of at least one reservoir property from measurements obtained from a well drilled through the reservoir. A relationship is determined between the at least one property of the reservoir and at least one seismic attribute and... Agent: Richard A. Fagin

20080162053 - Electronic device for recording, storing and processing measured data, particularly a data logger: A data logger is disclosed wherein a common housing includes different function blocks which are connected to one another. These function blocks include at least one analog/digital converter for conversion of measurement signals into digital input data, a memory unit for recording of digital data and of digitized event data,... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080162051 - Scattering diagrams in seismic imaging: The analysis of scattering diagrams of the correlation-type representation theorem in inhomogeneous media is improved by the use of virtual events. Virtual events here are events which are not directly recorded in standard seismic data acquisition, but the assumption of their existence permits the construction, of internal multiples with scattering... Agent: Oppedahl Patent Law Firm Llc

20080162052 - System and method for filtering seismic noise data to analyze seismic events: A method for filtering noise from seismic data is disclosed. The method includes: receiving at least one seismic data set; computing a value of at least one subset of a plurality of subsets of the at least one seismic data set; computing quartiles and an upper moustache (M) for the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP- Baker Atlas

20080162054 - Application of biosensor chips: A method of sensing a property of each of a plurality of samples is disclosed. The method includes disposing a sensor chip in each sample, the sensor chip being adapted to sense the property of a respective sample and comprising sensing electronics, a wireless communication device and an identifier. Each... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080162055 - Process for determining a molecular weight distribution in a polymer: The object of the invention is achieved by describing starting data G*(ω) available in numerical form, i.e. the complex shear modulus measured as a function of frequency or the mastercurve constructed therefrom, are described by an analytical function. In this way, exact knowledge of the relaxation behaviour is available in... Agent: Lanxess Corporation

20080162056 - Method and apparatus for determination of gas in place: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for predicting initial gas production in a well. A cumulative amount of each gas species present in a gas sample taken from the well is identified. A set of data points corresponding to the cumulative amount of each gas species present... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.c.

20080162057 - Low-paper sensor using rollers: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer usable program code are provided for detecting a printer condition. A set of signals is received from a sensor in a printer. A current state of a paper roll within the printer is detected within the set of signals. Responsive to... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.c.

20080162058 - Binarization technique for acoustic data analysis: A method of enhancing acoustic pump data for monitoring of pump condition in operation. The enhancement may be in the form of a substantial reduction in the amount of data to be processed by firmware to a much more manageable level. This may be achieved through pre-filtering of acquired acoustic... Agent: Schlumberger Technology Corporation David Cate

20080162059 - Secondary battery charge/discharge electricity amount estimation method and device, secondary battery polarization voltage estimation method and device and secondary battery remaining capacity estimation method and device: If a particular selection condition is satisfied, a non-load voltage calculation unit (105) calculates a no-load voltage Vsep as a voltage piece when the current in approximate straight line obtained by statistical processing using the method of least squares for a plurality of sets of data containing current data I(n)... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080162060 - Identifying periodic jitter in a signal: Identifying periodic jitter in a signal includes identifying transition regions of the signal, where the transition regions correspond to regions of the signal where the signal changes between different levels, determining lengths of the transition regions; and performing a statistical analysis that is based on the lengths of the transition... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080162061 - Pattern testing apparatus, pattern testing method, and pattern testing program: The present invention has an object of realizing a defect inspection estimated at high accuracy by preparing a reference image that reflects the change of the blur with time from a sampled image and design data. The present invention comprises a point spread function estimating section 23 for estimating a... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080162062 - Circuitry and method to measure a duty cycle of a clock signal: In some embodiments, a chip includes clock generation circuitry to create a clock signal, and reference signal oscillator circuitry to produce a reference signal with a higher frequency than the clock signal. The chip includes a counter to change a count value in response to changes in the reference signal;... Agent: Intel/blakely

20080162064 - Moving light table: A moving light test system allows connecting moving lights to an interface board and conveying the lights and orienting and testing the lights while they are attached to the board. The lights can be mechanically and electrically connected to the board, and once connected, can be tested in multiple ways... Agent: Law Office Of Scott C Harris

20080162063 - Vehicle quality analyzing system and program file management method: A sequence identifier (68) is included in a data file (32a) for specifying the sequence of execution. Program identifiers (74) are likewise included in the data file (32) for specifying inspecting program files, respectively. The individual program identifier (74) is related to the sequence identifier (68). The processing unit identifies... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080162065 - Pattern inspection apparatus: The defect confirmation screen of a pattern inspection apparatus that allows the user to create a recipe and check defects easily and quickly includes a “map display part” where a wafer map is displayed, an “image display part” where a list of defect images is displayed, a “list display part”... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080162066 - Inspection system and apparatus: A method and system for identifying a defect or contamination on a surface of a sample. The system operates by detecting changes in work function across a surface via both vCPD and nvCPD. It utilizes a non-vibrating contact potential difference (nvCPD) sensor for imaging work function variations over an entire... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080162067 - Semiconductor integrated circuit: A semiconductor integrated circuit according to the examples of the present invention is applied to a system using a first power source voltage and a second power source voltage independent of the first power source voltage and includes a first area to which the first power source voltage is supplied,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080162068 - Evaluation of access control and filter conditions: A method, computer program product, and system for evaluating access control or filter conditions are provided. The method, computer program product, and system provide for developing a test model involving a plurality of access control or filter conditions, assigning a binary value to each of a plurality of scenarios of... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080162070 - Failure analysis and testing of semi-conductor devices using intelligent software on automated test equipment (ate): The invention provides a number of related methods which improve the test and analysis of integrated circuit devices. A first method of the invention provides a method for pausing on a SCAN based test. A second method of the invention provides a method for using stimulations and responses of a... Agent: Lsi Corporation

20080162069 - Method and device for the dynamic treatment of objects: The inventive method prevents the drawbacks known from the prior art, in that objects of a second type that are similar or identical to the objects of the first type are generated; and the objects of a first and a second type are made available to at least one of... Agent: Chadbourne & Parke LLP

20080162071 - Communication of a diagnostic signal and a functional signal by an integrated circuit: An integrated circuit 300 includes a functional circuit 320 and a diagnostic circuit 330. The integrated circuit comprises a signal interface controller 320 operable to monitor a signal associated with at least one of the functional circuit and the diagnostic circuit to control selective communication of a diagnostic signal and... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080162072 - Methods and systems for measuring performance of a noise cancellation system: A method for measuring performance of a noise cancellation system that is operable to cancel noise is provided. The method includes generating a first model of a target noise. The first model represents the target noise in a form that is received at a location remote from a noise source... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.l.p.

20080162073 - Method for measuring doctor blade geometric deviations: A method for measuring geometric deviations of a doctor blade using an apparatus, including initializing the apparatus, mounting the doctor blade to a doctor blade holding device, illuminating the doctor blade with light, positioning a first portion of the doctor blade at an optical axis of a camera, obtaining a... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20080162074 - System and method for measuring position and orientation using distortion-compensated magnetic fields: An electromagnetic tracking system and a distortion compensation method that utilize a lead-lag network model to compensate for position and orientation distortion caused by eddy currents formed in one more conductive distorters located within a tracking environment during electromagnetic tracking of one or more objects. The method is adaptive relative... Agent: Downs Rachlin Martin Pllc

20080162075 - Apparatus and method for calculating size tolerance, and computer-readable recording medium in which program for calculating size tolerance is stored: The present invention aims at surely and efficiently calculating size tolerances of a plurality of parts constituting a structure with the configuration that includes a tentative size tolerance setting section setting tentative size tolerances of the plurality of parts based on design data of the structure and part information of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080162076 - Communication system, communication device, seating-order determination device, communication method, recording medium, group-determination-table generating method, and group-determination-table generating device: In a communication system having at least three communication devices communicating with each other, a seating-order determination device for generating seating-order information for information sent from each communication device and for transmitting the seating-order information to each communication device is provided. Each communication device controls the output position of each... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080162078 - End of life prediction of flash memory: Disclosed are a method, electronic device, and computer readable medium for determining an end-of-life stage of the flash memory. The method includes detecting at least one life cycle event associated with a flash memory residing on an electronic device. A counter that is associated with the life cycle event is... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20080162079 - End of life prediction of flash memory: Disclosed are a method, electronic device, and computer readable medium for determining an end-of-life stage of the flash memory. The method includes detecting at least one life cycle event associated with a flash memory residing on an electronic device. A counter that is associated with the life cycle event is... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20080162077 - Method for evaluating and optimizing performance of chiller system: A method of evaluating and optimizing performance of a chiller system includes the following steps. Determine a number of activated chillers, a number of activated cooling towers, and the lowest outlet temperature of cooling water of a cooling tower as an operating settings. By developing evaluating models, sequentially determine a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080162080 - Automated self test for a thermal processing system: Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses for automated self test for a thermal processing system. A signal to execute the automated self test is received. The automated self test is executed. The execution includes executing one or more self test instructions for the one or more subsystems of the system.... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20080162081 - Data analysis apparatus and method: There is provided with a data analysis method, including: providing a database storing for each of devices an example that includes inspection time, the degradation level, operation characteristics, and replacement information; providing a evaluation maintenance strategy including an evaluative inspection time, an evaluation time and evaluative replacement condition; providing a... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080162082 - Two dimensional exponential smoothing: A method of estimating the average response time and average I/O size that can be used as an alternative for or addition to existing response time and I/O estimation techniques. One method involves initializing values for an average response time and an average I/O size, and initializing an angle. Measurements... Agent: James M. Stover Teradata Corporation

20080162083 - Identifying temporal ambiguity in an aggregated log stream: A method and system for ordering and aggregating log streams. Log streams for events from different sources are received. If different sources have different recording cycles, or time epochs, that lead to different temporal granularities, then all of the log streams are combined into a single time epoch that is... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080162084 - Identifying temporal ambiguity in an aggregated log stream: A method and system for ordering and aggregating log streams. Log streams for events from different sources are received. If different sources have different recording cycles, or time epochs, that lead to different temporal granularities, then all of the log streams are combined into a single time epoch that is... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080162085 - Method and apparatus for evaluating data associated with an offshore energy platform: A method for transferring data from an unmanned offshore energy platform to a manned offshore energy platform. The method includes obtaining the data on the unmanned offshore energy platform from a monitoring device, wherein the monitoring device is configured to monitor at least one environmental condition surrounding the unmanned offshore... Agent: Osha . Liang L.l.p. / Slb

20080162087 - Device and process for examining the signals of systems realeasing them during operation or in response to external excitation: Method and a measuring device for measuring and evaluating a measurable signal emitted by a system being investigated during operation or in response to an external excitation. The device includes a signal receiving unit, an output unit and an evaluating unit. The latter includes elements for Fourier transforming the time... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080162086 - Method and apparatus for determining the new sample points of the location determination system in a wireless environment: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for determining the new sample points of the location determination system in a wireless environment. In the training phase, after knowing the distribution of the observed radio signal of a location for a target device, the uncertainty of the probability distribution of the received... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080162088 - Method and system for real-time signal classification: A method to achieve an accurate, extremely low power state classification implementation is disclosed. Embodiments include a sequence that matches the data flow from the sensor transducer, through analog filtering, to digital sampling, feature computation, and classification.... Agent: Kuta Intellectual Property Law, Llc

20080162089 - Systems and methods for determining shooter locations with weak muzzle detection: Systems and methods for locating the shooter of supersonic projectiles are described. The system uses at least five, preferably seven, spaced acoustic sensors. Sensor signals are detected for shockwaves and muzzle blast, wherein muzzle blast detection can be either incomplete coming from less than 4 sensor channels, or inconclusive due... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP