Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing inventions 10/08

20080262732 - Method of detecting, locating, and classifying lightning: There is discloses a new method for identifying an electromagnetic signal having a known waveform. The method includes using a lightning matched filter receiver having a bank of filters matched to nominal but arbitrary lightning waveforms for detecting lightning. The use of a lightning matched filter receiver facilitates detection of... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080262734 - Gis data collection network: Embodiments of the present invention recite a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data collection network. In one embodiment, the present invention comprises a mobile electronic device that was not originally intended for use as a GIS data collector. The present invention further comprises a data dictionary forwarding device communicatively coupled with... Agent: Trimble Navigation Limited C/o Wagner Blecher

20080262733 - Method and system for creating a flexible gis data collection network: Embodiments of the present invention recite a method and system for creating a flexible Geographic Information Systems (GIS) network. In one embodiment, a data dictionary is assigned to a mobile electronic device. In one embodiment, the data dictionary comprises a definition of at least one desired GIS feature type which... Agent: Trimble Navigation Limited C/o Wagner Blecher

20080262735 - System and method for water breakthrough detection and intervention in a production well: A system and method for estimating an occurrence of a water breakthrough in a production well is provided that includes estimating, at least periodically, a measure of water in the fluid produced from one or more production zones and estimating the occurrence of the water breakthrough utilizing at least in... Agent: Madan, Mossman & Sriram, P.C.

20080262737 - System and method for monitoring and controlling production from wells: A system and method for obtaining enhanced production from a well is provided. The system includes a processor that processes instructions contained in a computer program, which includes instructions to monitor actual flow rate of the fluid from each production zone of a well over a time period corresponding to... Agent: Madan, Mossman & Sriram, P.C.

20080262736 - System and method for monitoring physical condition of production well equipment and controlling well production: A system and method for producing fluid from a completed well is provided wherein the method in one aspect includes determining a first setting of at least one first device under use for producing the fluid from the well; selecting a first set of input parameters that includes at least... Agent: Madan, Mossman & Sriram, P.C.

20080262738 - Updating information regarding sections of a streamer that are in a body of water: To perform a marine survey, a streamer is deployed into a body of water, where the streamer has plural first sensors to perform a subterranean survey. Indications are received from second sensors in corresponding sections of the streamer, where the indications are regarding which sections are in the body of... Agent: Westerngeco L.L.C. Jeffrey E. Griffin

20080262742 - Computational method and apparatus for predicting polypeptide aggregation or solubility: A prediction method for predicting the effect of an amino acid modification on the rate of aggregation (solubility) of a reference polypeptide comprising: calculating the difference in hydrophobicity (ΔHydr) between the reference polypeptide and a modified polypeptide, calculating the difference in β-sheet propensity (ΔΔGcoil-α+ΔΔGβ-coil) between the reference polypeptide and modified... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20080262741 - Method and apparatus for screening chemical compounds: Methods and apparatus for screening large numbers of chemical compounds and performing a wide variety of fluorescent assays, including live cell assays. The methods utilize a laser linescan confocal microscope with high speed, high resolution and multi-wavelength capabilities and real time data-processing. Imaging may be done at video-rates and with... Agent: Ge Healthcare Bio-sciences Corp. Patent Department

20080262746 - Method and device for predicting physiological values: The invention relates generally to methods, systems, and devices for measuring the concentration of target analytes present in a biological system using a series of measurements obtained from a monitoring system and a Mixtures of Experts (MOE) algorithm. In one embodiment, the present invention describes a method for measuring blood... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20080262745 - Method for determining insulin sensitivity and glucose absorption: The present invention encompasses a model-based method for determining insulin sensitivity and glucose absorption from oral glucose tolerance tests or mixed meals. The present invention has several advantages over current methods. The technique requires about four to six blood samples taken over about two to three hours following glucose ingestion... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20080262743 - Methods for remote characterization of an odor: Provided are compositions and systems useful in remote monitoring of chemical hazards, air quality, and medical conditions, for example, robotic systems to search for and detect explosives, mines, and hazardous chemicals. In addition, the methods, systems and compositions of the invention provide the ability to mine data from a database... Agent: Gavrilovich Dodd & Lindsey LLP Joseph R. Baker, Apc

20080262740 - Permittivity-based material sensor: A system for sensing a presence and/or a concentration of a target substance in a fluid has a sensor and a processor coupled to the sensor. The sensor has a test probe having at least first and second test electrodes, wherein at least the first test electrode is functionalized to... Agent: Jaeckle Fleischmann & Mugel, LLP

20080262739 - Submersible portable in-situ automated water quality biomonitoring apparatus and method: A submersible biomonitoring system for monitoring water quality in situ includes a submersible chamber constructed of a di-electric material and sized to allow suitable signals from one or more aquatic organisms to be received by eliminating cross-talk between cells while allowing ambient conditions to be maintained inside the chamber. The... Agent: Office Of The Staff Judge Advocate U.s. Army Medical Research And Materiel Command

20080262744 - Systems and methods for tissue engineering tubular biological structures: The present invention relates to systems and methods for tissue engineering. In particular, the invention is directed toward systems and methods for conditioning tubular biological structures. For example, an aspect of the present invention comprises systems and methods for uncoupling local mechanical parameters (e.g., circumferential stress, shear stress, and axial... Agent: Troutman Sanders LLP

20080262747 - Nucleic acid sequencing system and method: A technique for sequencing nucleic acids in an automated or semi-automated manner is disclosed. Sample arrays of a multitude of nucleic acid sites are processed in multiple cycles to add nucleotides to the material to be sequenced, detect the nucleotides added to sites, and to de-block the added nucleotides of... Agent: Fletcher Yoder

20080262749 - Particulate determination method: A particulate determination method determines by onetime scanning, the size of a particulate included in a plurality of particulates of various sizes which are arranged on a disc. False recognition of the number of particulates is avoided even when a plurality of particulates are adjacent to each other. A photodetector... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080262750 - Power conversion apparatus and method of estimating power cycle life: The power conversion apparatus comprises power conversion circuits to supply ac power of variable voltage and variable frequency, a detection circuit to detect a temperature of the power semiconductor in the power conversion circuits, and a computation device to calculate a power cycle longevity of the power semiconductor based on... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080262751 - Curvature-based edge bump quantification: Evaluating irregularities in surfaces of objects such as semiconductor wafers using a thickness profile of a surface section and analyzing the profile to obtain information of an irregularity start position, magnitude, and span along with surface slope and height information.... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20080262752 - Non-destructive method of measuring a moisture content profile across a hygroexpansive, composite material: The teachings provided herein are generally directed to a non-destructive method of measuring a moisture content profile across a dimension of a hygroexpansive, composite material using radiation and a volumetric shrinkage correction. The measurement of a series of moisture content profiles over time can provide, for example, a measure of... Agent: Janet I. Stockhausen Usda Forest Service

20080262753 - Foil-type pressure sensor and method for evaluating the sensor response: A method for determining an occupancy related status relating to a vehicle seat by means of a foil-type pressure sensing mat comprises the steps of determining a raw sensor resistance value of said plurality of pressure sensing cells, determining a raw compensation resistance value of said at least one compensation... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080262754 - System and method for fatigue forecasting and strain measurement using integral strain gauge (isg): The present invention relates to means, system and method for measurement of stress strain and fatigue forecasting by the means of Integral Strain Gauges (ISGs) capable of recording information from a surface of a tested object, mathematical processor for analysis of the information recorded on the surface of such gauges.... Agent: Alexandre Oudovikine

20080262755 - Faucet flow timing system that monitors volume of water usage: A battery powered, low voltage faucet flow timer, water usage calculator, and energy consumption awareness meter is simple to install and calibrate and may enable a user to understand the water usage associated with showering, bathing or other open faucet water use activity. The device may provide a simple method... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080262756 - Coriolis mode processing techniques: Flowmeters are described in which a sensor signal received from a sensor that is attached to vibratable flowtube, so as to determine properties of a fluid within the flowtube, contains a drive signal component and a coriolis mode component. The flowmeters are operable to determine drive parameters of the drive... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080262757 - Leakage detection system: In a leakage detection system configured by arranging a number of gas sensors, a leakage spot is promptly and accurately estimated. An output voltage of the each sensor is converted into concentration, and a time differential coefficient of the concentration is obtained. A leakage spot is estimated to be on... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080262758 - Verifying an accuracy of a state estimation: The present disclosure is concerned with the reduction of an operational security margin of a power system without jeopardizing the safety of the power system or incurring heavy investments. According to the disclosure, a check for basic accuracy or correctness of a conventional State Estimation (SE) procedure allows to increase... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080262760 - Semiconductor inspecting apparatus: A semiconductor inspecting apparatus includes: a buffer memory whose width is matched to the greater of parallel bus width and the width of the number of serial lanes; a preceding stage bus switching unit that fills the buffer memory with input data without making a free space; equivalent transmission capacity... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080262759 - System and method for testing information handling system components: A system and method is disclosed for testing components used in the manufacture of information handling systems. In embodiments of the invention, a device-under-test (DUT) comprises a DUT identifier code. The DUT is operably coupled to a test bed. An information handling system is operable to use the identifier code... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080262761 - Apparatus for creating test pattern and calculating fault coverage or the like and method for creating test pattern and calculating fault coverage or the like: The method for creating a test pattern and calculating a fault coverage or the like of the present invention is characterized by creating bridging fault voltage information indicating a voltage of a bridging assumed on the wire derived from an output terminal of a cell, calculating a logical threshold of... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080262762 - Power test device and method thereof: A power test device and a method thereof are provided. The power test method includes the following steps. First, a piece of control information is generated by a circuit under test, and a specific voltage and a sensing signal are generated according to the control information. Then, the sensing signal... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080262763 - Instrument ring architecture for use with a multi-core processor: Apparatuses for a test and measurement instrument provide an instrument capable of handling acquisition, transfer, analysis, and display of large quantities of waveform data and complex waveforms. The apparatus for a test and measurement instrument consists of multiple processors with each processor being connected to its own memory controller. Each... Agent: Thomas F. Lenihan Tektronix, Inc.

20080262767 - Apparatus for a test and measurement instrument: Apparatuses for a test and measurement instrument provide a scalable test and measurement instrument capable of handling the acquisition, transfer, analysis, and display of large quantities of waveform data as well as complex waveforms. The apparatus for a test and measurement instrument consists of multiple processors with memory connected to... Agent: Thomas F. Lenihan Tektronix, Inc.

20080262765 - Apparatus and methods for a test and measurement instrument employing a multi-core host processor: The method for a test and measurement instrument includes the steps of: providing a test and measurement instrument; attaching a Device Under Test (DUT) to a signal source to be measured with at least one channel of the signal source in electronic communication with at least one of the acquisition... Agent: Thomas F. Lenihan Tektronix, Inc.

20080262764 - Instrument architecture with circular processing queue: Apparatuses for a test and measurement instrument provide an instrument capable of handling acquisition, transfer, analysis, and display of large quantities of waveform data and complex waveforms. The apparatus for a test and measurement instrument consists of multiple processors with each processor being connected to its own memory controller. Each... Agent: Thomas F. Lenihan Tektronix, Inc.

20080262766 - Multi-pipe apparatus for a test and measurement instrument: Apparatuses for a test and measurement instrument provide an instrument capable of handling acquisition, transfer, analysis, and display of large quantities of waveform data and complex waveforms. The apparatus includes multiple processors with each processor being connected to its own memory controller, wherein each memory controller is connected to its... Agent: Thomas F. Lenihan Tektronix, Inc.

20080262768 - System and method for rating the nutritional quality of food items: The present application provides improved systems and methods for rating the nutritional quality of food. The method includes (a) determining the water free weight percentage of one or more macronutrients in the food item; (b) assigning a numerical influence factor to each of the macronutrients; (c) multiplying the water free... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20080262770 - Information recording medium, and process management apparatus and process management system using the information recording medium: Apparatuses and method capable of reliably tracking processes through which products have passed without calling for expensive setup are necessary in production and distribution processes of the products. A process management apparatus including a data transmission/reception unit to and from an RFID tag of an information recording medium and a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080262771 - Statistic analysis of fault detection and classification in semiconductor manufacturing: A method of fault detection and classification in semiconductor manufacturing is provided. In the method, delicate variations of actual data of parameters for which normal values of a manufacturing condition change according to time are detected very precisely and sensitively, and accordingly major variation components for a step which has... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080262769 - Using multivariate health metrics to determine market segment and testing requirements: A method includes receiving a first set of parameters associated with a particular die. A health metric for a particular die is determined using a multivariate analysis of the first set of parameters. The health metric incorporates at least one performance metric. At least one of a market segment designator... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20080262772 - Sytem and a method for motion tracking using a calibration unit: The invention relates to motion tracking system (10) for tracking a movement of an object (P) in a three-dimensional space, the said object being composed of object portions having individual dimensions and mutual proportions and being sequentially interconnected by joints the system comprising orientation measurement units (S1, S3, . .... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080262773 - Systems and methods for measuring temperature: Systems and methods for determining a temperature sensitivity of a MEMS device are disclosed. An exemplary method includes determining a temperature response of a MEMS device at an arbitrary temperature and calibrating the MEMS device based on the temperature response.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080262748 - Method and device for biomass determination in a medium, in particular a medium containing biological cells, and mesurement apparatus implementing same: Method for biomass determination in a medium, in particular a medium containing biological cells suspended in a conductive fluid, the biomass concentration (X) being obtained from a difference between a first capacitance signal (C′1) of the medium, measured at a first frequency, and a second capacitance signal (C′2) of the... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080262774 - Systems and methods for temperature-compensated measuring of a load: A method for temperature-compensated weight measurement includes receiving a first output signal from a load sensor device coupled to a structural member, receiving a second output signal from a temperature sensor device, and calculating a load weight value by using the first output signal and the second output signal, and... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080262775 - Frequency error estimation algorithm: A frequency error estimation algorithm is presented for use in radio receivers, for example. The present algorithm utilizes irregular time intervals between pilot symbols to improve the frequency range of the estimate. First, a first phase rotation indicator comprising information on phase rotation of a received signal within a first... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080262776 - Setting information management system, setting information management device, setting information management method, and computer program product: A setting information management method executed by a backup program stored in a portable storage medium by a processing computer of an analyzer, comprising: determining a type of the analyzer in which the backup program is executed from a plurality of types of analyzers; acquiring setting information of a program... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080262777 - 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.

20080262778 - Recording medium, test apparatus and program: A recording medium recording thereon a program for a test apparatus including test modules that test devices under test is provided. The program includes: a common function provision program which is executed on a controller for controlling the test apparatus and provides a function common to each type of the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080262779 - Multiple independent measurements of events from multiple measurement setups entered at a single time: A method and apparatus for making multiple independent measurements of events from multiple measurement setups entered at a single time. A measurement instrument receives N measurement setups to make N measurements of an input signal, where N is an integer greater than or equal to one. A memory is divided... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080262780 - Paving-related measuring device incorporating a computer device and communication element therebetween and associated method: A system for determining a property of a paving-related material is provided. Such a system comprises a measuring device for selectively and directly measuring the property. A computer device is capable of executing a software program product and communicating with the measuring device. The computer device directs the measuring device... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080262781 - Apparatus and method for obtaining and transferring medical data: A wireless thermometer is disclosed herein. The wireless thermometer includes a sensor configured to generate a sensor-signal, and a processor connected to the sensor. The processor is configured to convert the sensor signal into temperature data. The thermometer also includes a storage device connected to the processor. The storage device... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20080262782 - Wireless transmission of temperature data for a geographic area: A user obtains an individual's body temperature data and transmits the data to a medical monitor (e.g., a medical device) for display. Additional data includes a timestamp and location of the body temperature data. Once the data is transmitted, a user may view the medical monitor for a temperature reading.... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080262783 - Method of analysis and an analyzer: The present invention provides a method of online analysis of mineral waste content of a slurry in a mineral separation process, said method including the steps of: measuring the density of said slurry (10); measuring the concentration of solids in said slurry (12); calculating the density of solids in said... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080262784 - Device and a method for monitoring tire pressures of a vehicle with the help of inclinometers: The device (12A, 12B) comprises first and second inclinometers (IT1, IR1; IT2, IR2) carried by first and second axles (T1, R1; T2, R2). The inclinometers are designed to measure respective angles of inclination of the first and second geometrical axes of the axles passing through the centers of the wheels... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080262785 - Method and device for analysing the effects of the vibrations of a vehicle acting on a person: Methods and systems for analyzing vibrations of a vehicle acting on a person. The person uses a sprung vehicle seat. A detection unit detects acceleration values fitted to the vehicle seat in the x-, y- and z-axes at preset intervals of time. An increase over time of the acceleration values... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20080262786 - Non-exercise activity thermogenesis (neat) games as ubiquitous activity based gaming: A system for tracking physical activity comprising a sensor that detects movement carried by a first user, converts the movement into an electrical data signal and transmits the signal to a receiver, a receiver that transfers the movement data in the electrical data signal to a storage medium, and a... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C. David A. Rose

20080262787 - Method and apparatus of monitoring a machine: A monitoring system for a machine is provided. The machine includes at least one movable member including at least one sensor configured to generate at least one speed measurement of the moveable member. The machine also includes at least one processor coupled in electronic data communication to the sensor. The... Agent: John S. Beulick (17851) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080262788 - On-chip estimation of key-extraction parameters for physical tokens: The present invention relates to a method and a device (11) using a physical token (14), which provides measurable parameters, to derive at least one data set. A plurality of values of one or more of the parameters are measured. From these measured values, a measure of variance is calculated.... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080262789 - Aerial roof estimation system and method: A system that allows the remote measurement of the size, geometry, pitch and orientation of the roof sections of a building and then uses the information to provide an estimate to repair or replace the roof, or to install equipment thereon. The system includes an aerial image file database that... Agent: Dean A Craine

20080262790 - Pedometer: To be able to measure a step number without carrying out an operation processing for selecting a walking sensor in a pedometer using a plurality of walking sensors having sensitivity axes different from each other. OR means converts walking signals inputted in parallel from walking detecting circuits into a synthesized... Agent: Bruce L. Adams, Esq Adams & Wilks

20080262791 - Life estimating method for heater wire, heating apparatus, storage medium, and life estimating system for heater wire: A life estimating method for a heater wire, which can estimate the life of the heater wire more appropriately than conventional one, by utilizing data obtained during a period (e.g., a temperature rising period), in which a sign of disconnection of the heater wire is likely to be seen, upon... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20080262793 - Identification of outlier semiconductor devices using data-driven statistical characterization: Systems and methods for identification of outlier semiconductor devices using data-driven statistical characterization are described herein. At least some preferred embodiments include a method that includes identifying a plurality of sample semiconductor chips that fail a production test as a result of subjecting the plurality of sample semiconductor chips to... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080262792 - Method for outputting measured values and display device: The invention relates to a method for emitting measuring values on a display (27) for a display device. According to said method, the measuring values that are recorded by a measuring device (24) on at least one test object (11) are forwarded to a signal processing device; a measuring value... Agent: Kriegsman & Kriegsman

20080262794 - Computer program product, method, and apparatus for reliability evaluation: Information of an action of fact confirmation performed between nodes that are objects relating to fact confirmation in an application procedure is read from a predetermined storage unit that previously stores whether an action of fact confirmation is an action of operating information or an action of confirming information, and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080262796 - Method for predictive maintenance and/or method for determining electrical conductivity in a magneto-inductive flow-measuring device: A method for predictive maintenance for a magneto-inductive flow-measuring device and/or to a method for determining electrical conductivity of a medium flowing through a magneto-inductive flow-measuring device, wherein the magneto-inductive flow-measuring device includes a magnet system, which produces a magnetic field passing through the measuring tube essentially transversely to a... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080262795 - Process equipment monitoring: A system and method for monitoring process equipment includes collecting information from the process equipment. The collected information is statistically analyzed. One or more signatures indicating the overall status or health of one or more pieces of equipment can be developed.... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20080262797 - Method and system for monitoring performance of distributed applications: Method and a corresponding system for performance monitoring of distributed applications. A sensor intercepts every request of service for a server that is generated on a client. If the request meets a filtering condition (for example, defined by the address of the server, the web page from which the request... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080262798 - Method and system for performing distributed verification with respect to measurement data in sensor network: A method and system for performing a distributed verification with respect to measurement data in a sensor network. The method of performing the distributed verification with respect to measurement data in a sensor network includes: verifying, by an aggregator, the measurement data received from each of a plurality of sensors;... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080262732 - Method of detecting, locating, and classifying lightning: There is discloses a new method for identifying an electromagnetic signal having a known waveform. The method includes using a lightning matched filter receiver having a bank of filters matched to nominal but arbitrary lightning waveforms for detecting lightning. The use of a lightning matched filter receiver facilitates detection of... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080262734 - Gis data collection network: Embodiments of the present invention recite a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data collection network. In one embodiment, the present invention comprises a mobile electronic device that was not originally intended for use as a GIS data collector. The present invention further comprises a data dictionary forwarding device communicatively coupled with... Agent: Trimble Navigation Limited C/o Wagner Blecher

20080262733 - Method and system for creating a flexible gis data collection network: Embodiments of the present invention recite a method and system for creating a flexible Geographic Information Systems (GIS) network. In one embodiment, a data dictionary is assigned to a mobile electronic device. In one embodiment, the data dictionary comprises a definition of at least one desired GIS feature type which... Agent: Trimble Navigation Limited C/o Wagner Blecher

20080262735 - System and method for water breakthrough detection and intervention in a production well: A system and method for estimating an occurrence of a water breakthrough in a production well is provided that includes estimating, at least periodically, a measure of water in the fluid produced from one or more production zones and estimating the occurrence of the water breakthrough utilizing at least in... Agent: Madan, Mossman & Sriram, P.C.

20080262737 - System and method for monitoring and controlling production from wells: A system and method for obtaining enhanced production from a well is provided. The system includes a processor that processes instructions contained in a computer program, which includes instructions to monitor actual flow rate of the fluid from each production zone of a well over a time period corresponding to... Agent: Madan, Mossman & Sriram, P.C.

20080262736 - System and method for monitoring physical condition of production well equipment and controlling well production: A system and method for producing fluid from a completed well is provided wherein the method in one aspect includes determining a first setting of at least one first device under use for producing the fluid from the well; selecting a first set of input parameters that includes at least... Agent: Madan, Mossman & Sriram, P.C.

20080262738 - Updating information regarding sections of a streamer that are in a body of water: To perform a marine survey, a streamer is deployed into a body of water, where the streamer has plural first sensors to perform a subterranean survey. Indications are received from second sensors in corresponding sections of the streamer, where the indications are regarding which sections are in the body of... Agent: Westerngeco L.L.C. Jeffrey E. Griffin

20080262742 - Computational method and apparatus for predicting polypeptide aggregation or solubility: A prediction method for predicting the effect of an amino acid modification on the rate of aggregation (solubility) of a reference polypeptide comprising: calculating the difference in hydrophobicity (ΔHydr) between the reference polypeptide and a modified polypeptide, calculating the difference in β-sheet propensity (ΔΔGcoil-α+ΔΔGβ-coil) between the reference polypeptide and modified... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20080262741 - Method and apparatus for screening chemical compounds: Methods and apparatus for screening large numbers of chemical compounds and performing a wide variety of fluorescent assays, including live cell assays. The methods utilize a laser linescan confocal microscope with high speed, high resolution and multi-wavelength capabilities and real time data-processing. Imaging may be done at video-rates and with... Agent: Ge Healthcare Bio-sciences Corp. Patent Department

20080262746 - Method and device for predicting physiological values: The invention relates generally to methods, systems, and devices for measuring the concentration of target analytes present in a biological system using a series of measurements obtained from a monitoring system and a Mixtures of Experts (MOE) algorithm. In one embodiment, the present invention describes a method for measuring blood... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20080262745 - Method for determining insulin sensitivity and glucose absorption: The present invention encompasses a model-based method for determining insulin sensitivity and glucose absorption from oral glucose tolerance tests or mixed meals. The present invention has several advantages over current methods. The technique requires about four to six blood samples taken over about two to three hours following glucose ingestion... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20080262743 - Methods for remote characterization of an odor: Provided are compositions and systems useful in remote monitoring of chemical hazards, air quality, and medical conditions, for example, robotic systems to search for and detect explosives, mines, and hazardous chemicals. In addition, the methods, systems and compositions of the invention provide the ability to mine data from a database... Agent: Gavrilovich Dodd & Lindsey LLP Joseph R. Baker, Apc

20080262740 - Permittivity-based material sensor: A system for sensing a presence and/or a concentration of a target substance in a fluid has a sensor and a processor coupled to the sensor. The sensor has a test probe having at least first and second test electrodes, wherein at least the first test electrode is functionalized to... Agent: Jaeckle Fleischmann & Mugel, LLP

20080262739 - Submersible portable in-situ automated water quality biomonitoring apparatus and method: A submersible biomonitoring system for monitoring water quality in situ includes a submersible chamber constructed of a di-electric material and sized to allow suitable signals from one or more aquatic organisms to be received by eliminating cross-talk between cells while allowing ambient conditions to be maintained inside the chamber. The... Agent: Office Of The Staff Judge Advocate U.s. Army Medical Research And Materiel Command

20080262744 - Systems and methods for tissue engineering tubular biological structures: The present invention relates to systems and methods for tissue engineering. In particular, the invention is directed toward systems and methods for conditioning tubular biological structures. For example, an aspect of the present invention comprises systems and methods for uncoupling local mechanical parameters (e.g., circumferential stress, shear stress, and axial... Agent: Troutman Sanders LLP

20080262747 - Nucleic acid sequencing system and method: A technique for sequencing nucleic acids in an automated or semi-automated manner is disclosed. Sample arrays of a multitude of nucleic acid sites are processed in multiple cycles to add nucleotides to the material to be sequenced, detect the nucleotides added to sites, and to de-block the added nucleotides of... Agent: Fletcher Yoder

20080262749 - Particulate determination method: A particulate determination method determines by onetime scanning, the size of a particulate included in a plurality of particulates of various sizes which are arranged on a disc. False recognition of the number of particulates is avoided even when a plurality of particulates are adjacent to each other. A photodetector... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080262750 - Power conversion apparatus and method of estimating power cycle life: The power conversion apparatus comprises power conversion circuits to supply ac power of variable voltage and variable frequency, a detection circuit to detect a temperature of the power semiconductor in the power conversion circuits, and a computation device to calculate a power cycle longevity of the power semiconductor based on... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080262751 - Curvature-based edge bump quantification: Evaluating irregularities in surfaces of objects such as semiconductor wafers using a thickness profile of a surface section and analyzing the profile to obtain information of an irregularity start position, magnitude, and span along with surface slope and height information.... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20080262752 - Non-destructive method of measuring a moisture content profile across a hygroexpansive, composite material: The teachings provided herein are generally directed to a non-destructive method of measuring a moisture content profile across a dimension of a hygroexpansive, composite material using radiation and a volumetric shrinkage correction. The measurement of a series of moisture content profiles over time can provide, for example, a measure of... Agent: Janet I. Stockhausen Usda Forest Service

20080262753 - Foil-type pressure sensor and method for evaluating the sensor response: A method for determining an occupancy related status relating to a vehicle seat by means of a foil-type pressure sensing mat comprises the steps of determining a raw sensor resistance value of said plurality of pressure sensing cells, determining a raw compensation resistance value of said at least one compensation... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080262754 - System and method for fatigue forecasting and strain measurement using integral strain gauge (isg): The present invention relates to means, system and method for measurement of stress strain and fatigue forecasting by the means of Integral Strain Gauges (ISGs) capable of recording information from a surface of a tested object, mathematical processor for analysis of the information recorded on the surface of such gauges.... Agent: Alexandre Oudovikine

20080262755 - Faucet flow timing system that monitors volume of water usage: A battery powered, low voltage faucet flow timer, water usage calculator, and energy consumption awareness meter is simple to install and calibrate and may enable a user to understand the water usage associated with showering, bathing or other open faucet water use activity. The device may provide a simple method... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080262756 - Coriolis mode processing techniques: Flowmeters are described in which a sensor signal received from a sensor that is attached to vibratable flowtube, so as to determine properties of a fluid within the flowtube, contains a drive signal component and a coriolis mode component. The flowmeters are operable to determine drive parameters of the drive... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080262757 - Leakage detection system: In a leakage detection system configured by arranging a number of gas sensors, a leakage spot is promptly and accurately estimated. An output voltage of the each sensor is converted into concentration, and a time differential coefficient of the concentration is obtained. A leakage spot is estimated to be on... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080262758 - Verifying an accuracy of a state estimation: The present disclosure is concerned with the reduction of an operational security margin of a power system without jeopardizing the safety of the power system or incurring heavy investments. According to the disclosure, a check for basic accuracy or correctness of a conventional State Estimation (SE) procedure allows to increase... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080262760 - Semiconductor inspecting apparatus: A semiconductor inspecting apparatus includes: a buffer memory whose width is matched to the greater of parallel bus width and the width of the number of serial lanes; a preceding stage bus switching unit that fills the buffer memory with input data without making a free space; equivalent transmission capacity... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080262759 - System and method for testing information handling system components: A system and method is disclosed for testing components used in the manufacture of information handling systems. In embodiments of the invention, a device-under-test (DUT) comprises a DUT identifier code. The DUT is operably coupled to a test bed. An information handling system is operable to use the identifier code... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080262761 - Apparatus for creating test pattern and calculating fault coverage or the like and method for creating test pattern and calculating fault coverage or the like: The method for creating a test pattern and calculating a fault coverage or the like of the present invention is characterized by creating bridging fault voltage information indicating a voltage of a bridging assumed on the wire derived from an output terminal of a cell, calculating a logical threshold of... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080262762 - Power test device and method thereof: A power test device and a method thereof are provided. The power test method includes the following steps. First, a piece of control information is generated by a circuit under test, and a specific voltage and a sensing signal are generated according to the control information. Then, the sensing signal... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080262763 - Instrument ring architecture for use with a multi-core processor: Apparatuses for a test and measurement instrument provide an instrument capable of handling acquisition, transfer, analysis, and display of large quantities of waveform data and complex waveforms. The apparatus for a test and measurement instrument consists of multiple processors with each processor being connected to its own memory controller. Each... Agent: Thomas F. Lenihan Tektronix, Inc.

20080262767 - Apparatus for a test and measurement instrument: Apparatuses for a test and measurement instrument provide a scalable test and measurement instrument capable of handling the acquisition, transfer, analysis, and display of large quantities of waveform data as well as complex waveforms. The apparatus for a test and measurement instrument consists of multiple processors with memory connected to... Agent: Thomas F. Lenihan Tektronix, Inc.

20080262765 - Apparatus and methods for a test and measurement instrument employing a multi-core host processor: The method for a test and measurement instrument includes the steps of: providing a test and measurement instrument; attaching a Device Under Test (DUT) to a signal source to be measured with at least one channel of the signal source in electronic communication with at least one of the acquisition... Agent: Thomas F. Lenihan Tektronix, Inc.

20080262764 - Instrument architecture with circular processing queue: Apparatuses for a test and measurement instrument provide an instrument capable of handling acquisition, transfer, analysis, and display of large quantities of waveform data and complex waveforms. The apparatus for a test and measurement instrument consists of multiple processors with each processor being connected to its own memory controller. Each... Agent: Thomas F. Lenihan Tektronix, Inc.

20080262766 - Multi-pipe apparatus for a test and measurement instrument: Apparatuses for a test and measurement instrument provide an instrument capable of handling acquisition, transfer, analysis, and display of large quantities of waveform data and complex waveforms. The apparatus includes multiple processors with each processor being connected to its own memory controller, wherein each memory controller is connected to its... Agent: Thomas F. Lenihan Tektronix, Inc.

20080262768 - System and method for rating the nutritional quality of food items: The present application provides improved systems and methods for rating the nutritional quality of food. The method includes (a) determining the water free weight percentage of one or more macronutrients in the food item; (b) assigning a numerical influence factor to each of the macronutrients; (c) multiplying the water free... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20080262770 - Information recording medium, and process management apparatus and process management system using the information recording medium: Apparatuses and method capable of reliably tracking processes through which products have passed without calling for expensive setup are necessary in production and distribution processes of the products. A process management apparatus including a data transmission/reception unit to and from an RFID tag of an information recording medium and a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080262771 - Statistic analysis of fault detection and classification in semiconductor manufacturing: A method of fault detection and classification in semiconductor manufacturing is provided. In the method, delicate variations of actual data of parameters for which normal values of a manufacturing condition change according to time are detected very precisely and sensitively, and accordingly major variation components for a step which has... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080262769 - Using multivariate health metrics to determine market segment and testing requirements: A method includes receiving a first set of parameters associated with a particular die. A health metric for a particular die is determined using a multivariate analysis of the first set of parameters. The health metric incorporates at least one performance metric. At least one of a market segment designator... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20080262772 - Sytem and a method for motion tracking using a calibration unit: The invention relates to motion tracking system (10) for tracking a movement of an object (P) in a three-dimensional space, the said object being composed of object portions having individual dimensions and mutual proportions and being sequentially interconnected by joints the system comprising orientation measurement units (S1, S3, . .... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080262773 - Systems and methods for measuring temperature: Systems and methods for determining a temperature sensitivity of a MEMS device are disclosed. An exemplary method includes determining a temperature response of a MEMS device at an arbitrary temperature and calibrating the MEMS device based on the temperature response.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080262748 - Method and device for biomass determination in a medium, in particular a medium containing biological cells, and mesurement apparatus implementing same: Method for biomass determination in a medium, in particular a medium containing biological cells suspended in a conductive fluid, the biomass concentration (X) being obtained from a difference between a first capacitance signal (C′1) of the medium, measured at a first frequency, and a second capacitance signal (C′2) of the... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080262774 - Systems and methods for temperature-compensated measuring of a load: A method for temperature-compensated weight measurement includes receiving a first output signal from a load sensor device coupled to a structural member, receiving a second output signal from a temperature sensor device, and calculating a load weight value by using the first output signal and the second output signal, and... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080262775 - Frequency error estimation algorithm: A frequency error estimation algorithm is presented for use in radio receivers, for example. The present algorithm utilizes irregular time intervals between pilot symbols to improve the frequency range of the estimate. First, a first phase rotation indicator comprising information on phase rotation of a received signal within a first... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080262776 - Setting information management system, setting information management device, setting information management method, and computer program product: A setting information management method executed by a backup program stored in a portable storage medium by a processing computer of an analyzer, comprising: determining a type of the analyzer in which the backup program is executed from a plurality of types of analyzers; acquiring setting information of a program... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080262777 - 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.

20080262778 - Recording medium, test apparatus and program: A recording medium recording thereon a program for a test apparatus including test modules that test devices under test is provided. The program includes: a common function provision program which is executed on a controller for controlling the test apparatus and provides a function common to each type of the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080262779 - Multiple independent measurements of events from multiple measurement setups entered at a single time: A method and apparatus for making multiple independent measurements of events from multiple measurement setups entered at a single time. A measurement instrument receives N measurement setups to make N measurements of an input signal, where N is an integer greater than or equal to one. A memory is divided... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080262780 - Paving-related measuring device incorporating a computer device and communication element therebetween and associated method: A system for determining a property of a paving-related material is provided. Such a system comprises a measuring device for selectively and directly measuring the property. A computer device is capable of executing a software program product and communicating with the measuring device. The computer device directs the measuring device... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080262781 - Apparatus and method for obtaining and transferring medical data: A wireless thermometer is disclosed herein. The wireless thermometer includes a sensor configured to generate a sensor-signal, and a processor connected to the sensor. The processor is configured to convert the sensor signal into temperature data. The thermometer also includes a storage device connected to the processor. The storage device... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20080262782 - Wireless transmission of temperature data for a geographic area: A user obtains an individual's body temperature data and transmits the data to a medical monitor (e.g., a medical device) for display. Additional data includes a timestamp and location of the body temperature data. Once the data is transmitted, a user may view the medical monitor for a temperature reading.... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080262783 - Method of analysis and an analyzer: The present invention provides a method of online analysis of mineral waste content of a slurry in a mineral separation process, said method including the steps of: measuring the density of said slurry (10); measuring the concentration of solids in said slurry (12); calculating the density of solids in said... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080262784 - Device and a method for monitoring tire pressures of a vehicle with the help of inclinometers: The device (12A, 12B) comprises first and second inclinometers (IT1, IR1; IT2, IR2) carried by first and second axles (T1, R1; T2, R2). The inclinometers are designed to measure respective angles of inclination of the first and second geometrical axes of the axles passing through the centers of the wheels... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080262785 - Method and device for analysing the effects of the vibrations of a vehicle acting on a person: Methods and systems for analyzing vibrations of a vehicle acting on a person. The person uses a sprung vehicle seat. A detection unit detects acceleration values fitted to the vehicle seat in the x-, y- and z-axes at preset intervals of time. An increase over time of the acceleration values... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20080262786 - Non-exercise activity thermogenesis (neat) games as ubiquitous activity based gaming: A system for tracking physical activity comprising a sensor that detects movement carried by a first user, converts the movement into an electrical data signal and transmits the signal to a receiver, a receiver that transfers the movement data in the electrical data signal to a storage medium, and a... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C. David A. Rose

20080262787 - Method and apparatus of monitoring a machine: A monitoring system for a machine is provided. The machine includes at least one movable member including at least one sensor configured to generate at least one speed measurement of the moveable member. The machine also includes at least one processor coupled in electronic data communication to the sensor. The... Agent: John S. Beulick (17851) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080262788 - On-chip estimation of key-extraction parameters for physical tokens: The present invention relates to a method and a device (11) using a physical token (14), which provides measurable parameters, to derive at least one data set. A plurality of values of one or more of the parameters are measured. From these measured values, a measure of variance is calculated.... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080262789 - Aerial roof estimation system and method: A system that allows the remote measurement of the size, geometry, pitch and orientation of the roof sections of a building and then uses the information to provide an estimate to repair or replace the roof, or to install equipment thereon. The system includes an aerial image file database that... Agent: Dean A Craine

20080262790 - Pedometer: To be able to measure a step number without carrying out an operation processing for selecting a walking sensor in a pedometer using a plurality of walking sensors having sensitivity axes different from each other. OR means converts walking signals inputted in parallel from walking detecting circuits into a synthesized... Agent: Bruce L. Adams, Esq Adams & Wilks

20080262791 - Life estimating method for heater wire, heating apparatus, storage medium, and life estimating system for heater wire: A life estimating method for a heater wire, which can estimate the life of the heater wire more appropriately than conventional one, by utilizing data obtained during a period (e.g., a temperature rising period), in which a sign of disconnection of the heater wire is likely to be seen, upon... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20080262793 - Identification of outlier semiconductor devices using data-driven statistical characterization: Systems and methods for identification of outlier semiconductor devices using data-driven statistical characterization are described herein. At least some preferred embodiments include a method that includes identifying a plurality of sample semiconductor chips that fail a production test as a result of subjecting the plurality of sample semiconductor chips to... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080262792 - Method for outputting measured values and display device: The invention relates to a method for emitting measuring values on a display (27) for a display device. According to said method, the measuring values that are recorded by a measuring device (24) on at least one test object (11) are forwarded to a signal processing device; a measuring value... Agent: Kriegsman & Kriegsman

20080262794 - Computer program product, method, and apparatus for reliability evaluation: Information of an action of fact confirmation performed between nodes that are objects relating to fact confirmation in an application procedure is read from a predetermined storage unit that previously stores whether an action of fact confirmation is an action of operating information or an action of confirming information, and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080262796 - Method for predictive maintenance and/or method for determining electrical conductivity in a magneto-inductive flow-measuring device: A method for predictive maintenance for a magneto-inductive flow-measuring device and/or to a method for determining electrical conductivity of a medium flowing through a magneto-inductive flow-measuring device, wherein the magneto-inductive flow-measuring device includes a magnet system, which produces a magnetic field passing through the measuring tube essentially transversely to a... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080262795 - Process equipment monitoring: A system and method for monitoring process equipment includes collecting information from the process equipment. The collected information is statistically analyzed. One or more signatures indicating the overall status or health of one or more pieces of equipment can be developed.... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20080262797 - Method and system for monitoring performance of distributed applications: Method and a corresponding system for performance monitoring of distributed applications. A sensor intercepts every request of service for a server that is generated on a client. If the request meets a filtering condition (for example, defined by the address of the server, the web page from which the request... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080262798 - Method and system for performing distributed verification with respect to measurement data in sensor network: A method and system for performing a distributed verification with respect to measurement data in a sensor network. The method of performing the distributed verification with respect to measurement data in a sensor network includes: verifying, by an aggregator, the measurement data received from each of a plurality of sensors;... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080255760 - Forecasting system: A process includes providing a plurality of forecasts from a plurality of forecasting models. The plurality of forecasts each includes a mean and a variance. A model weight is calculated for each forecasting model. The model weight is proportional to the ability of that model to successfully forecast a queried... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080255761 - Inverse-vector method for smoothing dips and azimuths: A system and method using inverse-vector processing to iterate through a loop of three steps: set a guide direction, invert opposite vectors, and average vectors to update the guide direction, for smoothing seismic amplitude data. The inverse-vector method can overcome instabilities where the traditional structure-tensor approach fails. The inverse-vector smoothing... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20080255762 - Correction for errors caused by variation in water conditions: Method for processing seismic data to correct for errors caused by variation in water conditions. In one implementation, the method may include (a) applying a dip correction to a plurality of observed water bottom reflection times using a model water velocity and an estimate of geologic dip; (b) applying a... Agent: Westerngeco L.L.C. Jeffrey E. Griffin

20080255766 - Methods and kits for the diagnosis of sickle cell: Provided are methods for the detection and diagnosis of sickle cell. The methods are based on the discovery that abnormal levels of selected analytes in sample fluid, typically blood samples, of patients who are at risk are supportive of a diagnosis of sickle cell. At least two new biomarkers for... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080255764 - Methods for the diagnosis of colorectal cancer and ovarian cancer by the measurement of vitamin e-related metabolites: The present invention relates to the diagnosis of colorectal and ovarian cancers (CRC and OC, respectively). The present invention describes the relationship between endogenous small molecules and CRC or OC. Specifically, the present invention relates to the diagnosis of CRC and OC through the measurement of vitamin E isoforms and... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP - Patent Group

20080255765 - Monitoring cyclosporine in saliva: Saliva offers an alternative specimen for the therapeutic monitoring of cyclosporine (CsA) in children and patients with difficult venous access. For a highly protein-bound drug such as CsA, saliva provides a practical approach for measuring the unbound concentration. Liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) is ideally suited for the measurement of... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20080255763 - System and a method for observing and predicting a physiological state of an animal: A system for observing and predicting a physiological state of an animal has been provided. The system includes a computer including a processor and being operatively connected to a database, at least one sample providing device for repetitively providing at least one sample of a body fluid of the animal,... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.C. Intellectual Property Department

20080255767 - Method and device for detection of splice form and alternative splice forms in dna or rna sequences: The invention relates to a method and a device for detection of splice sites in DNA or RNA sequences comprising three steps: a) examining a training set of sequences comprising DNA or RNA sequences with known splice sites by an automated, discriminative training device for detecting splicing patterns, especially in... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20080255768 - Methods of determining relative genetic likelihoods of an individual matching a population: Provided are methods of determining an individual's relative likelihood of having a genetic match with one or more local populations as compared to a generic index population. Also provided are systems, apparatuses, kits, and machine-readable medium relating to such methods. The methods may be used for example, to identify an... Agent: Castellano PLLC

20080255769 - Reactive gas detection in complex backgrounds: A differential absorption spectrum for a reactive gas in a gas mixture can be generated for sample absorption data by subtracting background absorption data set from the sample absorption data. The background absorption data can be characteristic of absorption characteristics of the background composition in a laser light scan range... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64046

20080255770 - Valve tester control enhancements: A valve tester system is disclosed that comprises a valve tester assembly for rotating a valve stem of a valve. The valve tester assembly may include a support, a rotation element mounted on the support for rotating a valve during a rotation event, a control element for controlling aspects of... Agent: Woods Fuller Shultz & Smith P.C. Attn: Jeffrey A. Proehl

20080255774 - Dynamic environmental change compensation of sensor data in structural health monitoring systems: A method for adjusting signal data detected in a structural health monitoring (SHM) system to compensate for the effects of environmental variables acting thereon includes constructing a baseline data space comprised of sets of signal data. Current signal data sets are collected for comparison to the baseline data space. The... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080255773 - Machine condition monitoring using pattern rules: Pattern rules are created by comparing a condition signal pattern to a plurality of known signal patterns and determining a machine condition pattern rule based at least in part on the comparison of the condition signal pattern to one of the plurality of known signal patterns. A matching score based... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080255772 - Method and a control system for monitoring the condition of an industrial robot: An industrial robot diagnostic method including performing a condition analysis utilizing at least two selected input signals, wherein each selected input signal indicates a condition related to a property of the industrial robot, performing an analysis of any combination of the selected input signals utilizing a signal modeling of the... Agent: Venable LLP

20080255771 - Robust damage detection: A method of improving damage detection in a structural health monitoring system includes obtaining a baseline set of signals corresponding to a range of values of an environmental effect variable for a plurality of first selected paths between pairs of a plurality of transducers configured in an array attached to... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080255778 - Detecting damage in metal structures with structural health monitoring systems: A method useful in structural health monitoring (SHM) systems for detecting damages in metal structures includes extracting the zero-order symmetric and anti-symmetric mode signal components from each of a plurality of current sensor signals of an array of transducers mounted on the structure, matching the extracted signal components with corresponding... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080255775 - Environmental change compensation in a structural health monitoring system: A method and system of compensating for environmental effect when detecting signals using a structural health monitoring system includes collecting baseline data signals for one or more values of the environmental effect variable from signals transmitted along selected paths between transducers in an array attached to the structure. A threshold... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080255776 - Method for calculating probabilistic damage sizes in structural health monitoring systems: A method for calculating the probable damage size in a structure includes defining a configuration of an array of transducers mounted on the structure. Any pair of the transducers includes an actuator and a sensor, and each pair defines a propagation path in the structure. All propagation paths that are... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080255777 - Optimal sensor location for damage detection: A method for determining optimal locations of a plurality of sensors for damage detection in a structural health monitoring system includes providing a one or more signal performance characteristics, spatial parameters describing a layout of a structure, and generating a layout for the plurality of sensors according to the signal... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080255779 - Methods of detecting anomalies in ambient alternating current fields: Methods of detecting anomalies in ambient alternating current (AC) fields are provided. An exemplary embodiment of such a method includes the steps of placing an AC field sensor in an ambient AC field, generating a signal representative of the ambient AC field received by the sensor, and processing the signal... Agent: U S Army Research Laboratory Attn Amsrl Cs Cc Ip

20080255780 - Ic testing methods and apparatus: This configuration enables testing of each shift register stage using the existing control lines. In particular, the inverted signal can be clocked to propagate through the shift register storage element and the parallel register storage element, and the eventual inversion of the output is monitored to indicate that the inverted... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080255781 - Transducer array self-diagnostics and self-healing: A method of performing transducer self-diagnostics and self-healing on an array of sensor transducers bonded to a structure for health monitoring includes measuring impedance to detect whether a transducer is missing, or a connection is damaged. Pitch-catch signals generated between one or more pairs of transducers are analyzed for detecting... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080255782 - Devices, systems, and methods for monitoring energy systems: Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a system, which can comprise a set of electrical energy monitoring devices. Each of the set of electrical energy monitoring devices can be adapted to be mounted in a circuit breaker panel substantially adjacent to a corresponding circuit breaker. The system can comprise an energy... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080255783 - Fully-charged battery capacity detection method: In a fully-charged battery capacity detection method, first and second no-load voltages (VOCV1, VOCV2) of a battery are detected at first no-load timing and second no-load timing, respectively. First and second remaining capacities (SOC1 [%], SOC2 [%]) of the battery are determined based on the first and second no-load voltages,... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080255784 - Simultaneous physical and protocol layer analysis: A method and apparatus for capturing an analog waveform on a serial bus. The method comprises the steps of designating a predetermined digital data sequence, decoding a serial data signal carried on a serial data bus, and comparing the decoded serial data signal to the predetermined digital data sequence. When... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080255785 - Length-of-the-curve stress metric for improved characterization of computer system reliability: Embodiments of the present invention provide a system that characterizes the reliability of a computer system. The system first collects samples of a performance parameter from the computer system. Next, the system computes the length of a line between the samples, wherein the line includes a component which is proportionate... Agent: Pvf -- Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080255786 - Optical metrology using support vector machine with profile parameter inputs: A structure formed on a semiconductor wafer can be examined using a support vector machine. A profile model of the structure is obtained. The profile model is defined by profile parameters that characterize the geometric shape of the structure. A training set of values for the profile parameters is obtained.... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080255787 - Capacitance manometers and methods relating to auto-drift correction: Systems, methods, and apparatus, including software implementation, are disclosed providing drift prediction of output values for manometers. A signal or other indication may be provided for or in relation to a capacitance manometer when a servicing, replacing, and/or zeroing event is predicted or determined to be required, based on a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080255788 - Method for calibrating a powered seat: A method of calibrating a powered seat includes storing a first position of at least one seat part in a memory, calculating a second position of the at least one seat part by adding to the first position a difference between a predetermined value of first position and a predetermined... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080255789 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: An orientation measurement value acquisition unit (145) acquires an orientation measurement value measured by an orientation sensor (110) mounted on an image capturing apparatus (120), and an orientation measurement value measured by a sensor (115) mounted on a physical object (125). An image processing unit (135) acquires the image coordinates,... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080255790 - Method of calibrating a scale: A method of calibrating a scale which enforces exercise requirements. The method includes causing an interface to provide a first indication to place weight on the scale by control circuitry of the scale, receiving weight signals from a load cell by the control circuitry, causing the interface to provide a... Agent: Paul W. Martin Intellectual Property Section

20080255791 - Interface to full and reduce pin jtag devices: The disclosure describes a process and apparatus for accessing devices on a substrate. The substrate may include only full pin JTAG devices (504), only reduced pin JTAG devices (506), or a mixture of both full pin and reduced pin JTAG devices. The access is accomplished using a single interface (502)... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080255792 - Test system and computer program for determining threshold voltage variation using a device array: A test system and computer program for measuring threshold voltage variation using a device array provides accurate threshold voltage distribution values for process verification and improvement. The test system and computer program control a characterization array circuit that imposes a fixed drain-source voltage and a constant channel current at individual... Agent: Ibm Corporation (mh) C/o Mitch Harris, Attorney At Law, L.L.C.

20080255793 - Pressure display apparatus: A pressure display apparatus 1 comprising a detected signal processing mean 3 for processing a detected signal Si obtained from a pressure detection means 2 for detecting a pressure P, a pressure value display means 4 for displaying on a display 5 a pressure value (detected pressure value Pd) regarding... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080255795 - Force sensing apparatus and method to determine the radius of rotation of a moving object: An apparatus having an arrangement of two or more identical accelerometers with aligned sensitivity axes. Each of the accelerometers senses motion over at least one axis. The accelerometer readings include a component corresponding to gravitational force that is the same for each accelerometer in the arrangement. Logic circuitry in communication... Agent: Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, LLC

20080255794 - Physical activity monitoring and prompting system: An apparatus and method are provided in various illustrative embodiments for monitoring a user's physical activity and prompting a user to undertake physical activity as needed. An illustrative embodiment includes a wearable activity sensor, an output device, and a control system. The control system is configured to receive data from... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20080255796 - Method and device for measuring rotation speed of rotating equipment: The rotation speed measuring device includes a position sensor (40A) for outputting position signals (SSA) indicating M (where M is an integer equal to or greater than 2) rotation positions of equal phase difference in each one rotation of the rotating equipment, a clock signal generator (510) for generating a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080255797 - System for measuring pedal speed: The invention concerns a detecting system for measuring the speed (V) of a pedal comprising a pedal (1), a first sensor (11) for sensing the position of the pedal delivering a first signal (c1) indicating the passage of a first position by the pedal, a second position sensor (12) delivering... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080255798 - Wafer center finding with a kalman filter: 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..

20080255799 - Determination of the gap size of a radial gap: The invention relates to a method for determining the size of a radial gap between rotating and torsion-proof parts, particularly the parts of a turbomachine. According to said method, an original signal emitted by a transmitter device located on the surface of the rotating part is received in a modified... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080255800 - Method and device for measuring the progress of a moving person: The invention relates to measuring devices to be used in physical measuring, and more particularly, to a method and a device for measuring the progress of a moving person. In the solution according to the invention the quantities describing the progress of the moving person are being calculated based on... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080255803 - Detectable defect size and probability-of-detection: Predicting the probability of detection of major and minor defects in a structure includes simulating a plurality of N defects at random locations in a region specified by an array of transducers. Defect size is incremented until it intersects one path between two transducers. The defect size is again incremented... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080255804 - Generating damage probability-of-detection curves in structural health monitoring transducer networks: A method for automatically creating a probability of detection (POD) curve of an entire network of transducers monitoring and detecting damage in a structure is based on the POD of each of the individual actuator-sensor paths. These individual path PODs may be generated in different ways, such as by experimentation... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080255801 - Optical metrology using a support vector machine with simulated diffraction signal inputs: A structure formed on a semiconductor wafer can be examined using a support vector machine. A profile model of the structure is obtained. The profile model is defined by profile parameters that characterize the geometric shape of the structure. A set of values for the profile parameters is obtained. A... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080255802 - Real-time high-speed monitoring of steady state: In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to a method for predicting a steady state performance of a switched circuit having a first state and a second state, the method includes: identifying a plurality of circuit components, each circuit component having at least one component parameter; determining a transition matrix for... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20080255806 - Pole monitoring kit, in particular for wooden poles: Kit for monitoring poles, in particular wooden poles, that comprises: a detection device (10) comprising at least one collar (11) to be secured to a pole (20) to be evaluated, said at least one collar (11) bearing one or more sensors (12) capable of detecting a response determined by the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080255805 - Sensor malfunction determination device and sensor malfunction determination method: The present invention includes a sensor malfunction determination unit 207 detects the pressure value corresponding to a signal outputted by a pressure sensor 101 capable of measuring the internal pressure of a pneumatic tire 10. When the detected pressure value is decreasing along the time axis, the sensor malfunction determination... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080255807 - Method and apparatus for monitoring the health of a computer system: A system that monitors the health of a computer system is presented. During operation, the system receives a first-difference function for the variance of a time series for a monitored telemetry variable within the computer system. The system then determines whether the first-difference function indicates that the computer system is... Agent: Pvf -- Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080255808 - Method and apparatus for providing data processing and control in medical communication system: Methods and apparatus for providing data processing and control for use in a medical communication system are provided.... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20080249714 - Method for predicting rate of penetration using bit-specific coefficients of sliding friction and mechanical efficiency as a function of confined compressive strength: A method for predicting the rate of penetration (ROP) of a drill bit drilling a well bore through intervals of rock of a subterranean formation is provided. The method uses an equation based upon specific energy principles. A relationship is determined between a bit-specific coefficient of sliding friction μ and... Agent: Chevrontexaco Corporation Law Department

20080249716 - Computer-aided color paint formula adjusting system and method thereof: A color paint formula adjusting system and the method thereof are provided, which allow a user to log onto with a stand-alone or a network, input color paint and adjust it. By computer-aided computing of mix ratio of resin, the color paint is made satisfactory to requirements of physical and... Agent: Wpat, PC

20080249717 - Method and apparatus for chromatographic data processing: A chromatographic analyzer is provided for facilitating curve fitting by means of the linear least-square method for a chromatogram that contains a plurality of overlapping peaks. The present invention is characterized by a chromatographic data processor for executing data processing of a chromatogram obtained by separating a sample to be... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080249719 - Measuring device and method for measuring the arching of an elongate body: The present invention relates to a measuring device (10) for measuring the arching (A) of an elongate body (12). The measuring device (10) comprises an anvil member (14) against which the elongate body (12) is intended to be placed, a measure-collection member (16) movable along the line of the longitudinal... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080249718 - Method, device and program for presenting inner force sense and program: A force feedback method for presenting a force sense to an operator by jetting gas or liquid from a nozzle of jetting means according to a position or an orientation of a receiver is disclosed. In the force feedback method, the receiver is provided with an inclined side surface unit... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080249720 - Composite riser with integrity monitoring apparatus and method: An integrity monitoring system for monitoring degradation in a composite riser string. The system includes composite riser structures incorporating strain and vibration sensors to measure changes in the stiffness strain on a first orientation and on a second orientation. The system can also include monitoring modules attached to each individual... Agent: Conocophillips Company -IPServices Group Attention: Docketing

20080249722 - Method for determination of strain distribution in components: A method for determination of strain distribution in components, in particular in gas turbine components, is disclosed. In an embodiment, the method includes: a) vibrational excitation of the component and measured recording of a vibrational amplitude distribution of the component for a number of measured points by means of a... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080249721 - Predicting changes in hydrofrac orientation in depleting oil and gas reservoirs: Stress rotation due to depletion can be estimated in reservoirs having an impermeable reservoir boundary. More specifically, the isotropic change in stress due to depletion, and the uniaxial stress resulting from a change in pore pressure across an impermeable boundary are both modeled as perturbations to an initial stress state.... Agent: Lumen Patent Firm, Inc.

20080249723 - Intelligent, self-propelled automatic grid crawler high impedance fault detector and high impedance fault detecting system: A self-propelled, automated, autonomic grid crawler which, when attached to a wire, moves along the wire to sense conditions of the wire. The grid crawler includes a central processing unit (CPU), working memory, such as random access memory (RAM), persistent money, such as read only memory (ROM) and hard drive... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.

20080249724 - System and method of battery capacity estimation: In accordance with the teachings described herein, systems and methods are provided for battery capacity estimation. A profile table may be used that relates a plurality of battery profile values with a plurality of operating parameter values. The profile table may be accessed to translate one or more measured operating... Agent: David B. Cochran, Esq. Jones Day

20080249725 - System, method, and article of manufacture for determining an estimated combined battery state-parameter vector: A system, a method, and an article of manufacture for determining an estimated combined battery state-parameter vector are provided. The method determines the estimated combined battery state-parameter vector based on a plurality of predicted the combined battery state-parameter vectors, a plurality of predicted battery output vectors, and a battery output... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080249726 - System, method, and article of manufacture for determining an estimated combined battery state-parameter vector: A system, a method, and an article of manufacture for determining an estimated combined battery state-parameter vector are provided. The method determines the estimated combined battery state-parameter vector based on a plurality of predicted the combined battery state-parameter vectors, a plurality of predicted battery output vectors, and a battery output... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080249727 - Systems and methods for determining variations in voltages applied to an integrated circuit chip: Systems and methods for determining local voltages provided by a power distribution network to an integrated circuit chip by applying an external voltage to a power distribution network, firing a set of current sources distributed across the chip and measuring local voltages on the chip. The current sources may, for... Agent: Law Offices Of Mark L. Berrier

20080249728 - Method for detecting defects on the back side of a semiconductor wafer: The invention relates to a method for detecting defects on the back side of a semiconductor wafer. The brightness distribution of the color values is essentially a normal distribution. An average value and surroundings can be defined using the determined normal distribution, which are criteria for the occurrence of a... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20080249730 - System and method for determining characteristics of a moving material by using microwaves: The present invention is related to a system for determining characteristics of a material. The system comprises means for sending and measuring microwave radiation, whereby the microwave radiation is used for determining the characteristics of the material 90. The invention is also related to such a method.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080249729 - Systems and methods for real time hot mix asphalt production: A computer-implemented system performs analysis on a construction material mixture includes accessing a server located on a wide-area-network; sending information collected from the material mixture to the server; applying one or more test methodologies to the collected information; generating one or more reports from the test methodologies; and sending the... Agent: David F. Martinez Atser

20080249731 - Fitting measured data points to tolerance zones having regard for the uncertainty of the measurements: Measurement data collected within a measurement frame of reference is fitted to geometric tolerance zones having regard for the uncertainties of the measurement. Geometric freedoms for fitting the measurement data are exploited to fit uncertainty zones associated with the measurement data within the tolerance zones. Typically, the measurement data is... Agent: Stephen B. Salai, Esq. Harter, Secrest & Emery LLP

20080249732 - System, method and medium calibrating gyrosensors of mobile robots: Provided are a system, method and medium calibrating a gyrosensor of a mobile robot. The system includes a camera to obtain image data of a fixed environment, a rotation angle calculation unit to calculate a plurality of angular velocities of a mobile robot based on an analysis of the image... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080249733 - Plasma insensitive height sensing: A method for determining a distance between a first piece and a second piece includes measuring, at the first or second piece, a first signal at a first frequency, and measuring, at the first or second piece, a second signal at a second frequency. The second frequency is different from... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20080249715 - Method for identifying markers: The invention is a method for identifying markers associated with the presence of a predetermined characteristic comprising accumulating spectral data from a sample known to have a predetermined characteristic, identifying a spectral feature which is indicative of the predetermined characteristic, and identifying a marker associated with the spectral feature.... Agent: Sills Cummis & Gross P.C.

20080249734 - Method of making a decision on the status of a mechanical system using input and response data acquired in situ: An in-situ monitoring system is engaged with a mechanical system for which it is desired to assess or monitor the in-situ performance of the mechanical system. The in-situ monitoring system includes at least one input sensor and at least one output sensor for collecting data corresponding, respectively, to input into,... Agent: Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC

20080249735 - Method and system for detecting tilt or shift of wafer transferred onto hot plate in real time, and method and system for monitoring baking process of wafers in real time: A method for detecting a tilt or a shift of a wafer on a hot plate is described. A temperature variation of the hot plate is measured directly after the wafer is transferred onto the hot plate. The temperature variation is analyzed to determine whether or not a tilt or... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080249736 - Multi-mode acceleration-based athleticism measurement system: A multi-mode athleticism movement measurement system includes an athlete-borne acceleration sensor and an athleticism processing device to determine athleticism information based upon one or more timing measurements from the athlete-borne acceleration sensor, the athleticism information corresponding to any of multiple athleticism measurement modes available on athleticism processing device and selectable... Agent: Ipsolon LLP

20080249737 - Oscillating scanning probe with constant contact force: A method for scanning a surface of a workpiece using a scanning probe 2 mounted on a support 3 on a coordinate measuring machine 4. The support contains drive means 5, 7 for actuating the movement of the scanning probe 2 relatively to the support 3. The method further involves... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080249738 - Method of determining a dimension of a sample of a construction material and associated apparatus: An apparatus for determining a volume of a construction material sample is provided, comprising at least one sample-interacting device configured to interact with the construction material sample so as to determine at least one surface characteristic thereof. A computer device is configured to be capable of receiving the at least... Agent: Law Office Of Bentley J. Olive PLLC

20080249739 - Apparatus for determining diameter of parabolic antenna and method therefor: Provided are an apparatus and method for determining a diameter of a reflector antenna. The apparatus includes a setting unit for setting up electrical characteristic values of the reflector antenna upon receipt thereof from outside, a parameter input unit for receiving a frequency, an antenna diameter variable value, antenna efficiency,... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080249740 - Device to determine the road followed by a person on foot: Device to determine the road followed by a person on foot, comprising at least three inertia sensors attached to the body of the person, one sensor to the torso and one sensor to each leg respectively, and which measure the absolute orientation of the part of the body concerned to... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080249741 - Image display method for displaying surface shape: An image display method for displaying a surface shape by measuring the surface shape of an object surface of a work piece to be measured with a contact probe placed on a machine and displaying the surface shape of said object surface on a screen based on measured shape data... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080249742 - Methods and apparatus for data analysis: A method and apparatus for data analysis according to various aspects of the present invention is configured to automatically select one or more outlier identification algorithms for identifying statistical outliers in test data for components.... Agent: Noblitt & Gilmore, LLC

20080249743 - Load calculating device and load calculating method: There is provided with a load calculating device including: a variable acquiring unit configured to acquire, as monitoring variables, a detected value by a sensor monitoring a state of a circuit board and a performance characteristic obtained by a tool monitoring performance of the circuit board; a first storage configured... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080249744 - Method of diagnosing system, method of operating aggregating system for system diagnosis, and aggregating system for system diagnosis: A total receiving steam amount Qi and a total necessary steam amount Qo are grasped. Further, a total amount of steam loss which can be solved by a predetermined system improvement is grasped as a total improvable steam loss amount. Then, based on these respective grasped total amounts, a ration... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20080249745 - Method and apparatus for management of an electric energy storage device to achieve a target life objective: A method for determining a preferred operating gradient for use in attaining a life objective for an electrical energy storage device is disclosed. A present state-of-life of the electrical energy storage device is provided and a life target for the electrical energy storage device is established as a predetermined limit... Agent: Cichosz & Cichosz, PLLC

20080249746 - Apparatus of capacity learning for computer systems and applications: The present invention provides a system for determining a metric of capacity in computing systems and computer applications. Capacity in this sense refers to the ability of computer systems and computer applications to perform work. Many applications and multi-hop system strategies could benefit from understanding the amount of work a... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.A.

20080249747 - Oilfield equipment identification method and apparatus: In combination, an identifier assembly is mounted to a tubular of a drill string to uniquely identify the tubular. The identifier assembly is provided with a radio-frequency-identification tag having a unique identification code stored therein, and means for mounting the radio-frequency-identification tag to the tubular such that the radio-frequency-identification tag... Agent: Dunlap Codding, P.C.

20080249748 - Painting process color analysis: A method and implementing computer system are provided for enabling a user to determine a starting glaze color for fired tiles in processes where there is a color change from a starting glaze color to a finished or fired tile color. In an exemplary embodiment, a tile painting application is... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rvw)

20080243391 - Information managing/providing system and method: There is provided n information managing/providing system including a plurality of clients (2) and server (3). Each of the clients (2) includes a plurality of sensor units (10) to detect environmental information on a residential house, receiver (11) to receive the housing-environmental information sent from the sensor unit (10) according... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080243392 - Method and apparatus for tracking individual plants while growing and/or after harvest: An apparatus and method of tracking individual plants growing and/or taken from a growing location, such as a field, growing bed, plot or greenhouse. Machine-readable data related to selected individual plants is maintained in close association with corresponding plants while growing or if the plant is taken from the growing... Agent: Mckee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C Attn: Pioneer Hi-bred

20080243393 - Biometric information measuring apparatus and biometric information measuring system: A biometric information measuring apparatus has a storage device for storing data concerning a biometric signal or biometric information derived from the biometric signal in association with position information indicating the current location of a sensor unit of the apparatus. Since the biometric information measuring apparatus provides the position information... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20080243395 - Image diagnosis supporting apparatus and system: In a disease case DB, disease case images are classified by disorder and registered. In a feature quantity DB, a feature quantity (second feature quantity) of each disease case image classified by disorder is registered. A server compares a feature quantity (first feature quantity) of a lesion site included in... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080243394 - System, method and computer program product for manipulating theranostic assays: A theranostics technique for describing signaling pathway activity within a cellular or tissue sample may include analyzing a cellular sample to obtain sample quantitative values for a series of target protein modification levels reflected in a set of a plurality of protein biomarkers in the sample. The sample quantitative values... Agent: Venable LLP

20080243397 - Software for design and verification of synthetic genetic constructs: The present invention provides methods for designing and verifying nucleic acid molecules having one or more desired properties. The methods are typically encoded into software, and typically include use of databases and algorithms to determine if nucleic acid molecules designed to have various elements in functional relationships have the intended... Agent: Latimer, Mayberry & MatthewsIPLaw, LLP

20080243398 - System and method for cleaning noisy genetic data and determining chromosome copy number: Disclosed herein is a system and method for increasing the fidelity of measured genetic data, for making allele calls, and for determining the state of aneuploidy, in one or a small set of cells, or from fragmentary DNA, where a limited quantity of genetic data is available. Genetic material from... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 30623

20080243396 - Systems and methods for sub-genomic region specific comparative genome hybridization probe selection: Systems and methods for using the same to select one or more comparative genome hybridization (CGH) probes specific for a sub-genomic region of interest are provided. Also provided are computer program products for executing the subject methods.... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080243399 - Testing apparatus for steering apparatus: The testing apparatus tests a steering apparatus including a torque sensor which detects a steering torque, a steering actuator which applies a steering force to a steering mechanism, and a controller which controls the steering actuator based on an output of the torque sensor. The apparatus includes a test signal... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080243400 - Meter electronics and methods for processing sensor signals for a multi-phase flow material in a flowmeter: Meter electronics (20) for processing sensor signals for a multi-phase flow material in a flowmeter (5) is provided according to an embodiment of the invention. The meter electronics (20) includes an interface (201) for receiving first and second sensor signals (210 and 211) for the multi-phase flow material and a... Agent: The Ollila Law Group LLC

20080243401 - Apparatus and method for use in computational fluid dynamics: An apparatus includes a parallel computation unit including an input port and an output port and a one-dimensional computational fluid dynamics model. The input port is configured to sample at a time t1 a boundary condition signal for the one-dimensional computational fluid dynamics model and the output port is configured... Agent: Viksnins Harris & Padys Pllp

20080243402 - Fault detector for a tip and ring circuit, a method of protecting such a circuit and a power supply including the fault detector: A fault detector for use with a telephone wire-pair having a return conductor and an output conductor, a method of protecting a telecommunications network including the telephone wire-pair and a power supply for the telecommunications network. In one embodiment, the fault detector includes (1) a passive sensor coupled between Earth... Agent: Hitt Gaines P.C.

20080243403 - Storage medium storing thereon power consumption analysis program, and power consumption analysis method: A storage medium stores a power consumption analysis program operable to cause a computer to function as a power consumption analysis apparatus. The apparatus includes a device for preliminarily providing a first toggle rate of each of a plurality of wirelines included in a first circuit data set; a device... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080243404 - Averaging in an intelligent electronic device: A method and apparatus measures electrical power usage and quality, while mitigating the effects of noise on measured signals or parameters. Specifically, a digital electrical power and energy meter employs a method in which a processor averages a parameter, such as voltage or current, over a plurality of cycles of... Agent: Electro Industries/ Gaugetech C/o Casella & Hespos, LLP

20080243405 - Method and device for estimating battery residual capacity, and battery power supply system: In the method for estimating battery residual capacity of the present invention, the voltage measurement values are obtained (step S2). And once it is finished, using the initial values of the coefficients set at the step S3 as starting, the optimization is progressed with renewing each value of the coefficients... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080243407 - Alignment of mass spectrometry data: Methods, systems and mediums are disclosed for aligning mass spectrometry data before the analysis of the mass spectrometry data. The mass spectrometry data may be received from a mass spectrometry machine, and re-sampled using a smooth warping function. To estimate the warping function, a synthetic signal is build using, for... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080243408 - Data compression for a waveform data analyzer: A compressor for waveforms having at least two waveform states separates the waveform samples into waveform state sample vectors for each waveform state. Waveform state encoders encode the waveform state sample vectors separately to provide compressed waveform data. The waveform state encoder selects waveform state pattern vector and associated codes... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20080243406 - Temporally aligned waveform processing: Methods for processing waveforms may include using temporal descriptor information about an input waveform to selectively request a segment of the input waveform that, when processed by a filter, produces a segment of an output waveform. In an illustrative example, waveform descriptor information may be used to request data to... Agent: Lecroy Corporation

20080243409 - Circuit testing apparatus: The invention discloses a circuit testing apparatus for testing a device under test. The circuit testing apparatus includes a precision measurement unit, a signal transformation module, and a microprocessor. The precision measurement unit is coupled to the device under test for providing a testing signal and receiving a measurement signal... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20080243410 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: Provided are an image forming apparatus and an image forming method which are capable of obtaining an image of a measured object using a relatively simple structure in a short time. In the image forming apparatus, an electromagnetic wave generated by an electromagnetic wave generator is emitted to the measured... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080243412 - Apparatus for inspecting defect and method of inspecting defect: In a defect inspection apparatus, a first lighting part applies polarized light to an inspection region on a substrate, reflected light reflected on the inspection region is received by a first spectrometer in a first light receiving part, and a phase difference spectrum representing a reflection property of the reflected... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080243411 - Method for monitoring the optical transmissibility through an observation window and device for cleaning an observation window: The device comprises an analysis unit in which product-specific limit value for the spectroscopic data can be stored, a cleaning device for cleaning the observation window and a switching unit for activating the cleaning device. The analysis unit is suitable for emitting a signal if the limit value is not... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20080243413 - self-adjusting voltage filtering technique compensating for dynamic errors of capacitive voltage transformers: A method of digitally correcting the raw output voltage from a Capacitive Voltage Transformer (CVT) with the intent to remove transient components impacting on transient accuracy of protection function. A typical CVT is represented using three parameters in the linear CVT model. A digital filter designed based on the three... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080243414 - Determining a design attribute by estimation and by calibration of estimated value: A computer-implemented method of determining an attribute of a circuit includes using a computationally expensive technique to simulate the attribute (such as timing delay or slew) of a portion of the circuit, at predetermined values of various parameters (e.g. nominal values of channel length or metal width), to obtain at... Agent: Silicon Valley Patent Group LLP

20080243415 - Calibrating the positions of a rotating and translating two-dimensional scanner: Systems and methods are provided that comprise calibration techniques and associated systems that identify the two-dimensional position, or other alignment or positioning, of sample wells or other calibration objects located in a sample well plate, or other surface or area of interest. In some embodiments, calibration of the plate and/or... Agent: Mila Kasan, Patent Dept. Applied Biosystems

20080243416 - Global calibration for stereo vision probe: A method for global calibration of a multi-view vision-based touch probe measurement system is provided which encompasses calibrating camera frame distortion errors as well as probe form errors. The only required features in the calibration images are the markers on the touch probe. The camera frame distortion calibration comprises an... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080243417 - Magnetometer normalization: Systems and methods for correcting received magnetometer coordinates of a measured magnetic bearing are disclosed. The measured magnetic bearing may be received from a calibrated magnetometer configured to measure the strength and direction of a magnetic field. In embodiments used to navigate a geographical area, the magnetic field comprises, at... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080243418 - Method of calibrating a fluid-level measurement system: A method of calibrating a fluid-level measurement system is provided. A first response of the system is recorded when the system's sensor(s) is (are) not in contact with a fluid of interest. A second response of the system is recorded when the system's sensor(s) is (are) fully immersed in the... Agent: National Aeronautics And Space Administration Langley Research Center

20080243419 - Photon transfer curve test time reduction: An improved method for photon transfer curve (PTC) testing in an image sensor is described. A cost and time savings is achieved by reducing the number of frames necessary for measurements to two that are generated by illuminating a first plurality of pixel rows at a first intensity level m1,... Agent: Stephen B. Ackerman

20080243420 - Systems and methods of media management, such as management of media to and from a media storage library: A system and method for determining media to be exported out of a media library is described. In some examples, the system determines a media component to be exported, determines the media component is in the media library for a specific process, and exports the media component after the process... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080243421 - Method and system for measuring energy savings resultant from improvements made to a structure: A method and related system for determining energy savings that result from improvements made to a structure includes auditing the structure before the improvements are made to create a mockup of a section of the unimproved structure. The structure is then fully improved, and the mockup is disposed near a... Agent: Fox Rothschild LLP New York

20080243423 - Method for the indirect tire pressure monitoring: Method for the indirect tire pressure monitoring in which there are performed a rolling circumference analysis of the tires, in which rolling circumference analysis variables (ΔDIAG, ΔSIDE, ΔAXLE) are determined from actually found and learnt test variables describing the rotation of the wheels, and a frequency analysis of the natural... Agent: Continental Teves, Inc.

20080243422 - Sensor device for a fluid power apparatus: A sensor device for a fluid power apparatus and in particular a pneumatic cylinder comprises at least one sensor for producing at least one sensor value on the basis of a property or a condition of the fluid power apparatus, and a sensor communication means for the transmission of the... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20080243424 - Methods for predicting warp at a given condition: Methods are provided for predicting warp of a lumber product at a given condition, such as relative humidity, temperature, moisture content, or the like. Note that this methodology may apply to any of crook, bow, twist, cup, or combinations of these quantities. The method involves measuring an original warp of... Agent: Weyerhaeuser Company Intellectual Property Dept., Ch 1j27

20080243425 - Tracking target objects through occlusions: A computerized object tracking method uses data captured from any of a number of sensor suites deployed in an area of interest to identify and track objects of interest within the area covered by the sensors. Objects of interest are uniquely identified utilizing an ellipse-based model and tracked through complex... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080243426 - Attitude detection system and method: Systems and methods for real-time determination of an angle and range to a surface are provided. In one embodiment, such a system may include a transmitter for producing an output beam, a scanner for redirecting the output beam into a scan pattern towards a surface, a receiver for receiving a... Agent: Wildman Harrold Allen & Dixon LLP And The Boeing Company

20080243427 - Displacement measuring apparatus and load measuring apparatus of rotating member: An encoder 12 changing a characteristic thereof alternately and at equal intervals with respect to circumferential direction is supported by and fixed to the hub 4 concentrically. A detecting portion of a sensor 13 supported by the outer ring 3 is closely opposed to a detected face of the encoder... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080243428 - System to test electronic part and method of controlling the same: Disclosed herein are a system to test an electronic part and a method of controlling the same, which are capable of automatically detecting a position of a socket according to a variation in a position of the socket to efficiently test the electronic part. The system to test an electronic... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080243430 - Multi-targeting method for measuring distance according to the phase measuring principle: Distances to targets (2a, 2b) are simultaneously determined in a method for measuring distance according to the phase measuring principle with a time discrete emission of periodic signals (7) and a sampling of received signals for generating and optionally storing sampled values, whereby the signals have signal portions that are... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080243429 - Three-dimensional position-measuring apparatus: A three-dimensional position-measuring apparatus comprises a body, a rotational optical portion rotatable with respect to the body in a horizontal direction and comprising a reflective plate in which deflection in a vertical direction is controllable, a first data transmitting and receiving portion arranged in the body and comprising a first... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080243431 - Monitoring system: A monitoring system (10) for monitoring the movement of a person in locomotion on foot, the system (10) comprising: a vibration sensor (38) to generate a signal when vibration is sensed, the sensor (38) being provided for footwear (20) of the person; a first unit (30) to wirelessly transmit the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080243432 - Pedometer: It is made possible to reduce electric power consumption while suppressing an occurrence of a walking detection leak. By a cycle operation section and a cycle comparison section in a CPU, if it is judged that a walking signal from a detection circuit is within a predetermined cycle, the walking... Agent: Bruce L. Adams, Esq Adams & Wilks

20080243433 - Methods and apparatus for generating a library of spectra: A method of generating a library from a reference substrate for use in processing product wafers is described. The method includes measuring substrate characteristics at a plurality of well-defined points of a reference substrate, measuring spectra at plurality of measurement points of the reference substrate, there being more measurement points... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080243434 - Method of identifying abnormal operation of a machine and an apparatus therefor: A method of identifying abnormal operation of an industrial machine includes the step of determining statistical parameters from a plurality of samples of characteristic parameter(s) of known similar industrial machines in normal operation and storing them, the statistical parameters defining a statistical range of values of the characteristic parameter(s) for... Agent: Meadwestvaco Corporation

20080243435 - Method for determining a temporal profile of a probability distribution with local three-dimensional resolution for the presence of a substance in a vascular system: The invention relates to a method for determining a probability distribution with local three-dimensional resolution for a substance in a vascular system. An acquisition time is assigned to a group of x-ray images showing a presence distribution with local 2D resolution for a substance in the vascular system at the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080243436 - Information processing apparatus, method for measuring cooling performance and for detecting deterioration in the performance: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus, includes a power consumption reading unit configured to read information corresponding to power consumption of a system, a temperature reading unit configured to read a temperature of the processor, a first storage unit configured to store power consumption P1 and a temperature... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080243437 - Technique for detecting anomaly in observation target: A system, method, and computer program product allowing an information processing apparatus to function as a system for detecting an anomaly in an observation target on the basis of time series data. The system includes a first generation unit, a second generation unit, a singular vector computation unit, a matrix... Agent: Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20080243438 - Maintenance information managing apparatus for component mounting machine: A maintenance information managing apparatus for a component mounting machine, the maintenance information managing apparatus including a device inspecting unit to which a device removed from the component mounting machine is attached and inspects the device, an identification reader which is attached to the device inspecting unit, and reads identification... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080243439 - Sensor exploration and management through adaptive sensing framework: The identification and tracking of objects from captured sensor data relies upon statistical modeling methods to sift through large data sets and identify items of interest to users of the system. Statistical modeling methods such as Hidden Markov Models in combination with particle analysis and Bayesian statistical analysis produce items... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080243440 - Sensor information management system, sensor information management method, and computer-readable storage medium: A sensor information management system is connected to a network including a plurality of sensors and a computer including a service providing unit for providing services using data presented by at least one of the plurality of sensors. The sensor information management system includes: a sensor profile information record unit... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080243441 - Signal analysis method for vibratory interferometry: A signal analysis method for vibratory interferometry is disclosed in the present invention for measuring the vibratory characteristics of an object under test. The signal analysis method comprises steps of: obtaining a vibratory interferometric signal of an object under vibration; and analyzing the vibratory interferometric signal with a deconvolution operation... Agent: Wpat, PC