Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing inventions 01/09

20090030614 - Method, system and apparatus for formation tester data processing: A method for data processing includes transforming measurement data acquired in the time domain during an oilfield operation into a second domain to produce transformed data; identifying distortions in the transformed data; removing the distortions from the transformed data; and transforming back from the second domain to the time domain... Agent: Schlumberger Information Solutions

20090030615 - Method and apparatus for optimizing magnetic signals and detecting casing and resistivity: A method of locating a conductive target from a wellbore includes generating a current flowing across an insulated gap in a downhole tool positioned in the wellbore, measuring an azimuthal magnetic field with at least one external magnetometer located proximate the exterior of the downhole tool, measuring a secondary magnetic... Agent: Schlumberger Oilfield Services

20090030616 - Probablistic imaging with azimuthally sensitive mwd/lwd sensors: A method for forming a borehole image of an azimuthally sensitive borehole or formation parameter is disclosed. Such a borehole image may be formed, for example, by processing logging sensor data with a predetermined sensor response function (also referred to herein as a probability density function) to acquire probabilistically distributed... Agent: W-h Energy Services, Inc.

20090030617 - Biosensor calibration system: A biosensor system determines an analyte concentration using one or more calibrated correlation equations for an optical and/or electrochemical analysis of a biological fluid. The biosensor system may be implemented using a measurement device and a sensor strip. The measurement device senses circuit patterns on an encoding pattern of the... Agent: Blanchard & Associates

20090030618 - System, method and software arrangement for analyzing and correlating molecular profiles associated with anatomical structures: A system, method and software arrangement according to exemplary embodiments of the present invention are provided which can use molecular profiles obtained from unaltered human tissue specimens for clinical purposes including disease diagnoses and treatment evaluations. For example, spatial distributions of chemical species including metabolites within the tissue may be... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20090030619 - Vehicular user hospitality system: A vehicular user hospitality system recognizes a situation concerning vehicle use according to a combination of a disturbance stimulation type and hospitality intention category. With an intention estimation table, the system determines a reference intention parameter value for providing an intensity reference of a hospitality intention for each of safety,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20090030620 - System and method for electronic publication of scientific data and analysis: Electronic publication systems are disclosed that enable the analysis and publication of layout files, which contain an analysis strategy and embedded raw data. The published layout files can be accessed by reader applications that are able to read the layout files and modify the analysis strategy within the layout file... Agent: Kauth , Pomeroy , Peck & Bailey ,llp

20090030621 - Jig assembly for measuring performance of door of vehicle: A jig assembly for measuring performance aspects of a door of a vehicle. A shifting member includes guide rails and motors, the motors controlled by a controller to move the guide rails. The shifting member is configured such that one of several removable jigs can be connected thereto. Each jig... Agent: Sungcheul Ahn

20090030622 - Non-linear junction based electronics detection: Line anomalies on a line under test are detected by generating a test signal at a first power level and coupling the test signal to the line under test. A response level is received from the line under test at a second and third harmonic frequency of the first test... Agent: Hornkohl Intellectual Property Law, P.l.l.c

20090030623 - System and method of determining the area of vulnerability for estimation of voltage sags and computer-readable medium having embodied thereon computer program for the method: Provided is a system for determining the area of vulnerability for estimation of voltage sages including: a system information reader reading information on a power system; a unit for determining the area of vulnerability calculating a voltages at a target bus corresponding to ends of a fault line by using... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090030625 - Fuel efficiency measurement system and method for fuel cell vehicle: A fuel efficiency measurement system includes a fuel supply tank for supplying hydrogen to be used as a fuel to a fuel cell of the vehicle during measurement of fuel efficiency and a precision electronic balance for detecting a weight of the fuel supply tank so as to perform the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090030624 - Systems and methods for validating power integrity of integrated circuits: A power integrity system executes one or more test algorithms, such as a suite of test software that may be written in low level language that is coupled with a test environment housing an integrated circuit and/or printed circuit board, in order to identify possible power integrity issues with the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090030626 - Remaining electrical charge/remaining capacity estimating method, battery state sensor and battery power source system: The method includes a voltage estimating step of obtaining a stable open circuit voltage estimated value after a lapse of desired time, the step including: a step of using an approximate function including a plurality of exponential function terms of time and a plurality of coefficients, stopping charge or discharge... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090030627 - System, method, and article of manufacture for determining an estimated battery state vector: A system, a method, and an article of manufacture for determining an estimated battery state vector indicative of a state of a battery are provided. The method determines a first estimated battery state vector indicative of the state of the battery at a first predetermined time based on a plurality... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090030628 - Signal analyser: A method of processing a signal comprises receiving a signal, filtering the signal with a plurality of band pass filters, each band pass filter having a Q factor of at least 1/v2, and extracting data from the output of the filters. The primary data extraction comprises identifying local peaks in... Agent: Rissman Jobse Hendricks & Oliverio, LLP

20090030629 - Non-linear frequency and phase measurement scheme: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for measuring a frequency or a phase of a measuring signal, wherein the frequency (fg) or the phase (φg) are estimated by approximating the relationship between a collecting clock (c) and a gating clock (g) based on a non-linear step-shaped function.... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20090030631 - Method for enhancing the measurement capability of multi-parameter inspection systems: A method for improving the measurement capability of multi-parameter inspection systems includes performing a measuring procedure to acquire a measured signature of a sample, calculating weighting factors representing a correlation between structural parameters of the sample by using a weighting algorithm, transforming the weighting factors into a sampling function by... Agent: Wpat, Pc Intellectual Property Attorneys

20090030630 - Optical inspection tool featuring multiple speed modes: An optical inspection tool can feature a double-speed and other modes whereby the inspection rate is increased by using pixel binning. For instance, the tool may include an array of pixels provided by one or more detectors. Some or all of the pixels in one or more of the detectors... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.a.

20090030633 - Device, method, program, and recording medium for error factor measurement, and output measurement device and input measurement device provided with the device for error factor measurement: Measurement of error factors of a signal source when a connection tool is connected to a signal source whether error factors of the connection tool are known or not is enabled. There is provided an error factor measurement device including a connection tool characteristic measurement unit which measures characteristics of... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090030632 - Methods for plasma matching between different chambers and plasma stability monitoring and control: Methods for matching semiconductor plasma processing chambers using a calibrated spectrometer are disclosed. In one embodiment, plasma attributes are measured for a process in a reference chamber and a process in a sample chamber. Measuring the plasma attributes during process perturbations allows for the correlation of process parameters to the... Agent: Diehl Servilla Llc

20090030635 - Self calibrating cable for a high definition digital video interface: An HDMI cable may exhibit frequency dependent signal attenuation, inter symbol interference, and inter-pair skew. A boost device integrated with the cable can compensate for such impairments of the cable. A self calibrating cable with a boost device of the embodiment of the invention is described, in which parameters that... Agent: Victoria Donnelly

20090030634 - Temerature-averaging field device compensation: An average-temperature compensated field device comprises a field module, a temperature-averaging sensor, a microprocessor, and an interface. The field module is configured to characterize a process parameter. The temperature-averaging sensor is configured to generate a compensation signal characterizing an extended region of the field device. The microprocessor is configured to... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.a.

20090030636 - Method and system for performing optical proximity correction with process variations considerations: A method for performing optical proximity correction with process variations considerations is disclosed. The maximum aerial gradient direction for a control point associated with an edge is initially determined. Then, a variational edge placement error E along the maximum aerial image intensity gradient direction of the control point is calculated.... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090030637 - Method of measuring position detection error in machine tool: A machine tool position detection error measurement method that eliminates the effects of pitch, yaw, and roll of the axes at the point of machining of a CNC machine tool and improved machining accuracy. The method comprises a step of compensating positioning accuracy of a positioning-error-measuring linear scale using a... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090030638 - Self-calibration method and apparatus for on-axis rotary encoders: A self-calibration method and apparatus for on-axis rotary encoders comprising the steps of: receiving output signals from a detector during a spindle-free response period, the signals including a plurality of data sets wherein each data set comprises the periods between sampling events occurring in one revolution of the encoder at... Agent: Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro, LLP

20090030639 - Method for correcting measured values resulting from the bending of a substrate: A method for correcting the measured values of positions of structures (3) on a substrate (2) resulting from bending of a substrate (2) is disclosed. A plurality of geometric parameters of the substrate (2) are determined. A plurality of physical parameters of the substrate (2) are determined. A degree of... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20090030640 - Substrate and mask aligning apparatus: A substrate and mask aligning apparatus includes a controlling portion 70 for calculating moving data that are applied to eliminate a difference between a present superposed state of the through holes 52 of the mask 50, which comes into contact with the substrate 20 that is loaded on the stage... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20090030641 - Monitoring and compensating for temperature-related error in an electrochemical sensor: A method for compensating for a temperature-related error in an electrochemical sensor without using separate sources of temperature measurement by measuring sensor current, temporarily lowering sensor voltage to a first level below a reaction-sustaining threshold, measuring a first offset current, adjusting sensor voltage to a second level below the threshold,... Agent: Edwards Lifesciences Corporation

20090030642 - Automatic test method and apparatus using the same: The present invention provides an automatic test method and an apparatus using the same for testing functions of a product by automatically pressing keys of the product. The automatic test method includes the steps of: inputting motion parameters of at least two driven mechanisms into a microcomputer; producing pulse waves... Agent: Wpat, Pc Intellectual Property Attorneys

20090030643 - Method for collecting statistics for movie theaters: A movie theater includes an infrared camera disposed in an auditorium of a movie theater which infrared camera captures an image of one or more persons in the movie theater; and an algorithm that determines the number of persons present in the movie theater.... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20090030644 - Tracing thermal data via performance monitoring: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and processor are provided for tracing thermal data via performance monitoring. A performance monitor is set into a tracing mode. Temperatures are sensed by a digital thermal sensor over a time period. The sensed temperatures are stored in a data structure and a... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20090030645 - System for estimation of position and speed in a permanent magnet rotor of an electrical motor: c

20090030646 - Ac magnetic tracking system with phase locking: Plural transmitter coils of a magnetic locating system are driven with widely-separated main frequencies. One of the transmitter coils is also driven with a marker frequency close to the main frequency applied to that coil. The receiver determines a phase relationship with the transmitter based on the main and marker... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090030648 - Apparatus and method of measuring workpieces: A method and apparatus for measuring a surface using a surface sensing device mounted on a scanning head on a member of a coordinate positioning apparatus. The coordinate positioning apparatus may be operated to produce relative movement between the scanning head and the surface profile and the scanning head includes... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20090030647 - System and method for using structured shapes to increase laser scanner accuracy: A system and method for determining the rectangular coordinate position of a first object spaced apart from and opposing a second object by placing at least three three-dimensional structures at different known locations on the top surface of the first object and a corresponding number of pulse transceivers at known... Agent: Woods, Rogers, P.L.C

20090030649 - Method and procedure for detecting cable length in a storage subsystem with wide ports: A mechanism detects cable length in a storage subsystem with wide ports. The mechanism uses in-situ bidirectional cable wrapping for determining different cable lengths. The mechanism under-margins transmitter output to failure for each external port and even for each PHY within a wide port. Based on the transition point from... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.c.

20090030650 - Contour measuring method for measuring aspects of objects: An exemplary contour measuring method for measuring aspects of objects includes: (1) providing a contour measuring probe (10) comprising a tip extension (16), a displacement sensor (19), and a processor (119) connected to the displacement sensor, the tip extension being slidable in a first direction; (2) driving the tip extension... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20090030651 - System for identifying content of digital data: A system for identifying a work represented by digital data. This system detects events in data of the content of an unknown work and measures a metric between the events. The system then compares the detected events and metrics from an unknown work with the events and metrics of a... Agent: Lewis And Roca LLP

20090030652 - Monitoring and reporting normalized device system performance: Apparatus and computer program products are provided to monitor and report performance data of a device such as a data storage drive. A plurality of quantitative values are obtained from feedback and measurement mechanisms in a data storage device of a first model during operation of the storage device. The... Agent: Law Firm Of Dan Shifrin

20090030653 - Method and control system for operating a technical installation comprising a plurality of components, in particular a combustion system for generating electric energy: The invention relates to an inventive method and a corresponding control system according to which: during the operation of the technical installation, each component that is in operation or out of commission triggers an evaluation of at least one other component by means of a value; the values of each... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090030654 - Noise suppression system, sound acquisition apparatus, sound output apparatus, and computer-readable medium: The sound acquisition apparatus broadcasts a sound “output notice request” through a communication network. In response to the request by the sound acquisition apparatus, the sound output apparatus gives notification of starting a sound output operation, the sound acquisition apparatus requests the sound output apparatus to transfer “output sound data”.... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090030655 - Analysis methods for unmixing the response of non-linear, cross-reactive sensors and related system to single and multiple stimulants: Disclosed herein are methods of analysis for unmixing non-linear, cross-reactive sensors and related system. Use of the disclosed methods, related systems and computer program product permits better analysis of the magnitudes of various stimulants including but not limited to chemical concentrations. One method may add one or more additional signal... Agent: University Of Virginia Patent Foundation

20090024324 - Method and system for grr testing: A method and a system for automatically performing gauge repeatability and reproducibility (GRR) tests is provided. A handler is used to automatically move semiconductor devices from a device tray or other storage device into position for testing. When operating in a GRR mode, the handler is configured to place each... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090024325 - Ains enhanced survey instrument: The invention comprises a survey pole having a survey pole bottom end, with a position-transducer coupled to a survey pole top end. A ground contact spike is on the bottom end. The survey pole uses an AINS as a combined tilt and heading sensor. The AINS provides heading and Euler... Agent: James F Kirk

20090024326 - Utility mapping and data distribution system and method: A system and method of mapping underground utilities and other subsurface objects involves one or more of acquiring utility location data using a number of different detectors and sensors, processing the multiple detector/sensor output data to produce mapping data, storing the mapping data in a database, and providing access to... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, Llc

20090024327 - System and method for measuring flow in a pipeline: A system is provided for measuring flow in a pipeline which, in use, carries a stratified flow of a first liquid and a second, denser liquid. The system comprises: a section of the pipeline in which the stratified flow is uphill; a section of the pipeline in which the stratified... Agent: Schlumberger-doll Research Attn: Intellectual Property Law Department

20090024328 - Processing seismic data using interferometry techniques: Method for processing seismic data. In one implementation, the method includes converting a common midpoint (CMP) gather of seismograms into one or more interferogram common midpoint (ICMP) gathers, generating a semblance spectrum for each ICMP gather, stacking the semblance spectrum from each ICMP gather to generate a combined semblance spectrum... Agent: Westerngeco L.l.c. Jeffrey E. Griffin

20090024332 - Diagnosing inapparent diseases from common clinical tests using bayesian analysis: A system and method of diagnosing diseases from biological data is disclosed. A system for automated disease diagnostics prediction can be generated using a database of clinical test data. The diagnostics prediction can also be used to develop screening tests to screen for one or more inapparent diseases. The prediction... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090024331 - Methods and processes for calling bases in sequence by incorporation methods: Computer implemented methods, and systems performing such methods for processing signal data from analytical operations and systems, and particularly in processing signal data from sequence-by-incorporation processes to identify nucleotide sequences of template nucleic acids and larger nucleic acid molecules, e.g., genomes or fragments thereof.... Agent: Quine Intellectual Property Law Group, P.c.

20090024329 - Methods and systems relating to epigenetic information: The present application relates, in general, to a system or method for detection or treatment. In some aspects, a system includes at least one computer program for use with at least one computer system and wherein the computer program includes a plurality of instructions including, but not limited to, one... Agent: Searete Llc Clarence T. Tegreene

20090024330 - Methods and systems relating to epigenetic phenotypes: In one aspect, a system includes, but is not limited to, at least one computer program for use with at least one computer system and wherein the computer program includes a plurality of instructions, including but not limited to, one or more instructions for determining at least one correlation between... Agent: Searete Llc Clarence T. Tegreene

20090024334 - Database for analyzing gene function and method of analyzing gene function by dspa: A method of constructing a gene function database comprising measuring the cell viabilities, against a plural number of drugs at various concentrations, of transformed eukaryotic cells overexpressing a plural number of function-known genes and parental cell line thereof, calculating the ratios of IC40 values of the transformed cells to the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.l.p.

20090024333 - Methods and systems relating to mitochondrial dna phenotypes: In one aspect, a system includes, but is not limited to, at least one computer program for use with at least one computer system and wherein the computer program includes a plurality of instructions, including but not limited to, one or more instructions for determining at least one correlation between... Agent: Searete Llc Clarence T. Tegreene

20090024335 - Method, system, and computer program product for calculating the residual stress equilibrium of two concentric cylinders coldworked by a loading-unloading expansion process: A method, system, and computer program product for calculating the residual stress equilibrium of two elastoplastic cylinders coldworked by expansion to obtain interference fit. The deformation state due to an internal expansion load applied to an inner cylinder that will result in interference of the inner cylinder with the outer... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090024336 - Method for weighing vehicles crossing a bridge: A method for weighing vehicles moving on a bridge deck pavement is provided. At least one vibration sensor is mounted on a lower side of the pavement to sense low frequency pavement vibrations generated by moving vehicle wheels and propagated in waves in the pavement. Vibration sensor output signals are... Agent: Mark Clodfelter

20090024337 - Apparatus for detection and processing of a multiplicity of measured values in an hvdc transmission installation: An apparatus for detecting and processing a multiplicity of measured values in an HVDCT system has measuring units for detecting measured variables of the HVDCT system, while obtaining measured values, and preprocessing units which are connected to one another in series, are each connected to at least one measuring unit... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090024339 - Method and apparatus for confirming the charge amount and degradation state of a battery, a storage medium, an information processing apparatus, and an electronic apparatus: A method and apparatus is used to confirm the charge amount and degradation state of a battery. Various cycle test battery measurements are conducted at prescribed time intervals until the end of the battery life, and the measured values are used to generate a determination table or determination tables showing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090024338 - Remaining-amount estimation device and method for secondary battery: An SOC-estimation-value-depending gain selection unit multiplies the deviation of an SOC estimation value (last calculated value) relative to an estimated SOC by a correction gain G1 to calculate a correction value. The SOC-estimation-value-depending gain selection unit selects a relatively small correction gain G1 when the SOC estimation value lies in... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20090024340 - Method and a system for cable or subscriber loop investigation performing loop topology identification: A system and method for using loop topology identification to investigate a transmission line having a plurality of cable segments. At a measurement plane for each segment, a probing signal is transmitted into the cable. A reflected signal is detected, and an equivalent total input impedance is calculated. The system... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090024341 - System and method for analyzing a signal displaying a non-monotonic transition: A system for analyzing non-monotonic of signals is provided. The system is configured for receiving a signal and displaying changes of the signal using a waveform curve. The system is configured for analyzing data of the signals and the waveform curve in order to locate peak points on the waveform... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20090024342 - Compensated measurement of angular displacement: There is disclosed methods and apparatus for compensated measurement of angular displacement within an instrument (600), such as a total station. Improved and compensated measurement of angular displacement is obtained by using a combination of e.g. an angular resolver (145) and an inertial sensor (645). A compensated angular position measurement... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090024344 - Method for correcting an error of the imaging system of a coordinate measuring machine: A method for correcting an error of the imaging system of a coordinate measuring machine is disclosed. The position of at least two different edges of at least one structure on a substrate is measured. The substrate may be automatically rotated into another orientation. Then the position of the at... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, Llc

20090024343 - Method of determining geometric errors in a machine tool or measuring machine: A method of determining geometric errors in a machine tool or measuring machine having a mobile unit for moving a target within a measuring volume, the method including the steps of determining a first direction within the measuring volume; moving the target into a number of points along the direction... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP Ip Prosecution Department

20090024345 - Device and method for determining the temperature of a heat sink: A method for determining the temperature of a heat source and an electronic unit, including a printed-circuit board equipped with a sensor and a heat sink, the sensor being connected to the heat sink in a heat-conducting manner.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090024346 - Importation of virtual signals into electronic test equipment to facilitate testing of an electronic component: Electronic component validation testing is facilitated by a method, system and program product which allows the importation of virtual signals derived from simulation verification testing of the electronic component design into electronic test equipment employed during validation testing of the actual electronic component. The method includes: storing simulation data resulting... Agent: Ibm Corporation Department 417

20090024348 - System and method of compensating for device mounting and thermal transfer errors: A method of compensating a temperature measurement of a thermal device in a user environment as a function of a thermal transfer of the thermal device in a temperature measurement system. The method includes inputting thermal transfer parameters associated with heat transfer characteristics of the thermal device stored by a... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/ann Arbor

20090024347 - Thermal simulation using adaptive 3d and hierarchical grid mechanisms: A thermally aware design automation suite integrates system-level thermal awareness into design of semiconductor chips, performing fine-grain static and/or transient thermal simulations of the chips based on thermal models and boundary conditions. The thermal simulations are performed in accordance with one or more grids, with boundaries and/or resolutions being determined... Agent: Walstein Bennett Smith Iii

20090024349 - Adjusting voltage for a phase locked loop based on temperature: A mechanism for utilizing a single set of one or more thermal sensors, e.g., thermal diodes, provided on the integrated circuit device, chip, etc., to control the operation of the integrated circuit device, associated cooling system, and high-frequency PLLs is provided. By utilizing a single set of thermal sensors to... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.c.

20090024350 - Tilt-angle detecting method and apparatus for a motorcycle: A vehicular tilt-angle detecting apparatus includes a steering-angle sensor, a vehicle speed sensor, a lateral-G sensor, a turning-radius calculation unit, a base tilt-angle calculation unit, a transient tilt-angle calculation unit, and a transient tilt angle calculation unit. The turning-radius calculation unit determines a turning radius corresponding to a steering angle... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20090024351 - Method for determining correction values for the measured values of positions of structures on a substrate: A method for allocating correction values of the degree of bending of a substrate (2) relative to a coordinate system (40) of a coordinate measuring machine (1) is disclosed. The positions of the at least two reference marks (32) on the substrate holder (27) are automatically determined relative to the... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20090024352 - Method, device and system for verifying points determined on an elliptic curve: Conventional cryptographic methods that are based on elliptic curves are prone to side-channel attacks. Previously known methods for preventing side-channel attacks have the disadvantage of requiring high arithmetic capacity and a large amount of available memory space. The proposed method overcomes said disadvantage by using a process for verifying points... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090024353 - Method of measuring pose of mobile robot and method and apparatus for measuring position of mobile robot using the same: A method of measuring pose of mobile robot, and method and apparatus for measuring for measuring position of mobile robot using the same are provided. The apparatus for measuring the pose of a mobile robot includes an accelerometer measuring acceleration of the mobile robot in a forward direction, a uniform-motion-determining... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090024354 - Road gradient estimating system: An estimated gradient value of a road is calculated based on a vehicle acceleration “A” and a time varying portion “A′” of a wheel speed. In a case that an acceleration corresponding value “Ggrad0” for the estimated gradient value is not regarded as indicating an exact figure, due to influences... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20090024355 - Shape measuring device and method: A device measures a measurement object surface shape, and includes a base to which the measurement object is secured; a slide movable in at least three different directions and secured to the base; a probe holding unit mounted to the slide; and a contact probe resiliently supported by the holding... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090024356 - Determination of root cause(s) of symptoms using stochastic gradient descent: Diagnosis of one or more root causes of symptoms is performed by using stochastic gradient descent to find the optimal parameters of a variational distribution. This methodology, called variational gradient descent, permits fast diagnosis for a large number (greater than 1,000) or very large number (greater than 1,000,000) of symptom... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090024357 - Object path prediction method, apparatus, and program, and automatic operation system: An object path prediction method, apparatus, and program and an automatic operation system that can secure safety even in situations that can actually occur are provided. For this purpose, a computer having a storage unit that stores the position of an object and the internal state including the speed of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20090024358 - Benchmarking correlated stream processing systems: A system, method, and computer program product for benchmarking a stream processing system are disclosed. The method comprises generating a plurality of correlated test streams. A semantically related data set is embedded within each of the test streams in the plurality of correlated test streams. The plurality of correlated test... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20090024359 - Portable modular industrial data collector and analyzer system: A multi-unit system is disclosed that is configured for hands-free transport to enable remote data collection and data processing for a complex machine system or plethora of rotating machinery. In one embodiment, the system may include a sensor, a portable processing unit, and a hand-held unit that is physically separate... Agent: Fletcher Yoder Law (for Rockwell Automation)

20090024360 - Determination of chemical or pysical properties of sample or component of a sample: The present invention offers an alternative strategy for the correlation of interference information to chemical and/or physical properties of a sample. This strategy can be implemented in a method and a system, which offer substantial technical and commercial advantages over state of the art techniques based on interference spectroscopy. The... Agent: Merchant & Gould Pc

20090024361 - Miniature measuring device: e

20090018774 - Real time environmental measurement and reporting system for navigable waterways and method of use: COTS devices are integrated into a system employing custom software and custom hardware and software interfaces to collect and communicate data concerning current flows around fixed structure (e.g., inland locks, bridges, harbor structures, etc.) in various bodies of water (e.g., inland waterways, harbors, canals, etc.). Embodiments comprise: sensors and communications... Agent: Humphreys Engineer Center Support Activity Attn: Cehec-oc

20090018775 - Geosteering in earth formations using multicomponent induction measurements: A multicomponent induction logging tool is used on a MWD bottomhole assembly. Multifrequency focusing that accounts for the finite, nonzero, conductivity of the mandrel is applied. Using separation of modes, the principal components and a direction of a conductivity tensor are determined. The results are used for reservoir navigation in... Agent: Madan, Mossman & Sriram, P.C.

20090018779 - Flexible glucose analysis using varying time report deltas and configurable glucose target ranges: A diabetes data management system selects variable threshold parameters to that are utilized in a report. A first low threshold glucose reading and a first high threshold glucose reading for a before meal event timeframe are selected. A second low threshold glucose reading and a second high threshold glucose reading... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20090018778 - Method related to gestation periods: The present invention relates generally to a method for estimating the time elapsed within a gestation period of a pregnant or potentially pregnant ruminant, such as a cow. The method involves estimating the time elapsed within a gestation period of a pregnant or potentially pregnant ruminant, including the steps of... Agent: Technology Law, PLLC

20090018776 - System and method for normalizing data in nucleic acid amplification procedures: The present invention provides systems and methods for normalizing data in nucleic acid amplification procedures. In general, the methods include: obtaining input from a user regarding a number of normalizer measurements to use in calculations; obtaining raw fluorescence measurements of one or more probe(s) over multiple cycles of the procedure;... Agent: Agilent Techologies Inc

20090018777 - Systems and methods for predicitng ligand-protein binding interactions: The present invention relates to systems and methods for determining a candidate molecule's ability to bind a target protein comprising calculating a score for the candidate molecule, wherein the score is a function of a position of the candidate molecule relative to a field of distribution densities on a three-dimensional... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20090018780 - Hazardous substance release notification system: Disclosed herein is a method and system for obtaining information on contaminants in ambient air. Multiple detection systems sample the ambient air for the contaminants in real time. Each of the multiple detection systems analyzes contaminants for hazardous substances. The multiple detection systems transmit information on the hazardous substances to... Agent: Ashok Tankha

20090018781 - System for determining the wear state of a machine tool: The invention relates to a system for determining the wear state of a machine tool. It has a machine tool with a controller, a production control computer and the tool database via a respective data connection. Said simulation computer, by means of a simulation process, while taking into account actual... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090018782 - Gas appliance judgment apparatus and method: According to the present invention, the type of gas appliance in use can be identified and a gas leak can be detected, efficiently and accurately. The flow volume data noise removal means 21 removes noise from the instantaneous flow volume data measured by the flow volume measurement means 11, and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090018783 - Method for acquisition and processing of an intake pressure signal in an internal combustion engine without an intake manifold: Method of acquisition and processing of an intake pressure signal in an internal combustion engine without an intake manifold; the internal combustion engine having at least one cylinder that receives fresh air through an intake duct, which is controlled by a butterfly valve and is provided with a pressure sensor... Agent: Mitchell P. Brook Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP

20090018784 - Method of estimation of the pressure drop between two sections of the exhaust line of an internal combustion engine: A method is provided for estimating a pressure drop (Δp) between two sections of an exhaust line of an engine, such as a diesel engine. The method includes, but is not limited to the steps of measuring a fresh air flow rate ({dot over (m)}a) into the engine, measuring a... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (gme)

20090018785 - Model-based determination of power source replacement in wireless and other devices: A model-based system and method for analyzing power source performance and optimizing operational costs are provided. Data from the power source (such as a battery) and/or a device associated with the power source is analyzed and processed to predict an operating life of the power source. This could allow, for... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090018786 - Interferometric iterative technique with bandwidth and numerical-aperture dependency: An interferometric intensity equation includes parameters that depend on bandwidth and numerical aperture. An error function based on the difference between actual intensities produced by interferometry and the intensities predicted by the equation is minimized iteratively with respect to the parameters. The scan positions (i.e., the step sizes between frames)... Agent: Antonio R. Durando

20090018787 - Apparatus and method for determining the slew rate of a signal produced by an integrated circuit: Determining a slew rate of a signal from an integrated circuit under test by comparing the signal with a first reference voltage, comparing the signal with a second reference voltage different from the first reference voltage, generating an output pulse having a pulse width indicative of a slew rate of... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20090018788 - Normalization of process variables in a manufacturing process: A method of monitoring and controlling a manufacturing process is described. The value of a process variable is measured and treated. A measurement-based value is normalized using a normalization parameter associated with the process variable. Instances in which the normalized value fails to satisfy an acceptance criterion are identified so... Agent: Murabito Hao & Barnes LLP

20090018789 - Image auto-calibration method and system: An image auto-calibration method for an image capture device having an image sensor is provided. The method includes the steps of receiving an image matrix; transforming the image matrix into an image signal via the image sensor; generating n first sampling pulses and n second sampling pulses in response to... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090018790 - Encoder apparatus and calibration method of the same apparatus: An encoder apparatus to measure a position of an object from an input analogue signal includes a driving plate which varies according to the position of the object, an optical device to receive a light response from the driving plate and to output a sinusoidal wave analogue signal according to... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090018791 - Calibration of the fundamental and harmonic once-around velocity variations of encoded wheels: A method of calibrating once-around and harmonic errors of encoded nips is provided. An encoder with an index pulse is used to measure the velocity and rotation of the driven wheel or idler. The geometry of the drive train and wheel and idler is chosen so that their once around... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20090018792 - System and method for calibrating a vending apparatus: A system and method for calibrating a vending apparatus is provided. A vertical base reference position of a selector arm is stored, wherein the vertical base reference position corresponds to one of a plurality of rows in a cylindrical storage device. A horizontal base reference position is stored, wherein the... Agent: Neal, Gerber, & Eisenberg

20090018793 - Method and system for reducing device test time: A system and method for reducing device test time are disclosed herein. A method for reducing device test time includes applying a linear program solver to select a first set of tests for testing a device from a second set of tests for testing the device. The first set of... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090018794 - 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 can be calculated based on... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090018795 - Muscle training appratus and method: The invention is directed to a muscle trainer and methods for exercising a weaker of two sets of opposing muscles of a person moving an implement, such as a golf club, wherein, if the two sets of opposing muscles were of appropriate strength, the two sets of opposing muscles would... Agent: Luedeka, Neely & Graham, P.C.

20090018796 - Project calculator with integral distance measurement sensor: A project calculator, including a housing, a circuit board mounted within the housing and including a processor, an input device connected to the circuit board and interfacing with the processor, an output device connected to the circuit board and interfacing with the processor, and a distance sensor rotatably mounted to... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090018797 - Measuring method, measuring apparatus and computer readable information recording medium: A measuring apparatus has a walking determining part configured to determine a walking state of a to-be-measured person, a moving state determining part configured to determine a moving state in a specific direction of the to-be-measured person, a measurement result output determining part configured to determine whether or not measurement... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090018798 - Method, data processing program and computer program product for time series analysis: Method, apparatus, and system, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for time series analysis, wherein the time series exhibit trend and/or seasonality. Model parameters of the time series data are determined by selecting and/or suggesting a most appropriate combination of trend and seasonality of the time series data... Agent: Mollborn Patents, Inc. Attn: Ibm

20090018799 - Signal baseline processing device and processing method thereof: A baseline processing device and method are provided for analyzing signals with uneven distributions of pulses and slow varying baselines. In one embodiment, the device includes an A/D sampling unit for sampling a digital counting signal to obtain sampled data, and a baseline extracting unit for sorting the N sampled... Agent: Mindray C/o Stoel Rives LLP

20090012710 - Device and method of measuring depth and azimuth: P

20090012711 - Vertical seismic profiling method utilizing seismic communication and synchronization: A while-drilling Vertical Seismic Profiling (VSP) data acquisition system utilizing the same seismic shots for three purposes is disclosed. First, the seismic shots provide a means for synchronizing a downhole clock in the VSP receiver to a master clock at the surface, thereby enabling correct determination of seismic travel times.... Agent: W. Allen Marcontell

20090012712 - Assisted seismic measuring system including gps receivers: A system for analyzing three-dimensional seismic data includes a plurality of digitizer units, each with a configuration of geophones, a data recording and control center, a base GPS receiver with an associated antenna with a substantially unrestricted view of the sky and at the respective digitizer units low-power slave GPS... Agent: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP Attn:IPDocketing

20090012716 - Diabetes-related biomarkers and methods of use thereof: The invention describes biomarkers which can be used to predict the likelihood that an individual will develop Diabetes. The biomarkers can also be used to screen large groups in order to identify individuals at risk of developing Diabetes.... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20090012717 - Method for determining drug-molecular combinations that modulate and enhance the therapeutic safety and efficacy of biological or pharmaceutical drugs: A method that creates a new class of pharmaceutical combinations (specific ratio combinations) that offer an improved therapeutic profile with reduced side effects is provided. Safer, more cost-effective drugs for treating various diseases or medical conditions are created by combining receptor activating, inhibiting or modulating drugs in specific ratio combinations... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20090012713 - Methods of assessing cognitive dysfunction: This invention relates to methods and means for assessing cognitive dysfunction, in particular impulsivity associated cognitive dysfunction, which may for example include Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), substance abuse, and non-toxic addictive/compulsive behaviour. A method may comprise displaying a population of elements to the individual and allowing the sequential selection... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090012718 - Nuclear medicine diagnosis apparatus and diagnostic system used thereto: The function of an accumulated amount deriving part 14 can obtain the variation with time of the accumulated amount in the subject based on the radiopharmaceutical in a condition being separated for each radiopharmaceutical, that is, the second variation with time that is a function of the accumulated amount using... Agent: Cheng Law Group, PLLC

20090012715 - Prediction model of graft survival: Described are methods of predicting graft survival based on pre-transplant variables. A logistic regression (LM) and/or a tree-based model (TBM) are used to identify predictors of graft survival and to generate prediction algorithms. Both the logistic regression model and the tree-based model may be used in clinical practice for long... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20090012714 - Test of amino acid sequence constituting peptide using isotopic ratio: It is an object of the present invention, when determining and identifying an amino acid sequence of a peptide using MS, to obtain additional information from the MS for evaluating validity of an amino acid sequence in a candidate list outputted from an identifying engine. The present invention provides a... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090012720 - System and method for identification of microrna target sites and corresponding targeting microrna sequences: A method for determining whether a nucleotide sequence contains a microRNA binding site and which microRNA will bind thereto is provided. For example, in one aspect of the invention, a method for determining whether a nucleotide sequence contains a microRNA binding site and which microRNA sequence will bind thereto is... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090012719 - System and method for identification of synergistic interactions from continuous data: Systems and methods for selecting factors from a continuous data set of measurements are provided. The measurements include values of factors and/or outcomes. Two or more factors that are jointly associated with one or more outcomes from the data set are identified. Each of the two or more factors are... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090012721 - Fluorescence detecting device and fluorescence detecting method: A fluroescene detecting device irradiates an object to be measured with a laser beam, receives fluroescene generated from the object and processes a fluorescence signal generated when receiving the fluroescene. The device includes a laser light source section outputting the laser beam for irradiating the object, a light receiving section... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20090012722 - Method for evaluation of performance of percolation tanks using environmental chloride as a tracer: Naturally present chloride concentration in natural water is utilized for the development of the technique to gauge the performance of percolation tanks in space and time. The chloride mass balance technique is simple, sensitive, reliable and yet powerful enough to resolve the temporal variation due to the effect of silting... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090012723 - Adaptive method for outlier detection and spectral library augmentation: A method for analyzing data from an unknown substance, whereby target data representative of an unknown substance is received and compared to reference data associated with one or more known substances. Such comparison determines one or more candidate substances. After determining candidate substances, it is determined if the target data... Agent: Chemimage Corporation

20090012724 - Method and apparatus for the determination of a strain for a wind energy plant: A method for the determination of a strain of a wind energy plant (30), with the following steps: presetting an assignment code, which assigns a characteristic value (K) for the strain of the wind energy plant to each pair of variates of a value for a wind velocity and a... Agent: Vidas, Arrett & Steinkraus, P.A.

20090012725 - Determining a point of application of force on a surface element: The invention discloses a system for determining at least one point of application of force on a surface element. The system comprises a surface element (102, 202) having an effective mass, at least one sensor (104, 204) configured to measure force applied on the surface element (102, 202) at least... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20090012726 - Method for detecting fault in leakage inspector, leakage inspector: In a calibration step, air is sealed in a first device serving as a reference device; a pressure change B1 in the first device at a point elapsed a predetermined period of time from the air sealing, and a pressure change B2 at a point further elapsed the predetermined period... Agent: Gallagher & Lathrop, A Professional Corporation

20090012727 - Detecting partial discharge in high voltage cables: A method for detecting partial discharge events comprising analysing an output from the cable using one or more substantially shift invariant wavelet transforms, and using the analysed signal to identify one or more peaks associated with a partial discharge. Preferably, the shift invariant transform is a stationary wavelet transform (SWT).... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090012728 - System and method for multi-rate concurrent waveform capture and storage for power quality metering: Systems and methods are provided for use in an IED that perform high resolution waveform capture to generate multi-rate waveform data in real-time. In one embodiment, high-resolution sampled data is dynamically pre-ordered into separate high resolution and low resolution data streams for presentation and storage. This pre-ordering of data is... Agent: Electro Industries/ Gaugetech C/o Casella & Hespos, LLP

20090012729 - Light receiving apparatus, testing apparatus, light receiving method, testing method, test module and semiconductor chip: An optical receiving apparatus that receives an optical signal and outputs a data value of digital data transmitted by the optical signal is provided, including a light receiving element that receives the optical signal and outputs a photocurrent according to a strength of the optical signal, a present cycle integrator... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090012730 - Method and apparatus for matching test equipment calibration: A method includes collecting trace data associated with a plurality of device testers. Tester health metrics are generated for each of the device testers. The tester health metrics are analyzed to identify a selected tester health metric that diverges from the plurality of tester health metrics. A corrective action is... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20090012731 - Method and device for calibration of digital sun sensor: A method for calibration of a digital sun sensor is disclosed. The method comprises following steps. First, an integrated mathematic model for imaging of a sun sensor is established according to the external and internal parameters of the calibration system of the sun sensor. Next, the two axis of the... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090012732 - Methods and systems for detrending signal intensity data from chemical arrays: Methods, systems and computer readable media for removing trends in signal intensity values from features on a chemical array. Inputted signal values from features on the array are surface fitted to calculate a surface approximation. The surface approximation is normalized and used to de-trend the signal intensity values from the... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20090012733 - Offset correction program and electronic compass: When an external magnetic field is applied to a sensor unit 12 for various causes, a characteristics curve does not pass through an intersection point of resistance (voltage) and a magnetic field and is offset. That is, an offset voltage (Roff) occurs. In the present invention, in order to determine... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP

20090012734 - Method and device for calibration of digital celestial sensor: A method for calibration of a digital celestial sensor is disclosed. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, an integrated mathematic model for imaging of a celestial sensor is established according to external and internal parameters of the calibration system of the celestial sensor. Secondly, by rotating two axes of... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090012735 - Device for determining a rotational speed about the vertical axis of a vehicle: According to the invention, a radiation sensor is provided for sensing an angle of a preceding vehicle located in the region ahead of the vehicle relative to the vehicle, the data from the radiation sensor being supplied to the signal evaluation means in order to sense the angle and being... Agent: Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery

20090012736 - Magnetic resonance system and method for spatially-dependent adjustment of system parameters: A method for spatially-dependent adjustment of system parameters of a magnetic resonance apparatus given continuous movement of an examination subject through a measurement volume of the magnetic resonance apparatus includes the following steps: (a) starting a measurement in the measurement volume of the magnetic resonance apparatus with a system parameter... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20090012737 - Method and apparatus for correlating test equipment health and test results: A method includes collecting trace data associated with a first device tester. A tester health metric is generated for the first device tester. At least one device tested by the first device tester is retested responsive to determining the tester health metric violates a predetermined threshold.... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20090012738 - Measurement of air quality in wireless networks: A system for measuring air quality in wireless networks. In particular implementations, a method includes computing an interference severity level for a plurality of interference sources detected at an access point; aggregating one or more of the computed interference severity levels relative to the access point; and computing an air... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090012739 - Method for determining power semiconductor temperature: A method for determining power semiconductor operating temperatures uses a database of measured temperatures. Each temperature is associated with operating conditions and determined by laboratory testing in an environment indicative of operation of the power semiconductors actual operations.... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20090012740 - Method for determining the wheel position in a vehicle: In a method for determining the wheel position in a vehicle, phase-shifted sensor signals of one wheel are evaluated, the position of the wheel on the left or right side of the vehicle being ascertained based on the algebraic sign of the phase shift.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090012741 - Location device with a gravity measuring device: A location device has a gravity measurement instrument in communication with a database which has the locations relative to time of an astronomical object. The location device also has a timepiece indicating the time which may be used to determine the location of the astronomical object.... Agent: Tyson J. Wilde Novatek International, Inc.

20090012742 - Energy based position and speed self-sensing method and apparatus for synchronous machine: An envelope of a voltage may be extracted using an operator to calculate a position and speed of a rotor. A position and speed sensing method may include supplying voltage to a rotor, extracting an envelope of the voltage using an operator, and calculating a rotor angle of the rotor... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090012743 - Surface measurement instrument: A surface measurement instrument (1) for obtaining surface characteristic data of a sample surface (13) is described. Relative movement between a reference surface (11) and a sample support (15) is caused to occur while a sensor (16) senses light intensity at intervals along a scan path (SP) to provide a... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090012745 - Nuclear detection via a system of widely distributed low cost detectors: A radiation detection system includes many receivers to continuously receive radiation emission data from at least some of a sufficient density of dispersed detectors capable of communicating geo-positions and photon emission counts over a network; the data includes gamma intensities, time stamps, and geo-positions. A processor builds digital image data... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090012744 - System and method for statistically evaluating the operation of integrated circuit fabrication tools: For use with a manufacturing facility that carries out a plurality of processes, including a test process, to manufacture products, a plurality of alternative, equivalent tools being associated with each of the plurality of processes, a statistical evaluation system and a method of statistically evaluating the manufacturing facility. In one... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090012747 - Multiple line width electromigration test structure and method: Apparatus and methods pertaining to examining electromigration lifespan are disclosed. In one aspect, a method of manufacturing is provided that includes forming a test structure on a semiconductor substrate. The test structure includes a first conductor structure that has a first cross-sectional area and a second conductor structure that has... Agent: Timothy M Honeycutt Attorney At Law

20090012746 - Predicting sand-grain composition and sand texture: A method and apparatus for predicting sand-grain composition and sand texture are disclosed. A first set of system variables associated with sand-grain composition and sand texture is selected (605). A second set of system variables directly or indirectly causally related to the first set of variables is also selected (610).... Agent: J. Paul Plummer Exxonmobil Upstream Research Company

20090012748 - Suppressing repeated events and storing diagnostic information: Events that repeatedly occur during a detection period are intercepted and suppressed before being written to a log. When the same error has been detected a predetermined number of times within the detection period, the event logging for the event is suppressed for a suppression period. At the end of... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090005989 - Inspection systems and methods for multi-segment products: Inspection systems and methods for their use are described, wherein the systems comprise: a movable carrier having a plurality of spaced receptacles, each spaced receptacle sized to accept a sample; a first pin positioned proximate to the movable carrier and connected to a first movable member capable of reciprocally moving... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20090005990 - Method and system for estimating an agricultural management parameter: A system and method for estimating agricultural parameters for growing crops is well suited for promoting efficient utilization of agricultural inputs (e.g., water consumption). Sensors collect data via one or more vehicles equipped with location-determining receivers. A transmitter transmits the collected environmental data to a data processing system. The data... Agent: Deere & Company

20090005991 - Method for initializing receiver channels in a cement bond logging tool: A method for initializing the input of each of m receiver channels of a receiving transducer in a well logging tool comprising the steps of selecting a logging tool having a multi-element receiving transducer wherein each element of the multi-element receiving transducer operates in an anti-resonant mode below its resonant... Agent: Whitaker, Chalk, Swindle & Sawyer, LLP

20090005993 - Characterizing an earth subterranean structure by iteratively performing inversion based on a function: To characterize an earth subterranean structure using a measurement assembly including electromagnetic (EM) receivers and one or more EM sources, measured voltage data collected by EM receivers in response to transmission by one or more EM sources is received. Based on a model, predicted EM data is computed. Inversion is... Agent: Schlumberger Oilfield Services

20090005992 - Method and system for removing effects of conductive casings and wellbore and surface heterogeneity in electromagnetic imaging surveys: Characterizing a reservoir with electromagnetic imaging surveys includes normalizing measured voltage data by transmitter moment, sorting the normalized voltage data into common receiver profiles, densely resampling transmitter locations using common positions for the receiver profiles, coarsely resampling the data at discreet transmitter locations, defining a starting model for inversion, weighting... Agent: Schlumberger Oilfield Services

20090005994 - Time lapse analysis with electromagnetic data: Method for determining time-dependent changes [73] in the earth vertical and horizontal electrical resistivity and fluid saturations from offshore electromagnetic survey measurements. The method requires both online and offline data, which should include at least one electromagnetic field component sensitive at least predominantly to vertical resistivity and another component sensitive... Agent: Exxon Mobil Upstream Research Company

20090005995 - Method and apparatus for characterizing and estimating permeability using lwd stoneley-wave data: Stoneley-wave data acquired in the LWD environment are used to characterize/estimate formation permeability. Real-time Stoneley-wave time-delay/slowness and center-frequency/attenuation data are used to indicate/characterize formation permeability even during drilling. The use of stabilizers mounted at the tool ends helps maintain the tool position from severe decentralization, reducing ambiguities in the permeability... Agent: Madan, Mossman & Sriram, P.C.

20090005996 - Method of estimating the permeability of a fracture network from a connectivity analysis: A method for optimizing the development of a fractured hydrocarbon reservoir wherein the network permeability is determined using a reliable compromise between numerical and analytical methods which has application to oil reservoir development. The reservoir is discretized into a set of grid cells and a geometrical description of the fracture... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090005997 - Method for spatial filtering of electromagnetic survey data: The method for suppressing noise in the controlled seismic source electromagnetic survey data based on the frequency content of the noise (51) contained in the data. The invention recognizes that some data variations across bins cannot be attributed to resistivity variations within the earth. This variation across the bins constitutes... Agent: Exxon Mobil Upstream Research Company

20090005998 - Manufacturing apparatus and device manufacturing method: A manufacturing apparatus includes a receiver which receives earthquake information containing the time at which earthquake vibration is expected to arrive at the manufacturing apparatus or information to predict the time, an acquisition unit which acquires status information indicating the status of the manufacturing apparatus, a countermeasure determination unit which... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090005999 - Limited radon transformations for removal of noise from seismic data: Methods of processing seismic data to remove unwanted noise from meaningful reflection signals are provided for. The methods comprise the steps of assembling seismic data into common geometry gathers in an offset-time domain without correcting the data for normal moveout. The amplitude data are then transformed from the offset-time domain... Agent: Keith B. Willhelm, Attorney At Law

20090006000 - Method for velocity analysis using waveform inversion in laplace domain for geophysical imaging: A Laplace transform system comprising a processor, a measured time domain wavefield, a velocity model, and Laplace damping constants, wherein the processor is programmed to calculate a substantially about zero frequency component of a Fourier transform of a time domain damped wavefield, wherein the time domain damped wavefield is damped... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20090006001 - Empirical quantitative approaches for psychiatric disorders phenotypes: Psychiatric phenotypes as currently defined are primarily the result of clinical consensus criteria rather than empirical research. A novel approach to characterizing psychiatric phenotypes is presented herein, termed PhenoChipping. A massive parallel profiling of cognitive and affective state is done with a PhenoChip composed of a battery of existing and... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20090006002 - Comparative sequence analysis processes and systems: Provided herein are processes for rapidly identifying or determining sequence information in a sample nucleic acid by comparing sample nucleic acid sequence information to reference nucleic acid sequence information or information obtained from reference samples. Also provided are automated systems for conducting comparative sequence analyses.... Agent: Grant Anderson LLP C/o Portfolioip

20090006003 - Sample analyzer, blood analyzer and displaying method: The present invention is to present a sample analyzer which is capable of displaying a particle distribution map of a measured sample and a reference particle distribution map so as to be visually compared without reducing a display area for displaying information other than the particle distribution map. The blood... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090006004 - Method for determining the identity, absence and concentration of a chemical compound in a medium: (b2) at least one spectral analysis function B(λEX,λRES) is generated with the aid of the radiation (326) of the response wavelength λRES absorbed and/or emitted and/or reflected and/or scattered by the medium (312) in response to the second analysis radiation (318) of the wavelength λEX and the concentration c is... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090006005 - Method and device for on-line acoustic monitoring of foam and aerated fluid properties: where: Cfm—speed of sound in the foam, p—pressure, ρfl—fluid density, Γ—foam quality, N—polytrophic expansion coefficient (N=1 for isothermal process; N=1.4 for adiabatic process), in case of a foam composed of a perfect gas and a perfect fluid for cases, when the foam quality is supposedly much lower than ½ or... Agent: Schlumberger-doll Research Attn: Intellectual Property Law Department

20090006006 - Method and apparatus for determining an end of service life: A method and apparatus adapted to determine when an end of service life (EOSL) condition exists with respect to a unit under investigation (UUI) is provided. In one embodiment, for example, a method includes receiving data associated with a UUI. determining that the UUI has reached an EOSL condition in... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20090006007 - System and method for measuring machine rolling resistance: A method of measuring rolling resistance of a machine is disclosed. The method may include determining a drive axle torque value of the machine and calculating a total effective grade value using the drive axle torque value. The method may further include determining at least one drivetrain efficiency loss factor... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20090006008 - Apparatus and method for measuring liquid and gas flow rates in a stratified multi-phase flow: A method and apparatus for measuring a flow rate of a component of a stratified two-phase fluid flow within a substantially horizontally extending pipe is provided. The method includes the steps of: a) determining a first fluid velocity value and a second fluid velocity value within the pipe section; b)... Agent: Expro Meters, Inc.

20090006011 - Electromagnetic field distribution measuring method, apparatus for the method, computer program and information recording medium: Electromagnetic field distribution is measured by considering time variations of a measured electric and/or magnetic field value. In response to scanning performed with a probe at an arbitrary set of measurement coordinates in a predetermined measurement plane in the vicinity of an object to be measured, a signal is detected... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090006009 - Method and system for improving target localization and characterization: A method for determining a location and characterization of an object using a magnetic gradient tensor measurement of the object is provided. The method includes determining an object magnetic field candidate predicted from one of an object measured magnetic field gradient and an assumed object magnetic moment magnitude, and determining... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche (22697) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20090006010 - Method and system for remote monitoring and control of wireless cell-sites: A method and system for remotely monitoring and controlling one or more cell-sites are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes (a) receiving data indicative of a status of at least one battery of at least one cell-site at a remote processing device, where the status relates to at least... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090006012 - Power consumption analyzing apparatus and power consumption analyzing method: A power consumption analyzing apparatus has a clock gating cell detector configured to detect a clock gating cell which is not present in RTL data but present in a gate-level netlist based on the RTL data of a target circuit and the netlist corresponding to the RTL data, a test... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090006013 - Device and a method for estimating transistor parameter variations: A method and a device for estimating parameter variations of transistors that belong to the same circuit. The method includes: providing the first circuit; providing a test circuit adapted to perform a first function and a stacked test circuit adapted to perform a second function that substantially equals the first... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20090006015 - Method and apparatus for measuring current density in conductive materials: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for measuring a current density in a conductive material. The apparatus and method use an algorithm and an extension to the Fourier transform approach that allows transport currents to be treated accurately. Due to its speed, the resulting algorithm is ideally... Agent: Los Alamos National Security, LLC

20090006014 - Non-destructive electrical characterization macro and methodology for in-line interconnect spacing monitoring: A method for determining a line-to-line spacing of a device. The method includes experimentally determining a slope kCA, experimentally determining a slope kSE and determining a line-to-line spacing of a device from the slope kCA and the slope kSE. A structure for performing the method includes a non-destructive line-to-line spacing... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090006016 - System and method for detecting a weak signal in a noisy environment: Systems and methods are disclosed for computing a power spectral density of a signal. One such method computes a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) of a first signal segment and an FFT of a second signal segment. The first and second segments are adjacent and non-overlapping in time, and the second... Agent: U S Army Research Laboratory Attn Amsrl Cs Cc Ip

20090006017 - Methods for testing ophthalmic lenses: What has been developed is a method for testing ophthalmic plastic lenses and ophthalmic plastic lens-making processes for compliance with federal safety performance requirements. The method of the invention provides an easier, less costly, and more effective means for complying with these safety performance requirements than what current methods provide.... Agent: Ruden, Mcclosky, Smith, Schuster & Russell, P.A.

20090006019 - Method and device for inspection of drugs concealed in liquid articles: Disclosed are a method and a device for inspection of drugs concealed in liquid articles without opening the outer packages. The method comprises the steps of: emitting radiation beams to transmit through the liquid article; receiving the radiation beams transmitted through the liquid article to get multi-angle projection data; inversely... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20090006018 - Quality management system: A quality management system is provided, having a first workstation including a first graphical user interface configured to display information regarding at least one process and a second workstation located remote from the first workstation and including a second graphical user interface configured to display information regarding the at least... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20090006020 - Compass sensor unit and portable electronic device: In a compass sensor unit, an azimuth data computing method is carried out by the steps of: inputting a signal from a geomagnetic sensor to measure magnetic field; determining whether to store measurement data of the magnetic field based on a distance from the last stored measurement data; calculating an... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090006021 - Method and apparatus for implementing scaled device tests: A method includes defining a hierarchy of test routines in a test program for testing integrated circuit devices. A first device is tested at a first screening level in the hierarchy. The first device is tested at a second detailed level in the hierarchy responsive to the first device failing... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20090006022 - Link transmitter swing compensation: To allow for reference current settings per multi-bit link (or alternatively, per apparatus), approaches for implementing closed-loop Tx swing control based on monitoring of a dummy circuit is provided herein.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20090006023 - Remote witness testing system: A master testing control system includes at least one remote computer with one or more communications lines for communicating over a communications network and a plurality of remote sensors, a two way real-time digital video system, a two-way real-time digital audio system. A set of instructions is on each remote... Agent: K.m. Rylander Rylander & Associates

20090006024 - Electromagnetic emissions stimulation and detection system: A system and method for detecting and identifying electronic devices based on their unintended electromagnetic emissions (“UEE”) signals is presented. During device classification, UEE signals are measured from a plurality of test devices and characteristic data is obtained from the UEE signal emitted from each test device. Using the characteristic... Agent: Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus PC

20090006025 - Detection apparatus and test apparatus: A detection apparatus is provided. The detection apparatus includes; a multi-strobe generating section that generates a plurality of strobe signals with phases different from one another; a plurality of acquiring sections each of which acquires a signal value of a signal under measurement at a timing of each of the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090006026 - System, apparatus and method for monitoring accumulation of fluids in a containment tank: A system and method for monitoring accumulation of fluids in a containment tank is provided. The system may be operable to and method may function to prevent (i) fluids destined for an underground storage tank (“UST”) from entering into, diffusing into and/or contaminating the ground soil due to, for example,... Agent: Raymond R. Moser Jr., Esq. MoserIPLaw Group

20090006027 - Automatic mattress selection system: A couple shopping for a mattress are helped to select a physiologically suitable mattress by a system which uses a questionnaire to elicit important information from the people. The questionnaire data is processed automatically, preferably in combination with physically measured data, to generate a recommendation of which available mattress system... Agent: Shoemaker And Mattare, Ltd

20090006028 - Motion detection apparatus and motion detecting method: A motion detection apparatus includes an acceleration sensor which detects acceleration generated by motion of an electronic device; a motion detecting section including a statistical processing section which calculates the average value of data provided from the acceleration sensor, calculates the difference between the average value and the last value... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - IBM Arc Division

20090006029 - Shoes and garments employing one or more of accelerometers, wireless transmitters, processors altimeters, to determine information such as speed to persons wearing the shoes or garments: A shoe is improved by including: at least one accelerometer for generating acceleration signals and a processor configured to process the acceleration signals to determine one or both of speed and distance traveled of a person wearing the shoe. A shoe and a garment are provided with a wireless transmitter,... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090006030 - Methods for estimating location using signal with varying signal speed: Robust methods are developed to provide bounds and probability distributions for the locations of objects as well as for associated variables that affect the accuracy of the location such as the positions of stations, the measurements, and errors in the speed of signal propagation. Realistic prior probability distributions of pertinent... Agent: Louis J. Hoffman, P.C.

20090006031 - Combination laser and photogrammetry target: The invention relates to the use of one or more targets in measuring surfaces. Each of the one or more targets may comprise a first portion adapted to reflect a laser beam towards a laser tracking device, and a second portion adapted to reflect a light beam towards a photogrammetry... Agent: Wildman Harrold Allen & Dixon LLP And The Boeing Company

20090006032 - Time of flight: First and second devices (7, 8) are configured to transmit and receive signals wirelessly and have first and second clocks respectively for determining signal transmission and arrival times. The first device transmits first and second signals (9, 10) and the second device transmits a third signal (11). By introducing a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090006034 - Method and apparatus for providing data processing and control in a 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

20090006033 - Testing electronic systems: An imaging system comprises a local processing unit with a plurality of components or subsystems, which for the purposes of illustration comprise five variously interconnected components or subsystems, 113, 123, 133, 143, 153. Some or all of the subsystems, 113, 123, 133, 143, 153, are adapted to generate test signals.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090006035 - Closed-loop diagnostic system: Problem diagnostics may be obtained from components that log messages using a unique component identifier which is provided within each message so as to enable routing of callbacks to the component that originated the message. Similarly, problem diagnostics may be obtained from components that generate alerts, where the alerts contain... Agent: Marcia L. Doubet Law Firm

20090006037 - Accurate benchmarking of codecs with multiple cpus: An accurate and simple benchmarking method for multiple processor systems. Instead of a central timer as used in the prior art, a counter is implemented in each processor that counts the processor's clock cycles. The counter may be read after the processor's completes a benchmark task. This eliminates the timing... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090006036 - Shared, low cost and featureable performance monitor unit: The present invention related to computer architecture, and more specifically to evaluating performance of processors. A performance monitor may be placed in an L2 cache nest of a processor. The performance monitor may monitor L2 cache accesses and receive performance data from one or more processor cores over a bus... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20090006038 - Source segmentation using q-clustering: A system and method that facilitates and effectuates accurate source segmentation of multi-dimensional signals in a computationally efficient manner. By employing Queyranne's algorithm along with a model for combining adjacent multidimensional elements of signal into locally consistent regions, significant improvement in time to identify an optimal segmentation can be achieved.... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP