Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing inventions 05/09

20090138202 - Method and apparatus for imaging bed boundaries using azimuthal propagation resistivity measurements: A method for imaging a geologic deposit using data collected from a borehole includes: selecting an instrument for performing electromagnetic (EM) measurements, the instrument including at least one transmitter and at least one orthogonally oriented receiver; obtaining EM measurement data from the borehole with the instrument; transforming the EM measurement... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP- Baker Atlas

20090138207 - Glucose meter system and monitor: A handheld portable glucose meter, includes a glucose sensor having a sensor output related to glucose in a blood sample on a blood glucose test strip. A display is configured to display information to a user. The handheld portable glucose meter maintains information related to a depletion of a supply... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20090138208 - Immunoglobulin g binding pocket: The present invention relates to a human IgG binding pocket comprised of a first interacting surface, which originates from an IgG κ light chain, and a second interacting surface, which originates from an IgG heavy chain, which amino acids are strictly conserved between human IgGs of κ-type. The invention also... Agent: Ge Healthcare Bio-sciences Corp. Patent Department

20090138205 - Optimized method for lid biosensor resonance detection: An optical interrogation system is described herein that can interrogate a label-independent-detection (LID) biosensor and monitor a biological event on top of the biosensor without suffering from problematical parasitic reflections and/or problematical pixelation effects. In one embodiment, the optical interrogation system is capable of interrogating a biosensor and using a... Agent: Corning Incorporated

20090138204 - Single nucleotide polymorphisms sensitively predicting adverse drug reactions (adr) and drug efficacy: Provided are diagnostic methods and kits including oligo and/or polynucleotides or derivatives, including as well antibodies determining whether a human subject is at risk of getting adverse drug reaction after statin therapy or whether the human subject is a high or low responder or a good a or bad metabolizer... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090138206 - System of analyzing protein modification with its band position of one-dimensional gel by the mass spectral data analysis and the method of analyzing protein modification using thereof: The present invention relates to a method of analyzing protein modification. The method of invention for analyzing protein distribution and characteristics on one-dimensional gel provides the way to analyze proteins of samples on one-dimensional gel quantitatively and provides information on interactions among proteins and further can be effectively used for... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20090138203 - Systems and methods for using molecular networks in genetic linkage analysis of complex traits: The present disclosed subject matter relates to methods of using molecular networks in whole genome genetic linkage analysis of complex inherited disorders, including determining gene-specific linkage probability values for one or more genes represented in a predetermined molecular interaction network. The present disclosed subject matter further relates to methods of... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090138209 - Prognostic apparatus, and prognostic method: A computer-readable storage medium storing a program causing a computer to execute, (a) extracting prediction factors from gene expression data, (b) predicting based on gene expression data of a patient to be prognosticated, whether expression levels of the prediction factors of the patient are similar to the expression levels of... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090138210 - Fog detector and method of placing detector in vehicle: A light emitting element and a light receiving element is placed in such a manner that the light axis of a light emitting element constructing a light emitting circuit and the light axis of a light receiving element constructing a light receiving circuit cross each other. The light pathway length... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090138211 - Method and apparatus for determination of the life consumption of individual components in a fossil fuelled power generating installation, in particular in a gas and steam turbine installation: There is described a method for prior determination of a life consumption of individual components in a fossil-fuelled power generating installation, with respect to a load cycling process to be carried out. An apparatus can be provided for prior determination of a life consumption of individual components in a fossil-fuelled... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090138212 - State grasping device and open/closure controller having this state grasping device: An object of the present invention is to obtain a high-accuracy condition-monitoring device of low cost and small size, and to obtain a switch-control device provided with such condition-monitoring device. A condition-monitoring device of the invention, which is provided in an electromagnetic actuator including a stationary core, a moving core,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090138214 - Process for the determination of the correct fuel flow rate to a vehicle engine for carrying out diagnostic tests:

20090138213 - Systems and methods for the determination of active constraints in a network using slack variables: Systems and methods for determining active constraints in a surface facility network, which include the use of slack variables and multipliers in system equations to eliminate the extraneous (inactive) constraints.... Agent: Crain, Caton & James

20090138215 - Photoacoustic doppler flow sensing and imaging: A method for measuring a fluid flow includes employing small light-absorbing particles as tracers that flow at the same speed as the fluid, measuring the photoacoustic Doppler shifts of the photoacoustic signals produced by these tracer particles, and determining, from the measurements, information about the flow including one or more... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche (15060) Armstrong Teasdale, LLP

20090138216 - Static and ultrasonic methods for measuring compressibility and/or density of particles, including nanoparticles, in suspension: A method of measuring the compressibility, and/or the density, of small particles, and especially nano-particles, in suspension is described. The static method uses steady pressures and measures the d-c (static) compressibility of particles. The ultrasonic method utilizes an ultrasonic pulsed doppler system to measure the compressibility of particles at ultrasonic... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20090138217 - Test method and device for testing a plurality of rfid interposers: Method for testing a large number of RFID interposers in order to check their functionality by means of a test device (9a-9c, 10, 12). Each interposer includes at least one RFID chip (6) and at least two enlarged connection surfaces (7a, 7b) which are arranged on an interposer substrate (8)... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20090138218 - Correlating power consumption with cpu activity: Two or more sets of measurement data can be independently collected from causally related characteristics or elements. Such measurements can be synchronized with one another through the identification of a correct offset between their measurement data. An identification of the nature of the causal relationship between the measured characteristics can... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090138219 - Estimating power consumption of computing components configured in a computing system: Methods, apparatus, and products as disclosed for estimating power consumption of computing components configured in a computing system that include: selecting, by a power estimation module, a plurality of calibration datasets from a calibration dataset repository, each calibration dataset specifying calibration power consumption by one or more computing components in... Agent: Ibm (rps-blf) C/o Biggers & Ohanian, LLP

20090138220 - Power-aware line intervention for a multiprocessor directory-based coherency protocol: A directory-based coherency method, system and program are provided for intervening a requested cache line from a plurality of candidate memory sources in a multiprocessor system on the basis of the sensed temperature or power dissipation value at each memory source. By providing temperature or power dissipation sensors in each... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP IBM Austin

20090138221 - Magnetic winding and method of making same: The present invention provides an improved magnetic winding and method of calculating desired winding parameters (winding layer thickness, number of winding layers and number of turns per winding layer) for a winding in a magnetic component. The invention may be applied to general boundary conditions in a magnetic winding or... Agent: Phillips Lytle LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090138222 - S/n ratio measuring method in eddy current testing on internal surface of pipe or tube: e

20090138223 - On-line quality prediction system for stainless steel slab and the predicting method using it: Disclosed is an on-line quality prediction system for stainless steel slab and the predicting method using it, which can allow produced slab quality to predict in high precision on the on-line using a network based system by collecting all operation data available from a steel making process to a continuous... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090138225 - Methods and apparatuses for calibrating sensors: Methods and apparatuses to perform calibration of imprecise sensors for power monitoring in a data-processing system are described. The system includes a load coupled to one or more sensors. An electronic load changes a first input signal through one or more sensors by a predetermined amount. A difference in an... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090138224 - Methods for improving accuracy of measurement and calibration of accelerometer parameters: A method is disclosed in this invention for calibrating an offset Voffset and sensitivity Vsensitivity for an accelerometer implemented in a level gauge having a known value of an offset angle θΔ and a known value of a relative angle between top-and-bottom surface θs. The method includes a step of... Agent: Bo-in Lin

20090138226 - Systems and methods for measuring non-linear characteristics of a power amplifier: A method for measuring non-linear characteristics of a power amplifier is described. A calibration waveform is calculated during a testing procedure period. Amplitude characteristics of the calibration waveform at the output of the power amplifier are measured during the testing procedure period. Phase characteristics of the calibration waveform at the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090138227 - Characterizing across-die process variation: Measurement of individual quiescent supply currents from multiple power supply pads located across a semiconductor die provides a means of characterizing across-die variation. A ratio is created by combining the individual pad supply current with the sum of all pad supply currents for a given die. An n-tuple is formed... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090138228 - Detection of airflow anomalies in electronic equipment: Thermal diagnostic systems and methods are provided for improved detection of airflow anomalies in a computer system. In particular, processor load is selectively increased to amplify the effects caused by any airflow anomaly that may be present in the computer system. Workload migration may be used to shift processor load... Agent: Ibm Corporation (ss/nc) C/o Streets & Steele

20090138229 - Power line temperature and sag monitor system: The combination of a temperature sensor and an inclination sensor or the combination of a temperature sensor and a tension monitor properly positioned in conjunction with an energized electrical conductor produces outputs that are dependent on the conductor's average temperature in real time. A transmitter is used to communicate this... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20090138230 - System and method for identifying an element of a structure in an engineered environment: A system and method are provided in which an element of a structure may be reliably identified. For example, a system may include a part selection element configured to interact with at least one positional marker having a predefined location. The part selection element is also configured to select at... Agent: Alston & Bird, LLP

20090138231 - Inspection artifacts, systems and methods for fusing multi-modality inspection data: An inspection artifact includes a central portion and multiple optical and coordinate measurement machine (CMM) alignment features arranged on the central portion. The optical and CMM alignment features are configured to align the coordinates for an optical or a CMM measurement system to a common coordinate system. Another inspection artifact... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20090138232 - Moving body with tilt angle estimating mechanism: To provide a moving body with a tilt angle estimating mechanism capable of estimating a tilt angle of a vehicle body with high accuracy. A moving body according to the present invention is a moving body including: an acceleration sensor for detecting an acceleration in two axial directions; a gyro... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090138233 - Surveying instrument and method of providing survey data of a target region using a surveying instrument: A surveying instrument (11) comprises a telescope unit having imaging optics and an array of optical detector elements, orientation sensors detecting an orientation of the telescope unit, rotation drives for rotating the telescope unit about a horizontal and a vertical axis, a controllable distance-measuring unit, and a processing unit. The... Agent: Richard S. Milner Cooper & Dunham LLP

20090138234 - Impression foam digital scanner: This disclosure provides for an impression scanner system having improved calibration having a housing and a calibration plate of known geometry. The calibration plate has a plurality of different shapes thereon. The system also has a radiation source for emitting radiation towards the shapes on the plate and a surface... Agent: Paul D. Greeley, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20090138235 - Magnetic winding and method of making same: The present invention provides an improved magnetic winding and method of calculating desired winding parameters (winding layer thickness, number of winding layers and number of turns per winding layer) for a winding in a magnetic component. The invention may be applied to general boundary conditions in a magnetic winding or... Agent: Phillips Lytle LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090138236 - Method of predicting photoresist patterns defined by photomask patterns: A method of predicting photoresist patterns defined by a plurality of photomask patterns is described. The measurement data of photoresist patterns defined by patterns on a photomask that are arranged similar to the photomask patterns are provided. A physical optical kernel and a mathematical load kernel as a part of... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20090138237 - Run-time characterization of on-demand analytical model accuracy: A method of determining accuracy of predicted system behavior can include creating a plurality of noise adjusted analytical models, wherein each noise adjusted analytical model is associated with a set of predefined analytical model parameters. A set of inferred analytical model parameters for each noise adjusted analytical model can be... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20090138238 - Sequential fixed-point quantile estimation: Disclosed are method and apparatus for calculating a quantile estimate of a data stream. A quantile estimate is calculated iteratively by calculating a first quantile estimate and then calculating a second quantile estimate by adding a first update increment to the first estimate. A first observation sample is acquired. A... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ws Attn: Patent Docketing

20090138239 - Determining overall network health and stability: A network health analyzer that analyzes health of a computer network may be implemented in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. A network profile comprising an issue profile and one or more benchmarks appropriate for the network is determined. A set of numeric measures that is common to... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20090138241 - Analog sensors bus: The present disclosure concerns an architecture for the connection and the communication of a plurality of passive sensors to a common control/measurement system, using an analog communication bus made of two physical wires only, and a method for reading the same sensors.... Agent: Whirlpool Patents Company - Md 0750

20090138240 - Anti-terrorism water quality monitoring system: An Anti-Terrorism water quality monitoring system for continuously monitoring a potable water treatment system and related potable water distribution network that provides potable water to a municipality, city, housing development or other potable water consumer. The system includes the collection of data from the water distribution system and from the... Agent: Jagtiani + Guttag

20090132166 - Processing measurement data in a deep water application: To process subterranean survey data, measurement data is collected by a receiver positioned in deep water, where the collected measurement data is responsive to signals emitted by at least one signal source located at or near an air-water interface of the body of water. The measurement data is processed to... Agent: Westerngeco L.L.C. Jeffrey E. Griffin

20090132167 - Method of generation and meteorological system with progressive prediction of meteorological situations around a carrier: The invention relates to a method of generation with progressive prediction of data relating to the meteorological situation around a carrier. It comprises the steps of reading data relating to the speed of the carrier and to the cloud formations, steps of calculating for each cloud formation the geographical position... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20090132168 - Generating and updating true vertical depth indexed data and log in real time data acquisition: An invention for dynamically determining a trajectory of a drilled wellbore is provided. A method may include: receiving a piece of information including data converted from a measured physical characteristic of at least one of the wellbore or drilling the wellbore, the piece of information being relevant to determining a... Agent: Michael F. Hoffman Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090132169 - Methods and systems for evaluating fluid movement related reservoir properties via correlation of low-frequency part of seismic data with borehole measurements: A method for identifying a nature of formation contrasts that cause changes in seismic or sonic wave properties in a low-frequency range includes obtaining a selected property of a formation surrounding a borehole, wherein the selected property is at least one selected from the group consisting of a permeability and... Agent: Schlumberger Oilfield Services

20090132170 - Seismic data processing and visualization: A method of processing seismic data includes storing in a single file structure a first type of data representing an inline location, a second type of data representing a crossline location, and a third type of data representing at least one of a depth and time, said first, second and... Agent: Dla Piper LLP Us

20090132173 - Computing likelihood ratios using peak heights: Methods for comparing a first DNA profile with a second DNA profile are provided. The likelihood ratio for one hypothesis relative to another, as to the sources of the DNA, is conditioned on quantity of DNA in the test sample providing the first DNA profile and/or another sample providing the... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20090132172 - Methods for detecting and diagnosing low bone mass density: The invention encompasses methods of detecting and diagnosing low bone mass density. The method comprises, in part, obtaining nucleic acid expression data from a plurality of nucleic acid sequences, wherein at least one nucleic acid sequence is selected from the group consisting of ESR1, MAPK3, MECP2, PSTPIP1, SLA, STKL1, WNK1,... Agent: Polsinelli Shugart PC

20090132171 - Screening method for specific protein in proteome comprehensive analysis: A screening method for a specific protein in a proteome analysis comprises: (a) obtaining samples containing a protein or protein digest from a cell or tissue in a specific group and a control group; (b) analyzing the samples obtained in the step (a) with a mass spectrometer, thereby obtaining mass... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20090132174 - Seafood physical characteristic estimation system and method: Systems and methods for estimating a physical characteristic of a seafood product are provided. In one system, the estimate is based on a slope defined by a ratio of changes in peak resonant amplitude and frequency of an electromagnetic resonant circuit in loaded and unloaded states. In another system, a... Agent: Smart & Biggar P.o. Box 2999, Station D

20090132176 - Method and system for tracking and managing destruction, reconstitution, or reclamation of regulated substances: Various embodiments of methods and systems described herein relate to tracking and/or managing the destruction, reconstitution, or reclamation of regulated substances, including, in certain embodiments, tracking the associated GHG emissions and carbon valuation.... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing - Intellectual Property

20090132175 - Replenishment method for an advanced coating removal stripping solution: A method for calculating the amount of solution components to add to an advanced coating removal (ACR) stripping solution in a coating removal stripping bath to replenish and recover stripping potential. The stripping effectiveness may be restored by the addition of only the primary acid of the composition of acids... Agent: Ge Energy General Electric C/o Ernest G. Cusick

20090132177 - Detection arrangements and systems: A detection system has several conventional computers (1, 2, 3) with one or two IMS detectors (20, 21) mounted in their PCI slots (18, 19). The sieve packs (26, 27) of the detectors (20, 21) may be mounted outside the detector casing itself and within the computer housing (10) so... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090132178 - Crystalline enoyl-(acyl-carrier-protein) reductase from heliobacter pylori: The present invention relates to novel drug targets for pathogenic bacteria. Accordingly, the invention provides purified protein comprising the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 4. The invention also provides biochemical and biophysical characteristics of the polypeptides of the invention.... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20090132179 - Enhanced rail inspection: Rail inspection is discussed that employs a monitor vehicle running on one or more tracks of a rail system that performs physical rail inspection in combination with monitoring and analysis of other system parameters that accompany the physical rail.... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20090132180 - Fault detector and method of detecting faults: A fault detector for detecting valve movement of a valve in a fuel injector of an engine system, the valve comprising an electromagnetic actuator arranged to move the valve between first and second valve positions during a valve cycle, the engine system comprising a sensor for sensing a current through... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20090132181 - System and method for detecting flaws in welded tubulars: The system provides first and second sensor assemblies and processor that work in cooperation to detect flaws in welded tubulars. The first sensor detects and provides an indication of the weld line to the processor, which analyzes the indication and determines the approximate location of the weld line along the... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20090132182 - Method for determination of mean engine torque: The invention relates to a method for producing a value T being representative of the mean engine torque generated on a crank-shaft of an internal combustion engine, comprising the steps of producing a speed vector including values being representative of instantaneous speeds of the engine during a sampling period, determining... Agent: Wrb-ip LLP

20090132183 - System and method for monitoring structures: A technique facilitates the monitoring of elongate structures. An elongate structure is combined with an optical fiber deployed along the structure. An interrogation system is operatively joined with the optical fiber to input and monitor optical signals to determine any changes in parameters related to the structure.... Agent: Schlumberger Reservoir Completions

20090132184 - Flow rate estimation method of blood pump: In a flow rate estimation method of a blood pump, a general flow rate estimation formula which includes a correction term is formed based on a plurality of blood pumps. Measured data obtained from an objective blood pump implanted inside a patient is substituted into the correction term, thus forming... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090132185 - Leak inspection method and leak inspector: In a calibration mode, an equilibrium period after pressurized gas is sealed in a device under inspection and a reference tank is divided into two periods; pressure-difference changes ΔP1 and ΔP2 are measured when a first-half equilibrium period of duration T1 elapses and when a second-half equilibrium period of duration... Agent: Gallagher & Lathrop, A Professional Corporation

20090132186 - Method and system for reporting battery status based on current estimation: A charge stored in a battery is estimated by multiplying estimated charge currents supplied during charge phases and estimated discharge currents discharged during operational modes by the respective amounts of time of charging and discharge. The state of charge of the battery is calculated from the estimated stored charge. Furthermore,... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Cpa Global

20090132188 - Battery charge/discharge current detection apparatus: The battery charge/discharge current detection apparatus has a power supply circuit powered by a battery mounted on a vehicle and configured to detect a charge/discharge current of the battery by use of a current detecting resistor connected between a negative terminal of the battery and a ground. The battery charge/discharge... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090132187 - Systems and methods for analysis and design of radiating and scattering objects: Methods and apparatus for analysis and design of radiation and scattering objects are disclosed. In one embodiment, unknown sources are spatially grouped to produce a system interaction matrix with block factors of low rank within a given error tolerance and the unknown sources are determined from compressed forms of the... Agent: Patrick Stellitano

20090132189 - Method for determining plasma characteristics: Methods for determining characteristics of a plasma are provided. In one embodiment, a method for determining characteristics of a plasma includes obtaining metrics of current and voltage information for first and second waveforms coupled to a plasma at different frequencies, determining at least one characteristic of the plasma using the... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP - - Appm/tx

20090132190 - Method and apparatus for remotely buffering test channels: A system is provided to enable leakage current measurement or parametric tests to be performed with an isolation buffer provided in a channel line. Multiple such isolation buffers are used to connect a single signal channel to multiple lines. Leakage current measurement is provided by providing a buffer bypass element,... Agent: N. Kenneth Burraston Kirton & Mcconkie

20090132191 - System and method for zero resetting of a measuring machine: A method for zero resetting of a measuring machine is provided. A zero-reset instruction is received. A zero-reset direction S1 of a movable arm and a position where the limit switch is fixed on the shaft is set as a first trigger position. The zero-reset instruction is executed. A first... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090132192 - Measurement apparatus: A measurement apparatus of the present invention is a measurement apparatus 100 configured to measure a position of an object to be measured using a plurality of signals representing the position of the object to be measured. The measurement apparatus 100 includes a distortion correcting part 2 configured to generate... Agent: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP Attn:IPDocketing

20090132193 - Methods and apparatus for calibrating striation density models for materials: A method for generating a calibration for a striation density model with respect to a material includes the steps of generating a first relationship between a striation density and a depth of a crack in a specimen comprising the material, generating a second relationship between the striation density and the... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090132195 - Device and method for testing sensors: An apparatus and a method for testing of sensors for documents of value and a pertinent test medium. A test medium (1) having an electronic data memory (7) for data is provided, the data being used for testing the sensor (11). The data are transmitted from the test medium to... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090132194 - Method for function monitoring of a sensor: A method for monitoring sensor function comprises the following steps: repeatedly acquiring data records comprising sensor-specific calibration data; storing the acquired data records comprising sensor-specific calibration data; analyzing changes of the calibration data over time using the stored data records; and determining time or time weighted with a load factor... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090132196 - Virtual temperature measuring point: The invention relates to a method for determining a temperature profile and the integral mean temperature and/or axis temperature in a thick wall or shaft. In order to determine a mean integral wall temperature during heating or cooling processes in a multilayer model, the mean integral wall temperature is calculated... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090132197 - Activating applications based on accelerometer data: In some implementations, a computer-implemented method includes storing a plurality of acceleration profiles in a mobile device; receiving accelerometer data from an accelerometer in the mobile device; correlating the accelerometer data with one accelerometer profile in the plurality of accelerometer profiles; and activating a user application of the mobile device... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090132199 - Method for measuring the structural health of a civil structure: Methods are disclosed wherein the structural health of a civil structure, such as, but not limited to, a bridge or the like is measured by electronic distance measurement from a plurality of stable locations to a plurality of cardinal points on the structure in a methodical manner. By measuring the... Agent: David H. Parker

20090132198 - Mobile electronic apparatus and method for processing bearing of mobile electronic apparatus: The influence of a magnetic field on a geomagnetic sensor is detected to report a highly reliable bearing, and a 3D geomagnetic sensor (170A) is arranged at a position facing a magnet (190). An external magnetic field detection processing unit (160) detects the approach of the magnet (190) to the... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090132200 - Method and apparatus for calculating a distance in assembly operation: A method and apparatus for calculating distance in an assembly operation. The method comprises the steps of providing an assembly comprising a first part, a second part and driver means coupled to the first part. The driver means are arranged to selectively move the first part relative to the second... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20090132201 - Method and apparatus for measuring performance of a periodically changing system accomplishing a task: A device is disclosed to determine performance of a periodically changing system, to generate a performance diagram and to measure and display performance in said. The device further measures sufficiency, efficiency, and effectiveness, sufficiency reserves, efficiency reserves, and effectiveness reserves of the system during performance of tasks by comparison with... Agent: Horst Erhard Kunig

20090132203 - Computer product, apparatus, and method for system management: A system management apparatus includes a countermeasure-result evaluating unit that evaluates whether a countermeasure taken by a countermeasure taking unit has been solved, and that stores the result of evaluation in a countermeasure database to reflect the result to a criterion for selecting the countermeasure by a countermeasure determining unit... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090132202 - Method for turbine maintenance: A turbine and method for determining turbine maintenance. The method for determining hot gas path turbine maintenance comprises recording a number of part load starts (79), base load starts (89), fast starts (141), full speed no load trips (231), and load trips (237); forming a weighted equivalent starts as a... Agent: John B. Hardaway, Iii Nexsen Pruet

20090132204 - Disposable assay device with removables modules and remote data transfer system: Disposable assay device, comprising a carrier having a first carrier part (3) with a respective sample-receiving area (w) for receiving a sample to be tested, and having at least a second carrier part (9), the assay device being configured for transmitting assay data or information to a remote receiving system... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090132205 - Signal-driven recovery of a digital pulse stream: Provided is a method and system for signal-driven recovery of a digital pulse stream. The method includes receiving initial parameters including the base characteristics of a pulse signal, the characteristics including the maximum pulse interval. An incoming analog signal is converted to a digital signal and sampled a predetermined number... Agent: Lathrop & Gage LLP

20090132206 - System and method of eliminating interference for impurities measurement in noble gases: The invention provides a system and a method of eliminating interference for impurities measurement in noble gases based on emission spectroscopy which provide very stable, sensitive and interference free results. The method mainly relies on the use of a combination of particularly designed means serially connected for cancelling interferences and... Agent: Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20090132207 - Fast low frequency jitter rejection methodology: Disclosed is a system and related methodology for providing fast low frequency jitter rejection in the measurement of signals under test. A signal under test may be sampled alternately with a reference signal under similar conditions. The resulting sampled signal blocks may then be processed to subtract the known calibrated... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.A.

20090125238 - Method for mechanical and capillary seal analysis of a hydrocarbon trap: Method for making a probabilistic determination of total seal capacity for a hydrocarbon trap, simultaneously considering both capillary entry pressure and mechanical seal capacity, and where capillary entry pressure is estimated by relating it directly to the buoyancy pressure applied by the hydrocarbon column to the top seal. The method... Agent: Matthew T. Shanley (corp-urc-352)

20090125239 - Rock and fluid properties prediction from downhole measurements using linear and nonlinear regression: Measurements of fluorescence spectra of fluid samples recovered downhole are processed to give the fluid composition. The processing may include a principal component analysis followed by a clustering method or a neutral network. Alternatively the processing may include a partial least squares regression. The latter can give the analysis of... Agent: Madan, Mossman & Sriram, P.C.

20090125240 - Using microseismic data to characterize hydraulic fractures: Methods and apparatus that use microseismic event data, stress data, seismic data, and rock properties to predict the hydrocarbon production success of a well location are disclosed. An example method generates a hydrocarbon production function based on information associated with at least a first well location, obtains information associated with... Agent: Schlumberger Technology Corporation/osha Liang Mr. Bryan Galloway, ManagingIPCounsel

20090125243 - Apparatus and method for identifying the original femorotibial joint location in a revision knee replacement: An apparatus and method is disclosed of identifying the original femorotibial joint location in a revision knee replacement of a patient. The invention comprises selecting a first reference point (H) relative to the femoral head of the patient. A second reference point (A) is selected relative to the adductor tubical... Agent: Robert F. Frijouf Frijouf, Rust & Pyle, P.A.

20090125241 - Real time water analysis system for metals, chemicals, radiological and biological materials (cbrnme) within water: A method and water analysis system are provided to automatically, and without manual intervention, detect and identify contamination and/or hazardous material within one or more water samples from a potable and/or effluent water system. The method includes collecting a water sample from a potable and/or effluent water system; monitoring, in... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20090125242 - Tomographic phase microscopy: The present invention relates to systems and methods for quantitative three-dimensional mapping of refractive index in living or non-living cells, tissues, or organisms using a phase-shifting laser interferometric microscope with variable illumination angle. A preferred embodiment provides tomographic imaging of cells and multicellular organisms, and time-dependent changes in cell structure... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20090125244 - Broad-based neurotoxin-related gene mutation association from a gene transcript test: Broad-based genetic mutation association gene transcript test and data structure. Genetic mutation considerations for this unique test include a custom set of genetic sequences associated in peer-reviewed literature with various known genetic mutation related to exposure to toxic substances. Such genetic mutations include specific gene sequence alterations based on exposure... Agent: Igd Intel, LLC

20090125247 - Gene expression markers of recurrence risk in cancer patients after chemotherapy: The present invention relates to genes, the expression levels of which are correlated with likelihood of breast cancer recurrence in patients after tumor resection and chemotherapy.... Agent: Genomic Health, Inc. C/o Kathleen Determann

20090125246 - Method and apparatus for the determination of genetic associations: Procedure and tool to determine genetic associations. The method allows to identify, without the need for predictive hypothesis, genes that influence, either individually or preferably collectively, the appearance of any phenotypic trait shared by several groups of individuals; groups in each of which the characteristic appears in a different context... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20090125245 - Methods for rapid forensic analysis of mitochondrial dna: The present invention provides methods for rapid forensic analysis of mitochondrial DNA by amplification of a segment of mitochondrial DNA containing restriction sites, digesting the mitochondrial DNA segments with restriction enzymes, determining the molecular masses of the restriction fragments and comparing the molecular masses with the molecular masses of theoretical... Agent: Casimir Jones, S.c.

20090125248 - System, method and computer program product for integrated analysis and visualization of genomic data: Described is a system for analysis and visualization of genomic data. The system allows a user to select at least one individual sample. The sample has chromosomal data representing a genome with a chromosome and also includes chromosomal measurements of at least one event at a particular location on the... Agent: Tope-mckay & Associates

20090125249 - Abbreviated profile of drugs (a-pod): a unique numerical and graphical representation for compound properties and its use in admet prediction: A novel numerical and graphical representation has been developed to better comprehend the physicochemical, biological and pharmacokinetic properties of drug-like compounds. Abbreviated profile of drug (A-POD) would help in considering and visualizing the various compound characteristics as one entity. The salient features of A-POD are: a unique way of representing... Agent: Chaitanya N. Hiremath

20090125250 - Method and device for measuring the electrical conductivity and/or resistivity of a solution: An exemplary method for measuring the electrical resistance and/or electrical conductivity of solutions, includes: exciting the electrodes with a rectangular shaped, alternating current of a certain frequency fH through a connecting cable; synchronously rectifying a voltage of the electrodes of the measuring cell in response to the alternating current, calculating... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090125251 - Method for determining a force at the hub of a wheel of a vehicle while traveling and wheel suitable for allowing said method to be carried out: A method for determining the force at the hub of a wheel of a vehicle while traveling. The wheel includes a rim and at least one deformation sensor directly associated with the rim in at least one predetermined position and arranged according to at least one predetermined orientation. The method... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090125252 - Device for transmitting measured values: A device for transmitting measured values having a sensor module including miniaturized components and an evaluation unit, in which the sensor module has connections for different sensors, one or more sensors are connected to the sensor module, and the sensor detect operating states of a centrifugal pump arrangement including a... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090125254 - Methods, computer readable media, and graphical user interfaces for analysis of frequency selective surfaces: A frequency selective surface (FSS) and associated methods for modeling, analyzing and designing the FSS are disclosed. The FSS includes a pattern of conductive material formed on a substrate to form an array of resonance elements. At least one aspect of the frequency selective surface is determined by defining a... Agent: Traskbritt / Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC

20090125253 - Passive intermodulation test apparatus: In one aspect of the present invention there is provided a portable test apparatus 100 for a communications device/system said apparatus including, a display 103 for displaying test information from the communications device/system, a filter assembly 122 and a control assembly 124 comprising at least one printed circuit board and... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20090125255 - Methods and apparatus for measuring voltage and voltage phase angle on bpl line: An apparatus for measuring voltage in a broadband over power line system including a first load having a first predetermined impedance, and a second load having a second predetermined impedance. Wherein the apparatus is contained within a capacitor-based BPL coupler. Also a method of measuring a voltage and a phase... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090125256 - Monitoring apparatus for secondary battery: When the number of battery cells of a certain battery block is different from a reference number of cells, the inter-terminal voltage of the battery block is converted into the voltage corresponding to the reference number of cells. Thus, even when a plurality of battery blocks being different in the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090125257 - Compressor sensor module: A sensor module for a compressor, having an electric motor operating at a first voltage, the sensor module operating at a second voltage, is provided. The sensor module includes a plurality of inputs connected to a plurality of sensors that generate a plurality of operating signals associated with operating conditions... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090125258 - Scannable virtual rail ring oscillator circuit and system for measuring variations in device characteristics: A scannable virtual rail ring oscillator circuit and system for measuring variations in device characteristics provides the ability to study random device characteristic variation as well as systematic differences between N-channel and P-channel devices using a ring oscillator frequency measurement. The ring oscillator is operated from at least one virtual... Agent: Ibm Corporation (mh) C/o Mitch Harris, Attorney At Law, L.L.C.

20090125259 - Apparatus and methods of defining spectral regions of interest for signal analysis: Apparatus and methods are provided to allow multiple, possibly overlapping, regions of interest within a frequency spectrum to be defined, and managed. Each of these regions of interest may be selected for further testing or identification. Unselected regions are allowed to collapse into narrow bars so as not to interfere... Agent: Matthew D. Rabdau Tektronix, Inc.

20090125260 - Method and device for performing a frequency analysis of an ac voltage signal, in particular on a power grid: In a method for performing a frequency analysis of an AC voltage signal, in particular in a power mains, an upper limit of the period length of a fundamental oscillation in the AC voltage signal is determined. A sequence of sampling values of the AC voltage signal is obtained over... Agent: Henry M. Feiereisen Henry M. Feiereisen, LLC

20090125261 - Method for analyzing ac voltage signals: A method is disclosed for efficiently analyzing an AC voltage signal with a transformation which transforms the signal from a representation in the time-domain to a representation in the frequency-domain. This transformation can be a fast Fourier transform, a discrete Fourier transform or a Laplace transform. By selecting a higher... Agent: Henry M. Feiereisen Henry M. Feiereisen, LLC

20090125262 - Absolute duty cycle measurement method and apparatus: A method and apparatus for measuring the absolute duty cycle of a signal are provided. A non-inverted path from a signal source is selected and various DCC circuit setting indices are cycled through until a divider, coupled to the output of the DCC circuit, fails. A first minimum pulse width... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090125263 - High resolution time measurement in a fpga: Various techniques are described for high resolution time measurement using a programmable device, such as an FPGA. The timing may be triggered by any event, depending on the applications of use. Once triggering has occurred, a START pulse begins propagating through the FPGA. The pulse is able to propagate through... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20090125264 - Nonlinear measurement system error correction: A method for eliminating the systematic measurement errors from a measurement system, for example a vector network analyzer, such that an accurate representation of the behavior of a nonlinear device can be measured or characterized. The cross-frequency phase and absolute amplitude of the measured voltage waves applied to and emanating... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20090125265 - Method for calibrating a laser-based spherical coordinate measurement system by a mechanical harmonic oscillator: A method is disclosed whereby a laser-based spherical coordinate measurement system is dynamically calibrated. A mechanical oscillator, such as, but not limited to, a Foucault pendulum is used to generate periodic motions which can be fitted to Fourier series models. The residuals between the experimental measurements and the model can... Agent: David H. Parker

20090125266 - Apparatus for generating vehicle speed signal and method thereof: Disclosed is an apparatus for generating a vehicle speed signal that can minimize the number of arithmetic operations of an electronic control device. The apparatus includes a PG-B (Pulse Generator B) sensor that is mounted to an output shaft of an automatic transmission, and outputs pulses according to the rotation... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (sf)

20090125267 - Digital thermal sensor test implementation without using main core voltage supply: A method and apparatus are provided for calibrating digital thermal sensors. A processor chip with a plurality of digital thermal sensors receives an analog voltage. A test circuit coupled to the processor chip receives a clock signal and a register coupled to the test circuit outputs a value on each... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090125268 - Biosensor coding 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 applies test signals to a sequential conductive pattern on... Agent: Blanchard & Associates

20090125269 - Channel reconfigurable logic analyzer: A test and measurement instrument and a method of calibrating the test and measurement instrument including a reference signal generator; multiple input channels; and multiple input circuits. Each input channel is coupled to a corresponding input circuit; and one of the input circuits is coupled to the reference signal generator.... Agent: Thomas F. Lenihan Tektronix, Inc.

20090125271 - Analyzer: An analyzer includes a second memory enabled to memorize that control by a controller is for first area, the controller controls at least one of measurement, analysis and display to be for a first area when a second application program starts in a case where said second memory memorizes that... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090125270 - Method and apparatus for generating a test plan using a statistical test approach: A process for generating a set of tests for a system includes identifying a plurality of factors to use in a design of experiments (DOE) test, using each of the plurality of factors in the DOE, identifying, through the DOE testing, one or more factors which have a significant effect... Agent: Raytheon Company C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20090125272 - Method for analyzing circuit: A method for analyzing circuit comprises the steps of selecting a plurality of elements; sampling the selected elements, resulting in a plurality of sampling-parameter sets; simulating the sampling-parameter sets to generate a plurality of simulation-results, and process the regression operation for the sampling-parameter sets and simulation-results in order to acquire... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090125273 - Method and system for reducing errors in vehicle weighing systems: A method and system (10, 23) for determining vehicle weight to a precision of <0.1%, uses a plurality of weight sensing elements (23), a computer (10) for reading in weighing data for a vehicle (25) and produces a dataset representing the total weight of a vehicle via programming (40-53) that... Agent: Boyle Fredrickson S.c.

20090125274 - Sensor control: A system/method of controlling a sensor to sense one target from a plurality of targets includes predicting states of the targets. A set of probability distributions is generated. Each probability distribution in the set represents a setting or settings of at least one control parameter of the sensor. An expected... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090125275 - Method for determining temporal solar irradiance values: A method for generating temporal solar irradiance values for a selected area. Binary format hillshade files are generated for selected azimuth and altitude points on the Sun's path for selected time points for the area. Data in the hillshade files is reclassified into reclassified files, on basis of the selected... Agent: Lathrop & Gage Lc

20090125276 - Substrate processing apparatus checking method and storage medium: A substrate processing apparatus checking method that can simply and reliably check the transient response characteristics of a substrate processing apparatus. An analyzing apparatus reads and analyzes process data comprised of time-series data on a plurality of parameters relating to a process comprised of a plurality of steps carried out... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090125277 - Computerized predictive maintenance system and method: A computerized system for performing predictive maintenance on an item of equipment includes a desired configuration database, an actual configuration database and a data processor. The data processor determines if an actual configuration complies with a desired configuration. The data processor determines an upgrade requirement for upgrading the actual configuration... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090125278 - Sampling method for an asynchronous sensor and associated asynchronous sensor: A sampling method is for an asynchronous sensor, in which sensor data are read out from a sensor element at a sampling rate and written into an output register and subsequently read out from the output register at an output rate. The output rate of the output register is increased... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090125279 - Circuitry and methods for time domain channel de-embedding: In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a tester having de-embedding logic and analysis logic. The de-embedding logic is to receive a differential tester input signal in a time domain fashion and in response to the tester input signal to provide a differential de-embedded signal that is an estimate of a... Agent: Alan K. Aldous Intel Corporation

20090119018 - Subterranean formation properties prediction: A method for predicting subterranean formation properties of a wellsite. The method includes obtaining seismic data for an area of interest, obtaining an initial seismic cube using the seismic data, and obtaining a shifted seismic cubes using the seismic data, where each of the shifted seismic cubes is shifted from... Agent: Schlumberger Information Solutions

20090119021 - Method and apparatus for determining and displaying medical informations: The invention relates to a method for determining and displaying medical informations, in which rough measurement data collected with the aid of different medical measuring methods in at least one measurement interval on the same test subject are stored and in which evaluation data are extracted from the rough measurement... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090119020 - Pcr elbow determination using quadratic test for curvature analysis of a double sigmoid: Systems and methods for determining whether the data for a growth curve represents or exhibits valid or significant growth. A data set representing a sigmoid or growth-type curve, such as a PCR curve, is processed to determine whether the data exhibits significant or valid growth. A first or a second... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090119019 - Small molecule mimetics of erythropoietin: The invention features computer-assisted methods for identifying molecules which will bind to the EPO receptor and act as an erythropoietin (EPO) mimetic. Preferred EPO mimetics identified using the method of the invention act as agonists of the EPO receptor in one or more in vitro or in vivo biological assays... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090119022 - Emericella nidulans genome sequence on computer readable medium and uses thereof: The present invention relates to nucleic acid sequences from the filamentous fungus, Emericella nidulans (Aspergillus nidulans) and, in particular, to genomic DNA sequences. The invention encompasses nucleic acid molecules present in non-coding regions as well as nucleic acid molecules that encode proteins and fragments of proteins. In addition, proteins and... Agent: Arnold & Porter LLP

20090119023 - Product ecological and/or environmental rating system and method: Ecologically and/or environmentally conscious consumers and/or product manufacturers can “grade” the ecological and/or environmental character of products and/or their manufacturing methods. This grading may include one or more of: determining a type or amount of toxic material used in making the product and assigning a toxic consumption value for the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090119025 - Quantification and quality grading for carbon sequestered via ocean fertilization: Systems and methods for qualifying and quantifying carbon sequestered in the ocean following ocean fertilization events are disclosed. The system and methods can be used to accurately quantify amounts of carbon sequestered and the minimum periods of time before which the sequestered carbon returned to the atmosphere as CO2. The... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090119024 - Test system: A test system for measuring the concentration of an analyte in a biological fluid sample comprises: a plurality of test members (16) in a container (10), each test member (16) including reagent means for indicating the catalytic activity of an enzyme when in the presence of a biological fluid containing... Agent: O'keefe, Egan, Peterman & Enders LLP

20090119026 - Portable multi-ions sensing system and fabrication thereof: A portable multi-ions sensing system is provided. The sensing system includes: a sensing unit for sensing a pH value and a plurality of ion concentrations of a solution and outputting a sensing signal, wherein the sensing unit includes: a substrate; an ITO layer on the substrate; a sensing layer on... Agent: Wpat, PC

20090119027 - Method for identifying or characterizing properties of polymeric units: The invention relates to methods of identifying and characterizing properties of polymers to provide information about the polymer such as the charge of the polymer, the number and types or characteristics of units of the polymer and the sequence of the polymers. The invention also relates to methods of sequencing... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090119028 - Apparatus and method for determining air-kerma rate: An apparatus for determining the air-kerma rate of an x-ray device comprises a data obtaining component for obtaining data of the x-ray device, a calculation component for calculating the air-kerma rate from the obtained data, and an outputting component for outputting the calculated air-kerma rate, where the calculation component uses... Agent: King & Spalding

20090119029 - Method and device for predicting a life expectancy of a product containing a plurality of components: A method and a device are for predicting a life expectancy of a product, which includes at least two components. The life expectancy is ascertained as a function of an assumed field loading of the product. The components of the product are acted upon by different loadings and are operated,... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090119030 - Force feedback and interactive system: A force feedback and interactive system is provided in the present invention, wherein the force feedback and interactive system utilizes a mechanism for detecting weight or center of gravity and reacted force from an operator on a multi-axis motion platform, and a main controller which is a kernel of data... Agent: Wpat, PC

20090119031 - Member designing method, member designing apparatus, computer program product, and computer-readable recording medium: A first step where a computer performs press forming analysis based on a shape of a formed product or a shape of a member, a blank holder force, a friction coefficient, a tensile strength of a material, a yield strength, a stress-strain relation, and a sheet thickness, as press forming... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090119032 - Crankset based bicycle power measurement: The present application relates to an input torque measuring device for a drive train of a bicycle. The drive train includes a first crank arm and a second crank arm. An inboard end of each crank arm is rotatably mounted to the bicycle at a bottom bracket of the bicycle.... Agent: Godfrey & Kahn S.c.

20090119033 - System for detecting remaining quantity in liquid hydrogen tank: The present invention relates to a system for detecting the remaining quantity of liquid hydrogen stored in a hydrogen storage device. In this system, the remaining quantity of liquid hydrogen is calculated accurately without being affected by the previous state in a tank. The internal pressure of the tank is... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090119034 - Vehicle power supply device: A vehicle power supply device performs highly accurate determination of degradation of the capacitor unit as follows. Internal resistance and capacitance are corrected according to the temperature of capacitor unit during charge or discharge, thereby obtaining a corrected calculated value if capacitance. The corrected calculated value of capacitance is substituted... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090119035 - Method and apparatus for analyzing partial discharges in electrical devices: A method of analyzing partial discharge data collected from an electrical device includes collecting partial discharge data from a first electrical device belonging to a group of electrical devices. The group of electrical devices is at least partially defined by at least one electrical device classification. The method also includes... Agent: John S. Beulick (17851) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20090119036 - Compressor sensor module: A sensor module for a compressor having an electric motor connected to a power supply and a processor disposed within an electrical enclosure of the compressor is provided, with the electrical enclosure being configured to house electrical terminals for connecting the power supply to the electric motor. The sensor module... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090119037 - System and methods for dynamic power estimation for a digital circuit: A method for dynamic timing-dependent power estimation for a digital circuit having coupled interconnects and at least two gates. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of capturing information on relative switching activities and timing dependence for the coupled interconnects in the digital circuit, estimating the probabilities associated with... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20090119039 - Approach for controlling electrical power: An electrical power metering system. The electrical power metering system may include a plurality of gated power receptacles, each of the gated power receptacles being configured to selectively provide electrical power in response to receiving a wireless signal. The system may further include a service application configured to receive a... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20090119038 - Battery data logger and display: A battery data-logging arrangement for use with an electric vehicle is disclosed. The arrangement includes a first analog-to-digital converter (A2D) that converts a battery voltage signal to battery voltage data. A second A2D converts a battery current signal to battery current data. A clock generates time data. A computer memory... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090119041 - Method and apparatus for characterising multiphase fluid mixtures: A method for determining at least one characteristic of a multiphase fluid including the steps of applying alternating energy of a predetermined amplitude to a portion of a multiphase fluid and measuring the electrical impedance spectrum across the portion of multiphase fluid whereby a characteristic of the multiphase fluid can... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090119040 - Security screening and inspection based on broadband electromagnetic holographic imaging: A method of security screening and inspection of people in airlines, ships, or secured buildings, involves placing an array of transmitters and receivers in operational association with the medium. The transmitters generate a broad band harmonic (frequency domain) or pulse (time domain) primary electromagnetic field (EM) field, including the lower... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090119042 - Method of testing an electronic circuit and apparatus thereof: A method of testing an electronic circuit is provided. The method comprises radiating a laser beam onto the electronic circuit, and determining a plurality of samples of a response signal output by the electronic circuit during the period when the laser beam is radiated. The method further comprises accumulating the... Agent: Intellectual Property / Technology Law

20090119043 - Phase imbalance monitoring apparatus, amplitude imbalance monitoring apparatus, and apparatus using the same: The present invention discloses a phase imbalance monitoring apparatus, an amplitude imbalance monitoring apparatus, as well as an apparatus incorporating the same. The phase imbalance monitoring apparatus is for use in an apparatus in which imbalance between an I branch signal and a Q branch signal in quadrature to each... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090119044 - Digital signal processing in optical systems used for ranging applications: Methods and apparatuses for reducing the response time along with increasing the probability of ranging of optical rangefinders that digitize the signal waveforms obtained from the pulse echoes returned from various types of objects to be ranged, the pulse echoes being too weak to allow successful ranging from a single... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20090119046 - Data logger with pass/fail analysis: A data logger analyzes temperature data associated with a product passing through a conveyor oven and provides a visual pass or fail indication indicating whether the product's temperature profile is within acceptable limits. Thus, an operator need not download captured temperature data to a computer in order to determine whether... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20090119045 - Method of inspecting photomask defect: A method of inspecting defect of a mask is provided. In this method, a database for storing a plurality of virtual simulation models is created. The virtual simulation models are determined by a plurality of factors including an optical effect and a chemical effect during the transferring the pattern of... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20090119047 - Quality assurance system and method for point-of-care testing: An improved quality assurance system and method for point-of-care testing are disclosed. The present invention provides quality assurance for laboratory quality tests performed by a blood analysis system or the like at the point of patient care without the need for running liquid-based quality control materials on the analysis system.... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP (c/o Patent Administrator)

20090119049 - Automated dynamic metrology sampling system and method for process control: A system and method for optimizing and implementing a metrology sampling plan. A system is provided that includes a system for collecting historical metrology data from a metrology tool; and a reduction analysis system that compares an initial capability calculated from the historical metrology data with a recalculated capability for... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090119048 - Methods and systems for semiconductor testing using reference dice: Methods and systems of semiconductor testing where reference dice and non-reference dice in a wafer and/or lot are tested differently. In one embodiment of the invention, geography, lithography exposure, other characteristics, performance and/or behavior are taken into account when selecting reference dice, thereby improving the likelihood that the response of... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20090119050 - Surveying instrument: There are provided a horizontal angle detector for detecting a horizontal angle, an elevation angle detector for detecting an elevation angle, a dynamic displacement detecting means 10 for detecting posture displacement of a surveying instrument main unit in two horizontal directions, and a calculating unit, wherein said dynamic displacement detecting... Agent: Nields, Lemack & Frame, LLC

20090119051 - Method and apparatus for verifying scale calibration: An apparatus and method are provided in order to verify the calibration on the fluid handling system. A magnet coupled to the scale is used to attach a precalibrated weight so that a controller in the system can determine if the scale needs to be calibrated. This way a storage... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20090119052 - Integrated margin testing: A margin testing system comprises a margin testing controller and a frequency control module. The margin testing controller is internal to and integrated with an electronic system under test and is coupled with a plurality of components that are configured to provide the functionality of the electronic system under test.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090119053 - Serial interface device built-in self test: A built-in self test circuit includes a pattern generator, an elastic buffer, a symbol detector, and a comparison unit. A pattern generator generates a first test pattern to test a port under test and then a result pattern is gotten and stored in the elastic buffer. The symbol detector detects... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090119054 - Test equipment, method for loading test plan and program product: The test equipment includes a memory to which a test plan consisting of a plurality of sub-test plans is loaded; and a controller that loads the test plan to the memory by the unit of the sub-test plan and supplies a test signal to the DUT by interpreting the loaded... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090119055 - Automated test system: The present invention provides a method of optimizing an automated test system during a problem determination phase of said test system in a distributed environment with a plurality of local and remote computers, said test system comprising at least a first test suite, said method comprising the steps of: receiving... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090119057 - Method and device for investigation of phase transformations in metals and alloys: A device and method for investigating phase transformation properties and structural changes of materials. In one form, the device simulates actual thermal processing conditions, while the method can be used in both simulations as well as in actual processing conditions. An analysis using at least one of the device and... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

20090119056 - Physics-based oil temperature model: A system includes an input and a thermal data processing module. The input receives a first oil temperature of an engine oil when an engine is turned on. The thermal data processing module estimates a first heat transfer from a piston of the engine to the engine oil. The thermal... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090119058 - Displacement speed measurement method: The measurement method of the displacement speed of a moving element with respect to a fixed element is performed by means of an optic measuring device comprising a first reference sensor and a plurality of distinct second measurement sensors substantially aligned along the axis of movement of the moving element.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090119059 - Position detecting system and method for electronic device: A position detecting system and method for an electronic device used an audio signal input module of the electronic device and a signal receiver to connect to the audio signal input module convert an external position signal into an audio signal. A position detecting software running on the electronic device... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20090119060 - Spacecraft solar cell monitoring system: An onboard solar cell array current and voltage characteristic determination method is preferably used on small spacecraft and determines the solar cell orientation relative to the sun by a comparison between prelaunch solar cell characteristics with on-orbit solar cell characteristics well suited for spin axis determinations and monitoring the degradation... Agent: Carole A. Mulchinski The Aerospace Corporation

20090119061 - 3d multi-degree of freedom detecting device and method for using the same: A 3D multi-degree of freedom detecting device includes a first electromagnetic radiation source, a second electromagnetic radiation source, a first sensing module, and at least one second sensing module. The first electromagnetic radiation source is used to generate first electromagnetic radiations, and the first electromagnetic radiation source is a point... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090119063 - Device and method for identifying stacking and splitting of stenographic keystrokes: A method, device, and computer program product for analyzing multiple keystrokes in an electronic stenographic recording machine having keys forming stenographic keystrokes when actuated includes sensing a depressed state of a first stenographic key and recording a first depression time, sensing a depressed state of a second stenographic key and... Agent: Mayback & Hoffman, P.A.

20090119062 - Time tracking methods and systems: Time tracking methods and systems are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method for tracking a subject's use of time includes recording, at timed intervals, time tracking data indicative of a work effort being accessed by the subject. The time tracking data, along with link data associating one or more accounts... Agent: Krueger Iselin LLP (sc)

20090119064 - Systems and methods for efficient utilization of power sources in a redundant configuration: A method may include generating an efficiency curve for each of a plurality of power sources and operating the plurality of power sources based at least on the generated efficiency curve. Generating the efficiency curve for each power source may include coupling a test load to the power source for... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20090119065 - Virtual sensor network (vsn) system and method: A method is used for providing sensing data to a control system of a machine. The method may include providing a plurality of virtual sensors, each of which may have a model type, at least one input parameter, and at least one output parameter. The method may also include integrating... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20090119066 - Providing directive replacement of hfsi parts based on specific machine performance: Embodiments herein maintain an unscheduled maintenance rate of a first apparatus, of a group of apparatuses, based on a history of unscheduled maintenance service calls performed on the first apparatus. Other apparatuses in the group of apparatuses have different unscheduled maintenance rates when compared to the unscheduled maintenance rate of... Agent: Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20090119067 - System and method to minimize downtimes of medical apparatuses: In a system and method to minimize downtimes of medical apparatuses one or more medical apparatuses each has at least: one detection module to detect error situations of the respective medical apparatus, one local database to provide data and information regarding error situations, associated error correction measures and additional information,... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20090119068 - Communicating faulted circuit indicator apparatus and method of use thereof: A communicating faulted circuit indicator (“FCI”) apparatus, as well as methods for using the apparatus. A sensor is configured to collect data relating to a state of an electrical conductor. A controller is logically coupled to the sensor and configured to receive the data collected by the sensor and to... Agent: King & Spalding

20090119069 - Method for determining relative swing curve amplitude: A process (300) is disclosed to measure predetermined wavelength reflectance spectra of a photo resist coated wafer (305,310,315,320) at a nominal thickness. After coating, the predetermined wavelength reflectance (325,330) is measured and the peak heights and valleys in the vicinity of the predetermined wavelength are tabulated. The relative swing ratio... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department