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Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing February patent applications/inventions, industry category 02/10

20100049441 - Method of locating a magnetic object, and the corresponding computer program product, storage means and location device: A method is provided for tracking a magnetic object situated in an area in which a system of coordinates is defined, including an axis of abscissas, an axis ordinate and a height axis. The method includes: a phase of measuring at least one magnetic parameter in multiple measuring points in... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20100049442 - Processing of azimuthal resistivity data in a resistivity gradient: A method for increasing sensitivity in a measurement of at least one of magnitude and direction of resistivity in a subsurface material, the method including: performing a first set of measurements of resistivity of the subsurface material using a first logging instrument; constructing a model of a background signal using... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP- Baker Hughes Incorporated

20100049443 - Data reduction of images measured in a borehole: A data reduction method for transmission of a borehole image to the surface of the earth using restricted band widths of LWD telemetry systems. The data reduction method is based on the measurement physics rather than mathematical compression algorithms. Measured data from a sensor are fitted, within the logging tool,... Agent: (weatherford) Wong Cabello Lutsch Rutherford & Brucculeri LLP

20100049444 - Calibration surface method for determination of analyte ratios: The ratio of analytes is determined directly from the responses of the analytes using a conversion method. Individual analyte responses are obtained by using a selected measuring technique, and these individual responses are used as the independent variables in a conversion method. The dependent variable of conversion method is the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20100049446 - Gene classifying method, gene classifying program, and gene classifying device: A gene classifying method is provided and includes acquiring expression levels of a plurality of genes at a plurality of observation points, generating a binary string by taking a positive or negative difference in expression level in a temporal passage direction of the observation points for each gene, and classifying... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20100049445 - Method and apparatus for sequencing data samples: A method for identifying non-host nucleic acid sequence using sequence data. The method of identifying non-host nucleic acid can include sequencing a sample into sequences and associating the sequences with a host genome and then exclude any sequences that are associated with the host genome. The method can then associate... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney, LLP Intellectual Property Department

20100049447 - Method of modeling the behavior of an eye subjected to an external force: A method for simulating the behavior of an eye comprising the steps of (i) generating a FEM model of the eye representing the physical structure of the eye, the FEM model including an elastic walled corneo-scleral shell, (ii) modeling deformations of the eye with the FEM model, the deformation modeling... Agent: Francis Law Group

20100049448 - Multidimensional morphological reconstruction of genome expression activity: A method of morphological reconstruction of biological activity in a tissue sample maps biological data resulting from analysis of tissue samples onto a 3-D morphological rendering of the biological sample. Each slice in a set of histological slices, indexed by a first index, is micro dissected into micro samples indexed... Agent: Law Office Of Charles E. Krueger

20100049449 - Pattern discovery techniques for determining maximal irredundant and redundant motifs: Basis motifs are determined from an input sequence through an iterative technique that begins by creating small solid motifs and continues to create larger motifs that include “don't care” characters and that can include flexible portions. The small solid motifs, including don't care characters and flexible portions, are concatenated to... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20100049450 - Method for measuring physical quantity distribution and measurement system using sensor for physical quantity distribution: It is an object of the present invention to provide a measurement system that measures physical quantity distribution over the entire region using a sensor for physical quantity distribution (PQD sensor) that realizes high stretchability, flexibility, etc., in at least a partial region, in order to measure the physical quantity... Agent: Law Office Of Katsuhiro Arai

20100049451 - Material property identification system and methods: The distributive elastic properties in nonlinear structures is characterized using an inverse elastostatic approach of stress analysis using assumed elastic models without knowing the realistic material parameters. Stress distributions are computed independently of strain measurements. A database of pointwise stress and strain data in regions of the nonlinear structure permits... Agent: Valauskas & Pine LLC

20100049452 - Ultrasonic measuring device and ultrasonic measuring method: An ultrasonic measurement method, including: receiving a plurality of ultrasonic waves that have been spectrum-spread with different codes by first and second wave-receivers; de-spreading the first and second receive signals respectively with a selected code and a non-selected code; obtaining an amplitude ratio between the produced selected de-spread signal and... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (pan) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20100049454 - Light emitting diode fault monitoring: Methods, systems, and devices are described for providing fault monitoring for light emitting diode (LED) circuits. Embodiments receive an indication from a fault control module that a fault has occurred in a portion of an LED module (e.g., a series string of LEDs). The fault may represent an open fault... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20100049453 - Test apparatus and manufacturing method: Provided is a test apparatus that tests a device under test, comprising a test signal generating section that generates a test signal to be applied to the device under test; a first driver that is electrically connected to a terminal of the device under test and that supplies the test... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20100049455 - System and method for monitoring power damping compliance of a power generation unit: A system and method for monitoring the power damping compliance of a power generation unit comprises a measurement unit that is configured to be coupled to a power generation unit to identify the voltage, current, and frequency values associated with power output therefrom. A processing system maintaining a model-based filter... Agent: Renner Kenner Greive Bobak Taylor & Weber

20100049456 - Electrical power metering device and method of operation thereof: A metering device for metering energy delivered to customers over electrical wires from a power distribution cabinet. The metering device has a plurality of current transformers, each capable of receiving one of the electrical wires and connections for the line voltages which drive the wires. The current transformers are arranged... Agent: Aka Chan LLP

20100049458 - Electronic equipment and power management method for the electronic equipment, and power source unit: Electronic equipment and power management method for the power equipment and a power source unit are provided. The present invention provides a guideline associated with control content required to use a fuel cell as a power source in various kinds of electronic equipment, and perform appropriate power management according to... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20100049457 - Method and apparatus for monitoring energy storage devices: An improved battery, monitoring circuit and method for communicating with the battery is provided. Such batteries and communication methods are particularly useful in UPS systems that use such batteries to provide back-up power to electrical loads. In one aspect, performance, manufacturing, trend and/or other data are stored in non-volatile memory... Agent: Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20100049459 - High dynamic range charge measurements: A charge amplifier for use in radiation sensing includes an amplifier, at least one switch, and at least one capacitor. The switch selectively couples the input of the switch to one of at least two voltages. The capacitor is electrically coupled in series between the input of the amplifier and... Agent: Brookhaven Science Associates/ Brookhaven National Laboratory

20100049460 - Quality degradation point estimating system and quality degradation point estimating method: A quality degradation point estimating method for estimating a quality degradation point in a directed link set through which a communication flow passed is provided. The quality degradation point estimating method has: (A) determining a test flow set for estimating a quality degradation point; and (B) estimating the quality degradation... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20100049461 - Mass flow controller with improved dynamic: A system and method of compensating for pressure variations in a flow controller entails the use of the compressibility of the gas being controlled to provide a more accurate measurement of the flow.... Agent: Michael O. Scheinberg

20100049462 - Particulate matter sensor calibration: A system includes a filter, a sensor, a processor, and a memory. The filter can be coupled to an engine exhaust and can operate in an accumulating mode during which particulate matter (PM) from the engine is trapped and also operate in a regenerating mode during which PM in the... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20100049463 - Low-noise source: In one embodiment, a low-noise source includes: a signal source; a variable amplifier adapted to amplify an output signal from the signal source to provide an amplified signal; a feed-forward amplifier adapted to amplify the amplified signal to provide an amplified output signal; a phase noise measurement system adapted to... Agent: The Eclipse Group LLP

20100049464 - System for testing integrated circuits: The invention provides for a system for testing integrated circuitry. The system includes a local computational device, a communications link connected to the computational device, and testing circuitry operatively connected to the computational device via the communications link and configured to generate integrated circuitry test signals. The system also includes... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20100049465 - Testable electronic device for wireless communication: An electronic device is disclosed comprising a transceiver stage (140) for communicating signals between the electronic device and a further device; and a baseband processor arrangement (120) implementing a built-in self test arrangement for testing the transceiver channels of the electronic device (100). The built-in self test arrangement further comprises... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property & Licensing

20100049466 - Tracking thermal mini-cycle stress: Monitoring temperature excursions an assembly experiences over a life of the assembly is provided. A determination is made as to whether the assembly has been in service beyond a predetermined end of life objective. Responsive to the assembly failing to be in service beyond the predetermined end of life objective,... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20100049467 - Device for measuring alignment of adjoining structures: The invention relates to the field of micro- and nanotechnologies. In these techniques, it is sometimes necessary to glue several structures face to face and it is important to be able to check the alignment of the structures. A new method for measuring alignment, which comprises the following operations, is... Agent: Lariviere, Grubman & Payne, LLP

20100049468 - Motion capture and analysis: Motion capture and analysis is described, including a motion sensor unit configured to capture data associated with movement of an object, to process the data to determine one or more values, to store the data and the one or more values, and to convert the data and the one or... Agent: Kokka & Backus, PC

20100049469 - Relative positioning: For supporting a relative positioning, information on barometric pressure at a first device and information on barometric pressure at a second device is converted into a difference in altitude between the first device and the second device. The difference in altitude between the first device and the second device is... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20100049470 - Detection of a non-uniformly sampled sinusoidal signal and a doppler sensor utlizing the same: A Doppler sensor operates by transmitting pulses at non-uniform intervals. Samples reflected by an object are processed by multiplying each one by first and second coefficients cxk and sxk, the products being separately summed to form two measures which are examined to determine whether an object exhibiting a particular Doppler... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100049471 - Weight management system using zero-readout weight sensor device and method of using same: A method of, and a system for, controlling, managing and maintaining a client's weight are performed by placing a weight sensor device in a location that is convenient to the client, periodically generating weight signals at the sensor device, providing a computer system remote from the location of the sensor... Agent: Kirschstein, Israel, Schiffmiller & Pieroni, P.C.

20100049472 - Power distribution network performance data presentation system and method: A visualization system for monitoring performance data of an electrical power distribution network is provided. In one embodiment, a user may select a network circuit and view a network circuit diagram that includes indicia representing transformers and other electrical power distribution network elements positioned on a map. The relative positions... Agent: Capital Legal Group, LLC

20100049473 - Validation process for fault detection of a device: The invention concerns a process and an associated device for validating the fault detection of a device under test, during which a series of basic tests of the device under test is carried out, wherein each basic test leads to a positive or negative result indicating normal or abnormal functioning... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100049474 - Systems and methods for gathering audience measurment data: Systems and methods are provided for gathering audience measurement data relating to exposure of an audience member to audio data. Audio data is received in a user system and is then encoded with audience measurement data. The encoded audio data is reproduced by the user system, picked up by a... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP / Arbitron Inc. (c/o Patent Administrator)

20100042324 - Method and apparatus using towed or autonomous marine laboratory: Vessels comprising towed array and an autonomous self propelled instrument array can be use to perform marine laboratory tests as well as other functions. Propulsion can be provided by diesel-electric hybrid engines, by a motion charging device and by an ocean current generator. Data can be collected by the onboard... Agent: Robert W Pitts

20100042327 - Bottom hole assembly configuration management: A method for configuring a bottom hole assembly from a plurality of formation evaluation tools, includes: creating a health history for each tool of the plurality of formation evaluation tools; ranking the resulting plurality of health histories according to health; and selecting at least one tool for the bottom hole... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP- Baker Hughes Incorporated

20100042325 - Determining characteristics of a subterranean body using pressure data and seismic data: To determine characteristics of a subterranean body, pressure testing is performed, where the pressure testing involves drawing down pressure in the well. Pressure data in the well is measured during the pressure testing, and a seismic surface operation is performed. Seismic data is measured as part of the seismic survey... Agent: Westerngeco L.L.C. Kevin Mcenaney

20100042326 - Method of detecting a lateral boundary of a reservoir: A method of monitoring a subsurface formation underneath a sea bed, the method comprising determining non-vertical deformation of the sea floor over a period of time and inferring a parameter related to a volume change in the subsurface formation from the non-vertical deformation of the sea. Determining the non-vertical deformation... Agent: Shell Oil Company

20100042328 - Seismic sensor with micro machined accelerometers: A seismic switch is a programmable device capable of distinguishing between seismic movements due to an earthquake or an explosion, which is used to send a signal to control panels for security doors. The device uses accelerometers and a microcontroller for the detection and signal analysis of the seismic movements.... Agent: John Ryznic

20100042329 - Multiparameter analysis for predictive medicine: The invention provides a method of determining a comparative expression profile in an individual by comparing the expression levels of a sample of molecules in a population of molecules in a specimen from the individual with a health-associated reference expression region of the sample of molecules, wherein expression levels within... Agent: Mcdermott, Will & Emery

20100042330 - Non-hypergeometric overlap probability: Methods, software, and systems are provided for determining the probability of an overlap set of entities having an overlap size, where the overlap set is independently selected from two sets of non-identical entities. Applications of the invention to microarrays are provided. Probability distributions are provided for determining the probability that... Agent: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc

20100042331 - Planning method and apparatus for peritoneal dialysis and hemodialysis hybrid remedy: The present invention is a peritoneal dialysis and hemodialysis hybrid-remedy planning method using an index that is shared by both peritoneal dialysis and hemodialysis and indicates an effect of dialysis. To be specific, the index is M/C(0)/VB, which is obtained by dividing a ratio M/C(0)—where M is a removal amount... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20100042332 - System and method for source identification for a chemical release: A system for predicting a source location and release rate of a hazardous substance uses the basic knowledge of meteorological information (wind speed, direction, and stability) and two or more concentration measurements of the chemical released. Horizontal dispersion information obtained from surface meteorological data at sensor locations are used to... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20100042333 - System, method and computer network for testing gas monitors: System and method are utilized for testing the performance of a gas monitor against predetermined monitor characteristics to determine if performance of a gas monitor is validated following testing gas being directly delivered to a gas sensor of the gas monitor.... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20100042334 - Analytical instrumentation, apparatuses, and methods: Sample analysis apparatuses are disclosed that can include processing circuitry configured to acquire one data set from an analysis component configured according to one analysis parameter set, and prepare another analysis parameter set using another previously acquired data set. Sample analysis methods are also disclosed that can include acquiring first... Agent: Wells St. John

20100042335 - Methods for measurement of fluid electrical stability: The invention relates particularly to methods and apparatuses for characterizing water-in-oil or invert emulsion fluids for use in drilling well bores in hydro-carbon bearing subterranean formations. A fluid stability measurement method is described. The method includes placing a sample of an emulsion in a gap between electrodes, disturbing the sample,... Agent: John W. Wustenberg

20100042336 - Magnetic sensor array and apparatus for detecting defect using the magnetic sensor array: If surface defects, near surface defects, or internal defects of a ferromagnetic substance object, a paramagnetic substance object, or a mixture object of ferromagnetic and paramagnetic substances are not quantitatively analyzed, the detected results can be differently analyzed depending on the knowledge or skill of an inspector. A defect detection... Agent: Jason Y. Pahng And Associates, LLC

20100042337 - Measuring method and system for components, in particular for pistons and piston engines: The invention relates to the non-destructive measurement of components, in particular the functional assessment of the bonding of cast-in parts, eg. in pistons for internal combustion engines. With such a measurement or functional assessment, it is a question of assessing the function and completeness of the bonding between the base... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20100042338 - Structural health monitoring apparatus and methodology: Disclosed is an apparatus and methodology for structural health monitoring (SHM) in which smart devices interrogate structural components to predict failure, expedite needed repairs, and thus increase the useful life of those components. Piezoelectric wafer active sensors (PWAS) are applied to or integrated with structural components and various data collected... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.A.

20100042339 - Fluidic analysis device for determining characteristics of a fluid: A fluidic analysis device includes a small plate (2), at least one flow channel (4) formed in this plate, means (18) for directing a fluid into the flow channel, and at least two analytical means (28′, 28″, 361, 362 46) suitable for analyzing a sample of unique composition of said... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20100042340 - method of and apparatus for recording fuel supplied to a vehicle: A fuel measuring device, for mounting on the inlet to a vehicle fuel tank, has a sensor for recording a flow rate of fuel flowing through the inlet into the vehicle fuel tank. A processor for integrating the fuel flow rate to determine amount of fuel supplied to the fuel... Agent: Bereskin And Parr LLP/s.e.n.c.r.l., S.r.l.

20100042343 - Device and process for machine diagnostics by means of vibration measurement: A device for machine diagnostics, with a vibration sensor (12) for detecting vibration signals on the machine (10), a unit (14) for conditioning the vibration signals, an A/D converter (16) for digitizing the conditioned vibration signals, a data processing unit (20) for splitting the digital signals into at least two... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.C. Intellectual Property Department

20100042341 - Device for determining deformation in a bearing roller: Device for determining displacement, the device comprising at least two substantially parallel plates located at a distance from each other. The device is arranged to determine a displacement of at least two predetermined parts of each of the plates with respect to each other and the displacement are directed substantially... Agent: Michaelson & Associates

20100042342 - Method and apparatus for measurement of mechanical characteristics of a cement sample: A system for non-destructively measuring the strength of a cement slurry sample includes an elongate sample container for receiving a cement slurry sample. The elongate sample container has a mass mounted at its first end. A transducer mounted at a second end of the elongate sample container vibrates the elongate... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20100042344 - System and method for detecting an electrical short across a static switch of an uninterruptible power supply: A monitoring system for detecting a short circuit condition in a switching subsystem of a bypass input of a power supply. The system may comprise a voltage monitoring subsystem for monitoring a voltage across at least one component of the switching subsystem and generating a first output signal in accordance... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100042345 - Apparatus and method for estimating resistance characteristics of battery based on open circuit voltage estimated by battery voltage variation pattern: An apparatus for estimating resistance characteristics of a battery includes a data storing manager for obtaining and storing battery voltage, current and temperature data of a battery, whenever estimating a battery resistance characteristic; an open circuit voltage calculator for calculating battery open circuit voltage from a battery voltage variation pattern... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100042346 - Capacitance evaluation circuit and electronic device using the same: A capacitance evaluation circuit includes a capacitive voltage divider, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and a processing module. The capacitive voltage divider includes a switch circuit, a known capacitor and a capacitor under test. The switch circuit is controlled by first and second clock signals. A voltage variation at a first... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20100042347 - Device, method, and program for determining element, recording medium, and measurement device: A reflection element determination device derives error factors in a first signal source and a second signal source based on measurement results of a signal in respective states in which reflection elements are respectively connected to the first signal source and the second signal source, and measurement results of a... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20100042348 - Calibration of optical analysis making use of multivariate optical elements: The invention provides a method of calibrating an optical analysis system that makes use of multivariate optical signal analysis allowing to realize cost-efficient and robust implementation of a spectral analysis of an optical signal. The calibration method makes use of determining a parameter of a reference sample by means of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100042349 - Method for compensating drift in a position measuring device: Method for compensating the drift of an element for position measurement mounted on an object, such as a ship or another vehicle, including at least one gyro for measuring rotation of the object about an axis and at least one accelerometer for measuring two mutually perpendicular components of the acceleration... Agent: Young & Thompson

20100042350 - Doppler radar gun certification system: A radar gun certification system providing for the certification of doppler radar guns and associated tuning forks is described. The certification system incorporates a handheld testing device for use with a mobile computer to certify the devices. The mobile computer interfaces with a server computer which performs the test and... Agent: Lathrop & Gage LLP

20100042351 - Methods and apparatus related to management of experiments: In one embodiment, a method includes sending an indicator of an availability of a sample from a sample pool stored in a physical inventory. The sample being included in the sample pool based on an attribute of the sample satisfying a condition associated with the sample pool. An indicator that... Agent: Nodality. Inc.

20100042352 - Platform specific test for computing hardware: A platform specific test for computing hardware and method using same, wherein the method supplies a plurality of test procedures, and provides a computing device to be evaluated, where the computing device comprises (M) physical objects. The method identifies, for each value of (i), an (i)th physical object disposed in... Agent: Dale F. Regelman Quarles & Brady, LLP

20100042353 - System and method for testing working condition of led indicators on hard disk drives: A method is provided to test working condition of LED indicators on hard disk drives connected to a computer. The method calls an API function from an operating system of the computer to create a main thread, and creates a sub thread for each of the hard disk drives connected... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20100042354 - Measuring device with serial digital interface: The invention relates to a measuring device having at least one first assembly and at least one second assembly. The first assembly and the second assembly each comprise an intermediate frequency interface or a complex baseband interface. The intermediate frequency interfaces or baseband interfaces are designed as serial digital interfaces.... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20100042355 - Method for monitoring thermal control: A structure has a heat dissipating feature, an internal temperature measurement device, and a memory. The structure generates heat as power is supplied to the structure, and a threshold voltage of the internal temperature measurement device changes as the temperature of the temperature measurement device changes. The embodiments herein establish... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20100042356 - Transition temperature microscopy: A system and method for automatic analysis of temperature transition data over an area of a sample surface. The system relies on the use of a microfabricated probe, which can be rapidly heated and cooled and has a sharp tip to provide high spatial resolution. The system also has fast... Agent: Mark Rodgers

20100042357 - Manipulator position sensor system: A system and method for determining a position of an articulated member with respect to a predetermined plane comprise a multi-axis accelerometer mounted to a first movable member of an articulated set of members. The multi-axis accelerometer produces a sinusoidal signal in proportion to a position of the member with... Agent: Duane Morris LLP - Houston

20100042358 - Motion plane correction for mems-based input devices: An electronic motion-based input device and method for correcting errors in acceleration due to a deviation from a horizontal plane of motion by correcting for gravitational acceleration components due to the deviation in the plane of motion.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/pfizer

20100042359 - Portable electronic apparatus, operation control method, operation control program, signal generation apparatus and signal generation method: A portable electronic apparatus includes an acceleration detection unit, an evaluation-signal generation unit, and a control unit. The acceleration detection unit is configured to detect an acceleration generated in the portable electronic apparatus. The evaluation-signal generation unit is configured to carry out a predetermined process based on the acceleration detected... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100042360 - Electronic measurement of off-center run-out and reel-hub mismatch: In a method of electronically measuring reel off-center run-out and reel hub mismatch, tape speed data related to a tape coupled with an operating drive reel is electronically measured. The tape speed data is correlated with drive reel rotation angles. The correlated tape speed data is translated to drive reel... Agent: Quantum C/o Wagner Blecher LLP

20100042361 - Method and apparatus for an aircraft location position system: A computer implemented method for identifying location information of an unknown point on an aircraft. The unknown point on the aircraft is identified. A plurality of reference points is identified for the aircraft located in a three-dimensional model of the aircraft, wherein the plurality of reference points have known locations... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20100042362 - 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

20100042363 - Imaging optics designed by the simultaneous multiple surface method: One embodiment of a method of calculating an optical surface comprises calculating a meridional optical line of the surface. A ray is selected that passes a known point defining an end of a part of the optical line already calculated. The optical line is extrapolated from the known point to... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20100042364 - Monitoring virtual worlds to detect events and determine their type: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture are provided for detecting events based upon population density as a function of time and geographic location. Flow of population enables continuous movement to be distinguished from non-continuous movement. Accordingly, various types of events where people are gathering may be determined based upon... Agent: Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, LLC

20100042367 - Analysis method: A method is provided of analysing measured parameter values, in relation to corresponding expected parameter values, from a system which has a plurality of associated system variables. The method includes the step of optimising an error function which relates said measured parameter values to the system variables. The step of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20100042366 - Distributed decision making architecture for embedded prognostics: A distributed decision making architecture for embedded prognostics in a platform is provided. An estimation system determines at least one performance characteristic of at least one device in the platform. A supervisory system is in communication with, and superior to, the estimation system. The supervisory system calculates a prediction of... Agent: Honeywell/ifl Patent Services

20100042365 - Identifying causes of service level agreement and performance violations: A computer-implemented method may include measuring a performance of a virtual channel carrying packets through a transport network for a time period, measuring a performance of an ingress interface to the transport network carrying the virtual channel packets for the time period, and measuring a performance of an internal interface... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20100042369 - Inspection method, system, and program product: An improved solution for performing an inspection is provided, in which a user can use a handheld computing device to obtain and/or record the set of attributes required for the inspection. In particular, an inspection schedule can be initiated on the handheld computing device and the user can be prompted... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20100042368 - Managing machine tool and auxiliary equipment preventative maintenance: A method for managing production facility preventative maintenance is described. The method is performed using a computer system coupled to a database. The method includes receiving operation data from at least one machine controller and at least one auxiliary equipment controller, wherein the operation data corresponds to operation of at... Agent: General Electric Company Ge Global Patent Operation

20100042370 - Method of replacing the catalyst tubes of a hydrocarbon reformer: A method for the maintenance of a furnace for the catalytic reforming of a hydrocarbon reaction mixture, equipped with tubes filled with catalyst and for which one portion of the tubes is provided with thermocouples, the method comprising a monitoring of the temperature of the tubes is provided.... Agent: Air Liquide Intellectual Property

20100042374 - Sampling method, reconstruction method, and device for sampling and/or reconstructing signals: m

20100042373 - Signal measuring device and signal measuring method: A signal measuring device, comprises one set, or a plurality of sets, of measuring unit(s) measuring an object of measurement in synch with a driving clock signal for measurement and outputting result of measurement as first data, and a timing identification unit which, in accordance with a measurement-start command, outputs... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20100042372 - Virtual metering: Methods for improving the accuracy of characterizing unmonitored paths or virtual meters in a utility system. The hierarchical arrangement of IEDs in the utility system is determined. Measured quantities of a characteristic of the utility being monitored are received and error-adjusted using statistical or absolute methods. The statistical method accounts... Agent: Schneider Electric / Square D Company Legal Dept. - I.p. Group (np)

20100042371 - Event-detection in multi-channel sensor-signal streams: Multiple parallel signal streams are produced by the sensors (20,30,40,50) associated with a device (10). Events corresponding to real-world activities, contexts, environments, internal-states, uses, interactions and the like involving the device (10) can be detected in the multi-channel sensor-signal stream by evaluating how the pattern of coordination between the different... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100036614 - Locating oil or gas passively by observing a porous oil and gas saturated system giving off its characteristic resonance response to ambient background noise, including optional differentiation of oil, locatinggas and water: This patent deals with methods to extract and analyze seismic signals due to resonance phenomena in an enclosed oil, gas, or water reservoir, which are passively excited by seismic background noise, locating thereby the presence of the reservoir by doing qualitative and quantitative estimates via forward modeling. Measurements are first... Agent: Georeis

20100036615 - Method for measuring information of technical and biological systems: The invention relates to a method for measuring potential information of a biological or technical system. The aim of the invention is to receive signals using less energy. To achieve this, random generators are used as receivers of low-energy quanta, since the random generators can be regarded and implemented as... Agent: Shoemaker And Mattare, Ltd

20100036616 - Normalization of gene expression data: A method for determining bias across two domains comprising gene expression data. The method can comprise (a) providing a first domain and a second domain; (b) obtaining information indicative of a bias within the first domain; (c) obtaining information indicative of a bias within the second domain; and (d) using... Agent: Life Technologies Corporation C/o Intellevate

20100036617 - Change mapping for structural health monitoring: A method is present for mapping changes in a structure. A plurality of responses is collected from a set of transmitter and sensor pairs for the structure. Change metrics for pixels in a plurality of grids are identified from the plurality of responses, wherein a first grid in the plurality... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20100036618 - Reducing the ringing of actuator elements in ultrasound based health monitoring systems: A method and apparatus are present for monitoring a structure. A signal is sent into the structure, wherein the signal has a limited duration and a varying frequency. A response to the signal is received and the response is compared to a baseline to form a comparison.... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20100036619 - Oil sample analysis calculator and method of using the same: In an oil sample analysis calculator (100) for analyzing results of oil samples from an engine, the oil sample analysis calculator (100) includes an input module (110) which receives an input data set (140), a processing module (130) which receives the input data set (140) from the input module (110)... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - Alstom Power

20100036621 - Characterizing the response of a computer system component to vibrations: Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that characterizes a response of a component in a computer system to vibrations generated by the computer system. First, the system measures the response of the component to vibrations in a frequency range while the component is located outside of the... Agent: Pvf -- Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20100036622 - Method and system for predicting acoustic fields based on generalized moving frame acoustic holography: A method and system for predicting acoustic fields based on generalized moving frame acoustic holography are disclosed. The method includes acquiring a first wavenumber spectrum on a measurement plane according to a moving coordinate system, converting the first wavenumber spectrum to a second wavenumber spectrum on a reference coordinate system... Agent: Holme Roberts & Owen LLP

20100036620 - Simulating a vibration pattern in a computer subsystem: Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that generates a simulated vibration pattern in a computer subsystem. During operation, a vibration pattern is monitored at a location in the computer subsystem, wherein the vibration pattern is monitored while the computer subsystem is incorporated into the computer system and... Agent: Pvf -- Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20100036623 - Electricity detecting system and method having a verifying mechanism for verifying measured electricity values: An electricity detecting system includes a detector module operable to generate a plurality of source electricity values of a target electricity value, and a computing unit coupled to the detector module and receiving the source electricity values therefrom. The detector module includes a plurality of detectors, and each of the... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20100036624 - Stress condition logging in utility meter: An arrangement includes a utility meter housing that contains or supports a first sensor, a second sensor, and a processing circuit. The first sensor is configured to measure a first parameter, the first parameter relating to an environmental condition within the meter housing. The second sensor is configured to measure... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck, LLP Chase Tower

20100036625 - Temperature profiling in an electricity meter: An arrangement for use in a utility meter includes a temperature sensor, a memory device, a communication circuit, and a processing circuit. The processing circuit is operably coupled to receive information representative of temperature measurements from the temperature sensor. The processing circuit is configured to store first temperature information associated... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck, LLP Chase Tower

20100036627 - Apparatus and method for determination of the state-of-charge of a battery when the battery is not in equilibrium: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus, like a charger for determining the state-of-charge of a battery which has been charged or discharged and which has not reached its equilibrium state, the method comprising the steps of determining the EMF of the battery by extrapolation of the battery... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20100036626 - Apparatus and method for estimating state of health of battery based on battery voltage variation pattern: An apparatus estimates SOH of a battery based on a battery voltage variation pattern. A data storing unit obtains and stores battery voltage, current and temperature data from sensors, at each SOH estimation. A first SOC estimating unit estimates first SOC by current integration using the battery current data. A... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20100036628 - Systems and methods for monitoring deterioration of a rechargeable battery: Systems and methods are provided for monitoring the deterioration of a rechargeable battery. A battery monitoring system may be used to store charging information, discharge information and storage information for a rechargeable battery to a data store. The charging information may include a number of charge cycles incurred by the... Agent: Jones Day (rim) - 2n

20100036629 - Method and device for recognizing pulses: A series (FA) of scanning values (AW) is transformed into a series (FT) of transformation values (TW) by adding one respective transformation value (TW) representing a current scanning value (AW) of the series (FA) of scanning values (AW) to the series (FT) of transformation values (TW) if the current scanning... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20100036630 - System and method for signal measurement: A signal measurement method includes receiving a signal from a signal generating module; displaying a wave of the signal; reading a reference parameter of the signal, and adjusting the wave according to the reference parameter; measuring the signal according to the wave after adjustment; and displaying the measurement result.... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20100036631 - Waveform observing apparatus: There is provided a waveform observing apparatus, which facilitates management of compressed data and measured data that were created for a reduced display, reduces a calculating amount in making the reduced display, and displays a boundary between stoppage and start of collection of measured data in a visually observable manner,... Agent: Kilyk & Bowersox, P.l.l.c.

20100036632 - System and method for evaluating high frequency time domain in embedded device probing: A system and associated method for evaluating a high-frequency signal at a point of interest on a signal path from a remote signal at a remote pickup point on the signal path. The point of interest is located on a device under test that is coupled to test equipment via... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20100036633 - Method and apparatus for calibrating wood testing machine: This improved method of calibrating wood testing machines includes improved test bars, shim and software to direct the operator through the steps of calibration, storing interim results and calculating new calibration factors based on values read when the test bars are placed in the wood testing machine. This method avoids... Agent: James D. Logan Metriguard Inc.

20100036634 - Apparatus and method for generating resistance calibration code in semiconductor integrated circuit: A resistance calibration code generating apparatus includes a code calibration unit configured to calibrate and output code values of a resistance calibration code during predetermined cycles of a calibration clock, which are determined by a code calibration time control command, and a calibration clock generating unit configured to output the... Agent: Ip & T Law Firm PLC

20100036636 - Digital damping control of nanomechanical test instruments: A method of damping control for a nanomechanical test system, the method including providing an input signal, providing an output signal representative of movement of a displaceable probe along an axis in response to the input signal, performing a frequency-dependent phase shift of the output signal to provide a phase-shifted... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20100036635 - Method of functional control of an inertial platform of a moving craft: A method for verifying an inertial unit for a moving body, the unit being mounted on a movement simulator, and the method includes: theoretical modeling of the inertial unit on the movement simulator, supplying theoretical inertial data representing measurement inertial data deemed to be measured by the inertial unit; simulation... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20100036637 - Methods and apparatus for hybrid outlier detection: Methods and apparatus for data analysis according to various aspects of the present invention are configured to identify statistical outliers in test data for components, including hybrid outliers representing outliers within subsets of larger data populations. A method and apparatus according to various aspects of the present invention may operate... Agent: The Noblitt Group, PLLC

20100036638 - Monitoring of heat exchangers in process control systems: A method for monitoring the efficiency of a heat exchanger is provided. Heat flows from a first medium into a second medium and an actual heat flow is detected and compared with at least one reference heat flow corresponding to a respectively predetermined degree of soiling of the heat exchanger.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20100036639 - 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.

20100036640 - Device for sensing a radial position spread over more than 90 degrees: The invention produces contactless radial position sensors having an equivalent angular aperture greater than 90°, and substantially eliminates the spurious microvibrations due to the imperfections of the current sensors. For this, the invention uses at least four independent sensors and an electronic device capable of virtually placing in series said... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20100036641 - System and method of estimating multi-tasking performance: A method and system of estimating multi-tasking performance performed in multi-processor are described. The method includes dividing a plurality of tasks into a plurality of sub tasks in accordance with predefined operation types, arranging the plurality of sub tasks in accordance with a predecessor-successor structure based on the operation types... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100036642 - Real-time transmission of survey data: In a survey operation, survey measurement data obtained at each location is transmitted in real time as the measurement is made to avoid the limitations of the disk or other storage medium used in saving the data, to avoid loss or corruption of the data prior to the disk being... Agent: Vollrath & Associates

20100036643 - Methods for the cyclical pattern determination of time-series data using a clustering approach: Cycles and other patterns within time-series data are determined. Time-series data are transformed into discretized sets of clustered data that are organized by time period. Comparison is made of the organized data to determine similar time periods and multiclusters of the similar time periods are formed. From the multicluster data,... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20100030475 - Smart data subsurface data repository system, method and computer program product: A system, method and computer program product for source area contamination data acquisition, analysis and processing. The present invention leverages and expands direct sensing technology, knowledge and experience to provide detailed, real-time images of subsurface conditions. The latest technologies in sensors, digital processing, computation and 3D visualization are used to... Agent: Venable LLP

20100030476 - Irrigation system with et based seasonal watering adjustment: An ET based irrigation system includes a stand alone irrigation controller with a seasonal adjust feature and a stand alone weather station including at least one environmental sensor. The ET based irrigation system further includes a stand alone ET unit operatively connected to the irrigation controller and the weather station.... Agent: Michael H Jester

20100030477 - Electromagnetic directional measurements for non-parallel bed formations: An orientation vector, referred to hereinafter as the “geosteering vector,” is directed to the more conductive formation area within the DOI of the tool and away from the more resistive formation areas. Accordingly, drilling in a direction opposite the geosteering vector leads to more resistive formation. Also, the disclosed geosteering... Agent: Schlumberger Oilfield Services

20100030478 - Analysis system, analysis method, program and machine device: According to the present invention, an analysis system constructed as a rheology model of a foundation-ground system that is capable of expressing a frequency dependent dynamic spring by using elements with non-frequency-dependent coefficients may be provided. The analysis system according to the present invention is a model for reproducing dynamical... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20100030479 - Methods and computer-readable medium to implement computing the propagation velocity of seismic waves: The invention relates to methods and computer-readable medium to implement computing the propagation velocity of seismic waves in the earth. The invention computes the true propagation velocity of seismic waves in the earth, which is a condition of obtaining an accurate image of subsurface geology that can be used to... Agent: Robert Moll

20100030483 - Assessment method to process a glucose concentration signal and devices thereof: Embodiments of an assessment method for processing a signal corresponding to a glucose concentration and performing a retrospective analysis comprises the steps of: a) initiating a first trigger, wherein the first trigger defines the beginning of a segment of a continuous measurement of glucose concentration or defines the first of... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl, LLP Fifth Third Center

20100030481 - Dating hemorrhage: Systems and techniques for dating hemorrhage. In one aspect, a method includes receiving one or more hemorrhage samples that provide information relevant to dating of a hemorrhage, receiving timing information describing timing of the hemorrhage, staining the hemorrhage samples with two or more stains, quantifying two or more parameters that... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20100030480 - Device and method for examination and evaluation of a biological active and/or biological activatable substance: s

20100030482 - Real-time swimming monitor: A wearable device for monitoring and providing real-time feedback about a swimmer's body motion and performance, in particular, body orientation and forward speed, is provided. The device comprises a three-axis accelerometer, optionally a three-axis gyroscope, a memory, and a microcontroller configured to process the sensor input, calculate a swimmer's performance... Agent: Xipu Li

20100030484 - Signal processing for continuous analyte sensor: Systems and methods for dynamically and intelligently estimating analyte data from a continuous analyte sensor, including receiving a data stream, selecting one of a plurality of algorithms, and employing the selected algorithm to estimate analyte values. Additional data processing includes evaluating the selected estimative algorithms, analyzing a variation of the... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olsen & Bear, LLP

20100030485 - Signal processing for continuous analyte sensor: Systems and methods for dynamically and intelligently estimating analyte data from a continuous analyte sensor, including receiving a data stream, selecting one of a plurality of algorithms, and employing the selected algorithm to estimate analyte values. Additional data processing includes evaluating the selected estimative algorithms, analyzing a variation of the... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olsen & Bear, LLP

20100030486 - Method and apparatus for determining at least one measured variable of a medium: A method for determining and/or monitoring at least one measured variable of an at least partially gaseous medium with at least one mechanically oscillatable unit, which is excited to execute mechanical oscillations, and whose mechanical oscillations are received and evaluated. At least one characteristic curve is stored, which describes for... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20100030487 - Three dimensional coordinates of hptpbeta: The crystal structures of catalytic domain of HPTPbeta, both ligand-bound and ligand-free are described. These structures are useful in computer aided drug design for identifying compounds that bind or activate HPTPbeta and thereby modulate angiogenesis mediated disorders or diseases.... Agent: Ballard Spahr LLP

20100030488 - Method of calculating the structure of an inhomogeneous sample: A method is provided of calculating the structure of an inhomogeneous sample in which an electron beam is used to cause excitation of x-rays from the sample under known conditions of beam energy and geometry with respect to the sample. Notably the beam current is unknown. Measured x-ray intensity data... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20100030489 - System for analyzing/inspecting airborne radioactive particles sampled in a draft flue: A system for analyzing/inspecting airborne radioactive particles sampled in a draft flue is disclosed, which comprises: a front detector, at least an air intake tube, a capture vessel, an inspection device, a flow meter, a hand-held electric device, a blower motor, With the aforesaid system, the radioactivity distribution relating to... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20100030491 - Estimating worst case corrosion in a pipeline: A method and system for estimating the worst case corrosion in a pipeline for which pipeline wall thickness measurements are limited to sampled ultrasonic or radiography (UT/RT) measurements. A data library contains distributions of in-line inspection (IL) measurements for other pipelines, calibrated to correspond to UT/RT measurements as needed. These... Agent: Carol Wilson Bp America Inc.

20100030490 - Method, system, and apparatus for friction pad wear and brake condition monitoring: A brake, system, and method are presented. The brake includes friction material, a backing pad, sensor-wear material embedded within the friction material, and an electronics assembly. The electronics assembly is configured to measure a characteristic of the sensor-wear material, such as the electrical resistance or the temperature of the sensor-wear... Agent: Honeywell/s&s Patent Services

20100030492 - Apparatus and method for identifying health indicators for rolling element bearings: A method includes receiving an input signal containing information associated with a rolling element bearing and/or a piece of equipment containing the rolling element bearing. The method also includes decomposing the input signal into a frequency-domain signal and determining at least one family of frequencies corresponding to at least one... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20100030493 - Method for non-intrusive on-line detection of turbine blade condition: A system for on-line detection of incipient cracks in turbine blades to serve as early warning system for turbine blade failure. The system of non-intrusive detection of turbine blade condition of the invention is simple and cost effective and would enable assessing the health of the turbine blade during plant... Agent: The Law Office Of Michael E. Kondoudis

20100030495 - Hall effect helicopter mast torque meter: A Hall effect helicopter mast torque meter includes a stand pipe, a first magnet, a second magnet, and a sensor. The stand pipe is connected to the top of the mast such that the stand pipe rotates at the same velocity as the mast. The first magnet is operably associated... Agent: Law Offices Of James E. Walton, PLLC

20100030494 - Portable electronic apparatus for collecting impact information: A portable electronic apparatus for collecting impact information includes a body, a piezoelectric element, a processing element, and a storage element. The piezoelectric element covers the body and generates an electrical signal when experiencing a force from an impact. The processing element, connected to the piezoelectric element, converts the electrical... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20100030496 - Leakage detection and fluid level prognostics for aircraft hydraulic systems: A method for detecting and predicting total hydraulic fluid level for aircraft hydraulic systems includes determining an estimated value for a parameter indicative of total fluid level or mass. Each new value is combined with an historical indication (e.g., from previous flights) to provide a prediction for the future value... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100030497 - Integrated circuit characterisation system and method: There is presented a system and method for characterizing an integrated circuit (IC) for comparison with a pre-defined system-level characteristic related to an aspect of IC operation, wherein a test procedure on the IC that invokes this aspect is executed, while at least one operational bottleneck is invoked to constrain... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20100030498 - Secondary battery deterioration judging device and backup power supply: A secondary battery deterioration judging device is provided with an overdischarge detecting section for detecting the overdischarge of a secondary battery, the deterioration of which is to be judged, a computing section for integrating a value indicating the deterioration of the secondary battery while the overdischarge is detected by the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20100030499 - Status detector for power supply, power supply, and initial characteristic extracting device for use with power supply: In a status detector for a power supply, a power supply, and an initial characteristic extracting device for use with the power supply, a measuring unit obtains measured values of at least current, voltage and temperature of the electricity accumulating unit. A processing unit executes status detection of the electricity... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20100030500 - Regulation of power consumption for application-specific integrated circuits: Provided are systems, methods, and computer program products for regulating power consumption in application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs)—such as, for example, a graphics processing unit. In such a method, a value of a leakage current of an ASIC is received from computer-readable information contained in the ASIC. One or more operational... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20100030501 - General-purpose ac impedance metering and recording device: The present invention relates to a general-purpose security-enhanced recording device with unlimited memory to store AC impedances being measured. The device adopts a processor unit to perform a systematic combined computation control and employs a portable mass data storage technique to provide users unlimited storage capacity for automatic storage space... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20100030502 - Stray flux processing method and system: A method of and system for processing stray flux data associated with a synchronous electrical machine; the method comprising capturing stray flux data from the synchronous electrical machine; generating a stray flux waveform using at least the captured stray flux data; analysing the generated stray flux waveform and the captured... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20100030504 - Data measurement methods and systems: Methods are described for measuring data in a test setup including an impedance tuner. In an exemplary embodiment, the data is data for measuring noise parameters. The data is measured versus a sweep parameter for one tuner state at a time.... Agent: Law Offices Of Larry K. Roberts, Inc.

20100030503 - System and circuit for determining data signal jitter via asynchronous sampling: A system and circuit for determining data signal jitter via asynchronous sampling provides a low cost and production-integrable mechanism for measuring data signal jitter. The data signal is edge-detected and sampled by a sampling clock of unrelated frequency the sampled values are collected in a histogram according to a folding... Agent: Ibm Corporation (mh) C/o Mitch Harris, Attorney At Law, L.L.C.

20100030505 - Remote diagnostics for electronic whiteboard: A method and apparatus for diagnosing causes of a malfunction of an electronic whiteboard that includes a white-board surface, a position sensor for sensing surface activity and generating at least one of X and Y coordinates associated with the surface activity and a local computer that runs board software to... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20100030506 - Correction of non-uniformity of response in sensor arrays: A microbolometer comprises an array of sensor elements or ‘pixels’ each individually responsive to generate an output indicative of the intensity of infrared radiation incident thereupon. In practice there are significant non-uniformities in the response of each pixel and further processing of the outputs must take place to generate an... Agent: Barlow, Josephs & Holmes, Ltd.

20100030507 - Dynamic determination of a minimal configured product to achieve desired test coverage: The present disclosure is directed to a method for determining dynamic test coverage for a product. The method may comprise: receiving a customer order, the customer order comprising at least one product configuration; receiving a rule set associated with the at least one product configuration; analyzing the rule set to... Agent: Ibm Corporation (swp)

20100030508 - Pin electronics circuit, semiconductor device test equipment and system: A main driver and a sub-driver control circuit are provided respectively to receive a test pattern signal for testing a device. The main driver drives the test pattern signal to output a first driven signal. The sub-driver control circuit modifies the test pattern signal to output a modified pattern signal.... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20100030509 - Synchronizing a loop performed by a measurement device with a measurement and control loop performed by a processor of a host computer: Various embodiments of a system and method for performing a measurement application are described herein. The system may include a host computer having a processor, and a measurement device having a programmable hardware element. The programmable hardware element may be configured to perform a loop to acquire measurement data from... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20100030510 - Method for determining the temperature of an electrical component with the aid of a temperature model: A method for determining the temperature or the ohmic resistance of an electrical component, especially of a coil of a magnetic valve. The component temperature is estimated with the aid of a temperature model, which is able to determine the curve of the component temperature even during a control of... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20100030511 - Method and device for determining a speed of an object: A device for determining a speed of an object, having a receiver for receiving a pulse, having a characteristic signal sequence, which is emitted or reflected from an object; a signal processing device for providing transformed signal sequences for various speeds, the signal sequences being determined from the characteristic signal... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20100030512 - Determination and wireless communication of sensed vehicle data for computing vehicle speed: The present invention is a system for determining vehicle speed. The system has a sensor mounted on a wheel rotatably mounted on the vehicle for sensing centripetal acceleration of said wheel. The sensor generates a signal indicative of the sensed centripetal acceleration, and is arranged to wirelessly transmit the signal.... Agent: Daimlerchrysler Intellectual Capital Corporation Cims 483-02-19

20100030513 - Method for disposing power/ground plane of pcb: A method for disposing power planes and ground planes of a printed circuit board (PCB), said method comprising the steps of: providing a PCB on which is disposed with a geometric layout and a via hole; providing a line on said PCB for intersecting said geometric layout to form a... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20100030514 - Method and device for determining the outlet cross-section of a component of a gas turbine: A method for determining the outlet cross-section of a component including one or more turbine blades, in particular of a turbine blade twin, of a gas turbine, in which at least one closed outlet cross-section is measured between the turbine blades, and/or respective open outlet cross-sections are measured on the... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20100030515 - Optical instrument and method for obtaining distance and image information: An optical instrument and a method for obtaining distance and image information of an object is disclosed to improve the speed and accuracy of data acquisition. The instrument comprises a camera, positioning unit, distance measuring unit, lens arrangement and control unit. The camera acquires images of an object and the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20100030516 - Delay variation analysis apparatus and delay variation calculation method: A method for analyzing a delay time distribution of an N-stage circuit. The method includes a delay time calculation step of calculating maximum deviation delay time of a signal propagating through the circuit and basic delay time of the circuit, a delay variation calculation step of calculating a delay variation... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100030517 - Method and device for the determination of a statistical measurement value: A method and a device for determining a statistical parameter for all frequencies of a frequency distribution of signal levels of a test signal registered respectively in several observation intervals counts the frequency of the signal level of the test signal measured in each case within the respective signal-level range... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20100030518 - Method and system for determining histogram density estimators: A method and system for determining histogram density estimators for data samples. A supremum and/or infimum of a likelihood function of histogram densities for each histogram shape in a generated set of all possible histogram shapes is determined. The supremum and/or infimum is a statistical estimate that maximizes and/or minimizes... Agent: Lesavich High-tech Law Group, P.C.

20100030519 - System for real-time object damage detection and evaluation: A method for determining a probability of damage by an object to be evaluated, including propagating a kinematic state of the object to be evaluated; determining a plurality of probabilities of damage; determining whether each probability of damage is feasible and creating a set of probabilities of feasible damage for... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20100030520 - System for real-time object detection and interception: A system for determining a probability of interception by an interceptor of an object to be intercepted is disclosed herein. The system includes means for propagating a kinematic state of the object to be intercepted; means for determining a plurality of probabilities of intercept; means for determining whether an intercept... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20100030521 - Method for analyzing and classifying process data: Process data mining system and method. The system analyzes data from complex process plants or systems and operates in open-book and closed-book modes. In closed-book mode, the system monitors incoming data sets against pre-defined clusters of data values and generates reports, indicating whether incoming data is a match or a... Agent: Bohan Mathers

20100030522 - Charged particle beam writing apparatus and method for diagnosing dac amplifier unit in charged particle beam writing apparatus: The charged particle beam writing apparatus includes a position deflection control circuit. First digital data that is to be used for circuit diagnosis is transmitted from the position deflection control circuit to the DAC amplifier unit at the same rate as a rate of writing on a product reticle and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100030523 - Passenger conveyer abnormality diagnosis system: In a passenger conveyer abnormality diagnosis system, sound data of escalator operating sound of a plurality of revolutions is collected by a moving sound collector provided for an inspection step and then processed into a data set for diagnosis with an accidental external noise component removed. The data set for... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20100030524 - Automated benchmarking of software: Methods for automated benchmarking of views of one or more windows of an application. The methods analyzes content of a window to benchmark views in the window automatically once a target application and/or target window have been specified for benchmarking by a user. Benchmarking is performed without requiring the addition... Agent: Adeli & Tollen, LLP