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US20080042914 COMPACT RADIO FREQUENCY TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING ANTENNA AND CONTROL DEVICE EMPLOYING SAME  
An antenna operable to transmit or receive radio frequency signals at a specified frequency, the antenna comprising a first printed circuit board comprising a first loop of conductive material...
US20080041240 Method and apparatus for removing contaminants from a beverage  
Methods and devices of the invention may be utilized to remove or reduce the quantity of one or more contaminants from a foodstuff, and particularly an alcoholic beverage. A contaminant removing...
US20080046383 System and method for providing a score for a used vehicle  
One embodiment of the system and method described herein provides a score generator system that generates an automated vehicle specific valuation of a used car based on the physical and historical...
US20080043898 Shift register comprising electrical fuse and related method  
A shift register including an electrical fuse and a method of operating the shift register are disclosed. The shift register includes a register flip-flop group circuit and a plurality of output...
US20080042444 Carriage wheel ocean turbine  
A turbine wheel on a horizontal axis is constructed on a network of cables radially and circumferentially connected and supported centrifugally by a ring with a friction-reduction method to permit...
US20080044218 Piston-type dispenser with one-way valve for storing and dispensing metered amounts of substances  
A dispenser for dispensing a substance, such as a liquid lipstick or other product, has a body defining a variable-volume storage chamber for storing the product. A dispensing portion is connected...
US20080045157 Fault detecting device and fault detecting method for base station and for mobile terminal  
The fault detecting device for a base station including a plurality of baseband processing units each executing signal processing of a set call allocated thereto, comprises a plurality of...
US20080040932 CUTTING DEVICE WITH ACTUATING MECHANSIM  
A device for cutting media is provided. The device includes a cover having a sidewall extending therefrom; a guide disposed substantially beneath the cover and comprising a blade; an actuating...
US20080046337 UNIVERSAL SHOPPING CART AND ORDER INJECTION SYSTEM  
A universal shopping cart is provided that obtains and orders products and services from different merchants located on the Internet. The consumer completes all of their shopping on the shopping...
US20080046425 Gesture detection for a digitizer  
A method for implementing combination gestures with a digitizer comprises storing a database of pre-defined combination gestures, wherein the combination gestures includes input from two different...
US20080046139 Navigational Aid for Diver  
A diver unit computes the direction and distance to a specified target. When the target is obstructed, the diver unit receives navigation assistance data from another diver unit. The navigation...
US20080041577 Screen for Controlling Inflow of Solid Particles in a Wellbore  
A wellbore screen is provided for controlling inflow of solid particles into a wellbore. The wellbore screen comprises a conduit for transport of fluid, the conduit being provided with a filter for...
US20080045823 SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS  
The present disclosure describes a method and an apparatus for analyzing measured signals using various processing techniques. In certain embodiments, the measured signals are physiological...
US20080044753 Binder Resin For Toner, Method For Production Thereof, And Toner  
The present invention relates to a binder resin for a toner which is used in electrophotography and the like. An objective of the present invention is to obtain a binder resin for a toner...
US20080046092 Coil embolization device with stretch resistance fiber  
A vasoocclusive embolic device deployment system for use in the placement of an embolic coil at a treatment site within a vessel. The embolic coil includes an elongated stretch resistant fiber...
US20080041722 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING ELECTOOSMOTIC FLOW BY USING LIGHT  
Electroosmosis is an effective way to move fluids in microfluidic devices. The process is driven by the interaction of a double-layer formed at the surface of the fluid in a microspace of the...
US20080043949 Prepaid telephone calling card audio advertising system and method patent: system and method to broadcast a pre-recorded audio promotional message (advertising, commercial, announcement, or other related activities) through a prepaid telephone calling card  
A system and method to deliver a pre-recorded audio broadcasted promotional message (advertising, commercial, announcement, or other related activities) to people in the public when the targeted...
US20080046852 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF AUTOMATED WIRE AND VIA LAYOUT OPTIMIZATION DESCRIPTION  
A system and method to optimize a circuit layout, and more particularly, to a system and method of post layout data preparation to optimize a circuit layout and reduce random and systematic wire...
US20080046816 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING THE VISIBILITY OF A TREEMAP  
The visibility of a treemap is improved by offsetting the area of a parent node relative to a bounding box containing all of its child nodes while constructing the treemap, so that a part of the...
US20080041581 Apparatus for controlling the inflow of production fluids from a subterranean well  
A fluid flow control apparatus ( 100 ) for controlling the inflow of production fluids from a subterranean well includes a fluid discriminator section ( 104 ) and a flow restrictor section ( 106 )...
US20080044025 Secure Telemetric Link  
A communications protocol is used to provide data privacy, message integrity, message freshness, and user authentication to telemetric traffic, such as to and from implantable medical devices in a...
US20080043887 COMBINED DISCRETE AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL (AGC) AND DC ESTIMATION  
A wireless communications receiver includes a memory configured to store offset values corresponding to respective gain settings. A gain controller is configured to continuously select one of the...
US20080042670 Probe station  
A probe station for testing a wafer.
US20080046124 SYSTEM FOR LAPPING RING AND PINION GEARS  
A system for lapping gear sets with a ring gear and a pinion gear. The system includes a lapping machine tool and a robot. The lapping machine tool has a first spindle and a second spindle. The...
US20080045442 Cleaning compositions comprising surfactant boosting polymers  
A method of identifying, selecting, and designing polymers that give surfactant boosting properties in the presence of free ion hardness. Such methods also result in increased cleaning when used in...
US20080044804 COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR DETECTION AND ISOLATION OF PHOSPHORYLATED MOLECULES  
The present invention relates to phosphate-binding compounds that find use in binding, detecting and isolating phosphorylated target molecules including the subsequent identification of target...
US20080043654 Systems and methods for wireless communication over a wide bandwidth channel using a plurality of sub-channels  
A method of communicating over a wideband communication channel divided into a plurality of sub-channels comprises dividing a single serial message intended for one of the plurality of...
US20080045671 Cross-Linkable Siloxane Urea Copolymers  
Organopolysiloxaneurea polymers with good melt viscosity but which effectively crosslink in the presence of moisture contain alkylalkoxysilane or alkylaminoalkylalkoxysilane groups pendant to the...
US20080042364 MAGNETICALLY-CONTROLLED ROTARY SEAL  
A non-contacting rotary face seal assembly includes a first sealing member, including a first sealing face and a first magnetic element; and a second sealing member, including a second sealing face...
US20080046564 Systems, methods and protocols for securing data in transit over networks  
Methods, systems, and protocols are described for securing data in transit over networks. A communication session is initiated between a client and a server. One or more communication channels can...
US20080046856 Degeneration technique for designing memory devices  
A system, method and computer program product are provided for producing an instance of a memory device from a banked memory architecture. The banked memory architecture specifies a maximum number...
US20080046465 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING PROFILES IN COMMUNICATIONS DEVICES BASED ON A COMPUTER APPLICATION ENVIRONMENT  
A system and method for managing a device profile in a communications device based on a computer application environment wherein the device profile is indicative of a computer application...
US20080042275 STRUCTURE FOR BUMPED WAFER TEST  
A semiconductor package includes a substrate having a bond pad disposed on a top surface of the substrate. A first passivation layer is formed over the substrate and bond pad. The first passivation...
US20080043516 Non-volatile, static random access memory with regulated erase saturation and program window  
A system and method for regulating the erase saturation in a semiconductor memory is disclosed. More particularly, the present invention measures the under-erase and over-erase condition of all...
US20080044914 Protein Crystallization Screening and Optimization Droplet Actuators, Systems and Methods  
Protein crystallization screening and optimization droplet actuators, systems and methods are provided. According to one embodiment, a screening droplet actuator is provided and includes: (a) a...
US20080043749 Methods for Associating an IP Address to a User Via an Appliance  
The intranet IP address management solution of the appliance and/or client described herein provides an environment for efficiently assigning, managing and querying virtual private network...
US20080046631 Memory control device  
To provide a technology of increasing the number of ranks of a memory module with a small change in architecture. A memory control device accessing a memory module having a plurality of ranks,...
US20080042460 Apparatus for securing and carrying a package  
An apparatus for securing and carrying a package is disclosed, thereby facilitating inspection of the secured package at travel centers and security checkpoints given the quick-release nature of...
US20080046300 METHOD TO IMPROVE REQUIREMENTS, DESIGN MANUFACTURING, AND TRANSPORTATION IN MASS MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES THROUGH ANALYSIS OF DEFECT DATA  
A computer-implemented method of optimizing at least one of a design, production and testing process in a mass manufacturing process includes steps of: collecting error data relating to a product...
US20080044106 Image data enlarging/reducing apparatus enlarging/reducing image data by direct memory access transfer  
When a line number counted by a line number counting unit corresponds to a prescribed line number, a transfer source address generating unit adds an offset address set in an offset address setting...
US20080041535 Child safe cord lock  
A cord lock for window coverings has one or more cams adjacent a locking surface over which a one or more lift cords travel. The cams may be spring biased to a locked position in which they press...
US20080044075 Doped Lithium Fluoride Monochromator For X-Ray Analysis  
The invention relates to a crystalline lithium fluoride doped with at least 0.018 mol per kg of a divalent positive ion M present in the fluoride state, in particular of the single-crystal type....
US20080041613 Operation device  
An operation device includes a front panel having an opening for operation, an elastically deformable operation component having an operation button and being attached to the front panel so as to...
US20080046911 MOVEABLE MONITORING EQUIPMENT AND REMOTE MONITORING AND DIRECTING SYSTEM  
A remote monitoring and directing system including at least one video camera at the first-aid side to observe the situation of casualty and the operation on the casualty is provided. At least one...
US20080043107 Mediation Device and Method for Remotely Controlling a Camera of a Security System Using Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency (DTMF) Signals  
A mediation device located in the user's home receives dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) signals via a Plane Old Telephone Service (POTS) connection and decodes the signals into signals that are...
US20080042885 Hangeul Input Keypad and Method Using the Same  
The present invention relates to a Hangeul input keypad and a method using the same. Basic consonants and basic vowels are assigned to the Hangeul input keypad, the number of the basic...
US20080043248 PHOTONIC CRYSTAL SENSORS USING BAND EDGE AND/OR DEFECT MODE MODULATION  
A photonic crystal (PC) based structure is proposed for sensing exceptionally small refractive index changes of a medium. In a typical photonic crystal, the location of the band edges and the...
US20080045194 System and Method for Pushing Information Between a Host System and a Mobile Data Communication Device  
A scheme for redirecting messages with an appropriate tag line. In one embodiment, a method comprises one or more of the following: receiving a notification that a message is available for...
US20080044427 PLANT VIRUS  
The invention relates to the field of virology. The invention provides an isolated plant virus (ToTV) named Tomato torrado virus (ToTV), and components thereof. The invention further relates to...
US20080043620 EARLY TRAFFIC REGULATION TECHNIQUES TO PROTECT AGAINST NETWORK FLOODING  
Methods and apparatus for providing an Anti-Flooding Flow-Control (AFFC) mechanism suitable for use in defending against flooding network Denial-of-Service (N-DoS) attacks is described. Features of...