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US20080313623 CHANGING METADATA WITHOUT INVALIDATING CURSORS  
A method and apparatus for changing versioned metadata without invalidating cursors is provided. Cursors may be linked to the appropriate version of metadata at execution time as opposed to...
US20080307582 Support Device of the Mattress Type Comprising A Heterogeneous Inflatable Structure  
A mattress has at least one inflatable top layer made up of a plurality of adjacent elements that are secured together and that are individually inflatable by a pneumatic inflation and pressure...
US20080311353 REINFORCED FABRIC HAVING A THERMALLY FUSED MAT  
A reinforced fabric comprising a fiber group and a mat. The fiber group includes a plurality fibers positioned substantially parallel to one another. The mat is formed of a plurality of threads...
US20080313598 Technique for managing the process of developing software  
A system that manages development of software is described. During operation, this system aggregates status information and requirement information as a function of time, where the status...
US20080311764 Swivel Wall Port For Coaxial Cable  
A combination of a swivel port and a wall plate includes a body interconnected with a female connector or a double-female coaxial cable connector such that moving the body moves the connector and...
US20080311258 Package For Lump Of Meat Having Void Within The Inside Thereof And Method For Production Thereof  
[PROBLEMS] To provide a package for a lump of meat having voids within the inside thereof, which has an external form being substantially the same as that of a conventional package, is free from...
US20080313537 DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND PROGRAM  
A method is described for displaying a preview image of a document in which a plurality of constituents is defined. The includes setting an authority for each user with respect to each constituent;...
US20080310722 IDENTIFYING CHARACTER INFORMATION IN MEDIA CONTENT  
Implementations of identifying character information in media content are described. In one implementation, a frame of media content is marked with a frame identifier including one or more known...
US20080307889 Pressure Transponder With Surface Accoustic Wave Sensor  
The invention relates to a pressure sensor, the measuring cell of which is provided with at least one membrane for the protection of the pressure-sensitive element and a measuring chamber, filled...
US20080313552 Method for Customizing Cover for Electronic Device  
A method and system for customizing a cover for an electronic device is provided. A plurality of templates associated with a plurality of electronic devices are provided. A client may select a...
US20080307731 Panel for Floor Coverings and Wall and Ceiling Linings, and a Method for Producing the Panel  
The present invention relates to a method for producing a two-dimensional panel ( 1 ) for floor coverings, wall and ceiling coverings, preferably for moisture-prone rooms, comprising the following...
US20080311553 Perfusion and/or preservation solution for organs  
The present invention relates to a solution for preservation, perfusion, and/or reperfusion of an organ, especially the heart, for transplantation. The solution contains peptide inhibitor(s) of...
US20080310990 Stainless Steel Pipe Having Excellent Expandability for Oil Country Tubular Goods  
There is provided a cost-effective stainless steel pipe having excellent expandability for oil country tubular goods, the stainless steel pipe having excellent CO 2 corrosion resistance under a...
US20080308202 Buckle cover  
A buckle protector for preventing contact between an overall buckle and an automatic dryer. The protector comprises a buckle cover having a button hole for receiving the buckle button, and an...
US20080309201 ULTRASONIC SENSOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME  
An ultrasonic sensor with stabilized transmitting/receiving characteristics capable of achieving a desired directivity easily and at low cost and a method for manufacturing the same are provided....
US20080308245 Moistening Nozzle of a Paper Web  
A moistening nozzle of a paper web comprises a frame ( 1 ) into which air and water are conducted. Inside the frame ( 1 ) there is arranged a water nozzle ( 2 ) wherewith water is conducted to an...
US20080311363 METAL FIBER COATED SUBSTRATE AND METHOD OF MAKING  
The disclosed metalized article comprises a substrate, a base binder, and a plurality of loose metal fibers secured to the substrate by the base binder. The method of making the disclosed metalized...
US20080307879 Method for Control of a Thermal/Calorimetric Flow Measuring Device  
A method for control of a thermal, or calorimetric, flow measuring device, which ascertains and/or monitors, by means of two temperature sensors, the flow of a measured medium through a pipeline or...
US20080312526 HYBRID PET/MR IMAGING SYSTEMS  
A hybrid imaging system includes a magnetic resonance scanner and a second modality imaging system disposed in the same radio frequency isolation space. The second modality imaging system includes...
US20080309065 PRINTABLE MULTI-PART FORM  
A multi-part form includes a wristband with related tags and labels. The tags are configured for mounting on the wristband after the wristband has been secured to a person of object to be...
US20080308526 Minimization of mask undercut on deep silicon etch  
A method for forming features in a silicon layer is provided. A mask is formed with a plurality of mask openings over the silicon layer. A polymer layer is deposited over the mask by flowing a...
US20080310226 Multi-Bit Flash Memory Devices Having a Single Latch Structure and Related Programming Methods, Systems and Memory Cards  
Multi-bit flash memory devices are provided. The multi-bit flash memory device includes an array of memory cells and a page buffer block including page buffers. Each of the page buffers has a...
US20080309813 Imaging device and method  
Disclosed herein is an imaging device including an imaging lens; a microlens array section; an imaging element; and a transporting section adapted to transport the microlens array section.
US20080313583 Apparatus and Method for Testing Sub-Systems of a System-on-a-Chip Using a Configurable External System-on-a-Chip  
An apparatus and method are provided in which a previously verified SoC is coupled to a SoC under test via a communication bus or other type of communication interface. The previously verified SoC...
US20080310303 QUALITY OF SERVICE INFORMATION CONFIGURATION  
Quality of service information can be used to facilitate wireless communication. A network entity, such as a terminal, as well as a network can initialize an authorization to establish a link using...
US20080309244 Primary-side driving control circuit for backlight of LCD panel  
The present invention discloses a primary-side driving backlight circuit for LCD panel. The primary-side driving backlight circuit employs a single isolation device to achieve isolation request for...
US20080310840 Optical Communication Network and Method of Routing in the Network  
A network with nodes interconnected by optical fiber links carrying an optical communication channel having a single optical wavelength. In the network, at least two network nodes operate as...
US20080309331 GIANT MAGNETORESISTIVE RESISTOR AND SENSOR APPARATUS AND METHOD  
A giant magnetoresistive sensor apparatus is described that provides improved multilayer quality, hysteresis, linearity and sensitivity. The multilayer structure includes NiFeCr as buffer and cap...
US20080312540 System and Method for Normalized Flourescence or Bioluminescence Imaging  
A system and method provide normalized fluorescence epi-illumination images and normalized fluorescence transillumination images. The normalization can be used to improve two-dimensional (planar)...
US20080309710 LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS  
A liquid ejecting apparatus includes nozzles that eject a liquid, and n number of nozzle groups. Dot rows along a transport direction formed within the nozzle groups include alternating dense areas...
US20080311240 Steam Agglomeration of Polyols  
The current invention relates to steam agglomeration of polyols. In a typical embodiment steam-agglomerated sorbitol powder is provided. The steam-agglomerated sorbitol is applicable in tablets and...
US20080311502 Toner For Development of Electrostatic Image  
A toner for development of electrostatic images, comprising colored particles and an external additive, wherein the colored particles has a volume average particle diameter of 3 to 10 μm and an...
US20080311673 Biomarkers for Breast Cancer  
The present invention provides protein-based biomarkers and biomarker combinations that are useful in qualifying breast cancer status in a patient. In particular, the biomarkers of this invention...
US20080310197 POWER SUPPLY INPUT DEVICE  
A power supply input device including a first resistance of a discharge resistance conversion unit connected in parallel to a discharge resistance unit; and a switching unit of the discharge...
US20080313241 DISTRIBUTED DATA STORAGE USING ERASURE RESILIENT CODING  
An erasure resilient coding (ERC) distributed data storage system and method for storing data in a reliable and survivable fashion while minimizing hardware and associated costs. The system and...
US20080307874 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING LOWER EXTREMITY VOLUME  
An apparatus for measuring volume of a lower extremity includes a substantially elastic sock body with a leg end, a toe end, and a length between the leg end and the toe end. The sock body may be...
US20080308732 System and method for analyzing a thermal image using configurable markers  
A graphical user interface for analyzing thermal images is provided. The interface can be used to identify the temperatures at multiple areas of interest defined on an image. The areas can be...
US20080308156 Textured rear electrode structure for use in photovoltaic device such as CIGS/CIS solar cell  
A photovoltaic device including a rear electrode which may also function as a rear reflector. In certain example embodiments, the rear electrode comprises a reflective film (e.g., of Mo or the...
US20080313609 CORE OBJECT-ORIENTED TYPE SYSTEM FOR SEMI-STRUCTURED DATA  
A type system employing structural subtyping is disclosed herein. A core type system supports several structural types, such as stream, choice, intersection and sequence. Also part of the core type...
US20080308883 MONITORING PATTERN FOR SILICIDE  
Provided is a monitoring pattern for a silicide that may include a plurality of poly pads, a plurality of N-well regions and P-well regions, active regions, and a poly gate line. The plurality of...
US20080310695 Locally Adaptive Nonlinear Noise Reduction  
An imaging scanner ( 10 ) acquires imaging data. A reconstruction processor ( 30 ) reconstructs the imaging data into an unfiltered reconstructed image. A local noise mapping processor ( 64, 120,...
US20080310659 Hearing Aid Having Feedback Signal Reduction Function  
The present invention relates to a hearing aid having feedback signal reduction function. A preferred embodiment of the hearing aid of the present invention having feedback signal reduction...
US20080312859 Method of Calibrating a System for Measuring the Concentration of Substances in Body and an Apparatus for Exercising the Method  
This invention relates to procedures for the calibration of systems for continuously measuring the concentration of substances in a body fluid. The system comprises first and second sensors adapted...
US20080310976 BRUSHLESS MOTOR FUEL PUMP  
The invention relates to a fuel conveying device for conveying fuel towards an internal combustion engine. The fuel conveying device comprises a housing and a head connected to the housing....
US20080310835 SYSTEM FOR VALIDATING INSTALLATION OF OPTICAL NETWORK DEVICES  
A system for validating installation of optical network devices is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an optical network device...
US20080308555 Shipping and storage drum with screw on locking cover  
A shipping and storage drum with a screw on locking cover comprises an open end drum, a plastic cover and a locking member. The open head drum comprises a sidewall open at a top end by a threaded...
US20080311628 Methods and compositions for rapid amplification and capture of nucleic acid sequences  
A method for amplifying a nucleic acid sequence includes the steps of (i) providing a first pair of primers that include one or more uracil nucleotides, the primers being complementary to a portion...
US20080311473 CATHODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR A NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND A NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SECONDARY BATTERY THAT USES CATHODE ACTIVE MATERIAL  
The present invention provides a cathode active material that makes possible a high capacity nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery that has excellent discharge load characteristics that provide...
US20080310212 SRAM WITH ASYMMETRICAL PASS GATES  
An SRAM having asymmetrical FET pass gates and a method of fabricating an SRAM having asymmetrical FET pass gates. The pass gates are asymmetrical with respect to current conduction from the drain...
US20080309963 PRINT IMAGE MATCHING PARAMETER EXTRACTION AND RENDERING ON DISPLAY DEVICES  
Techniques are described for automatic print image matching (PIM) parameter extraction. An original image is captured and PIM parameter data is extracted automatically based on specifics of the...