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7825199 Catalytic processes for the controlled polymerization of free radically (co)polymerizable monomers and functional polymeric systems prepared thereby  
Further improvements have been made in processes for controlled polymerization of free radically (co)polymerizable monomers mediated by a transition metal complex participating in a redox reaction...
7822266 System and method for generating a terrain model for autonomous navigation in vegetation  
The disclosed terrain model is a generative, probabilistic approach to modeling terrain that exploits the 3D spatial structure inherent in outdoor domains and an array of noisy but abundant sensor...
US20100267008 CHIRAL INDOLE INTERMEDIATES AND THEIR FLUORESCENT CYANINE DYES CONTAINING FUNCTIONAL GROUPS  
This invention relates to the functionalized cyanine dyes and more particularly, to the synthesis of chiral 3-substituted 2,3′-dimethyl-3H-indole and its derivatives as intermediates for p...
US20100265028 SOFT MAGNETIC ALLOY AND USES THEREOF  
The invention discloses a soft magnetic amorphous alloy and a soft magnetic nanocomposite alloy formed from the amorphous alloy. Both alloys comprise a composition expressed by the following...
7807963 Method and apparatus for an improved mass spectrometer  
An apparatus including a plurality of electrodes defining a trapping chamber of an ion trap, wherein at least one of the electrodes is a transparent electrode having at least a portion that is both...
US20100249271 HYBRID PARTICE COMPOSITE STRUCTURES WITH REDUCED SCATTERING  
A core-shell composite particle for incorporation into a composite wherein the composite has improved transparency is disclosed. The core-shell composite particle includes a core material having a...
7795355 Preparation of functional polymers  
The process of the present invention is directed toward conducting highly selective, high yield post polymerization reactions on polymers to prepare functionalized polymers. An embodiment of the...
7785180 Method, apparatus, and system for object recognition, object segmentation and knowledge acquisition  
A method, comprising displaying an image to a first player, displaying a portion of the image to a second player wherein the portion of the image displayed to the second player is less than all of...
US20100213059 TRANSIENTLY BONDING DRAG-TAGS FOR SEPARATION MODALITIES  
The invention relates transiently attaching drag-tags to molecules during electrophoresis. The invention includes running buffers having drag-tags that transiently attach to lipophilic moieties...
RE41587 Polythiophenes, block copolymers made therefrom, and methods of forming the same  
The present invention relates to polythiophenes, particularly regioregular head-to-tail poly(3-alkylthiophenes) (HT-PATs), block copolymers made therefrom, and their methods of formation. The...
7780842 Apparatus and method for determining the zeta potential of surfaces for the measurement of streaming metrics related thereto  
Methods and apparatuses for measuring streaming metrics. A method for measuring a streaming metric corresponding to a rotating surface is characterized by rotating the surface around an axis of...
7776600 Method of manufacturing hydroxyapatite and uses therefor in delivery of nucleic acids  
Provided is a method for production of nanocrystalline hydroxyapatite particles, and nanocrystalline hydroxyapatite particles produced according to the method. The nanocrystalline hydroxyapatite...
7770080 Using neighborhood functions to extract logical models of physical failures using layout based diagnosis  
A method and apparatus are disclosed in which defect behavior in an integrated circuit is discovered and modeled rather than assuming defect behavior in the form of a fault. A plurality of tests...
7752045 Systems and methods for comparing speech elements  
A method for comparing a first audio data source with a plurality of audio data sources, wherein the first audio data source has an utterance spoken by a first person and the plurality of audio...
7750163 Cyanine dye labelling reagents  
Disclosed are cyanine dyes that are useful for labeling and detecting biological and other materials. The dyes are of formula (I) in which groups R3 and R4 are attached to the Z1 ring structure and...
7749792 Self-assembling MEMS devices having thermal actuation  
The present disclosure is broadly directed to a method for designing new MEMS micro-movers, particularly suited for, but not limited to, CMOS fabrication techniques, that are capable of large...
US20100143286 Preparation of functional gel particles with a dual crosslink network  
Functional gel particle formed from a crosslinked polymeric network including a fraction of stable crosslinks and a second fraction of cleavable crosslinks are disclosed. Functional compounds may...
7735066 Debugging interface  
A software tool and method is provided in which a user can ask questions about their computer programs. As the subject program is executed, information is collected about the units of code that are...
US20100136281 DRY ADHESIVES AND METHODS FOR MAKING DRY ADHESIVES  
A dry adhesive and a method of forming a dry adhesive. The method includes forming an opening through an etch layer and to a barrier layer, expanding the opening in the etch layer at the barrier...
7729542 Using edges and corners for character input  
A new unistroke text entry method for handheld or wearable devices is designed to provide high accuracy and stability of motion. The user makes characters by traversing the edges and diagonals of a...
US20100121577 THREE-DIMENSIONAL LIDAR-BASED CLEAR PATH DETECTION  
A method for detecting a clear path of travel for a vehicle includes generating a datastream corresponding to a three-dimensional scan of a target area surrounding the vehicle from a vehicle LIDAR...
US20100117030 Monocapped conductive polymers with alkenyl or alkynyl end groups and block copolymers therefrom  
Novel polymer compositions which provide controlled end-group functionalization for polythiophenes including regioregular polythiophenes including alkenyl and alkynyl functionalization. Monocapped...
US20100116963 DRAWING SUPPORT DEVICE, DRAWING SUPPORT PROGRAM, AND DRAWING SUPPORT METHOD  
The present invention provides a device capable of supporting drawing work while improving the continuity of the drawing work. According to a drawing support device 1, components corresponding to...
7711964 Method of securing programmable logic configuration data  
The present invention relates to a secure method of distributing configuration data for a programmable logic device (PLD). The configuration data is encrypted to generate encrypted configuration...
US20100106743 Method for Predicting Treatment Classes Using Behavior Informatics  
A system and method used to assess animal behavior includes a module having sensors that collects a variety of physical and biological data from a test subject. Interpretation of the data is...
US20100106603 SYSTEM, METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PREDICTING NAVIGATIONAL DECISION-MAKING BEHAVIOR  
A system method and device for predicting navigational decision-making behavior is provided. The location of a device is used to generate the current location of the device, and a history of past...
US20100104137 CLEAR PATH DETECTION USING PATCH APPROACH  
A method for detecting a clear path of travel for a vehicle utilizing an image generated by a camera device located upon the vehicle includes monitoring the image, and generating a plurality of...
US20100097458 CLEAR PATH DETECTION USING AN EXAMPLE-BASED APPROACH  
A method for detecting a clear path of travel for a vehicle using a current image generated by a camera includes defining an exemplary clear path for each of a plurality of sample images,...
US20100097455 CLEAR PATH DETECTION USING A VANISHING POINT  
A method for estimating a vanishing point in a roadway using a current image generated by a camera on a vehicle includes defining an exemplary vanishing point for each of a plurality of sample...
7702140 Method of assessing a body part  
A method of assessing a body part includes obtaining two or more types of data through a combination of two or more of the following four imaging modalities: (1) obtaining surface topography data...
7698121 Device and method for programmable wideband network emulation  
An emulator for emulating a wireless network comprised of a plurality of RF nodes is comprised of a programmable controller for emulating the movements of the plurality of RF nodes within an...
7678869 Atom or group transfer radical polymerization  
A polymerization process comprising initiating a first polymerization of monomers using an initiator functionalized with an ATRP initiating site, wherein the first polymerization is selected from...
7672908 Intent-based information processing and updates in association with a service agent  
In various embodiments, a method for processing a request made by a requester is provided. The method may include receiving at least one request from at least one requester, the request being in...
7671173 Purification methods and purified polymers  
Metal complexing agents are used to purify polymers including conducting polymers to provide very low metal content. The process comprises precipitating the polymer in solution into a solvent...
US20100037127 APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS TO AUTOMATE A PROCEDURAL TASK  
Methods, apparatuses, and systems to automate a procedural task. In one embodiment, computer-readable memory including computer readable instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the...
US20100031330 METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND FOR ANNOTATING MEDIA FILES  
Methods and apparatuses for controlling access to computer systems and for annotating media files. One embodiment includes a method including generating a challenge to a user, wherein the challenge...
US20100021647 DRY ADHESIVES AND METHODS FOR MAKING DRY ADHESIVES  
Dry adhesives and methods for forming dry adhesives. A method of forming a dry adhesive structure on a substrate, comprises: forming a template backing layer of energy sensitive material on the...
US20100021052 System and method for generating a terrain model for autonomous navigation in vegetation  
The disclosed terrain model is a generative, probabilistic approach to modeling terrain that exploits the 3D spatial structure inherent in outdoor domains and an array of noisy but abundant sensor...
7653524 Analog and radio frequency (RF) system-level simulation using frequency relaxation  
Analog and radio frequency system-level simulation using frequency relaxation. Embodiments of the invention use a frequency relaxation approach for analog/RF system-level simulation that...
7653216 Polyhedron recognition system  
A polyhedron recognition system that is not easily affected by the camera position and camera range when the shape of a staircase or other polyhedron is recognized from an image obtained by...
US20100014713 Road-lane marker detection  
A method is provided for detecting road lane markers using a light-based sensing device. Reflectivity data is captured using the light-based sensing device. A light intensity signal is generated...
US20100013615 Obstacle detection having enhanced classification  
A method and system for sensing an obstacle comprises transmitting an electromagnetic signal from a mobile machine to an object. A reflected electromagnetic signal is received from the object to...
US20090321830 INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF FABRICATION  
A semiconductor device, comprising a first semiconductor portion having a first end, a second end, and a slit portion, wherein the width of the slit portion is less than the width of at least one...
7634248 Configurable circuits using phase change switches  
Configurable circuits using phase change switches are described. The switches use phase change or phase transition material to create configurable connections between devices and/or interconnecting...
US20090301198 Methods, Apparatuses, and Systems for Damage Detection  
Methods, apparatuses, and systems for damage detection and for other detection of the state of a structure or material. Such damage detection and detection of the state of a structure may be...
7625832 Catalyst for the treatment of organic compounds  
A catalyst for the hydroprocessing of organic compounds, composed of an interstitial metal hydride having a reaction surface at which monatomic hydrogen is available. The activity of the catalyst...
US20090287352 ROBOTIC SYSTEM INCLUDING FOLDABLE ROBOTIC ARM  
A system includes an end effector, a robotic wrist for orienting the end effector; and a robotic arm for positioning the end effector. The robotic arm is foldable into a stack. The robotic wrist is...
US20090283949 FINE POSITIONER MODULE  
A fine positioner module is used to perform fine positioning of a device that is pressing against a work surface. In some embodiments, the fine positioner module includes a contact member for...
US20090281279 Rigidized trimethine cyanine dyes  
Disclosed are analogues of trimethine cyanine dyes, which are useful for importing fluorescent properties to target materials by covalent and non-covalent association.
7616412 Perpendicular spin-torque-driven magnetic oscillator  
A perpendicular spin-torque-driven magnetic oscillator is disclosed. According to various embodiments, the magnetic oscillator comprises a magnetic reference stack, a magnetic oscillating stack,...