Patents and Patent Applications from Carnegie Mellon University


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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.
7615646 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′-dymethyl-3H-indole and its derivatives as intermediates for...
US20090253025 Sodium ion based aqueous electrolyte electrochemical secondary energy storage device  
A secondary hybrid aqueous energy storage device includes an anode electrode, a cathode electrode which is capable of reversibly intercalating sodium cations, a separator, and a sodium cation...
7598047 Difference detection methods using matched multiple dyes  
A process and a kit are provided for detecting differences in two or more samples of protein, including proteins bearing post-translational modifications and peptides. Proteins are prepared, for...
US20090248387 Method and apparatus for sampling and predicting rare events in complex electronic devices, circuits and systems  
The invention provides methods for enhancing circuit reliability under statistical process variation. For highly replicated circuits such as SRAMs and flip flops, a rare statistical event for one...
US20090248370 Method and Apparatus for Applying "Quasi-Monte Carlo" Methods to Complex Electronic Devices Circuits and Systems  
The invention discloses a “Quasi-Monte Carlo” method originally intended for computational finance applications and applies said method to statistical circuit analysis. In doing so, it provides...
US20090237987 Crossbar diode-switched magnetoresistive random access memory system  
A magnetic memory or MRAM memory system comprising an M×N crossbar array of MRAM cells. Each memory cell stores binary data bits with switchable magnetoresistive tunnel junctions (MJT) where the...
7590512 System and method for deformation analysis using inverse pre-deformation of finite element mesh  
Finite element analysis methods and computer systems for analyzing deformation to an object are disclosed. According to various embodiments, the method includes the steps of: (1) performing a...
US20090214092 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...
7580798 Method for predicting treatment classes using animal 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...
7572874 Processes based on atom (or group) transfer radical polymerization and novel (co)polymers having useful structures and properties  
Improved processes for atom (or group) transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) and novel polymers have been developed and are described. In certain embodiments, novel copolymers comprising a least...
7566544 Difference detection methods using matched multiple dyes  
A process and a kit are provided for detecting differences in two or more samples of protein, including proteins bearing post-translational modifications and peptides. Proteins are prepared, for...
US20090174614 ANTENNA WITH MULTIPLE CO-LOCATED ELEMENTS WITH LOW MUTUAL COUPLING FOR MULTI-CHANNEL WIRELESS COMMUNICATION  
An antenna that has a number of co-located elements, with no (or very small) coupling between the various elements. The antenna may comprise one or more electric dipole elements, such as an...
US20090171024 PREPARATION OF BLOCK COPOLYMERS  
The present invention is directed towards a polymerization process for the preparation of block copolymers. In an embodiment, the polymerization process may comprise low levels of catalyst in an...
RE40813 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...
US20090163810 Sensor Guided Catheter Navigation System  
A method and a system for producing images of a subject, such as the heart of a human being. The method may comprise acquiring ultrasound images of the subject with a catheter comprising a position...
US20090140881 Vehicle-use visual field assistance system in which information dispatch apparatus transmits images of blind spots to vehicles  
A camera of a ground-based information dispatch apparatus captures a blind-spot image, showing a region that is a blind spot with respect to a vehicle driver. A vehicle-mounted camera captures a...
US20090132064 Apparatuses, Systems, and Methods Utilizing Adaptive Control  
A method for controlling a process, wherein the process has an input and an output, and including controlling the input to the process; predicting the output of the process based on a first set of...
US20090094578 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DESIGNING ARCHITECTURE FOR SPECIFIED PERMUTATION AND DATAPATH CIRCUITS FOR PERMUTATION  
Computer-implemented systems and methods that provide an efficient technique for performing a large class of permutations on data vectors of length 2 n , n>1, implemented with streaming width 2...
US20090089731 TUNABLE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN FOR NANO-SCALE TECHNOLOGIES  
The invention discloses a method for tuning nano-scale analog-circuit designs in order to reduce random-device mismatches and optimize said design, where nano-scale devices potentially have...
US20090081068 Ultra-High Strength Stainless Steels  
An ultra-high strength stainless steel alloy with enhanced toughness includes in % by weight: 0 to 0.06% carbon (C); 12.0 to 18% chromium (Cr); 16.5 to 31.0% cobalt (Co); 0 to 8% molybdenum (Mo);...
US20090074673 Compositions and methods for producing cellular labels for nuclear magnetic resonance techniques  
The disclosure provides, in part, compositions and methods for producing cellular labels for tracking cells by MRI. The disclosure provides, in part, methods for labeling, detecting and quantifying...
7502511 Shape grammar interpreter  
Parametric shape recognition is achieved through a decomposition of shapes into a hierarchy of subshapes ordered by their decreasing restrictions. Instances of each of the subshapes are...
US20090043052 LIVING SYNTHESIS OF CONDUCTING POLYMERS INCLUDING REGIOREGULAR POLYMERS, POLYTHIOPHENES, AND BLOCK COPOLYMERS  
Regioregular poly(3-alkylthiophenes) and other polythiophenes can be prepared by living polymerization which have good solubility, processability and environmental stability. The polymerization...
7483569 Reduced complexity correlation filters  
A methodology is described to reduce the complexity of filters for face recognition by reducing the memory requirement to, for example, 2 bits/pixel in the frequency domain. Reduced-complexity...
7464583 Methods and apparatuses using proximal probes  
Apparatuses and methods for using proximal probes. A method includes measuring motion of an oscillating probe, producing a signal indicative of motion of the oscillating probe, and filtering the...
US20080292554 Cellular Labeling for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Techniques  
The disclosure provides, in part, fluorocarbon imaging reagents and formulations for the ex vivo labeling of cells. Labeled cells may be detected in vivo or ex vivo by a nuclear magnetic resonance...
US20080286329 Methods and Apparatus for Manufacturing Plasma Based Plastics and Bioplastics Produced Therefrom  
Blood-derived plastic articles prepared from compositions including blood and, in some embodiments, at least one crosslinking agent and/or at least one biological response modifier, that can be...
7452958 Living synthesis of conducting polymers including regioregular polymers, polythiophenes, and block copolymers  
Regioregular poly(3-alkylthiophenes) and other polythiophenes can be prepared by living polymerization which have good solubility, processability and environmental stability. The polymerization...
US20080264795 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...
US20080245173 SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING THE MOVEMENT OF A MULTI-LINKED DEVICE  
A system for controlling the movement of a steerable multi-linked device may include a steerable multi-linked device a feeder mechanism releaseably connected to the steerable multi-linked device...
US20080217498 MULTI-LINKED DEVICE HAVING A REINFORCING MEMBER  
A steerable multi-linked device may include a first multi-linked mechanism and a second multi-linked mechanism. At least one of the first multi-linked mechanism and the second multi-linked...
7424077 Jitter sensitive maximum-a-posteriori sequence detection  
A channel detector has an anchor points inserter, a desired signal calculator, a distance calculator and a data detector. The anchor points inserter is adapted to choose values of expected...
US20080205980 SYSTEM FOR RELEASABLY ATTACHING A DISPOSABLE DEVICE TO A DURABLE DEVICE  
A system for releasably attaching a steerable disposable multi-linked device to a durable device may include a disposable portion and a durable portion. The disposable portion may include a...
7418680 Method and system to check correspondence between different representations of a circuit  
A method to check correspondence between different representations of a circuit may include abstracting a first computer language representation of the circuit to form a first abstract model of the...
7415156 Parametric shape grammar interpreter  
Parametric shape recognition is achieved through a decomposition of shapes into a hierarchy of subshapes ordered by their decreasing restrictions. Instances of each of the subshapes are...
7408062 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.
7407995 Synthesis of MDH-polymer hybrid particles  
Disclosed is the preparation of organic/inorganic hybrid particles comprising magnesium hydroxide cores and tethered copolymer chains whose composition can be selected to allow dispersion in...
US20080180827 Binary anisotropy media  
A magnetic microstructure comprising (i) a magnetic storage layer having a magnetic easy axis perpendicular to a film plane of the storage magnetic layer; (ii) a magnetic assist layer having a...
US20080146754 UNIVERSAL GIRNARD METATHESIS POLYMERIZATION  
Universal Grignard Metathesis (GRIM) reactions which provide access to conjugated polymers by GRIM methods. A method comprising: providing an unsaturated ring compound comprising at least two...
7387712 Catalytic process for the treatment of organic compounds  
A process for the catalytic reaction of organic compounds, in which the organic compounds are contacted with a catalyst comprising an interstitial metal hydride, having a reaction surface, to...
US20080137051 Lithography and Associated Methods, Devices, and Systems  
An apparatus for forming an energy pattern on a target, comprising a projector including a first row of spaced-apart energy outlets arranged in a first pattern, a second row of spaced apart energy...
US20080132670 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...
US20080131323 Apparatuses, Systems, and Methods Utilizing Laminar Flow Interface Control and for Controlling Laminar Flow Interface  
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for controlling the position of the interface between two or more laminar flow stream in a microfluidic device. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a first...
7383136 Fundamental mistuning model for determining system properties and predicting vibratory response of bladed disks  
A reduced order model called the Fundamental Mistuning Model (FMM) accurately predicts vibratory response of a bladed disk system. The FMM software may describe the normal modes and natural...
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