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20090283445 | FCC reactor and riser design for short contact-time catalytic cracking of hydrocarbons - The present invention is an improved design and operation of a short contact time Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) Reactor wherein the upper internal riser and a lower internal riser are in fluid connection with one another and provide an improved disengaging zone for entraining the vapors from the dilute phase area of the FCC reactor. Detailed preferred embodiments include improvements over the prior art to the internal central riser, riser termination apparatus, cyclone separators, and a coke mitigation baffle system, as well as associated improved fluid catalytic cracking processes utilizing the novel reactor design. | 11-19-2009 |
20110206563 | CIRCULATING FLUID BED REACTOR WITH IMPROVED CIRCULATION - A circulating fluid bed reactor such as that used in fluid coking processes has a circular dense bed reaction section above the reactor base where the fluidizing gas is injected and a plurality of frusto-conical baffles in the dense bed reaction section, each of which depends downwardly and radially inwards from the reactor wall to a lower, inner edge defining a central aperture. The baffles are preferably provided with downcomers which permit downward flow of solids and upward flow of gas through the baffles. | 08-25-2011 |
20110315603 | SPENT CATALYST RISER DISTRIBUTOR - The present invention relates to an improved design for use in fluid cracking processes, preferably used in either a fluid catalytic cracking (“FCC”) process or a fluid coking process. In particular, the present invention relates to an apparatus and process for improving the separation and distributing spent catalyst and gases in a spent catalyst riser associated with a fluid cracking process, and most preferably for use in a spent catalyst riser associated with an FCC regenerator vessel. A novel catalyst distributor design and associated processes are presented herein which significantly improve combustion in the dense-phase fluidized catalyst bed of a regenerator and results in improved regenerator dense bed combustion and lower migration of oxygen into the regenerator overhead region. As a result, afterburn is significantly reduced in the regenerator and higher catalyst bed temperatures are achieved with significantly more uniform bed temperatures due to the improved combustion characteristics in the dense-phase fluidized catalyst bed. | 12-29-2011 |
20130084219 | FCC REACTOR AND RISER DESIGN FOR SHORT CONTACT-TIME CATALYTIC CRACKING OF HYDROCARBONS - The present invention is an improved design and operation of a short contact time Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) Reactor wherein the upper internal riser and a lower internal riser are in fluid connection with one another and provide an improved disengaging zone for entraining the vapors from the dilute phase area of the FCC reactor. Detailed preferred embodiments include improvements over the prior art to the internal central riser, riser termination apparatus, cyclone separators, and a coke mitigation baffle system, as well as associated improved fluid catalytic cracking processes utilizing the novel reactor design. | 04-04-2013 |
20140305841 | METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING CATALYST/OIL MIXING IN AN FCC REACTOR FEED ZONE - A method of improving the uniformity of the contacting of a heavy oil feed with FCC cracking catalyst in the feed zone of an FCC cracking riser in which the heavy oil feed is injected into the catalyst in the riser by means of feed injectors located around the riser, the method comprising minimizing the differences in the temperature profile in the oil/catalyst mixture across the feed zone by varying the oil feed rate to the injectors. | 10-16-2014 |
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20130305292 | MEDIA SYNCHRONIZATION WITHIN HOME NETWORK USING SET-TOP BOX AS GATEWAY - Techniques disclosed herein include systems and methods for transmitting TV program related content to IP connected devices on a home network, or other local area network. Users can watch television while simultaneously receiving content related to TV programs currently being displayed on a television. TV centric and TV program related content can be transmitted to IP connected devices. Moreover, this TV program related content can be displayed at the same time as a television program is being displayed on a television. As such, the system can provide media synchronization within home network using the set-top box as a gateway for delivering the content. Users can watch TV at home, and at the same time receive TV program related content on a laptop, tablet computer, mobile phone, etc. | 11-14-2013 |
20140351846 | METHODS AND APPARTUS FOR PROVIDING PARENTAL OR GUARDIAN CONTROL AND VISUALIZATION OVER COMMUNICATIONS TO VARIOUS DEVICES IN THE HOME - Methods and apparatus for providing a supervisor such as a parent or guardian with a way to monitor and control the delivery of content, e.g., video and audio programs, to users of devices within a home. Exemplary embodiments include methods and apparatus for operating a home network monitoring device located in a home including detecting delivery of content to one or more users in the home, storing, in the home, portions of content delivered to a first user, presenting some of the stored portions of content to a person responsible for setting content restrictions applicable to the first user, and subjecting further content delivery to the first user via the home network to restrictions established by the person responsible for setting content restrictions applicable to the first user. Some embodiments also detect and report potential attacks, e.g., cyber attacks, on the home network. | 11-27-2014 |
20140351860 | MEDIA SYNCHRONIZATION WITHIN HOME NETWORK USING SET-TOP BOX AS GATEWAY - Techniques disclosed herein include systems and methods for transmitting TV program related content to IP connected devices on a home network, or other local area network. Users can watch television while simultaneously receiving content related to TV programs currently being displayed on a television. TV centric and TV program related content can be transmitted to IP connected devices. Moreover, this TV program related content can be displayed at the same time as a television program is being displayed on a television. As such, the system can provide media synchronization within home network using the set-top box as a gateway for delivering the content. Users can watch TV at home, and at the same time receive TV program related content on a laptop, tablet computer, mobile phone, etc. | 11-27-2014 |
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20080217239 | Liquid filtration media - A liquid filter with a composite medium that has a nanoweb adjacent to and optionally bonded to a microporous membrane. The membrane is characterized by an LRV value of 3.7 at a rated particle size, and the nanoweb has a fractional filtration efficiency of greater than 0.95 at the rated particle size of the membrane. The nanoweb also has a thickness efficiency ratio of greater than 0.01 at that efficiency. The nanoweb acts to provide depth filtration to the membrane, prefilters particles and extends the lifetime of the membrane. | 09-11-2008 |
20080306229 | Transition Metal-Catalyzed Synthesis of Dendritic Polymers - Dendritic amphiphilic polymers are contemplated. Most preferably, such polymers will be fabricated in a single step to the final product that may further be derivatized with, among others, biological relevant molecules. In alternative aspects, precursors of such molecules are prepared in a single step, and the precursors are then reacted to the dendritic amphiphilic polymers. | 12-11-2008 |
20090261035 | NANOWEBS - A nonwoven web of fibers that have a number average diameter of less than 1 micron. The web can have a Poisson Ratio of less than about 0.8, a solidity of at least about 20%, a basis weight of at least about 1 gsm, and a thickness of at least 1 micrometer. | 10-22-2009 |
20110042316 | LIQUID FILTRATION MEDIA - A liquid filter with a composite medium that has a nanoweb adjacent to and optionally bonded to a microporous membrane. The membrane is characterized by an LRV value of 3.7 at a rated particle size, and the nanoweb has a fractional filtration efficiency of greater than 0.1 at the rated particle size of the membrane. The nanoweb also has a thickness efficiency ratio of greater than 0.0002 at that efficiency. The nanoweb acts to provide depth filtration to the membrane, prefilters particles and extends the lifetime of the membrane. | 02-24-2011 |
20130126418 | LIQUID FILTRATION MEDIA - The present invention relates to a liquid filtration medium comprising at least one nonwoven sheet wherein the nonwoven sheet has a water flow rate of at least 10 ml/min/cm | 05-23-2013 |
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20110243043 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDE TRANSMIT-RECEIVE ISOLATION AND FILTERING - A radio is provided for transmit-receive isolation and filtering (INTRIFWA) that are sealed and/or integrally built-in a housing of a transmitter, which can be used in microwave communication systems, including satellite based communications systems and terrestrial based microwave communication systems. | 10-06-2011 |
20110243562 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDE TRANSMIT-RECEIVE ISOLATION, FILTERING, AND CIRCULAR POLARIZATION - An radio is provided for transmit-receive isolation filtering and circular polarization (INTRIFPWA) that are sealed within a metal housing of a transmitter, which can be used in microwave communication systems, including satellite based communications systems and terrestrial based microwave communication systems. | 10-06-2011 |
20160111765 | METALLIZED PLASTIC HIGH RADIO FREQUENCY INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDE - An integrated waveguide for use in high radio frequency communication is provided. The integrated waveguide including: a first substrate including a first plastic layer having on a first inward-facing surface, a first portion of a waveguide feature formed on the first inward-facing surface, and a metal layer disposed on the first inward-facing surface; and a second substrate including a second plastic layer having a second inward-facing surface, a second portion of a waveguide feature formed on the second inward-facing surface, and a metal layer disposed on the second inward-facing surface, wherein the first substrate and the second substrate are assembled to define an integrated waveguide feature defined by an assembling of the first portion of the waveguide feature and the second portion of the waveguide feature. | 04-21-2016 |
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20140101760 | DAD-NS TRIGGERED ADDRESS RESOLUTION FOR DOS ATTACK PROTECTION - A first network element that receives an appropriation message from a second network element that indicates a target address which the second network element intends to appropriate for its use. In response to the appropriation message, the first network element broadcasts a discovery message to a plurality of network elements on the network to request a link-layer address in association with the first target address. The first network element receives a discovery response from the second network element with the first target address and the link-layer address of the second network element. Then the first network element updates a neighbor cache to include a pre-cached neighbor cache entry associating the link-layer address to the first target address. This prevents one or more future neighbor cache misses associated with the first target address. | 04-10-2014 |
20140146661 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING PROCESS RESTART IN AN IS-IS SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for facilitating process restart in an IS-IS router that includes an active router processor (RP) module for supporting an active IS-IS process instance and standby router processor (RP) module for supporting a standby IS-IS process instance. Routing database information maintained by the active IS-IS process is synchronized to a standby database associated with the standard IS-IS process instance, which is used for synchronizing a new database on the active RP module. When a new instance of the active IS-IS process is restarted on the active RP module, the new instance uses the contents of the new database for continuing to maintain routing functionality. | 05-29-2014 |
20140146821 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROTOCOL DATA UNIT SYNCHRONIZATION IN AN IS-IS SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for effectuating synchronization of local LSPs and remote LSPs in an IS-IS router that includes an inter-process communication module disposed between an active router processor (RP) module and standby router processor (RP) module. Both remote LSP update(s) received by an active IS-IS process and local LSP update(s) generated by the active IS-IS process running on the IS-IS router are synchronized to corresponding database portions associated with a standby IS-IS process of the IS-IS router using respective raw LSPs. | 05-29-2014 |
20140149782 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING PROCESS RESTART IN A MULTI-INSTANCE IS-IS SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for facilitating process restart in an IS-IS router that includes an active router processor (RP) module for supporting an active IS-IS process instance as well as one or more dormant instances of the active IS-IS process. Routing database information maintained by the active IS-IS process is synchronized to one or more corresponding databases associated with the dormant instances. Responsive to a control signal, one of the dormant instances may be activated as the new active IS-IS process instance on the active RP module, wherein the contents of the database corresponding to the newly activated instance are used for continuing to maintain routing functionality. | 05-29-2014 |
20140149819 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROTOCOL DATA UNIT RECOVERY IN AN IS-IS SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for effectuating LSP recovery in an IS-IS router. When a standby router processor (RP) module of the IS-IS router is activated, at least one CSNP packet is generated by the newly activated RP module based on its link state database. The CSNP packet is then transmitted on all point-to-point links and all broadcast links supported by the IS-IS router. | 05-29-2014 |
20140211800 | Accelerated MAC address resolution for IPv6 traffic with IS-IS Protocol - A method is executed by a router for improved Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS) protocol and Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol execution to avoid dropped data traffic caused by Media Access Control (MAC) address resolution for next hops of routes determined by the IS-IS protocol. An IS-IS adjacency is established between the router and a neighbor router over a link, where a MAC address for the neighbor router is received from the neighbor router. A routing information base (RIB) is updated to include the neighbor router as a next hop for at least one destination address by the IS-IS process. The MAC address of the neighbor router is provided to an ND process to update the RIB, a forwarding information base (FIB) or L2 forwarding table of at least one line card of the router to include the MAC address of the neighbor router in response to the providing of the MAC address to the ND process. | 07-31-2014 |
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20110216655 | A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING AD HOC NETWORKS IN COOPERATION WITH SERVICE PROVIDER NETWORKS - Systems and methods for using ad hoc networks in cooperation with service provider networks. Multi-network devices communicate with each other as peers in an ad hoc network while each accessing a service provider network. The multi-network devices may each receive the same real-time multimedia stream, be it broadcast or unicast, while sharing stream parity information. The peers may take corrective action to maintain uninterrupted playback of the real-time multimedia stream with no or minimal loss in perceived quality. The peers may further cooperate to facilitate bandwidth and power optimization, fast channel switching, and real-time mobile traffic and network analysis, displays and alerts. | 09-08-2011 |
20110295719 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING ELECTRONIC REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION AND PROMOTIONS ON MULTIPLE DEVICE PLATFORMS IN AN INTEGRATED MANNER - Methods and apparatus for supporting electronic promotions and electronic requests for information, e.g., in an integrated manner, on multiple platforms including, e.g., cable network systems, cell phones, etc., are described. Rewards and/or benefits are tracked in a centralized manner and a subscriber is allowed to accumulate rewards and benefits in a single account irrespective of which device or platform was used to initiate an eRFI and/or to act upon a promotion. The methods and apparatus of the present invention allow a cable service provider which supports eRFI on set top boxes to use the same eRFI server to provide responses to eRFI requests received from devices, e.g., cell phones and/or E-mail devices corresponding to a service subscriber, to forward electronic promotion information and to reward users in a forwarding chain for redemptions of coupons included in forwarded promotion information. Forwarded promotion information securely identifies each device/user in the forwarding chain. | 12-01-2011 |
20120044862 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAINTAINING A COMMUNICATION SESSION - Systems and methods for maintaining a communication session. A gateway supports both a local access point (AP) and a virtual AP. The local AP is accessible only to an “owner” of the gateway. The virtual AP (VAP) is accessible to devices associated with the owner of the gateway and to roaming Wi-Fi devices. A datastore conveys information about the roaming Wi-Fi devices to the VAP to permit them to access the VAP without the need for manual configuration of the VAP. A roaming Wi-Fi/cellular device may communicate with a gateway via a tunnel to maintain session connectivity during roaming. A session may be initiated on one network, such as a Wi-Fi network or a cellular network, handed off to another network, such as a cellular network or a Wi-Fi network, and then returned to network on which the session was initiated. | 02-23-2012 |
20120044914 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WI-FI ROAMING - Systems and methods for Wi-Fi roaming. A gateway supports both a local access point (AP) and a virtual AP. The local AP is accessible only to an “owner” of the gateway. The virtual AP (VAP) is accessible to devices associated with the owner of the gateway and to roaming Wi-Fi devices. A datastore conveys information about the roaming Wi-Fi devices to the VAP to permit them to access the VAP without the need for manual configuration of the VAP. A roaming Wi-Fi device may communicate with a gateway via a tunnel to maintain session connectivity during roaming. A session may be initiated on one network, such as a Wi-Fi network or a cellular network, handed off to another network, such as a cellular network or a Wi-Fi network, and then returned to network on which the session was initiated. | 02-23-2012 |
20120218907 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COORDINATED DISCOVERY OF THE STATUS OF NETWORK ROUTES BY HOSTS IN A NETWORK - Systems and methods for coordinated discovery of the status of network routes by hosts in a network. A plurality of host devices is connected to at least one of a plurality of egress devices. Each of the plurality of host devices is assigned to at least one cluster group. A cluster group may include one or more host devices connected to a common egress device. A master node is selected from the members of each cluster group. The master node coordinates the issuance of probe messages from the master node and other members of the cluster group to the common egress device. The probes provide the status of a network route to and through the common egress device. The master node makes the status available to the members of the cluster group. A member of the cluster group may obtain the status by communicating with the master node or by communicating with other members of its cluster group. | 08-30-2012 |
20130086665 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLONING A Wi-Fi ACCESS POINT - Systems and methods for cloning a Wi-Fi access point. A determination is made by a network monitoring device to transition communications between a Wi-Fi device and a first access point (AP) to a second AP. The SSID and the security configuration information, and, optionally, network address translation (NAT) information of the first access point are acquired and provided to a second AP. The second AP instantiates the SSID and the security configuration information and, optionally, the NAT information. The networking monitoring device directs the first AP to cease using the SSID and the security configuration information and, optionally, the NAT information in response to receipt of confirmation that the second AP has instantiated the SSID and the security configuration information and, optionally, the NAT information of the first AP. | 04-04-2013 |
20130301627 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WI-FI ROAMING - Systems and methods for Wi-Fi roaming. A gateway supports both a local access point (AP) and a virtual AP. The local AP is accessible only to an “owner” of the gateway. The virtual AP (VAP) is accessible to devices associated with the owner of the gateway and to roaming Wi-Fi devices. A datastore conveys information about the roaming Wi-Fi devices to the VAP to permit them to access the VAP without the need for manual configuration of the VAP. A roaming Wi-Fi device may communicate with a gateway via a tunnel to maintain session connectivity during roaming. A session may be initiated on one network, such as a Wi-Fi network or a cellular network, handed off to another network, such as a cellular network or a Wi-Fi network, and then returned to the network on which the session was initiated. | 11-14-2013 |
20130347065 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLONING A WI-FI ACCESS POINT - Systems and methods for cloning a Wi-Fi access point. A determination is made by a network monitoring device to transition communications between a Wi-Fi device and a first access point (AP) to a second AP. The SSID and the security configuration information, and, optionally, network address translation (NAT) information of the first access point are acquired and provided to a second AP. The second AP instantiates the SSID and the security configuration information and, optionally, the NAT information. The networking monitoring device directs the first AP to cease using the SSID and the security configuration information and, optionally, the NAT information in response to receipt of confirmation that the second AP has instantiated the SSID and the security configuration information and, optionally, the NAT information of the first AP. | 12-26-2013 |
20140105144 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAINTAINING A COMMUNICATION SESSION - Systems and methods for maintaining a communication session. A home gateway communicates with a foreign access point (AP) located in a foreign gateway via a first tunnel operating over a network between the home gateway and the foreign gateway. The foreign gateway communicates with a hybrid device via the foreign wireless AP. A second tunnel is established from the hybrid device to the home gateway over the network via a cellular data network. An Ethernet bond is formed between the first tunnel and the second tunnel. A virtual IP address is assigned by the home gateway to the hybrid device and assigned by the hybrid device to a wireless transceiver and to a cellular transceiver. Packets are sent to the home gateway via at least one of the first and second tunnels. | 04-17-2014 |
20150264571 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLONING A WI-FI ACCESS POINT - Systems and methods for cloning a Wi-Fi access point. A determination is made by a network monitoring device to transition communications between a Wi-Fi device and a first access point (AP) to a second AP. The SSID and the security configuration information, and, optionally, network address translation (NAT) information of the first access point are acquired and provided to a second AP. The second AP instantiates the SSID and the security configuration information and, optionally, the NAT information. The networking monitoring device directs the first AP to cease using the SSID and the security configuration information and, optionally, the NAT information in response to receipt of confirmation that the second AP has instantiated the SSID and the security configuration information and, optionally, the NAT information of the first AP. | 09-17-2015 |
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20090243934 | Wireless time reference system and method - Instead of normalizing time reference of independent spatially-located clocks using a reference tag transmission from known location, the present invention uses an interarrival time interval between a pulse pair of UWB pulses as a timing metric. Thus, a method of synchronizing spatially-located clocks or normalizing time indications thereof comprises transmitting a UWB pulse pair, determining at first and second monitoring stations a respective count value indicative of a locally measured time interval between received pulse pairs, determining a ratio between clock counts of first and second monitoring stations, and utilizing the ratio to determine clock skew, e.g., a timing correction to be applied to respective local clocks of the monitoring stations. A corresponding system comprises a reference tag transmitter that transmits a pulse pair of UWB pulses to define a time reference interval, a first independent receiver that receives, the pulse pair to generate a first count value indicative an interarrival interval between the pulse pair, a second independent receiver that receives the pulse pair to similarly generate a second count value, and a processor hub responsive to the count values to determine a ratio corresponding to the ratio of respective clock frequencies of the first and second receiver clocks. Once the correction is applied, time-of-arrival information from object tag transmissions may be used to determine object location with sub-foot position accuracies. | 10-01-2009 |
20120086607 | WIRELESS TIME REFERENCE SYSTEM AND METHOD - Various methods and apparatuses that utilize a wireless time reference system are provided herein. One example method involves calibrating independent, spatially-located clocks of a geoposition system in order to geolocate an object having an associated object tag. The example method may include transmitting an RF pulse pair, receiving the pulse pair at multiple locations, utilizing respective frequencies of first and second spatially-located clocks to produce count values to effect measurement of an interarrival interval at each of multiple locations, determining a ratio of count values relative to said first and second spatially-located clocks, and utilizing said ratio to calibrate time indications of said clocks. Other related methods and apparatus are also provided. | 04-12-2012 |
20120188129 | EXTENSIBLE OBJECT LOCATION SYSTEM AND METHOD USING MULTIPLE REFERENCES - An ultra wideband (UWB) or short-pulse RF system is disclosed that can be used to precisely locate or track objects (such as personnel, equipment, assets, etc.) in real-time in an arbitrarily large, physically connected or disconnected, multipath and/or noisy environment. A system implementation includes multiple zones or groups of receivers that receives RF signals transmitted by one or more timing reference tags and one or more objects having associated object tags. Each zone or group may share a common receiver. By combining a multiple reference tag system with a virtual group of receivers, i.e., a zoning technique or system, a cost-effective system can be provided that offers scalability and flexibility to monitor a significantly expanded coverage area. | 07-26-2012 |
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20120230366 | Optical Digital Thermometer - The present invention is an optical digital thermometer, the novel non-contact digital optical thermometer is based on quantum theory of lightwaves, it can replace the conventional non-contact thermometers that are based on Planck's Law of Blackbody Radiation. The said invention points out four aspects of misunderstandings regarding relationship between temperature (thermal energy) and wave energy of a subject emulated by Boltzmann, Wien, Planck, Rayleigh, Hopkins and other scientists 130 years ago, namely:
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20120287963 | NON-CONTACT TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT ETALON - The present invention is a non-contact temperature measurement etalon, the paper discusses a limited area of the “point” of temperature produce light frequency conversion to electricity in frequency, found that any temperature all can be converted to a variety of different electric frequency, but a kind of electric frequency can represent a temperature of irreversible relationship. Due to the accuracy of the temperature with standard than the ordinary highlighted. it high precision 1˜2 orders of magnitude, the temperature of the electricity produced as long as the frequency take upper limit, namely frequency number increased 1˜2 orders of magnitude, it reached the requirements of the temperature etalon. | 11-15-2012 |
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20110160857 | METHODS FOR COLLECTING AND PROCESSING AUTOGRAFTS, PROCESSED AUTOGRAFTS, KITS FOR COLLECTING AND TRANSPORTING AUTOGRAFTS, AND TOOLS FOR PREPARING AUTOGRAFTS - The present invention is directed to methods for collecting and processing autografts, processed autografts, kits for collecting and transporting autografts, and tools for preparing autografts. It is also directed to autologous bone grafts, and methods of preparing them. | 06-30-2011 |
20130090290 | BMP-2 Peptides and Methods of Use - The invention relates to truncated growth factors and variants thereof. The invention also relates to methods of making and using the truncated growth factors. | 04-11-2013 |
20130196909 | BMP-7 Peptides and Methods of Use - The invention relates to truncated growth factors and variants thereof. The invention also relate to methods of making and using the truncated growth factors. | 08-01-2013 |
20130196910 | BMP-4 PEPTIDES AND METHODS OF USE - The invention relates to truncated growth factors and variants thereof. The invention also relates to methods of making and using the truncated growth factors. | 08-01-2013 |
20140017785 | Methods for Collecting and Processing Autografts, Processed Autografts, Kits for Collecting and Transporting Autografts, and Tools for Preparing Autografts - The present invention is directed to methods for collecting and processing autografts, processed autografts, kits for collecting and transporting autografts, and tools for preparing autografts. It is also directed to autologous bone grafts, and methods of preparing them. | 01-16-2014 |
20150064163 | BMP Peptides & Methods of Use - The invention relates to truncated growth factors and variants thereof. The invention also relates to methods of making and using the truncated growth factors. The invention further relates to compositions including a protease and a growth factor comprising a bone morphogenic protein (BMP) or a variant thereof. The invention also relates to methods of using the composition. | 03-05-2015 |
20160000062 | PACKAGING ASSEMBLY FOR STORING TISSUE AND CELLULAR MATERIAL - The invention is an improved packaging assembly for storing, distributing, treating, mixing, and dispensing tissue and/or cellular material and/or implantable material. The packaging assembly may include pouches, tubes, and a bag made of a sealable, flexible polymeric material that is open at one end and a needle-free swabable connector attached to the pouch at the other end and acting as a port to allow for the introduction or discharge of biological solutions, rinsing solution, and/or preservation solutions into the packaging assembly. The designed thickness of the wall of the packaging assembly facilitates efficient heat/cold transfer, which is useful for successful controlled rate freezing, quick thawing, and resuscitation of viable cells or tissue. The invention is also useful for combining additional biological fluids with the cellular material or tissue, and for efficient mixing of the biological fluids with the tissue and/or cellular material in the assembly. | 01-07-2016 |
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20100036503 | Composition for a Tissue Repair Implant and Methods of Making the Same - The invention is directed to a process for making a tissue repair implant having a porous sponge-like structure to repair bone, cartilage, or soft tissue defects by producing a connective tissue homogenate from one or more connective tissues; mixing the connective tissue homogenate with a carrier solution to produce a connective tissue carrier; optionally mixing one or more natural or synthetic bone fragements with said connective tissue carrier to produce a tissue repair mixture; freezing or freeze-drying the tissue repair mixture to produce a porous sponge-like structure and create a three-dimensional framework to entrap the natural or synthetic bone fragments, treating the frozen or freeze-dried porous sponge-like structure with one or more treatment solutions to produce a stabilized porous sponge-like structure. A crudely fragmented connective tissue from one or more connective tissues is optionally mixed with the tissue repair mixture before freezing or freeze-drying. The tissue repair implant having a porous sponge-like structure is optionally combined with one or more bioactive supplements or one or more agents that have bioactive supplement binding site(s) to increase the affinity of growth factors, differentiation factor, cytokines, or anti-inflammatory agents to the tissue repair implant. The invention is further directed toward applying such tissue repair implant for tissue repair. | 02-11-2010 |
20110045044 | COMPOSITIONS FOR REPAIR OF DEFECTS IN TISSUES, AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME - Tissue repair compositions, particularly bone repair compositions, containing (a) bone fragments and (b) homogenized connective tissue, and methods for making the same are provided. Some of the inventive tissue repair compositions contain a radioprotectant. The compositions can be used in the form of an injectable gel, an injectable paste, a paste, a putty, or a rehydratable freeze-dried form. Kits for using such tissue repair compositions are also provided. | 02-24-2011 |
20130030528 | Implantation of Cartilage - The invention is directed towards a process for implanting a cartilage graft into a cartilage defect and sealing the implanted cartilage graft with recipient tissue. The invention is also directed towards a process for repairing a cartilage defect and implanting a cartilage graft into a human or animal. The invention is further directed toward a repaired cartilage defect. | 01-31-2013 |
20150182559 | Compositions for Repair of Defects in Tissues, and Methods of Making the Same - Tissue repair compositions, particularly bone repair compositions, containing (a) bone fragments and (b) homogenized connective tissue, and methods for making the same are provided. Some of the inventive tissue repair compositions contain a radioprotectant. The compositions can be used in the form of an injectable gel, an injectable paste, a paste, a putty, or a rehydratable freeze-dried form. Kits for using such tissue repair compositions are also provided. | 07-02-2015 |
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20080222414 | Transparent Authentication of Continuous Data Streams - A system, apparatus and method for transparently authenticating continuous data streams. A continuous data stream is divided into data blocks. Block authentication code(s) are determined using the data in the data blocks, a hash function and a key. The block authentication code(s) are embedded into the data block(s) by adjusting the timing between the packets in the data block(s). Timing delays may be used to separate the blocks. The continuous data stream may be received and authenticated by comparing an extracted block authentication code with a new calculated content-based block authentication code. | 09-11-2008 |
20080222729 | Containment of Unknown and Polymorphic Fast Spreading Worms - A worm containment system comprising a host computing machine, a virtual machine running under the control of a virtual machine monitor, a worm detector, a diverter and a buffer. The host computing machine has a host operating system and host application(s). The virtual machine has a clone of the host operating system and a clone of the host application(s). The worm detector is configured to monitor the virtual machine traffic for signs of worm propagation. The splitter is configured to duplicate packets intended for the host computing machine into diverted packets and buffered packets. The diverter is configured to route the diverted packets to the virtual machine. The buffer is configured to store the buffered packets and then forward the buffered packets to the host operating system on indication from the worm detector that no worm propagation behavior was detected. | 09-11-2008 |
20120180126 | Probable Computing Attack Detector - A probable computing attack detector monitors electrical power consumption of a computing device. Task data may be acquired for at least one task operating on the computing device. A predicted electrical power consumption may be calculated for the computing device employing a user-centric power model and the task data. A probable attack may be detected when the electrical power consumption disagrees with the predicted electrical power consumption by a determined margin. | 07-12-2012 |
20120259922 | Method and System for Scalable Content Storage and Delivery - A peer-to-peer communication system in which a peer communicating with a tracker node on a local torrent can locate and download files that are not currently available from other peers communicating on the local torrent. To enable this, the tracker node maintains collaboration information for a list of files. The collaboration information includes, for each file, a list of locations at which a full copy of the file may be located. The list of locations may include active peers, dormant peers and remote tracker nodes. The collaboration information may be obtained from each peer when it joins a local torrent. Upon joining the torrent, the peer may provide the local tracker node with a list of files that it is willing to serve. | 10-11-2012 |
20120265895 | System and Method for Streaming Media Objects - A method and system for streaming media objects. A streaming system includes a group of end nodes and at least one core node connected via an overlay network. The end nodes cache segments of media objects and stream the media objects to a client segment by segment. Each end node stores segment indices for locating segments cached on end nodes or a core node in the system. The core node is a dedicated proxy which fetches media objects from a remote media server and streams the media objects to a client when the media objects are unavailable from the end nodes. | 10-18-2012 |
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20120184840 | Automated Measurement of Brain Injury Indices Using Brain CT Images, Injury Data, and Machine Learning - A decision-support system and computer implemented method automatically measures tee midline shift in a patient's brain using Computed Tomography (CT) images. The decision-support system and computer implemented method applies machine learning methods to features extracted from multiple sources, including midline shift, blood amount, texture pattern and other injury data, to provide a physician an estimate of intracranial pressure (ICP) levels. A hierarchical segmentation method, based on Gaussian Mixture Mode! (GMM), is used. In this approach, first an Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) ventricle template, as prior knowledge, is used to estimate the region for each ventricle. Then, by matching the ventricle shape it) CT images to fee MRI ventricle template set, the corresponding MRI slice is selected. From the shape matching result, the feature points for midline estimation in CT slices, such as the center edge points of the lateral ventricles, are detected. The amount of shift, along with other information such as brain tissue texture features, volume of blood accumulated in the brain, patient demographics, injury information, and features extracted from physiological signals, are used to train a machine learning method to predict a variety of important clinical factors, such as intracranial pressure (ICP), likelihood of success a particular treatment, and the need and/or dosage of particular drugs. | 07-19-2012 |
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20130114872 | COMPRESSED SENSING USING REGIONAL SPARSITY - A method for reconstructing an image includes acquiring raw image data during a scan of an area, estimating an image from the raw image data, separating the estimated image into a region of interest (ROI) and a background region, and applying compressed sensing to iteratively update only the ROI and maintain the background region to reconstruct an image. | 05-09-2013 |
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20140219531 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCELERATED DYNAMIC MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING - Some aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for accelerated dynamic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). In an example embodiment, a method includes acquiring undersampled MRI data corresponding to a set of images associated with an area of interest of a subject, and separating an image of the set of images into image regions. The method also includes performing motion tracking for each of the image regions, grouping the motion-tracked image regions into clusters, and applying a sparsity transform to the clusters, to form sparsity-exploited, transformed image regions. The method further includes forming a set of merged images from the plurality of sparsity-exploited, transformed image regions, and updating the set of merged images based on data fidelity, to form an updated set of estimated images. | 08-07-2014 |
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20160098835 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCELERATED ARTERIAL SPIN LABELING USING COMPRESSED SENSING - Systems and methods for accelerated arterial spin labeling (ASL) using compressed sensing are disclosed. In one aspect, in accordance with one example embodiment, a method includes acquiring magnetic resonance data associated with an area of interest of a subject, wherein the area of interest corresponds to one or more physiological activities of the subject. The method also includes performing image reconstruction using temporally constrained compressed sensing reconstruction on at least a portion of the acquired magnetic resonance data, wherein acquiring the magnetic resonance data includes receiving data associated with ASL of the area of interest of the subject. | 04-07-2016 |
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20130015632 | WHEELCHAIR WITH LEVER DRIVETRAIN - A manually powered wheelchair includes a first lever associated with a first rear wheel and demountably coupled to a first drivetrain, the first lever having a first brake thereon. The wheelchair also includes a second lever associated with a second rear wheel and demountably coupled to a second drivetrain, the second lever having a second brake thereon. Each drivetrain includes a chainring, a chain, and a freewheel, and each drivetrain has a fixed gear ratio. The freewheel of each drivetrain is actuated by manual pivoting of the lever associated therewith. In use, the wheelchair achieves changes in mechanical advantage when a user shifts the user's hands up and down the first and second levers. | 01-17-2013 |
20130062857 | WHEELCHAIR WITH LEVER DRIVETRAIN - A manually powered wheelchair includes a first lever associated with a first rear wheel and demountably coupled to a first drivetrain, the first lever having a first brake thereon. The wheelchair also includes a second lever associated with a second rear wheel and demountably coupled to a second drivetrain, the second lever having a second brake thereon. Each drivetrain includes a chainring, a chain, and a freewheel, and each drivetrain has a fixed gear ratio. The freewheel of each drivetrain is actuated by manual pivoting of the lever associated therewith. In use, the wheelchair achieves changes in mechanical advantage when a user shifts the user's hands up and down the first and second levers. | 03-14-2013 |
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20120230366 | Optical Digital Thermometer - The present invention is an optical digital thermometer, the novel non-contact digital optical thermometer is based on quantum theory of lightwaves, it can replace the conventional non-contact thermometers that are based on Planck's Law of Blackbody Radiation. The said invention points out four aspects of misunderstandings regarding relationship between temperature (thermal energy) and wave energy of a subject emulated by Boltzmann, Wien, Planck, Rayleigh, Hopkins and other scientists 130 years ago, namely:
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20120287963 | NON-CONTACT TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT ETALON - The present invention is a non-contact temperature measurement etalon, the paper discusses a limited area of the “point” of temperature produce light frequency conversion to electricity in frequency, found that any temperature all can be converted to a variety of different electric frequency, but a kind of electric frequency can represent a temperature of irreversible relationship. Due to the accuracy of the temperature with standard than the ordinary highlighted. it high precision 1˜2 orders of magnitude, the temperature of the electricity produced as long as the frequency take upper limit, namely frequency number increased 1˜2 orders of magnitude, it reached the requirements of the temperature etalon. | 11-15-2012 |
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20100042158 | Closure Device for Skull Plates and Related Method Thereof - A method and means of cranial bone flap fixation that provides, among other things, the re-opening, resetting and/or repositioning of the bone flap during neurosurgical procedures. The instrumentation central to this method and means is MR and CT-visible to aid in imaging-based localization of it. The method and means can also be used in other types of medical procedures where certain kinds of hard or firm tissue fixation is desirable according to the method of the invention. | 02-18-2010 |
20100198137 | Coaxial Catheter Systems for Transference of Medium - A method, technique and system is disclosed for the delivery of therapeutic agents and/or into the bulk brain tissues and other parts, tissues and organs of the body, including vasculature. A novel form of coaxial catheter provides a means for implanting an outer tube into the brain, then inserting an inner tube into the outer tube and aligning them such that port holes on both of the tubes will overlap and permit a flux of the therapeutic agent to flow into the brain in such a way as to minimize the effects of trapped air, virtually eliminate backflow of the agent, and avoid the potential for additional damage to the brain since only one surgical placement of the outer tube is needed. Similarly, the method, technique system may be utilized to remove fluids or other medium from the brain, tissues, and organs to minimize the effects of escaped air or negative pressure. | 08-05-2010 |
20130090556 | Coaxial Catheter Systems for Transference of Medium - A method, technique and system is disclosed for the delivery of therapeutic agents and/or into the bulk brain tissues and other parts, tissues and organs of the body, including vasculature. A novel form of coaxial catheter provides a means for implanting an outer tube into the brain, then inserting an inner tube into the outer tube and aligning them such that port holes on both of the tubes will overlap and permit a flux of the therapeutic agent to flow into the brain in such a way as to minimize the effects of trapped air, virtually eliminate backflow of the agent, and avoid the potential for additional damage to the brain since only one surgical placement of the outer tube is needed. Similarly, the method, technique system may be utilized to remove fluids or other medium from the brain, tissues, and organs to minimize the effects of escaped air or negative pressure. | 04-11-2013 |