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20080269657 | ADHESIVE OVERBANDAGE - Embodiments of the present invention provide an adhesive overbandage. In an embodiment, there is provided an adhesive overbandage for use with a biosensor. An exemplary overbandage comprises a frame having an upper surface, a lower surface, an outer boundary and an inner boundary, wherein the inner boundary defines an interior opening configured to receive a monitoring device, adhesive disposed on the lower surface of the frame, and a release liner removably coupled to the adhesive. | 10-30-2008 |
20130323852 | SENSOR STORAGE AND DELIVERY SYSTEM WHERE THE TEST SENSORS ARE INDIVIDUALLY FOILED AND ARRANGED IN A STACK - A portable, hand-held glucose testing device includes a housing configured to accommodate a plurality of test sensors in a stacked arrangement and having a wall with an opening defined therein. A plurality of packaged test sensors is stacked in alignment with one another within the housing. Each of the test sensors is packaged within a blister package. The blister package comprises a blister package housing and a cover foil overlying a surface of the blister package housing and the test sensor. A drive slide is configured to displace one of the plurality of packaged test sensors out of alignment with other packaged test sensors. A knife mechanism is configured to pierce through the cover foil, and to engage and urge the test sensor to extend through the opening for receiving a sample. A meter contact is configured to engage the test sensor when the test sensor extends through the opening. | 12-05-2013 |
20150111234 | SENSOR STORAGE AND DELIVERY SYSTEM WHERE THE TEST SENSORS ARE INDIVIDUALLY FOILED AND ARRANGED IN A STACK - A portable, hand-held glucose testing device includes a housing configured to accommodate a plurality of test sensors in a stacked arrangement and having a wall with an opening defined therein. A plurality of packaged test sensors is stacked in alignment with one another within the housing. Each of the test sensors is packaged within a blister package. The blister package includes a blister package housing and a cover foil overlying a surface of the blister package housing and the test sensor. A drive slide is configured to displace one of the plurality of packaged test sensors out of alignment with other packaged test sensors. A knife mechanism is configured to pierce through the cover foil, and to engage and urge the test sensor to extend through the opening for receiving a sample. A meter contact is configured to engage the test sensor when the test sensor extends through the opening. | 04-23-2015 |
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20090124543 | ACTIVITY DEPENDENT NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR III (ADNF III) - The present invention relates generally to Activity Dependent Neurotrophic Factor III (ADNF III), also known as Activity Dependent Neuroprotective Protein (ADNP). More particularly, the present invention relates to nucleic acid sequences encoding ADNF III polypeptides; ADNF III polypeptides encoded by such nucleic acid sequences; antibodies to ADNF III polypeptides; and methods of using such ADNF III polypeptides for the treatment of neurological deficiencies and for the prevention of cell death associated with (1) gp120, the envelope protein from HIV; (2) N-methyl-D-aspartic acid (excito-toxicity); (3) tetrodotoxin (blockage of electrical activity); and (4) β-amyloid peptide, a substance related to neuronal degeneration in Alzheimer's disease. | 05-14-2009 |
20090247457 | NEUROTROPHIC COMPONENTS OF THE ADNF I COMPLEX - This invention relates to Activity Dependent Neurotrophic Factor I complex (ADNF I complex) and polypeptides of this complex, which produce their neurotrophic effects through multiple proteases intrinsic to the ADNF I complex. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising ADNF I complex polypeptides, as well as methods for reducing neuronal cell death in vitro and in vivo, methods for treating oxidative stress in a patient, methods for reducing a condition associated with fetal alcohol syndrome in a subject, and methods of enhancing learning and memory both pre- and post-natally, all of which methods use the ADNF I complex polypeptides of the invention. | 10-01-2009 |
20130253022 | NOVEL FLUORINATED SULFAMIDES EXHIBITING NEUROPROTECTIVE ACTION AND THEIR METHOD OF USE - Pharmaceutical compositions of the invention include fluorinated sulfamide derivatives having a disease-modifying action in the treatment of diseases associated with excitotoxicity and accompanying oxidative stress that include epilepsy, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, heavy metal toxicity and any neurodegenerative disease involving glutamate toxicity. | 09-26-2013 |
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20080247121 | HIGH VOLTAGE SOLID ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS USING CONDUCTIVE POLYMER SLURRIES - A method for forming a capacitor including forming an anode from a valve metal; forming an oxide on the anode to form an anodized anode; dipping the anodized anode into a slurry of conductive polymer; drying the intrinsically conductive polymer; and providing external terminations in electrical contact with the anode and the conductive polymer. | 10-09-2008 |
20080250620 | Process for manufacturing low ESR conductive polymer based solid electrolytic capacitors - A method for maintaining quality of monomer during a coating process for intrinsically conductive polymer which suppresses unwanted by-products. A neutralization process using a base or anion exchange resin is used batch-wise or continuous. | 10-16-2008 |
20080273291 | Channel Method For Forming A Capacitor - An improved method for forming a capacitor. The method includes:
| 11-06-2008 |
20080283409 | Use of conjugated oligomer as additive for forming conductive polymers - A process for forming a capacitor. The process includes providing an anode; providing a dielectric on the anode; exposing the anode to a polymer precursor solution comprising monomer, conjugated oligomer and optionally solvent and polymerizing the polymer precursor. The ratio between monomer and conjugated oligomer ranges from 99.9/0.1 to 75/25 by weight. The solvent content in the polymer precursor solution is from 0 to 99% by weight. | 11-20-2008 |
20100177460 | CHANNEL METHOD FOR FORMING A CAPACITOR - An improved method for forming a capacitor. The method includes:
| 07-15-2010 |
20100246096 | USE OF CONJUGATED OLIGOMER AS ADDITIVE FOR FORMING CONDUCTIVE POLYMERS - A process for forming a capacitor. The process includes providing an anode; providing a dielectric on the anode; exposing the anode to a polymer precursor solution comprising monomer, conjugated oligomer and optionally solvent and polymerizing the polymer precursor. The ratio between monomer and conjugated oligomer ranges from 99.9/0.1 to 75/25 by weight. The solvent content in the polymer precursor solution is from 0 to 99% by weight. | 09-30-2010 |
20110149477 | SOLID ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITOR AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE - An improved solid electrolytic capacitor and method of forming a solid electrolytic capacitor is described. The method includes forming an anode comprising a valve metal or conductive oxide of a valve metal wherein an anode lead extension protrudes from the anode. A dielectric is formed on the anode and a cathode layer is formed on the dielectric. The anode, dielectric, and cathode layer are encased in a non-conducting material and the anode lead extension is exposed outside of the encasement at a side surface. A conductive metal layer is adhered to the anode lead extension which allows termination preferably by electrically connecting a preformed solid metal terminal, most preferably an L shaped terminal, to the conductive metal layer at the side surface. | 06-23-2011 |
20120206859 | MATERIALS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING CORNER AND EDGE COVERAGE OF SOLID ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS - A process for preparing a solid electrolytic capacitor comprising application of coverage enhancing catalyst followed by application of a conducting polymer layer. Coverage enhancing catalyst is removed after coating and curing. | 08-16-2012 |
20120206860 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS AND CAPACITORS MADE THEREBY - A process for preparing a solid electrolytic capacitor comprising application of a non-ionic polyol prior to application of a conducting polymer layer. | 08-16-2012 |
20130250486 | Solid Electrolytic Capacitor and Method of Manufacture - An improved solid electrolytic capacitor and method of forming a solid electrolytic capacitor is described. The method includes forming an anode comprising a valve metal or conductive oxide of a valve metal wherein an anode lead extension protrudes from the anode. A dielectric is formed on the anode and a cathode layer is formed on the dielectric. The anode, dielectric, and cathode layer are encased in a non-conducting material and the anode lead extension is exposed outside of the encasement at a side surface. A conductive metal layer is adhered to the anode lead extension which allows termination preferably by electrically connecting a preformed solid metal terminal, most preferably an L shaped terminal, to the conductive metal layer at the side surface. | 09-26-2013 |
20140301022 | Process for Producing Electrolytic Capacitors and Capacitors Made Thereby - A process for preparing a solid electrolytic capacitor comprising application of a non-ionic polyol prior to application of a conducting polymer layer. | 10-09-2014 |
20150135496 | Materials and Method for Improving Corner and Edge Coverage of Solid Electrolytic Capacitors - A process for preparing a solid electrolytic capacitor comprising application of coverage enhancing catalyst followed by application of a conducting polymer layer. Coverage enhancing catalyst is removed after coating and curing. | 05-21-2015 |
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20100299540 | COMPUTING SYSTEM WITH POWER REQUIREMENT EVALUATION - A computing system is provided and includes recording media relative to which input/output (I/O) operations are executable, and a processor, disposed in signal communication with the recording media, which is configured to execute the I/O operations and to evaluate power requirements associated with executions of the I/O operations relative to each individual recording medium. The processor includes a computer-readable medium having a set of instructions stored thereon, which, when executed, cause the processor to schedule the executions of the I/O operations relative to each individual recording medium or to refuse the executions of the I/O operations in accordance with the evaluated power requirements. | 11-25-2010 |
20100318965 | COMPUTING SYSTEM WITH COMPILE FARM - A computer readable medium is provided and has instructions stored thereon, which, when executed cause a processor of a computing system to execute a method of controlling the computing system. The method includes iteratively running a workload over a period of time, the workload being defined by software components of a software repository of the computing system, measuring power consumption associated with the running of the workload with each iteration and storing data indicative of the power consumption, analyzing the data and identifying, from a result of the analysis, power consumption changes over the period of time, generating a regression profile based on the power consumption changes, and managing the software components in accordance with the regression profile. | 12-16-2010 |
20140351610 | COMPUTING SYSTEM WITH POWER REQUIREMENT EVALUATION - A computing system is provided and includes recording media relative to which input/output (I/O) operations are executable, and a processor, disposed in signal communication with the recording media, which is configured to execute the I/O operations and to evaluate power requirements associated with executions of the I/O operations relative to each individual recording medium. The processor includes a computer-readable medium having a set of instructions stored thereon, which, when executed, cause the processor to schedule the executions of the I/O operations relative to each individual recording medium or to refuse the executions of the I/O operations in accordance with the evaluated power requirements. | 11-27-2014 |
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20090187962 | METHODS, DEVICES, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR POLICY-DRIVEN ADAPTIVE MULTI-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION - Embodiments of the invention include methods for providing policy-driven, adaptive, multi-factor authentication procedures. A pool of potential authentication challenges is defined. Each of the potential authentication challenges is assigned a category and a weighted difficulty level. One or more authentication challenges are selected from the pool of potential authentication challenges using one or more security policies that are based upon the assigned category and the assigned weighted difficulty level, wherein a quantity of authentication challenges is determined using the one or more security policies. One or more historical access patterns are utilized in conjunction with the selected one or more authentication challenges to authenticate a user, wherein the historical access patterns include at least one of an access time or an access location. One or more dummy challenges are used to authenticate the user. | 07-23-2009 |
20090193508 | METHODS, DEVICES, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR DISCOVERING AUTHENTICATION SERVERS AND ESTABLISHING TRUST RELATIONSHIPS THEREWITH - Using an authentication server to discover one or more additional authentication servers and to dynamically establish a trust relationship with the one or more additional authentication servers. The authentication server searches for the one or more additional authentication servers to discover one or more sources of authentication tokens, and inspects an incoming authentication request from the one or more additional authentication servers to determine if the request is carrying one or more authentication tokens from a newly discovered realm. Once the authentication server determines a newly discovered realm to be trustworthy, the authentication server receives a directory schema from the newly discovered realm and compares the received directory schema with a known directory schema retrieved by the authentication server to identify an intersection of the received directory schema and the known directory schema. The authentication server uses the intersection to identify a primary key, and to identify any unique information that is specific to either the authentication server or the newly discovered realm. | 07-30-2009 |
20100177047 | DYNAMICALLY RECONFIGURABLE TOUCH SCREEN DISPLAYS - A dynamically reconfigurable touch screen system includes a first display having a first touch screen, a second display having a second touch screen, the second display being operatively connected to the first display, at least one sensor operatively associated with one of the first and second displays. The at least one sensor detects a physical orientation of the one of the first and second touch screens. The dynamically reconfigurable touch screen system further includes a controller linked to the at least one sensor. The controller sets a display of the other of the first and second touch screens based on the physical orientation of the one of the first and second touch screens. | 07-15-2010 |
20110140991 | MULTI-MONITOR CONFIGURATION SYSTEM - A multi-monitor configuration system may include a plurality of monitors and a sensor carried by each of the plurality of monitors. The system may also include a controller to detect and/or configure the plurality of monitors to display at least one video signal image based upon individual monitor parameters provided by each respective sensor to the controller. | 06-16-2011 |
20110143581 | INTELLIGENT ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR SYSTEM - An intelligent electrical connector system may include an electrical connector, and a transceiver carried by the electrical connector. The system may also include a second electrical connector, and a second transceiver carried by the second electrical connector. The second transceiver may relay interface information to the transceiver regarding the second electrical connector's parameters. | 06-16-2011 |
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20130283384 | ELECTRONIC BOOK CONTENT PROTECTION - A system and method are disclosed for protecting an electronic book from unauthorized access. HTML for the book is shredded by dividing it into portions, and a selection scheme is used to intersperse decoy data among the portions. Dynamically generated cascading style sheets are used to define a pattern for decoy and content data such that a browser on a client device correctly processes the HTML but an unauthorized program such as a web scraper cannot correctly process the HTML. | 10-24-2013 |
20140281926 | AUTOMATIC DISPLAY OF RESIZED IMAGES - Systems and methods for automatic display of scaled and/or resized images that fit within pre-defined areas in a web browser are disclosed. The method may be implemented using an image scaling JavaScript component embedded within a HTML document. Upon resizing the a client document browser in which the document is displayed, the component is resized and requests, receives and redisplays a resized image within the resized component from a server. By having the server perform the resizing, the resized image not only fits within the resized component but also maintains the quality of the image without the need for special client-side software. | 09-18-2014 |
20150324073 | DISPLAYING ALIGNED EBOOK TEXT IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES - Aligned passages of text in different languages are displayed on an ebook reader. To provide a reference passage corresponding to a reading passage of an ebook, different-language instances of a same ebook are grouped together. The different-language instances of the ebook are created by human translation and include a reading-language instance and a reference-language instance. Corresponding passages in the different-language instances of the ebook are aligned and information describing a reference passage in the reference-language can be identified and sent in response to a request. The aligned passages of text in different languages may be used, for example, to assist users in comprehending the passage. | 11-12-2015 |