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20100111963 | METHOD FOR TREATING AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION - A method is provided for administering to a mammal suffering from, or at risk for, age-related macular degeneration. | 05-06-2010 |
20100151007 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR SELECTIVE INHIBITION OF VEGF - Disclosed herein are siRNA compositions and methods useful for inhibiting expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) isoforms. Such compositions and methods further involve siRNA capable of selectively targeting angiogenic VEGF isoforms while selectively sparing anti-angiogenic isoforms. Diseases which involve angiogenesis stimulated by overexpression of VEGF, such as diabetic retinopathy, age related macular degeneration and many types of cancer, can be treated by administering small interfering RNAs as disclosed. | 06-17-2010 |
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20120035528 | LOW-PERMEABILITY, LASER-ACTIVATED DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE - An implantable drug delivery device that uses multiple reservoir elements to contain and release doses of active pharmaceutical ingredients. The device includes a first shell element, which has a first enclosed cavity volume and forms a low-permeability barrier. The first shell element is configured to absorb light irradiation from a laser source, the laser irradiation causing a breach in the first shell element. A first active pharmaceutical ingredient is contained in the first enclosed cavity volume and is released when the first shell element is breached. The device also includes a second shell element, which has a second enclosed cavity volume and also forms a low-permeability barrier. A second active pharmaceutical ingredient is contained in the second enclosed cavity volume. The device also includes an envelope element containing the first and second shell elements. | 02-09-2012 |
20140086934 | METHOD FOR TREATING INTRAOCULAR NEOVASCULAR DISEASES - A method is provided for administering to a mammal suffering from, or at risk for, an intraocular neovascular disorder with regular dosing of a therapeutically effective amount of VEGF antagonist, followed by less frequent dosing of a therapeutically effective amount of VEGF antagonist. | 03-27-2014 |
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20110221669 | GESTURE CONTROL IN AN AUGMENTED REALITY EYEPIECE - This disclosure concerns an interactive head-mounted eyepiece with an integrated processor for handling content for display and an integrated image source for introducing the content to an optical assembly through which the user views a surrounding environment and the displayed content. The eyepiece includes an integrated camera facility that images a gesture, wherein the integrated processor identifies and interprets the gesture as a command instruction. | 09-15-2011 |
20110225536 | SLIDING KEYBOARD INPUT CONTROL IN AN AUGMENTED REALITY EYEPIECE - This disclosure concerns an interactive head-mounted eyepiece with an integrated processor for handling content for display and an integrated image source for introducing the content to an optical assembly through which the user views a surrounding environment and the displayed content. The displayed content is an interactive keyboard control element. The keyboard control element is associated with an input path analyzer, a word matching search facility, and a keyboard input interface, wherein the user inputs text by sliding a pointing device across character keys of the keyboard input interface in a sliding motion through an approximate sequence of a word the user would like to input as text, wherein the input path analyzer determines the characters contacted in the input path, the word matching facility finds a best word match to the sequence of characters contacted and inputs the best word match as input text. | 09-15-2011 |
20150205132 | SEE-THROUGH COMPUTER DISPLAY SYSTEMS - Aspects of the present invention relate to providing see-through computer display optics. | 07-23-2015 |
20150226967 | SPATIAL LOCATION PRESENTATION IN HEAD WORN COMPUTING - Aspects of the present invention relate presentation of digital content, in a see-through display, representing a known location in an environment proximate to a head worn computer. | 08-13-2015 |
20150228119 | SPATIAL LOCATION PRESENTATION IN HEAD WORN COMPUTING - Aspects of the present invention relate presentation of digital content, in a see-through display, representing a known location in an environment proximate to a head worn computer. | 08-13-2015 |
20150309317 | TEMPLE AND EAR HORN ASSEMBLY FOR HEADWORN COMPUTER - Aspects of the present invention relate to temple and ear horn assemblies for head worn computers. | 10-29-2015 |
20150309562 | IN-VEHICLE USE IN HEAD WORN COMPUTING - A head-worn computer including a see-through display includes a positional sensor system adapted to provide position feedback indicative of an alignment of the see-through display with a forward facing view through a windshield of a vehicle, a communication system adapted to connect the head-worn computer with a vehicle warning system, and a processor adapted to cause the head-worn computer to produce tactile feedback when the positional sensor system indicates that the see-through display is not aligned with the forward facing view and the vehicle warning system produces a warning signal. | 10-29-2015 |
20150346496 | SPEAKER ASSEMBLY FOR HEADWORN COMPUTER - Aspects of the present invention relate to speaker assemblies for head worn computers. | 12-03-2015 |
20150346511 | TEMPLE AND EAR HORN ASSEMBLY FOR HEADWORN COMPUTER - Aspects of the present invention relate to temple and ear horn assemblies for head worn computers. | 12-03-2015 |
20150355468 | CONTENT PRESENTATION IN HEAD WORN COMPUTING - Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for presenting digital content in a field of view of a head-worn computer. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356772 | CONTENT PRESENTATION IN HEAD WORN COMPUTING - Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for presenting digital content in a field of view of a head-worn computer. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356775 | CONTENT PRESENTATION IN HEAD WORN COMPUTING - Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for presenting digital content in a field of view of a head-worn computer. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356776 | CONTENT PRESENTATION IN HEAD WORN COMPUTING - Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for presenting digital content in a field of view of a head-worn computer. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356777 | CONTENT PRESENTATION IN HEAD WORN COMPUTING - Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for presenting digital content in a field of view of a head-worn computer. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356778 | CONTENT PRESENTATION IN HEAD WORN COMPUTING - Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for presenting digital content in a field of view of a head-worn computer. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356779 | CONTENT PRESENTATION IN HEAD WORN COMPUTING - Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for presenting digital content in a field of view of a head-worn computer. | 12-10-2015 |
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20090022341 | Extreme Low Frequency Acoustic Measurement System - The present invention is an extremely low frequency (ELF) microphone and acoustic measurement system capable of infrasound detection in a portable and easily deployable form factor. In one embodiment of the invention, an extremely low frequency electret microphone comprises a membrane, a backplate, and a backchamber. The backchamber is sealed to allow substantially no air exchange between the backchamber and outside the microphone. Compliance of the membrane may be less than ambient air compliance. The backplate may define a plurality of holes and a slot may be defined between an outer diameter of the backplate and an inner wall of the microphone. The locations and sizes of the holes, the size of the slot, and the volume of the backchamber may be selected such that membrane motion is substantially critically damped. | 01-22-2009 |
20090277789 | Wireless Chemical Sensor and Sensing Method for Use Therewith - A wireless chemical sensor includes an electrical conductor and a dielectric material on the conductor. The conductor is electrically unconnected and is shaped for storage of an electric field and a magnetic field. In the presence of a time-varying magnetic field, the conductor resonates to generate harmonic electric and magnetic field responses, each of which has a frequency associated therewith. The dielectric material is selected such that it experiences changes in dielectric attributes thereof in the presence of a chemical-of-interest. Shifts from the sensor's baseline frequency response indicate that the dielectric material has been exposed to the chemical-of-interest. | 11-12-2009 |
20090308971 | Airfoil System for Cruising Flight - An airfoil system includes an airfoil body and at least one flexible strip. The airfoil body has a top surface and a bottom surface, a chord length, a span, and a maximum thickness. Each flexible strip is attached along at least one edge thereof to either the top or bottom surface of the airfoil body. The flexible strip has a spanwise length that is a function of the airfoil body's span, a chordwise width that is a function of the airfoil body's chord length, and a thickness that is a function of the airfoil body's maximum thickness. | 12-17-2009 |
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20110132095 | Sub-Surface Windscreen for Outdoor Measurement of Infrasound - A windscreen is configured for measuring outdoor infrasonic sound. The windscreen includes a container and a microphone. The container defines a chamber. The microphone is disposed in the chamber and can be operatively supported by the floor. The microphone is configured for detecting infrasonic sound. The container is advantageously formed from material that exhibits an acoustic impedance of between 0 and approximately 3150 times the acoustic impedance of air. A reflector plate may be disposed in the container. The reflector plate operatively can support the microphone and provides a doubling effect of infrasonic pressure at the microphone. | 06-09-2011 |
20150264498 | Extreme Low Frequency Acoustic Measurement System - The present invention is an extremely low frequency (ELF) microphone and acoustic measurement system capable of infrasound detection in a portable and easily deployable form factor. In one embodiment of the invention, an extremely low frequency electret microphone comprises a membrane, a backplate, and a backchamber. The backchamber is sealed to allow substantially no air exchange between the backchamber and outside the microphone. Compliance of the membrane may be less than ambient air compliance. The backplate may define a plurality of holes and a slot may be defined between an outer diameter of the backplate and an inner wall of the microphone. The locations and sizes of the holes, the size of the slot, and the volume of the backchamber may be selected such that membrane motion is substantially critically damped. | 09-17-2015 |
20150316575 | Wake Vortex Avoidance System and Method - A wake vortex avoidance system includes a microphone array configured to detect low frequency sounds. A signal processor determines a geometric mean coherence based on the detected low frequency sounds. A display displays wake vortices based on the determined geometric mean coherence. | 11-05-2015 |
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20090125248 | System, Method and computer program product for integrated analysis and visualization of genomic data - Described is a system for analysis and visualization of genomic data. The system allows a user to select at least one individual sample. The sample has chromosomal data representing a genome with a chromosome and also includes chromosomal measurements of at least one event at a particular location on the chromosome. A frequency of event is generated based on the selected sample. The frequency of event is a frequency of occurrence of the event in the selected sample. At least one annotation can be selected that includes chromosomal region specific information as related to the chromosome. Finally, the chromosomal data, the annotation, and the frequency of event on a display can all be simultaneously displayed, thereby allowing a user to view chromosomal region specific information with respect to a particular chromosomal event. | 05-14-2009 |
20090204339 | Apparatus, method and computer program product for determining confidence measures and combined confidence measures for assessing the quality of proteomic and genomic data - An apparatus, method, and computer program product are provided for determining a confidence measure for the output of a process for assessing proteomic and genomic information samples. Typically, data is received as the results from a microarryi experiment. The confidence measure is intended to determine whether the results of the experiment have been degraded due to experimental error. Several criteria are used by which quality is determined. The criteria are preferably combined into a combined quality measure in order to account for several possible sources of error. | 08-13-2009 |
20090299646 | System and method for biological pathway perturbation analysis - The invention provides system and methods for analyzing the perturbation of one or more biological pathways. In one embodiment, expression values for each of a plurality of genes for one or more experimental conditions may be received. Gene differential regulation values may then be calculated for each of the plurality of genes across each of the one or more experimental conditions. The gene differential regulation values may then be grouped by the biological pathway and experimental condition from which each gene differential regulation value originated yielding one or more pathway-condition data sets. Pathway perturbation values may then for each of the one or more pathway-condition data sets using the gene differential regulation values. These pathway perturbation values may be clustered, used to identify biological pathways or experimental conditions for further analysis, and/or utilized to build a classifier for classifying additional experimental data. | 12-03-2009 |
20100191473 | Apparatus, method, and computer program product for determining gene function and functional groups using chromosomal distribution patterns - A method, apparatus, and computer program product for analyzing gene expressions is presented. An operation is performed for determining a gene expression pattern for a condition, wherein the gene expression pattern comprises a gene expression. Next, a spatial-expression pattern is formed by selecting a chromosomal region having an exon; and associating the gene expression within the gene expression pattern with its corresponding exon. A further operation may be performed, where in the forming of the spatial-expression pattern, a spatial-expression pattern signal is created as a representation of the spatial-expression pattern. The magnitude of the spatial-expression pattern signal at any point is determined by an expression level of the corresponding exon. Spatial patterns may be identified in the signal by means of various signal processing techniques such as Fourier or Wavelet transforms. Also, multiple regions and/or conditions may be tested and their reaction patterns compared to determine related genetic regions. | 07-29-2010 |