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20090029407 | Systems And Methods For Analyzing And Manipulating Biological Samples - A system for qualifying cells of a cell sample labeled with a magnetic or magnetizable moiety is provided. The system includes a cell sample holder for holding a cell of the cells and a first cell analyzer which includes a magnetic field source for applying a magnetic field to the cell and a sensor for qualifying and/or quantifying an effect of the magnetic field on the cell. | 01-29-2009 |
20090035349 | Composite scaffolds and methods using same for generating complex tissue grafts - A composite scaffold for engineering a heterogeneous tissue is provided. The composite scaffold includes: (a) a first scaffold being capable of supporting formation of a first tissue type thereupon; and (b) a second scaffold being capable of supporting formation of a second tissue type thereupon; wherein the first scaffold and the second scaffold are arranged with respect to each other such that when the first scaffold supports the first tissue type and the second scaffold supports the second tissue type, a distance between any cell of the second tissue type and the first tissue type does not exceed 200 μm. | 02-05-2009 |
20090214649 | Scaffolds with oxygen carriers, and their use in tissue regeneration - Provided are fibrin or silk matrices comprising an oxygen carrier, and matrices, which comprise an oxygen carrier and mesenchymal stem cells. Also provided are methods of generating and using same for ex vivo or in vivo tissue regeneration and/or repair such as for treating a non-union bone fracture and a condition requiring spinal fusion. | 08-27-2009 |
20100209400 | TAK1-Mediated Regulation of Osteogenesis - This invention is directed to methods, nucleic acids and compositions in TAK1-mediated regulation of SMAD activity. Promotion of TAK1 interaction with MH2 domains in SMADs negatively regulates SMAD biological activity. BMP-mediated SMAD activity is subject to TAK1 effects. | 08-19-2010 |
20110217730 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING AND MANIPULATING BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES - A system for qualifying cells of a cell sample labeled with a magnetic or magnetizable moiety is provided. The system includes a cell sample holder for holding a cell of the cells and a first cell analyzer which includes a magnetic field source for applying a magnetic field to the cell and a sensor for qualifying and/or quantifying an effect of the magnetic field on the cell. | 09-08-2011 |
20120078163 | METHOD OF GENERATING CONNECTIVE TISSUE - A method of generating bone or connective tissue in a subject in need thereof, the method comprising: (a) implanting a scaffold in a damaged region of the subject, the scaffold comprising a tissue growth promoting agent; and (b) enhancing uptake of the tissue growth promoting agent into cells located on the scaffold, wherein the enhancing is effected by induced poration of the cells thereby generating bone or connective tissue in the subject. Kits for generating bone or connective tissue are also provided. | 03-29-2012 |
20120082704 | Oxygenated demineralized bone matrix for use in bone growth - An improved composition for inducing bone growth is provided that is a combination of at least DBM and an oxygen carrier. Injection/implantation of a composition of DBM and an oxygen carrier (e.g. a perfluorocarbon) results in enhancement of bone formation compared to DBM alone. | 04-05-2012 |
20150159191 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING AND MANIPULATING BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES - A system for qualifying cells of a cell sample labeled with a magnetic or magnetizable moiety is provided. The system includes a cell sample holder for holding a cell of the cells and a first cell analyzer which includes a magnetic field source for applying a magnetic field to the cell and a sensor for qualifying and/or quantifying an effect of the magnetic field on the cell. | 06-11-2015 |
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20100235721 | Rate Matching and De-Rate Matching for an LTE Transport Channel - Described embodiments provide for rate matching with an encoded sequence of data bits. The encoded sequence of data bits is divided into two or more sub-blocks, with each sub-block having at least one column of bits, each including a set of valid bits. A set of dummy bits is generated and appended to each column of each sub-block. A starting point index for the set of valid bits within each sub-block is generated and the number of bits supported by the physical layer is determined. Only the valid bits of each sub-block are interleaved, based on each starting point index, until either i) there are no valid bits remaining, or ii) the number of interleaved bits reaches the number of bits supported by the physical layer. All dummy bits and any valid bits exceeding the number of bits supported by the physical layer are omitted. | 09-16-2010 |
20120263246 | METHOD FOR REDUCING LATENCY ON LTE DL IMPLEMENTATION - An apparatus including a processor and a radio frequency (RF) interface. The processor may be configured to process downlink information such that a latency of the apparatus is determined by an amount of time involved in processing the downlink information to obtain a single orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) symbol for presentation to the RF interface. | 10-18-2012 |
20120324195 | ALLOCATION OF PRESET CACHE LINES - An apparatus generally having a cache memory and a circuit is disclosed. The circuit may be configured to (i) parse a single first command received from a processor into a first address and a first value and (ii) allocate a first one of a plurality of lines in the cache memory to a buffer in response to the first command. The first line (a) is generally associated with the first address and (b) may have a plurality of first words. The circuit may be further configured to (iii) preset each of the first words in the first line to the first value. | 12-20-2012 |
20120327864 | REDUCING COMPLEXITY OF PHYSICAL DOWNLINK CONTROL CHANNEL RESOURCE ELEMENT GROUP MAPPING ON LONG TERM EVOLUTION DOWNLINK - An apparatus including a control bit generating module and a control channel mapping module. The control bit generating module may be configured to generate control bits to be carried by at least one control channel. The control channel mapping module may be configured to map at least one control channel to resource element groups. A resource element pointer of the control channel mapping module is generally incremented by a multiple of two on each mapping iteration. | 12-27-2012 |
20130022027 | DISCONTINUOUS TRANSMISSION IN A FRAME - An apparatus having a database and a circuit is disclosed. The database may be configured to store a plurality of entries. The circuit may be configured to (i) insert a plurality of indicators into a frame, (ii) generate the entries in the database and (iii) transmit the frame in response to the entries such that power is applied to an antenna corresponding to each of a plurality of data items in the frame and no power is applied to the antenna corresponding to each of the indicators in the frame. Each of the entries generally identifies a respective location in the frame. Each of the locations may begin a respective string comprising at least one of the indicators. | 01-24-2013 |
20130024489 | METHOD FOR FAST CALCULATION OF THE BEGINNING OF PSEUDO RANDOM SEQUENCES FOR LONG TERM EVOLUTION - An apparatus including a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit may be configured to generate pseudo-random sequences in response to a first m-sequence and a second m-sequence, where the first m-sequence is initialized with a pre-calculated constant and the second m-sequence is initialized based on a pre-defined initial sequence and a table of pre-calculated values indicating which components of the initial sequence participate in initializing the second m-sequence. The second circuit may be configured to store the table of pre-calculated values. | 01-24-2013 |
20130102358 | MODULATION AND LAYER MAPPING IN PHYSICAL CHANNELS - Described embodiments provide a wireless communication system that employs modulation and precoding. An input bit stream is divided into one or more batches. Each batch has a consecutive number of bits. A modulation scheme is determined for batches. A precoding scheme for layer mapping is determined for the batches. Based on the modulation scheme and precoding scheme, a look-up table (LUT) is selected. The selected LUT maps the batches into one or more modulated and precoded layers. The modulated and precoded batches are provided to a transmission module. | 04-25-2013 |
20130182782 | INTERLEAVING, MODULATION, AND LAYER MAPPING IN AN LTE PHYSICAL CONTROL CHANNEL - In described embodiments, a physical downlink control channel of a device operating in accordance with a 3GPP LTE standard is processed to provide interleaving, modulation and multi-layer mapping and pre-coding. A Resource Element Group interleaver applies interleaving to an input signal representing an input bitstream, and a modulator modulates the input signal. After interleaving and modulating the signal, a multi-layer mapper and pre-coder layer-maps and pre-codes the interleaved and modulated input signal into a plurality of different layers. | 07-18-2013 |
20130188553 | DOWNLINK INDICATOR CHANNEL PROCESSING IN A WIRELESS SYSTEM BASE STATION - A transmitter comprises indicator channel processing circuitry configured to process indicator channel codewords for transmission in a base station of a wireless system. The indicator channel processing circuitry performs a plurality of processing operations on the indicator channel codewords in a specified processing sequence, with the plurality of processing operations comprising at least modulation, scrambling, spreading and combining. In the specified processing sequence, the scrambling operation is performed for at least a given one of the indicator channel codewords prior to the modulation and spreading operations for that codeword or subsequent to the combining operation for that codeword. For example, the specified processing sequence may comprise the scrambling, modulation, spreading and combining operations performed in that order for at least the given codeword, or the modulation, spreading, combining and scrambling operations performed in that order for at least the given codeword. | 07-25-2013 |
20130195021 | TABLE-BASED RESOURCE MAPPING FOR DOWNLINK CONTROL CHANNELS IN A WIRELESS SYSTEM BASE STATION - A transmitter comprises resource mapping circuitry configured to map symbols from multiple control channels to transmission symbols in a base station of a wireless system. The resource mapping circuitry comprises a table-based mapper configured to receive the control channel symbols and to map those symbols to the transmission symbols utilizing at least a selected one of a plurality of tables providing respective distinct mappings between the control channel symbols and the transmission symbols. For example, each of the transmission symbols may comprise a plurality of resource groups and the tables may specify distinct mappings of the control channels symbols to resource groups for different sets of possible base station parameter values. In one embodiment, the control channels comprise a physical control format indicator channel (PCFICH), a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), and a physical hybrid ARQ indicator channel (PHICH) of an LTE cellular system. | 08-01-2013 |
20130223355 | METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING POWER GRANT ALLOCATION IN A MAC SCHEDULER - An apparatus comprising a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit may be configured to generate an estimated power unit table used to store power information in response to one or more of a plurality of input parameters. The second circuit may be configured to individually allocate one or more power usage parameters to each of a plurality of mobile units through a wireless network in response to the parameters stored in said power unit table. The power usage parameters may comprise (i) an absolute power grant when in a first mode and (ii) a relative power grant when in a second mode. | 08-29-2013 |
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20120138678 | CONTACTLESS SMART SIM FUNCTIONALITY RETROFIT FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A contactless transaction adaptor for use with a mobile communicator, including a thin SIM card signal interceptor portion arranged for insertion intermediate an existing SIM card, having SIM card-based contacts, and communicator based SIM card contacts located in a SIM card recess formed in the communicator, the interceptor portion having first contacts for communication with the communicator-based SIM card contacts and second contacts for communication with the SIM card-based contacts, a contactless communication circuit bearing portion arranged for insertion in the communicator, a contactless antenna and a contactless communication circuit both mounted onto the circuit bearing portion, a flexible connector portion interconnecting the interceptor portion and the circuit bearing portion, a first electrical path extending along the connector portion between the contacts of the interceptor portion and the contactless communication circuit, and a second electrical path extending along the circuit bearing portion between the antenna and the contactless communication circuit. | 06-07-2012 |
20140027519 | ADAPTER FOR PERSONAL ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF - An adapter and methods of using the adapter for communicating a personal electronic device to a smart card reader are disclosed. The adapter comprises a processor, a contact/contactless smartcard chip, an antenna and a power supply unit. The processor is adapted to exchange data with the personal electronic device, wherein that data is modulated on the audio signals. The processor is also adapted to exchange data with the smartcard chip, wherein the smartcard chip is adapted to communicate with the contactless smart card reader via the antenna. A method for enabling a personal electronic device to communicate with a contactless smart card reader via audio signals is also disclosed. The method comprises providing an adapter. The adapter comprises a processor, a contact/contactless smartcard chip, an antenna and a power supply unit. The method also comprises exchanging data between the personal electronic device and the processor. | 01-30-2014 |
20140117082 | CONTACTLESS SMART SIM FUNCTIONALITY RETROFIT FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A contactless transaction adaptor for use with a mobile communicator, including a thin SIM card signal interceptor portion arranged for insertion intermediate an existing SIM card, having SIM card-based contacts, and communicator based SIM card contacts located in a SIM card recess formed in the communicator, the interceptor portion having first contacts for communication with the communicator-based SIM card contacts and second contacts for communication with the SIM card-based contacts, a contactless communication circuit bearing portion arranged for insertion in the communicator, a contactless antenna and a contactless communication circuit both mounted onto the circuit bearing portion, a flexible connector portion interconnecting the intercept or portion and the circuit bearing portion, a first electrical path extending along the connector portion between the contacts of the interceptor portion and the contactless communication circuit, and a second electrical path extending along the circuit bearing portion between the antenna and the contactless communication circuit. | 05-01-2014 |
20150205734 | ADAPTER FOR PERSONAL ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF - An adapter for converting signals in a first format to signals in a second format for enabling a personal electronic device such as laptop computer, tablet computer, smartphone and the like, to communicate with a contactless smart card reader via another adapter. Embodiments include an adapter for enabling a personal electronic device to communicate, via communication channel comprising data signals over universal serial bus (USB) channel, with a contactless smart card reader. | 07-23-2015 |
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20100131273 | Device,system, and method of liveness detection utilizing voice biometrics - Device, system, and method of liveness detection using voice biometrics. For example, a method comprises: generating a first matching score based on a comparison between: (a) a voice-print from a first text-dependent audio sample received at an enrollment stage, and (b) a second text-dependent audio sample received at an authentication stage; generating a second matching score based on a text-independent audio sample; and generating a liveness score by taking into account at least the first matching score and the second matching score. | 05-27-2010 |
20130226582 | DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF LIVENESS DETECTION UTILIZING VOICE BIOMETRICS - Device, system, and method of liveness detection using voice biometrics. For example, a method comprises: generating a first matching score based on a comparison between: (a) a voice-print from a first text-dependent audio sample received at an enrollment stage, and (b) a second text-dependent audio sample received at an authentication stage; generating a second matching score based on a text-independent audio sample; and generating a liveness score by taking into account at least the first matching score and the second matching score. | 08-29-2013 |
20150046162 | DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF LIVENESS DETECTION UTILIZING VOICE BIOMETRICS - Device, system, and method of liveness detection using voice biometrics. For example, a method comprises: generating a first matching score based on a comparison between: (a) a voice-print from a first text-dependent audio sample received at an enrollment stage, and (b) a second text-dependent audio sample received at an authentication stage; generating a second matching score based on a text-independent audio sample; and generating a liveness score by taking into account at least the first matching score and the second matching score. | 02-12-2015 |
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20100128954 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEGMENTING MEDICAL IMAGING DATA ACCORDING TO A SKELETAL ATLAS - A method for segmenting a medical image. The method comprises providing a registration of a medical image depicting a plurality of bones with a skeletal atlas mapping an exemplary skeletal structure having a plurality of exemplary bones, identifying at least one component having at least one anatomical characteristic indicative of a predefined organ in the medical image, each the at least one component depicting at least one of the plurality of bones, and segmenting at least one region of interest (ROI) around the at least one component within the medical image according to at least one respective the exemplary bone pertaining to the predefined organ. | 05-27-2010 |
20100296709 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BLOOD VESSEL SEGMENTATION AND CLASSIFICATION - A method of analyzing structure of a network of vessels in a medical image, comprising:
| 11-25-2010 |
20100296718 | SOFT TISSUE SEGMENTATION USING A BONE ATLAS - A method of segmenting one or more soft tissue organs in a 3-D medical image, the method comprising:
| 11-25-2010 |
20110135175 | USER INTERFACE FOR SELECTING PATHS IN AN IMAGE - A method, performed by a computer, of facilitating selection by a user of one path from a set of directed paths in an image, partly overlapping but not constituting a directed tree structure, each path beginning at a root and ending at an end point, the method comprising:
| 06-09-2011 |
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20090029407 | Systems And Methods For Analyzing And Manipulating Biological Samples - A system for qualifying cells of a cell sample labeled with a magnetic or magnetizable moiety is provided. The system includes a cell sample holder for holding a cell of the cells and a first cell analyzer which includes a magnetic field source for applying a magnetic field to the cell and a sensor for qualifying and/or quantifying an effect of the magnetic field on the cell. | 01-29-2009 |
20090214649 | Scaffolds with oxygen carriers, and their use in tissue regeneration - Provided are fibrin or silk matrices comprising an oxygen carrier, and matrices, which comprise an oxygen carrier and mesenchymal stem cells. Also provided are methods of generating and using same for ex vivo or in vivo tissue regeneration and/or repair such as for treating a non-union bone fracture and a condition requiring spinal fusion. | 08-27-2009 |
20110217730 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING AND MANIPULATING BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES - A system for qualifying cells of a cell sample labeled with a magnetic or magnetizable moiety is provided. The system includes a cell sample holder for holding a cell of the cells and a first cell analyzer which includes a magnetic field source for applying a magnetic field to the cell and a sensor for qualifying and/or quantifying an effect of the magnetic field on the cell. | 09-08-2011 |
20120078163 | METHOD OF GENERATING CONNECTIVE TISSUE - A method of generating bone or connective tissue in a subject in need thereof, the method comprising: (a) implanting a scaffold in a damaged region of the subject, the scaffold comprising a tissue growth promoting agent; and (b) enhancing uptake of the tissue growth promoting agent into cells located on the scaffold, wherein the enhancing is effected by induced poration of the cells thereby generating bone or connective tissue in the subject. Kits for generating bone or connective tissue are also provided. | 03-29-2012 |
20120082704 | Oxygenated demineralized bone matrix for use in bone growth - An improved composition for inducing bone growth is provided that is a combination of at least DBM and an oxygen carrier. Injection/implantation of a composition of DBM and an oxygen carrier (e.g. a perfluorocarbon) results in enhancement of bone formation compared to DBM alone. | 04-05-2012 |
20150159191 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING AND MANIPULATING BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES - A system for qualifying cells of a cell sample labeled with a magnetic or magnetizable moiety is provided. The system includes a cell sample holder for holding a cell of the cells and a first cell analyzer which includes a magnetic field source for applying a magnetic field to the cell and a sensor for qualifying and/or quantifying an effect of the magnetic field on the cell. | 06-11-2015 |