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20090087469 | ALGINATE-BASED NANOFIBERS AND RELATED SCAFFOLDS - Alginate nanofibers, scaffolds that include alginate nanofibers, implantable devices that include alginate nanofibers, and methods for making the alginate nanofibers by electrospinning. | 04-02-2009 |
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20150282811 | NANOFIBROUS CONDUITS FOR NERVE REGENERATION - A hollow fibrous conduit for promoting regeneration of a severed nerve, comprising a first end for coapting the conduit to a first end of a severed nerve and second end for coapting the conduit to a second end of the severed nerve, the hollow fibrous conduit comprising chitosan-poly(caprolactone) fibers. Methods for making the conduit and methods for using the conduit for nerve regeneration. | 10-08-2015 |
20150320890 | NANOPARTICLES FOR BRAIN TUMOR IMAGING - Nanoparticle having a chitosan-polyethylene oxide oligomer copolymer coating, and methods for making and using the nanoparticle are provided. The nanoparticle can have a core that includes a material that imparts magnetic resonance imaging activity to the particle and, optionally, one or more of an associated targeting agent, fluorescent agent, or therapeutic agent. | 11-12-2015 |
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20090158892 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING METALLIC IRON - A battery of stationary hearth furnaces, and method for using, for producing metallic iron nodules having a furnace having a stationary hearth, an inlet and an outlet; a heating chamber beneath the stationary hearth having heated fluids circulated thereto and heating reducible material on the stationary hearth; passageways circulating fluids, through ports from the furnace housing above the reducible material to the heating chamber beneath; burners and air inlets in the furnace and optionally in at least one passageway and a heating chamber for drying and heating the reducible material, driving off and burning volatile material, and forming metallic iron nodules; a loading device for loading reducible material and optionally hearth material onto the stationary hearth through the inlet; and a discharging device capable of discharging metallic iron nodules and optionally related material from the stationary hearth through the outlet. | 06-25-2009 |
20120013054 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING METALLIC IRON - A battery of stationary hearth furnaces, and method for using, for producing metallic iron nodules having a furnace having a stationary hearth, an inlet and an outlet; a heating chamber beneath the stationary hearth having heated fluids circulated thereto and heating reducible material on the stationary hearth; passageways circulating fluids, through ports from the furnace housing above the reducible material to the heating chamber beneath; burners and air inlets in the furnace and optionally in at least one passageway and a heating chamber for drying and heating the reducible material, driving off and burning volatile material, and forming metallic iron nodules; a loading device for loading reducible material and optionally hearth material onto the stationary hearth through the inlet; and a discharging device capable of discharging metallic iron nodules and optionally related material from the stationary hearth through the outlet. | 01-19-2012 |
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20110243469 | SELECTING AND REPRESENTING MULTIPLE COMPRESSION METHODS - A system and method are described for compressing image data using a combination of compression methods. Compression method combinations are provided to compress image data of a particular frame buffer format and antialiasing mode. Each method in the compression method combination is tried in turn to compress the image data in a tile. The best method that succeeded in compressing the image data is encoded in the compression bit state associated with the tile. Together, the compression bits, the compression method combination, and the frame buffer format provide sufficient information to decompress a tile. | 10-06-2011 |
20130249897 | ALTERNATE REDUCTION RATIOS AND THRESHOLD MECHANISMS FOR FRAMEBUFFER COMPRESSION - A method for compressing framebuffer data is presented. The method includes determining a reduction ratio for framebuffer data in a tile including multiple samples. The reduction ratio determined is independent of the sampling mode, where the sampling mode is the number of samples within each pixel in the tile. The method further includes comparing a first portion of the framebuffer data for each of the multiple samples to determine an equality comparison result and also comparing a second portion of the framebuffer data for each one of the multiple samples to compute per-channel differences for each one of the multiple samples and testing the per-channel differences against a threshold value to determine a threshold comparison result. Finally, the method comprises compressing the framebuffer data for the tile based on the reduction ratio, the equality comparison result and the threshold comparison result to produce output framebuffer data for the tile. | 09-26-2013 |
20130293564 | PROCESSING GLOBAL ATOMIC OPERATIONS USING THE BENDING UNIT DATAPATH - One embodiment of the invention sets forth a CROP configured to perform both color raster operations and atomic transactions. Upon receiving an atomic transaction, the distribution unit within the CROP transmits a read request to the L2 cache for retrieving the destination operand. The distribution unit also transmits the source operands and the operation code to the latency buffer for storage until the destination operand is retrieved from the L2 cache. The processing pipeline transmits the operation code, the source and destination operands and an atomic flag to the blend unit for processing. The blend unit performs the atomic transaction on the source and destination operands based on the operation code and returns the result of the atomic transaction to the processing pipeline for storage in the internal cache. The processing pipeline writes the result of the atomic transaction to the L2 cache for storage at the memory location associated with the atomic transaction. | 11-07-2013 |
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20100118150 | TIMESHIFTING VIDEO RECORDING CAMERA - A video recording camera system configured to record video to a non-volatile memory configured as a circular video recording buffer. In an embodiment, the video recording camera system includes a non-volatile storage medium and a processor is configured to manage at least a portion of the non-volatile storage medium as a circular buffer, replacing recorded video data stored in a subset of memory addresses corresponding to an older recorded video frame with the data corresponding to a newer video frame. In further embodiments, clip files may be partitioned from the circular buffer to prevent logical portion of the recorded video from being overwritten upon reaching a capacity of the circular recorded video buffer. | 05-13-2010 |
20100118158 | VIDEO RECORDING CAMERA HEADSET - A wireless video recording camera headset providing hands-free video recording and a two-way audio relay to a wireless handset. A recorded video stream is saved to a non-volatile buffer in the headset and may be viewed, edited and manipulated via the wireless handset. | 05-13-2010 |
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20130044992 | REMOTE VIDEO RECORDING CAMERA CONTROL THROUGH WIRELESS HANDSET - A video recording camera system provide remote control functionality through a wireless handset interface. In embodiments, a video recording camera includes an optical sensor, a processor coupled to the optical sensor to process an input image signal received from the optical sensor into an encoded video data stream, a non-volatile storage medium coupled to the processor to store, locally in the video recording camera, encoded video data stream as recorded video data, and a wireless transceiver. In embodiments, a cellular-enabled wireless communication handset communicatively couples to the video recording camera over a wireless personal area network (WPAN) supported by the camera's wireless transceiver. The handset serves as a gateway to the camera providing access to recorded video data or functions of the camera, via the WPAN, as determined based on communications conducted by the handset over a cellular communication link. | 02-21-2013 |
20130128067 | WIRELESS HANDSET INTERFACE FOR VIDEO RECORDING CAMERA CONTROL - Video recording where an input image signal is received with one or more optical sensor disposed in a hands-free video recorder. The input image signal is processed into an encoded video data stream with one or more processor disposed in the hands-free video recorder. First frames of the video data stream are relayed over a wireless communication link to a cellular-enabled wireless telephony handset and presented on a display screen of the handset along with a graphical user video control interface. Video control commands are wirelessly sent to the recorder in response to receiving a first input through the video control interface. Second frames of the video data stream are directed by the video control commands to at least one of a plurality of destinations. | 05-23-2013 |
20130223810 | CREATING AND EDITING VIDEO RECORDED BY A HANDS-FREE VIDEO RECORDING DEVICE - A video recording hands-free device that includes a storage medium, an optical sensor to receive an input image signal, and a processor that is coupled to the storage medium and the optical sensor. The processor is configured to process the input image signal received from the optical sensor into an encoded video data stream and store the encoded video data stream as recorded video data in the storage medium. The processor is also configured to receive and process a video control command to create a video clip file from a logical segment of the recorded video data. | 08-29-2013 |
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20140115580 | Set Top Box Application in a Concurrent Dual Environment - A set top box or like device utilizing virtualization techniques to isolate secure device resources from an untrusted software framework incorporated in the device. In one implementation, a first virtual machine container is provided for secure execution of a traditional set top box application, while a second virtual machine container is utilized to host a software framework or untrusted portions of a software framework. A secure access client/server interface is provided to support interactions between the first and second virtual machine containers. The software framework may comprise, for example, an Android framework supported by an underlying Linux operating system environment and isolated in a Linux resource container. Virtual container constructs in various embodiments may employ varying levels of hardware sandboxing, including use of dedicated processing resources in multi-processor environments. In further embodiments, the software framework may be partitioned into trusted and untrusted portions that are executed in separate virtual containers. | 04-24-2014 |
20140115623 | Integration of Untrusted Framework Components With a Secure Operating System Environment - A set top box or like device incorporating an untrusted software framework as a client of a secure operating system kernel. The software framework may comprise, for example, an Android framework supported by an underlying Linux operating system environment having a secure kernel. The software framework can be executed using a variety of process isolation techniques depending on performance and isolation requirements. A secure access client/server interface may also be provided to support interactions between the untrusted software framework (and applications utilizing the untrusted software framework) and secure or trusted portions of the device. The secure access interface can be configured to perform operations such as handle validation, heap pointer validation, non-pointer parameter validation, heap isolation, and resource release relating to terminated processes. In further embodiments, a software framework aggregator is used to support a plurality of additional software frameworks for use in the set top box. | 04-24-2014 |
20140115646 | Integration of Untrusted Applications and Frameworks with a Secure Operating System Environment - A set top box or like device utilizing trusted applications in conjunction with an untrusted software framework. In one implementation, trusted or certified applications are received from a service provider for execution by a software framework of the device. Certification of a trusted application may entail, for example, verifying that the application is executable by the device in a manner consist with the industry standard certification process. The software framework may comprise, for example, an Android framework supported by an underlying Linux operating system environment and isolated in a Linux resource container. A secure access client/server interface may also be provided to support interactions between the software framework and trusted portions of the device. In further embodiments, both trusted applications and a set top box application utilized by the device to perform traditional set top box operations are implemented in at least one version of an Android or like framework. | 04-24-2014 |
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20100009957 | NOVEL INHIBITORS OF BETA-LACTAMASE - A class of 7-oxo-2,6-diazabicyclo-[3.2.0]-heptane-6-sulfonic acid compounds substituted at the two position of the bicyclic ring with a heterocyclylaminocarbonyl group or a carbocyclylaminocarbonyl group are β-lactamase inhibitors. The compounds and their prodrugs and pharmaceutically acceptable salts are useful in the treatment of bacterial infections in combination with β-lactam antibiotics. In particular, the compounds are suitable for use with β-lactam antibiotics (e.g., imipenem and ceftazidime) against micro-organisms resistant to β-lactam antibiotics due to the presence of the β-lactamases. | 01-14-2010 |
20100292282 | SYNTHESIS AND CRYSTALLINE FORMS OF CB-1 ANTAGONIST/INVERSE AGONIST - The present invention relates to a process for producing crystalline 3-[(1S)-1-(1-{(S)-(4-chlorophenyl)[3-(5-oxo-4,5-dihydro-1,3,4-oxadiazol-2-yl)phenyl]methyl}azetidin-3-yl)-2-fluoro-2-methyl-propyl]-5-fluorobenzonitrile, and novel salts, solvates, hydrates and polymorphs thereof. | 11-18-2010 |
20110245290 | Alternative Forms of the Phosphodiesterase-4 Inhibitor N-Cyclopropyl-1--4-Oxo-1,4-Dihydro-1,8-Naphthyridine-3-Carboxyamide - The present invention is directed to alternative forms of the title phosphodiesterase 4 inhibitor which has the structural formula shown immediately below: | 10-06-2011 |
20130231363 | ALTERNATIVE FORMS OF THE PHOSPHODIESTERASE-4 INHIBITOR N-CYCLOPROPYL-1--4-OXO-1,4-DIHYDRO-1,8-NAPHTHYRIDINE-3-CARBOXYAMIDE - The present invention is directed to alternative forms of the title phosphodiesterase 4 inhibitor which has the structural formula shown immediately below: | 09-05-2013 |
20150190402 | SOLID DOSAGE FORMULATIONS OF AN OREXIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS - The present invention is directed to a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compound suvorexant, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, a concentration-enhancing polymer, and optionally a pharmaceutically acceptable surfactant. The concentration-enhancing polymer is a polymer that forms an amorphous dispersion with suvorexant, that is insoluble or almost completely insoluble in water by (a) dissolving the suvorexant or (b) interacting with the suvorexant in such a way that the suvorexant does not form crystals or crystalline domains in the polymer. A concentration-enhancing polymer is water soluble or readily disperse in water, so that when the polymer is placed in water or an aqueous environment (e.g. fluids in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract or simulated GI fluids), the solubility and/or bioavailability of suvorexant is increased over the solubility or bioavailability in the absence of the polymer. | 07-09-2015 |