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20120310186 | Dressings and Related Methods Therefor - The present disclosure relates to dressings, such as adhesive bandage, which can have an absorbent pad, and non-stick film secured thereto which has at least two different polymeric materials, a first polymeric material and a second polymeric material having a lower melting point than the first polymeric material. | 12-06-2012 |
20130085434 | Wound Dressing And Related Methods Therefor - A wound dressing includes a substrate fabricated from first and second yarns. The first yarns include at least one of a bast fiber, a cellulosic fiber, and combinations thereof and the second yarns include at least one alternative polymeric fiber. | 04-04-2013 |
20130150764 | Non-Adherent Wound Dressings and Related Methods Therefor - A wound dressing is disclosed. The wound dressing includes an oil emulsion and a substrate including a plurality of first yarns and a plurality of second yarns, wherein the plurality of first yarns includes a plurality of first fibers comprising a cellulosic material and the plurality of second yarns includes a plurality of second fibers comprising a non-adherent polymeric material. In other cases, the substrate can be a woven substrate, a nonwoven substrate, or a knitted substrate of nonadherent polymeric fibers or yarns. | 06-13-2013 |
20140039349 | URINE COLLECTION SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD - A urine collection system includes a collection bag defining a fluid reservoir including a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, an in-line vent positioned upstream of the collection bag and being fluidly coupled to the collection bag, the in-line vent including an outlet end, a sampling port adapter positioned upstream of the in-line vent and being adapted to be fluidly coupled to a urinary catheter; and a compressible tube defining a fluid channel fluidly connecting the sampling port adapter and the in-line vent, the compressible tube being clampable to seal the fluid channel. | 02-06-2014 |
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20140215491 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERNAL NETWORKING, DATA OPTIMIZATION AND DYNAMIC FREQUENCY SELECTION IN A VEHICULAR ENVIRONMENT - A system includes an on-board unit (OBU) in communication with an internal subsystem in a vehicle on at least one Ethernet network and a node on a wireless network. A method in one embodiment includes receiving a message on the Ethernet network in the vehicle, encapsulating the message to facilitate translation to Ethernet protocol if the message is not in Ethernet protocol, and transmitting the message in Ethernet protocol to its destination. Certain embodiments include optimizing data transmission over the wireless network using redundancy caches, dictionaries, object contexts databases, speech templates and protocol header templates, and cross layer optimization of data flow from a receiver to a sender over a TCP connection. Certain embodiments also include dynamically identifying and selecting an operating frequency with least interference for data transmission over the wireless network. | 07-31-2014 |
20150105870 | STARTUP CONTROL OF DEVICES - Controlled startup of devices is based on dynamic statistical predictions. Timely startup of onboard associated vehicle devices is based on dynamic statistical predictions and driver proximity to the vehicle. An apparatus for timely startup includes an interface operatively coupled with a power consuming device and control logic coupled with the interface. The control logic is operable in a first mode to perform processing for determining a presence of a first condition of the vehicle, and to selectively activate the power consuming device of the vehicle, via the interface, responsive to determining the presence of the first condition. The control logic is operable in a second mode to suspend, via the interface, the processing for determining the presence of the first condition of the vehicle. The control logic selectively transitions between the first and second modes in accordance with a stochastic modeling of the presence of the first condition over time. | 04-16-2015 |
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20100136091 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPOSITIONS FOR EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PRODUCTION - Compositions, methods, and kits for repair and production of extracellular matrix are provided. In the broad aspect, the composition comprises a ligand of α5β1 integrin attached to a surface of a nanoparticle composed of a protein, with a proviso that the protein is not fibronectin. | 06-03-2010 |
20140193331 | MULTIFUNCTIONAL INFRARED-EMITTING COMPOSITES - Disclosed is a method of non-invasive infrared imaging, comprising (a) administering a composition containing infrared-emitting particles which contain rare earth elements that emit in the short-wavelength infrared (SWIR) spectrum, where the particles are encapsulated with a biocompatible matrix to form downconverting encapsulated particles; and (b) irradiating with infrared radiation, where both excitation and emission spectra of the encapsulated particles are in the infrared region. Analogous methods of image-guided biomedical intervention, and drug tracking and delivery are also disclosed. Also disclosed is a composition for biomedical applications, containing infrared-emitting particles which contain rare earth-elements that emit in the short-wavelength infrared (SWIR) spectrum, where the particles are encapsulated with a biocompatible matrix to form downconverting encapsulated particles. | 07-10-2014 |
20140328763 | BIOACTIVE AMPHIPHILIC POLYMER STABILIZED NANOPARTICLES WITH ENHANCED STABILITY AND ACTIVITY - The present invention relates to nanoparticle compositions and treatment of cardiovascular disease using nanoparticles to target Class A and B scavenger receptors. This invention further relates to methods of detecting cells that express scavenger receptors, detecting atherosclerotic lesions, and targeting bioactive amphiphilic macromolecules to cells that express scavenger receptors. | 11-06-2014 |
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20110035781 | Distributed data search, audit and analytics - A system that comprises of a set of components that interact together to achieve large-scale distributed data auditing, searching, and analytics. Traditional systems require auditing data to be captured and centralized for analytics, which leads to scaling and bottleneck issues (both on network and processing side). Unlike these systems, the system described herein leverages the combination of distributed storage and intelligence, along with centralized policy intelligence and coordination, to allow for large-scale data auditing that scales. This architecture allows for data auditing in “billions” of events, unlike traditional architectures that struggled in the realm of “millions” of events. | 02-10-2011 |
20110035804 | Appliance-based parallelized analytics of data auditing events - Data auditing involves capturing, filtering, processing and analytics of real-time data transactions. As such, data auditing imposes a heavy burden of processing in the fast path, which cannot afford to slow down. Unfortunately, most processing incurred in traditional data auditing fast paths has been serial, leading to bottlenecks or scaling issues. This disclosure addresses this problem by developing a fast path where both lower and upper stacks of data auditing are analyzed and exploited for potential parallelism. A fully-parallelized analytics fast path could deliver 25-200% speed-up of throughput relative to a serial fast path, depending on the specific conditions. | 02-10-2011 |
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20100161275 | Trend Analysis Methods and System for Incipient Fault Prediction - There is described herein the extension of the application of the Laplace Test Statistic for trend analysis and prediction of incipient faults for power systems. The extensions consider the situation where two parameters believed to contribute explicitly to the eventual failure are monitored. The developed extensions applied to actual incipient failure events provide promising results for prediction of the impending failure. It is demonstrated that by incorporating two parameters in the trend analysis, the robustness to outliers is increased and the flexibility is augmented by increasing the degrees of freedom in the generation of the alarm signal. | 06-24-2010 |
20130151187 | Systems And Methods For Determining Current Flow Through A Utility Asset - The present invention describes systems and methods for determining current flow through a current-carrying utility asset. An exemplary embodiment can include measuring a first magnetic induction value at a first location near a targeted current-carrying utility asset and a second magnetic induction value at a second location near the targeted asset where the first location is a known distance from the second location; determining a correlation between a spatial angle and an electrical phase angle between the targeted asset and a second asset where the second asset contributes a first and second error component to the first and second magnetic induction values respectively; estimating error values for the first and second error components using the correlation between the spatial angle and the electrical phase angle; and estimating a current flowing through the targeted asset using the first and second magnetic induction values, the known distance, and the error values. | 06-13-2013 |
20130170264 | Systems And Methods For Providing AC/DC Boost Converters For Energy Harvesting - The present invention describes systems and methods for harvesting energy from an alternating magnetic field. An exemplary embodiment can include a flux concentrator having an open core coil wherein a first current with a first voltage is induced in the flux concentrator when placed proximate an alternating magnetic field. Additionally, the system can include a transformer, having a first and second winding, connected to the flux concentrator and inducing a second current in the second winding, wherein the second current has a second voltage higher than the first voltage and a threshold voltage of a first and second diode. Furthermore, the system can include a converter, connected to the secondary winding for charging the leakage inductance of the secondary winding by creating a short circuit between the secondary winding and the converter; and the diodes connected to the secondary winding and the converter for discharging the leakage inductance. | 07-04-2013 |
20130207471 | IMPUTED DC LINK (IDCL) CELL BASED POWER CONVERTERS AND CONTROL THEREOF - Power flow controllers based on Imputed DC Link (IDCL) cells are provided. The IDCL cell is a self-contained power electronic building block (PEBB). The IDCL cell may be stacked in series and parallel to achieve power flow control at higher voltage and current levels. Each IDCL cell may comprise a gate drive, a voltage sharing module, and a thermal management component in order to facilitate easy integration of the cell into a variety of applications. By providing direct AC conversion, the IDCL cell based AC/AC converters reduce device count, eliminate the use of electrolytic capacitors that have life and reliability issues, and improve system efficiency compared with similarly rated back-to-back inverter system. | 08-15-2013 |
20140241019 | MULTI-LEVEL RECTIFIERS - Multi-level rectifiers are provided. A multi-level rectifier may convert a medium AC voltage to a medium DC voltage. A multi-level rectifier may comprise an input inductor, a set of diodes, a set of switches, and a DC link comprising a set of capacitors. One end of the input inductor is coupled to the input AC voltage and the other end of the input inductor is coupled to a pair of diodes that are series connected. The set of switches may be regulated such that the inductor may be coupled to a DC voltage point of the DC link. A multi-level rectifier may operate under a set of operation modes. Each operation mode may be determined from the input voltage and the inductor current. Accordingly, a sinusoidal voltage at the fundamental frequency of the input voltage may be synthesized by selectively switching between adjacent operation modes of the set of operation modes. A multi-level rectifier may be used in connection with a medium voltage to low voltage DC/DC converter to form a power conversion system that converts a medium AC voltage to a low DC voltage. | 08-28-2014 |
20150077088 | VOLTAGE SENSOR SYSTEMS AND METHODS - An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a floating voltage sensor system comprising a metallic enclosure, a conductive sensor plate, a signal conditioning circuit, and a microcontroller unit. The metallic enclosure can be configured for electrical communication with an asset carrying a voltage. The conductive sensor plate can be positioned adjacent to a surface of the metallic enclosure, such that the conductive plate and the surface of the metallic enclosure are not in contact with each other. The signal conditioning circuit can comprise a first connection point and a second connection point. The first connection point can be in electrical communication with the conductive sensor plate. The second connection point can be in electrical communication with the metallic enclosure. The microcontroller unit can be configured to receive an output of the signal conditioning circuit and measure the voltage of the asset. | 03-19-2015 |
20150236508 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EDGE OF NETWORK VOLTAGE CONTROL OF A POWER GRID - Systems and methods for an edge of network voltage control of a power grid are described. A system includes a distribution power network, a plurality of loads (at or near an edge of the distribution power network), and a plurality of shunt-connected, switch-controlled volt ampere reactive (VAR) sources also located at the edge or near the edge of the distribution power network where they may each detect a proximate voltage. The VAR source can determine whether to enable a VAR compensation component therein based on the proximate voltage and adjust network VAR by controlling a switch to enable the VAR compensation component. Further still, each of the VAR sources may be integrated within a customer-located asset, such as a smart meter, and a multitude of such VAR sources can be used to effectuate a distributed controllable VAR source (DCVS) cloud network. | 08-20-2015 |
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20090033500 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR LOCATIONING EMERGENCY PERSONNEL USING RFID TAGS DEPLOYED AT A SITE - Systems and methods are provided for determining the location of an individual (e.g., emergency personnel) within an environment having a plurality of RFID tags located therein. A system includes a wearable RFID reader removeably attached to the individual (e.g., on his/her wrist, or uniform), wherein the wearable RFID reader is configured to activate and receive data from a plurality of RFID tags located (e.g., previously deployed) therein. An access port is positioned external to the environment and is configured to receive the data from the wearable RFID reader. A locationing module is communicatively coupled to the access port and is configured to determine the location of the individual within the site based on the data acquired from the at least one RFID tags. | 02-05-2009 |
20090059813 | INTEGRATION OF EXTERNAL LOCATION ENGINE USING SWITCH - An RF switch is provided. The RF switch includes a processor adapted for communication with an external location engine. The processor is configured to receive notification regarding a status of a wireless asset, receive a plurality of input variables associated with the wireless asset, determine whether the wireless asset is associated with the external location engine, and if the wireless asset is associated with the external location engine, query the external location engine for location data associated with the wireless asset. | 03-05-2009 |
20090077620 | Method and System for Location-Based Wireless Network - Described are a method and a system for granting and denying network access to a device based on a location of that device. A method includes determining a current location of at least one mobile unit, permitting network access to a wireless network to the mobile unit if a network access policy of the mobile unit is configured to permit network access for the current location, and denying network access to the wireless network to the mobile unit if the network access policy of the mobile unit is configured to restrict network access for the current location. The system includes a processor generating network access policy data for at least one mobile unit, the network access policy data configured to one of permit network access and restrict network access for the at least one mobile unit depending on a location of the at least one mobile unit within an operating environment, a wireless switch providing a wireless network infrastructure, a location determination module calculating a current location of the at least one mobile unit, and a plurality of wireless access points in communication with the wireless switch, wherein each one of the wireless access points one of permits network access and restricts network access to the at least one mobile unit based on the current location and the network access policy data for the at least one mobile unit. | 03-19-2009 |
20090082015 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING MOBILE UNIT ACCESS TO NETWORK SERVICES BASED ON ITS LOCATION - Methods and systems for controlling mobile unit access to network services based on the location of the mobile unit are disclosed. One system includes determining if the mobile unit is located within an area and enabling access to the network services, by the mobile unit, in response to determining that the mobile unit is located within the area. A system includes a reader configured to determine if a mobile unit is located within the area and a switch coupled to the reader. The switch is configured to provide access to the network services, to the mobile unit, in response to the reader determining that the mobile unit is located within the area. An apparatus includes means for determining if a mobile unit is located within the area and means for enabling the mobile unit to access the network services in response thereto. | 03-26-2009 |
20090085741 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR LOCATING AN RFID READER USING RFID TAGS - Methods and systems are provided for determining the location of an RFID reader within an environment having a plurality of RFID tags located therein. One method includes activating a tag via an RFID reader and receiving data from an RFID tag. The method also includes transmitting the data from the reader to an access port and determining the location of the reader based on the data. A system includes an RFID tag configured to transmit data when activated by an RFID reader. Furthermore, the system includes an access port configured to receive the data from the reader and a module configured to receive the data and determine the location of the reader based on the data. One RFID reader includes means for activating an RFID tag including data identifying a location of the tag, means for receiving the data, and means for transmitting the data to an access port. | 04-02-2009 |
20090085743 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OPERATIONS OF A MOBILE RADIO FREQUENCY READER BASED ON ITS LOCATION - Methods and systems are provided for controlling RF reader operations based the location of the RF reader. One method includes determining that the RF reader is located within a zone associated with an access level and enabling or disabling the RF reader based on the access level. A system includes multiple access ports (APs) defining multiple zones including an access level for the RF reader. The system also includes a switch configured to determine a present zone of the mobile RF reader and enabling the RF reader based on the access level of the present zone. Another system includes means for receiving a signal from an access port and means for determining a location of the RF reader based on the signal, the location associated with an access level. The system also includes means for enabling or disabling the RF reader based on the access level. | 04-02-2009 |
20090322536 | INTEGRATED SWITCH SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOCATING IDENTIFICATION TAGS - Integrated switch systems and methods for locating ID tags are disclosed. One system includes an application, a plurality of different tag readers in communication with the ID tags, and an integrated switch configured to enable the application to receive tag information from the different tag readers. An integrated switch includes multiple reader adapters, an application adapter, and a virtualization core. The virtualization core is configured to provide a common interface between each tag reader and the application. One method includes receiving a first signal from a first tag reader and receiving a second signal from a second tag reader, the first and second signals having information related to first and second ID tags, respectively. The method also includes normalizing the first and second signals such that the signals are compatible with the application and transmitting an ID tag report based on the normalized first and/or second signal to the application. | 12-31-2009 |