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20100303316 | Mehod of designing and fabricating patient-specific restorations from intra-oral scanning of a digital impression - Taking a digital implant or abutment level digital impression by means of intra-oral, computed tomography or other imaging method provides the restorative doctor and laboratory accurate and effective data for determining the implant position, angulation and locking feature orientation without a physical impression. Such data is correlated with a digital library to produce an output which enables design and fabrication of an accurate restorative device such as a prosthetic tooth or crown. In this way the time-consuming, costly and error prone mechanical replication of the relevant dental anatomy is obviated. | 12-02-2010 |
20130236855 | PREMANUFACTURED CERAMIC DENTAL IMPLANT ABUTMENTS FOR MATING CERAMIC PROSTHETIC BUILD-UP CONSTRUCTION - A premade ceramic dental implant abutment includes a ceramic abutment having at the top a support region intended for receiving a mating prosthetic build-up construction with a surface feature to inhibit rotation of said construction, and at the bottom, an implant contact region with geometry to connect to the implant. The ceramic abutment has a passageway extending therethrough. The passageway may narrow to form a shoulder that is made entirely of ceramic. A head of a screw seats entirely on the shoulder. The ceramic abutment has a supragingival region for protruding beyond the gingiva and a subgingival end for extending into the gingiva. The ceramic abutment may be free of metal. Also, the premade ceramic abutment may be designed to be augmented by cementing additional ceramic material such as a ceramic prosthesis onto the ceramic abutment. | 09-12-2013 |
20130244206 | PATIENT-SPECIFIC SYSTEM FOR RESTORING MISSING DENTITION - A patient-specific system for restoring missing dentition may include surgical components including a dental implant drilling guide adapted to the patient's dental anatomy, dental implant, drills required to place said implant, and drilling depth and sequence instructions specific to the patient. Further, the system includes a patient-specific healing abutment to form a customized emergence profile, an impression coping with the same emergence profile, a provisional abutment with the same emergence profile, a final abutment with the same emergence profile, a provisional crown or bridge, and a final crown or bridge. The crown or bridge may be screw or cement retained. | 09-19-2013 |
20150037761 | Method of Designing and Fabricating Patient-Specific Restorations from Intra-Oral Scanning of a Digital Impression Coping - Taking a digital implant or abutment level digital impression by means of intra-oral, computed tomography or other imaging method provides the restorative doctor and laboratory accurate and effective data for determining the implant position, angulation and locking feature orientation without a physical impression. Such data is correlated with a digital library to produce an output which enables design and fabrication of an accurate restorative device such as a prosthetic tooth or crown. In this way the time-consuming, costly and error prone mechanical replication of the relevant dental anatomy is obviated. | 02-05-2015 |
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20100060030 | End access automobile - The invention is a wheeled vehicle that has an aerodynamic shell where the vehicle is built to eliminate side door openings to allow uninterrupted protective side structure. Access involves opening the shell to allow entry to the vehicle from an end. Closure restores the aerodynamic properties of the shape. Seats are movable such that a walkway is made clear for motorists to walk to a position ahead of their respective seats. A car roof top can be opened to enable motorists to walk, nearly erect, into the vehicle. | 03-11-2010 |
20110000723 | High efficiency vehicle - Here invented are efficient road vehicles having special aerodynamic shapes, with stabilizing provisions that enable aerodynamic efficiency. It is a vehicle that is configured to include a carriage part that encloses a driver and passenger riding in tandem. This car width is for persons seated in single file, enabling a narrow width that makes a body shaped like an airship practical, where that shape is characterized by a very low drag coefficient in free flow conditions. This body is elevated on struts above a wheel system to enable such free flow aerodynamic conditions, thus, the drag coefficient of the airship is made applicable to this road vehicle. The wheel system includes wheels on each side of the vehicle that are arranged in horizontal columns, to which the struts are attached. The horizontal columns act as individual aerodynamic entities that function independently of the carriage aerodynamic operation. Because this car has both low frontal area and low drag coefficient it will require minimal energy for high speed operation. | 01-06-2011 |
20130062841 | Off-road vehicle - Invented are narrow vehicles for operation on soft surfaces for agricultural use. These would enhance worker productivity and make the work more attractive. It is essential that such vehicles be simple and low cost to enable wide adaptation. | 03-14-2013 |
20130241162 | Field work vehicle - Narrow agricultural vehicles have been invented to make farm labor more attractive, to enable enhanced productivity of workers, and to make possible more complete usage of the land. | 09-19-2013 |
20130241163 | Field harvest vehicle - Narrow harvest vehicles have been invented to make farm labor more attractive, to enable enhanced productivity of workers, and to make possible more complete usage of the land. | 09-19-2013 |
20130257127 | Field work vehicle with seat apparatus - Narrow agricultural vehicles have been invented to make farm labor more attractive, to enable enhanced productivity of workers, and to make possible more complete usage of land. This involves making the width of the vehicle approximately the same width as a seated worker, thus enabling vehicle use with narrowly spaced row crops. The wheel set is configured for both maximum stability and efficient operation on soft surfaces using large drum wheels that maximize a rigid, footprint area. | 10-03-2013 |
20130264785 | Narrow articulated vehicle - The vehicle is narrow such that it can pass through narrow space. The overall vehicle is approximately the same width as a seated worker. Stabilization is provided by wheel rigidity of a front and a rear wheel set that is configured to give a stable vehicle stance, even though it is exceptionally narrow. Energy efficient operation is achieved with wheels having approximately continuous ground contact from edge to edge of a wheel, thus maximizing ground contact area. | 10-10-2013 |
20150061246 | Mobile Work Platform - Here invented is a mobile vehicle that is a narrow work platform for work in narrow row spaces between crops planted in rows. The frame of this platform holds and allows operation of attached wheels but also provides a low floor surface from where a worker can access crops adjacent to the vehicle. Worker actions as needed to tend crops at various heights down to ground level are supported by this apparatus. | 03-05-2015 |
20150068114 | Control of ground surface radiative effects - Here invented is method and apparatus for control of ground surface radiative effects. A material is laid out in a field in anticipation of frost or in expectation of crop damage from powdery mildew. The material causes radiative heat loss to the cold night sky due to its low emissivity and it causes ultraviolet-C in natural sunlight to be directed upward to impinge on mildew spores on vegetation where it would be otherwise shaded from the sun. | 03-12-2015 |
20150068116 | Vineyard configuration - Here invented is a vineyard configuration for maximizing use of the resources of land and sun. It is a configuration based on a low and narrow tractor that enables both narrow spacing of rows of plants in vineyards and formation of canopies that enable nearly complete usage of impinging sunlight. | 03-12-2015 |
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20090044991 | High efficiency vehicle - Here invented are efficient road vehicles having special aerodynamic shapes, with stabilizing devices that enable aerodynamic efficiency. An embodiment is a articulated vehicle that is tall and narrow. It includes a carriage part that encloses a driver and passenger riding in tandem. This car is only wide enough for persons seated in single file, so it has very low projected frontal area compared with typical cars. Further, the narrow width makes a body shaped like an airship practical, where that shape is characterized by a very low drag coefficient in free flow conditions. Since this body is elevated on struts to enable such free flow aerodynamic conditions, the drag coefficient of the airship is made applicable to this road vehicle. Because this car has both low frontal area and low drag coefficient it will require minimal energy for high speed operation. | 02-19-2009 |
20090115368 | Distributed electric power generation - An electric power generating system is arranged such that the system efficiency approaches 100%. In the context of this special arrangement, system efficiency is defined as the electrical energy produced divided by the amount of heat energy allocated to its production. All heat energy that is not converted to electric energy is completely used by an associated household. However, high efficiency requires that heat usage by the household is not increased as a result of this arrangement. Unlike most electric power generation, heat is not wasted, so there is no inefficiency. | 05-07-2009 |
20100294848 | Hybrid wheel and hybrid roadway - The invention is a hybrid wheel apparatus with a hybrid roadway apparatus that greatly reduces the energy lost due to rolling resistance where operation is on the hybrid roadway, but the system is configured to allow operation on conventional roads as needed. | 11-25-2010 |
20110198145 | High efficiency vehicle - The invention is a vehicle for ground operation that is an aerodynamic shell attached to wheels. The aerodynamic shell is shaped according to aircraft technology and it is elevated such that air flow around that shell is like air flow would be for that shell in flight. Elevation is accomplished by the attaching structure. Wheels at each side of the vehicle are arranged in wheel trains that are filled in and streamlined to form secondary aerodynamic units, with space between wheels used for equipment. This minimizes objects that would interfere with air flow. | 08-18-2011 |
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20150195194 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPILING SEARCH TREES FOR PROCESSING REQUEST KEYS BASED ON A KEY SIZE SUPPORTED BY UNDERLYING PROCESSING ELEMENTS - A packet classification system, methods, and apparatus are provided for packet classification. A processor of a router coupled to a network compiles at least one search tree based on a rules set. The processor determines an x number of search phases needed to process an incoming key corresponding to the rules set, wherein the rules set includes a plurality of rules, where each of the plurality of rules includes an n number of rule fields and where the incoming key includes an n number of processing fields. The processor generates an x set of search trees, where each of the x set of search trees corresponds to a respective one of the x number of search phases. Also, the processor provides the x set of search trees to a search processor, where each of the x set of search trees is configured to process respective portions of the incoming key. | 07-09-2015 |
20150195262 | PROCESSING REQUEST KEYS BASED ON A KEY SIZE SUPPORTED BY UNDERLYING PROCESSING ELEMENTS - A packet classification system, methods, and apparatus are provided for packet classification. A processor of a router coupled to a network processes data packets received from a network. The processor creates a request key using information extracted from a packet. The processor splits the request key into an n number of partial request keys if at least one predetermined criterion is met. The processor also sends a non-final request that includes an i-th partial request key to a corresponding search table of an n number of search tables, wherein i07-09-2015 | |
20150201047 | BLOCK MASK REGISTER - A packet classification system, methods, and corresponding apparatus are provided for enabling packet classification. A processor of a routing appliance coupled to a network compiles data structures to process keys associated with a particular block mask register (BMR) of a plurality of BMRs. For each BMR of the plurality of BMRs, the processor identifies at least one of or a combination of: i) at least a portion of a field of a plurality of rules and ii) a subset of fields of the plurality of fields to be masked. The processor also builds at least one data structure used to traverse a plurality of rules based on the identified at least one of or a combination of: i) at least a portion of a field of a plurality of rules and ii) a subset of fields of the plurality of fields to be masked. | 07-16-2015 |
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20130036102 | INCREMENTAL UPDATE - A system, apparatus, and method are provided for adding, deleting, and modifying rules in one update from the perspective of an active search process for packet classification. While a search processor searches for one or more rules that match keys generated from received packets, there is a need to add, delete, or modify rules. By adding, deleting, and modifying rules in one update from the perspective of an active search process for packet classification, performance and functionality of the active search process may be maintained, thereby preventing packet loss and preserving throughput. | 02-07-2013 |
20130039366 | Packet Classification - A packet classification system, methods, and corresponding apparatus are provided for enabling packet classification. A processor of a security appliance coupled to a network uses a classifier table having a plurality of rules, the plurality of rules having at least one field, to build a decision tree structure including a plurality of nodes, the plurality of nodes including a subset of the plurality of rules. The methods may produce wider, shallower trees that result in shorter search times and reduced memory requirements for storing the trees. | 02-14-2013 |
20130060727 | Identifying Duplication in Decision Trees - A packet classification system, methods, and corresponding apparatus are provided for enabling packet classification. A processor of a security appliance coupled to a network uses a classifier table having a plurality of rules, the plurality of rules having at least one field, to build a decision tree structure including a plurality of nodes, the plurality of nodes including a subset of the plurality of rules. By identifying duplication in decision trees, the methods may produce wider, shallower trees that result in shorter search times and reduced memory requirements for storing the trees. | 03-07-2013 |
20130085978 | Decision Tree Level Merging - A packet classification system, methods, and corresponding apparatus are provided for enabling packet classification. A processor of a security appliance coupled to a network uses a classifier table having a plurality of rules, the plurality of rules having at least one field, to build a decision tree structure including a plurality of nodes, the plurality of nodes including a subset of the plurality of rules. By merging levels of decision trees, the methods may produce wider, shallower trees that result in shorter search times and reduced memory requirements for storing the trees. | 04-04-2013 |
20130218853 | Rule Modification in Decision Trees - A system, apparatus, and method are provided for modifying rules in-place atomically from the perspective of an active search process using the rules for packet classification. A rule may be modified in-place by updating a rule's definition to be an intersection of an original and new definition. The rule's definition may be further updated to the rule's new definition and a decision tree may used updated based on the rule's new definition. While a search processor searches for one or more rules that match keys generated from received packets the in-place rule modification prevents periods of incorrect rule matching of the keys thereby preventing packet loss and preserving throughput. | 08-22-2013 |
20130232104 | DUPLICATION IN DECISION TREES - A packet classification system, apparatus, and corresponding apparatus are provided for enabling packet classification. A processor of a security appliance coupled to a network uses a classifier table having a plurality of rules, the plurality of rules having at least one field, to build a decision tree structure for packet classification. Duplication in the decision tree may be identified, producing a wider, shallower decision tree that may result in shorter search times with reduced memory requirements for storing the decision tree. A number of operations needed to identify duplication in the decision tree may be reduced, thereby increasing speed and efficiency of a compiler building the decision tree. | 09-05-2013 |
20130282766 | Incremental Update Heuristics - A system, apparatus, and method are provided for receiving one or more incremental updates including adding, deleting, or modifying rules of a Rule Compiled Data Structure (RCDS) used for packet classification. Embodiments disclosed herein may employ at least one heuristic for maintaining quality of the RCDS. At a given one of the one or more incremental updates received, a section of the RCDS may be identified and recompilation of the identified section may be triggered, altering the RCDS shape or depth in a manner detected by the at least one heuristic employed. The at least one heuristic employed enables performance and functionality of an active search process using the RCDS to be improved by advantageously determining when and where to recompile one or more sections of the RCDS being searched. | 10-24-2013 |
20140279850 | BATCH INCREMENTAL UPDATE - A system, apparatus, and method are provided for adding, deleting, and modifying rules in one update from the perspective of an active search process for packet classification. While a search processor searches for one or more rules that match keys generated from received packets, there is a need to add, delete, or modify rules. By organizing a plurality incremental updates for adding, deleting, or modifying rules into a batch update, several operations for incorporating the incremental updates may be made more efficient by minimizing a number of updates required. | 09-18-2014 |
20150117461 | Packet Classification - A packet classification system, methods, and corresponding apparatus are provided for enabling packet classification. A processor of a security appliance coupled to a network uses a classifier table having a plurality of rules, the plurality of rules having at least one field, to build a decision tree structure including a plurality of nodes, the plurality of nodes including a subset of the plurality of rules. The methods may produce wider, shallower trees that result in shorter search times and reduced memory requirements for storing the trees. | 04-30-2015 |
20150186781 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SKIPPING OVER GROUP(S) OF RULES BASED ON SKIP GROUP RULE - A method and corresponding system for providing a skip group rule feature is disclosed. When a search for a key matches a skip group rule in a group of prioritized rules, the search skips over rules having priorities lower than the skip group rule and the search continues to a next group. A convenient example of a compiler rewrites the lower priority rules by subtracting the skip group rule from them. The subtraction includes subtracting range, exact-match, mask, and prefix fields. The rewritten rules appear to a search processor as typical rules. Beneficially, the search processor requires no additional logic to process a skip group rule, skip over lower priority rules, and go on to search a next group of rules. Advantageously, this approach enables any number of skip group rules to be defined allowing for better classification of network data. | 07-02-2015 |
20160071016 | Scope In Decision Trees - A root node of a decision tree data structure may cover all values of a search space used for packet classification. The search space may include a plurality of rules, the plurality of rules having at least one field. The decision tree data structure may include a plurality of nodes, the plurality of nodes including a subset of the plurality of rules. Scope in the decision tree data structure may be based on comparing a portion of the search space covered by a node to a portion of the search space covered by the node's rules. Scope in the decision tree data structure may be used to identify whether or not a compilation operation may be unproductive. By identifying an unproductive compilation operation it may be avoided, thereby improving compiler efficiency as the unproductive compilation operation may be time-consuming. | 03-10-2016 |