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| 20100211156 | STENT DELIVERY DEVICE WITH EMBOLIC PROTECTION - A delivery device adapted to insert and deploy a stent within a body lumen. The delivery device includes a guide member adapted to retain a dilation assembly and a stent within a lumen thereof until the stent is to be deployed into the body lumen. The delivery device is configured to enable simultaneous insertion of the guide member, dilation assembly, stent, and optional guidewire within a body lumen. Following deploying the stent, the delivery device can be removed, while providing the capability of optionally maintaining the guide member or the guidewire to function or act as an exchange wire for additional surgical devices. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100241156 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR DEPLOYING AN EMBOLIC PROTECTION FILTER - A filter device is adapted to function as a guidewire, an exchange guidewire, and provide embolic protection during a procedure. The filter device includes a filter assembly that is either integral with or coupled to a guide member. The filter assembly includes a plurality of struts that expand outwardly to deploy a filter that collects or captures material flowing along the blood vessel within which the filter device is deployed. The plurality of struts are constrained by a restraining member or mechanism that prevents the plurality of struts from expanding or extending outwardly to deploy the filter. Cooperating with the restraining member or mechanism is an actuating assembly that is adapted to release the restraining member or mechanism and enable the filter to be deployed from the guide member. A capture catheter is cooperates with the filter device and substantially surrounds the filter during removal of the filter device. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20120035650 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR DEPLOYING A FILTER FROM A FILTER DEVICE - A filter device is adapted to function as a guidewire, an exchange guidewire, and provide embolic protection during a procedure. The filter device includes a filter assembly that is either integral with or coupled to a guide member. The filter assembly includes a plurality of struts that expand outwardly to deploy a filter that collects or captures material flowing along the blood vessel within which the filter device is deployed. The plurality of struts are constrained by a restraining member or mechanism that prevents the plurality of struts from expanding or extending outwardly to deploy the filter. Cooperating with the restraining member or mechanism is an actuating assembly that is adapted to release the restraining member or mechanism and enable the filter to be deployed from the guide member. A capture catheter that cooperates with the filter device and substantially surrounds the filter during removal of the filter device. | 02-09-2012 |
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| 20090046725 | Method for Processing Atm Cells and a Device Having Atm Cell Processing Capabilities - A method and a communication device for processing ATM cells. The communication device includes an input interface adapted to receive an ATM cell that is associated with a PHY value and includes a pair of VCI and VPI fields. The communication device is characterized by comprising a search unit, adapted to search, within a group of memory entries that belong to a memory unit, for a pair of VCI and VPI fields that have values that match the values of the VCI and VPI fields of the received ATM cell, if the received VCI field and VPI fields belong to a first predefined group of VCI and VPI fields. The communication device further includes a processor, connected to the search unit, wherein the processor is adapted to determine a channel identifier of the received ATM cell in response to a result of the search and in response to a PHY value associated with the received ATM cell. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20100050049 | ERROR CORRECTION APPARATUS, METHOD OF CORRECTING AN ERROR AND METHOD OF GENERATING ERROR LOCATION DATA - An error correction apparatus comprises an input for receiving data. The received data includes error-check data. The apparatus also includes a processing resource arranged to calculate parity check data. A data store is coupled to the processing resource for storing look-up data for identifying, when in use, a location of an error in the received data. The look-up data is a compressed form of indexed error location data. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100054280 | PACKET BASED DATA CELL DELINEATION - A method of delineation of a packet-based data stream in order to identify a boundary between neighbouring packets in the data stream, wherein the data stream comprises a predetermined number of bits (N); the method comprising the steps of: processing the data stream to search for the boundary between neighbouring packets in the data stream; characterised in that the method further comprises calculating the greatest common divisor (GCD) of a bit skip integer (n) where (N) and (n) are co-primes; iteratively checking after each n bits to identify the boundary between the neighbouring packets. | 03-04-2010 |
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| 20100096334 | SWELLABLE MATERIALS AND METHODS OF USE - One aspect of the present invention includes a swellable sol-gel composition including a plurality of interconnected organosilica nanoparticles. Another aspect of the present invention includes a swellable composite including a plurality of interconnected organosilica nanoparticles and a particulate material capable of binding to or reacting with a non-polar or organic sorbate. When dried, the sol-gel composition and the swellable composite may be capable of swelling to at least twice their dried volume when placed in contact with a non-polar or organic sorbate. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100108612 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REMOVING SMALL MOLECULE ORGANIC PHARMACEUTICALS FROM AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS - A swellable sol-gel composition includes a plurality of interconnected organosilica nanoparticles. The swellable sol-gel composition is capable of removing a small molecule organic pharmaceutical having a log K | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100113856 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REMEDIATION OF AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS - A swellable sol-gel composition includes a plurality of interconnected organosilica nanoparticles. When dried, the swellable sol-gel composition is capable of swelling to at least twice its dried volume when placed in contact with a non-polar or organic sorbate. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100254856 | SWELLABLE SOL-GELS, METHODS OF MAKING, AND USE THEREOF - The present invention relates to a method of making a swellable sol-gel composition that involves the use of a bridged silane precursor. The resulting sol-gel includes residual silanols, which are derivatized with a reagent having at least one silanol-reactive group and at least one alkyl group; and the sol-gel is then dried. Sol-gels of the invention are demonstrated to swell up to about 8-10 times their original volume in the presence of a non-polar sorbate. The sol-gel compositions can be used in a sorbate-activated actuator or in a detector for non-polar sorbates. The sol-gel compositions can further be used to take up non-polar sorbates for purposes of chemical remediation, extraction from aqueous systems or vapor, and chemical sensing. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20110132845 | METHOD FOR EXTRACTING A METAL PARTICULATE FROM AN AQUEOUS SOLUTION USING A SOL-GEL DERIVED SORBENT - Disclosed is a method for extracting metal particulates for an aqueous solution using a sol-gel derived sorbent. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110303296 | In-situ Method and System for Controlling the Flow of an Organic Liquid - Disclosed is a method and system for controlling the flow of an organic liquid by flowing an organic liquid through a pipe having an upstream end with an unconstricted portion and and a downstream end with a constricted portion, the constricted portion having an inner diameter that is at least 10% smaller than the inner diameter of the unconstricted portion, and a porous plug formed of sol-gel derived particles in the pipe, the plug having a length at least two times the diameter of the pipe. Also disclosed is a method and system, the system including a housing having a liquid inlet and a liquid outlet and containing a sol-gel derived composition and a liquid pressure sensitive control means operatively connected to the liquid inlet for controlling the flow of the organic liquid, contacting the sol-gel derived composition to actuate the liquid pressure sensitive control means and controlling the flow of the organic liquid in response to the actuation. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110306500 | Method of Treating a Material Using a Sol-gel Derived Composition - Disclosed is a method and system that includes treating a material by applying a sol-gel derived composition loaded with a first sorbate under conditions effective to treat the material with the first sorbate. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20120032111 | SOL-GEL DERIVED SORBENT MATERIAL CONTAINING A SORBATE INTERACTIVE MATERIAL AND METHOD FOR USING THE SAME - Disclosed is a sorbent material formed of a sol-gel derived composition having a porous matrix and a sorbate interactive material incorporated into at least a portion of the sol-gel derived composition, as well as a method for using such sorbent materials | 02-09-2012 |
