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| 20100018536 | Yankauer Suction Device with Sleeve and Wiper - A suction device includes an elongated suction tube having a suction tip at a distal end thereof, and a proximal end that is connectable to a suction source. A collar is slidable along the suction tube from a retracted position to a deployed position. A sleeve is provided having a proximal end fixed relative to the proximal end of the suction tube, and a distal end configured with the collar so as to move therewith and cover the suction tube in the deployed position of the collar. A wiper seal is contained within collar in sliding frictional engagement around the suction tube. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20110023884 | Subglottic Suctioning System - A subglottic suctioning system with a tracheal tube having a ventilation lumen, a cuff inflation lumen, and a suction lumen are disclosed which may help reduce the incidence of ventilator associated (or acquired) pneumonia. The suction lumen communicates with the space in the trachea above the cuff where secretions accumulate. The suction lumen has a valve on the proximal end for connection to a source of vacuum. The valve is adapted to interrupt the supply of vacuum to the suction lumen to allow for the introduction of a rinsing fluid in its place and to automatically re-establish the connection to the source of vacuum upon completion of rinsing. The rinsing fluid aids in maintaining an open suction lumen and may include medicaments and mucolytic agents to enhance or promote healing or to alter the properties of the mucus to make removal easier. The user may easily and repeatedly alternate suction and rinsing fluid through the suction lumen, i.e., the user may “pulse” the line to loosen, break up and remove secretions and deposits that may partially or completely block or clog the suction lumen. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110152762 | Enteral Feeding Catheter Assembly Incorporating An Indicator - A catheter assembly incorporating a pre-biased indicator, the assembly includes a catheter having a proximal end, a distal end, and catheter walls defining a catheter lumen. The assembly further includes a base located at the proximal end of the catheter, the base defining an opening to the catheter lumen, the base having a first end and a second end. An inflatable balloon having a predetermined fill volume is located at a distal end of the catheter. An inflation valve is located on the base; the inflation valve is in fluid communication with the balloon through an inflation lumen defined by the catheter walls. The pre-biased indicator located on the base in fluid communication with the balloon is configured to provide a discrete visual signal that the pressure of a fluid in the balloon is different from a predetermined level of pressure or the volume of the balloon is different from the predetermined fill volume. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20120150111 | Passive Enteral Venting System - There is provided a venting system for enteral feeding. The system has a tube in fluid communication with an enteral feeding site on a patient. The tube receives gas and liquid from the patient as enteral pressure within the patient increases. The tube has a vent that relieves enteral gas pressure from the patient and the tube also returns any liquid to the patient. There is also provided an enteral feeding system having a nutrient source in fluid communication with a nutrient pump. The pump discharges to an enteral feeding site on a patient. The system has a vent bag also in fluid communication with the enteral feeding site and the bag receives gas and liquid from the site as enteral pressure increases within the patient. The bag has a vent that relieves enteral gas pressure and allows liquid to be returned to the patient via the pump. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120150112 | Ambulatory Enteral Feeding System - There is provided a venting system for enteral feeding having a reflux bag in fluid communication with an enteral feeding site on a patient. The bag has a vent that relieves enteral pressure from the patient and is located within a bellows that compresses the refluc bag after the vent relieves. The system does not rely on gravity to urge the liquid in the reflux bag back to the patient so it may be used by sleeping patients who change positions. It may also be placed in a backpack so that the patient may be freed from having to remain seated or prone for long periods of time and can instead lead a more normal lifestyle. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120245519 | Enteral Feeding Catheter Device with an Indicator - A balloon catheter device includes a catheter having a proximal end, a distal end, and catheter walls defining a catheter lumen. An inflatable balloon is located at a distal end of the catheter and is inflated through an inflation valve located on a base. An internal cavity is defined in the base and is in fluid communication with the inflatable balloon. A translucent window is disposed over the internal cavity such that an interior volume of the cavity is externally viewable. Introduction of a colored fluid through the inflation valve to inflate the balloon results in the colored fluid also being present in the internal cavity, thereby providing an externally visual indication of the inflation state of the balloon. | 09-27-2012 |
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| 20080301053 | SERVICE BROKER - A method, associated with a platform that includes a number of distributed proxies and a hub, includes receiving, at a first proxy, a communication from a first entity intended for a second entity and forwarding control information to the hub. The method may also include identifying parameters associated with communications between the first and second entities and forwarding the parameters to the first proxy. The method may further include processing, by the first proxy, the communication in accordance with the parameters, forwarding, by the proxy, the processed communication to a second proxy, and forwarding, by the second proxy, the processed communication to the second entity. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20090154699 | NETWORK-BASED DATA EXCHANGE - A method associated with the exchange of information over a network may include receiving a request for information from a first entity, identifying a second entity based on the request and receiving information from the first entity defining data or a type of data to be provided by the second entity. The method may also include modifying the request to a format compatible with the second entity and forwarding the modified request to the second entity. The method may further include receiving data from the second entity in response to the modified request, modifying the data from the second entity and forwarding the modified data to the first entity. | 06-18-2009 |
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| 20100241455 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF SERVICE AND CARE IN A HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATION - A method for improving the quality of healthcare, efficiency, and patient satisfaction procedures is provided. The method includes conducting at least a first survey of patients regarding care provided before, during, and after a procedure, wherein the survey focuses on benchmarks identified as being relevant to quality of care. The method further includes entering the results of the first survey into a database configured to store the results, reviewing the results of the first survey to determine the quality of care provided during the procedure, identifying incidences of poor quality of care, and comparing the results of the first survey with results of surveys taken from other patients to recognize patterns of poor quality of care. The method further includes addressing the incidences of poor quality of care by developing methods to address the recognized incidences of poor quality of care. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20120143618 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF SERVICE AND CARE IN A HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATION - A method for improving the quality of healthcare, efficiency, and patient satisfaction procedures is provided. The method includes conducting at least a first survey of patients regarding care provided before, during, and after a procedure, wherein the survey focuses on benchmarks identified as being relevant to quality of care. The method further includes entering the results of the first survey into a database configured to store the results, reviewing the results of the first survey to determine the quality of care provided during the procedure, identifying incidences of poor quality of care, and comparing the results of the first survey with results of surveys taken from other patients to recognize patterns of poor quality of care. The method further includes addressing the incidences of poor quality of care by developing methods to address the recognized incidences of poor quality of care. | 06-07-2012 |
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| 20090025102 | GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR ASSOCIATED GENES AND PROTEINS FOR ENHANCING NITROGEN UTILIZATION EFFICIENCY IN CROP PLANTS - The invention provides isolated glutamate receptor associated nucleic acids and their encoded proteins for modulating nitrogen utilization efficiency in plants. The invention includes methods and compositions relating to altering nitrogen utilization and/or uptake in plants. The invention further provides recombinant expression cassettes, host cells, and transgenic plants. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090320155 | Cell Number Polynucleotides and Polypeptides and Methods of Use Thereof - The present invention provides polynucleotides and related polypeptides of the protein CNR. The invention provides genomic sequence for the CNR gene. CNR is responsible for controlling cell number. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090320156 | GENES FOR ENHANCING NITROGEN UTILIZATION EFFICIENCY IN CROP PLANTS - The invention provides isolated NUE (nitrogen utilization efficiency) nucleic acids and their encoded proteins. The present invention provides methods and compositions relating to altering nitrogen utilization and/or uptake in plants. The invention further provides recombinant expression cassettes, host cells and transgenic plants. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20100017909 | Nitrate transport components - This invention relates to isolated nucleic acid fragments encoding high affinity nitrate transport components. The invention also relates to the construction of recombinant DNA constructs encoding all or a portion of nitrate transport components, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the recombinant DNA construct may alter levels of the nitrate transport components in a transformed host cell. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20110004956 | GENES FOR ENHANCING NITROGEN UTILIZATION EFFICIENCY IN CROP PLANTS - The invention provides isolated NUE (nitrogen utilization efficiency) nucleic acids and their encoded proteins. The present invention provides methods and compositions relating to altering nitrogen utilization and/or uptake in plants. The invention further provides recombinant expression cassettes, host cells and transgenic plants. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20120005775 | NITRATE TRANSPORT COMPONENTS - This invention relates to isolated nucleic acid fragments encoding high affinity nitrate transport components. The invention also relates to the construction of recombinant DNA constructs encoding all or a portion of nitrate transport components, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the recombinant DNA construct may alter levels of the nitrate transport components in a transformed host cell. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120227132 | CELL NUMBER POLYNUCLEOTIDES AND POLYPEPTIDES AND METHOS OF USE THEREOF - The present invention provides polynucleotides and related polypeptides of the protein CNR. The invention provides genomic sequence for the CNR gene. CNR is responsible for controlling cell number. | 09-06-2012 |
| 20120284876 | GENES FOR ENHANCING NITROGEN UTILIZATION EFFICIENCY IN CROP PLANTS - The invention provides isolated NUE (nitrogen utilization efficiency) nucleic acids and their encoded proteins. The present invention provides methods and compositions relating to altering nitrogen utilization and/or uptake in plants. The invention further provides recombinant expression cassettes, host cells and transgenic plants. | 11-08-2012 |
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| 20080235165 | Weak hypothesis generation apparatus and method, learning aparatus and method, detection apparatus and method, facial expression learning apparatus and method, facial enpression recognition apparatus and method, and robot apparatus - A facial expression recognition system that uses a face detection apparatus realizing efficient learning and high-speed detection processing based on ensemble learning when detecting an area representing a detection target and that is robust against shifts of face position included in images and capable of highly accurate expression recognition, and a learning method for the system, are provided. When learning data to be used by the face detection apparatus by Adaboost, processing to select high-performance weak hypotheses from all weak hypotheses, then generate new weak hypotheses from these high-performance weak hypotheses on the basis of statistical characteristics, and select one weak hypothesis having the highest discrimination performance from these weak hypotheses, is repeated to sequentially generate a weak hypothesis, and a final hypothesis is thus acquired. In detection, using an abort threshold value that has been learned in advance, whether provided data can be obviously judged as a non-face is determined every time one weak hypothesis outputs the result of discrimination. If it can be judged so, processing is aborted. A predetermined Gabor filter is selected from the detected face image by an Adaboost technique, and a support vector for only a feature quantity extracted by the selected filter is learned, thus performing expression recognition. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080247598 | Weak hypothesis generation apparatus and method, learning apparatus and method, detection apparatus and method, facial expression learning apparatus and method, facial expression recognition apparatus and method, and robot apparatus - A facial expression recognition system that uses a face detection apparatus realizing efficient learning and high-speed detection processing based on ensemble learning when detecting an area representing a detection target and that is robust against shifts of face position included in images and capable of highly accurate expression recognition, and a learning method for the system, are provided. When learning data to be used by the face detection apparatus by Adaboost, processing to select high-performance weak hypotheses from all weak hypotheses, then generate new weak hypotheses from these high-performance weak hypotheses on the basis of statistical characteristics, and select one weak hypothesis having the highest discrimination performance from these weak hypotheses, is repeated to sequentially generate a weak hypothesis, and a final hypothesis is thus acquired. In detection, using an abort threshold value that has been learned in advance, whether provided data can be obviously judged as a non-face is determined every time one weak hypothesis outputs the result of discrimination. If it can be judged so, processing is aborted. A predetermined Gabor filter is selected from the detected face image by an Adaboost technique, and a support vector for only a feature quantity extracted by the selected filter is learned, thus performing expression recognition. | 10-09-2008 |
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| 20090319150 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING A TURBINE CLEARANCE - Methods, systems, and apparatus for controlling a turbine clearance in an aircraft engine are provided. A method includes activating a turbine clearance control based on a flight phase of an aircraft using the aircraft engine, and adjusting the turbine clearance based on a preselected turbine clearance value. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20100153419 | DIGITAL RAILROAD SYSTEM - Systems are provided for efficiently managing the effects of a change to a transportation system's state. One example system comprises a plurality of distributed data input and data output terminals, the distributed data input terminal configured to automatically generate data related to a first aspect of transportation system operation, at least one of a distributed database and a synchronized database configured to store data, a plurality of distributed computational engines configured to receive data from at least one database, and based on the data received, automatically manage operations of a second, different aspect of the transportation system operations, and a communications network linking the data input terminals, the data output terminals, the databases, and the computational engines, wherein the change to the transportation system's state is initiated by the data generated at the distributed input terminals. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20110066374 | SAFTEY SYSTEM AND DEVICE AND METHODS OF OPERATING - Various embodiments of a device, system and methods that promote safety and security within an organization. Sensor data from one or more installation sensors is collected, analyzed and used to create a map and/or directions that, when received by a wireless mobile device, facilitate a person's possible egress around or from a detected event. The information provided to the person by the map and/or the directions may be individually crafted to be of maximum use to the specific recipient so the person can understand, plan and execute the most appropriate danger avoidance maneuvers in minimal time. | 03-17-2011 |
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| 20100150032 | SOFTWARE RADIO FREQUENCY CANCELLER - A full-duplex RF communication system and corresponding methods use digital adaptive filters for interference cancellation. As provided, the techniques allow full-duplex radio frequency communication without frequency-, time-, or code-division multiplexing and without the use of hardware RF cancellers. Such techniques may be useful for wireless communication, such a cellular communication, radio communication, broadcasting, short-range point-to-point communication, wireless sensor networks, and wireless computer networks. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100150033 | SOFTWARE RADIO FREQUENCY CANCELLER - A full-duplex RF communication system and corresponding methods use digital adaptive filters for interference cancellation. As provided, the techniques allow full-duplex radio frequency communication without frequency-, time-, or code-division multiplexing and without the use of hardware RF cancellers. Such techniques may be useful for wireless communication, such as cellular communication, radio communication, broadcasting, short-range point-to-point communication, wireless sensor networks, and wireless computer networks. | 06-17-2010 |
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| 20100328534 | PORTABLE MEDIA ENCODER - A portable media encoder is disclosed. The portable media encoder comprises a video input port configured to receive a video input from a video source, an audio input port configured to receive an audio input from an audio source, and a digital output port for providing a digitized output stream corresponding to the received video input and audio input. The encoder has an encoding processor that converts the video input and the audio input into a streamable digital output format for transmitting through the digital output port, a set of control buttons communicatively coupled to the encoding processor and operable to provide encoding parameters to thereto, and a housing enclosing the encoding processor and providing at least one access panel providing user access to the video input port, the audio input port, the digital output port, and the set of control buttons. The housing having a size and configuration that allows the encoder to be hand carried by a single individual. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110072149 | STREAMING MEDIA ENCODER WITH FRONT PANEL CONTROL INTERFACE - A streaming media encoder for encoding and delivering media content is disclosed. The streaming media encoder has a media input interface for receiving a media stream, a media encoder for receiving the media stream from the input interface and encoding the media stream, thereby producing an encoded media stream. The media encoder has a first confidence monitor for displaying a video image from the received media stream, a second confidence monitor for displaying a video image from the encoded media stream, and a network interface for providing the encoded media stream to a network. | 03-24-2011 |
