Method for reliable and efficient filesystem metadata conversion
Granted: November 5, 2013
Patent Number:
8577939
A method for converting metadata in a hierarchical configuration within a filesystem from a first format to a second format includes reading metadata in the first format within the hierarchical configuration; writing the metadata from the hierarchical configuration into a flat file; and writing the metadata back into the hierarchical configuration, the metadata being in the second format. The method can also include increasing the size of each of a first inode and a second inode within a…
Laser thermal imaging
Granted: October 22, 2013
Patent Number:
8563928
Methods and apparatus for producing sub-diffraction limited images utilizing an exponential scaling effect. An exemplary system provides an optical source that focuses an optical beam onto a target. The focused optical beam has sufficient optical intensity to induce an exponential signal response within the target. A detection device detects the exponential signal response. A scanning device scans the focused optical source and another device records the detection of the exponential…
Coded aperture snapshot spectral imager and method therefor
Granted: October 8, 2013
Patent Number:
8553222
The present invention enables snap-shot spectral imaging of a scene at high image generation rates. Light from the scene is processed through an optical system that comprises a coded-aperture. The optical system projects a plurality of images, each characterized by only one of a plurality of spectral components, onto a photodetector array. The plurality of images is interspersed on the photodetector array, but no photodetector receives light characterized by more than one of the…
Distributive cache accessing device and method for accelerating to boot remote diskless computers
Granted: October 1, 2013
Patent Number:
8549274
A distributive cache accessing device for accelerating booting remote diskless computers mounted in a diskless computer equipped with WAN-bootable hardware, such as an iSCSI host bus adapter (HBA), allows to access data required to boot the diskless computers or run application programs thereon from an iSCSI target or other diskless computers having the distributive cache accessing device via a network. The retrieved iSCSI data blocks are temporarily stored in the local distributive…
Portable device and method for measuring heart rate
Granted: September 24, 2013
Patent Number:
8543197
A portable electronic device monitors the pulse or electrocardiogram of a person by integrated, attachable or wireless sensors. The portable device evaluates this data in real-time to assess heart rate variability coherence, and provide feedback through a variety of sounds and an array of LEDs. The feedback may be in the form of a breathing indicator or pacer usable as a respiratory cycle training system to indicate to the subject when the next breath should be taken. Such feedback may…
High pressure storage vessel
Granted: August 27, 2013
Patent Number:
8517206
Disclosed herein is a composite pressure vessel with a liner having a polar boss and a blind boss a shell is formed around the liner via one or more filament wrappings continuously disposed around at least a substantial portion of the liner assembly combined the liner and filament wrapping have a support profile. To reduce susceptible to rupture a locally disposed filament fiber is added.
Light emitting and lasing semiconductor methods and devices
Granted: August 13, 2013
Patent Number:
8509274
A method for producing light emission from a two terminal semiconductor device with improved efficiency, includes the following steps: providing a layered semiconductor structure including a semiconductor drain region comprising at least one drain layer, a semiconductor base region disposed on the drain region and including at least one base layer, and a semiconductor emitter region disposed on a portion of the base region and comprising an emitter mesa that includes at least one emitter…
System and method for automating and verifying medication compliance
Granted: August 13, 2013
Patent Number:
8508346
A computer-based system for monitoring medication compliance. The system can include one or more processors configured to process and manage data. Additionally, the system can also include one or more medication packagings comprising a machine-readable medium. Notably, the machine-readable medium can comprise medication information among other types of information. The one or more processors can be configured to receive the medication information of the machine-readable medium. The…
Method and apparatus for forming nano-particles
Granted: August 6, 2013
Patent Number:
8500427
Nano-scale particles of materials can be produced by vaporizing material and allowing the material to flow in a non-violently turbulent manner into thermal communication with a cooling fluid, thereby forming small particles of the material that can be in the nano-scale size range. A raw material feeder can be configured to feed raw material toward a heater which vaporizes the raw material. The feeder can include a metering device for controlling the flow of raw material toward the…
Multiple layer overlay modulation
Granted: August 6, 2013
Patent Number:
8503546
The present invention provides for a communication system and method that overlays signals which are simultaneously mutually orthogonal in both the time and frequency domains, thereby enhancing spectral efficiency. Whereas commonly used sinusoids provide only two mutually orthogonal functions (sine and cosine), certain polynomials provide multiple orthogonal functions, which are also finite in both time and frequency. Using multiple orders of the orthogonal functions allows overlaying…
High speed communication
Granted: July 23, 2013
Patent Number:
8494375
The disclosure has application for use in establishing a communication link between a first location and a second location, the first location having an electrical driver circuit that receives input data to be communicated, and the second location having an electrical receiver circuit for producing output data representative of the input data. The method includes the following steps: providing a tilted charge light emitting device at the first location and coupled with the driver circuit…
Imaging devices operable with multiple aspect ratios
Granted: July 23, 2013
Patent Number:
8493451
Imaging devices including a novel imaging system wherein a 2-dimensional pixel array has a diagonal dimension larger than the diameter measurement of the image circle, thereby being capable of handling rectangular images with multiple aspect ratios. These new imaging devices can be used in various electronic imaging apparatus with or without a lens system.
Methods and apparatus for ex situ seasoning of electronic device manufacturing process components
Granted: July 23, 2013
Patent Number:
8492674
In one aspect, a method of improving the performance of an electronic device manufacturing facility is provided, including the step of reducing the number of electronic device manufacturing component seasoning steps which are performed using production equipment, whereby the amount of electronic device manufacturing system downtime is reduced. Several other aspects are provided.
Oncofetal antigen/immature laminin receptor antibodies for diagnostic and clinical applications
Granted: July 23, 2013
Patent Number:
8491893
The present invention relates to antibodies against Oncofetal Antigen/immature Laminin receptor protein (OFA/iLRP) that can be used singly or in conjunction to detect or treat OFA/iLRP-related diseases. More specifically, the antibodies can be used for several purposes including: (i) detecting and measuring OFA/iLRP in different biofluids; and (ii) using OFA/iLRP with an antibody directed against the monomeric form and its associated diseases.
Composite elastomeric yarns and fabric
Granted: July 16, 2013
Patent Number:
8484940
The present invention relates to composite elastomeric yarns and fabrics, to methods of making same, and to articles in which such yarns and fabrics are used. The composite yarns of the present invention comprise a elastomeric core, an elastomeric thermoplastic sheath disposed about the core and, preferably, fibers mechanically anchored in the sheath. The composite fabrics of the present invention comprise the composite yarns of the present invention and conventional fibers arranged to…
Presenting a file system for a file containing items
Granted: June 25, 2013
Patent Number:
8473531
What is disclosed is a method of operating a volume access system. The method includes processing at least a first file to generate a file system view of the first file comprising a plurality of items within the first file, and providing the file system view of the first file over a network interface as a hierarchical data volume. The method also includes receiving an access request for a requested item of the hierarchical data volume over the network interface, and in response,…
Sensor mounting system
Granted: June 4, 2013
Patent Number:
8457709
A sensor mounting system includes a rigid main body portion defining a housing within which is mounted a compression element. In use, the compression element provides a predetermined biasing force to force a sensor against the skin of a subject. A secondary support structure provides an adjustable biasing force to retain the main body portion against the subject. Alternatively, the main body portion may be mounted to a rigid pod with one or more secondary compression elements, with the…
Surgical drill guide with awl and method of use
Granted: May 28, 2013
Patent Number:
8449552
A drill guide and pin system is provided whereby a drill may be inserted through a drill sleeve into a bone portion to provide a drill bore. For some embodiments, a cooperating pin provides a pin bore which intersects the drill bore at a predetermined angle ? and predetermined location relative to at least one of the drill sleeve and/or bore. The pin may have an integral catch so that when a wire is inserted through the drill bore, the catch can pull the wire through the pin bore for use…
Method of assessing oral health risk
Granted: May 14, 2013
Patent Number:
8439681
A method of oral health risk assessment is provided in which diagnostic data from an oral health detection device and patient risk factor data is processed to provide a integrated risk measure relating to a patient's dental health. The patient risk factor data preferably includes risk factor data such as pathological risk factors, protective risk factors, historical factors, self care factors, behavioral factors, and extrinsic factors. The integrated risk assessment and patient data is…
Image sensors with photo-current mode and solar cell operation
Granted: May 7, 2013
Patent Number:
8436288
A photo-current mode of operation is disclosed for Full Frame CCDs, and Frame-Transfer CCDs, that is suitable for electrical power generation, when not in operation for image sensing, and for Interline-Transfer CCDs, that is suitable for image sensing, and also suitable electrical power generation, when not in operation for image sensing. Further, CMOS Image Sensors (CIS), including 1T Passive Pixels, or 1T Avalanche Photo-Diode Pixels, in which all pass transistors in the matrix are…
