Patents Assigned to The European Community, represented by the European Commission
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Patent number: 9134236Abstract: Method of fluorescence imaging including: illuminating a sample to excite its fluorescence and acquiring an image thereof; based on fluorescence spectral and spatial information from the sample's fluorescence image, segmenting the image into regions of similar spectral properties; for each image segment, exciting the fluorescence of the corresponding sample region, and detecting the corresponding fluorescence; based on modelling, determining expected fluorescence parameters from the fluorescence signals detected for each region; scanning the sample and determining final fluorescence parameters based on said expected fluorescence parameters.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2008Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY, REPRESENTED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSIONInventors: Artur Bednarkiewicz, Maurice Whelan
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Patent number: 8583420Abstract: A method for building a knowledge base containing entailment relations is proposed. The proposed method makes use of an automatic or semi-automatic procedure to learn iteratively patterns for specific relations using clusters of similar articles. For each considered relation a user provides a system with one or several pivot patterns or input patterns, and the system returns patterns which express the same meaning in different ways.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2008Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: The European Community, Represented by The European CommissionInventor: Hristo Tanev Tanev
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Patent number: 8021515Abstract: An inductively coupled plasma processing apparatus (100) comprises a plasma chamber (12) with a dielectric window (400) forming a self-supporting wall element of the plasma chamber (12). The dielectric window (400) has an external and an internal side with respect to the chamber (12). An electromagnetic field source (140) is arranged in front of the external side of the dielectric window (400) for generating an electromagnetic field within the plasma chamber (12). The field source comprises at least one magnetic core (301, 302, 303). The at least one magnetic core (301, 302, 303) is attached to the external side of the dielectric window (400), such that the at least one magnetic core helps the dielectric window (400) to withstand collapsing forces caused by negative pressure inside said chamber during operation.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2005Date of Patent: September 20, 2011Assignee: The European Community, Represented by the European CommissionInventors: Pascal Colpo, François Rossi, Reinhard Fendler
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Publication number: 20100278399Abstract: Method of fluorescence imaging including: illuminating a sample to excite its fluorescence and acquiring an image thereof; based on fluorescence spectral and spatial information from the sample's fluorescence image, segmenting the image into regions of similar spectral properties; for each image segment, exciting the fluorescence of the corresponding sample region, and detecting the corresponding fluorescence; based on modelling, determining expected fluorescence parameters from the fluorescence signals detected for each region; scanning the sample and determining final fluorescence parameters based on said expected fluorescence parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2008Publication date: November 4, 2010Applicant: The European Community, Represented by the European CommissionInventors: Artur Bednarkiewicz, Maurice Whelan
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Patent number: 7794691Abstract: Methods of using Th-226 or mother radionuclides thereof, namely U-230 or Th-226, in medicine. These radionuclides are particularly appropriate for the treatment of human and/or non-human mammals, in particular for therapeutic, diagnostic (detection/imaging), prophylactic and pain palliation purposes. These radionuclides may be used in various forms for treatment and/or diagnostic purposes, in particular in cationic form or in the form of radioconjugates or bone-targeting complexes. Methods of making such radionuclides.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2004Date of Patent: September 14, 2010Assignee: The European Community, represented by the European CommissionInventors: Alfred Morgenstern, Christos Apostolidis, Roger Molinet, Klaus Luetzenkirchen
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Publication number: 20080289376Abstract: The present invention proposes a sealing bolt (10) for sealing a container lid (12) to a container body (14) with a threaded bore (28), the sealing bolt (10) comprising a bolt shaft (18) having a first shaft end (20) and a threaded second shaft end (22) opposite to the first shaft end (20), and a bolt head (16) connected to the first shaft end (20), the threaded second shaft end (22) cooperating with the threaded bore (28) so as to allow the sealing bolt (10) to lock the container lid (12) between the bolt head (16) and the container body (14), the sealing bolt (10) further comprising a security element with a breakable integrity element (34) for verifying the integrity of the sealing bolt (10).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2006Publication date: November 27, 2008Applicant: THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY, REPRESENTED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSIONInventors: Francois Littmann, Piercarlo Tebaldi, Marco Sironi