Abstract: A cardiac harness is configured to fit at least a portion of a patient's heart and at least a portion of the cardiac harness includes a radiopaque coating. The radiopaque coating is formed from a polymer loaded with a radiopaque material such as barium sulfate. The radiopaque material also includes a radiopaque band or a radiopaque coating formed by sputter coating or the like. The radiopaque material is visible under fluoroscopy, MRI, or echocardiography.

Abstract: A method of controlling a laser to print symbols of an image on moving products with various velocities. The method may include grouping, organizing and/or moving symbols to stripes, leading edge clipping correction, trailing edge clipping correction and updating clipping correction in real-time.

Abstract: A phase frequency detector (PFD) utilizes hysteresis dead zone avoidance while maximizing the linear range and minimizing the power and area consumed by the PFD circuit. The PFD includes a hysteresis in a reset logic gate, which prevents the reset logic gate from switching its output before each of the corrective pulses from the PFD reach final steady state DC voltage values. The PFD response simulates an ideal response, such that linearity is maintained at the phase lock point and throughout a linear range of +/−2&pgr;. In addition, the hysteresis reset logic gate monitors the corrective pulses to insert an appropriate amount of time delay into the PFD reset path without introducing additional delay elements. As a result, the linear range of the PHD is maximized and the power and area consumed by the PFD is minimized, due to the fact that additional delay elements are eliminated from the design.

Abstract: An apparatus comprising a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit may be configured to generate (i) a first reference signal in response to a pump-up signal and (ii) a second reference signal in response to a pump-down signal. The second circuit may be configured to generate (a) a first control signal in response to (i) the pump-up signal and (ii) the second reference signal and (b) a second control signal in response to (i) the pump-down signal and (ii) the first reference signal.

Abstract: A ceramic material made from a precursor mixture including bottom ash particles recovered from a municipal solid waste combustor and fly ash particles recovered from combustion residual gases of a municipal solid waste combustor. In a process for manufacturing a technical ceramic from combined MWC ash, bottom ash particles are recovered from a municipal solid waste combustor and fly ash particles are recovered from combustion residual gases of a municipal solid waste combustor. The bottom ash particles are mixed with the fly ash particles to form a precursor combined ash mixture, which is cast to form the ceramic material.

Abstract: An apparatus comprising a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit may be configured to generate (i) a first signal and a second signal in response to a pump down signal and (ii) a third signal and a fourth signal in response to (i) a pump up signal. The second circuit may be configured to generate (a) a first control signal in response to (i) the first signal and (ii) the third signal and (b) a second control signal in response to (i) the second signal and (ii) the fourth signal.

Abstract: In one embodiment this invention provides a frequency doubling optical waveguide consisting of a substrate-supported polymeric thin film waveguiding layer, in combination with one or more polymeric cladding layers. The waveguiding layer comprises moieties which exhibit nonlinear optical properties as well as anomalous dispersion of refractive index such that, under wave propagating conditions, the effective dispersion .DELTA.N of the waveguiding layer is zero, and the fundamental and second harmonic waves are phase matched over the length of the waveguide.