Abstract: An inductor is disclosed, including a first wire, a non-conductive material, and a shell. The non-conductive material may cover the first wire, with a portion of each end of the first wire uncovered. The shell may include a top portion and a bottom portion and include at least one magnetized layer and at least one gap between the first portion and the second portion. The shell may also surround a portion of the non-conductive material.

Abstract: An inductor is disclosed, including a first wire, a non-conductive material, and a shell. The non-conductive material may cover the first wire, with a portion of each end of the first wire uncovered. The shell may include a top portion and a bottom portion and include at least one magnetized layer and at least one gap between the first portion and the second portion. The shell may also surround a portion of the non-conductive material.

Abstract: The present invention provides an inductor device comprising one or more interconnected columns of conductive material embedded in a supporting structure, wherein the one or more columns comprise an input terminal and an output terminal; and wherein each column is surrounded by a first magnetic layer.

Abstract: An inductor is disclosed, including a first wire, a non-conductive material, and a shell. The non-conductive material may cover the first wire, with a portion of each end of the first wire uncovered. The shell may include a top portion and a bottom portion and include at least one magnetized layer and at least one gap between the first portion and the second portion. The shell may also surround a portion of the non-conductive material.

Abstract: A method for detecting and diagnosing disease states in a body part is described. The method starts with a preparatory step of modeling the body part as a grid of many finite elements, then calculating an electrical property between two finite elements at which current from two corresponding electrodes flows through the body part. This is termed the weight (influence) of the element. With this baseline information, electrical impedance measurements made at the plurality of electrodes on the periphery of the body part can be used in a diagnostic module to calculate a Weighted Element Value (WEVal) for each element. In a preferred embodiment of invention, the difference in WEVal magnitude between corresponding elements of homologous body parts serves as an indicator of the presence of disease.

Abstract: A system and method for diagnosing the possibility of disease by making electrical measurements in one of a first body part and a second substantially similar body part are described. The present invention balances out differences between homologous body parts that are due to natural factors unrelated to disease, such as differences in size or symmetry between left and right breasts. Once data are prebalanced, statistical analyses can be performed on the data to diagnose disease. The system includes a normalizing module for obtaining a normalizing factors database from a screening population group to account for differences in spatial separation of impedance measurements. Once a set of normalizing factors is obtained, a prebalancing factor can be obtained that can further be used to adjust raw electrical measurements. Normalizing factors are applied to a smaller subset of measurements that are likely to better represent the body part as a whole.

Abstract: A method for detecting and diagnosing disease states in a body part is described. The method starts with a preparatory step of modeling the body part as a grid of many finite elements, then calculating an electrical property between two finite elements at which current from two corresponding electrodes flows through the body part. This is termed the weight (influence) of the element. With this baseline information, electrical impedance measurements made at the plurality of electrodes on the periphery of the body part can be used in a diagnostic module to calculate a Weighted Element Value (WEVal) for each element. In a preferred embodiment of invention, the difference in WEVal magnitude between corresponding elements of homologous body parts serves as an indicator of the presence of disease.

Abstract: A system and method for diagnosing the possibility of disease by making electrical measurements in one of a first body part and a second substantially similar body part are described. The present invention balances out differences between homologous body parts that are due to natural factors unrelated to disease, such as differences in size or symmetry between left and right breasts. Once data are prebalanced, statistical analyses can be performed on the data to diagnose disease. The system includes a normalizing module for obtaining a normalizing factors database from a screening population group to account for differences in spatial separation of impedance measurements. Once a set of normalizing factors is obtained, a prebalancing factor can be obtained that can further be used to adjust raw electrical measurements. Normalizing factors are applied to a smaller subset of measurements that are likely to better represent the body part as a whole.

Abstract: A method for detecting and diagnosing disease states in a body part is described. The method starts with a preparatory step of modeling the body part as a grid of many finite elements, then calculating the effect of the electrical property of each finite element at any one of a plurality of electrodes on the periphery of the body part as a function of the position of the finite element within the grid. This is termed the weight (influence) of the element. With this baseline information, electrical impedance measurements made at the plurality of electrodes on the periphery of the body part can be used in a diagnostic module to calculate a Weighted Element Value (WEVal) for each element. In a preferred embodiment of invention, the difference in WEVal magnitude between corresponding elements of homologous body parts serves as an indicator of the presence of disease.

Abstract: A game set which comprises a set of two-dimensional or three-dimensional game pieces of the same size and geometrical configuration and a method of playing with this game set, with or without a computer. In preferred embodiment, each game piece has a square-shaped playing surface. Each of the four sides of each playing surface of each game piece has a selected visible indicia. The criteria determining how the indicia are to be arranged on the sides are mathematically selected so as to permit the use of the game as a mathematical puzzle that may be played by one player, played competitively by two players, or for other purposes of entertainment or intellectual simulation. In many of the games, the game pieces are arranged in a mutually abutting side-by-side relationship, whereby the indicia on each of the sides may match and align with the indicia on respective abutting sides of other game pieces of the set, and with the top surfaces of the abutting game pieces forming a square.

Abstract: A card game which comprises a set of cards of the same size and geometrical configuration, each having a square playing surface. Each of the four sides of each card has a selected visible indicia. The criteria determining how the indicia are to be arranged on the sides of the cards are mathematically selected so as to permit the use of the game as a mathematical puzzle that may be played by one player, played competitively by two players, or for other purposes of entertainment or intellectual stimulation. In many of the games the cards or other playing pieces are arranged in a mutually abutting side-by-side relationship whereby the indicia on each of the sides may match and align with the indicia on respective abutting sides of other cards of the set, and with the top surfaces of the abutting cards forming a square.