Chemical Property Analysis Patents (Class 702/30)
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Publication number: 20150021824Abstract: A low density annular grout composition for filling voids. The composition may consist of cementitious fly ash, water, set retarder and cellular foam. The composition may have a compressive strength of between 100 and 600 psi at seven days and less than 1500 psi at 28 days. The composition may have a density between 20 and 75 pcf. Also disclosed is a method of filling a void with a low density annular grout composition. The method can include determining the time necessary to fill the void, adding water and set retarder to a cementitious fly ash to make a wet mixture, adding air to the wet mixture, and adding the composition to the void.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2014Publication date: January 22, 2015Applicant: FLASHFILL SERVICES, LLCInventors: Stanley R. Peters, Henry J. Karam, John M. Suter
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Publication number: 20140372047Abstract: A system computes the interaction energy between a plurality of fragments in a calculation object substance according to the fragment molecular orbital method. The energy of each fragment, the two-body interaction energy of each dimer including two fragments, and the three-body interaction energy of each trimer including three fragments are calculated. The two-body interaction energy of each dimer is corrected by adding, to the two-body interaction energy of the dimer, the contribution of the dimer in the three-body interaction energy of the trimer that includes the dimer.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2012Publication date: December 18, 2014Applicants: JAPAN AS REPRESENTED BY DIRECTOR GENERAL OF NATONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCE, RIKKYO GAKUIN, MIZUHO INFORMATION & RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.Inventors: Tatsuya Nakano, Yuji Mochizuki, Kaori Fukuzawa
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Patent number: 8911512Abstract: Disclosed is a method for determining properties of hydrocarbonaceous samples including a component prepared from: 1) the thermo-catalytic conversion of biomass, or 2) the pyrolytic conversion of biomass with subsequent upgrading. The determination of the property(ies) is by use of a near-infrared spectra based correlation.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2012Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: KiOR, Inc.Inventors: Jorge Gonzalez, Leslie May, Vicente Sanchez
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Patent number: 8914243Abstract: A number (uo) of healthy strings of one block in a sodium-sulfur battery is determined according to expression (1), and a failure of the sodium-sulfur battery is detected on the basis of the determination of the value of the uo. This method makes it possible to properly determine a failure of the sodium-sulfur battery, which can be used to compensate for fluctuations of electric power generated by a renewable energy generating device. uo=(Qo/Qs)×us . . . (1) where Qs: used capacity of reference block; Qo: used capacity of target block; and us: number of healthy strings of reference block (us?u).Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2011Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.Inventors: Naoki Hirai, Motohiro Fukuhara
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Patent number: 8914242Abstract: The present invention includes a guided microwave spectroscopy system (1) that eliminates the need for an automatic gain control feature by providing multiple signal processing paths having differing fixed voltage gains. An emitted signal which exits a test chamber (2) containing a material under test is simultaneously amplified by at least a first fixed gain amplifier (4) and a second fixed gain amplifier (7). The output signal of each amplifier is separately digitized and then normalized for further digital signal processing by a computer (13) in order to determine parameters of the material under test which may have variable microwave radiation characteristics that are a function of the frequency of the signal emitted into the test chamber. During the signal processing step a system clock (121) causes the computer to sample only an integral number of complete output signal cycles.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2011Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Thermo Ramsey, Inc.Inventor: Tom Lee Erb
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Patent number: 8903661Abstract: The present application describes a sensor apparatus, especially an electronic nose, based on 2D films or 3D assemblies of cubic nanoparticles capped with an organic coating. The organic coating is modified with unique compositions of functional moieties, e.g. cyclodextrins, to provide the detection of volatile and non-volatile compounds derived from explosive materials, e.g. PETN, RDX, TNT etc. with very high sensitivity. The nose employs pattern recognition algorithms and methods, e.g. PCA, for detecting and quantifying specific explosive compounds.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2009Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Technion Research and Development Foundation Ltd.Inventors: Hossam Haick, Ekaterina Dovgolevsky
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Publication number: 20140350868Abstract: The present invention provides a method of determining the amount of an optical probe species binding to or releasing from an optical sensor surface characterized in that the determination comprises the steps of: a) determining, at one single wavelength or at more than one wavelength, a physical measurand (xi) that is related to the absorptivity of said probe, b) correlating the value of the measurand to the amount of said optical probe species binding to or releasing from said surface, respectively, wherein the physical measurand (xi) of step a) is a physical measurand in which the contribution from the refractive index is substantially zero. The present invention further provides different uses of a peak width as well as a computer program product and reagent kits for the disclosed methods.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2012Publication date: November 27, 2014Applicant: EPISENTEC ABInventor: Anders Hanning
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Publication number: 20140345633Abstract: An aerosol-generating system for oral or nasal delivery of a generated aerosol to a user is provided, including a heater element configured to heat an aerosol-forming substrate to generate an aerosol; a power source; a controller configured to control operation of the heater element, the controller including or being connected to a means to detect a change in air flow past the heater element; first data storage means for recording detected changes in airflow past the heater element and data relating to the operation of the heater element; second data storage means including a database relating changes in airflow and data relating to the operation of the heater element to the properties of the aerosol delivered to the user; and an indication means coupled to the second data storage means for indicating to the user a property of the aerosol delivered to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2012Publication date: November 27, 2014Applicant: Philip Morris Products S.A.Inventors: Pascal Talon, Dionisius Florack
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Patent number: 8886472Abstract: A method for determining a condition indicator of an apparatus includes providing an apparatus configured to measure at least two different technical parameters. A respective parameter value is determined for each of the at least two different technical parameters of the apparatus using at least one sensor configured to determine a respective parameter value for each of the at least two different technical parameters. A respective deviation value is determined for each of the parameter values with respect to an associated respective parameter reference value for each of the technical parameters. A respective deviation relevance value is determined from each of the deviation values using a respective parameter-specific deviation relevance function for each of the parameter values, the parameter-specific deviation relevance functions being different from each other. Using an indicator function, a condition indicator is calculated from the determined deviation relevance values.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2013Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Hach Lange GmbHInventors: Toon Streppel, Torsten Seehaus, Ulrich Schmitz, Manfred Battefeld, Frank Thomas, Michael Kussmann, Michael Haeck
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Patent number: 8886466Abstract: A method of autoverifying clinical test results comprises displaying an autoverification process as a flowchart on a graphical user interface. The autoverification process is defined by a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges connecting the nodes. The autoverification process is configured to evaluate a result and determine if the test result meets a predetermined criteria. The method further comprises receiving the test result and automatically performing the autoverification process on the test result. A system for creating and implementing the autoverification processes comprises a graphical user interface configured to display the autoverification process as a flowchart. The system includes an input configured to receive the clinical test result from a laboratory analyzer. The system also includes a processor configured to analyze the clinical test result according to the defined autoverification process.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2012Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Beckman Coulter, Inc.Inventors: Jason Parkhurst, John M. Ashley
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Patent number: 8884218Abstract: A molecular weight is determined from an actually measured mass spectrum of a target substance, and a database search is performed to extract candidates of a chemical structural formula corresponding to the molecular weight (S2, S3). By using an algorithm for predicting a dissociation pattern, product ions to be produced by a dissociating operation are predicted for each candidate of the chemical structural formula (S4). The predicted pattern of the product ions is compared with an actually measured MS2 spectrum, and a degree of similarity representing the degree of matching of the pattern is calculated (S5). When there are a plurality of candidates of the chemical structural formula, the candidates are displayed in order of their degrees of similarity (S6).Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2011Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Shimadzu CorporationInventor: Shinichi Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 8845189Abstract: An integrated circuit includes a device identification circuit and a temperature sensor diode connected in parallel from a common node. The device identification circuit includes a resistor connected to a diode-connected transistor. The device identification circuit and the temperature sensor diode are adapted to not be simultaneously operating in an ON state. A first voltage is applied to the common node to place the device identification circuit in an ON state and place the temperature sensor diode in an OFF state to identify the integrated circuit. A second voltage is applied to the common node to place the device identification circuit in an OFF state and place the temperature sensor diode in an ON state to determine a temperature of the integrated circuit.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2011Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Semiconductor Components Industries, LLCInventors: Shen Wang, Edward T. Nelson
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Patent number: 8843324Abstract: The present invention provides a method to calibrate a NIR analyzer to measure monomer concentrations at one or more locations in a reactor system. The regression coefficients for the NIR analyzer are transferable between reactors using the same process (solution polymerization to solution polymerization) and may be used to control the reaction, or calibrate flow meters on line.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2011Date of Patent: September 23, 2014Assignee: Nova Chemicals (International) S.A.Inventor: Yves Lacombe
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Patent number: 8831892Abstract: A chromatograph analyzing device for automatically executing a base line setting process on an unseparated peak using preset base line conditions. The chromatograph analyzing device includes a separation unit for separating a component included in a sample, and a data processing device for identifying the component of the sample and the quantity of the component in the sample by using a chromatogram obtained from the separation.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2012Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Hitachi High-Technologies CorporationInventors: Osamu Watabe, Masahito Ito
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Patent number: 8828728Abstract: An aquatic environment monitoring system and method that includes correction for adverse conditions in the monitoring system involving the development of confidence levels for certain conditions in the monitoring system using stored information related to the aquatic environment and/or the monitoring system. Corrections to adverse conditions may be made by the environment monitoring system automatically by the monitoring system and manually via communications to a user of the system.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2012Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Step Ahead Innovations, Inc.Inventor: James E. Clark
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Patent number: 8831893Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for estimation of kinetic characteristics for the formation and dissociation of a complex using lateral flow. The present invention facilitates an easy to use method with high accuracy.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2010Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Phadia ABInventors: Jesper Gantelius, Mats Nystrand, Helene Andersson-Svahn
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Patent number: 8825214Abstract: A method is provided for the measurement of parameters of a gas present in a gas turbine combustion chamber. The method includes tuning a laser to a range containing the absorption lines of species to be analyzed in the gas, and directing the laser light through the combustion chamber and detecting laser light reflected off boundary walls of the combustion chamber. In order to analyze the absorption spectrum measured at high temperatures and pressures, a signature recognition algorithm is applied to the spectrum. The measured absorption spectrum is cross-correlated with a calibration absorption model spectrum for the absorption lines at several temperatures, pressures, and concentrations generated prior to the measurement. Values for pressure, temperature, and concentrations of selected species in the gas are determined simultaneously allowing direct control of the combustion chamber process. An apparatus for carrying out the method is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2011Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Alstom Technology Ltd.Inventor: Ken Yves Haffner
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Publication number: 20140236497Abstract: The invention relates to the analysis of compounds with mass spectrometry and more particularly to instruments, substances, and methods for polypeptide analysis, in particular in targeted proteomics applications and based on indexed retention time as peptide specific property.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2012Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: BiognoSYS AGInventors: Claudia Escher, Reto Ossola, Oliver Rinner, Lukas Reiter
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Patent number: 8798938Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining a gas concentration in a measuring gas by means of a gas sensor. In a first mode of operation of an internal combustion engine, in which the gas concentration in the measuring gas is known, a gas concentration signal and a pressure signal are detected. A compensation parameter of the gas sensor is determined from said signals. The thus determined compensation parameter is taken into account in at least one of the two modes of operation of the internal combustion engine for determining the gas concentration.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2007Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Michael Walter, Joachim Palmer, Thiebaut Beyrath
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Patent number: 8788216Abstract: A urine sample testing apparatus comprises: a urine qualitative measuring section configured to acquire a measurement result for each of a plurality of urine qualitative measurement items; a urine sediment measuring section configured to acquire a measurement result for each of a plurality of urine sediment measurement items; an operation part that is operable by a user to specify a combination of one of the plurality of urine qualitative measurement items and one of the plurality of urine sediment measurement items; an information processing unit configured to determine whether or not a first measurement result of the urine sample obtained by the urine qualitative measuring section and a second measurement result of the urine sample obtained by the urine sediment measuring section have a predetermined relationship with respect to the urine qualitative measurement item and the urine sediment measurement item included in the specified combination.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2011Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: Sysmex CorporationInventors: Toru Mizumoto, Keisuke Tsutsumida, Takayoshi Izumi
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Patent number: 8781632Abstract: A method for analyzing a fluid containing one or more analytes of interest includes; measuring a plurality of properties of a sample fluid with unknown concentrations of the one or more analytes of interest; and using the measurements and a model of the relationship between the plurality of properties and concentrations of the one or more analytes to calculate the concentration of at least one of the analytes of interest. The model may be an artificial neural network. The method may be used to monitor the concentration of inhibitors of gas hydrate formation in a fluid. Apparatus for use in the method is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2009Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Heriot-Watt UniversityInventors: Bahman Tohidi, Jinhai Yang, Antonin Chapoy
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Patent number: 8781757Abstract: The method and apparatus are used to determine class, grade and properties of fuel samples, regardless of ambient, instrument, or sample temperature, using mathematical correlations between fuel class, grade and properties and their spectra developed from a database of samples with measured properties and spectra. The ability to measure a fuel sample using the present method and apparatus is useful in identifying unknown fuel samples, determining suitability in equipment, and monitoring and controlling fuel processes, such as blending operations, distillation, and synthesis.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2008Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Real-Time Analyzers, Inc.Inventors: Stuart Farquharson, Wayne W. Smith
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Patent number: 8761943Abstract: A control system for optimizing a chemical loop system includes one or more sensors for measuring one or more parameters in a chemical loop. The sensors are disposed on or in a conduit positioned in the chemical loop. The sensors generate one or more data signals representative of an amount of solids in the conduit. The control system includes a data acquisition system in communication with the sensors and a controller in communication with the data acquisition system. The data acquisition system receives the data signals and the controller generates the control signals. The controller is in communication with one or more valves positioned in the chemical loop. The valves are configured to regulate a flow of the solids through the chemical loop.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2011Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: ALSTOM Technology LtdInventors: Xinsheng Lou, Abhinaya Joshi, Hao Lei
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Patent number: 8755941Abstract: A method and system for controlling a temperature of an exhaust gas being introduced to a catalyst is provided. Using an adjustable flow controller, an adjustable amount of tempering fluid is provided to the exhaust gas prior to the exhaust gas proceeding to the catalyst. A sensor senses a parameter indicative of a temperature of the exhaust gas being introduced to the catalyst. A computer processor uses a relationship to relate the parameter to an adjustment of the adjustable flow controller that will adjust the amount of tempering fluid provided to the exhaust gas and change the temperature of the exhaust gas being introduced to the catalyst toward a target temperature. Adjustment of the adjustable flow controller is initiated by the computer processor to change the flow of the tempering fluid, and the relationship between the parameter and the adjustment of the adjustable flow controller is updated.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2010Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Larry William Swanson, Douglas Frank Beadie, Neil Colin Widmer, Hua Zhang, Gilbert Otto Kraemer
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Patent number: 8731846Abstract: A measuring arrangement of the invention includes: At least one measuring device, which generates, repeatedly during operation, measured values, especially digital, measured values, representing the at least one measured variable to be registered; as well as an electronic data processing system superordinated to the at least one measuring device, especially a data processing system which is spatially distributed and/or spatially remote from the measuring device. Measuring device and data processing system are connected together by means of at least two line-pairs, through each of which an electrical current flows, at least at times, during operation. According to the invention, the measuring device transmits the internally generated, measured values to the data processing system via both line-pairs. In this way, it is then possible to transmit a plurality of measured values simultaneously, when each of the two line-pairs is embodied as part of a two-conductor current-loop.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2012Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: Endress + Hauser Flowtec AGInventors: Jiri Karbula, Robert Lalla, Gernot Engstler
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Patent number: 8728309Abstract: In a system and method for feature alignment in chromatographic systems, the system runs a first sample through a first separation column. The system determines a first set of features for the first sample run. The system runs a second sample through a second separation column and detects a second set of features for the second sample run. The system estimates a systematic shift in features between the first sample run through the first separation column and the second sample run through the second separation column. The system adjusts the second set of features detected for the second sample run through the second separation column based on the estimated systematic shift to obtain a third set of adjusted features.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2009Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: Agilent Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Xiangdong Don Li
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Publication number: 20140136123Abstract: Accuracy control of an automatic analysis device that mixes a sample and a reagent to measure temporal change of a mixed solution is realized. A plurality of measurement point data is acquired from a reaction process of the sample and the reagent. Parameters and test values of approximate equations for approximating the plurality of measurement point data are accumulated in a storage unit. A distribution map of reference data corresponding to the parameters or the test values is created based on predetermined numbers of the parameters or the test values accumulated in the storage unit. Next, a plurality of screens for individually superimposing, on the distribution map, curved lines corresponding to a plurality of regression function candidates obtained by applying a plurality of regression functions are arranged and presented on a display screen, so as to approximate the data to the distribution map of the reference data.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2012Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicant: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Chihiro Manri, Satoshi Mitsuyama, Tomonori Mimura, Kumiko Kamihara
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Patent number: 8720226Abstract: Computer-implemented methods and apparatus are provided for predicting/estimating chemical depth of layer (DOL) and maximum surface compressive stress (CS) of glass articles after ion-exchange. The methods and apparatus can, for example, be used to select glass compositions, salt bath temperatures, and/or ion-exchange times which provide desired DOL and/or CS values. One or more manufacturing constraints, e.g., constraints on liquidus viscosity, zircon breakdown viscosity, and the like, can be applied to the process of predicting/estimating DOL and/or CS values so that glass compositions selected based on DOL and/or CS values can, for example, be manufactured commercially by a fusion or float process.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2012Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Douglas Clippinger Allan, Adam James Ellison, John Christopher Mauro
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Patent number: 8718952Abstract: The present invention includes analyte measurement systems, analyte measurement meters, analyte testing devices, cartridges thereof and integrated circuits for use therewith, and further includes methods related to the use of the integrated circuits and, in certain embodiments, to the counting or tracking of parameters related to the cartridges and analyte test devices.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2012Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.Inventors: William Matievich, Jr., Alexander G. Ghesquiere, Ting Chen
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Publication number: 20140107944Abstract: A method for measuring a sample to identify a chemical includes receiving respective spectra for each of a plurality of chemicals. Using a processor, a plurality of binary mathematical filters are computed using the received spectra. A spatial light modulator is adjusted according to a selected mathematical filter. Light that has interacted with the sample is dispersed over the surface of the spatial light modulator, so that the spatial light modulator provides light at wavelengths corresponding to the selected mathematical filter. The light provided by the spatial light modulator is measured to provide a score corresponding to the selected mathematical filter. Filter scores are combined to determine a chemical amount. The processor can operate detection apparatus having a light source, an objective for focusing source light onto the sample, a spatial light modulator, and a detector for detecting the modulator output.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2013Publication date: April 17, 2014Applicant: Purdue Research FoundationInventors: Dor Ben-Amotz, Bradley J. Lucier, Gregery T. Buzzard, David Wilcox, Ping Wang
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Publication number: 20140106464Abstract: Method for analyzing the alkalinity conditions in aqueous liquids, comprising: sampling a known amount of the aqueous liquid and placing it in a container of known volume, measuring pH in the sampled liquid and pressure in the container, adding a known amount of CO2 to the sampled liquid, and measuring pH in the sampled liquid and the pressure in the container, and finally calculating the total alkalinity based on the values from the performed measurements. An apparatus for conducting the method is also described as well as a method for controlling chemistry of a glycol containing liquid in a system for recovery of glycol.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2012Publication date: April 17, 2014Inventors: Arne Dugstad, Marion Seiersten
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Publication number: 20140107943Abstract: An example method of calibrating a detected intensity of gas components includes measuring an intensity of a reference gas, measuring an intensity of a calibration gas, and calibrating a measurement of an intensity of a test gas using at least a measurement of the intensity of the reference gas and at least a measurement of the intensity of the calibration gas.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2012Publication date: April 17, 2014Applicant: MILTON ROY COMPANYInventors: Michael J. Birnkrant, Marcin Piech
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Patent number: 8691575Abstract: A method of classifying plant embryos according to their quality based on a general form of Lorenz-Bayes classifier is disclosed. First, image or spectral data of plant embryos of known quality are acquired, and the data are divided into two classes according to the embryos' known quality. Second, metrics are calculated from the acquired image or spectral data in each class. Third, multi-dimensional histograms of multiple metrics are prepared for both classes. Fourth, the difference or some other measure of comparison between the two multi-dimensional histograms is obtained. Fifth, image or spectral data of a plant embryo of unknown quality are obtained and metrics are calculated therefrom. Sixth, the embryo of unknown quality is assigned to a class based on its calculated metrics and the result of the comparison as calculated in the fourth step above.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2004Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: Weyerhaeuser NR CompanyInventor: Mitchell R. Toland
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Patent number: 8688390Abstract: A means for determining the electrical resistance and resistivity of thermoelectric material allows quality control at all steps in the construction of a bismuth telluride and antimony telluride thermoelectric generator. The method involves measuring negative thermoelectric voltage with no current flowing and then a measure of negative thermoelectric voltage while forcing known current through the material in the same direction as shorted to accurately determine thermoelectric resistance. A manual and automatic method of manufacturing thermoelectric rings using forcing current for in-process testing means.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2009Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: Jon Murray SchroederInventors: Jon Murray Schroeder, Gerald Phillip Hirsch
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Patent number: 8682597Abstract: A method for determining the composition of a material including the steps of fitting multivariate analytical data of the material to a combination of multivariate analytical data in a database to determine coefficients of the combination so as to determine a reference model of composition based on the coefficients and the compositions in the database, wherein the database includes multivariate analytical data of database materials whose compositions are known, and reconciling the reference model of composition to match properties of the material.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2008Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering CompanyInventors: James M. Brown, Anantha Sundaram, Roland B. Saeger, Helen S. Wellons, Clinton R. Kennedy, Stephen B. Jaffe
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Publication number: 20140075827Abstract: Disclosed is a method for determining properties of hydrocarbonaceous samples including a component prepared from: 1) the thermo-catalytic conversion of biomass, or 2) the pyrolytic conversion of biomass with subsequent upgrading. The determination of the property(ies) is by use of a near-infrared spectra based correlation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2012Publication date: March 20, 2014Applicant: KiOR, Inc.Inventors: Jorge Gonzalez, Leslie May, Vicente Sanchez
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Patent number: 8676535Abstract: An analyzer which acquires first measured data relating to a first parameter and second measured data relating to a second parameter, the first and second measured data being obtained by measuring an analyte, forms a two-dimensional distribution chart that indicates a distribution of tangible components contained in the analyte based upon the first and second measured data, with the first and second parameters being set as two axes of the two-dimensional distribution chart, sets an area on the two-dimensional distribution chart, and forms a frequency distribution chart with respect to tangible components belonging to the area, with the first parameter being set as an axis of the frequency distribution chart is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2005Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Sysmex CorporationInventor: Kimiyo Miyamoto
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Publication number: 20140067283Abstract: An apparatus and a method for chromatogram peak purity determination are provided, where the chromatogram's dimensions consist of retention time, wavelength and absorbance. The apparatus or method accumulates, at each retention time, absorbance in the wavelength direction for all or a part of a wavelength range in a predetermined retention time range; extracts a plurality of groups where, for each group, the absorbance accumulation value is the same for one point on a rising slope and one point on a falling slope regarding a peak that exists on a chromatogram that is prepared based on a 2-dimensional data whose dimensions are absorbance accumulation value and retention time; calculates similarities between absorption spectrum pattern at one point on the rising slope and at one point on the falling slope for each group; and determines from the plurality of groups, whether the peak consists of a single component based on similarity.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2012Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATIONInventor: Yasuhiro MITO
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Patent number: 8666681Abstract: The present invention aims at providing a method and apparatus for analyzing a mass spectrum on which multivalent ion peaks originating from a target compound appear, and calculating the mass of the target compound. First, each peak on the mass spectrum is analyzed to detect isotopic clusters, and the valence and the representative point (m/z value) of each isotopic cluster are obtained (S1 through S3). Since the range of the m/z value of the component which is added to or desorbed from the compound is limited, by using this factor, the isotopic clusters originating from the same compound are deduced. By combining the deduced isotopic clusters, the candidates for the m/z value of the added/desorbed component are deduced (S5).Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2008Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Shimadzu CorporationInventors: Akira Noda, Yoshikatsu Umemura
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Patent number: 8655601Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of detecting soil nutrients or soil nutrients in soil from reflected light, and also includes systems for the measurement, calculation and transmission of data relating to or carrying out that method.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2010Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: Bowling Green State UniversityInventors: B. B. Maruthi Sridhar, Robert K. Vincent
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Publication number: 20140019069Abstract: Photo-aging monitoring of light-based chemical indicators that experience performance degradation as the cumulative amount of light exposure from measurement and/or reference illumination increases from usage. Cumulative exposure to measurement and/or reference illumination from a monitoring/measuring system is tracked and stored as at one or more locations. Cumulative exposure information can be used to control various actions relating to measurements acquired from the chemical indicators, such as compensating measurement readings for photo-aging, assigning confidence levels to measurement readings, and issuing alerts to users when photo-aging exceeds one or more predetermined thresholds.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2012Publication date: January 16, 2014Applicant: Step Ahead Innovations, Inc.Inventor: Step Ahead Innovations, Inc.
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Publication number: 20140019068Abstract: Systems and methods for automatically evaluating the useful life of an engine oil based on data corresponding to a plurality of preselected key oil properties. The evaluation includes determining, in connection with each of the pre-selected key oil properties, a first current measured oil property value, a first reference oil property value, a first deterioration-limit value, and a first weighting factor. The evaluation also includes determining a single index value, indicating a state of deterioration of the engine oil, in a calculation using each of the values and factors.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2012Publication date: January 16, 2014Applicant: Adam Opel AG@@GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: ERIC W. SCHNEIDER, SPYROS TSEREGOUNIS, MATTHEW J. SNIDER, MICHAEL SEEMANN
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Publication number: 20140019060Abstract: Methods of assisting human users with dosing of aquatic environments, such as aquariums, pools, hot tubs, ponds, etc., that utilize automated monitoring systems that continually monitor various parameters of the water in the aquatic environments. When one or more measured water parameters of an aquatic environment are out of tolerance, a dosing calculator uses water-quality information from a monitoring system to generate dosing instructions for a human user that instruct the user how to dose the aquatic environment with one or more additives that will put the one or more parameters back into tolerance. In some embodiments, input from a user is used to switch the monitoring system to a dosing mode from a normal monitoring mode to track the progress of the dosing more closely than the normal monitoring mode would.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2012Publication date: January 16, 2014Applicant: STEP AHEAD INNOVATIONS, INC.Inventor: Step Ahead Innovations, Inc.
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Patent number: 8626452Abstract: Methods to determine drug hydrophobicity and to quantify changes in drug hydrophobicity that optimize drug function by means of differential scanning calorimetry of an endothermic phase transition of a base protein-based polymer, specifically of an elastic-contractile model protein, to which is attached the drug to be evaluated for its hydrophobicity in terms of the change in Gibbs free energy for hydrophobic association, ?GHA have been developed. Also described herein is the preparation of nanoparticles comprised of protein-based polymers, specifically of elastic-contractile model proteins, designed for the binding and desired release rate of a specific drug or class of drugs. Further described herein is a means of targeting the drug-laden nanoparticle to a cell by means of decorating the nanoparticle surface with a molecular entity that selectively binds to the diseased cell or disease causing organism, e.g.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2010Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Inventors: Dan W. Urry, Kelley D. Urry
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Patent number: 8626342Abstract: The present invention comprises devices, systems, methods, and computer program products for managing data related to the dispensing of contrast media as part of a medical procedure. The device and system provide a controller that is capable of communicating with a dispensing device so as to extract, arrange, process, and present a data set (e.g., a usage data set) from the dispensing device to a user such that the user may selectively monitor statistics related to the administration of contrast media, saline, or other consumables used during one or more dispensing operations. The method and computer program product for managing data related to the dispensing of contrast media may further allow for extraction, arrangement, processing, and presentation of the data set via the controller, via a user interface that is operably engaged with the dispensing device and/or via a computer network that may be in communication with the dispensing device.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2005Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: Acist Medical Systems, Inc.Inventors: Robert C. Williams, Jr., Steven Hartman, Tito Tengco, Clark Godfrey, Alan Cross-Hansen
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Patent number: 8626451Abstract: A method and device allow the determination of the concentrations of a plurality of gas species in a gas mixture based on the output signals from a plurality of gas sensors, each of which is sensitive to a plurality of gas species in the gas mixture. The method includes measuring the response of each sensor at a number of levels of each gas in the mixture, determining a mathematical representation of the response characteristics of each sensor, and using the mathematical representation to determine gas concentrations from sensor readings.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2010Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Da Yu Wang, David M. Racine, David D. Cabush
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Publication number: 20130345990Abstract: A prediction and assessment tool for bioremediation performance based on a comprehensive understanding of the link between chemical flow and microbial community interactions includes linking molecular microbial ecology data with electron and alkalinity balances to make it possible to understand dechlorinating microbial communities and their metabolic processes. The interactions of biological processes and site mineralogy result in changes to alkalinity and pH that can lead to incomplete reductive dechlorination resulting from suboptimal pH. Understanding these interactions allows for strategies to predict expected bioremediation outcomes and/or to mitigate incomplete reductive dechlorination.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2013Publication date: December 26, 2013Applicants: Arizona State UniversityInventors: Michal Ziv-El, Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown, Bruce E. Rittmann, Sudeep Popat
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Publication number: 20130325364Abstract: The present invention is directed to a process for evaluating corrosion resistance of coated metals substrates, such as autobodies at accelerated rate. An anode and cathode coated with protective coating being tested are exposed to an electrolyte in a chamber of a corrosion resistance evaluator. These coatings are provided with predetermined and standardized defects, such as micro-holes to accelerate the corrosion of the underlying metal substrate in a predictable and repeatable manner. The coated cathode/anode pair is subject to a start-up period followed by series preset DC voltages modulated in a stepwise manner for preset durations that are interspaced with recovery periods. The impedance data collected are then used to arrive at the corrosion performance resistance of the coating applied over the cathode/anode pair. The foregoing evaluator substantially reduces the time required to test corrosion from several days (40 plus days) to few days (about two days).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2011Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: US COATINGS IP CO. LLCInventors: Shi Hua Zhang, Lorenzo Fred Pelosi, Robert C. Nahas
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Patent number: 8594821Abstract: A system, a method and a computer program product for identifying incompatible manufacturing tools. The system receives measurements of products that were subject to a manufacturing process involving a plurality of manufacturing tools. The measurements pertain to a performance characteristic of each product. The system evaluates whether each manufacturing tool implemented in a sequential manufacturing process individually performs normally based on the received measurements. In response to evaluating each manufacturing tool implemented in said manufacturing process individually performs normally, the system evaluates whether a first combination of the manufacturing tools together in sequential manufacturing process perform normally based on the received measurements.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2011Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Robert J. Baseman, Fateh A. Tipu, Sholom M. Weiss
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Publication number: 20130304396Abstract: Embodiments for providing rapid characterization of an unknown nuclear source are described. A sequential Bayesian particle filter is used to analyze in real time the neutron inter-arrival times to estimate the multiplication of the source, the mass of the spontaneously fissioning isotope, the neutron detection efficiency, and the neutron lifetime. A method defines an array of trial solutions, each specifying a combination of fissile parameters characterizing the source; determines a first time interval between a first neutron and a second neutron detected by the neutron detector; calculates a probability distribution of an array of the parameter values; determines additional time intervals between each subsequent successive pairs of neutrons detected by the neutron detector; and refines the probability distribution based on the additional time intervals using a recursive Bayesian process to estimate the most probable combination of parameter values.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2012Publication date: November 14, 2013Inventor: Sean E. Walston