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  • Just-in-time sort plan creation
    Patent number: 7518080
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for creating a delivery sequence sort plan for automated sorting of mailpieces to a carrier sequence sorter. The delivery sequence sort plan is generated based on information about an incoming mail batch, such that the sort plan is created just prior to the delivery sequence processing of the incoming mail batch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2009
    Assignee: United States Postal Service
    Inventor: Michael J. Amato
  • URL system and method for licensing content
    Patent number: 7516147
    Abstract: A licensing system and method for deploying digital content is provided. A client system can download the digital content from the server and, if a valid license for the content is also found on the server, software may be permitted to run digital content. The license is stored in a location that is separate from the content. The license can be located using the URL address of the content. The system can locate the license on the server and determine whether the license covers the content. Content that is covered by the license can be processed and rendered. The content can be any form of digital media, such as a computer application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Sumisho Computer Systems Corporation
    Inventors: David A. Kranz, Robert H. Halstead, Jr., Tom Lyons
  • Market determination system
    Patent number: 7516085
    Abstract: A market analysis system uses travel time to define a relevant market area. A map is generated using stored geographical map information around a selected geographical point or area, and a travel time around the geographical point or area is selected. A trace is formed on the map around the geographical point within the travel time using travel time data, and market information is gathered from a database for the defined geographical area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Inventor: G. William Bailey
  • Processes for purifying and for detecting target double-stranded DNA sequences by triple helix interaction
    Patent number: 7514218
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel target double-stranded DNA sequences capable of interacting with a third strand and of forming a stable triple helix. The present invention also relates to a process for purifying a double-stranded DNA molecule, according to which a solution containing said DNA molecule is brought into contact with a third DNA strand capable of forming, by hybridization, a triple helix structure with a target double-stranded DNA sequence carried by said DNA molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Centelion
    Inventors: Francis Blanche, Beatrice Cameron
  • Pocket bread and its manufacturing method for mass production
    Patent number: 7514108
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pocket bread and its manufacturing method for mass production and more particularly, to a manufacturing method of the pocket bread for mass production comprising a kneading process of ingredients in an appropriate ratio, a first fermentation process of the kneaded dough, a molding process of the dough to form a pocket shape, a second fermentation process of the pocket-shape dough, and a baking process in an oven, wherein a sheet of dough is folded in half in the molding process to place the sheet of dough at the bottom and top of the molding frame in the molding process; the sheet of dough is continuously cut on either side of the molding frame with a cutting knife to provide a pocket-shape dough having the molding frame therebetween; and the obtained pocket-shape dough is fermented in a concave pen having a depth of 10-25 mm to form the desired pocket shape dough in the second fermentation process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Inventor: Seuk Won You
  • System and method for ultra-wideband (UWB) communication transceiver
    Patent number: 7515627
    Abstract: An ultra-wideband (UWB) transceiver for use in UWB communication includes a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) configured to periodically and sequentially generate a series of base frequencies based on a predetermined sequence and a waveform generator to generate carrier waves based on the generated base frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Wen-Chung Liu, Gin-Kou Ma
  • Aggregation and integration scheme for grid relevant customization information
    Patent number: 7516200
    Abstract: A system and a method includes storing one or more configuration element entries in a definition scheme on a computer system included in a grid computer network. The configuration element entry includes data used by a program included in the computer system in the grid computer network to locate and access application specific customization data associated with an application on the computer system. The system and method also includes accessing the entries in the definition scheme for the application such that the program accesses the customization data using the definition scheme and the configuration element entries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: SAP AG.
    Inventors: Erol Bozak, Alexander Gebhart
  • EGR-EGFR complex
    Patent number: 7514240
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a crystal of a complex of an epidermal growth factor (EGF) and an epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), a crystal of a complex of EGFR and a substance regulating EGFR activity, structure coordinates of these crystals, a method for screening for the substance regulating EGFR activity, a method for designing the substance regulating EGFR activity, a method for designing an EGFR variant or an EGF variant, a method for producing an EGFR variant or an EGF variant and an EGF variant or an EGFR variant obtainable by such method, a method for designing an epitope using the structure coordinates of the EGF-EGFR complex, a method for producing an anti-EGFR antibody or an anti-EGF antibody and an antibody obtainable by such method, a polypeptide or a salt thereof comprising a region that forms an EGFR dimerization site, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignees: Japan Science and Technology Agency, Riken, Mochida Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeyuki Yokoyama, Hideo Ogiso, Mikako Shirouzu, Osamu Nureki, Ryuichiro Ishitani, Kazuki Saito
  • Circuit breaker box and monitoring system
    Patent number: 7515400
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a circuit breaker box and monitoring system. The circuit breaker box includes a circuit breaker panel and a door allowing the circuit breaker panel to be hidden from view. The circuit breaker monitoring system will inform the pilot if a circuit breaker has tripped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Healy, Makoto Isomura, Bassam Chamas, Garrick Talavera
  • Enhanced image printing system
    Patent number: 7515307
    Abstract: The present application relates to a printing system in which a printing apparatus can produce print data utilizing image enhanced data stored in the printing apparatus without complicated calculation on the side of the printing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Systems Laboratory, Inc.
    Inventor: Ken Ota
  • Pyridazin-3(2H)-one derivatives and their use as PDE4 inhibitors
    Patent number: 7511038
    Abstract: New pyridazin-e-(2H)-one derivatives having the chemical structure of general formula (I) are disclosed; as well as processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions comprising them and their use in therapy as inhibitors of phosphodiesterase 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Laboratorios Almirall S.A.
    Inventors: Vittorio Dal Piaz, Nuria Aguilar Izquierdo, Maria Antonia Buil Albero, Yolanda Garrido Rubio, Maria Paola Giovannoni, Jordi Gracia Ferrer, Wenceslao Lumeras Amador, Claudia Vergelli
  • High frequency power amplifying circuit and high frequency electronic component using the same
    Patent number: 7511576
    Abstract: In an amplifying circuit using a grounded-emitter high frequency signal amplifying bipolar transistor, the value of impedance of a bias circuit as seen from the base terminal of the bipolar transistor is made optimum in the baseband frequency. More specifically, the resistance value of a base ballast resistor Rbias connected to the base terminal of the bipolar transistor is set to a range within ±50% of [Vt/Ibq?(?·Re+Rb)] being “ideal resistance value”, where Ibq is static base current, ? is the gain of the transistor, Re and Rb are parasitic resistance of the emitter terminal and base terminal, respectively, and Vt is voltage defined by (kT/q).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuta Sugiyama
  • System and method for transferring data between databases
    Patent number: 7512690
    Abstract: A data transfer control device issues a session key identifying an application running on a user terminal. Then the device specifies a first database as a transfer destination of data input into a common data field for the first and a second database and outputs the data to an application process together with a session key. The device then inputs the data in the common data field together with the session key from the application process and updates the first database. After that, the device retrieves and outputs the data requested by the application process from the updated first database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventors: Jens-Uwe Gross, Kazuya Imabayashi
  • Semiconductor device carrier unit and semiconductor socket provided therewith
    Patent number: 7511375
    Abstract: In a pressing cap forming part of a semiconductor device carrier unit, a pressing portion of a pressure body has recesses, to each of which a bump is inserted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Yamaichi Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshitaka Kuroda, Minoru Hisaishi
  • Process for laser welding resinous members, apparatus for the same and laser-welded resinous product
    Patent number: 7510620
    Abstract: A process is for laser-welding resinous members, and includes the steps of overlapping a transparent resinous member on an absorptive resinous material, and irradiating the transparent resinous member with a laser beam, thereby welding an interface between the transparent resinous member and the absorptive resinous member as a strip shape, wherein the energy of the laser beam acting on a side of a major-curvature-radius curved part of the strip-shaped welded interface and the energy of the laser beam acting on a side of a minor-curvature-radius curved part thereof are averaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Fine Device Co., Ltd., Laser X Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Terada, Akihiko Tsuboi, Seijirou Soeda, Jun Hayakawa, Kyouji Kokufuda, Tsuyoshi Tanigaki
  • Antenna, and radio timepiece using the same, keyless entry system, and RFID system
    Patent number: 7511679
    Abstract: A magnetic sensor-type antenna comprising a magnetic core and a coil wound around the magnetic core for receiving electromagnetic waves, which is disposed in a housing such that the end portion of the magnetic core is bent away from the housing or a metal portion of the housing, and a timepiece, a keyless entry system and an RFID system each comprising such an antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Araki, Masahiro Mita, Chiharu Mitsumata
  • Chart view for reusable data markup language
    Patent number: 7512875
    Abstract: Methods and systems provide a “chart view” for a markup language referred to as Reusable Data Markup Language (“RDML”). Generally, a chart view comprises the components necessary for automatically manipulating and displaying a graphical display of numerical data contained in RDML markup documents. RDML is a markup language, such as the Hypertext Markup Language (“HTML”) or the Extensible Markup Language (“XML”). Generally, RDML facilitates the browsing and manipulation of numbers, as opposed to text as in HTML, and does so by requiring attributes describing the meaning of the numbers to be attached to the numbers. Upon receiving RDML markup documents, the chart view transforms, formats, manipulates and displays data stored in the markup documents using the attributes describing the meaning of the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: E-Numerate Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Russell T. Davis
  • Lactone derivative and its manufacturing method
    Patent number: 7511160
    Abstract: A lactone derivative that is expressed by the following formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Genesis Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Masayuki Kamiya, Kiyohiko Tajima, Eiji Furuya, Hideo Hattori
  • Albumin fusion proteins
    Patent number: 7507413
    Abstract: The present invention encompasses albumin fusion proteins. Nucleic acid molecules encoding the albumin fusion proteins of the invention are also encompassed by the invention, as are vectors containing these nucleic acids, host cells transformed with these nucleic acids vectors, and methods of making the albumin fusion proteins of the invention and using these nucleic acids, vectors, and/or host cells. Additionally the present invention encompasses pharmaceutical compositions comprising albumin fusion proteins and methods of treating, preventing, or ameliorating diseases, disorders or conditions using albumin fusion proteins of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: Human Genome Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Craig A. Rosen, William A. Haseltine
  • Compounds, compositions and methods
    Patent number: 7507735
    Abstract: Certain substituted urea derivatives selectively modulate the cardiac sarcomere, for example by potentiating cardiac myosin, and are useful in the treatment of systolic heart failure including congestive heart failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: Cytokinetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley Paul Morgan, Alex Muci, Pu-Ping Lu, Erica Anne Kraynack, Todd Tochimoto, David J. Morgans, Jr.
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