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  • Method for forecasting house prices using a dynamic error correction model
    Patent number: 7509261
    Abstract: A system and method for forecasting a price of a property in a first housing sub-market based on data related to a second housing sub-market are described. A price index is derived for the second housing sub-market, and an error correcting function is calculated for the first housing sub-market. A price index for the first housing sub-market is derived from the second sub-market price index and the error correcting function. An estimate of the price of the price of the property in the first housing sub-market is then provided. The estimate of the price can be used as the basis for an economic decision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas Alexander McManus, Sol T. Mumey
  • Radiology device
    Patent number: 7508914
    Abstract: A radiology device includes an X-ray source for exposing a subject to the radiation of said source, a converter for converting the X-rays into optical images so as to form primary optical images, a transformer for transforming the primary optical images into secondary optical images, and a display for displaying the secondary images to a user. The transformer includes an optical chain including, in succession, from the output of the converter to the output of the device, an image enlargement assembly exposed directly to the primary images from the converter, an assembly for optical intensification of the enlarged images, and a photosensitive matrix sensor for making the secondary images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: Nano UV
    Inventor: Peter Choi
  • Data backup
    Patent number: 7509356
    Abstract: A system for backing up desired data includes a communication link configured to transfer information between the system and a backup storage for storing backed up data, and a processor coupled to the communication link and configured to: determine associated substantive data of the desired data, compare the associated substantive data of the desired data with stored data, and transfer the associated substantive data over the communication link for storage based on the comparison of the associated substantive data with the stored data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: Iron Mountain Incorporated
    Inventors: David A. Cane, Gurami Palagashvili, Michael R. Boucher, Dwayne A. Carson
  • Change information recognition apparatus and change information recognition method
    Patent number: 7508959
    Abstract: A change information recognition apparatus comprises a series information storing device for storing series information about a recognition object (a motion picture taken by an image taking device, or the like), and a basic change information storing device for preliminarily storing basic change information corresponding to changes of the series information. The series information storing device feeds the series information to a change state comparing device, and the basic change information storing device feeds the basic change information to the change state comparing device. The change state comparing device compares the change information with the basic change information thus fed, to recognize a change state of the recognition object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ryuji Funayama
  • Cable comprising twisted metallic conductors with high electrical performance for use in digital systems
    Patent number: 7507909
    Abstract: A cable having twisted metallic conductors for use in digital systems. Twisted metallic conductor cable with high electrical performance for use in digital systems formed by a bundled array of insulated metallic conductors of thermoplastic material sheathed in a protective banding and by a metallic shielding and finally by a protective cover. The cable uses simultaneously a series of pitches having a maximum and minimum value between 10 and 80 mm and a conductor insulation with a thickness from 2.0 to 2.2 times the conductor diameter for a dielectric constant of 1.87. The combination of the special sequence of pitches and an adequate insulation thickness provides a decrease in attenuation and an improvement concerning the problem of cross talk in digital data transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: Prysmian Telecomunicacoes Cabos E Sistemas Do Brasil S.A.
    Inventors: Renata Cidade Federighi, João Carlos Vieira Da Silva, Marcelo de Araújo Andrade
  • Method and apparatus for controlling and regulating the distribution of an injection molding compound
    Patent number: 7507359
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and to a device for controlling/regulating the distribution of the injection molding compound in multi-cavity injection molds, especially for molds with a large number of cavities, for example 48 to 128 cavities. The invention distributes the injection molding compound in groups of, for example, four to twelve nozzles. Each group is provided with one classical nozzle, as the master nozzle, that is controlled via the local heating capacity and temperature sensors. All other nozzles or cavities of the same group are configured as slave nozzles that have no temperature sensors. The virtual actual temperatures are computed via saved model computations and are displayed on the user panel. The user is thus provided with the desired/actual temperature values for every nozzle and can thus influence every single nozzle, depending on the result, in the form of temperature values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: Nestal-Maschinen AG
    Inventor: Friedrich Werfeli
  • Semiconductor devices and method of manufacturing them
    Patent number: 7507646
    Abstract: With conventional device, the quantity of complex defects differs with each semiconductor device because the concentration of impurities intrinsically contained differs for each silicon wafer. Consequently, there is an undesirable variation in characteristics among the semiconductor devices. The invention provides a method for manufacturing PIN type diode which comprises an intermediate semiconductor region in which complex defects are formed. The method comprises introducing impurities (for example, carbon), which are the sane kind of impurities intrinsically contained in the intermediate semiconductor region, into the intermediate semiconductor region, and irradiating the intermediate semiconductor region with helium ions to form point defects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinya Yamazaki, Tomoyoshi Kushida, Takahide Sugiyama
  • Albumin fusion proteins
    Patent number: 7507414
    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: March 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: Human Genome Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Craig A. Rosen, Homayoun Sadeghi, Christopher P. Prior, Andrew J. Turner
  • Display device for a watch
    Patent number: 7508738
    Abstract: A display device is provided for a watch movement provided with a final gear train intended to drive, at least in a mediated way, means of displaying the time and an energy source driving the final gear train. In one implementation, the display device comprises a display disk for an additional function, and a display gearing of which one moving part carries the display disk. The display device also comprises a second energy source connected mechanically to the display gearing and operating means for the display gearing, designed so as to cause the gearing to be driven by the second energy source when the information for display has to be changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: Eterna SA
    Inventors: Willy Meier, Paul Gerber
  • Method for generating multivariate analysis model expression for processing apparatus, method for executing multivariate analysis of processing apparatus, control device of processing apparatus and control system for processing apparatus
    Patent number: 7505879
    Abstract: According to the present invention, multivariate analysis model expressions are generated for a plasma processing apparatus 100A and a plasma processing apparatus 100B by executing a multivariate analysis of detection data provided by a plurality of sensors included in each plasma processing apparatus when the plasma processing apparatuses 100A and 100B operate based upon first setting data. Then, when the plasma processing apparatus 100A operates based upon new second setting data, detection data provided by the plurality of sensors in the plasma processing apparatus 100A are used to generate a corresponding multivariate analysis model expression, and by using the new multivariate analysis model expression corresponding to the plasma processing apparatus 100A generated based upon the second setting data and to the plasma processing apparatus 100B, a multivariate analysis model expression corresponding to the new second setting data is generated four the plasma processing apparatus 100B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Masayuki Tomoyasu, Hin Oh, Hideki Tanaka
  • N-(4-(imidazo[1,2A]pyridin-YL)phenethyl)benzamide inhibitors of the mitotic kinesin CENP-E for treating certain cellular proliferation diseases
    Patent number: 7504413
    Abstract: Provided herein are certain substituted N-phenethylbenzamide of formula V: that may be useful for treating certain cellular proliferation diseases and disorders by modulating the activity of CENP-E.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignees: Cytokinetics, Inc., SmithKline Beecham Corporation
    Inventors: Xiangping Qian, Gustave Bergnes, Dashyant Dhanak, Steven D. Knight, Nicholas D. Adams, Cynthia A. Parrish
  • System, medium, and method for providing financial account information over a network
    Patent number: 7505925
    Abstract: A system and method for providing financial account messages to customers while accessing web sites is disclosed. Methods, systems and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention enable a financial account issuer to provide an application to customer's computer system over a network. The application may be configured to provide various messages associated with the customer's financial account provided by the financial account issuer while the customer browses web sites. The financial account messages may be configured to provide interactive and dynamically changing account status information based on attempted purchases of goods and/or services by the customer at merchants' web sites. The application may also be configured to provide rating information associated with web sites accessed by the customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: Capital One Financial Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan Turner, Arthur Koeppel
  • Seat sliding apparatus for vehicle and method of assembling the same
    Patent number: 7503614
    Abstract: A seat sliding apparatus for a vehicle, includes: restraining means for restraining a sliding movement of an upper rail in a front-rear direction of a seat and having a first projection preformed at the upper rail and second projections preformed at a lower rail before assembling the upper and lower rails; and a slide supporting member disposed between the upper rail and lower rails, supporting the upper rail to be slidable in the front-rear direction relative to the lower rail and positioning the upper rail to the finally assembled position in the vertical direction. The lower rail and the upper rail are structured in a way that an interval between the first projection and each second projection along the vertical direction in which the upper rail moves between the insertion position and the finally assembled position is greater than zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yukifumi Yamada, Yasuhiro Kojima
  • Substituted-4-(pyrrolo pyrimidin-6-yl)benzenesulphonamide derivatives
    Patent number: 7504398
    Abstract: This invention is directed to selective antagonists of A2A and/or A2B adenosine receptors having the general formula (I); to processes for their preparation; to pharmaceutical compositions comprising them; and to their use in therapy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: Laboratorios Almirall S.A.
    Inventors: Bernat Vidal Juan, Cristina Esteve Trias
  • Socket for semiconductor device
    Patent number: 7503772
    Abstract: The probe pin cartridge is held in the cartridge accommodating region of the frame body when the slider members are in the locked state, and detachable from the cartridge accommodating region when the slider members are in the unlocked state by the operation of the operating buttons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: Yamaichi Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiji Kobori, Shuuji Kunioka
  • Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for a financial card having warning features
    Patent number: 7503484
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for managing possession of a financial card product are disclosed. The system consists of a transmitting device, where the transmitting device is capable of being attached to a financial card product and transmitting a pulsed electromagnetic signal. The system also consists of a separate receiving device, where the receiving device comprises a sensor for detecting the electromagnetic signal, logic for processing the electromagnetic signal, and an alarm circuit such that the receiving device actuates the alarm circuit when the sensor senses that the receiving device is moved away from the transmitting device for longer than a predetermined time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: Capital One Financial Corporation
    Inventors: Chitra Jain, Manaw Modi
  • Knockout mouse for the tumor suppressor gene ANX7
    Patent number: 7504223
    Abstract: This invention provides methods, including a method of assessing the prognosis of a breast cancer patient, comprising assaying for loss of heterozygosity at the 10q21 region of the genome of the patient, a method of identifying a probability that a patient with breast cancer has metastasized breast cancer, a method of determining a survival probability of a patient with breast cancer, and a method of identifying a probability that a patient with prostate cancer has a severe form of prostate cancer. This invention also provides assay complexes, including assay complexes which comprise at least one prostate tissue sample or tissue sample extract, an antibody that specifically binds ANX7, and a label, or which comprise at least one breast tissue sample or tissue sample extract, an antibody that specifically binds ANX7, and a label.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc.
    Inventors: Meera Srivastava, Harvey B. Pollard
  • Battery pack
    Patent number: 7504799
    Abstract: A battery pack 100 has plural battery modules 110 each of which constituted with plural unit cells 120 arranged in a row. Furthermore, a spacer 130 intervenes between adjoining battery modules 110 to constitute a cooling passage 160 which makes cooling medium flow and cools down the unit cells 120. The spacer 130 is designed to flow the cooling medium in a row direction of unit cell cases 121 integrated in a battery module 110. The spacer 130 is structured such that touch area of the cooling medium and the unit cell cases 121 becomes lager as going from inlet side to outlet side of the cooling passage 160 with respect to each of the plural battery modules 110.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinji Hamada, Toyohiko Eto, Yoshiaki Ogata
  • Grinding apparatus and grinding system
    Patent number: 7500905
    Abstract: A grinding apparatus and a grinding system capable of efficient and superior grinding performance prevent the falling of a belt during the grinding of an edge surface thereof. The apparatus includes two rotating bodies 31 and 32 each having segment brushes 4, 4, . . . attached in the circumferential direction at the edge thereof. The rotating bodies 31 and 32 are rotated in the same direction. The tip of the segment brushes 4, 4, . . . is opposed to one edge surface of a belt b stretched between a driving roller 21 and a driven roller 22. The segment brushes 4 of the two rotating bodies enter toward the belt b at appropriate locations on the one edge surface, such that the falling of the belt can be prevented. A grinding apparatus 1 includes a grinder 3 consisting of the rotating bodies 31 and 32, and a holder consisting of the rollers 21 and 22 and a casing 23 by which the rollers are rotatably supported.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2009
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kiyoshi Iga
  • Lamp
    Patent number: D588736
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Inventor: Anders Smith
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