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Compress-forward coding with N-PSK modulation for the half-duplex Gaussian relay channel
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 2011-03-22)
Systems and methods that implement compress-forward (CF) coding with N-PSK modulation for the relay channel are disclosed, where N is greater than or equal to two. In the CF scheme, Wyner-Ziv coding is applied at the relay ...
Method and system for detecting sentinel lymph nodes
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 2011-01-04)
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for detecting lymph nodes in a human includes introducing a fluorescent contrast agent into a lymph node system of a body, directing near-infrared time-varying ...
Device for proactive modulation of cardiac strain patterns
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 2011-05-03)
The present invention provides methods, systems and devices that reduce dyskinesis and hypokinesis. The contoured heart assist device of the present invention includes a selectively inflatable end-systolic heart shaped ...
Cotton plant with seed-specific reduction in gossypol
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 2011-08-16)
A method is disclosed for reducing the level of gossypol in cottonseed. The method generally includes selectively inducing RNA gene silencing in the seed of a transgenic cotton plant, to interfere with expression of the ...
Electric machine having rotor and stator configurations
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 2011-09-20)
According to one embodiment of the present invention, an electric machine comprises a stator and a rotor. The stator has at least one stator pole with a first leg and a second leg. The rotor has at least one rotor pole. ...
Stem-regulated, plant defense promoter and uses thereof in tissue-specific expression in monocots
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 2011-07-05)
The invention is directed to isolated promoters from stem-regulated, defense-inducible genes, such as OMT promoters. The promoters are useful in expression cassettes and expression vectors for the transformation of plants. ...
Multi-source data encoding, transmission and decoding using slepian-wolf codes based on channel code partitioning
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 2011-11-22)
System and method for designing Slepian-Wolf codes by channel code partitioning. A generator matrix is partitioned to generate a plurality of sub-matrices corresponding respectively to a plurality of correlated data sources. ...
Maxim electron scatter chamber
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 2011-08-30)
The present invention includes a system, methods and apparatus for sterilization of an object (e.g., food products). The present invention takes advantage of the electron scatter that occurs when electron beam is applied ...
Feline CD86 polypeptides and nucleic acids
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 2011-12-06)
The present invention provides isolated and purified DNA encoding feline CD80 (B7-1) ligand, feline CD86 (B7-2) ligand, feline CD28 receptor, or feline CTLA-4 (CD152) receptor, as well as vectors comprising nucleic acid ...
Layered Wyner-Ziv video coding for transmission over unreliable channels
(United States. Patent and Trademark Office, 2011-12-06)
A system and method for video coding. Energy-concentrating transform operations are performed on video data to obtain transformed data. Nested scalar quantization is performed on the transformed data to generate blocks of ...