An apparatus and method to identify a harmonic producing load on a utility electrical network is described. The apparatus is connected to the utility electrical network at a location adjacent to a load. The apparatus includes a network voltage node to receive a voltage signal, and a network current node to receive a current signal. The apparatus also includes harmonic filters to process the voltage signal and current signal to isolate selected harmonic voltage signals and selected harmonic curre...

The present invention provides a method of identifying immunocompromised individuals who are at high risk for development of cryptococcosis, comprising the step of measuring the levels of IgG antibody to glucuronoxylomannan in the sera of said individuals. Also provided are various methods of detecting antibody to glucuronoxylomannan in sera and a kit for assaying the presence of antibody to glucuronoxylomannan in the sera of immunocompromised individuals.

A method and system is provided to uniquely identify a remote method to invoke on a server using a hash value computed from the method signature sent from the client to the server with the call request. When a client wishes to invoke a remote method located on a server, the client sends a hash value identifying the remote method to the server in the "remote method invocation" (RMI) call. In one implementation, this hash value is created by applying a hash function to the method string name and t...

A piston rod (2) of a piston-cylinder unit (3) carries at the top a pressing plunger (not shown) of a glass forming machine and is guided in a guide sleeve (22). The guide sleeve (22) is seated in a magnetically conductive support sleeve (20) of a retaining flange (14). The support sleeve (20) carries an external coil (27) whose connecting wires (30) are guided outwardly to a plug socket (37). On the top of the piston (6) is fixed an internal flange (39) of a circular annular metallic actuating ...

A method and apparatus is provided which analyzes an image of an object to detect and identify defects in the object utilizing multi-dimensional wavelet neural networks. "The present invention generates a signal representing part of the object, then extracts certain features of the signal. These features are then provided to a multidimensional neural network for classification, which indicates if the features correlate with a predetermined pattern. This process of analyzing the features to detec...

A specialized set of read-only identification (ID) registers are used to store information relating to a microprocessor and its associated attributes, so that microcode is not needed to sequence through steps to obtain such processor identification. A software access a base ID (or identifier) register which includes family (type), model and step ID for the processor, as well as the number of "name" and "feature" registers present for conveying additional information pertaining to these attribute...

In order to enable an "800" telephone number business subscriber to identify customers, whose incoming telephone calls were blocked, the Automatic Number Identification (ANI) of these calling customer is automatically recorded within the telecommunications network for later access by the business subscriber.

The method and apparatus of the invention allow a neovascular membrane in the ocular vasculature of the fundus of the eye to be identified and treated while minimizing damage to the sensory retina. First a bolus of fluorescent dye is injected and allowed to circulate through the ocular vasculature. When the fundus is diffusely irradiated with laser energy, dye present in the vasculature fluoresces. A neovascular membrane is identified when a particular area of fluorescence differs from the fluor...

A method and system are described for identifying video segments (e.g., commercials or television programs) without using any identification data that may or may not be provided in the non-displayed overscan portion or the vertical blanking interval of the video signal. Instead, the video segment is identified by recognizing patterns in the viewable portion of the video image data and/or in the video sound data. If the pattern is unique to a specific video segment, that video segment is identifi...

A method of identifying interface residues in a biomolecular complex are identified by selecting one molecule with residues to be identified, and the nonexchangeable hydrogens (protons) and not less than 70% of exchangeable hydrogens (protons) in the one molecule are exchanged to deuteriums, followed by positional identification of the exchangeable hydrogens (protons) which are located on this molecule within 10 angstrom (.ANG.) from hydrogen (s) (proton(s)) in a neighboring biomolecule in the c...