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Automatic Horizon Picking in 3D Seismic Data Using Optical Filters and Minimum Spanning Tree (Patent Pending)

Horizon picking in 3D seismic data is a very challenging problem. The difficulty for automatic horizon extraction exists at least in two fold: (1) the selection of picks in a trace usually ignores lateral continuity, and (2) the trace traversal order can result in significantly different horizons so that the resulting picks in the same horizon often conflict with each other. In this paper, a pa...

Improved method for diagnosis of Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 1a: patent pending?

In this issue of Clinical Chemistry, two groups, Badano et al. (1 ) from Baylor College of Medicine and Latour et al. (2 ) from France, report on PCR of short tandem repeats (STRs) for the diagnosis of Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 1A (CMT1A). CMT1A is caused by the duplication of a 1.4-Mb region on chromosome 17p12 that includes the peripheral myelin protein 22 (PMP22) gene. The increased gene dosa...

Pending Evolution of Grammars

The classic approach to grammar manipulation is based on instant processing of grammar edits, which limits the kinds of grammar evolution scenarios that can be expressed with it. Treating transformation preconditions as guards poses limitations on concurrent changes of the same grammar, on reuse of evolution scripts, on expressing optionally executed steps, on batch processing and optimization ...

Patents or Patents Pending

An Aluminum Nitride (AlN) MEMS resonator technology has been developed, enabling massively parallel filter and oscillator arrays on a single chip. Low loss filter banks and resonator arrays covering the 10MHz10GHz frequency range have been demonstrated, as has monolithic integration with inductors and CMOS circuitry. The high level of integration enables miniature multi-band, spectrally-aware a...