Cwill Telecommunications, Inc.

Zimmer Orthobiologics, Inc.

Zimmer Orthobiologies, Inc.

Civil Telecommunications, Inc.

Hui Liu

Guanghan Xu

Victor Zaporojan

Hali Wang

Hai-Qing Xian

Jian Yao

Ping Liu

Rodney E Bristol

Rodney Bristol

Rhonda Clarke

Ed E C Margerrison

Medical devices for cutting and suturing biological tissue generally include a shaft and first and second guide members each including a first portion coupled to the shaft at a first location and a second portion coupled to the shaft at a second location. The first portions are movable along the shaft relative to the second portions, and the first and second guide members define an arcuate profile and are configured to flex in response to such movement. When used to cut tissue, the medical device may further include a blade positioned between the first and second guide members. When used to suture tissue, one or more suture guides may be provided on the first guide member for directing a suture needle through tissue proximate the first guide member. Methods of repairing and replacing a meniscus using the medical devices are also provided.

Medical devices for suturing biological tissue

Medical devices and methods for cutting and suturing biological tissue

A TDD antenna array S-CDMA system for increasing the capacity and quality of a wireless communications is disclosed. By simultaneous exploiting the spatial and code diversities, high performance communications between a plurality of remote terminals and a base station is achieved without sacrificing system flexibility and robustness. The time-division-duplex mode together with the inherent interference immunity of S-CDMA signals allow the spatial diversity to be exploited using simple and robust beamforming rather than demanding nulling. Measurements from an array of receiving antennas at the base station are utilized to estimate spatial signatures, timing offsets, transmission powers and other propagation parameters associated with a plurality of S-CDMA terminals. Such information is then used for system synchronization, downlink beamforming, as well as handoff management. In an examplary embodiment, the aforementioned processing is accomplished with minimum computations, thereby allowing the disclosed system to be applicable to a rapidly varying environment. Among many other inherent benefits of the present invention are large capacity and power efficiency, strong interference/fading resistance, robustness power control, and easy hand-off.

Smart antenna CDMA wireless communication system

An improved system and method for determining and tracking the carrier offset in a communications system. In an exemplary implementation, sampled spread spectrum digital signals are compensated with an expected carrier offset and stripped of pseudo-noise codes to produce demodulated signals. The demodulated signals are applied to a carrier offset estimator. The carrier offset estimator divides pairs of demodulated signals with a predetermined interval to produce results containing phase change information. The results are then averaged, and the average is normalized with respect to the predetermined interval to yield a new estimate of the carrier offset. The expected carrier frequency is adjusted based on the new offset estimate for frequency compensation in subsequent reception and transmission operations.

Method and apparatus for carrier recovery and compensation in spread

A method and apparatus for increasing the capacity and quality of code-division-multiple-access (CDMA) communications in a near-far and frequency-selective fading environment is disclosed. The invention can be utilized in both synchronous and asynchronous CDMA systems. For convenience, only applications of this invention to synchronous CDMA are described herein. Unique to this invention is that using measurements from a receiver and multiple receivers at the base station, propagation channel parameters associated with a plurality of subscribers are determined without the use of training sequences. The channel parameters are used to calculate any individual user's signature waveform and reconstruct its transmitted signal from the received data. This invention can also be implemented at base stations with multiple antennas or/and fractionally spaced measurements to further improve signal quality by incorporating spatial and temporal diversities. When used at the mobile sites, the invention can alleviate the synchronization problem and mitigating frequency-selective fading.

Methods for channel estimation and signal detection of CDMA signals

A system and method for modulating synchronous CDMA (S-CDMA) signals in antenna array wireless system. By taking advantage of the symmetric property of Walsh code words utilized in S-CDMA perform modulation of signals intended for a plurality of users. The system includes a Fast Hadamard Transform (FHT) Processor that realizes baseband operations including spreading and digital combining in one step. In addition to significant reduction in computations and storage over prior methods, the invention also provides substantial advantages in hardware implementation. While the exemplary embodiment is described in the context of antenna array CDMA systems, the disclosed techniques have general applications in CDMA systems with arbitrary symbol values.

Method and apparatus for fast modulation in synchronous CDMA

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