Silicon Graphics, Incorporated

Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

Roche Diabetes Care, Inc.

Mok3, Inc.

Max G Chen

Michael A Koken

Chris L Whittall

Erik A Jensen

Stephen Derek Smithson

Steven Nelson Roe

Matthew Peterson

Fred Charles Thomas, Iii

Byong Mok Oh

Arthur G Sandoval

Travis Lee

Chris Fruhauf

Fredo Durand

David K Peschel

A method of controlling lancing speed of a lancing structure of a portable handheld medical diagnostic device includes providing an elongated lancet structure having a skin piercing end and a blood transport portion adjacent the skin piercing end. The skin piercing end when displaced makes an incision at a skin site to produce an amount of bodily fluid from the skin site and in which the blood transport portion transports the amount of bodily fluid away from the skin site for use by a measurement system in making a physiological measurement. A spring-driven motor assembly is operatively connected to the lancet structure. The spring-driven motor assembly displaces the lancet structure toward the skin site to make the incision for producing the amount of bodily fluid and retracts the lancet structure to carry the amount of bodily fluid away from the skin cite. A speed control mechanism is engaged with the spring-driven motor assembly as the spring-driven motor assembly retracts the lancet structure thereby decelerating the lancet structure as the lancet structure is retracted away from the skin site.

Handheld medical diagnostic devices with lancing speed control

A drive carrier for computer systems. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are drive carriers comprising a first suspension member that defines a first side of the drive carrier, a second suspension member that defines a second side of the drive carrier (the second suspension member configured to be manually flexed resiliently away from the drive carrier during installation of a disk drive), a handle having a hinge point coupled to the suspension members (the hinge point defining an axis of rotation for the handle, and the axis of rotation lies substantially parallel to a plane in which both suspension members reside), a first pin configured to couple to a mounting hole of the disk drive (and the first pin coupled to the first suspension member), and a second pin configured to couple to a mounting hole of the disk drive (and the second pin coupled to the second suspension member, wherein the first and second pins suspend the disk drive within the drive carrier between the suspension members).

Drive carrier for computer systems

The invention provides a variety of tools and techniques for adding depth information to photographic images, and for editing and manipulating images that include depth information. The tools for working with such images include tools for 'painting' in a depth channel, for using geometric primitives and other three-dimensional shapes to define depth in a two-dimensional image, and tools for 'clone brushing' portions of an image with depth information while taking the depth information and lighting into account when copying from one portion of the image to another. The tools also include relighting tools that separate illumination information from texture information.

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Palo Alto, CA, United States of America

Max G Chen