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1. A seed of corn inbred line designated MM6, wherein a representative sample of seed of said line was deposited under NCIMB ______.
2. A corn plant, or a part thereof, produced by growing the seed of claim 1.
3. A corn plant, or a part thereof, having all the physiological and morphological characteristics of the inbred line MM6, wherein a representative sample of seed of said line was deposited under NCIMB ______.
4. A tissue culture of cells produced from the plant of claim 2, wherein said cells of the tissue culture are produced from a plant part selected from the group consisting of leaves, pollen, embryos, roots, root tips, anthers, silks, flowers, kernels, ears, cobs, husks, seeds and stalks.
5. A corn plant regenerated from the tissue culture of claim 4, wherein the regenerated plant has all the morphological and physiological characteristics of inbred line MM6, wherein a representative sample of seed of said line was deposited under NCIMB ______.
6. A method for producing a hybrid corn seed wherein the method comprises crossing the plant of claim 2 with a different corn plant and harvesting the resultant hybrid corn seed.
7. A hybrid corn seed produced by the method of claim 6.
8. A method for producing inbred line MM6, wherein a representative sample of seed of said line was deposited under NCIMB ______, wherein the method comprises:
a) planting a collection of seed comprising seed of a hybrid, one of whose parents is inbred line MM6, said collection also comprising seed of said inbred;
b) growing plants from said collection of seed;
c) identifying the plants having the physiological and morphological characteristics of corn inbred line MM6 as inbred parent plants;
d) controlling pollination of said inbred parent plants in a manner which preserves the homozygosity of said inbred parent plant; and
e) harvesting the resultant seed.
9. The method of claim 8 wherein step (c) comprises identifying plants with decreased vigor compared to the other plants grown from the collection of seeds.
10. A method for producing a corn plant that contains in its genetic material one or more transgenes, wherein the method comprises crossing the corn plant of claim 2 with either a second plant of another corn line which contains a transgene or a transformed corn plant of the inbred corn line MM6, so that the genetic material of the progeny that results from the cross contains the transgene(s) operably linked to a regulatory element and wherein the transgene is selected from the group consisting of male sterility, male fertility, herbicide resistance, insect resistance, disease resistance, water stress tolerance, and increased digestibility.
11. A corn plant, or a part thereof, produced by the method of claim 10.
12. The corn plant of claim 11, wherein the transgene confers resistance to an herbicide selected from the group consisting of imidazolinone, sulfonylurea, glyphosate, glufosinate, L-phosphinothricin, triazine and benzonitrile.
13. The corn plant of claim 11, wherein the transgene encodes a Bacillus thuringiensis protein.
14. The corn plant of claim 11, wherein the transgene confers disease resistance.
15. The corn plant of claim 11, wherein the transgene confers water stress tolerance.
16. The corn plant of claim 11, where in the transgene confers increased digestibility.
17. A method for producing a hybrid corn seed wherein the method comprises crossing the plant of claim 11 with a different corn plant and harvesting the resultant hybrid corn seed.
18. A method of producing a corn plant with waxy starch or increased amylose starch wherein the method comprises transforming the corn plant of claim 2 with a transgene that modifies carbohydrate metabolism.
19. A corn plant produced by the method of claim 18.
20. A method of introducing a desired trait into corn inbred line MM6 wherein the method comprises:
a) crossing the inbred line MM6 plants grown from the inbred line MM6 seed, wherein a representative sample of seed of said line was deposited under NCIMB ______, with plants of another corn line that comprise a desired trait to produce progeny plants, wherein the desired trait is selected from the group consisting of male sterility, male fertility, herbicide resistance, insect resistance, disease resistance, waxy starch, water stress tolerance, increased amylose starch and increased digestibility;
b) selecting progeny plants that have the desired trait to produce selected progeny plants;
c) crossing the selected progeny plants with the inbred line MM6 plants to produce backcross progeny plants;
d) selecting for backcross progeny plants that have the desired trait and physiological and morphological characteristics of corn inbred line MM6 listed in Table 1 to produce selected backcross progeny plants; and
e) repeating steps (c) and (d) one or more times in succession to produce selected second or higher backcross progeny plants that comprise the desired trait and the physiological and morphological characteristics of corn inbred line MM6 as listed in Table 1.
21. A corn plant produced by the method of claim 20, wherein the plant has the desired trait and all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of corn inbred line MM6 as listed in Table 1.
22. A method for producing inbred line MM6 seed, wherein a representative sample of seed of said line was deposited under NCIMB ______, wherein the method comprises crossing a first inbred parent corn plant with a second inbred parent corn plant and harvesting the resultant corn seed, wherein both said first and second inbred corn plant are the corn plant of claim 3.
23. A method for producing inbred line MM6 seed, wherein a representative sample of seed of said line was deposited under NCIMB ______, wherein the method comprises:
a) planting an inbred corn seed of claim 1;
b) growing plant from said seed;
c) controlling pollination in a manner that the pollen produced by the grown plant pollinates the ovules produced by the grown plant; and
d) harvesting the resultant seed.
24. Hybrid corn seed designated CB1*MM6 having inbred line MM6 or a transgenic inbred line of MM6 as a parental line, wherein a representative sample of seed of MM6 was deposited under NCIMB ______, and having inbred line CB1 or a transgenic inbred line of CB1 as a parental line, wherein a representative sample of seed of CB1 was deposited under NCIMB No. 41375, wherein the transgenic inbred line MM6 or CB1 comprises a transgene that confers a trait selected from the group consisting of disease resistance, male sterility, herbicide resistance, and insect resistance.
25. A hybrid corn plant designated BB2*MM6 having inbred line MM6 or a transgenic inbred line of MM6 as a parental line, wherein a representative sample of seed of MM6 was deposited under NCIMB ______, and having inbred line BB2 or a transgenic inbred line of BB2 as a parental line, wherein a representative sample of seed of BB2*MM6 was deposited under NCIMB ______, wherein the transgenic inbred line MM6 or BB2 comprises a transgene that confers a trait selected from the group consisting of disease resistance, male sterility, herbicide resistance, and insect resistance.
26. Hybrid corn seed designated CC2*MM6 having inbred line MM6 or a transgenic inbred line of MM6 as a parental line, wherein a representative sample of seed of MM6 was deposited under NCIMB ______, and having inbred line CC2 or a transgenic inbred line of CC2 as a parental line, wherein a representative sample of seed of CC2 was deposited under NCIMB No. 41376, wherein the transgenic inbred line MM6 or CC2 comprises a transgene that confers a trait selected from the group consisting of disease resistance, male sterility, herbicide resistance, and insect resistance.
27. Hybrid corn seed designated BB14*MM6 having inbred line MM6 or a transgenic inbred line of MM6 as a parental line, wherein a representative sample of seed of MM6 was deposited under NCIMB ______, and having inbred line BB14 or a transgenic inbred line of BB14 as a parental line, wherein a representative sample of seed of BB14 was deposited under NCIMB ______, wherein the transgenic inbred line MM6 or BB14 comprises a transgene that confers a trait selected from the group consisting of disease resistance, male sterility, herbicide resistance, and insect resistance.
28. Hybrid corn seed designated RBO1*MM6 having inbred line MM6 or a transgenic inbred line of MM6 as a parental line, wherein a representative sample of seed of MM6 was deposited under NCIMB ______, and having inbred line RBO1 or a transgenic inbred line of RBO1 as a parental line, wherein a representative sample of seed of RBO1 was deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-5627, wherein the transgenic inbred line MM6 or RBO1 comprises a transgene that confers a trait selected from the group consisting of disease resistance, male sterility, herbicide resistance, and insect resistance.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. An intramedullary nail to be inserted into a fractured elongated bone and comprising:
a cannulated rod extending between a proximal end and a distal end;
an outside tubular sleeve for hosting said rod, the rod being coaxial with the sleeve and axially guided inside the tubular sleeve;
shape memory elements hosted in corresponding seats of said rod; each element being able to assume a configuration in which it is retractably housed in its respective seat, so to allow the insertion of the nail in the bone, and another configuration in which said element projects from an opening slot of said sleeve;
wherein:
a distal pair of said elements is provided at the rod distal end;
first and second pairs of transversal holes are provided in the proximal portion of said rod and first and second pairs of corresponding transversal holes are provided in the proximal portion of said sleeve, said pairs of holes having respective axes laying on a same plane, said first and second pairs of holes being suitable for housing a respective bone screw;
the shape memory elements of the distal pair lie on an offset plane with respect to the plane of said proximal holes and are kept in their corresponding seats by a distal cover,
wherein said distal cover is mounted and fixed to the rod in such a manner to keep in position the distal pair of shape memory elements.
2. The intramedullary nail according to claim 1, wherein the first and second shape memory element of the distal pair are 90\xb0 angularly spaced one from the other.
3. The intramedullary nail according to claim 1, wherein one shape memory element of the distal pair is located on a plane at 45\xb0 with respect to the laying plane of said transversal holes while the other element of the distal pair is located on a plane at \u221245\xb0 with respect to the laying plane of said transversal holes.
4. The intramedullary nail according to claim 1, wherein said shape memory elements are realized by SIM (Stress Induced Martensite) materials.
5. The intramedullary nail according to claim 4, wherein said SIM material is an alloy of Nichel and Titanium, such as Nitinol.
6. The intramedullary nail according to claim 1, wherein the distal cover is formed by two portions that are connected by one corner and are extended in perpendicular planes.
7. The intramedullary nail according to claim 6, wherein both said portions have an outside concave surface that reproduces the continuity of the cylindrical rod when the distal cover is mounted and fixed to the rod to keep in position the distal couple of shape memory elements.
8. The intramedullary nail according to claim 1, wherein said transversal holes of the proximal portion of the sleeve are slot openings.
9. The intramedullary nail according to claim 1, wherein said transversal holes of the proximal portion of the rod are a passing hole and a slot openings.
10. The intramedullary nail according to claim 1, wherein a rounded tip is fixed to the distal end of said sleeve.
11. The intramedullary nail according to claim 10, wherein said rounded tip has an open end.
12. An intramedullary nail to be inserted into a fractured elongated bone and comprising:
a cannulated rod extending between a proximal end and a distal end;
an outside tubular sleeve for hosting said rod, the rod being coaxial with the sleeve and axially guided inside the tubular sleeve;
shape memory elements hosted in corresponding seats of said rod; each element being able to assume a configuration in which it is retractably housed in its respective seat, so to allow the insertion of the nail in the bone, and another configuration in which said element projects from an opening slot of said sleeve;
wherein:
a distal pair of said elements is provided at the rod distal end;
a pair of transversal holes are provided in the proximal portion of said rod and a pair of corresponding transversal holes are provided in the proximal portion of said sleeve, said holes having respective axes laying on a same plane;
the shape memory elements of the distal pair lie on an offset plane with respect to the plane of said proximal holes and are kept in their corresponding seats by a distal cover fixed to the rod; and
the distal cover is formed by two portions that are connected by one corner and are extended in perpendicular planes.
13. The intramedullary nail according to claim 12, wherein both said portions have an outside concave surface that reproduces the continuity of the cylindrical rod when the distal cover is mounted and fixed to the rod to keep in position the distal couple of shape memory elements.

1. A method for Galois field (GF(2m)) multiplication by a logic circuit, where m is a positive integer, and the GF(2m) multiplication operation calculates the multiplication of two polynomials producing a product which is divided by a generator polynomial, and wherein the multiplication of the two polynomials is combined with the division operation whereby the GF(2m) multiplication is computed as a single function GF(2m) multiplication operation, the method comprising:
generating xm\u2212i polynomial coefficient terms from multiplication and division mathematical operations, where i is a variable;
combining xm\u2212i polynomial coefficient terms having the same exponents from the multiplication and division mathematical operations to generate a recurrence relation that represents the combination of the multiplication and division operations;
computing the recurrence relation using the combined xm\u2212i polynomial coefficient terms in the single function GF(2m) multiplication operation to produce a GF(2m) result; and
storing the GF(2m) result in memory in a computer readable form.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the recurrence relation for the single GF(2m) multiplication function is Y(i)=Y(i\u22121)+(qm\u2212i*p+Y(i\u22121)2m\u2212i*g)*xm\u2212i, i=1, 2, . . . , m and where Y(0)=0, Y(i=m) is the GF(2m) result, p and q are coefficients of input polynomials px and qx, respectively, and g is the coefficients of a generator polynomial gx.
3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
computing the recurrence relation for a single GF(2m) multiplication function as Y(i) Y(i\u22121)+(qm\u2212i*p+Y(i\u22121)2m\u22121*g Y(i\u22121)m\u22121*g)*xm\u2212i, i=1, 2, . . . , m and where Y(0)=0, Y(i=m) is the GF(2m) result, p and q are coefficients of input polynomials px and qx, respectively, and g is the coefficients of a generator polynomial gx in an m by m single function computation array utilizing m bits per internal calculation stage.
4. A method for Galois field (GF(2m)) multiplication by a logic circuit, where m is a positive integer, and the GF(2m) multiplication operation calculates the multiplication of two polynomials producing a product which is divided by a generator polynomial, and wherein the multiplication of the two polynomials is combined with the division operation whereby the GF(2m) multiplication is computed as a single function GF(2m) multiplication operation, the method comprising:
generating xm\u2212i polynomial coefficient terms from multiplication and division mathematical operations, where i is a variable;
combining xm\u2212i polynomial coefficient terms having the same exponents from the multiplication and division mathematical operations to generate a recurrence relation that represents the combination of the multiplication and division operations;
computing the recurrence relation using the combined xm\u2212i polynomial coefficient terms in the single function GF(2m) multiplication operation thereby calculating m by m bits for the GF(2m) multiplication function to produce an m bit GF(2m) result; and
storing the m bit GF(2m) result in memory in a computer readable form.
5. The method claim 4 wherein the recurrence relation for the single GF(2m) multiplication function is Y(i)=Y(i\u22121)+(qm\u2212i*p+Y(i\u22121)m\u22121*g)*xm\u22121, i=1, 2, . . . , m and where Y(0)=0, Y(i=m) is the m bit GF(2m) result, p and q are coefficients of input polynomials px and qx, respectively, and g is the coefficients of a generator polynomial gx.
6. The method of claim 4 wherein the step of computing the recurrence relation is accomplished in an m by m single function computation logic array utilizing m bits per internal logic stage.
7. A GF multiplication circuit cell producing result Y(i)j for i\u03b5{1, 2, . . . , m}, j\u03b5{0, 1, . . . , m\u22121}, where m is a positive integer, and a selected i and j value comprising:
a bit qm\u2212i selected from the set {qm\u22121, qm\u22122, . . . , qm\u2212i, . . . q0} of first product inputs based on the selected i value;
a bit pj selected from the set {pm\u22121, pm\u22122, . . . , pj, . . . , p0}of second product inputs based on the selected j value;
a bit gj selected from the set {gm\u22121, gm\u22122, . . . , gj, . . . , g0} of generator polynomial coefficients based on the selected j value;
a most significant bit Y(i\u22121)m\u22121 of a previous stage of GF multiplication circuit cells results;
a value of the rightmost neighbor bit Y(i\u22121)j\u22121 of a previous stage of GF multiplication circuit cell results, wherein the rightmost neighbor bit Y(i\u22121)j\u22121 is in relation to the present GF multiplication circuit cell producing result Y(i)j for the selected i and j values;
a logic device producing qm\u2212i AND pj as output A;
a logic device producing Y(i\u22121)m\u22121 AND gj as output B; and
a logic device producing A XOR B XOR Y(i\u22121)j\u22121 as result Y(i)j to be utilized in one or more GF multiplication circuit cells or stored in a processor accessible storage unit.
8. The GF multiplication circuit cell of claim 7 disposed within an m-by-m array of interconnected GF multiplication circuit cells for producing a Galois Field (2m) multiplication result Y, where m is a positive integer, further comprising:
input operand q=(qm\u22121 qm\u22122 . . . q0);
input operand p=(pm\u22121 pm\u22122 . . . p0);
input operand g=(gm\u22121 gm\u22122 . . . g0);
the Y(i\u22121)m\u22121 and the Y(i\u22121)j\u22121 array border GF multiplication circuit cell input values set to 0; and
output Y result which is stored in a computer readable form.
9. The CF multiplication circuit cell of claim 8 wherein the m-by-m array of interconnected GF multiplication circuit cells further comprises:
the interconnections of the GF multiplication circuit cells governed by the equation
Y(i)=Y(i\u22121)+(qm\u2212i*p+Y(i\u22121)m\u22121*g)*xm\u2212i, i=1, 2, . . . , m and where Y(0)=0.
10. The GF multiplication circuit cell of claim 8 wherein the m-by-m array of GF multiplication circuit cells is further disposed within a grouping of multiple m-by-m arrays in a processor execution unit and further comprises:
a GF (2m) multiplication instruction with a data type field specifying at least one GF (2m) multiplication operation; and
means for connecting the multiple m-by-m arrays inputs and outputs for performing at least one GF (2m) multiplication in the execution of the GF (2m) multiplication instruction.
11. The GF multiplication circuit cell of claim 8 wherein the input operands q=(qm\u22121 qm\u22122 . . . q0), p=(pm\u22121 pm\u22122 . . . p0), and g=(gm\u22121 gm\u22122 . . . g0) are connected to read outputs of at least one storage unit in a processor system.
12. The GF multiplication circuit cell of claim 8 wherein the output Y results are connected to at least one storage unit write inputs in a processor system.
13. The GF multiplication circuit cell of claim 11 wherein the at least one storage unit is a processor accessible register file.
14. The GF multiplication circuit cell of claim 13 wherein the at least one storage unit is a processor accessible register file.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

What is claimed is:

1. A system for identifying an unidentified customer at the point of sale, comprising:
a database containing utterance data corresponding to a known customer; and
a processing system coupled to the database and operable to receive utterance information corresponding to the unidentified customer at the point of sale, the processing system further operable to compare the utterance information with the utterance data to identify the unidentified customer as the known customer.
2. The system of claim 1, wherein the database contains utterance data corresponding to a plurality of known customers.
3. The system of claim 1, wherein the database is located at a location other than the point of sale.
4. The system of claim 1, wherein the processing system is located at the point of sale.
5. The system of claim 1, wherein the processing system is further operable to register the identity of the unidentified customer.
6. The system of claim 5, wherein the processing system is further operable to associate the identity of the unidentified customer with the utterance information for the unidentified customer.
7. The system of claim 1, wherein the processing system is further operable to automatically retrieve stored information corresponding to the known customer in response to identifying the unidentified customer.
8. The system of claim 1, wherein the point of sale is remote from the database and is selected from. the group consisting of:
a telephone point of sale; and
a personal computer point of sale.
9. The system of claim 1, wherein:
the database contains a stored identifier for the known customer; and
the processing system is further operable to receive an identifier from the unidentified customer in response to identifying the unidentified customer as the known customer and to compare the identifier with the stored identifier to verify the identification of the unidentified customer as the known customer.
10. The system of claim 9, wherein the identifier comprises a personal identification number.
11. The system of claim 9, wherein the identifier comprises a password.
12. The system of claim 9, wherein the identifier is spoken.
13. A system for identifying an unidentified customer at the point of sale, comprising:
a database containing utterance data corresponding to a plurality of known customers;
a first processing system coupled to the database and operable to receive utterance information corresponding to a first unidentified customer at a first point of sale, the processing system further operable to compare the utterance information with the utterance data to identify the first unidentified customer as a first known customer; and
a second processing system coupled to the database and operable to receive utterance information corresponding to a second unidentified customer at a second point of sale, the second processing system further operable to compare the utterance information for the second unidentified customer with the utterance data to identify the second unidentified customer as a second known customer.
14. The system of claim 9, wherein the first unidentified customer and the second unidentified customer are the same unidentified customer.
15. The system of claim 9, wherein the first point of sale and the second point of sale are within the same establishment.
16. A method for identifying an unidentified customer at the point of sale, comprising:
receiving utterance information corresponding to the unidentified customer at the point of sale;
comparing the utterance information with utterance data corresponding to a known customer; and
identifying the unidentified customer as the known customer according to the comparison.
17. The method of claim 16, wherein the utterance data is contained in a database containing utterance data corresponding to a plurality of known customers.
18. The method of claim 16, further comprising the step of retrieving the utterance data from a database that is at a location other than the point of sale.
19. The method of claim 16, wherein the step of comparing occurs at the point of sale.
20. The method of claim 16, further comprising the step of registering the identity of the unidentified customer.
21. The method of claim 20, further comprising the step of associating the identity of the unidentified customer with the utterance information for the unidentified customer.
22. The method of claim 16, further comprising the step of associating the utterance data with stored information corresponding to the known customer.
23. The method of claim 16, further comprising the step of automatically retrieving information corresponding to the known customer in response to identifying the unidentified customer.
24. The method of claim 16, wherein the point of sale is remote from the database and is selected from the group consisting of:
a telephone point of sale; and
a personal computer point of sale.
25. The method of claim 16:
receiving utterance information corresponding to the unidentified customer at the point of sale;
comparing the utterance information with utterance data corresponding to a known customer;
identifying the unidentified customer as the known customer according to the comparison;
receiving an identifier from the formerly unidentified customer at the point of sale; and
comparing the identifier with a stored identifier for the known customer to verify the identification of the formerly unidentified customer as the known customer.
26. The system of claim 25, wherein the identifier comprises a personal identification number.
27. The system of claim 25, wherein the identifier comprises a password.
28. The system of claim 25, wherein the identifier is spoken.