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...that the x-ray was discovered purely by accident? When German physicist Wilhelm Konrad von Roentgen was experimenting with cathode rays in 1895, he put an activated Crookes tube in a book and went out to lunch. When he returned, he discovered that a key that had also been placed in the book showed up as an image on the developed film!
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120129478 | FEEDFORWARD AUTOMATIC GAIN CORRECTION An automatic gain control circuit is provided for an input signal in the form of a dc reference level and a superposed amplitude modulated ac data signal. A feedforward AGC loop has a low pass filter for deriving the level of attenuation from the attenuated dc reference... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127775 | SECURE STORAGE OF A CODEWORD WITHIN AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT The invention discloses an integrated circuit (10) for securely storing a codeword. The value of the codeword is dependent on the mobility (μA, μB, μC) of at least one transistor (TRA, TRB, TRC) of the integrated circuit. The invention further discloses a read... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127761 | CIRCUIT FOR A RESONANT CONVERTER A circuit (1202) for a resonant converter (1204; 1326), the resonant converter configured to operate in a burst mode of operation, the circuit configured to:
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| 20120126890 | POWER AMPLIFIER The invention relates to improving the performance of load modulation power amplifiers through the use of coupled transmission line-based power combiners. Exemplary embodiments disclosed include a power amplifier comprising an input connected to first and second amplifi... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120126846 | METHOD FOR TESTING A PARTIALLY ASSEMBLED MULTI-DIE DEVICE, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DIE AND MULTI-DIE DEVICE The present invention discloses a method of testing a partially assembled multi-die device (1) by providing a carrier (300) comprising a device-level test data input (12) and a device-level test data output (18); placing a first die on the ca... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120126408 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURING METHOD AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT The present invention discloses an integrated circuit (IC) comprising a bond pad (160); a substrate stack carrying a first layer (130) comprising conductive regions (135); and an interconnect layer (140) over the first layer (130) comp... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120108300 | AUDIO AMPLIFIER An audio amplifier (3) for a mobile telephone (1) is disclosed. The audio amplifier (3) comprises first and second output stages (11, 12), each for coupling to a respective one of first and second loudspeakers (4, 5), and switching cir... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105311 | Display Device A display device comprises a substrate which carries an array of pixels. Each pixel comprises an array of apertures in the substrate, each aperture of the array having a maximum opening dimension less than the wavelength of the light to be transmitted through the apertu... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105163 | RESONATOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPTIMIZING A Q-FACTOR A resonator device (200) comprises a base (206) comprising an anchor (204) and a vibration unit (212) connected to the anchor (204). The vibration unit (212) is configured to have a first vibration mode (218) and a second... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105135 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT CAPACITOR An electrical circuit for emulating a capacitance, comprises a physical capacitor which is charged by charge flow from the input of the electrical circuit. An amplifier amplifies the voltage at the input of the electrical circuit such that the physical capacitor is char... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105128 | CALIBRATION OF PASSIVE HARMONIC-REJECTION MIXER An electronic device comprising a passive harmonic-rejection mixer (400) and a calibration circuitry (425). The passive harmonic rejection mixer has an input (102) connected to several sub-mixer stages (402), and the sub-mixer stages are conn... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105070 | SPECTROSCOPIC BATTERY-CELL IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT ARRANGEMENT A battery cell measurement system comprising a signal generator coupled to a pulse density modulation circuit generating a control signal which drives a switch connected between a first terminal of a battery cell and a first terminal of a bleeding impedance, a second te... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120104103 | INTEGRATED PCB UHF RFID MATCHING NETWORK/ANTENNA A matching network is integrated into a multilayer printed circuit board containing an RFID integrated circuit to provide both an antenna and a matching network for the RFID integrated circuit in the ultra high frequency regime.... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120084532 | MEMORY ACCELERATOR BUFFER REPLACEMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM A microcontroller using an optimized buffer replacement strategy comprises a memory configured to store instructions, a processor configured to execute said program instructions, and a memory accelerator operatively coupled between the processor and the memory. The memo... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082322 | SOUND SCENE MANIPULATION An audio-processing device having an audio input, for receiving audio signals, each audio signal having a mixture of components, each corresponding to a sound source, and a control input, for receiving, for each sound source, a desired gain factor associated with the so... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082275 | COMBINED SATELLITE RADIO RECEIVER A satellite digital radio receiver for receiving first and second radio services. The first and second radio services are broadcast in first and second respective different radio frequency bands. At least one radio programme is broadcast substantially simultaneously on ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081966 | COMBINED EEPROM/FLASH NON-VOLATILE MEMORY CIRCUIT A non-volatile memory circuit includes memory rows and supporting circuits coupled to the memory rows, where at least one of the memory rows include at least one Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EEPROM) memory element and at least one Flash memory el... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081086 | POWER SUPPLY CIRCUIT AND A METHOD FOR OPERATING A POWER SUPPLY CIRCUIT A power supply circuit and a method for operating a power supply circuit involves selecting a normal operational mode or a pass-through operational mode for a switched mode power supply, in the normal operational mode, converting an input voltage of a power supply circu... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120080529 | SMART CARD The invention proposes a smart card which comprises a digital signal processing receiver that can automatically identify the type of a smart card reader based on the error vector magnitude of signals received from the reader. The digital signal processing receiver is ab... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120070983 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE WITH GATE TRENCH A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is presented. The device has: a gate terminal formed from polysilicon and covered by an insulation layer; and a plug extending through an insulation layer to provide an electrical connection to the gate trench. A metal la... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069930 | CIRCUIT FOR A TRANSMITTER A transmitter (200) comprises a first Chireix compensation circuit (230, 232, 238, 240) and a second Chireix compensation circuit (234, 236, 238, 240), wherein each Chireix compensation circuit has two inputs and two outputs. Two constant envelope i... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069645 | MULTIPLE BIT PHASE CHANGE MEMORY CELL A phase change memory cell has more than one memory region (14,18) each being a narrowed region of phase change memory material (2) extending between first and second electrodes (4,6). Each of the plurality of memory regions (14, 18) can be p... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120068766 | SAMPLE-AND-HOLD AMPLIFIER A sample-and-hold amplifier (400) having a sample phase of operation and a hold phase of operation. The sample-and-hold amplifier comprising one or more sampling components (404, 406) configured to sample input signals during the sample phase of operation,... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120054507 | NETWORK A communications network comprising a plurality of nodes, each comprising a network device and a network interface, at least one of the nodes having a first local power manager associated therewith and adapted to control power to the network device.... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054207 | SORTING CIRCUIT AND METHOD The present invention relates to a circuit for sorting a set of data values, the circuit comprising a first set of p+q registers for storing the p+q largest data values of the set of data values including p statistical outliers; a second set of p+q registers for storing... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120052801 | NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION DEVICE A near field communication device (100) for providing a communication path between a processing unit of the device and an external device, wherein the device (100) comprises the processing unit (102) and a control unit (101) coupled to the pr... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120051278 | BROADCAST DEVICE FOR BROADCASTING PAYLOAD DATA, NETWORK DEVICE FOR RECEIVING BROADCASTED PAYLOAD DATA AND METHOD FOR INITIATING BROADCASTING PAYLOAD DATA A method is provided for initiating broadcasting payload data, the method comprising: wirelessly transmitting a message from a broadcast device to a network device, the message containing configuration information of the broadcasting; receiving the message at the networ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120049937 | HIGH EFFICIENCY CHARGE PUMP It is described a high efficiency rectification stage using dynamic threshold MOSFET. The idea is to use the input signal to reduce the threshold voltage when the transistor has to be on, and to increase the threshold when the transistor has to be off. This allows reduc... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120049872 | HIGH SPEED FULL DUPLEX TEST INTERFACE A full duplex, high speed test interface comprises a tester side circuit and a device under test side circuit, each comprising balancing circuits. The balancing circuit of the test side circuit is configured to cancel its own transmitted data at the test side circuit su... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120048709 | RF MEMS SWITCH WITH A GRATING AS MIDDLE ELECTRODE The present invention provides a capacitive MEMS device comprising a first electrode lying in a plane, and a second electrode suspended above the first electrode and movable with respect to the first electrode. The first electrode functions as an actuation electrode. A ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120045909 | MULTILEVEL INTERCONNECTION SYSTEM A male connection component (120) for connection with a correspondingly configured female connection component (140) having a recess (144) extending into a main surface (170) of a female Substrate (142) of the female connection compone... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120045881 | METHOD FOR FABRICATING AN INTEGRATED-PASSIVES DEVICE WITH A MIM CAPACITOR AND A HIGH-ACCURACY RESISTOR ON TOP The present invention relates to a method for fabricating an electronic component, comprising fabricating, on a substrate (102) at least one integrated MIM capacitor (114) having a top capacitor electrode (118) and a bottom capacitor electrode (1... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120045078 | MEMS MICROPHONE A MEMS microphone has a support surface, a microphone substrate over the support surface and an assembly of a microphone membrane and spaced back electrode supported over the substrate. The substrate has an opening beneath the assembly. The interface between the support... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044612 | TANTALUM-BASED ELECTRODE STACK An electronic device includes a metal-insulator-metal capacitive device. In connection with an example embodiment, a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor device is in a substrate having a surface and a three dimensional structure with high aspect ratio sidewalls. The M... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044034 | SYMMETRICAL INDUCTOR A symmetrical inductor having at least one inductor turn. Each inductor turn has a plurality of separate conductive paths having substantially equal inductance. The inductor also comprises a plurality of crossing points. At each crossing point, some of the conductive pa... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120043974 | CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR MONITORING A CAPACITIVE SIGNAL SOURCE A circuit for monitoring capacitive signal sources, and particularly detecting changes in capacitance of a variable capacitor, comprises the capacitive signal source and a differential analogue to digital converter. A voltage source provides a DC voltage to a first term... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120043188 | MEMS DEVICES A MEMS device comprises first and second opposing electrode arrangements (22,28), wherein the second electrode arrangement (28) is electrically movable to vary the electrode spacing between facing sides of the first and second electrode arrangements. At le... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120042229 | MULTI-STANDARD VITERBI PROCESSOR Various embodiments relate to a multi-standard Viterbi decoder. Based on programmable values for constraint length, generator polynomials, and code rate, the multi-standard Viterbi decoder may adhere to a specific convolutional code standard. At a given time, the multi-... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120042228 | BITWISE RELIABILITY INDICATORS FROM SURVIVOR BITS IN VITERBI DECODERS Various embodiments relate to the production of erasure flags to indicate errors resulting from decoding of convolutional codes. A Viterbi decoder may use a register exchange method to produce a plurality of survivor codes. At a defined index, a majority vote may take p... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120039379 | RECEIVER APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING A MULTICARRIER SIGNAL In time varying OFDM systems, the effect of a non-ideal time synchronization may lead to a poor performance in terms of decoded average bit error rate versus the signal-to-noise ratio. The receiver apparatus (3) of the transmission system (1) estimates a s... | 02/16/2012 |
