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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7977981 | Pre-driver circuit using transistors of a single channel type A serial interface apparatus comprises a driver for generating a differential communication signal and a pre-driver for driving the driver circuit. The pre-driver receives an input signal that alternates between VDD and ground and produces an output signal that alte... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7589974 | Modular server and method A modular computer system is provided. In one embodiment, the system includes a computer server having a first printed circuit assembly disposed within a first housing and an expansion connector. The computer server is configured to be coupled to a modular expansion... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7518336 | Battery pack event-proof monitoring and analysis system and method A battery pack comprises an event monitoring system at least partially disposed in an event-proof enclosure of the battery pack. The event-proof enclosure is adapted to enable the event monitoring system to retain data acquired by the event monitoring system for ana... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7460200 | Liquid crystal alignment A liquid crystal device comprises a first cell wall and a second cell wall enclosing a layer of liquid crystal material. The device has electrodes for applying an electric field across at least some of the liquid crystal material, and a surface alignment structure o... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7443001 | Preparation of microelectromechanical system device using an anti-stiction material and selective plasma sputtering A method for preparing a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device for subsequent processing is disclosed. The method includes establishing an anti-stiction material on exposed surfaces of the MEMS device. The exposed surfaces include at least an interior surface ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7434146 | Denoising and error correction for finite input, general output channel Systems and methods are disclosed for denoising for a finite input, general output channel. In one aspect, a system is provided for processing a noisy signal formed by a noise-introducing channel in response to an error correction coded input signal, the noisy signa... | 10/07/2008 |
| 6746246 | Method and apparatus for composing a song Songs are defined by a song template comprising at least one track comprising a sequence of measures and a plurality of audio samples allocated to the or each track. At least two songs are played to an audience, which responds indicating the popularity of each song.... | 06/08/2004 |
