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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7463113 | Apparatus and methods relating to electrically conductive path interfaces disposed within capacitor plate openings A first and second capacitor plate are provided (101 and 102). Each capacitor plate has an opening disposed therethrough with the second capacitor plate being disposed substantially opposite the first capacitor plate. A first electrically conductive pa... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7427562 | Method for fabricating closed vias in a printed circuit board A method for forming closed vias in a multilayer printed circuit board. A dielectric layer is laminated to one side of a central core having a metal layer on each side. A second dielectric layer is laminated to the other side of the central core. Closed vias in the ... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7351065 | Method and electronic device connector with band and angle encoding Disclosed is a connector including two mating sleeves, at least one of which having a plurality of first conductive contacts, a second mating sleeve configured to be rotatably joined to the first mating sleeve and also configured to support circuitry. The connector ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7164801 | System and method for efficiently encoding an image by prioritizing groups of spatially correlated coefficients based on an activity measure An encoder (300) selects (702, 1302, 1304,1306,1308) one or more subsets of spatially or temporally correlated transformed data coefficients, on the basis of the significance of each subset in representing the data. The encoder (300) and a compl... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7140019 | Scheduler of program instructions for streaming vector processor having interconnected functional units A method for scheduling a computation for execution on a computer with a number of interconnected functional units. The computation is representable by a data-flow graph with a number of nodes connected by edge. A loop-period of the computation is calculated and the... | 11/21/2006 |
| 6961569 | Method for a radiotelephone to scan for higher priority public land mobile network A method for a radiotelephone to scan for a higher priority (including home) public land mobile network (PLMN) without searching in all possible RATs and frequencies includes a first step of establishing an inclusive list of all frequencies in all radio access techn... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6872958 | Platform positioning system A system for precisely positioning and moving a platform relative to a support structure is disclosed herein. The platform is particularly suitable for carrying wafers. Charged particle optics can be attached to the support structure. The platform positioning system... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6444563 | Method and apparatus for extending fatigue life of solder joints in a semiconductor device A ball grid array (BGA) or chips scale package (CSP) integrated circuit (IC) (20) is manufactured by first identifying the most unreliable solder ball joints in the IC. These worst case joints, or joints in the vicinity of the worst case joints, are chang... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6216251 | On-chip error detection and correction system for an embedded non-volatile memory array and method of operation A microcontroller (100) has a CPU (102) and memory (104). Memory (104) contains a memory array (200). A large portion of the array (200) is used to contain functional data for the CPU (102), but the array (200) also contains one or a few rows of memory co... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6138918 | Portable data carrier and method for selecting operating mode thereof A portable data carrier, suitable for operation in either a contacted or a contactless mode, includes a clock signal input pad and a clock detection circuit. The clock input pad includes an output that is coupled to a selection circuit having a first inpu... | 10/31/2000 |
| 5959315 | Semiconductor to optical link One surface of a semiconductor component attached to one surface of a header with an opposite surface of the component having an optical input/output positioned adjacent one end of an optical fiber. The component and optical fiber are fixedly attached wit... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5958508 | Process for forming a semiconductor device A metal-semiconductor layer (26) is formed over an insulating layer (20) such that the metal-semiconductor layer (26) is graded to have varying amounts of the semiconductor and metal throughout the layer. In one embodiment, the metal-semiconductor layer (... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5945772 | Damped resonant piezoelectric alerting device A damped resonant piezoelectric alerting device (600) includes a motional mass (130), a damping element (136, 156) magnetically coupled to the motional mass (130) and a piezoelectric actuator (100) which is constrained to an actuator mount (132) at a firs... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5945948 | Method and apparatus for location finding in a communication system A method for determining a subscriber unit location in a communication system is provided. The method includes the steps of receiving a signal from the subscriber unit at a first base station, determining a first receive time of the signal based on a sequ... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5917942 | Device and method for handwriting recognition with adaptive weighting of recognition data An adaptive weighting handwriting recognition device and method compares information representing handwritten input with stored recognition data at least some of which has a weighting value associated therewith. The weighting values remains fixed during c... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5812605 | Multi-channel digital transceiver and method A multi-channel digital transceiver (400) receives uplink radio frequency signals and converts these signals to digital intermediate frequency signals. Digital signal processing, including a digital converter module (426), is employed to select digital in... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5710972 | Method and apparatus for deferring zone resistrations from a PSU-pager when the PSU's own call rate is less than or equal to a transmitted threshold A method and apparatus controls zone registrations in a radio communication system providing radio coverage to a portable subscriber unit (122) within a plurality of zones (402), wherein the portable subscriber unit (PSU) determines its own call rate (602... | 01/20/1998 |
| 5536917 | Housing with integral thin film resistive snap-fits An assembly (5) has two or more plastic parts joined together. One of the plastic parts (20) has an electrical heating element (31) whose function is to soften a portion of the plastic when the heating element is electrically energized. Once the plastic i... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5446954 | Method for manufacturing a frequency control device A method of manufacturing is employed to produce a size-reduced frequency control device (300), according to the present invention. A temperature compensation circuit (304) and an unsealed piezoelectric element (302) are disposed on a substrate (306) such... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5340754 | Method for forming a transistor having a dynamic connection between a substrate and a channel region A vertically raised transistor (10) is formed having a substrate (12). A conductive plug region (22) is selectively or epitaxially formed to vertically elevate the transistor (10). A first doped region (16a) and a second doped region (16b) are each electr... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5189431 | Removable antenna coupling on a wrist watch pager A selective call receiver (100) includes a receiver for receiving a message and a housing (104) for enclosing a receiver (102). A substantially semicircular arcuate recess (106) shaped in a portion of the housing receives a first substantially semicircula... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5103123 | Phase detector having all NPN transistors A phase detector is implemented with NPN transistors for providing a symmetrical push-pull output current operating in response to the phase difference between the falling edge of an oscillator signal and the mid-pulse of a sync signal. A current sinking ... | 04/07/1992 |
| 4847869 | Rapid reference acquisition and phase error compensation for radio transmission of data The method and apparatus for rapid phase acquisition and random radio channel phase error compensation for a TDMA QPSK receiver is disclosed. Received quadrature signals having a known synchronizing sequence transmitted on one of the vectors is correlated... | 07/11/1989 |
| 4644325 | Low voltage, single power supply operated digital analog converter A digital to analog converter circuit includes a current supply for providing a plurality of output currents of substantially equal magnitudes, a subtractor circuit coupled with selective outputs of the current supply for producing a plurality of binary w... | 02/17/1987 |
| 4443932 | Self-aligned oxide isolated process and device Improved self-aligned semiconductor devices are made using two sets of superposed pattern forming layers; a master mask layer set containing the self-aligned patterns, and a pattern selector layer set which allows different apertures in the master mask la... | 04/24/1984 |
