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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7412405 | System for propagating advertisements for market controlled presentation A method for propagating advertisement for market controlled presentation among communication devices over a communication network accessed by service providers and an advertising service is stored and executed as an application for use by network devices. The metho... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7403325 | Electrophoretic display device An electrophoretic display device includes a multiplicity of individual reservoirs containing a display medium between conductive substrates, at least one of which is transparent, wherein the display medium includes one or more set of colored particles in a dielectr... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7345810 | Electrophoretic display and method of displaying images A method of displaying an image in an electrophoretic display device includes charging each of the sets of differently colored particles to have a different charge through application of an electric field to the display fluid or the device, and then applying an elec... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7335463 | Electroplated three dimensional ink jet manifold and nozzle structures using successive lithography and electroplated sacrificial layers Mechanical and/or structural devices are formed using electroplating techniques in conjunction with sacrificial materials that can also be formed using electroplated techniques. This can produce devices that are attached at only selected points to a substrate and/or... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7228634 | Using viewing-angle-sensitive visual tags to determine angular orientation and/or location One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that uses a visual tag to determine an angle. During operation, the system observes the visual tag from an observation point, wherein the visual tag includes an angle-sensitive image which changes in appearan... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7133872 | Method and system for unifying component metadata A method and system for unifying component metadata includes components, such as computers, laptops or flat panel display devices and software entities, connected together by one or more networks. A method includes a first component, such as a laptop device, obtaini... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7093831 | Media path modules A media transport array for forming sequential media streams feeding a media processing system in which serial flows, parallel flows, or both are desired are structured from standard, batch fabricatable media path modules. Each media path module includes a frame uni... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7018877 | Selective delamination of thin-films by interface adhesion energy contrasts and thin film transistor devices formed thereby Various exemplary embodiments of the systems and methods according to this invention provide for a method of producing a self-aligned thin film transistor, the transistor including a metal layer covering at least a portion of a doped layer, the doped layer covering ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7007069 | Method and apparatus for clustering hierarchically related information A method for partitioning a tree-structured discussion or other tree structured collections of texts into clusters dealing with identifiable subtopics, if such subtopics exist, or into manageable partitions if not. Each document is represented by a vector and is ini... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6998703 | Thin package for stacking integrated circuits An improved structure and method for making interconnects for a thin package of stacked integrated circuits is described. The structure uses a spring contact to replace traditional solder balls in a stacked structure. The spring contacts are incorporated in an integ... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6987348 | Piezoelectric transducers A system and method of operation for a piezoelectric transducer is described which utilizes a mesa structure interposed between a piezoelectric material element and a chamber diaphragm. The system can be used as a sensor where a net motion to the diaphragm causes a ... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6985089 | Vehicle-to-vehicle communication protocol A method is provided for vehicle to vehicle communication among vehicles having wireless communication links. Upon receiving notification of a sudden change in vehicle behavior, a vehicle broadcasts a priority message to surrounding vehicles within a transmission ra... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6967431 | Piezoelectric transducers and methods of manufacture A system and method of operation for a piezoelectric transducer is described which utilizes a mesa structure interposed between a piezoelectric material element and a chamber diaphragm. The mesa structure may further comprise a series of mesa openings at least parti... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6924584 | Piezoelectric transducers utilizing sub-diaphragms A system and method of operation is described which utilizes an array of piezoelectric actuators distributed over the surface of a diaphragm. In one embodiment, the piezoelectric actuator array is used to cause a net motion of the diaphragm equal to the sum of the m... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6898475 | System and method utilizing temporal constraints to coordinate multiple planning sessions A method implemented in a computer control system utilizes temporal constraints to coordinate multiple planning sessions for multi-step production processes such that scheduling constraints are satisfied and flexibility for individual job planning is retained. The c... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6895292 | Predictive and preemptive planning and scheduling for different job priorities system and method For an automated manufacturing system having a number of modules with numerous alternative capabilities, a computer-controlled system provides for configuration-specific reprioritization of jobs. The computer-controlled system includes at least one system controller... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6872588 | Method of fabrication of electronic devices using microfluidic channels A structure and method of using microfluidic channels to form an array of semiconductor devices is described. The microfluidic channels have been found to be particularly useful when formed in a self aligned process and used to interconnect a series of thin film tra... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6856845 | Monitoring and reporting incremental job status system and method For an automated manufacturing system having a number of modules with numerous alternative capabilities, a computer-controlled system provides for monitoring and reporting incremental job status. The computer-controlled system includes at least one system controller... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6812509 | Organic ferroelectric memory cells This invention proposes to make memory using organic materials. The basic structure of the memory cell is a field effect organic transistor using a ferroelectric thin film polymer as gate dielectric. By controlling the gate voltage to polarize the thin film ferroele... | 11/02/2004 |
