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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100302076 | Method and Apparatus for Character Stream Transcoding One embodiment of the present invention is an apparatus that transcodes an n code unit block of UTF-8 input data in the form of eight parallel n-bit segments of u8-indexed bit streams u8bit0 through u8bit7 into UTF-16 output data in the form of sixteen parallel n-bit se... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100273364 | Axially Compliant Microelectronic Contactor One embodiment is an axially compliant electrical contactor for interconnecting microelectronic devices, the contactor including: an insulative sleeve having a hole therethrough; and a metal tube having a cylindrical wall being slidably disposed in the hole; wherein: (a... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100243071 | Method and Apparatus for Aligning and/or Leveling a Test Head One embodiment of the present invention is a method for aligning a first workpiece to a second work piece that includes: (a) placing the first workpiece on an alignment apparatus including: (i) two or more fluid chambers disposed in fixed relation to each other, the cha... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100230885 | Method and Apparatus for Holding Microelectronic Devices One embodiment is a carrier for releasably holding devices in a contact plane that includes: a body having one or more sites each having an aperture with a portion in which a device may be held (holding portion); and at least one of the one or more sites having a first ... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100192174 | Method and Apparatus for Controlling Time-Scale Modification During Multi-Media Broadcasts One embodiment of the present invention is a method for broadcasting information to a client device, which device utilizes presentation rates to present information at various presentation rates, and which method includes: (a) broadcasting information; and (b) broadcast... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100045322 | Probe Head Apparatus for Testing Semiconductors One embodiment is a probe head for contacting microelectronic devices substantially lying in a test plane, the probe head including: (a) one or more substrate tiles having one or more probe tips disposed on a top surface thereof; and (b) a registration-alignment apparat... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100022105 | Connector for Microelectronic Devices One embodiment is a connector for making electrical connection to a bulbous terminal, the connector including: a metal tube with a cylindrical wall extending from a mating end, wherein: (a) two or more slots perforate the wall and extend from the mating end along the tu... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20090325394 | Socket for an Electronic Device One embodiment of the present invention is a socket useful to contact an electronic device, the socket including: (a) a body comprised of two or more contactor holder plates, each including one or more through holes; and (b) one or more contactors are disposed in one or... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20080290504 | Compliant thermal contactor One embodiment of the present invention is a compliant thermal contactor that includes a resilient metal film having a plurality of first thermally conductive, compliant posts disposed in an array on a top side thereof and a plurality of second thermally conductive, com... | 11/27/2008 |
| 20080290503 | Compliant thermal contactor One embodiment of the present invention is a compliant thermal contactor that includes a resilient metal film having a plurality of first thermally conductive, compliant posts disposed in an array on a top side thereof and a plurality of second thermally conductive, com... | 11/27/2008 |
| 20080272939 | Method and apparatus for processing character streams One embodiment of the present invention is a computer readable medium comprising a program for controlling a computer to execute a method for processing a character stream, the method including: (a) forming, responsive to the character stream, a plurality of parallel pr... | 11/06/2008 |
| 20080223555 | Method and apparatus for controlling temperature One embodiment of the present invention is an apparatus useful to control temperature of a device that includes: (a) a heat transfer apparatus; (b) a combined path to the heat transfer apparatus; (c) a first path maintained at a first temperature and connected to the co... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080196474 | Method and apparatus for aligning and/or leveling a test head One embodiment of the present invention is an alignment apparatus useful to align a test head that includes: (a) two or more fluid chambers disposed in fixed relation to each other, the chambers having a movable wall and one or more apertures for admitting or releasing ... | 08/21/2008 |
| 20080140414 | Method and apparatus to prepare listener-interest-filtered works An embodiment of the present invention is a method for testing an audience member's comprehension rate and presenting material in a media work at a rate determined from the comprehension rate, the method including: (a) determining a comprehension rate for materials to b... | 06/12/2008 |
| 20080091402 | Methods for estimating power requirements of circuit designs One embodiment of the present invention is a method for estimating a power requirement of a circuit design that includes: (a) selecting a set of targeted Energy Arcs and/or Power Arcs; (b) creating one or more circuit states using the set of targeted Energy Arcs and/or ... | 04/17/2008 |
| 20080046686 | Method and Apparatus for an Inductive Doubling Architecture One embodiment of the present invention is a processor that processes inductive doubling SIMD instructions, which processor comprises: an Instruction Fetch Unit that loads a SIMD instruction and applies it as input to a SIMD Instruction Decode Unit; wherein the SIMD Ins... | 02/21/2008 |
| 20080040345 | Method and Apparatus for String Search Using Parallel Bit Streams One embodiment of the present invention is a method for searching a data stream for a string matching a search pattern including: (a) iteratively comparing selected bits of the search pattern with bits in the data stream to determine match positions; (b) removing false ... | 02/14/2008 |
| 20080033974 | Method and Apparatus for XML Parsing Using Parallel Bit streams One embodiment of the present invention is an apparatus that processes XML, which apparatus comprises (a) an XML interface module that applies Document Type Definitions, XML Schema, XPath expressions and other XML model information to an XML model processor and applies ... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080030383 | Method and Apparatus for Lexical Analysis Using Parallel Bit Streams One embodiment of the present invention is a method for lexical analysis of a character stream including: (a) generating one or more parallel property bit streams in response to the character stream; (b) generating one or more lexical item streams in response to the one... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20070288823 | Apparatus including a fluid coupler interfaced to a test head One embodiment of the present invention is an apparatus including a fluid coupler interfaced to a test head that includes: (a) a first ring having a top surface disposed in a first plane; (b) a first movable ring, the first movable ring being movable substantially norma... | 12/13/2007 |
| 20070273398 | Mounting apparatus One embodiment of the present invention is a mounting apparatus that includes: (a) a first ring having a first surface and a second surface; (b) a second ring having a first surface and a second surface, which second ring is movable with respect to the first ring; (c) a... | 11/29/2007 |
| 20070269999 | Socket for an electronic device One embodiment of the present invention is a socket useful to contact an electronic device, the socket including: (a) one or more contactor holder plates including one or more first through holes having a first hole cross sectional area, and one or more second through h... | 11/22/2007 |
| 20070267188 | Method and apparatus for setting and controlling temperature One embodiment of the present invention is a method for setting and controlling temperature of a device that includes: (a) thermally contacting the device to a heat transfer apparatus, the heat transfer apparatus having an apparatus intake to receive thermal transfer fl... | 11/22/2007 |
| 20070256810 | Cooling apparatus for microelectronic devices One embodiment of the present invention is an apparatus for cooling a microelectronic device including: (a) a rigid support ring having a top surface and a bottom surface; (b) a mechanically resilient, thermally conductive bottom membrane having a top and a bottom surfa... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070051215 | Screwdriver shank having a non-slip tip One embodiment of the present invention is a screwdriver shank having a non-slip tip disposed at an end of the shank wherein: (a) a distal end of the tip is adapted to fit into a slot having a predetermined width; and (b) an edge of the tip, along the distal end, compri... | 03/08/2007 |
| 20070008654 | Disk drive having improved disk drive components One embodiment of the present invention is a head stack assembly of a disk drive, which head stack assembly includes: (a) a first contact disposed on a side of the head stack assembly, which first contact is adapted to contact a crash stop of the disk drive to stop the ... | 01/11/2007 |
| 20060284745 | Method and apparatus for processing character streams One embodiment of the present invention is a method for processing a character stream including: (a) forming, responsive to the character stream, a plurality of parallel property bit streams wherein each of the parallel property bit streams comprises bit values of a par... | 12/21/2006 |
| 20060271979 | Method and apparatus for controlling time-scale modification during multi-media broadcasts One embodiment of the present invention is a method for broadcasting information to a client device, which device utilizes presentation rates to present information at various presentation rates, and which method includes: (a) broadcasting information; and (b) broadcast... | 11/30/2006 |
| 20060221488 | Multi-disk simultaneous servo writing device One embodiment of the present invention is a servo writing device that includes: (a) an actuator; (b) a first pushpin block that is coupled to a first side of the actuator and is adapted to drive a first head stack assembly during servo writing on a first disk; and (c) ... | 10/05/2006 |
| 20060215114 | Local average curvature map for corneal topographers One embodiment of the present invention is a method for providing a local average curvature map of an eye that includes: (a) providing elevation data for points on a corneal surface of the eye; (b) selecting a set of elevation data in a neighborhood of each of a number ... | 09/28/2006 |
| 20060145721 | Testing printed circuit boards of disk drives and servo track writers One embodiment of the present invention is method for testing a reading function of a printed circuit board of a disk drive or a servo track writer that includes: (a) providing a test pattern; (b) processing the test pattern to generate a digital signal series; (c) diff... | 07/06/2006 |
| 20060119987 | Disk drive head stack assemblies with improved grounding paths One embodiment of the present invention is a disk drive head stack assembly with a grounding path between a head and a disk drive ground, the disk drive head stack assembly including: (a) a suspension which carries the head and includes a first portion of the grounding ... | 06/08/2006 |
| 20060114911 | Collection and analysis of route data for "Forward and Reverse" routes One embodiment of the present invention is a method for collecting route data for forward and reverse routes that includes: (a) scheduling route data collection for a forward route; and (b) scheduling route data collection for a reverse route; wherein the scheduling for... | 06/01/2006 |
| 20060031466 | Measuring responses incurred in network transactions One embodiment of the present invention is a method for measuring responses incurred in network transactions that include one or more transaction steps including: (a) identifying browser events and setting timers use to determine navigation times and document download t... | 02/09/2006 |
| 20050237663 | Insulator with pocket features One embodiment of the present invention is an insulator that includes a pocket feature adapted to accommodate at least a portion of one or more components disposed on a printed circuit board. ... | 10/27/2005 |
| 20050239313 | Reinforcement of electrical connections in electronic devices One embodiment of the present invention is an electronic device that includes: (a) a connector; (b) a contact pad; and (c) a structure adapted to urge the connector toward the contact pad, wherein at least a portion of the structure is aligned with at least a portion of... | 10/27/2005 |
| 20050237671 | Head load/unload ramp mechanism for a disk drive One embodiment of the present invention is a disk drive including: (a) two heads for reading/writing data from/onto a disk; and (b) a ramp mechanism adapted to guide movement of the two heads to/from the disk; wherein the ramp mechanism comprises a separation feature ha... | 10/27/2005 |
| 20050240783 | Monitoring a voltage level of a power supply for a disk drive One embodiment of the present invention is a method for operating a disk drive including: (a) monitoring an operating voltage of a power source for the disk drive; and (b) preventing a write operating of the disk drive and continuing one or more other operations of the ... | 10/27/2005 |
| 20050208792 | Bending tool for flexible printed circuit assemblies A bending tool for bending a flexible printed circuit assembly including: a base; a first bender, supported by the base, having a first bending tip adapted to bend a first portion of the flexible printed circuit assembly; and a second bender, supported by the base, havi... | 09/22/2005 |
