Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7001346 | Apparatus and methods for making intraoperative orthopedic measurements Apparatus and methods for making intraoperative orthopedic measurements are provided. Using telemetry devices attached to a patient, relative measurements of the positions and orientations of the patient's bones may be determined. Using the relative measurements of ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7485571 | Method of making an integrated circuit General purpose methods for the fabrication of integrated circuits from flexible membranes formed of very thin low stress dielectric materials, such as silicon dioxide or silicon nitride, and semiconductor layers. Semiconductor devices are formed in a semiconductor ... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7479694 | Membrane 3D IC fabrication General purpose methods for the fabrication of integrated circuits from flexible membranes formed of very thin low stress dielectric materials, such as silicon dioxide or silicon nitride, and semiconductor layers. Semiconductor devices are formed in a semiconductor ... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7423214 | System and method for the creation and playback of animated, interpretive, musical notation and audio synchronized with the recorded performance of an original artist A music application guides a user with some musical experience through the steps of creating and editing a musical enhancement file that enhances and plays in synchronicity with an audio signal of an original artist's recorded performance. This enables others, perha... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7385835 | Membrane 3D IC fabrication General purpose methods for the fabrication of 5 integrated circuits from flexible membranes formed of very thin low stress dielectric materials, such as silicon dioxide or silicon nitride, and semiconductor layers. Semiconductor devices are formed in a semiconducto... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7367106 | Method of assembling a dynamo-electric machine component Stator designs have wide-mouth slots between adjacent poles. Wire coils with high slot fill conductivity are formed around the poles. In some designs, the wire coils are wave wound around the poles. Thick bar conductors can be used for making the wire coils. The wir... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7361181 | Apparatus and methods for creating anastomoses Apparatus and methods for creating anastomoses are provided. An incision tool for creating an incision having a controlled length in a side wall of a patient's body tissue conduit is provided. A delivery device for inserting a hollow annular connector into an incisi... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7345509 | Integrated circuit devices with power supply detection circuitry Integrated circuit devices are provided that include power detection circuits that indicate whether power supplies have reached functional voltage levels. The power detection circuits include latches coupled to power supplies that can detect whether all the power su... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7307020 | Membrane 3D IC fabrication General purpose methods for the fabrication of integrated circuits from flexible membranes formed of very thin low stress dielectric materials, such as silicon dioxide or silicon nitride, and semiconductor layers. Semiconductor devices are formed in a semiconductor ... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7304497 | Methods and apparatus for programmably powering down structured application-specific integrated circuits Methods and apparatus for programmably powering down a structured application-specific integrated circuit are provided. At least one of the programmable layers of the structured ASIC that frequently provides some programmability as between or among a small number of... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7262634 | Methods of reducing power in programmable logic devices using low voltage swing for routing signals Reduced voltage swing signal path circuitry is provided that lowers the internal signaling power consumption of the interconnection resources of a programmable logic device. The reduced voltage swing signal path circuitry includes a reversed routing driver circuitry... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7242012 | Lithography device for semiconductor circuit pattern generator General purpose methods for the fabrication of integrated circuits from flexible membranes formed of very thin low stress dielectric materials, such as silicon dioxide or silicon nitride, and semiconductor layers. Semiconductor devices are formed in a semiconductor ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7226427 | Systems and procedures for treating cardiac arrest Improved procedures for cardiopulmonary resuscitation of a victim of cardiac arrest are provided. In the resuscitation, the victim's chest is mechanically compressed and decompressed to stimulate the heart. The victim is induced to inspire and expire against insuffl... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7228168 | Systems and methods for assessing and modifying an individual's physiological condition Systems and methods for assessing an individual's physiological condition are provided. Cycle and shape parameters are derived from a recorded time trace containing heart rate data collected while an individual performs a cyclic exercise routine. Individually tailor... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7223696 | Methods for maskless lithography General purpose methods for the fabrication of integrated circuits from flexible membranes formed of very thin low stress dielectric materials, such as silicon dioxide or silicon nitride, and semiconductor layers. Semiconductor devices are formed in a semiconductor ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7219819 | Self-venting valve A valve assembly has a valve housing and a valve core body movable therewithin for providing a smooth and continuous outflow of liquid from a container, which may be unvented and rigid, through a liquid-out passageway, and provides an air-back passageway for drawing... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7215772 | Method and apparatus for remote digital key generation A method and apparatus that uses the dynamics of chaotic systems for the remote generation of a digital key, for use in any encryption algorithm. After initialization, the dynamics of a chaotic system are allowed to generate the 0 and 1 bits of a key bitstream. An i... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7215776 | Method and apparatus for the compression and decompression of audio files using a chaotic system A system for the compression and decompression of sections of audio files is provided. A library of basic waveforms is produced by applying selected digital initialization codes to a chaotic system. Each basic waveform is in one-to-one correspondence with an initial... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7203154 | Recording and playback of multi-channel digital audio having different resolutions for different channels Methods and apparatus for recording on DVD-like recording media in which audio content is stored in a high-capacity multi-channel (e.g., six-channel) format are provided. Various channels may use various resolutions. A two-channel audio output may be derived from th... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7196556 | Programmable logic integrated circuit devices with low voltage differential signaling capabilities A programmable logic device is equipped for low voltage differential signaling (“LVDS”) by providing an LVDS input buffer and/or an LVDS output buffer on the device. I/O pins on the device that are used together in pairs for LVDS can alternatively be used indivi... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7176736 | High-speed, current driven latch A high-speed, current-driven latch is provided. The latch conducts a current and includes an output, a SET circuit and a RESET circuit. The output is variable between a first state and a second state. The SET circuit conducts the current present in the latch at the ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7176545 | Apparatus and methods for maskless pattern generation General purpose methods for the fabrication of integrated circuits from flexible membranes formed of very thin low stress dielectric materials, such as silicon dioxide or silicon nitride, and semiconductor layers. Semiconductor devices are formed in a semiconductor ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7173465 | High-speed, current-driven latch A high-speed, current-driven latch is provided. The latch conducts a current and includes an output, a SET circuit and a RESET circuit. The output is variable between a first state and a second state. The SET circuit conducts the current present in the latch at the ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7173474 | Load-generated drive, no quiescent current, techniques and circuits for high speed switching of transistors Techniques and circuits for high speed switching of transistors are provided. These techniques and circuits switch an output device while varying the drive current to the output device in proportion to the output current through the output device. In addition, these... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7165230 | Switch methodology for mask-programmable logic devices A mask-programmable logic device that implements a pre-existing circuit design and that includes programmable smart switches is provided. The smart switches are metal terminals that may be programmed to perform configuration-related logic functions of the pre-existi... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7151397 | Voltage controlled oscillator programmable delay cells A delay cell has selectable numbers of parallel load resistance transistors operable in parallel, and a similarly selectable number of bias current transistors connectable in parallel. The delay cell is preferably differential in construction and operation. A voltag... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7151959 | Systems and methods for assessing and modifying an individual's physiological condition Systems and methods for assessing an individual's physiological condition are provided. Cycle and shape parameters are derived from a recorded time trace containing heart rate data collected while an individual performs a cyclic exercise routine. Individually tailor... | 12/19/2006 |
| D526563 | Valve | 08/15/2006 |
| D519370 | Valve with dust cover | 04/25/2006 |
| 7024446 | Circuitry for arithmetically accumulating a succession of arithmetic values A programmable logic integrated circuit device has at least one function-specific circuit block (e.g., a parallel multiplier, a parallel barrel shifter, a parallel arithmetic logic unit, etc.) in addition to the usual multiple regions of programmable logic and the u... | 04/04/2006 |
| D516423 | Dust cover for a valve | 03/07/2006 |
| 6976650 | Winding cores with stratification motion A winder and system for winding wire onto core supports of dynamo-electric cores with translational, rotational and radial motions with respect to a central longitudinal axis of the dynamo-electric core is provided. The radial motion may preferably be provided by an... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6977520 | Time-multiplexed routing in a programmable logic device architecture Programmable logic device interconnection resources include bus wires. A bus wire provides a programmable signal path across the programmable logic device from several logic device outputs to several other logic device inputs. Serializing circuitry multiplexe... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6938236 | Method of creating a mask-programmed logic device from a pre-existing circuit design A method for creating a mask-programmed device from a preexisting design of a source device is provided. The method includes creating a netlist from a user defined circuit configuration file, configuring logic resources on the mask-programmed device produce basic lo... | 08/30/2005 |
| RE38749 | Chronotherapy exercise technique A chronotherapy exercise technique for treating a patient whose abnormal condition, regardless of its nature or origin, is reflected by a heart rate variability (HRV) that is reduced and deviates from an HRV reflecting a normal condition. In this treatment, the pati... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6879183 | Programmable logic device architectures with super-regions having logic regions and a memory region A programmable logic device has a plurality of super-regions of programmable circuitry disposed on the device in a two-dimensional array of such super-regions. Each super-region includes a plurality of regions of programmable logic and a region of programmable memor... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6861892 | Load-generated drive, substantially no quiescent current, techniques and circuits for high speed switching of transistors Techniques and circuits for high speed switching of transistors are provided. These techniques and circuits switch an output device while varying the drive current to the output device in proportion to the output current through the output device. In addition, these... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6847245 | High-speed, current driven latch A high-speed, current-driven latch is provided. The latch conducts a current and includes an output, a SET circuit and a RESET circuit. The output is variable between a first state and a second state. The SET circuit conducts the current present in the latch at the ... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6779758 | Boom deploy system A boom deploy actuator with improved maintainability and simplicity has an electric motor and control circuitry for selectively powering the motor to develop torque with either rotational direction for rotating a capstan to vary the length of a boom cord extending f... | 08/24/2004 |
