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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8099655 | Galois field multiplier system and method A Galois Field multiplier circuit for multiplying two polynomials (multiplicands). The multiplier circuit can use any arbitrary primitive polynomial to preserve the Galois Field. The multiplier circuit includes at least one logic unit that receives as a first input ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 7990639 | Mobile event data recorder with multiple orientation vibration isolation A mobile event data recorder is described providing a contained environmental control system for a hard drive module for use in, or with, a vehicle. A hard drive housing with multiple hard drives and a vibration isolation system are provided within a hard drive modu... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7959872 | System and device for water filtration and purification A system for water purification, filtration and item sanitization are described herein. In one embodiment, a water filtration device uses an extruded carbon sheet or granulated activated carbon to filter unpurified, gravity-fed water. A filtering medium is provided ... | 06/14/2011 |
| D639956 | Blood analysis system | 06/14/2011 |
| 7940667 | Delay measurements and calibration methods and apparatus for distributed wireless systems Delay measurement and delay calibration methods and apparatus are described for use within distributed wireless base stations employing a remote radio head topology. The methods and apparatus are usable in any system that requires accurate delay measurement and/or c... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7936673 | Feedback priority modulation rate controller Methods and devices for controlling and managing data flow and data transmission rates. A feedback mechanism is used in conjunction with measuring output transmission rates to control the input transmission rates, changing conditions can be accounted for an excess o... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7923370 | Method for stacking serially-connected integrated circuits and multi-chip device made from same A multi-chip device and method of stacking a plurality substantially identical chips to produce the device are provided. The multi-chip device, or circuit, includes at least one through-chip via providing a parallel connection between signal pads from at least two c... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7876866 | Data subset selection algorithm for reducing data-pattern autocorrelations A method and apparatus are provided for reducing, and preferably substantially eliminating, data-pattern autocorrelations found in digital communication systems. The method employed is referred to as Data Subset Selection (DSS) and is implemented in the form of DSS ... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7869700 | Hierarchical data storage A method and system for encoding and recording data in a multi-stream format when the data is initially captured. The multiple streams of data can be combined to provide a high quality, or high resolution, representation, while a reduced subset of the streams can pr... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7825958 | Method and apparatus for controlling a camera module to compensate for the light level of a white LED A method and an apparatus enabling use of a light source emitting a light of changing intensity and changing spectrum as a flash with a camera module having a white-balance routine and an exposure routine, wherein an initial value representative of a color spectrum ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7825899 | Piano-style keypad employing a light guide An improved piano-style keypad comprises a light guide and a key sheet, with the light guide retaining the key sheet on a substrate, such as a printed circuit board of a handheld electronic device. The keypad is advantageously configured to enable key caps of the ke... | 11/02/2010 |
| D626232 | Dental bur | 10/26/2010 |
| D625773 | Removable desiccant cartridge | 10/19/2010 |
| 7791175 | Method for stacking serially-connected integrated circuits and multi-chip device made from same A multi-chip device and method of stacking a plurality substantially identical chips to produce the device are provided. The multi-chip device, or circuit, includes at least one through-chip via providing a parallel connection between signal pads from at least two c... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7774424 | Method of rate snooping in a SAS/SATA environment A method and apparatus for determining a set of common link rates for communication between two storage network elements in a storage network system. During the speed negotiation process, a controlling storage network element receives supported link rate information... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7767168 | Sanitization system and system components A multi-use sanitization system is disclosed which includes one or more containers in fluid communication with other system components. Components of the system include an ozone contacting device, such as a vortex-venturi or a sparger, for incorporating ozone into a... | 08/03/2010 |
| D619729 | Patio door frame | 07/13/2010 |
| 7747794 | Serial tunneling protocol (STP) flow control in SAS expanders without SATA link state machine A method and apparatus are disclosed for implementing STP flow control in SAS expander devices. SAS expanders are commonly used within a SAS network topology to allow multiple disk drives to connect to multiple host devices. Connections to a SATA HDD are supported u... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7743191 | On-chip shared memory based device architecture A method and architecture are provided for SOC (System on a Chip) devices for RAID processing, which is commonly referred as RAID-on-a-Chip (ROC). The architecture utilizes a shared memory structure as interconnect mechanism among hardware components, CPUs and softw... | 06/22/2010 |
| D616568 | Horizontal rail for patio door sash | 05/25/2010 |
| D616567 | Pull rail for patio door sash | 05/25/2010 |
| D616566 | Meeting rail for patio door sash | 05/25/2010 |
| 7713336 | Water sanitazation system having safety features and removable filter A removable disposable air dryer cartridge is provided for a small enterprise water ozonation system. The cartridge includes an air inlet to receive atmospheric air, a desiccant material to remove moisture, and a dry air outlet for interfacing with the ozonation sys... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7708958 | System and containers for water filtration and item sanitization A system and containers for water filtration and item sanitization are described herein. In one embodiment, a water filtration device uses an extruded carbon sheet or granulated activated carbon to filter unpurified, gravity-fed water. The device can be a stand-alon... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7701872 | Method and apparatus for packet data service discovery A method and apparatus for packet data service discovery are described. A current blacklist comprising entries for wireless networks not providing packet data services (i.e. either not supporting the services or not having a packet data services roaming agreement) i... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7683934 | System and method for automatic camera health monitoring A system and method are provided for automatic camera health monitoring, such as for a camera in a video surveillance system. The system preferably provides substantially continuous monitoring and detection of camera malfunction, due to either external or internal c... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7679448 | Continuous wave based bias method and apparatus for minimizing MOS transistor distortion A biasing circuit and method for minimizing distortion in a MOS transistor. A first CW source provides a first CW signal at the input of a replica transistor to obtain an output signal at the output of the replica transistor. The output signal is mixed with another ... | 03/16/2010 |
| D611462 | Computer telephony device | 03/09/2010 |
| 7567587 | Method and architecture for the extraction and/or insertion of SONET or SDH path overhead data streams A method and architecture for the extraction of data from or the insertion of data into Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) or Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) frames is disclosed. The method and architecture provides an interface that permits the time-multiplexe... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7542484 | Managing payload specific latencies in a cross-connect system A method and apparatus for managing latency includes receiving data from synchronous transport signals (STS) and virtual tributary (VT) sources, providing a provisioning bit for each output associated with a memory, and adjusting a pointer for the VT sources based o... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7533497 | Snubber system for windows A snubber for a window unit. The snubber includes a frame mount for securing to the frame of the window unit and a sash mount for securing to the sash of the window unit, proximate the frame mount. The frame mount and the sash mount have cooperating shapes for abutt... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7513278 | Drinking water pitcher having a removable upper reservoir A drinking water pitcher is provided including an upper reservoir and a lower reservoir, and preferably a filter or filter housing. The upper and lower reservoirs are removably mated with one another. The interface between the upper and lower reservoirs restricts or... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7501993 | Antenna alignment system and method A system and method of aligning an antenna with a predetermined azimuth direction. The method includes determining an antenna azimuth direction and moving the antenna from the antenna azimuth direction towards a predetermined azimuth direction so as to align said an... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7499361 | Dynamic random access memory device and method for self-refreshing memory cells with temperature compensated self-refresh A dynamic random access memory (DRAM) device has an array of DRAM cells of rows by columns. Each DRAM cell of the array is coupled with a wordline of a corresponding row and a bitline of a corresponding column. An entry into and an exit from the self-refresh mode ar... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7496700 | Serial tunneling protocol (STP) flow control in SAS expanders without SATA link state machine A method and apparatus are disclosed for implementing STP flow control in SAS expander devices. SAS expanders are commonly used within a SAS network topology to allow multiple disk drives to connect to multiple host devices. Connections to a SATA HDD are supported u... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7492760 | Memory egress self selection architecture A method of time division multiplex switching reduces the implementation area by reducing the area required for both memory storage at each egress port and the multiplexing circuitry required. Ingress and egress processors are implemented to control the storage and ... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7474926 | Hierarchical device spin-up control for serial attached devices A method and apparatus are provided for controlling the powering-up or spin-up of devices such as hard drives using expanders in a SAS topology. The method and apparatus provides a mechanism to coordinate spin-up control among a topology of expanders. The present in... | 01/06/2009 |
| D583182 | Pillow | 12/23/2008 |
| 7468974 | Efficient strictly non-blocking multicast switch architecture for time division multiplexed traffic A Forward Propagation Architecture is a novel switch architecture based on well-known unicast switching architectures, and provides two desirable properties: (1) no rearrangement of established calls is ever required and (2) the architecture is strictly non-blocking... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7460045 | Background calibration technique for pipelined A/D converters using simplified histogram-based testing A method and apparatus are provided for calibrating a multi-stage A/D converter, such as a pipelined A/D converter. The method and apparatus are based on estimating the bounds of histograms of codes from various stages in the A/D converter. Known approaches were eff... | 12/02/2008 |
