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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8158973 | Organic memory array with ferroelectric field-effect transistor pixels An organic non-volatile memory array including multiple pixels and associated signal lines that are disposed on and between a substrate, a single ferroelectric dielectric layer, and a single organic dielectric layer, where each pixel includes a ferroelectric field-e... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8158465 | Vertical coffee-stain method for forming self-organized line structures A “vertical” coffee-stain method for producing self-organized line structures and other very fine features that involves disposing a target structure in a solution made up of a fine particle solute dispersed in a liquid solvent such that a “waterline” is for... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8143647 | Relaxed InGaN/AlGaN templates A relaxed InGaN template employs a GaN or InGaN nucleation layer grown at low temperatures on a conventional base layer (e.g., sapphire). The nucleation layer is typically very rough and multi-crystalline. A single-crystal InGaN buffer layer is then grown at normal ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8143154 | Relaxed InGaN/AlGaN templates A relaxed InGaN template is formed by growing a GaN or InGaN nucleation layer at low temperatures on a conventional base layer (e.g., sapphire). The nucleation layer is typically very rough and multi-crystalline. A single-crystal InGaN buffer layer is then grown at ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8141240 | Manufacturing method for micro-SD flash memory card A method for fabricating MicroSD devices includes forming a PCB panel having multiple PCBs arranged in parallel rows, with each PCB connected to its neighboring PCBs in each row by relatively narrow connecting bridge pieces, and separated from PCBs of adjacent rows ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8124993 | Selective decomposition of nitride semiconductors to enhance LED light extraction A method of texturing a surface within or immediately adjacent to a template layer of a LED is described. The method uses a texturing laser directed through a substrate to decompose and pit a semiconductor material at the surface to be textured. By texturing the sur... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8116083 | Lipstick-type USB device with tubular housing A USB device including a tubular housing and a rear cap assembly including a handle structure that is rotatably connected to the tubular housing to facilitate deploying and retracting a plug connector through a front opening of the housing. The plug connector is fix... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8104863 | Method for the printing of homogeneous electronic material with a multi-ejector print head Printing systems are disclosed that produce homogenous, smooth edged printed patterns (such as integrated circuit (IC) patterns) by separating pattern layouts into discrete design layers having only parallel layout features, and by printing each design layer using i... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102662 | USB package with bistable sliding mechanism A USB device including a bistable mechanism that serves to bias a plug connector into one of two stable states, where the first stable state is associated with a retracted position in which the plug connector is fully retracted inside a housing, and the second stabl... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102658 | Micro-SD to secure digital adaptor card and manufacturing method A microSD-to-SD adaptor card includes a base substrate having a lead frame structure, a protective cap forming a chamber that encloses eight microSD contact pins of the lead frame structure, and a thermoset plastic casing formed over the protective cap and exposed p... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102657 | Single shot molding method for COB USB/EUSB devices with contact pad ribs A dual-personality extended USB (EUSB) system supports both USB and EUSB memory cards using an extended 9-pin EUSB socket. Each EUSB device 101 includes a PCBA having four standard USB metal contact pads disposed on an upper side of a PCB, and several extended purpo... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8095105 | Method of operating radio receiver implemented in a single CMOS integrated circuit A single chip superhetrodyne AM receiver is disclosed herein. To compensate for process variations in the implementation of the IC, bias currents setting the operating conditions for various amplifiers and other components in the system are adjusted based on frequen... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8089035 | CMOS image sensor with high sensitivity wide dynamic range pixel for high resolution applications A CMOS image sensor in which each pixel includes a conventional pinned diode (photodiode), a Wide Dynamic Range (WDR) detection (e.g., a simplified time-to-saturation (TTS)) circuit, a correlated double sampling (CDS) circuit, and a single output chain that is share... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8080729 | Melt planarization of solar cell bus bars Solar cells include bus bars and high aspect-ratio gridlines that are printed on a substrate, and localized melting is induced to slump or flatten the gridline “vertex” portions that are disposed on the bus bars, while maintaining the high aspect-ratio of gridli... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8080293 | Micro-machined structure production using encapsulation Micro-machined (e.g., stress-engineered spring) structures are produced by forming a release layer, forming a partially or fully encapsulated beam/spring structure, and then releasing the beam/spring structure by etching the release layer. The encapsulation structur... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8080221 | Capillary-channel probes for liquid pickup, transportation and dispense using stressy metal Fluidic conduits, which can be used in microarraying systems, dip pen nanolithography systems, fluidic circuits, and microfluidic systems, are disclosed that use channel spring probes that include at least one capillary channel. Formed from spring beams (e.g., stres... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8040609 | Self-adjusting solar light transmission apparatus A self-adjusting solar light transmission (daylighting) apparatus includes a sunlight concentrating member (e.g., a lens array) for concentrating direct sunlight in focal zone regions disposed inside a sheet containing an evenly-distributed stimuli-responsive materi... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8022736 | Line driver with tuned on-chip termination A line driver includes current sources and resistors that form a bridge circuit in which a bridge resistor is connected between an internal node and ground, and a series resistor connected between the internal node and the driver's output node. The internal node is ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8021167 | ‘All in one’ spring process for cost-effective spring manufacturing and spring self-alignment A method of forming spring structures using a single lithographic operation is described. In particular, a single lithographic operation both defines the spring area and also defines what areas of the spring will be uplifted. By eliminating a second lithographic ope... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7999175 | Interdigitated back contact silicon solar cells with laser ablated grooves Interdigitated back contact (IBC) solar cells are produced by depositing spaced-apart parallel pads of a first dopant bearing material (e.g., boron) on a substrate, heating the substrate to both diffuse the first dopant into corresponding first (e.g., p+) diffusion ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7997680 | Method for the printing of homogeneous electronic material with a multi-ejector print head Printing systems are disclosed that produce homogenous, smooth edged printed patterns (such as integrated circuit (IC) patterns) by separating pattern layouts into discrete design layers having only parallel layout features, and by printing each design layer using i... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7992958 | Method for the printing of homogeneous electronic material with a multi-ejector print head Printing systems are disclosed that produce homogenous, smooth edged printed patterns (such as integrated circuit (IC) patterns) by separating pattern layouts into discrete design layers having only parallel layout features, and by printing each design layer using i... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7988061 | Article having an embedded accessible storage member, apparatus and method for using same A portable card adapted to interact with a data processing station when the portable card and the data processing station are moved relative to each other is disclosed. The portable card includes a substrate having a predetermined shape, e.g. rectangular. An accessi... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7988036 | Article having an embedded accessible storage member, apparatus and method for using same A portable card adapted to interact with a data processing station when the portable card and the data processing station are moved relative to each other is disclosed. The portable card includes a substrate having a predetermined shape, e.g. rectangular. An accessi... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7980195 | Transistor production using semiconductor printing fluid A transistor is formed by applying modifier coatings to source and drain contacts and/or to the channel region between those contacts. The modifier coatings are selected to adjust the surface energy pattern in the source/drain/channel region such that semiconductor ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7975723 | Controlling fluid through an array of fluid flow paths A method of controlling fluid through a layer of a soft compressible (e.g., gel) material including an array of fluid flow paths. The fluid flow paths are normally open, allowing fluid flow. An electric field is applied in regions where fluid flow is undesirable. Th... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7963628 | Method for the printing of homogeneous electronic material with a multi-ejector print head Printing systems are disclosed that produce homogenous, smooth edged printed patterns (such as integrated circuit (IC) patterns) by separating pattern layouts into discrete design layers having only parallel layout features. By printing each design layer in a printi... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7954449 | Wiring-free, plumbing-free, cooled, vacuum chuck A solar cell production system utilizes self-contained vacuum chucks that hold and cool solar cell wafers during transport on a conveyor between processing stations during a fabrication process. Each self-contained vacuum chuck includes its own local vacuum pump and... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7948020 | Asymmetric single poly NMOS non-volatile memory cell An asymmetric non-volatile memory (NVM) cell for a CMOS IC formed by a standard CMOS process flow used to form both low voltage and high voltage transistors on a substrate. The NVM cell includes an NMOS floating gate transistor and an optional select transistor. The... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7944703 | Flash memory device assembly using adhesive A flash memory device includes one or two panels that are attached solely by a thermal bond adhesive to either a frame or integrated circuits (e.g., flash memory devices) disposed on a PCBA. The frame is disposed around the PCBA and supports peripheral edges of the ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7944702 | Press-push flash drive apparatus with metal tubular casing and snap-coupled plastic sleeve A press-push type computer peripheral “flash drive” device includes an elongated (e.g., metal) tubular casing containing a PCBA having a plug connector. A plastic housing assembly includes front and rear cap portions mounted over the open ends of the tubular cas... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7941916 | Manufacturing method for memory card A portable memory card including a molded plastic casing formed over a memory device and other circuits mounted on a substrate such that the molding material extends over side edges of the substrate to provide accurate width and thickness dimensions. Contact pads ar... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7934037 | Extended Secure-Digital (SD) devices and hosts Systems and methods for communicating using various protocols through the Secured Digital (SD) physical interface are disclosed. The invention covers, among others, single-mode and multi-mode hosts, single-mode and multi-mode devices, as well as techniques for initi... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7928015 | Solar cell fabrication using extruded dopant-bearing materials Wafer-based solar cells are efficiently produced by extruding a dopant bearing material (dopant ink) onto one or more predetermined surface areas of a semiconductor wafer, and then thermally treating the wafer to cause diffusion of dopant from the dopant ink into th... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7922471 | Extruded structure with equilibrium shape An extrusion head is disposed over a substrate, and material is extruded through an oblique (e.g., semi-circular or tapered) outlet orifice of the extrusion head to form an associated extruded structure having an equilibrium shape that resists settling after being d... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7906722 | Concentrating solar collector with solid optical element A Cassegrain-type concentrating solar collector cell includes primary and secondary mirrors disposed on opposing convex and concave surfaces of a light-transparent (e.g., glass) optical element. Light enters an aperture surrounding the secondary mirror, and is refle... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7890043 | Pressure-controlled steam oven for asymptotic temperature control of continuous feed media A non-atmospheric pressure vapor oven system that utilizes a controllable pressure zone to facilitate fast phase change heat transfer at any desired temperature to heat or cool flat substrates, and to level temperatures across different locations of the substrates. ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7879390 | Surface energy control methods for color filter printing Black matrix (BM) material is deposited on glass and patterned to form walls that define an array of wells. Various surface treatments and masking schemes are utilized to achieve surface energy control of the BM glass. The surface treatments include one or more of c... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7873837 | Data security for electronic data flash card An electronic data flash card includes a random number generator that generates a random number stored in the card and a host system each time the card is accessed by the host system. The random number is used by the host system to encrypt a logical branch address, ... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7872873 | Extended COB-USB with dual-personality contacts A dual-personality extended USB (EUSB) system supports both USB and EUSB memory cards using an extended 9-pin EUSB socket. Each EUSB memory card includes a PCBA having four standard USB metal contact pads disposed on an upper side of a PCB, and several extended purp... | 01/18/2011 |
