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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7470182 | Computerized gaming system, method and apparatus The present invention in various embodiments provides a computerized wagering game method and apparatus that features an operating system kernel, a system handler application that loads and executes gaming program shared objects and features nonvolatile storage that... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7456102 | Electroless copper fill process Disclosed is a procedure for bottom-up fill of electroless copper film in sub-micron integrated circuit features. By repeatedly placing an integrated circuit wafer in an electroless bath, a transient period of time of accelerated growth in the feature is repeated to... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7456549 | Electroactive polymer motors The present invention relates to mechanical-electrical power conversion systems. The systems comprise one or more electroactive polymers that convert between electrical and mechanical energy. When a voltage is applied to electrodes contacting an electroactive polyme... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7425503 | Apparatus and method for enhanced thermal conductivity packages for high powered semiconductor devices An apparatus and method for an enhanced thermally conductive package for high powered semiconductor devices. The package includes a semiconductor die having an active surface and a non-active surface and a metal layer formed on the non-active surface of the die. The... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7405775 | Display employing organic material A display is disclosed. The display includes a plurality of pixels configured to emit light. The display also includes a plurality of pixel control circuits that are each configured to regulate emission of light from a pixel. The pixel control circuits each include ... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7395348 | Network cache-based content routing Methods and apparatus are described for routing data traffic in a network having a plurality of layers including physical, data link, and network layers. The data traffic is received and one of a plurality of routing options for the data traffic is selected with ref... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7390591 | Ionically conductive membranes for protection of active metal anodes and battery cells Disclosed are ionically conductive membranes for protection of active metal anodes and methods for their fabrication. The membranes may be incorporated in active metal negative electrode (anode) structures and battery cells. In accordance with the invention, the mem... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7374473 | Texturing slurry and texturing method by using same Texturing slurry for texturing a substrate for a magnetic hard disk is obtained by dispersing abrading particles of a specified kind in a specified kind of dispersant. The abrading particles include diamond clusters formed with artificial diamond particles with prim... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7372547 | Process and apparatus for achieving single exposure pattern transfer using maskless optical direct write lithography The present invention provides methods and apparatus for accomplishing a phase shift lithography process using a off axis light to reduce the effect of zero order light to improve the process window for maskless phase shift lithography systems and methodologies. A l... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7368862 | Electroactive polymer generators The present invention relates to transducers, their use and fabrication. The transducers convert between mechanical and electrical energy. Some transducers of the present invention include a pre-strained polymer. The pre-strain improves the conversion between electr... | 05/06/2008 |
| D568291 | Ear phone | 05/06/2008 |
| 7368422 | Semi-synthetic rearranged vancomycin/desmethyl-vancomycin-based glycopeptides with antibiotic activity Semi-synthetic glycopeptides that have antibacterial activity are based on modifications of a rearranged vancomycin or desmethyl-vancomycin scaffold, in particular, alkylation or acylation of the amino substituent on the amino-substituted sugar moiety on this scaffo... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369685 | Vision-based operating method and system A vision-based operating system is provided in which a computer-based system accepts visual inputs and takes appropriate actions in a wide variety of environments. One environment is a security environment in which the vision-based operating system acquires an image... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369724 | Apparatus and method for an improved lens structure for polymer wave guides which maximizes free space light coupling A polymer waveguide assembly. The assembly includes a polymer waveguide have a plurality of waveguide cores and an associated plurality of lenses respectively. The assembly also includes a molded lens structure having a support region, a primary refractive surface a... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366236 | Source adaptive system and method for 2D iDCT This invention discloses a fast two-dimensional inverse Discrete Cosine Transform (iDCT) that adapts to compressed video source statistics to reduce execution time. iDCT algorithms for sparse blocks eliminate calculations for some zero coefficients and are implement... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362319 | Method and apparatus for auto-generation of horizontal synchronization of an analog signal to a digital display Determining a horizontal resolution and a phase of an analog video signal arranged to display a number of scan lines each formed of a number of pixels is described. A number of initialization values are set where at least one of the initialization values is a curren... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362742 | Methods and apparatus for synchronizing subnet mapping tables Methods and apparatus for enabling mobility of a node that does not support Mobile IP through synchronization of access point information (e.g., subnet mapping tables) among AAPs are disclosed. In accordance with one embodiment, an authoritative access point (AAP) m... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7360888 | Printing up to edges of printing paper without platen soiling This invention allows images to be printed up to the edges of printing paper while preventing ink droplets from depositing on the platen. Ink droplets Ip are ejected from a print head 28 and printing is started when printing paper P is fed in the sub-scanning... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362032 | Electroactive polymer devices for moving fluid The invention describes devices for performing thermodynamic work on a fluid, such as pumps, compressors and fans. The thermodynamic work may be used to provide a driving force for moving the fluid. Work performed on the fluid may be transmitted to other devices, su... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359488 | Technique for digitally removing x-ray scatter in a radiograph Methods and apparatus for generating an x-ray image. An object is interposed between a detector and an x-ray source. A grid is interposed between the x-ray source and the object. The grid is exposed to primary x-ray energy generated by the x-ray source, thereby expo... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7358963 | Mouse having an optically-based scrolling feature A peripheral input device for controlling movements on a display screen. The peripheral input device includes a housing and an optical touch pad carried by the housing. The optical touch pad is configured to translate finger motion into movements on the display scre... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7358767 | Efficient multiplexer for programmable chips Methods and apparatus are provided for implementing efficient multiplexers on a programmable chip using a lookup table. A load logic input line associated with a lookup table having limited input lines is used to augment the number of input lines that can be handled... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359544 | Automatic supervised classifier setup tool for semiconductor defects Disclosed are methods and apparatus for efficiently setting up and maintaining a defect classification system. In general terms, the setup procedure optionally includes automatically grouping a set of provided defects and presenting a representative set from each de... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7357694 | Jet singulation Techniques for singulating a substrate into a plurality of component parts is disclosed. The singulation techniques include generating a jet stream in order to cut through large components so as to produce smaller components. The techniques are particularly suitable... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7358594 | Method of forming a low k polymer E-beam printable mechanical support A low-k interconnect dielectric layer is strengthened by forming pillars of hardened material in the low-k film. An E-beam source is used to expose a plurality of pillar locations. The locations are exposed with a predetermined power and exposure time to convert the... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7358760 | Efficient 4:1 multiplexer for programmable chips Methods and apparatus are provided for implementing efficient multiplexers on a programmable chip using a lookup table (LUT). A load logic input line associated with a LUT having limited input lines is used to augment the number of input lines that can be handled by... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7357379 | Vibration isolating bushing A vibration isolating bushing including: an elastic body disposed in between and elastically connecting an inner sleeve and an outer sleeve surrounding the inner sleeve. The elastic body has two pairs of axial bores diametrically opposed to each other and axially ex... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356573 | Apparatus and methods for data tapping in a storage area network Disclosed are methods and apparatus for data tapping within a storage area network (SAN) and providing tapped data to a third party device, such as an appliance. In general, mechanisms are provided in a SAN to allow a data tap of data flowing between an initiator an... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356250 | Systems and methods for creating a single video frame with one or more interest points Systems and methods for creating virtual stop-off points in a movie title, where the viewer can explore interesting content using zoom, pan and gamma controls are provided. Methods include creating an interest point from one or more digital video titles. Systems inc... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356045 | Shared port address translation on a router behaving as NAT & NAT-PT gateway A method for transparently sharing at least one IPv4 address among a plurality of hosts wherein at least a first host of the plurality of hosts uses the IPv4 protocol and wherein at least a second host of the plurality of hosts uses an IPv6 protocol is provided. A f... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7354802 | Thermal release wafer mount tape with B-stage adhesive In one aspect, an improved wafer mount tape is provided. The wafer mount tape includes a base layer, a release layer that expands when activated and a B-stageable adhesive layer that is positioned over the release layer. In a method aspect of the invention, a wafer ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355291 | Overlay marks, methods of overlay mark design and methods of overlay measurements An overlay mark for determining the relative position between two or more successive layers of a substrate or between two or more separately generated patterns on a single layer of a substrate is disclosed. The overlay mark includes a plurality of coarsely segmented... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355748 | Color matching server, color matching client, print control server, print control client, print control system, print control process, medium on which print control program is stored profile providing server and profile demanding client A client controls printing of color chips (images for colorimetry) with a plurality of tones for individual color inks (printing colorants). The client acquires from a server a tone value correction table (color matching information) to match standard colors. The se... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352901 | Contour inspection method and apparatus Defects in the contour of a target object is detected by obtaining an digital variable-density image of the contour and edges are extracted from the image of the contour so as to sequentially represent the contour. Their directions are measured and the direction of ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352731 | Mobile IP mobile router Methods and apparatus for implementing a Mobile IP mobile router are provided. In accordance with one aspect, the Home Agent receives a registration request packet. The registration request packet may include a care-of address for the mobile router. Networks associa... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7350339 | Mixing system A mixing system includes a portioning device for sequentially supplying batches of a specified quantity of foodstuffs at a supply location. A mixing device includes a number of mixing chambers which can be sequentially aligned with the foodstuff supply location. A d... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7351147 | Standard peripheral communication A disclosed gaming machine has a plurality of “gaming peripherals,” each communicating with a master gaming controller via a standard peripheral interface such as the USB (Universal Serial Bus). Further, the gaming peripherals employ a standard peripheral contro... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7351350 | Processing agents for synthetic fibers A processing agent for synthetic fibers contains a lubricant, a functional improvement agent and an emulsifier, each containing a specified kinds of components by a specified amount and also by a specified total amount so as to have improved characteristics of preve... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7351488 | Structures and fabrication techniques for solid state electrochemical devices Porous substrates and associated structures for solid-state electrochemical devices, such as solid-oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), are low-cost, mechanically strong and highly electronically conductive. Some preferred structures have a thin layer of an electrocatalyticall... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352451 | System method and structure for determining focus accuracy Within a lithography process having a critical dimension, a method, system and structure for determining a focus deviation value relative to an ideal focus position said is disclosed. By projecting a series of lines or spots characterized by the constant pitch size ... | 04/01/2008 |
