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A space-saving dishwasher, which may be installed within a counter top or table, having a dish-carrying rack that is vertically shiftable through the open top of the dishwasher for facilitating loading and unloading of the dishes.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8172142 | System, method and apparatus for placing and updating information in a personal digital electronic device for communication to a bar code scanner A personal digital electronic device is provided with two enhancements, namely (a) an IR receiver and associated circuitry and software/firmware for mimicking a laser scanner operation, so that information existing in physical form with an associated bar code may be... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8073538 | Treatment of cardiac arrhythmia by modification of neuronal signaling through fat pads of the heart To control cardiac arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation post-operatively, various non-ablative agents include polymers, fibroblasts, neurotoxins, and growth factors are introduced into one or more cardiac fat pads into the atrioventricular nodal fat pad in proxim... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8046082 | Method and apparatus for stimulating a nerve of a patient Single-use electrical leads for a nerve stimulator include a status flag element such as a fuse, which is deliberately blown after use of the leads has begun to indicate that the leads are not to be reused. The nerve stimulator has a “test mode” that determines ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8008068 | Nonhemolytic optical sensor with enhanced reflectance A nonhemolytic sensor for determination of analytes in erythrocyte-containing biological fluids is disclosed that comprises an optical material having a deposit on a surface thereof, where this deposit includes an analyte-reactive reagent and a particulate means for... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7967211 | Method and apparatus for communicating information from a mobile digital device to a bar code scanner Techniques are described for facilitating the reliable communication of information to bar code scanners from mobile digital devices, thereby enabling mobile digital devices to easily access the current commercial infrastructure. These techniques may be used to acce... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7875017 | Cardiac repair, resizing and reshaping using the venous system of the heart Structurally supportive material is implanted or injected into cardiac veins as discrete masses at various sites in the cardiac venous system to reinforce the myocardium for the purpose of preventing, moderating, stopping or reversing negative cardiac remodeling due... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7868352 | Silicon break over diode A Break Over Diode (“BOD”) device is a gate-less two terminal high power semiconductor switch in which transitions from a blocking state to a conducting state are triggered by a dV/dt pulse to the anode. The BOD device can be thought of as two cross-coupled PNP ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7857225 | System, method and apparatus for communicating information from a personal electronic device An accessory for a personal electronic device detects data encoded into light, sound, vibration energy, radio frequency energy, or a combination thereof, and provides the encoded data either to a bar code scanner using light, or to an NFC terminal using NFC protocol... | 12/28/2010 |
| 6175517 | Insertble and removable digital memory apparatus Each device of a family of removable digital media devices (310, 320, 330, 340, 350 and 360) may be plugged into a host to permits the host to store data in it or to retrieve data from it. The form factors of the digital media devices in the family and th... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6026007 | Insertable and removable high capacity digital memory apparatus and methods of operation thereof Each device of a family of removable digital media devices (310, 320, 330, 340, 350 and 360) may be plugged into a host to permits the host to store data in it or to retrieve data from it. The form factors of the digital media devices in the family and th... | 02/15/2000 |
| 5991194 | Method and apparatus for providing accessible device information in digital memory devices A memory device (100) includes a user device information sector (122) in addition to normal sectors (124) of a memory array. The user device information sector includes a product identification field (240) and a restricted address list field (250), and op... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5902246 | Method and apparatus for calibrating an optical probe An optical body cavity probe (110, 310, 1200, 1300) is provided with a disposable flexible comformable sheath (120) having an optical window (220), or a disposable rigid sheath (320, 1210, 1310) having an optical window (420). The electronic system includ... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5889721 | Method and apparatus for operating functions relating to memory and/or applications that employ memory in accordance with available power A programmable memory device includes circuits that permit the selective disabling of certain functions when a battery supply voltage falls below the point necessary to sustain those functions while not disabling other functions of the device capable of w... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5877975 | Insertable/removable digital memory apparatus and methods of operation thereof Each device of a family of removable digital media devices (310, 320, 330, 340, 350 and 360) may be plugged into a host to permits the host to store data in it or to retrieve data from it. The form factors of the digital media devices in the family and th... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5862099 | Non-volatile programmable memory having a buffering capability and method of operation thereof A computer system includes a computing device such as a microcontroller and a memory device. The memory device is illustratively a serial device connected to the serial port of the microcontroller. The memory device includes a page latch load circuit whic... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5819069 | Recording apparatus and method having low power consumption A low power recording devices permits various flexible power options, including a no-battery option in which the recording device satisfies its entire power requirements from the telephone wall socket and from the RS-232 socket of a computer, and a no-bat... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5815426 | Adapter for interfacing an insertable/removable digital memory apparatus to a host data part Each device of a family of removable digital media devices (310, 320, 330, 340, 350 and 360) may be plugged into a host to permits the host to store data in it or to retrieve data from it. The form factors of the digital media devices in the family and th... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5786979 | High density inter-chip connections by electromagnetic coupling Signal communication paths between multiple chips are established through inter-chip electro-magnetic coupling, thereby potentially eliminating mechanical inter-chip contacts and increasing inter-chip interconnection capacity while maximizing chip real es... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5724303 | Non-volatile programmable memory having an SRAM capability A computer system includes a computing device such as a microcontroller and a memory device. The memory device is illustrtively a serial device connected to the serail port of the microcontrollerThe memory device includes a page latch load circuit which p... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5691934 | Memory cell and method of operation thereof An extremely compact dynamic memory cell (200) includes a capacitor (204) or any other suitable stored charge device, and a diode (208) such as a Zener diode, a pair of parallel, reverse-connected diodes, or any other suitable voltage dropping device havi... | 11/25/1997 |
| 5691935 | Memory element and method of operation thereof A memory element that includes a stored charge element coupled to a bi-directional voltage dropping element that exhibits substantially definite voltage drops when conducting in each direction is the basis for a family of memory cells and circuits. An ext... | 11/25/1997 |
| 5563842 | Row decoder for a memory having settable threshold memory cells A memory (1) operative in an erase mode, a program mode, or a read mode includes a memory cell array, word lines (30, 40, 50, 60), a row decoder (9) connected to the word lines, bit lines (2, 4, 6, 8), a precharge circuit (70, 72, 74, 76, 78, 80) connecte... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5488694 | Broadcasting headers to configure physical devices interfacing a data bus with a logical assignment and to effect block data transfers between the configured logical devices To effect a block data transfer between a plurality of physical I/O devices coupled through interfaces to an I/O channel ("IOC") bus, a source logical device is established by programmably assigning to each of the physical device interfaces a logical devi... | 01/30/1996 |
| 4943020 | Manipulator apparatus A manipulator apparatus for supporting and orienting the test head (11) of an automatic test equipment. A column assembly (14) has a sheath (26) which moves vertically and which is connected via a cable to a manually adjustable counterbalancing device (41... | 07/24/1990 |
| 4831285 | Self precharging static programmable logic array A programmable logic array having a number of inputs for receiving operand data and a number of outputs for furnishing the results of Boolean operations upon the operand data is provided with a precharge signal generator responsive to a state transition i... | 05/16/1989 |
| 4807549 | Collapsable elongated articles including sailboards and the like In a collapsable elongated article such as a sailboard, the several sections are joined together at respective double chevron surfaces and maintained together by a suitable clamping device. The double chevron surface is used to prevent relative movement i... | 02/28/1989 |
| 4780678 | Apparatus for microinductive investigation of earth formations A wall-engaging apparatus for microinductively investigating a characteristic of an earth formation traversed by a borehole includes an antenna set mounted in a sensing body adapted for sliding engagement with the wall of the borehole. The antenna set inc... | 10/25/1988 |
| 4775852 | Apparatus for compensating digital to analog converter errors A high precision analog to digital converter comprises the combination of an imperfect or low resolution digital to analog converter having an error function known in terms of orthonormal components and an error compensating device capable of generating c... | 10/04/1988 |
| 4732841 | Tri-level resist process for fine resolution photolithography A multilayer photoresist system for defining very small features on a semiconductor substrate relies on forming a planarization layer directly over the substrate. An image transfer layer is formed over the planarization layer, and a photoresist imaging la... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4728998 | CMOS circuit having a reduced tendency to latch The tendency of a CMOS circuit to latch up is reduced by implanting ions of germanium or tin into the source and drain regions of the circuit. The low energy gap of these ions lowers the band gap of the source and drain regions, which in turn inhibits the... | 03/01/1988 |
| 4722908 | Fabrication of a bipolar transistor with a polysilicon ribbon In the fabrication of bipolar transistors by the single poly process, polysilicon sidewalls are formed along portions of a polysilicon layer that functions as a device contact. The sidewalls serve both as dopant sources which determine the width of underl... | 02/02/1988 |
| 4720396 | Solder finishing integrated circuit package leads A new method for solder finishing the leads of an integrated circuit package such as a DIP having two parallel rows of leads along the sides of the package. The method contemplates establishing two vertical columns of falling molten solder and spacing the... | 01/19/1988 |
| 4713560 | Switched impedance emitter coupled logic gate There is disclosed herein an ECL gate using switchable load impedance means to allow the gate to be placed in a low power-consumption mode while preserving the logic state existing at the outputs of the gate at the time it is switched into the low-power m... | 12/15/1987 |
| 4712070 | Apparatus for microinductive investigation of earth formations A wall-engaging apparatus for microinductively investigating a characteristic of earth formation traversed by a borehole includes an antenna set mounted in a longitudinally elongated body adapted for a sliding engagement with the wall of the borehole. The... | 12/08/1987 |
| 4704342 | Photomask having a patterned carbon light-blocking coating A photomask for use in manufacturing integrated circuits is fabricated by coating a thin film of organic material, generally a solution of a thermally decomposable hydrocarbon, onto a glass plate and heating it in a reducing atmosphere to convert it into ... | 11/03/1987 |
| 4692707 | Method and apparatus for measuring the earth formation resistivity of a plurality of radial regions around a borehole A wall engaging pad for well logging comprises a face portion of electrically conductive material within which are disposed three or more current electrodes. The survey current emitted from the current electrodes is differently focussed. A suitable curren... | 09/08/1987 |
| 4688075 | Integrated circuit having a pre-attached conductive mounting media and method of making the same A semiconductor wafer having a plurality of integrated circuits is provided. One surface of the wafer includes a plurality of electrical contacts on the circuits which are subsequently attached to leads. The other surface of the wafer is provided with a c... | 08/18/1987 |
| 4686113 | Plasma confinement in a low pressure electrically grounded R.F. heated reactor and deposition method A deposition reactor system is described for producing a coating containing a predetermined component on a substrate from a plasma containing such component in an ionized state. The substrate is supported on a susceptor within a reactor chamber to which i... | 08/11/1987 |
| 4685631 | Apparatus for feeding bonding wire An apparatus is described for maintaining and delivering a slack reserve length of lead wire between a spool or other source and the wire bonding tool of a lead wire bonding machine. A slack chamber or wind chamber comprised of a housing enclosure, an inl... | 08/11/1987 |
| 4680613 | Low impedance package for integrated circuit die A low inductive impedance dual in-line package for an integrated circuit die incorporates a lead frame formed with a central opening without a die attach paddle. A ground plate forms the die attach plane spaced from and parallel with the lead frame. A die... | 07/14/1987 |
