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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6360398 | Toothbrush having an exchangeable bristle plate Toothbrush having an exchangeable bristle plate which is fastened releasably on a head-side carrier plate of a toothbrush body by a groove/tongue anchorage in conjunction with a press fit of a handle-side end of the bristle plate on an undercut stop of th... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6317363 | Multi-state memory Maximized multi-state compaction and more tolerance in memory state behavior is achieved through a flexible, self-consistent and self-adapting mode of detection, covering a wide dynamic range. For high density multi-state encoding, this approach borders o... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6317364 | Multi-state memory Maximized multi-state compaction and more tolerance in memory state behavior is achieved through a flexible, self-consistent and self-adapting mode of detection, covering a wide dynamic range. For high density multi-state encoding, this approach borders o... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6305471 | Pressure control apparatus A pressure control apparatus for use with wireline pressure equipment. The pressure control apparatus has a first portion which may be located in close proximity to the wireline pressure equipment. The first portion has at least one fluid pressure outlet ... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6300765 | System, IC chip, on-chip test structure, and corresponding method for modeling one or more target interconnect capacitances A system, an IC chip, a test structure formed on the IC chip, and a corresponding method for modeling one or more target interconnect capacitances is disclosed. The test structure comprises an interconnect configuration comprising a test interconnect and ... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6266273 | Method and structure for reliable data copy operation for non-volatile memories An improved flash EEPROM memory-based storage subsystem includes one or more flash memory arrays, each with a duplicity of data registers and a controller circuit. When data are read from a flash array into a data register, the data is copied to a second ... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6229632 | Broadband optical transmission system utilizing differential wavelength modulation A differential method of improving the carrier to noise ratio of optically transmitted amplitude modulated signals without affecting the fidelity of the transmitted signals is disclosed. The disclosed method improves over prior art methods by utilizing a ... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6222762 | Multi-state memory Maximized multi-state compaction and more tolerance in memory state behavior is achieved through a flexible, self-consistent and self-adapting mode of detection, covering a wide dynamic range. For high density multi-state encoding, this approach borders o... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6220773 | Container for receiving a fluid, gel-like or pasty medium A container for accommodating a fluid, gel-like or pasty medium in a container chamber into which it is possible to dip a brush and which has a removal opening in which there is seated a closure plug which tapers in a stub-like manner into the container c... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6212395 | Cellular communication system A cellular private branch exchange for facilitating cellular communication for a first plurality of mobile station units, which includes a first base station subsystem for communicating with a first and a second mobile station unit of the first plurality ... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6201732 | Low voltage single CMOS electrically erasable read-only memory P channel EEPROM cells are designed for integration into arrays written with single polarity signals developed from small, low power charge pumps. These cells reduce the additional masking steps that must be added to a CMOS logic process for EEPROM to onl... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6190040 | Apparatus for sensing temperature on a substrate in an integrated circuit fabrication tool A cable and interconnect design including a substrate containing discrete sensors in a plurality of cavities or a plurality of thin film sensors deposited throughout the substrate surface. The discrete sensors are bonded within each cavity and potted with... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6184887 | Method and apparatus for clamping image gradients A system for avoiding overflow and underflow of image variables by clamping image gradients. The method is described with respect to a triangular polygon to be rendered, and a function for that polygon such as color. First the delta x and delta y values b... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6160653 | Optical computer bus with dynamic bandwidth allocation A signal communication device for use within a computer includes a set of optical fibers configured to form an optical computer bus between a set of computer sub-system elements of a computer. A set of input optical connector cards are connected to the se... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6161121 | Generic transfer of exclusive rights A system and method are disclosed that enable exclusive rights in generic goods to be transferred from one party to another. A party holds an exclusive right to a good through a rescindable capability. When two parties agree on a transfer of the exclusive... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6143220 | Apparatus and method for making compressed agricultural fiber structural board A mill is described for compacting agricultural fibrous matter, such as straw or other agricultural waste, into a structural board. The board is useful as a dominant part of a load bearing and insulating panel replacing many of the load bearing and insula... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6140141 | Method for cooling backside optically probed integrated circuits A method and apparatus for cooling an integrated circuit device mounted face-down on a package such that the device may be optically probed. The method of the present invention includes the following steps: (1) placing an optically-transparent window over... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6131149 | Apparatus and method for reading data from synchronous memory with skewed clock pulses A novel apparatus and method is disclosed to assure validity of data accessed from synchronous memory during a "read" operation, wherein the synchronous memory is operating synchronously at a high frequency system clock. The invention comprises a programm... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6077304 | Verification system for simulator An electronic circuit verification system and method includes an HDL circuit simulator and a circuit simulation verifier that pass control back and forth between each other, and that cooperate so as to perform circuit verification tasks than would be very... | 06/20/2000 |
| 6073242 | Electronic authority server An electronic communication authority server that provides centralized key management, implementation of role-based enterprise policies and workflow and projection of corporate authorities over trusted networks. The authority server includes a key databas... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6072745 | Method for operating a memory A memory system is able to simultaneously access multiple rows in page mode operation. The multiple page memory includes a memory array with multiple internal read registers to improve the effective page cycle time. The multiple page memory of this invent... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6069768 | Spindle motor with multiple thrust plate fluid dynamic bearing A method to create an improved hydrodynamic bearing which is relatively insensitive to changes in load and rotational speed is provided, wherein the hydrodynamic bearing is useful in a spindle motor for a disc drive or the like which is stiffer than known... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6064392 | Method and apparatus for generating non-homogenous fog The present invention simulates the effect of non-homogenous fog in computer graphics images. The non-homogenous fog visibility equation includes four parameters. A distance scaling parameter K1. A variable fog parameter K2. A normalization constant K3, a... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6061519 | Embedding multiple (non embedded) high level languages into an assembler code A novel method is taught to quickly and easily produce assember code from a single embedded file which can include high level language code written in any of a number of high level languages interspersed, if desired, among assembler code itself.... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6009550 | PBA recovery apparatus and method for interleaved reed-solomon codes The present invention pertains to a method for determining if data read from a storage medium has been read from physical block address (PBA) other than the expected PBA. Data that is stored on the data storage medium is encoded in accordance with a proto... | 12/28/1999 |
| 6005811 | Method for operating a memory A memory system is able to simultaneously access multiple rows in page mode operation. The multiple page memory includes a memory array with multiple internal read registers to improve the effective page cycle time. The multiple page memory of this invent... | 12/21/1999 |
| 6005428 | System and method for multiple chip self-aligning clock distribution A multiple chip self-aligning clock distribution system. The clock signal provided to any given chip is delayed by the on-chip distribution time of every other chip with which it is to be synchronized. Equal delay paths are added to each chip which provid... | 12/21/1999 |
| 6002152 | EEPROM with split gate source side injection with sidewall spacers Novel memory cells utilize source-side injection, allowing very small programming currents. If desired, to-be-programmed cells are programmed simultaneously while not requiring an unacceptably large programming current for any given programming operation.... | 12/14/1999 |
| 6002441 | Audio/video subprocessor method and structure A novel method and apparatus for decoding a compressed audio/video signal to produce decoded audio and decoded video signals. The decoding tasks are partitioned into "pre-processing tasks" and "post-processing tasks." Pre-processing tasks involve one or m... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5990958 | Apparatus and method for MPEG video decompression A novel apparatus and method is disclosed to decode an encoded MPEG video stream in an efficient manner making optimal use of available system memory and computational resources. The present invention partitions the MPEG video decode task into software ta... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5987090 | Method and apparatus for a logarithmic shift register A new class of shift registers that shift the contents of a 2n bit length register up to 2n -1 positions in n cycles. Shift registers according to the present invention can be constructed to shift left, shift right, or to shift eithe... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5986931 | Low voltage single CMOS electrically erasable read-only memory P channel EEPROM cells are designed for integration into arrays written with single polarity signals developed from small, low power charge pumps. These cells reduce the additional masking steps that must be added to a CMOS logic process for EEPROM to onl... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5982935 | Method and apparatus for computing MPEG video reconstructed DCT coefficients A novel apparatus and method is disclosed to perform discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficient reconstruction more efficiently and using less hardware resources than prior art techniques. The invention comprises a correction factor generator apparatus w... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5970505 | Linking related data in a document set including a plurality of books written by different groups of authors in a computer network Particularly, a system and method are disclosed that enable an author of a subsection of a document quickly to locate referenced information in other parts of the document or different documents prepared by other authors and then incorporate that informat... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5960087 | Distributed garbage collection system and method A distributed garbage collection system and method is disclosed that is compatible with local ref-count or full garbage collection and that ensures that no local object's storage is deleted by the local garbage collector unless it is certain that there ar... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5946712 | Apparatus and method for reading data from synchronous memory A novel apparatus and method is disclosed to assure validity of data accessed from synchronous memory during a "read" operation, wherein the synchronous memory is operating synchronously at a high frequency system clock. The invention comprises a programm... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5934678 | Target system The invention relates to a target arrangement having a carrier frame which includes a housing receiver for a control unit located in a cuboidal housing, and which furthermore includes a housing-receiver for two drive units one beside the other, said drive... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5930807 | Apparatus and method for fast filtering read and write barrier operations in garbage collection system In a computer system that utilizes write or read barriers to perform a garbage collection function, instruction execution logic avoids unnecessary calls to the write or read barrier procedure. Each object's header includes a State flag. Each object refere... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5910915 | EEPROM with split gate source side injection Novel memory cells utilize source-side injection, allowing very small programming currents. If desired, to-be-programmed cells are programmed simultaneously while not requiring an unacceptably large programming current for any given programming operation.... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5910925 | EEPROM with split gate source side injection A novel memory structure in which memory arrays are organized in sectors with each sector being formed of a single column or a group of columns having their control gates connected in common. In one embodiment, a high speed shift register is used in place... | 06/08/1999 |
