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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7052262 | System for preparing eyeglasses lens with filling station A high volume lens curing system is described. The high volume lens curing system may be configured to cure multiple eyeglass lenses in a continuous manner. An embodiment of a system may include a mold assembly, a lens curing apparatus, a mold filling apparatus and ... | 05/30/2006 |
| H2152 | Telemetry system having amplitude modulation of Walsh functions A digital communications system employing modulated Walsh functions to convey data across a communications channel. In one embodiment, the system includes a transmitter having a constellation encoder, and a Walsh constellation modulator. The constellation encoder re... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6564899 | Method and apparatus for absorbing acoustic energy An acoustic logging tool including an elongated body, one or more acoustic transmitters, one or more acoustic receivers, and a broadband acoustic absorption region. A substantial portion of the broadband acoustic absorption region is between the transmitt... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6559670 | Backside liquid crystal analysis technique for flip-chip packages A process is herein described for analyzing an integrated circuit chip for defects by observing changes in the appearance of a liquid crystal applied to the backside of the integrated circuit. The process includes spreading a thin film of a liquid crystal... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6536528 | Extended reach tie-back system A system for producing hydrocarbons from a subsea well comprises an unmanned floating platform positioned over the well, the platform including equipment for inserting coiled tubing or wireline tools or the like into the well for servicing, controlling, o... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6528955 | Ballast system for a fluorescent lamp A flasher ballast system includes a high frequency instant start ballast and one or more transformers. The high frequency instant start ballast may provide the strike voltage and perform the current limiting functions for a fluorescent lamp. The transform... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6517799 | Isolation of small-bandgap fullerenes and endohedral metallofullerenes A method for recovering small bandgap fullerenes, including metallofullerenes, from soot by passivating individual fullerenes and/or metallofullerenes to an anionic configuration. The addition of extra electrons to a metallofullerene or small bandgap full... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6513385 | Acoustic sensor for pipeline deposition characterization and monitoring A method and apparatus for analyzing a deposited layer on the inner surface of a fluid container wall having inner and outer surfaces are disclosed. One embodiment of the method comprises (a) transmitting an acoustic signal from a transmitter at a first d... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6510909 | Rolling cone bit with gage and off-gage cutter elements positioned to separate sidewall and bottom hole cutting duty A rolling cone bit includes at least one cone cutter having a gage row of cutter elements and a first inner row of near but off-gage cutter elements that are positioned so as to divide the sidewall and bottom hole cutting duty so as to enhance bit durabil... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6507166 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR A WIDE SPEED RANGE INDUCTION MACHINE, CARRYING OUT A CONTROL BASED UPON A FLUX ESTIMATION PERFORMED BY MEANS OF A LUENBERGER STATE OBSERVER, AND METHOD FOR POSITIONING THE EIGENVALUES OF SAID STATE OBSERVER The control device carries out a control of the induction machine based upon a flux estimation performed by means of a Luenberger state observer, the estimation error of which can be defined by means of a matrix having a plurality of eigenvalues, the magn... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6505260 | Computer system with adaptive memory arbitration scheme A computer system includes an adaptive memory arbiter for prioritizing memory access requests, including a self-adjusting, programmable request-priority ranking system. The memory arbiter adapts during every arbitration cycle, reducing the priority of any... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6505258 | Comprehensive interface between bios and device drivers to signal events A system is disclosed for allowing surprise insertion and removal of a peripheral device from the bays of a portable computer system. The peripheral device may be inserted or removed when the portable computer system is powered off, powered on, or in stan... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6502634 | Interface monitoring placement system The present invention relates generally to the treating of wells, and more particularly to a method and device that are capable of detecting the position of a fluid interface so that a well treatment can be placed with greater along hole depth precision i... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6502203 | Method and apparatus for cluster system operation A method and system of quorum negotiation utilizing power mains. Unlike current systems, this communication is provided as a secondary channel, with the primary channel being a standard network system. By using this technique, if the heartbeat is lost ove... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6499538 | Method and apparatus for forming an optimized window Methods and apparatus are described for forming a window of optimum dimensions in casing wall. A window of maximum width is cut when the center line of the mill tool is located inside of the inner diameter of the casing where a maximum amount of casing is... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6499537 | Well reference apparatus and method The well reference apparatus and method of the present invention includes a reference member preferably permanently installed within the borehole at a preferred depth and orientation in one trip into the well. The reference member provides a permanent ref... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6497286 | Method and apparatus for drilling a plurality of offshore underwater wells An underwater well system in which an initially vertical drilling riser conduit (5A) is fixed by a template at the seabed in a non-vertical orientation. Drilling is carried out through wellhead in the template which also includes a valve tree allowing the... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6496904 | Method and apparatus for efficient tracking of bus coherency by using a single coherency tag bank The present invention provides for a method and an apparatus for encoding coherency tag information for a plurality of busses. A first processor bus is coupled to a host controller. A second processor bus is coupled to a host controller. The host controll... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6494702 | Apparatus for the production of plastic lenses Apparatus for making a plastic lens. Apparatus includes a mold cavity and a cooling fluid distributor. The apparatus is adapted to produce a plastic lens from a liquid composition.... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6494272 | Drilling system utilizing eccentric adjustable diameter blade stabilizer and winged reamer The drilling assembly includes an eccentric adjustable diameter blade stabilizer having a housing with a fixed stabilizer blade and a pair of adjustable stabilizer blades. The adjustable stabilizer blades are housed within openings in the stabilizer housi... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6493802 | Method and apparatus for performing speculative memory fills into a microprocessor According to the present invention a cache within a multiprocessor system is speculatively filled. To speculatively fill a designated cache, the present invention first determines an address which identifies information located in a main memory. The addre... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6488104 | Directional drilling assembly and method The drilling assembly includes an eccentric adjustable diameter blade stabilizer having a housing with a fixed stabilizer blade and a pair of adjustable stabilizer blades. The adjustable stabilizer blades are housed within openings in the stabilizer housi... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6487623 | Replacement, upgrade and/or addition of hot-pluggable components in a computer system A computer system adapted for hot-pluggable components such as memory modules that may be replaced, upgraded and/or added without disturbing normal operation of the computer system. A failing memory module may be replaced by copying its contents to a new ... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6487081 | Hard disk drive mounting system and method A generic mounting structure is provided between a hard disk drive (HDD) and a computer. The structure includes a plurality of nubs disposed on a brace that can be fitted onto a HDD. The nubs are preferably cylindrical members having an enlarged diameter ... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6483157 | Asymmetrical transistor having a barrier-incorporated gate oxide and a graded implant only in the drain-side junction area A transistor fabrication process is provided which derives a benefit from having an asymmetrical LDD structure. A silicon-based substrate is provided. A gate oxide layer is grown across the substrate. The gate oxide layer may be incorporated with barrier ... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6478107 | Axially extended downhole seismic source An axially extended downhole seismic source is disclosed. In one embodiment, the seismic source includes multiple pressure storage chambers, each having an inlet valve and an outlet valve. The inlet valve is coupled between the pressure storage chamber an... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6478990 | Plastic lens systems and methods An apparatus for preparing a plastic eyeglass lens includes a coating unit and a lens curing unit. The apparatus is preferably configured to allow the operation of both the coating unit and the lens curing unit. The apparatus may also include a post-cure ... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6477469 | Coarse-to-fine self-organizing map for automatic electrofacies ordering A method for ordering electrofacies to assist in identification of mineral deposits is disclosed. Automated ordering of electrofacies allows geologists to draw inferences about the geological settings in which sediment deposit occurred without directly ex... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6475294 | Subsea pig reloader A system for supplying pigs to a subsea pig launcher using a system carried and controlled by a remotely operated vehicle. The pigs are carried in racks that hold multiple pigs. The racks are extended and the pigs are allowed to drop into the barrel of th... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6470608 | Networking card A networking card has a plurality of pages for bearing at least one of a greeting or other message, a drawing and an object added to the networking card by successive recipients of the networking card. The networking card can be purchased by an initial se... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6470429 | System for identifying memory requests as noncacheable or reduce cache coherence directory lookups and bus snoops An apparatus for identifying requests to main memory as non-cacheable in a computer system with multiple processors includes a main memory, memory cache, processor and cache coherence directory all coupled to a host bridge unit (North bridge). The process... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6470053 | Methods and arrangements for transmitting data over twisted pair wire using RF modulation techniques Methods and arrangements are provided for allowing various devices to communicate data over standard twisted pair wire within a confined region, such as a home environment. The methods and arrangements employ radio frequency (RF) communication techniques ... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6469899 | Modular rack-mount server arrangement A system to mount several electronic devices within a one EIA unit high rackspace is presented. The system includes a mounting chassis that is securely fastened to a standard 19" EIA electronics rack. The chassis includes dividers that define at least two... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6469636 | High-power well logging method and apparatus A system and method is described for safely and economically providing up to 1800 watts to downhole equipment over existing logging cables. In one embodiment, the system includes a standard multiconductor logging cable which supports orthogonal signal tra... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6469474 | Battery gauge using a resettable decrementer in a DIMM In one aspect, the invention is a battery fuel gauge for a cache card comprising a charging circuit for charging at least one battery and a decrementor circuit for counting the amount of time system power is removed from the battery.... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6467676 | Fluxing adhesive An improved underfill adhesive encapsulant with fluxing activities containing an epoxy resin or a mixture of epoxy resin. An anhydride is used as the curing agent to harden the epoxy resin. A hydroxyl-containing fluxing precursor compound is added to the ... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6467048 | Apparatus, method and system for using cache memory as fail-over memory A computer system having a main memory and a cache memory, the computer system uses portions of the cache memory to store information from defective main memory locations until the main memory can be repaired. The address space of the main memory is alway... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6466996 | Method and system for implementing intelligent distributed input-output processing as a software process in a host operating system environment A software program is used in conjunction with a standard general purpose single or multi-processor computer system as a means of implementing an I2 O-compliant input-output processor ("IOP") without requiring a special hardware IOP processor e... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6464484 | Apparatus and system for the production of plastic lenses A lens forming apparatus for preparing a plastic eyeglass lens includes a first lens curing unit, a second lens curing unit and a conveyor system for moving mold assemblies between the two units. The apparatus may also include an anneal unit configured to... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6464245 | Luggage cart handle An adaptable luggage cart or suitcase handle that is configured to accommodate an assortment of positions is presented. The adaptable handle includes secondary grip extensions that exist within the contours of a traditionally-shaped luggage cart handle an... | 10/15/2002 |
