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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6947784 | System for digital bowel subtraction and polyp detection and related techniques A system for performing a virtual colonoscopy includes a system for generating digital images, a storage device for storing the digital images, a digital bowel subtraction processor coupled to receive images of a colon from the storage device and for removing the co... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6900997 | Load matched alternator system with fault protection An alternator system having an alternating current voltage source includes a rectifier coupled to the voltage source, a sensor coupled to the voltage source and an engine and a control circuit coupled to the voltage source, the rectifier and the sensor. The control ... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6884982 | Methods and apparatus for improving resolution and reducing the effects of signal coupling in an electronic imager An electronic imager includes a detector array, a plurality of processing circuits, each responsive to an output signal from a respective detector element of the array and to a determination that signal coupling in general or charge sharing in particular occurred. T... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6870312 | Organic field emission device A patterned field emission device fabricated using conducting or semiconducting organic materials is described. ... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6867731 | Noise suppression system and method for phased-array based systems This invention relates to a system and method for suppressing external interference in radar data provided by a plurality of sensors from a main sensor array, the data being pre-processed. The noise suppression system includes a first processing module and a second ... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6865648 | Data structure for write pending Destaging activities in a data storage system are controlled by providing a write pending list of elements, where each element is defined to store information related to a cache memory data element for which a write to storage is pending, and maintaining the write p... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6864831 | Radar detection method and apparatus A radar detection process includes computing a derivative of an FFT output signal to detect an object within a specified detection zone. In one embodiment, a zero crossing in the second derivative of the FFT output signal indicates the presence of an object. The ran... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6864767 | Microelectromechanical micro-relay with liquid metal contacts A MEM relay includes an actuator, a shorting bar disposed on the actuator, a contact substrate, and a plurality of liquid metal contacts are disposed on the contact substrate such that the plurality of liquid metal contacts are placed in electrical communication whe... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6865033 | Lenticular display device A lenticular display device comprises a back panel 2 having a major surface 15 with a substantially fixed curvature. A front panel 4 is substantially in register with the back panel and is releasably pressed against and into conformity with the ... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6856136 | Thermoelectric device test structure A test structure for testing a thick film thermoelectric device is presented. The test structure is able to test the thermoelectric device in the device's three modes of operation, namely as a cooling device, as a heat pump, and as a power generator. The test struct... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6844789 | Low temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) circulator A radio frequency (RF) circulator includes a low temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) substrate and a ferrite structure disposed in the LTCC substrate. The circulator also includes first, second and third transmission lines disposed in the LTCC substrate and coupled ... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6838325 | Method of forming a self-aligned, selectively etched, double recess high electron mobility transistor A method is provided for forming a self-aligned, selectively etched, double recess high electron mobility transistor. The method includes providing a semiconductor structure having a III-V substrate; a first relatively wide band gap layer, a channel layer, a second ... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6835969 | Split-channel high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) device A transistor structure having an gallium arsenide (GaAs) semiconductor substrate; a lattice match layer; an indium aluminum arsenide (InAlAs) barrier layer disposed over the lattice match layer; an InyGa1-yAs lower channel layer disposed on the... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6832330 | Reversible mirrored restore of an enterprise level primary disk When performing mirrored disk restores, including both disk level mirrored restores and file level mirrored restores, rather than first restore data to a mirror disk and later move that data to the primary disk, the data on the primary disk is first copied to the mi... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6827130 | Heatsink assembly and method of manufacturing the same A heat removal system includes a heatsink assembly having a base and a plurality of heat conducting folded fin members projecting from a first surface of the base and arranged to leave an open space on the first surface of the base. At least one thermally conductive... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6828929 | Technique for non-coherent integration of targets with ambiguous velocities A method for processing pulsed-Doppler radar signals to detect a target includes transmitting radar signals from a radar system according to a predetermined frequency technique including signals having frequency diversity, receiving signals within a frequency band, ... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6826337 | Method and apparatus for transmitting fiber-channel and non-fiber channel signals through a common cable A method for transmitting fiber channel signals and non-fiber channel signals. The method includes: providing a cable having a connector at each end thereof; and transmitting both the fiber-channel signals and the non-fiber channel signals through the cable between ... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6822606 | System and method for spectral generation in radar This invention relates to a spectral generator and a spectral generation method for receiving pre-processed range-doppler-sensor data and generating at least one noise-reduced high-resolution spectrum therefrom. The spectral generator comprises a window generator th... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6818928 | Quaternary-ternary semiconductor devices A semiconductor structure is provided having a III-V substrate, a buffer layer over the substrate, such buffer layer having a compositional graded quaternary lower portion and a compositional graded ternary upper portion. In one embodiment, the lower portion of the ... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6815944 | Method and apparatus for providing information from a speed and direction sensor A method and apparatus for providing information from a speed and direction sensor is disclosed. The method and apparatus detect the presence of a ferromagnetic object as it moves past a sensor. The sensor determines speed and direction information regarding the fer... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6813296 | GaSb-clad mid-infrared semiconductor laser A semiconductor laser operating in the mid-infrared region is described. In one particular embodiment, the semiconductor laser is provided having first and second cladding layers consisting essentially of GaSb that surround an active core, wherein the index of refra... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6812925 | Map simplification system A map simplification system performs dynamic view dependent simplification of relatively large geographic maps. ... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6809586 | Digital switching power amplifier Apparatus for transmitting a collimated and directed beam of wave energy which includes a beam-forming network having a plurality of amplification sections coupled to an array of transmitting elements. Each one of the sections includes: a source of digital samples o... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6807001 | Auto shutdown for distributed raman amplifiers on optical communication systems A method and apparatus for detecting if an optical module has been disconnected from a fiber span or if there has been a break in the span, and for automatically reducing the output signal level of the optical module such that the output signal level is within an ac... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6795021 | Tunable multi-band antenna array An antenna element is provided having a stacked patch configuration and having tuning structures by which the antenna element can be tuned at two different frequencies of operation. A plurality of the antenna elements can be combined to provide an antenna array. The... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6791949 | Network protocol for wireless ad hoc networks A method for establishing and maintaining a wireless ad hoc network comprising backbone nodes which forward packets through the network and non-backbone nodes which are capable of using the network, but do not forward packets. Signaling packets containing one or mor... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6784828 | Near object detection system A near object detection (NOD) system includes a plurality of sensors, each of the sensors for providing detection coverage in a predetermined coverage zone and each of the sensors including a transmit antenna for transmitting a first RF signal, a receive antenna for... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6782305 | Method of geometric information sharing and parametric consistency maintenance in a collaborative design environment A method for sharing geometric information and maintaining parametric consistency amongst different software applications in a collaborative environment is presented. The method is based on geometric information sharing via neutral files, and incorporates Internet b... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6781359 | Integrated current sensor An integrated current sensor includes a magnetic field transducer such as a Hall effect sensor, a magnetic core, and an electrical conductor. The conductor includes features for receiving portions of the Hall effect sensor and the core and the elements are dimension... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6781855 | Power diverter A power diverter is presented. The power diverter includes a first ninety degree hybrid having one output coupled to a positive adjustable phase shifter and another output coupled to a negative adjustable phase shifter providing a negative phase shift. The value of ... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6779071 | Data storage system having separate data transfer section and message network with status register A system interface includes a plurality of first directors, a plurality of second directors, a data transfer section and a message network. The data transfer section includes a cache memory. The cache memory is coupled to the plurality of first and second directors.... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6773266 | Method for implementing collaborative training and online learning over a computer network and related techniques A method for implementing a collaborative training and learning system on a computer system accessible to a plurality of remote users through a computer network includes (a) submitting questions, (b) combining the questions to provide a test, (c) administering the t... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6762653 | Microwave power amplifier An amplifier is provided having an electrically conductive structure. The structure has a waveguide network disposed in an inner region thereof. The network has an input section and an output section. The conductive structure has an amplifier input port and amplifie... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6760823 | File mapping system and related techniques A system for efficiently representing or “mapping” data so that it can be rapidly communicated to a back-up storage system from a primary processor or a shared storage device while at the same time allowing a backup system to backup files rather than devices is ... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6760695 | Automated natural language processing An automated natural language translation system takes source natural language text (preferably in Japanese) and translates them into a target natural language (preferably English). The system also allows an operator to re-translate automatically selected portions o... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6755166 | Electromechanical valve drive incorporating a nonlinear mechanical transformer The present invention provides a means to reduce holding current and driving current of EMVD's effectively and practically and to provide soft landing of a valve. The invention incorporates a nonlinear mechanical transformer as part of an EMVD system. The nonlinear ... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6754897 | Operation prioritization and selection in a probability-based job scheduler A hierarchical, probability-based look-up method and apparatus for selection of an operation for job generation. Bitmaps are set based on the priority class of pending operation requests. The bitmap values are used to select a priority class and an operation for the... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6754668 | Multilingual system having dynamic language selection A multilingual system provides dynamic flipping of a displayed form from one language to another. The forms include a plurality of fields each of which includes properties that allow the form to be displayed in accordance with the conventions of the selected languag... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6748312 | Safe distance algorithm for adaptive cruise control In accordance with the present invention, an adaptive cruise control system includes a radio frequency (RF) transmit receive (TR) sensor module (or more simply “sensor”) disposed such that a detection zone is deployed in front of a vehicle. The sensor includes a... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6747484 | Radio frequency limiter circuit A limiter circuit includes a rectification circuit coupled to an input of the limiter circuit. The rectification circuit produces a voltage having a predetermined average level. The level is a function of an input signal fed to the input of the limiter circuit. A vo... | 06/08/2004 |
