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| 8185369 | Method and apparatus for characterizing properties of electronic devices depending on device parameters A system and method for obtaining information about an electronic device includes the steps of providing a criterion for a property of the electronic device depending on at least one device parameter, and determining a relationship between variations of the at least... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182600 | Electrode for electrochemical processes and method for producing the same An anode provided with an electrocatalytic coating comprising tin, preferably tetravalent and in form of mixed oxide, prepared by the method for the manufacturing of an electrode, comprising applying a solution of a precursor for the pyrolytic formation of a tin-con... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179915 | System and method for transmitting and retransmitting data A method of transmitting data includes storing a first set of transmission data and a first set of retransmission data. A first ratio of transmission data to retransmission data is determined. A plurality of transmission data units is generated with each data unit i... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175554 | Radio frequency communication devices and methods One embodiment relates to a radio frequency (RF) communication device. The RF communication device includes a coupler having a plurality of ports and an adjustable termination coupled to one of the plurality of ports. The adjustable termination is adjustable based o... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174971 | Network switch A network switch includes a media access controller (MAC) coupled to a plurality of ports, a receiver coupled to the MAC, and packet queuing control (PQC) coupled to the receiver. The PQC is configured to maintain a count of the number of receive packets stored in t... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174256 | Methods and systems for magnetic field sensing One embodiment relates to a sensor. The sensor includes a first magnet having a first surface and a second magnet having a second surface. A differential sensing element extends alongside the first and second surfaces. The differential sensing element includes a fir... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169060 | Integrated circuit package assembly including wave guide Some embodiments herein relate to a transmitter. The transmitter includes an integrated circuit (IC) package including a first antenna configured to radiate a first electromagnetic signal therefrom. A printed circuit board (PCB) substrate includes a waveguide config... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8168941 | Ion beam angle calibration and emittance measurement system for ribbon beams An ion beam angle calibration and emittance measurement system, comprising a plate comprising an elongated slit therein, wherein the elongated slit positioned at a rotation center of the plate and configured to allow a first beam portion to pass therethrough. A beam... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8160089 | Dynamic inter packet gap generation system and method The present invention facilitates network throughput by dynamically generating IPG values, which are employed when recovering from network collisions. Testing a number of IPG values and tracking collisions that occur as a result for each value generate the IPG value... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8149046 | Biasing for transistor-based apparatuses and methods The present disclosure relates to constructing and operating a transistor or other active device with significantly reduced flicker noise. ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144797 | CQI table for wireless MIMO networks A Channel Quality Indicator table for wireless multiple input multiple output (MIMO) networks is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of generating a table for channel quality indicator (CQI) for an open loop MIMO transmission includes calculating performance of a... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8143936 | Application of control signal and forward body-bias signal to an active device The present disclosure relates to constructing and operating a transistor or other active device with significantly reduced flicker noise. ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8142898 | Smooth surface morphology chlorate anode coating The present invention relates to an electrocatalytic coating and an electrode having the coating thereon, wherein the coating is a mixed metal oxide coating, preferably ruthenium, titanium and tin or antimony oxides. The coating uses water as a solvent that provides... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8138538 | Interconnect structure for semiconductor devices One embodiment relates to an integrated circuit formed on a semiconductor body having interconnect between source/drain regions of a first and second transistor. The interconnect includes a metal body arranged underneath the surface of the semiconductor body. A cont... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8138484 | Magnetic scanning system with improved efficiency Some aspects of the present invention facilitate ion implantation by using a magnetic beam scanner that includes first and second magnetic elements having a beam path region therebetween. One or more magnetic flux compression elements are disposed proximate to the b... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8126452 | Systems and methods for self-calibrating transceivers Techniques for self-calibration of transceivers are described herein. ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126042 | FEXT estimation and signaling in vector transmission Embodiments related to FEXT estimation and signaling in vectored systems are described and depicted herein. ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8124947 | Ion implanter having combined hybrid and double mechanical scan architecture A system and method are provided for implanting ions into a workpiece in a plurality of operating ranges. A desired dosage of ions is provided, and a spot ion beam is formed from an ion source and mass analyzed by a mass analyzer. Ions are implanted into the workpie... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8124946 | Post-decel magnetic energy filter for ion implantation systems A system and method for magnetically filtering an ion beam during an ion implantation into a workpiece is provided, wherein ions are emitted from an ion source and accelerated the ions away from the ion source to form an ion beam. The ion beam is mass analyzed by a ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8124469 | High-efficiency filler cell with switchable, integrated buffer capacitance for high frequency applications A cell based integrated circuit chip includes a top voltage supply rail and a bottom voltage supply rail and a plurality of metal layers defining at least one filler cell. The filler cell is formed by a first field effect transistor of a first type conductivity, typ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8117521 | Implementation of recycling unused ECC parity bits during flash memory programming Methods for recycling unused error correction code (ECC) during flash memory programming, comprise generating ECC from user data to form a syndrome and storing the syndrome into volatile memory. ECC is re-encoded corresponding to the syndrome read from the memory wi... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116701 | Circuit arrangement and method for setting an analog output signal A circuit arrangement includes a signal processing unit and a regulation unit. The signal processing unit processes an input signal to form an analog output signal. The regulation unit is coupled to the signal processing unit in order to produce a digital regulation... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116103 | Device for feeding electric energy into a power grid and DC converter for such a device The device is for feeding electricity into a power grid (8) with a DC generator (1), a DC converter (2) and an inverter (3), and particularly to a DC converter (2) suited for the device. The DC converter (2) comprises a chok... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112043 | Radio frequency communication devices and methods One embodiment relates to a radio frequency (RF) communication device. The RF communication device includes an antenna interface coupled to an antenna that exhibits a time-varying impedance. The RF communication device also includes a test interface coupled to RF te... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108075 | Failsafe HVAC control upgrades A system and method is presented for providing failsafe control in a control system used for receiving and controlling various object or medium properties in a heating, ventilating or air conditioning system. The control system comprises an HVAC controller, configur... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8106758 | Tire localization system A tire localization system for locating the position of a tire of a vehicle having five or more wheels, includes a number of tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS) wheel modules of a vehicle TPMS, each wheel module being attached to each one of the wheels or a tire ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102957 | Method and apparatus for identification of transmission antenna diversity in a receiver In a method for identification of a multiple antenna transmission mode in a radio receiver, at least two antenna-decoupled data streams (s0, s1) are produced by means of an antenna decoupling unit in the receiver. Respective first variables (p | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102202 | Modem unit and mobile communication unit A modem unit includes a first semiconductor die that includes a power management unit and an embedded flash memory. A mobile communication unit includes a modem unit residing on a first semiconductor die. The first semiconductor die also includes a power management ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102175 | Magnetic field sensor device A magnetic field sensor device includes at least two magneto-resistive sensor elements and one switch which is connected to the at least two magneto-resistive sensor elements, and makes at least one magneto-resistive sensor element of the at least two magneto-resist... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102052 | Process for the simultaneous deposition of crystalline and amorphous layers with doping One embodiment of the present invention relates to method for the concurrent deposition of multiple different crystalline structures on a semiconductor body utilizing in-situ differential epitaxy. In one embodiment of the present invention a preparation surface is f... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098476 | Fluidic electrostatic energy harvester One embodiment of the present invention relates to a variable capacitor that operates without moving mechanical parts. In this capacitor electrically conductive electrodes are separated by an enclosed chamber filled with an electrically conductive material. The elec... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098096 | Device and method for generating an output signal An embodiment provides a device for generating an output signal as a function of an input signal, wherein a plurality of circuit sections generate partial signals and the output signal is composed from the partial signals. ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8097915 | Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device comprises a plurality of memory cells, each memory cell having a respective transistor. The transistor comprises a transistor body of a first conductivity type, a drain area and a source area each having a second conductivity type, wher... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095092 | Power efficient transmitter with high dynamic range One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for transistor matching. The power transmitter comprises a first, second, and third amplification path. The paths are selectively activated and deactivated to output a received signal with high efficiency a... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094752 | Ultra-wideband signal amplifier Amplifier for an ultra-wideband (UWB) signal receiver having a signal input (15) for receiving an ultra-wideband signal which is sent by a transmitter (1) and which is transmitted in a sequence of transmission channels (Ki) (which each have ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094475 | Inverter with asymmetric clocking and thermally isolated modules On an inverter for feeding power of a direct voltage source, in particular of a photovoltaic generator (PVG), into an alternating voltage mains (N), with an asymmetrically clocked bridge circuit with at least two first switches (S1, S2) clocked at main... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090001 | Fast frequency-hopping transceiver and method A fast frequency-hopping transceiver comprises a RF-unit arranged on a first chip, a base-band unit on a second chip, a bidirectional operable data and control interface arranged between said first and said second chip having at least one data line for data communic... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086205 | Multimode receiver with active blocker suppression Various embodiments of a wireless multimode receiver having an off-chip duplex filter associated with a multimode band, and a blocker cancellation circuit disposed on a semiconductor chip are described in the present disclosure. ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085892 | Offset determination arrangement, offset compensation arrangement, synchronization clock generator, method for determination of an offset and modulation method An offset determination arrangement includes a comparator device to compare an input signal with a reference value. A synchronization unit is provided to forward a comparison result of the comparator device as a function of a synchronization signal which can be gene... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085834 | System partitioning for multi-mobile devices A communication device partition for multiple device data standards to be received on one baseband integrated circuit is described. At least two interfaces are partitioned according to the data rate speed of various types of data standards and coupled to a multimode... | 12/27/2011 |
