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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5940606 | Duty cycle controller for clock signal to synchronous SRAM on FPGA A duty cycle controller for generating proper control signals for an SRAM in an FPGA in the proper sequence and spaced at the proper times to guarantee proper operation of the SRAM regardless of the frequency of duty cycle of the clock selected by the use... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5922189 | Process to refine petroleum residues and sludges into asphalt and/or other petroleum products A process for significantly decreasing processing time, reducing capital costs, increasing yield, improving quality, and improving the safety of refining petroleum residues and sludges generated by the oil producers, refineries and re-refiners comprising ... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5793759 | Apparatus and method for digital data transmission over video cable using orthogonal cyclic codes A method and apparatus for carrying out synchronous co-division multiple access (SCDMA,) communication of multiple channels of digital data over a shared transmission media such as a cable television system coaxial cable, a fiber optic or copper conductor... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5793612 | Heat sink structure for fast network hubs The genus of apparatus according to the teachings of the invention is characterized by use of a heat conducting elastomer which is compressed between an integrated circuit and a surface of a chassis made of heat conducting material such as Aluminum. The e... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5781074 | Low electromagnetic interference clock oscillator module A low noise clock oscillator in modular form to plug into a standard 14 or 8 pin DIP clock oscillator socket on the motherboard of a host device to retrofit the host device without redesign of the host device motherboard so that the host device can reduce... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5762859 | Blow molding method for producing synthetic resin receptacle with integral gap The object of this invention is to provide a receptacle with a closure cap which is molded simultaneously with the receptacle body by using blow mold machine. A synthetic resin material is introduced into a pair of mold halves and a fluid such as air is i... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5751715 | Accelerator fiber channel hub and protocol An apparatus for accelerated Fiber Channel protocol handshaking and data exchange involves dividing a Fiber Channel arbitrated loop architecture up into a plurality of arbitrated subloops, each of which arbitrates locally using the same fundamentals as th... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5745837 | Apparatus and method for digital data transmission over a CATV system using an ATM transport protocol and SCDMA A method and apparatus for carrying an ATM communication protocol on a hybrid fiber coax CATV system. Point to point communication is supported by use of synchronous code division multiplexing on the physical and by assigning on the MAC layer one or more ... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5732148 | Apparatus and method for electronically acquiring fingerprint images with low cost removable platen and separate imaging device A thin, inexpensive, removable platen for a direct fingerprint reader without a permanently attached platen. A removable platen is formed as a transparent area on a credit card, passport or identification card or as a separate card. The portable platen on... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5701400 | Method and apparatus for applying if-then-else rules to data sets in a relational data base and generating from the results of application of said rules a database of diagnostics linked to said data sets to aid executive analysis of financial data A system for applying artificial intelligence technology to data stored in databases and generates diagnostics that are user definable interpretations of information in the database. The diagnostics are stored in a database which can be queried with downd... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5691724 | Police traffic radar using FFT processing to find fastest target A police radar utilizing digital data transmission from the antenna unit to a separately housed counting and display unit. The antenna has a double balanced mixer to suppress even order harmonics. The counting and display unit has a computer programmed to... | 11/25/1997 |
| 5684183 | Method for preparing 4-alkyl-2-hydroxy-3,5-dichlorobenzene sulphonic acids The invention is related to a method for preparing 4-alkyl-2-hydroxy-3,5-dichlorobenzene sulphonic acids by sulphonating 4-chloro-3-alkylphenol and by chlorinating 4-alkyl-2-hydroxy-5-chlorobenzene sulphonic acid present in an acidic reaction mixture... | 11/04/1997 |
