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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8163633 | Light-emitting nanoparticles and method of making same A method for the production of a robust, chemically stable, crystalline, passivated nanoparticle and composition containing the same, that emit light with high efficiencies and size-tunable and excitation energy tunable color. The methods include the thermal degrada... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8158961 | Ophthalmic lens case equipped with an ultraviolet light source A container (101) for contact lenses is provided which comprises a chamber (105) adapted to store an ophthalmic lens in a fluid medium, a window for viewing a lens disposed in the chamber, and a UV light source adapted to illuminate the lens with UV ra... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8138434 | Waterproof press key and assembly of an electronic device housing and the waterproof press key A waterproof press key includes a key body, a rigid support component, and a waterproofing ring. The key body is made of a resilient material, and includes a top wall and a surrounding wall extending downwardly from the top wall. The rigid support component includes... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8136576 | Vibration isolation system for synthetic jet devices A thermal management system is provided herein. The system comprises a substrate (141), a synthetic jet ejector (103), and a vibration isolation element (107) adapted to releasably engage said synthetic jet ejector and said substrate. ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8110510 | Low temperature synthesis of nanowires in solution Methods synthesizing nanowires in solution at low temperatures (e.g., about 400° C. or lower) are provided. In the present methods, the nanowires are synthesized by exposing nanowire precursors to metal nanocrystals in a nanowire growth solution comprising a solven... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8109172 | Wrist assembly for robotic arm A wrist assembly (311) for a robotic arm or other mechanical device is provided. The wrist assembly comprises a first arm (313) which terminates in a first radius (317), a second arm (315) which terminates in a second radius (319),... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8069910 | Acoustic resonator for synthetic jet generation for thermal management A thermal management system is provided herein which comprises a synthetic jet ejector (201) driven by an acoustic resonator (209). ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8052920 | Apparatus for observing interior of a blast furnace system An apparatus for observing the interior of a blast furnace system includes a visible light guiding unit which defines a light path along a viewing axis that is radial to an upright axis of a furnace wall body of a blast furnace and which is adapted to be secured to ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8035966 | Electronics package for synthetic jet ejectors A thermal management system (101), comprising (a) a synthetic jet actuator (103), and (b) a processor (107) in communication with the synthetic jet actuator, the processor being adapted to receive programming instructions, and being further adap... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8030886 | Thermal management of batteries using synthetic jets A thermally managed power source (201) is provided herein which comprises a first battery module (203), and a first synthetic jet ejector (215) disposed on a surface of said first battery module and being adapted to direct a plurality of synthet... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8024392 | Computational method, system, and apparatus A method, system, and apparatus for performing computations. In a method, arguments X and K are loaded into session memory, and X mod P and X mod Q are computed to give, respectively, XP and XQ. XP and XQ are expone... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8008786 | Dynamic pad size to reduce solder fatigue A semiconductor device is provided which comprises a substrate (501) having a plurality of bond pads (503) disposed thereon. Each bond pad has a major axis and a minor axis in a direction parallel to the substrate, and the ratio of the major axis to th... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8003539 | Integrated assist features for epitaxial growth A method for making a semiconductor device is provided which comprises (a) creating a data set (301) which defines a set of tiles for a polysilicon deposition process; (b) deriving a polysilicon deposition mask set (311) from the data set, wherein the ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8003517 | Method for forming interconnects for 3-D applications A method for forming an interconnect, comprising (a) providing a substrate (203) with a via (205) defined therein; (b) forming a seed layer (211) such that a first portion of the seed layer extends over a surface of the via, and a second portion... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8001620 | Temperature sensing glove for automotive applications A temperature sensing glove (101) is provided. The glove includes a temperature sensor (131); a plurality of memory locations; and assigning means (121, 123) for assigning a temperature reading made by the temperature sensor to one of the plural... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7994883 | Electromagnetic relay An electromagnetic relay includes a casing, and a relay core member sealed in the casing and including an electromagnetic unit and a terminal unit. The electromagnetic unit includes a spool frame set having an engagement portion, a coil unit wound on the spool frame... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7988844 | Method for measuring an iodine adsorption number of carbon black, electrolytic cell, and kit for measuring an iodine adsorption number of carbon black A method for measuring an iodine adsorption number of carbon black includes: (a) electrochemically reducing an unknown amount of iodine adsorbed by a predetermined amount of a carbon black sample; (b) measuring the electrical charge used for reducing the unknown amo... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7981104 | Method for treating otitis externa A device is provided herein for the treatment of otitis externa. The device (101) comprises a receptacle (103) adapted to store a pharmaceutical composition, and a distal portion (105), in open communication with the receptacle, which is adapted... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7947094 | Microcartridge hydrogen generator A hydrogen generator (101) is provided which comprises a third chamber (109) containing a catalyst (121), a first chamber (103) containing a fluid, a second chamber (105) containing a material that reacts with the fluid in the pres... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7410876 | Methodology to reduce SOI floating-body effect A method for making a semiconductor device, comprising (a) providing a structure comprising a gate electrode (207) disposed on a substrate (203); (b) creating first (213) and second (214) pre-amorphization implant regions in the substrate... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7410544 | Method for cleaning electroless process tank A method for cleaning a metal plating tank is provided herein. In accordance with the method, the tank is exposed to a first acid (103), after which the tank is exposed to a second acid in the presence of a first oxidizing agent (107). ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7384083 | O-ring locking mount An end effecter (201) is provided herein which comprises a blade (203) having a depression (213) formed in the surface (210) thereof, an elastomeric pad (209) disposed in the depression and a fastener (215) for releasably se... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7364953 | Manufacturing method to construct semiconductor-on-insulator with conductor layer sandwiched between buried dielectric layer and semiconductor layers A method for treating exposed metal in a semiconductor wafer (301) in wafer processing is disclosed herein. In accordance with the method, a wafer is provided which is equipped with a metal layer (307) and a substrate (303), wherein a portion of... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7360183 | Design analysis tool and method for deriving correspondence between storage elements of two memory models A method and system automatically generates a bit-cell correspondence between a first memory model and a second memory model of a memory. The method includes receiving data from the first and the second memory model, obtaining true-inverted fan-in cones for words in... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7335259 | Growth of single crystal nanowires The present invention provides nanowires which are substantially straight and substantially free of nanoparticles and methods for making the same The nanowires can be made by seeded approaches, wherein nanocrystals bound to a substrate are used to promote growth of ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7328336 | System and method for small-area system data processing A system and method for processing server-to-client and client-to-server data communications using data processing devices (DPDs) in a small-area system, such as a local area network or smaller system. The DPDs act as proxies for the servers to which the transmissio... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324616 | Low cost and high performance narrowband interference cancellation system A narrowband interference cancellation system, method and digital signal processor is disclosed that removes narrowband interference in wide band communication systems. The system includes a narrowband processing component, wideband processing component, soft metric... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324538 | High-throughput state management for TCP A state decision subsystem (SDS) including an inload module, a simple programmable entity (SPE), at least one SPE memory, an unload module, and a coherency module. The inload module reads state information from a memory subsystem—the state information correspondin... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7323343 | Nitrogen monoxide, nitrogen dioxide and ozone determination in air An analytical system is provided for determining nitrogen monoxide, nitrogen dioxide and ozone concentrations in air samples. An ultraviolet light source 4 is used to alter the equilibrium between nitrogen dioxide and oxygen on the one hand and nitrogen monox... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7297586 | Gate dielectric and metal gate integration A CMOS device is provided which comprises (a) a substrate (103); (b) a gate dielectric layer (107) disposed on the substrate, the gate dielectric comprising a metal oxide; (c) an NMOS electrode (105) disposed on a first region of said gate diele... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7290079 | Device and method for small discontiguous accesses to high-density memory devices A memory architecture design and strategy is provided using memory devices that would normally be considered disadvantageous, but by accommodating the data input, output, and other peripheral controller services, overall performance in this mode is optimized. The su... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7279433 | Deposition and patterning of boron nitride nanotube ILD A method for forming a dielectric layer is disclosed herein. In accordance with the method, a first material is provided (303) which comprises a suspension of nanoparticles in a liquid medium. A dielectric layer is then formed (305) on the substrate fr... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7266359 | DC interference removal in wireless communications A method for removing direct current (DC) interference from a signal received by a communication receiver is provided that removes both a DC offset signal induced by the communication receiver and transmitter. The method includes removing the estimated DC offset fro... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7252140 | Apparatus and method for enhanced heat transfer One embodiment of the cooling module is implemented as a device having a heat sink and an integrated synthetic jet actuator. The heat sink is configured to have a channel and a jet distribution system associated with the synthetic jet actuator directs fluid flow int... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7238561 | Method for forming uniaxially strained devices A method for making a semiconductor device is provided herein. In accordance with the method, a semiconductor structure is provided which comprises a substrate (201) with a gate structure (209) disposed thereon, wherein the gate structure comprises a g... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7233970 | Computational method, system, and apparatus A method, system, and apparatus for performing computations. In a method, arguments X and K are loaded into session memory, and X mod P and X mod Q are computed to give, respectively, XP and XQ. XP and XQ are expone... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7221006 | GeSOI transistor with low junction current and low junction capacitance and method for making the same A semiconductor device (101) is provided herein which comprises a substrate (103) comprising germanium. The substrate has source (107) and drain (109) regions defined therein. A barrier layer (111) comprising a first material that ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7218734 | Ring arithmetic method, system, and apparatus A data encryption method performed with ring arithmetic operations wherein a modulus C is be chosen of the form 2w−L, wherein C is a w-bit number and L is a low Hamming weight odd integer less than 2(w−1)/2. And in some of those embodiments... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7208841 | Semiconductor device with strain relieving bump design A semiconductor device (51) is provided. The device (51) comprises a die (53) having a contact pad (61) thereon, a redistribution conductor (59) having a base portion (64) which is in electrical communication with the contac... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7192855 | PECVD nitride film A method for forming a semiconductor device is provided. In accordance with the method, a substrate (103) is provided, and a dielectric material (123) is formed on the substrate through plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD). The PECVD is co... | 03/20/2007 |
