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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8086979 | Method for designing and manufacturing a PMOS device with drain junction breakdown point located for reduced drain breakdown voltage walk-in A PMOS device can be designed and manufactured in accordance with the invention to locate its drain junction breakdown point and maximum impact ionization point to reduce or eliminate drain breakdown voltage walk-in. In some embodiments, the drain junction breakdown... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086759 | Controller having reduced control key set and method for operating same in a learning, macro, or cloning mode In some embodiments, a wall-mountable, configurable controller having control keys (e.g., less than eight keys or another small number of keys), a subassembly including circuitry, and a control key insert removably mountable to the subassembly and including at least... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8064508 | Equalizer with controllably weighted parallel high pass and low pass filters and receiver including such an equalizer An adjustable equalizer that includes a first branch including a low pass filter (LPF) and having a variable gain (β), and a second branch including a high pass filter (HPF) and having another variable gain (α). Outputs of the branches in response to an input sign... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8021042 | Beta variation cancellation in temperature sensors An apparatus and method for canceling variations in the beta for a bipolar junction transistor so that the diode equation can be employed to accurately measure the temperature of the transistor based at least in part on a ratio of two target collector currents and t... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8019786 | Method and apparatus for displaying data stored in linked nodes A computer implemented method of storing, manipulating, assessing, and displaying data and its relationships, and a computer system (with memory) programmed to implement such method. The data is stored into nodes, and visualized as a sea of linked nodes. ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7991096 | Data sampling method and apparatus using through-transition counts to reject worst sampling position A data sampling circuit that employs an oversampling clock to oversample a data signal, a phase tracking circuit for use in such a sampling circuit, and a receiver and system including such a sampling circuit. Preferably, phase tracking is implemented by systematica... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7938062 | Apparatus and method for compressing a stack A press specially adapted to compress a stack which includes one or more pressure sensitive based fastening layers which are actuated by application of substantial pressure. A lower press plate includes a receiving surface upon which the stack is positioned and firs... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7900047 | Method and apparatus for encrypting data transmitted over a serial link A communication system including a transmitter, a receiver, and a serial link (for example, a TMDS-like link) in which video data (or other data) are encrypted, the encrypted data are transmitted from the transmitter to the receiver, and the transmitted data are dec... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7797536 | Cryptographic device with stored key data and method for using stored key data to perform an authentication exchange or self test In preferred embodiments, a cryptographic device in which two key sets are stored: a normal key set (typically unique to the device) and a test key set (typically used by each of a relatively large number of devices). The device uses the normal key set in a normal o... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7766546 | Beta variation cancellation in temperature sensors An apparatus and method for canceling variations in the beta for a bipolar junction transistor so that the diode equation can be employed to accurately measure the temperature of the transistor based at least in part on a ratio of two target collector currents and t... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7757085 | Method and apparatus for encrypting data transmitted over a serial link A system for implementing a content protection protocol to encrypt data, including transmitters and receivers to which key selection vectors of a vector set have been distributed, wherein a subset of the key selection vectors in the vector set has not been distribut... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7677855 | Conditioned sheets for binding and method/apparatus for making same Apparatus and method of increasing adhesion of thermal binder strips to coated papers by conditioning an edge of the sheet by splitting the edge which results in an expansion of the edge followed by compressing the edge so as to reduce or eliminate the expansion. In... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7651897 | Integrated circuit with metal heat flow path coupled to transistor and method for manufacturing such circuit A method for manufacturing a chip with a metal heat flow path extending between a terminal of a transistor thereof and bulk semiconductor material of the chip (e.g., from the terminal to a substrate over which the transistor is formed or to the body of a semiconduct... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7608034 | Stack conditioning apparatus and method for use in bookbinding Apparatus and method for conditioning an edge of a sheet to be bound so that the edge is conducive to accepting heat activated adhesives used in conventional binding. The sheet is first bent in one direction to form a folding line, with the fold line being a short d... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7599871 | Method and system for non-Gaussian pricing of options and other derivatives In preferred embodiments, a method and system for pricing a derivative (e.g., a stock option) based on a non-Gaussian price model assuming statistical feedback. The dynamics of the underlying financial instrument (e.g., stock) are assumed to follow a stochastic proc... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7599439 | Method and system for transmitting N-bit video data over a serial link A system including a receiver, a TMDS link (or other serial link), and a transmitter configured to transmit K-bit video words (typically, encoded 8-bit video words) over the link. In typical embodiments, the transmitter is configured to pack a sequence of N-bit vide... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7588066 | Binder strip cassette A binder strip cassette including a binder strip roll disposed within a cassette housing, with the roll including a multiplicity of elongated binder strips, each of said binder strips including a flexible substrate and an adhesive disposed on the substrate. The cass... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7560348 | Method for designing and manufacturing a PMOS device with drain junction breakdown point located for reduced drain breakdown voltage walk-in A PMOS device can be designed and manufactured in accordance with the invention to locate its drain junction breakdown point and maximum impact ionization point to reduce or eliminate drain breakdown voltage walk-in. In some embodiments, the drain junction breakdown... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7558326 | Method and apparatus for sending auxiliary data on a TMDS-like link A communication system including a transmitter, a receiver, and a TMDS-like link, in which video data and auxiliary data (typically including timing data associated with other auxiliary data) are transmitted from the transmitter to the receiver, or in which video da... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7539304 | Integrated circuit having self test capability using message digest and method for testing integrated circuit having message digest generation circuitry An integrated circuit that includes operational circuitry and message digest generation circuitry coupled to the operational circuitry, a method for testing an integrated circuit including message digest generation circuitry, and a system including an integrated cir... | 05/26/2009 |
