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Crispy Chip Sandwich and Process of Producing a Sandwich Product
A food product comprising a multilayer cookie or snack having outer layers formed from a crispy type edible food product such as a potato chip or corn chip, etc. with an intermediate marshmallow layer being in contact with the inner surface of each crispy chip and one or more filler substances.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7566637 | Method of inhibition of metal diffusion arising from laser dicing Method of inhibiting metal diffusion arising from laser dicing is provided. The method includes dividing a wafer into at least one chip. The chip includes internal metallic features. The dividing deposits at least one metallic substance on the outer surface of the c... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7541608 | Memory device and method of manufacturing the device by simultaneously conditioning transition metal oxide layers in a plurality of memory cells Disclosed are non-volatile memory devices that incorporate a series of single or double memory cells. The single memory cells are essentially “U” shaped. The double memory cells comprise two essentially “U” shaped memory cells. Each memory cell comprises a m... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7536678 | System and method for determining the possibility of adverse effect arising from a code change in a computer program A system and method determine the possibility of adverse effect arising from a code change in a computer program. The system and method comprise the steps of identifying important classes within a computer program and determining directly and indirectly dependent cl... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7464359 | Method for re-routing an interconnection array to improve switching behavior in a single net and an associated interconnection array structure Disclosed are embodiments of an interconnection array for a circuit. The interconnection array comprises a victim net that is positioned parallel to and adjacent to sections of multiple crossed aggressor nets, thereby, minimizing the exposure of the circuit to delay... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7463047 | Increase productivity at wafer test using probe retest data analysis Disclosed is a method of wafer/probe testing of integrated circuit devices after manufacture. The invention begins by testing an initial group of devices (e.g., integrated circuit chips) to produce an initial failing group of devices that failed the testing. The dev... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7457462 | System and method for modifying images having an ability to assign color intensity values to pixels exposed during image manipulation operations A system and method for modifying images has an ability to assign color intensity values to pixels exposed during image manipulation operations. The system and method for modifying images comprises means for using the color intensity values of remaining pixels in th... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7456674 | Clock generator having improved deskewer Disclosed is a clock generation circuit for generating a clock-out signal that has a fixed latency with respect to a clock-input signal. When multiple such clock generation circuits are utilized to feed clock signals to different digital logic circuits within an int... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7456471 | Field effect transistor with raised source/drain fin straps Therefore, disclosed above are embodiments of a multi-fin field effect transistor structure (e.g., a multi-fin dual-gate FET or tri-gate FET) that provides low resistance strapping of the source/drain regions of the fins, while also maintaining low capacitance to th... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7456426 | Fin-type antifuse A method of forming an antifuse forms a material layer and then patterns the material layer into a fin. The center portion of the fin is converted into a substantially non-conductive region and the end portions of the fin into conductors. The process of converting t... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7455291 | Media alignment systems and methods Embodiment herein being by placing a media sheet into a chamber. The chamber has a bottom, sidewalls, and a movable projection within a lower portion of the chamber. The movable projection has an upper surface and the media sheet can initially rest on the upper surf... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7454687 | Method and infrastructure for recognition of the resources of a defective hardware unit A system and method of recognizing resources of a computer comprising a system serial number and a broken hardware unit comprising a non-volatile memory unit and enablement definition data relating to functions of the broken hardware unit, wherein the method compris... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7454496 | Method for monitoring data resources of a data processing network A method monitors data resources of a data processing network on behalf of a new consumer. The method comprises determining monitoring requirements of the new consumer. The monitoring requirements include: a list of data resources monitored for the new consumer; met... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7453973 | Diagnostic method and apparatus for non-destructively observing latch data The invention provides a circuit that can observe data within shift registers without altering the data. The circuit includes selectors connected to the inputs and outputs of the shift registers. The selectors selectively connect the input with the output of a selec... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7452215 | Ball grid array rework using a continuous belt furnace Disclosed is an apparatus for separating interconnects between, for example, a card and a substrate. The apparatus includes one or more rotationally biased (e.g., spring-loaded, etc.) partial-circle structures (e.g., blades, squeegee, plow, etc.) and one or more tem... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7451191 | System and method for downloading a document from a server computer to a client computer A system and method downloads a document from a server computer to a client computer. The method and system comprises the steps of repackaging scripts in a document program at the server such that scripts are in a program location no earlier than the program locatio... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7450797 | Beam switch structures and methods A substantially straight beam in an unbuckled state is compressed to cause the beam to buckle using an adjustable compressor. The adjustable compressor applies force to one or both ends of the beam and limits compression on the beam to allow the beam to move between... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7449735 | Dual work-function single gate stack Disclosed is a complementary CMOS device having a first FET with sidewall channels and a second FET with a planar channel. The first FET can be a p-FET and the second FET can be an n-FET or vice versa. The conductor used to form the gate electrodes of the different ... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7447980 | Error detection and correction in data transmission packets A system and method of using recursive cyclic redundancy check (CRC)+forward error correction (FEC) for enhancing the channel coding gain for a DVB-H receiver, and using a physical (PHY) Reed-Solomon (RS) decoder+FEC to achieve better coding gain. The system and met... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7446350 | Embedded silicon germanium using a double buried oxide silicon-on-insulator wafer Disclosed is a p-type field effect transistor (pFET) structure and method of forming the pFET. The pFET comprises embedded silicon germanium in the source/drain regions to increase longitudinal stress on the p-channel and, thereby, enhance transistor performance. In... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7444272 | Self-modulation in a model-based automated management framework Embodiments herein present a method, system, computer program product, etc. for automated management using a hybrid of prediction models and feedback-based systems. The method begins by calculating confidence values of models. Next, the method selects a first model ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444258 | Automated simulation testbench generation for serializer/deserializer datapath systems Embodiments herein present a method for automated simulation testbench generation for serializer/deserializer datapath systems. The method provides a database of transactors for generating and checking data within the datapath system, wherein the transactors are ada... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7443965 | Integrated voice and data interoperability platform Disclosed is a communication server that includes a message transfer unit that transfers messages sent between a first user communicating under a first communication system and a second user communicating under a second communication system. For example, the communi... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7443259 | Fast VCO band selection by frequency to voltage converter The invention comprises a phase locked loop that has an input adapted to receive a reference frequency. A phase detector is connected directly to the input, a charge pump is connected directly to the phase detector, and a loop filter is connected directly to the cha... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7442996 | Structure and method for enhanced triple well latchup robustness Disclosed is a triple well CMOS device structure that addresses the issue of latchup by adding an n+ buried layer not only beneath the p-well to isolate the p-well from the p− substrate but also beneath the n-well. The structure eliminates the spacing issues betwe... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7442878 | Low stress conductive polymer bump Disclosed is a laminated (or non-laminated) conductive interconnection for joining an integrated circuit device to a device carrier, where the conductive interconnection comprises alternating metal layers and polymer layers. In addition, the polymer can include dend... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7442197 | Variable depth drill guide A variable depth drill guide assembly and a method of controlling a depth of a drill insertion into a bone using the variable depth drill guide assembly, wherein the assembly comprises a shaft; an outer sleeve connected to the shaft, wherein the outer sleeve compris... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7441171 | Efficient scan chain insertion using broadcast scan for reduced bit collisions Disclosed is a method of inserting scan elements onto scan chains of broadcast scan structures to minimize the number of collisions in a plurality of logic cones. Each logic cone is selected and evaluated to identify all of the scan elements that provide inputs ther... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7439109 | Method of forming an integrated circuit structure on a hybrid crystal oriented substrate Disclosed is an integrated circuit structure that has a substrate having at least two types of crystalline orientations. First-type transistors (e.g., NFETs) are formed on first portions of the substrate having a first type of crystalline orientation, and second-typ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437620 | Method and system for extending the useful life of another system Disclosed are embodiments of a method and an associated first system for extending product life of a second system in the presence of phenomena that cause the exhibition of both performance degradation and recovery properties within system devices. The first system ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433820 | Asynchronous Hidden Markov Model method and system A system, method and program storage device implementing a method for modeling a data generating process, wherein the modeling comprises observing a data sequence comprising irregularly sampled data, obtaining an observation sequence based on the observed data seque... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430717 | Method for adapting a K-means text clustering to emerging data A method and structure for clustering documents in datasets which include clustering first documents and a first dataset to produce first document classes, creating centroid seeds based on the first document classes, and clustering second documents in a second datas... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7424062 | Efficient doppler compensation method and receiver for orthogonal-frequency-division-multiplexing (OFDM) systems A receiver and method of enhancing transmitted data signals in a wireless communications system includes wirelessly transmitting and receiving a data signal over a wireless channel in the communications system; providing known channel parameters corresponding to the... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7421858 | Optical transmission substrate, method for manufacturing optical transmission substrate and optoelectronic integrated circuit Provided is an optical transmission substrate including: a first substrate; an optical waveguide which has clad covering a core and a periphery of the core and extends on an upper surface of the first substrate; a second substrate provided parallel to the first subs... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7421502 | Method and system for storage-aware flow resource management A method and structure for managing resources in a storage system that is based on server resource usage is disclosed. The method allocates a command window to each of the servers accessing the resources, achieves an equilibrium state that balances the size of each ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7420719 | Skew correction Method embodiments herein print a test document using a multi-function printing device to produce a printed document. This printed document is examined in a first direction to determine a first skew of the printing device. The first skew comprises a combination of r... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418689 | Method of generating wiring routes with matching delay in the presence of process variation A method and service of balancing delay in a circuit design begins with nodes that are to be connected together by a wiring design, or by being supplied with an initial wiring design that is to be altered. The wiring design will have many wiring paths, such as a fir... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7418228 | Fuser systems and methods Embodiments use an apparatus comprising a media path that is adapted to transport media sheets within the printing apparatus. Fuser rolls are positioned along the media path, and the fuser rolls are adapted to fuse marking material on the media sheets as the media s... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7417290 | Air break for improved silicide formation with composite caps Disclosed is a structure and method for tuning silicide stress and, particularly, for developing a tensile silicide region on a gate conductor of an n-FET in order to optimize n-FET performance. More particularly, a first metal layer-protective cap layer-second meta... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7415695 | System for search and analysis of systematic defects in integrated circuits Disclosed is a method of locating systematic defects in integrated circuits. The invention first performs a preliminary extracting and index processing of the circuit design and then performs feature searching. When performing the preliminary extracting and index pr... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7415221 | Modular media registration systems and methods for printing or image-forming apparatus Embodiments herein comprise registrations module(s) positioned between image output terminal(s), feeder module(s), and/or finisher module(s). Each registration module comprises a casing having first mounting points that correspond to second mounting points on an adj... | 08/19/2008 |
