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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7515062 | 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... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7502411 | Method and circuit for adaptive equalization of multiple signals in response to a control signal generated from one of the equalized signals In preferred embodiments, an adaptive equalization circuit including at least two equalization filters (each for equalizing a signal transmitted over a multi-channel serial link) and control circuitry for generating an equalization control signal for use by all the ... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7500032 | Cable with circuitry for asserting stored cable data or other information to an external device or user A cable including circuitry for asserting information to a user or external device and a system including such a cable. The cable can include conductors, a memory storing cable data, and circuitry configured to respond to a request received on at least one of the co... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7461974 | 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... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7452172 | Method of making and applying a hardcover over-wrap and guide apparatus Guide apparatus for forming and applying an over-wrap sheet to a book hardcover including a base unit having a width greater than the width of the hardcover and a length greater than the length of the hardcover, with the base unit including a hardcover receiving are... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7444699 | Inflatable knee pillow having thin profile and foldability when deflated In some embodiments, an inflatable knee pillow including a body having an outer fabric surface, and an inflation valve, wherein the body defines straps (preferably two pairs of straps) and encloses a bladder (an inflatable volume), and the inflation valve is in flui... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7409031 | Data sampling method and apparatus with alternating edge sampling phase detection for loop characteristic stabilization A method and apparatus for 2× oversampling of data having jitter. In some embodiments, the invention is a clock and data recovery device including an alternating edge sampling binary phase detector, and which is configured to stabilize loop characteristics in vario... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7375960 | Apparatus for removably securing storage components in an enclosure In some embodiments, an assembly in which storage components (e.g., at least two bare SATA disk drives) can be removably secured. The assembly can secure bare storage components in an enclosure without the need first to mount any of them in or to a carrier, and such... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7374385 | Method of making a hardcover book and hardcover apparatus A method of fabricating a book from a stack of sheets and a hardcover assembly having first and second relatively rigid cover sections separated by a spine region. A layer of pressure sensitive adhesive is disposed over the inner surfaces of the cover sections, with... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7360757 | Stack conditioning apparatus and method for use in bookbinding Apparatus for conditioning an edge of a stack of sheets to be bound so that sheets having coated surfaces and the like can be reliably bound. The apparatus includes a stack clamping mechanism configured to secure the stack of sheets and a piercing member configured ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359437 | Encoding method and system for reducing inter-symbol interference effects in transmission over a serial link A communication system including a transmitter, a receiver, and a serial link, in which encoded data (e.g., encoded video data and encoded auxiliary data) are transmitted from the transmitter to the receiver. The serial link can but need not be a TMDS or TMDS-like l... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7351024 | Apparatus and method for binding a book A book binding apparatus for binding a stack of sheets, including a cover element having a first cover section that corresponds to the dimensions of the sheets and a first section of pressure sensitive adhesive and an associated release liner disposed along a first ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7339216 | Vertical color filter sensor group array with full-resolution top layer and lower-resolution lower layer An array of vertical color filter (VCF) sensor groups, optionally including or coupled to circuitry for converting photogenerated carriers produced in the sensors to electrical signals, and methods for reading out any embodiment of the array. The array has a top lay... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7333924 | Method and system for device level simulation of large semiconductor memories and other circuits A method for device level simulation of a circuit modeled by a set of CCR graphs, a computer system programmed to perform such a method, and a computer readable medium which stores code for implementing such a method. Typically, the circuit includes MOS transistors ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7334067 | Programmable controller having reduced control key set In some embodiments, a wall-mountable, programmable 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... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7298599 | Multistage snapback ESD protection network A snapback ESD protection network coupled across first and second integrated circuit pads and including first and second snapback devices, such as SCR devices, with the second device having a turnoff current ITOFF which is greater than the turnoff current... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7296313 | Inflatable knee pillow having thin profile and foldability when deflated In some embodiments, an inflatable knee pillow including a body having an outer fabric surface, and an inflation valve, wherein the body defines straps (preferably two pairs of straps) and encloses a bladder (an inflatable volume), and the inflation valve is in flui... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7295578 | Method and apparatus for synchronizing auxiliary data and video data transmitted over a TMDS-like link A communication system including a transmitter, a receiver, and a TMDS-like link, in which video data and auxiliary data are transmitted from the transmitter to the receiver, or in which video data are transmitted over the link from the transmitter to the receiver a... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7281559 | 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 roll... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7283566 | Method and circuit for generating time stamp data from an embedded-clock audio data stream and a video clock In preferred embodiments, a system including a transmitter, a receiver, and a serial link, in which the transmitter is configured to transmit video data, embedded-clock auxiliary data (or auxiliary data derived from embedded-clock auxiliary data), and a video clock ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7269673 | Cable with circuitry for asserting stored cable data or other information to an external device or user A cable including circuitry for asserting information to a user or external device and a system including such a cable. The cable can include conductors, a memory storing cable data, and circuitry configured to respond to a request received on at least one of the co... | 09/11/2007 |
| RE39812 | Method and apparatus which allows devices with multiple protocol capabilities to configure to a common protocol configuration An apparatus matches the configuration of a first station of a local area network to the configuration of the second station of the local area network. The first station detects a protocol advertisement from the second station that indicates a protocol in which the ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7257163 | Method and system for reducing inter-symbol interference effects in transmission over a serial link with mapping of each word in a cluster of received words to a single transmitted word A system in which encoded data (e.g., encoded video and auxiliary data) are transmitted over a serial link. Other aspects of the invention are transmitters for use in encoding data for transmission over a serial link, receivers for receiving such data, and methods f... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7249082 | Method and system for multi-period performance attribution with metric-preserving coefficients A method for arithmetic performance attribution which accurately links single-period attribution effects over multiple periods. In preferred embodiments, the method determines portfolio relative performance over multiple time periods (t=1, 2, . . . , T) as a sum of ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7246981 | Apparatus and method for making hardcover book A method and apparatus for binding a stack of sheets which can be carried out using a conventional perfect binding machine. A stack to be bound is positioned between a pair of end leafs. Molten hot melt adhesive is then applied to the edge of the stack and to the fi... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7249079 | Method and system for multi-period performance attribution A method for arithmetic and geometric performance attribution which accurately links single-period attribution effects over multiple periods. The arithmetic attribution method optimally distributes the residual to yield a minimum-distortion residual-free arithmetic ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7246091 | Method and system for multi-period performance attribution A method for arithmetic and geometric performance attribution which accurately links single-period attribution effects over multiple periods. The arithmetic attribution method optimally distributes the residual to yield a minimum-distortion residual-free arithmetic ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7242766 | Method and system for encrypting and decrypting data using an external agent A communication system including a transmitter, a receiver, a communication link (for example, a TMDS-like link), and preferably also an external agent with which the transmitter and receiver can communicate, in which video data (or other data) are encrypted, the en... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7236553 | Reduced dead-cycle, adaptive phase tracking method and apparatus A data sampling method and circuit employing an oversampling clock to oversample a data signal, a phase tracker for use with or in a data sampling circuit, and a method for identifying a sequence of best sampling positions for sampling a data signal from signal samp... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7223209 | Elliptical exercise apparatus An elliptical exercise apparatus includes an upstanding support connected to a front end of a base support, a rail assembly provided on a rear end of the base support, a wheel assembly mounted on the front end of the base support, a swing rod connected pivotally to ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7187307 | Method and system for encapsulation of multiple levels of communication protocol functionality within line codes A communication system including two endpoints (transceivers or a transmitter and receiver) and a serial link between them. At least one endpoint is configured to generate encoded data in accordance with a line code and to transmit the encoded data over the link. Th... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7180140 | PMOS device with drain junction breakdown point located for reduced drain breakdown voltage walk-in and method for designing and manufacturing such device 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... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7171525 | Method and system for arbitrating priority bids sent over serial links to a multi-port storage device A system including a multi-port storage device (e.g., a disk drive) and at least two users, each user coupled to a port of the storage device by a serial link. The storage device has an operational portion and an interface (including arbitration circuitry) between i... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7166880 | Vertical color filter sensor group with carrier-collection elements of different size and method for fabricating such a sensor group A vertical color filter sensor group formed on a substrate (preferably a semiconductor substrate) and including at least two vertically stacked, photosensitive sensors, and an array of such sensor groups. In some embodiments, a carrier-collection element of at least... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7153076 | Method of applying a wrap sheet to a book hardcover and related guide apparatus Apparatus for forming and applying a wrap sheet to a hardcover for a bound book, including a planar guide having a width and length selected such that the planar guide can be uses as a template for cutting the wrap sheet. A reticule is disposed on the planar guide, ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7141831 | Snapback clamp having low triggering voltage for ESD protection An SCR device having a first P type region disposed in a semiconductor body and electrically connected to anode terminal of the device. At least one N type region is also disposed in the body adjacent the first P type region so as to form a PN junction having a widt... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7134822 | Guide apparatus for use in making a hardcover book A guide apparatus for applying a cover to a bound stack of sheets, including a base unit which defines a book receiving surface and a first alignment member having a lower cover stop disposed along a reference line, and a first upper cover stop also disposed along t... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7136484 | Cryptosystems using commuting pairs in a monoid Apparati, methods, and computer readable media for enabling two parties (1,2) to exchange encrypted messages, exchange symmetric cryptographic keys, and perform functions of public key cryptography. First and second key exchange algorithms use commuting pairs... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7131004 | 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... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7102446 | Phase lock loop with coarse control loop having frequency lock detector and device including same A phase lock loop (PLL) for controlling a sampling clock or other clock, and a data sampling circuit, transceiver, or other device including such a PLL. The PLL includes a multi-range VCO, at least one fine control loop for controlling the VCO, and a coarse control ... | 09/05/2006 |
