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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7815215 | Multipurpose work site utility carrier This disclosure describes a work site utility carrier that configures as a dolly or hand truck in its retracted mode and a work bench in its elevated mode. Pivoting arm pairs enable the carrier's lower and upper receptacles to be transitioned between modes. Two “w... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7456105 | CMP metal polishing slurry and process with reduced solids concentration This disclosure describes a low particle concentration formulation for slurry which is particularly useful in continuous CMP polishing of copper layers during semiconductor wafer manufacture. The slurry is characterized by particle concentrations generally less than... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7306245 | Multipurpose work site utility carrier This disclosure describes a work site utility carrier that configures into a dolly and hand truck in its retracted mode and a work bench in its elevated mode. A lower receptacle formed as part of a chassis with wheels, and an upper receptacle are pivotally connected... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7109101 | Capping layer for reducing amorphous carbon contamination of photoresist in semiconductor device manufacture; and process for making same In the fabrication of semiconductor devices using the PECVD process to deposit hardmask material such as amorphous carbon, structure and process are described for reducing migration of species from the amorphous carbon which can damage an overlying photoresist. In o... | 09/19/2006 |
| D518406 | Fashion jewelry eyeglass clasp | 04/04/2006 |
| D518407 | Fashion jewelry eyeglass clasp | 04/04/2006 |
| D518405 | Fashion jewelry eyeglass clasp | 04/04/2006 |
| D517941 | Fashion jewelry eyeglass clasp | 03/28/2006 |
| D517942 | Fashion jewelry eyeglass clasp | 03/28/2006 |
| D517940 | Fashion jewelry eyeglass clasp | 03/28/2006 |
| 6926145 | Electric light strands utility holder This disclosure describes an electric light strand mounting device for simplifying the installation and removal of light strands from, for example, a holiday tree. The device consists of a light strand receiver and an associated base that rests on a floor or horizon... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6905967 | Method for improving planarity of shallow trench isolation using multiple simultaneous tiling systems In a feature layer of a semiconductor wafer, dummy tiles which overcome the tendency of dishing and erosion to occur during a CMP process are placed with various sizes and in various positions. An isolation zone is provided around active features. A scanning process... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6690580 | Integrated circuit structure with dielectric islands in metallized regions This disclosure describes use of dielectric islands embedded in metallized regions of a semiconductor device. The islands are formed in a cavity of a dielectric layer, as upright pillars attached at their base to an underlying dielectric. The islands brea... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6549673 | Wavelet-based compression of images for storage, transmission and reconstruction using hierarchical subband decomposition Data compression achieved by set partitioning of hierarchical trees is made more efficient by a family of related traversal schemes which act upon the tree structure and the significance values derived from the tree structure. The tree structure may be tr... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6438266 | Encoding images of 3-D objects with improved rendering time and transmission processes Disclosed is a scheme for creating, manipulating and transmitting images of a 3-D object through networks. A useful layering coupled with vector quantization allows an efficient combination of compressing and encoding of both the topology (connectivity) a... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6166742 | Wavelet-assisted volume ray casting This disclosure describes the use in telecommunications of a data processing technique for accelerating the calculation of data points in volume image rendering using volume ray casting, to create 3-dimensional data sets of network operational characteris... | 12/26/2000 |
| 5950167 | Screen-less remote voice or tone-controlled computer program operations via telephone set Computer programs such as word processing, spreadsheet and electronic mail are run from a remote telecommunications terminal, without benefit of any user interaction with a screen display, by software associated with the computer that translates a combina... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5781883 | Method for real-time reduction of voice telecommunications noise not measurable at its source A telecommunications network service overcomes the annoying effects of transmitted noise by a signal processing which filters out the noise using interactive estimations of a linear predictive coding speech model. The speech model filter uses an accurate ... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5438627 | Reactance-mass actuator Disclosed is an electrodynamic moving coil actuator comprising one or more separate coils contained in interior spaces of a reactance mass. The coils are oriented in closely spaced parallel zones within the interior spaces. The spaces are formed and posit... | 08/01/1995 |
| 5412716 | System for efficiently powering repeaters in small diameter cables A system of impedance matching is provided to match the total impedance of the cable system to the total impedance of the powered elements such as the repeaters. The source impedance of the power supplies may be considered as part of the cable impedance. ... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5355845 | Temperature measurement in power generator boilers Temperatures along the surfaces of water tubes in an operating steam boiler are determined by detecting infrared radiation emitted from the tube surfaces in one or more narrow pass-bands founds to be available despite the presence of hot and turbulent flu... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5345542 | Proportional replication mapping system A high speed data display routine used in imaging of displays of geographic or other detail depicting, for example, the depth of an ocean, acoustic prediction plots, photographs and logos. The speed is achieved by a process for efficiently mapping the dat... | 09/06/1994 |
| 5343523 | Telephone headset structure for reducing ambient noise Telephone headsets used by operators and airline pilot headsets are subject to substantial amounts of interfering ambient noise which detract from the intelligibility of incoming speech. Noise reduction circuitry does not altogether eliminate the interfer... | 08/30/1994 |
| 5308954 | Heat sealing apparatus for splice case having two half shells An apparatus for making telecommunications cable closures under field conditions consists of a heating unit with a four-sided rectangular frame that mounts on slide bars which are fixedly mounted on a surface. The heating unit may be inserted under two op... | 05/03/1994 |
| 5298105 | Stripper for removing coating from optical fibers An optical fiber stripper is formed with an interior cylindrical elongate passage for housing a fiber length and for containing stripper fluid. To assure ample room for expansion of the fiber coating during stripping, the passage has a greater volume than... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5280383 | Dual-stage low power optical amplifier A two-stage optical fiber amplifier requiring substantially reduced power comprises a pre-amplifier first-stage operating in the linear region within the small signal limits, and a post-amplifier second-stage operating in a saturated regime providing sign... | 01/18/1994 |
| 5264752 | Amplifier for driving large capacitive loads An amplifier design for a capacitive load reduces power supply requirements by recovering, during the discharge of the capacitive load, a substantial amount of the stored energy without causing noise signals to be created. The recovered energy is stored i... | 11/23/1993 |
| 5257332 | Optical fiber expanded beam coupler Precise axial alignment of fibers to be connected is achieved with a male-to-male arrangement consisting of substantially identical fiber-receiving substrates and a coupler element which takes several configurations. A lensing element such as a ball/spher... | 10/26/1993 |
| 5253294 | Secure transmission system In a secure digital transmission system that may utilize the Data Encryption Standard, the message signal is encrypted according to a predetermined algorithm and a key. The key is selected from a library of key material according to a key index signal. Th... | 10/12/1993 |
| 5224126 | Phase ambiguity resolution for manchester-encoded data Regeneration of a Manchester coded data stream is improved by a system for distinguishing which data signal transitions are bit center and which are bit end transitions. Using a monostable flip-flop with associated phasing and timing circuits including a ... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5187759 | High gain multi-mode optical amplifier Indiscriminately exciting the modes of a multi-mode optical fiber amplifier is avoided by an optical fiber amplifier design in which the excitation of pump modes in the core of a multi-mode fiber is controlled by controlling the pump light launching. The ... | 02/16/1993 |
| 5175989 | Apparatus for avoiding torque build-ups in deploying ocean cable A device is described which prevents, during deployment of an ocean cable system, torque build-up in a heavy armor cable section from being abruptly applied to a next-connected light armor cable section. A set of helically-wound steel armor rods rigidly a... | 01/05/1993 |
| 5080461 | Retracting optical fiber connector Two sets of optical fiber ends to be connected are contained in opposing v-grooves in the respective interiors of a first (left) and a second (right) mating housings. In the unengaged position, the housing accesses are closed to protect the fibers. In the... | 01/14/1992 |
| 5033028 | Reaction mass actuator This disclosure describes apparatus and method for overcoming stroke limitations of moving coil reaction-mass vibration dampers, by recovering armature stroke displacement. The coil housing is selectively coupled or de-coupled to the vibrating structure. ... | 07/16/1991 |
| 5020059 | Reconfigurable signal processor An interconnection scheme among the processing elements ("PEs") of a multiprocessor computing architecture realizes, through PE reconfiguration, both fault tolerance and a wide variety of different processing topologies including binary trees and linear s... | 05/28/1991 |
| 4979389 | Method and apparatus for detecting surface flaws in electrical cable plastic jacketing This invention employs principles associated with air-lubricated thrust bearings, to provide highly sensitive indicators of the presence of defects along the surface of a cable insulative layer. A spring-loaded mounted probe containing an axial air passag... | 12/25/1990 |
| 4979795 | Coilable torque-balanced cable and method of manufacture A class of torsionally-balanced submarine cables is disclosed which are highly coilable without exhibiting the undesirable tendencies of looping and kinking of its predecessors. Coilability is achieved in part by controlling the cable's torsional stiffnes... | 12/25/1990 |
| 4971418 | Apparatus and method for making low-loss permanent optical fiber splices A single laser is used as a heat source to activate droplets of acid applied to two optical fibers for selective stripping of fiber coating, for forming conical sections on the coating adjacent the exposed fiber for improved bonding, and for fusing the fi... | 11/20/1990 |
| 4958903 | Splice closure A design for an underwater splice closure is disclosed that protects splices essentially independent of operating depth, while allowing for ease of use and low-cost manufacture. The primary splice housing consists of an upper and a lower half-cast of bery... | 09/25/1990 |
| 4940307 | Optical fiber splice Optical fiber repair splices are effected by mating two fiber ends in an elongate open-sided housing containing a fiber-receiving capillary tube. The tube may be factory-inserted to achieve a predetermined alignment of the tube with the fiber guide-way ax... | 07/10/1990 |
