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| 7554898 | Dual density disc with associated properties An optical storage disc has portions for storing pre-recorded or mastered information and portions for storing user writable information, where the mastered portion and the writable portions have different storage capacities or areal data densities. During manufactu... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7512015 | Negative voltage blocking for embedded memories In one embodiment, a memory is provided that includes: a memory cell array adapted to be programmed with a positive voltage from a positive-negative node and to be erased with a negative voltage from the positive-negative node; a negative voltage blocking circuit; a... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7508694 | One-time-programmable memory A one-time-programmable memory cell uses two complementary antifuses that are programmed in a complementary fashion such that only one of the two complementary antifuses is stressed by a programming voltage. The programming voltage stress one a particular one of the... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7505515 | Accurate timing alignments for decision directed continuous time equalizers A continuous time equalizer for equalizing an input signal using a feedforward equalizer portion and a feedback equalizer portion is provided that includes: a slicer operable to make bit decisions on a combined output from the feedforward and feedback equalizer port... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7505152 | Optical metrology system An optical metrology system having an optical metrology sensor assembly and a target is disclosed. The optical metrology sensor assembly transmits a light beam to the target and then uses the reflected beam from the target to determine the position of the target in ... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7492675 | Digital servo system with calibrated notch filters A system which calibrates notch filters in a digital servo system is presented. A notch filter can be calibrated by obtaining a frequency response curve of the digital servo system in a range of frequencies, searching the frequency response curve for at least one pe... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7487978 | Media console for stroller An entertainment console is provided on a stroller, where the console securely holds a DVD player or other type of audio/video/media player. The console has a cavity that holds the DVD play. A release mechanism, such as a spring-biased release may be used to “popâ... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7479883 | RFID verifier An RFID verifier is configured to vary a slope for a ramp-modulated interrogating signal to determine the slope at which an interrogated RFID tag no longer responds to the interrogating signal. In this fashion, the RFID verifier may obtain a measure of quality for t... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7457849 | Controlled firewall penetration for management of discrete devices A method of remotely controlling a client device is provided within a network having a network server coupled to a first side of a firewall from a web server coupled to a second side of the firewall. The network server initiates a service request for the client devi... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7452614 | Luminescent semi-conductive polymer material, method of preparing the same and organic light emitting element having the same The present invention is related to a luminescent material generated by polymerization of a pyrromethene complex by glow discharge. The polymer material of the present invention exhibits semi-conductive properties and has a luminescence maximum in a spectrum region ... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7450079 | Gimbaled gregorian antenna In one embodiment, a gimbaled reflector antenna is provided that includes only four reflectors comprising: a first flat plate reflector, a second flat plate reflector, and an ellipsoidal reflector, and a parabolic reflector. By rotating some or all of the reflectors... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7450251 | Fanned laser beam metrology system Systems and techniques for laser metrology. A system may include a laser source and a fanning apparatus configured to generate a fanned laser beam. The fanned laser beam may be scanned across the surface of an object, and may reflect off a plurality of targets posit... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7439499 | Multiple electrospray probe interface for mass spectrometry In one embodiment, an analytical apparatus is provided that includes a carriage; and a plurality of electrospray probes pivotably mounted on the carriage, wherein movement of the carriage engages a feature with a selected one of the electrospray probes whereby movem... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440311 | Single-poly non-volatile memory cell A non-volatile memory cell includes a floating gate transistor having a floating gate coupled to a metal layer capacitor defined in one or more metal layers. Within each metal layer, the metal layer capacitor includes a first plate coupled to the floating gate and a... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7432855 | RFID reader and active tag In one embodiment, an RFID reader and active tag (RAT) includes: a first beam forming means for interrogating a plurality of RFID tags using at least a first set of two antennas coupled to a first fixed phase feed network, the beam forming means being configured to ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7423607 | Switching power amplifier and DAC for an electronically-scanned array In one embodiment, an integrated circuit antenna array is provided that includes: a low-voltage substrate; a high-voltage substrate; a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) integrated with the low-voltage substrate, the DAC being operable to receive a digital command an... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7414873 | Low-power CAM cell A CAM cell is provided that includes: an SRAM cell adapted to store a bit; a data line adapted to provide a corresponding comparand bit; an XOR gate adapted to XOR the stored bit and the comparand bit to provide an XOR output, and a switch adapted to close in respon... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7414940 | Calibration of a focus error signal gain in a focus servo system A calibration of a focus error signal gain in a focus servo system of an optical disk drive is presented. The focus error signal gain can be calibrated by oscillating an optical pick-up unit in a focus direction through a focus point and determining a focus sum thre... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7414577 | Phase management for beam-forming applications A beam-forming antenna system includes an array of integrated antenna circuits. Each integrated antenna circuit includes an oscillator coupled to an antenna. A network couples to the integrated antenna units to provide phasing information to the oscillators. A contr... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7411561 | Gimbaled dragonian antenna In one embodiment, a gimbaled reflector antenna is provided that includes: a Dragonian antenna having a sub-reflector and a main reflector; a feed; a third reflector adapted to reflect a beam from the feed to the sub reflector; an azimuth gimbal adapted to rotate th... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7408505 | Multi-function device with positioning system and shared processor A multi-function device with a positioning function and a real time positioning engine is disclosed. The device contains also a shared processor used by the positioning function and other functions of the device, such as a mobile radio-communication function. The po... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7406114 | Pseudo-noise correlator for GPS spread-spectrum receiver A terrestrial C/A code GPS receiver system digitally samples, filters and stores a segment of 11 half chips of the received composite as a binary number and multiplexes this number for parallel correlation with each of a series of multibit code replicas for the sate... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7403154 | Determining position without use of broadcast ephemeris information Devices and methods are described for determining position information without broadcast ephemeris data for extended time periods. A server or client device receives or collects historical state data of satellites of a satellite-based positioning system and generate... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7400520 | Low-power CAM In one embodiment, a CAM is provided that includes; a plurality of memory cells grouped to store a word, wherein the memory cells are organized into a plurality of ripple groups, each ripple group including a complex logic gate configured to determine whether a stor... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7400989 | RFID verifier system with grade classification An RFID verifier includes a transmit signal strength indicator (TSSI) and a receive signal strength indicator (RSSI). Using the TSSI, the RFID verifier may determine the amount of power an interrogated RFID tag is illuminated with. Similarly, using the RSSI, the RFI... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7389931 | Beam-forming aperture for barcode applications In one embodiment, a system is provided that includes: a laser source is provided that producing a laser beam that diverges in a first direction and in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction; a lens positioned to receive the laser beam from the laser s... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7387720 | Electrolytic method and apparatus for trace metal analysis An electrolytic method and apparatus for treating a solution sample allowing for the accurate and substantially real-time and on-line analysis of trace contaminants in the solution sample. The method of the present invention includes two stages. The solution sample ... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7382293 | Data decompression In one embodiment, a decompression circuit is provided for a data stream that includes code words representing compressed data and uncompressed data. The decompression circuit includes a translation circuit adapted to identify the code words in the data stream and t... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7378652 | Nebulizer with plasma source A combination electrospray/microwave induced plasma (MIP) ionization source is used as the ionization source for a mass spectrometer. The electrospray can be operated in positive mode, negative mode, or it can be switched off. The microwave-induced plasma can also b... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376037 | Programmable logic device with power-saving architecture A programmable logic device (PLD) such as a field programmable gate array (FPGA) has a power-down mode of operation that reduces power consumption during standby or idle periods for the PLD. In one embodiment of the invention, the PLD includes an internal power supp... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7368222 | Optical data storage media with enhanced contrast Disclosed is an optical data storage medium with enhanced contrast. The optical data storage medium includes a substrate having oppositely facing first and second surfaces. A first metal/alloy layer is formed overlaying the first surface of the substrate. The first ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366046 | DRAM density enhancements In one embodiment, a sense amplifier includes: a differential amplifier adapted to amplify a voltage difference between a pair of bit lines; and a self-bias generation circuit adapted to reduce an offset bias in the differential amplifier with regard to the amplific... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7358486 | Cleaning and reconditioning of an inline automated chemical analysis system A method, system, and mixture for simultaneously cleaning and reconditioning at least a part of a sampling pathway of an inline automated mass spectrometry system are disclosed. A sampling pathway including a probe or a nebulizer, in one example, may be simultaneous... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7358848 | Wireless remote sensor An integrated circuit implements a wireless remote sensor. The wireless remote sensor includes an antenna coupled to an energy distribution unit to allow passive collection of electrical charge. A signal processing unit couples to the energy distribution unit and mo... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7352324 | Phase management for beam-forming applications A beam-forming antenna system include a substrate; a plurality of mixers formed in the substrate; a phase generator formed in the substrate; and a plurality of antennas formed adjacent the substrate, wherein each mixer is coupled to a corresponding at least one of t... | 04/01/2008 |
| D565558 | Router | 04/01/2008 |
| 7348885 | Capacitively-coupled RFID encoder In one embodiment, a capacitive encoding system is provided that includes a pair of capacitive elements formed from an arrangement of stripline conductors. ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7342499 | Multi-band RFID encoder In one embodiment, a multi-band near-field antenna for an RFID encoder includes a substrate; an internal coil antenna defined within the substrate; an annular ground plane defined on a first surface of the substrate; a second ground plane defined on an opposing seco... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7342838 | Programmable logic device with a double data rate SDRAM interface Within a programmable logic device (PLD), a DDR SDRAM interface for a DDR SDRAM is provided, the DDR SDRAM providing data to the PLD on the rising and falling edges of a DQS signal, the interface including: a first register adapted to capture data associated with th... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339229 | Nonvolatile memory solution using single-poly pFlash technology A single-poly two-transistor PMOS memory cell for multiple-time programming applications includes a PMOS floating gate transistor sharing a drain/source P+ diffusion region with a PMOS select gate transistor all formed within a first n-well. A control plate for the ... | 03/04/2008 |
