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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5752035 | Method for compiling and executing programs for reprogrammable instruction set accelerator A microprocessor comprises a defined execution unit coupled to internal buses of the processor for execution of a predefined, fixed set of instructions, combined with one or more programmable execution units coupled to the internal buses for execution of ... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5675270 | Data line with dynamic pull-up circuit A data line for an integrated circuit such as field programmable gate array, has a relatively fast rise time, consumes relatively low amount of current, and maintains a relatively fast fall time. A data conductor is connected to a circuit element providin... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5592000 | Non-volatile semiconductor memory device programmable and erasable at low voltage A non-volatile semiconductor memory device is implemented in a manner which allows programming and erasing at low voltage. The non-volatile semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of blocks, each including a plurality of wordlines acting as contr... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5582700 | Electrophoretic display utilizing phase separation of liquids An electrophoretic display is provided which includes first and second plates spaced apart to define a volume of space therebetween. The display also includes a first electrode positioned on the first plate, a second electrode positioned on the second pla... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5577058 | Broadly tunable single longitudinal mode output produced from multi longitudinal mode seed source An oscillator system which produces a single mode output from a multimode seed beam and a multimode optical power source. The seed source employed in the oscillator system produces a multimode seed beam that is used to injection seed a multimode optical p... | 11/19/1996 |
| 5563823 | Fast FLASH EPROM programming and pre-programming circuit design A circuit for speeding up the pre-programming of floating gate storage transistors such as FLASH EPROMS, and particularly speeding up the pre-programming of a block or array of floating gate storage transistors includes a controllable voltage source that ... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5563358 | Music training apparatus An apparatus to assist the musical instruction of a student including one or more tone sources (e.g. flute, human voice, violin) playing monophonically as inputs, means to quantify aural parameters of pitch, amplitude, duration, and timbre of inputs, mean... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5561547 | Thermal lens of controlled ellipicity The ellipticity of a thermal lens is controlled in a diode-pumped anisotropic crystal, such as Nd:YVO4. The crystal has two opposing optical end faces through which a pump beam and an output beam pass. The crystal also has opposing "c" axis crystal faces ... | 10/01/1996 |
| 5559301 | Touchscreen interface having pop-up variable adjustment displays for controllers and audio processing systems A touchscreen interface for a sound processing system, such as music synthesizers, which has a display panel and a touch sensitive panel overlying the display panel, includes an icon which represents an adjustable parameter used by the processing system. ... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5557091 | Method and system for bar code image processing Disclosed is a method and apparatus for discerning the presence of one or more bar codes within the image of a scanned document and making the bar code data available to a document image management system. The scanned image is represented by a bit map whi... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5553245 | Automatic configuration of multiple peripheral interface subsystems in a computer system An apparatus for automatic configuration of multiple peripheral interface subsystems in a computer system, the computer system including a system expansion bus for adopting a plurality of functional peripheral interface subsystems, the apparatus comprises... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5545171 | Anastomosis catheter According to the present invention, an anastomosis catheter with internally mounted cam pieces holding a plurality of curved needles adjacent apertures in the side of the catheter is provided. The curved needles are attached to lengths of suture material ... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5544116 | Erase and program verification circuit for non-volatile memory For non-volatile memory devices, such as flash EPROM integrated circuits, which have memory cells and reference cells, and sense circuitry responsive to addressed memory cells and the reference cells, and in which a read potential is supplied to the gate ... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5543683 | Faceplate for field emission display including wall gripper structures A faceplate for a field emission display includes a substrate defining a faceplate interior side. Pluralities of phosphor pixels are disposed on the faceplate interior side. A black matrix grid is formed of column and row guard bands on the faceplate inte... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5541911 | Remote smart filtering communication management system Network traffic from a central device across a communication link to a remote device is controlled based upon central traffic management resources in the central device. The central traffic management resources are coupled to a communication link and moni... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5540701 | Passive fixation anastomosis method and device A passive fixation device, defined by a generally elongated body with proximal and distal ends, and a connecting member to connect the two, is used for the anastomosis of body lumens without sutures. The proximal and distal ends are non-deployed in a non-... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5539688 | Fast pre-programming circuit for floating gate memory A circuit for speeding up the pre-programming of floating gate storage transistors such as FLASH EPROMS, and particularly speeding up the pre-programming of a block or array of floating gate storage transistors includes a controllable voltage source that ... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5538848 | Method for detecting nucleic acid amplification using self-quenching fluorescence probe A method is provided for monitoring the progress of nucleic acid amplifications that rely on a nucleic acid polymerase having 5'.fwdarw.3' exonuclease activity. An important feature of the method is providing an oligonucleotide probe having a reporter mol... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5536267 | Multiple electrode ablation apparatus A tissue ablation apparatus includes a delivery catheter with distal and proximal ends. A handle is attached to the proximal end of the delivery catheter. At least partially positioned in the delivery catheter is an electrode deployment device. The electr... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5535338 | Multifunction network station with network addresses for functional units DLL devices are built with multiple MAC address instead of a single MAC address, and provide a multiple virtual DLL interfaces to the upper layers (3-7) in a computer. This results in a new class of multi-function computers for attachment to a network sys... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5532960 | Negative voltage generator for flash EPROM design A circuit is provided for supplying a negative high voltage to an integrated circuit from a high positive voltage source VPP. The negative voltage is applied to a plurality of FLASH electrically erasable programmable read only memory (EPROM) ce... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5532548 | Field forming electrodes on high voltage spacers A flat panel display includes a faceplate and an opposing backplate. The two are sealed together and a sealed envelope is created that includes an active area of length L1. The active layer includes addressable pixels on the faceplate. Spacers ... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5530874 | Network adapter with an indication signal mask and an interrupt signal mask Indication and interrupt signals generated by a network adapter representing asynchronous events are managed by a host system. The network adapter includes a first mask logic for selectively disabling the indication signals from being stored in a first me... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5530810 | Apparatus for live bus insertion of add-on devices An apparatus for allowing an add-on device to be inserted onto an active bus and configurable within one bus cycle is provided. The apparatus includes passive circuits used with a sequential multi-length pin arrangement on an I/O module. The apparatus als... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5530703 | Remote communication server with automatic filtering Unneeded broadcast and multicast packets are blocked by a remote access server from pass through on a private or switched circuit communication link to a remote node of an corporate LAN, if they relate to protocols not in use by the remote node, or involv... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5528546 | Erase and program verification circuit for non-volatile memory For non-volatile memory devices, such as flash EPROM integrated circuits, which have memory cells and reference cells, and sense circuitry responsive to addressed memory cells and the reference cells, and in which a read potential is supplied to the gate ... | 06/18/1996 |
| 5526489 | System for reverse address resolution for remote network device independent of its physical address A reverse address resolution protocol for use in a communication network which allows resolution logic to provide a higher level protocol information (such as an IP address) to a source of a request for such information, independent of the physical networ... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5526307 | Flash EPROM integrated circuit architecture Contactless flash EPROM cell and array designs, and methods for fabricating the same result in a dense, segmentable flash EPROM chip. The flash EPROM cell is based on a drain-source-drain configuration, in which the single source diffusion is shared by tw... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5524015 | Optical noise reduction circuitry for laser systems A servo controlled laser system is provided which provides a laser output beam having reduced optical noise. The laser system may be any type of laser system and preferably is an ion laser system. The servo controlled laser system includes a laser head pr... | 06/04/1996 |
| 5523745 | Tongue activated communications controller A tongue activated communications controller for use by disabled or other persons to control a wide variety of devices, and which includes a dental appliance fitted to the user's palate, and a keyboard with a plurality of tongue activatable switches for g... | 06/04/1996 |
| 5517627 | Read and write data aligner and method A data aligner transfers data from an input having N+1 byte lanes to an output having N+1 byte lanes. The data aligner includes a write data aligner and a read data aligner. The write data aligner includes a write shifter coupled to the N input byte lanes... | 05/14/1996 |
| 5514131 | Method for the ablation treatment of the uvula A method of medical ablation of tissue accessible thorough the mouth or nose is disclosed having the steps of: a) inserting a probe through the mouth into the oral cavity, wherein said probe has a disposable electrode enclosed within an insulating sleeve ... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5514130 | RF apparatus for controlled depth ablation of soft tissue An RF ablation apparatus has a delivery catheter with a delivery catheter lumen and a delivery catheter distal end. A first RF electrode is positioned in the delivery catheter lumen. The first RF electrode has a distal end, RF conductive surface, and a lu... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5511171 | Apparatus for live bus insertion of add-on devices An apparatus for allowing an add-on device to be inserted onto an active bus and configurable within one bus cycle is provided. The apparatus includes passive circuits used with a sequential multi-length pin arrangement on an I/O module. The apparatus als... | 04/23/1996 |
| 5507743 | Coiled RF electrode treatment apparatus An RF treatment apparatus provides multi-modality treatment for tumors and other desired tissue masses, and includes an RF indifferent electrode and an RF active electrode. The RF indifferent electrode has a compacted, non-deployed state, and an expanded ... | 04/16/1996 |
| 5506929 | Light expanding system for producing a linear or planar light beam from a point-like light source A light expanding system for converting a light beam generated from a point-like light source into a collimated linear or planar light beam is disclosed herein. According to an embodiment of the invention, a system for producing a linear light beam includ... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5505730 | Thin layer ablation apparatus An ablation apparatus has a balloon that is inserted into an organ of a body and ablates all or a selected portion of the inner layer of the organ. Electrolytic solution fills the balloon, and the balloon includes a plurality of apertures from which elect... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5504762 | Laser diode system with feedback control A diode pumped laser system includes a laser cavity with an active laser medium. A laser diode, with an emitter region having an output facet that produces light at a frequency λ1, is the pump source for the laser medium. A coupling optics is ... | 04/02/1996 |
| 5500802 | System and method for creating configurators using templates The present invention is a system that allows the user to create, modify, or delete a configurator using templates. Once the configurator is constructed, the present invention allows the user to generate specific configurations using the constructed confi... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5495541 | Optical delivery device with high numerical aperture curved waveguide An optical delivery device includes an optical fiber that receives an output beam of light from a light source such as a laser. The optical fiber includes a linear section, defining a longitudinal axis, and a curved distal end, with a curvature sufficient... | 02/27/1996 |
