Did You Know...
...that one person who claimed to be the inventor of the television is Russian emigre Vladimir Zworykin? In 1929 David Sarnoff, founder of RCA, asked Zworykin what it would take to develop TV for commercial use. He said: a year and a half and $100,000. In reality, it took 20 years and $50 million! Before his death in 1982 at the age of 92, Zworykin said of his invention: "The technique is wonderful. It is beyond my expectations. But the programs! I would never let my children even come close to this thing."
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7917540 | Nonlinear set to set pattern recognition Variations in the states of patterns can be exploited for their discriminatory information and should not be discarded as noise. A pattern recognition system compares a data set of unlabeled patterns having variations of state in a set-by-set comparison with labeled... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7906734 | Electrical terminal footprints for a printed circuit board In one implementation, a PCB having an array of vias and electrical terminals disposed on the side of the PCB opposite the side configured to receive a grid array package are disclosed herein. The array of vias have pads and forms a pattern of repetitive rows and co... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7905155 | Multi-axis test apparatus A testing apparatus for testing a device or components of a device is presented. It is desirable to simulate the effects of rotary and other forces as well as environmental factors on various components of devices to optimize design improvements so as to increase th... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7848253 | Method for scoring queued frames for selective transmission through a switch A method includes determining a priority of each of a plurality of frames, wherein the priority is a function of an initial value dependent on content of each said frame and one or more adjustment values independent of content of each said frame, and selecting the f... | 12/07/2010 |
| D628372 | Footwear with spare cleat | 12/07/2010 |
| 7874207 | Fluid flow direction detection In order to provide a robust, weather resistant, portable, low-noise, relatively inexpensive, wind direction detection device, disclosed herein is a method and device for detecting fluid flow direction based on sensing a temperature variation transmitted from a temp... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7853988 | State saver/restorer for a geospatial decision management system A geospatial decision management system (GDMS) can save the overall state of a user's experience at one point in time within a GDMS session so that the user can restore the overall state at a later time, such as by restoring a geospatial browser view (e.g., camera s... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7853364 | Adaptive controller for ion source An ion source, often used for materials processing applications in a vacuum processing chamber, is provided with an adaptive control system. The adaptive control system has a microprocessor and memory that regulate the inputs of power and gas flow into the ion sourc... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7826171 | Interconnect architecture for disc drive array In general, the invention is directed to techniques for integrated interconnects with a set of disc drives. The interconnects allow for a set of disc drives to be positioned in an array; for example, as set of disc drives may be stacked to communicate with a device ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7819789 | Exercise handle and methods of use An exercise handle for use with a cord and a method for the use thereof, the handle having a channel portion having at least two channel ends that are positioned non-diametrically relative to each other on the channel portion, the channel portion being rounded relat... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7809852 | High jitter scheduling of interleaved frames in an arbitrated loop A system and method for converting low-jitter, interleaved frame traffic, such as that generated in an IP network, to high jitter traffic to improve the utilization of bandwidth on arbitrated loops such as Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loops. Embodiments of a high jitter... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7775657 | Method for defining a supplementary face for spectacles A method for defining a supplementary face for spectacles (or clip-on), comprising the steps of: i) choice of a lens suited to the wearer's prescription; ii) modelization of the position of the chosen lens and of the position of a supplementary face in front of the ... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7775213 | Medical procedure draping systems A draping system for use in medical procedures includes a drape portion adapted to cover a surface, such as medical equipment or a patient, and serves as a barrier to fluid and debris during medical procedures. The draping system may have a fastening portion affixed... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7740498 | Advanced backward compatible connector assembly for electrically connecting computer subsystems A backward compatible connector assembly that facilitates electrical communication between computer subsystems includes a receptacle, a receiver assembly and a conductor array. The receptacle includes a plurality of first connectors having a first connector length, ... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7722788 | Mold inserts The invention relates to a mold insert, the interior surface thereof having an average quadratic roughness of less than 10 nm. Said insert is covered with a protective layer exhibiting a Vickers hardness of more than 1000 HV, a thickness of between 0.2 and 5 μm, an... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7720291 | Iterative fisher linear discriminant analysis An exemplary method includes receiving an image data set that comprises a multidimensional property space and data classifiable into data classes, determining a projection vector for data of the data set wherein the projection vector maximizes a ratio of between-cla... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7718983 | Sputtered contamination shielding for an ion source Shielding associated with an ion source, such as an anode layer source, reduces the amount and/or concentration of sputtered contaminants impinging and remaining on the surface of a target substrate. While passing the ion beam through to the target substrate, shield... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7716021 | Grid transparency and grid hole pattern control for ion beam uniformity A design process for varying hole locations or sizes or both in an ion beam grid includes identifying a control grid to be modified; obtaining a change factor for the grid pattern; and using the change factor to generate a new grid pattern. The change factor is one ... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7699508 | Pole-suspended flag illumination A pole-suspended flag illumination system positions a lighting fixture located in close proximity to a flag on a flagpole to provide illumination to the flag. The lighting fixture can slide up and down the flagpole in unison the flag using the same halyard that is u... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7685360 | Methods and structure for dynamic appended metadata in a dynamically mapped mass storage device Methods and structures for appending metadata with recorded data in a dynamic mapped storage device. In a dynamically mapped storage device in which all user supplied logical blocks are dynamically mapped by the storage device controller to physical disk blocks, fea... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7660945 | Methods and structure for limiting storage device write caching Methods and structures for limiting the write portion of a local cache memory in one or more disk drives of a storage system such that a storage controller coupled to each may mirror the content and structure of the write portion of each disk drive. The size of the ... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7654780 | Load lock adjustment mechanism A load lock adjustment mechanism for use with a load lock for trailers is provided. The load lock has a pad positionable against a trailer wall with a connecting rod extending from the pad and at least one tube sized and shaped for receiving the connecting rod. The ... | 02/02/2010 |
| D606434 | Breath alcohol content analyzer | 12/22/2009 |
| 7633702 | Method and apparatus for powering voice coil motor retract circuit while braking spindle An apparatus for powering a voice coil motor retract circuit in a disk drive is disclosed. The apparatus allows a disk drive to power the voice coil motor retract circuit while also slowing the spinning disk. A DC-to-DC converter converts the back electromotive forc... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7630308 | Systems and methods for applying a variable encoding/decoding scheme in a communication network Various systems, devices and methods for providing variable coder/decoder mechanisms are disclosed. As one example, a coder/decoder device including a plurality of coder/decoder mechanisms, a coder/decoder selection engine, and a computer readable medium is disclose... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7620772 | Methods and structure for dynamic data density in a dynamically mapped mass storage device Methods and structures for dynamic density control to improve reliability of a dynamically mapped storage device. In a dynamically mapped storage device in which all user supplied logical blocks are dynamically mapped by the storage device controller to physical dis... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7609894 | Adaptive sampling region for a region editing tool Properties of pixels in a digital image are sampled within different subdivisions of an editing tool impression to produce different property distributions. The different subdivisions can automatically alter their size, geometry, and/or location, based on image cont... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7606968 | Multi-level content addressable memory A multi-level content addressable memory (CAM) architecture compresses out much of the redundancy encountered in the search space of a single CAM, particularly for flow-based lookups in a network. Destination and source address may be associated with internal equiva... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7595686 | Digital controller for high-frequency switching power supplies A voltage controller (150), the controller comprising: a voltage comparator (700) operative to provide a digital error signal (152); a compensator (300) operative to determine a digital control signal (154) based on said provided e... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7570633 | Screening inbound calls in a packet-based communications network A method and system is provided for performing inbound call screening in a packet-based network, such as an H.323 Voice over IP (VoIP) network. The inbound gateways on the network are registered with inbound gatekeepers, and standard messages are used between an inb... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7570632 | System and method for providing alternate routing in a network Methods and systems are described for performing alternate routing of communications in a network. The system initiates a communication from an origination endpoint in a packet-switched network, such as a VOIP network, to a destination endpoint, and determining, acc... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7566883 | Thermal transfer sheet for ion source One or more thermal transfer sheets are easily removable and replaceable in an ion source. The ion source has a removable anode assembly, including the thermal transfer sheets, that is separable and from a base assembly to allow for ease of servicing consumable comp... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7564840 | Voice over data telecommunications network architecture The present invention describes a system and method for communicating voice and data over a packet-switched network that is adapted to coexist and communicate with a legacy PSTN. The system includes soft switch sites, gateway sites, a data network, a provisioning co... | 07/21/2009 |
| D595858 | Prenatal audio belt | 07/07/2009 |
| 7551083 | Systems, methods and devices for area-based localization An improved compact, secure localization tag useful for identifying and tracking the tag in an environment comprising discrete areas is disclosed. Further, systems and methods for area-based localization of tags using received signal strengths is also disclosed. Tra... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7539929 | Error correction for data communication Generating a check matrix includes defining a generator function operable to yield check bits associated with a word. A set of primitive elements is calculated from the generator function. A set of check matrix columns is generated, where each check matrix column in... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7460528 | Processing data packets at a storage service module of a switch Routing a data packet of an information unit sequence includes receiving at a switch a data packet of an information unit sequence of a block storage exchange from a storage client, where the sequence is associated with a source identifier and a target identifier id... | 12/02/2008 |
| D580117 | Mesh sponge with a pocket | 11/04/2008 |
| 7440455 | Registration of multiple VoIP devices A calling network capable of accepting voice and data information includes a voice distribution server, wherein the voice distribution server is communicably coupled to an integrated access device, wherein the voice distribution server is associated with a computer ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440258 | Thermal interconnects for coupling energy storage devices A thermally fitted interconnect couples energy storage cells without the use of additional materials of fasteners. Variations of the interconnect can be used to facilitate fitting of multiple energy storage cell with multiple cell to cell spacings in a rapid and ine... | 10/21/2008 |
