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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8059486 | Method of rendering volume representation of sonar images Sonar imaging data is reduced by assigning partially reflective and/or opaque two dimensional areas for each data point to a series of planes. The reflectivity and/or transmission of light from the areas is calculated and used to construct an image. ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7905953 | Titanium dioxide pigment particles with doped, dense SiOskin and methods for their manufacture A method of predicting photostability of coatings with various dopants on titanium dioxide pigment particles is disclosed. Calculations of the density of states show that a doped coating which reduces the density of states near the band edge or increases the density... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7898902 | Method of representation of sonar images Sonar three dimensional data are represented by a two dimensional image. Pixels of the two dimensional image are emphasized if the if the three dimensional data associated with the pixel differ by more than a criterion from the three dimensional data associated with... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7842131 | High opacity TiOpigment and production method The invention relates to a rutile titanium dioxide pigment for use in decorative laminating papers that yields higher opacity of the papers compared to the prior art, as well as a method for its manufacture. The pigment displays a surface coating that contains alumi... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7830578 | Apparatus for electronically controlled holograms A complex micromirror or LCD array device that performs complex optical or electro-optical transforms is described. Both real and imaginary parts of a light beam are modulated in amplitude to give a spatially and temporally modulated beam. ... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7767962 | Method for SEM measurement of features using magnetically filtered low loss electron microscopy A magnetically focused scanning charged particle microscope having an array detector placed to detect scattered particles, wherein the particles fall substantially non-tangentially to the surface of the array detector. ... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7763110 | Titanium dioxide pigment particles with doped, dense SiOskin and methods for their manufacture A method of predicting photostability of coatings with various dopants on titanium dioxide pigment particles is disclosed. Calculations of the density of states show that a doped coating which reduces the density of states near the band edge or increases the density... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7622372 | Method for shallow dopant distribution Vacancies and dopant ions are introduced near the surface of a semiconductor layer structure. Implanted dopant ions which diffuse by an interstitialcy mechanism have diffusivity greatly reduced, which leads to a very low resistivity doped region and a very shallow j... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7105427 | Method for shallow dopant distribution Vacancies and dopant ions are introduced near the surface of a semiconductor wafer. The dopant ions which diffuse by an interstitialcy mechanism have diffusivity greatly reduced, which leads to a very low resistivity doped region and a very shallow junction. ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7524793 | Titanium dioxide photocatalyst containing carbon and method for its production The invention relates to a titanium dioxide-based photocatalyst containing carbon that is highly photoactive in visible light (vlp-TiO2) and to a method of manufacture. The vlp-TiO2 is manufactured by mixing a fine grained titanium compound (BE... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7489592 | Patch test for 3D sonar data A method of automatically performing a patch test for a sonar system is disclosed, where data from a plurality of overlapping 3D sonar scans of a surface as the platform is moved are used to compensate for biases in mounting the sonar system on the platform. ... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7325029 | Methods for enabling e-commerce voice communication Methods for operating multimedia computers to provide e-commerce voice communication capability directly between any computer connected to a computer network such as the Internet and any telephone device connected to the PSTN are disclosed. A simple click and call m... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7151284 | Structures for light emitting devices with integrated multilayer mirrors A substrate for supporting epitaxial growth of light emitting semiconductor devices having a non-crystalline multilayer reflection controlling stack under a thin layer of single crystal silicon is shown. A III-Nitride or other semiconductor stimulated emission devic... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7135065 | Method for the post-treatment of titanium dioxide pigments The invention relates to a method for the post-treatment of titanium dioxide, in order to produce particularly weather-resistant titanium dioxide pigments with good optical properties. The method is characterized in that, together with the hydrous oxides of tin and ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7127094 | Method of controlling data gathered at remote locations Data corresponding to biological tissue or lesions imaged in a remote location are communicated automatically to a central location, where the data are analyzed using data and algorithms stored securely at the central location. A result of the analysis is communicat... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7106776 | Discharge-pumped “dressed-atom” coherent light amplifier and generators A novel practicable type of gaseous optical gain medium for efficiently generating intense, highly monochromatic, continuous-wave (CW) or pulsed, coherent light beams is disclosed. Gain results from nonlinear optical pumping of a gas of Λ-type “three-level” ato... | 09/12/2006 |
| 6969500 | Method for separating titanium tetrachloride The invention relates to a method for separating titanium tetrachloride and the hydrolyzed reaction products of titanium tetrachloride from the exhaust gases generated during the chlorination of raw materials containing titanium by treating the exhaust gases with a ... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6859190 | RFID tag with a quadrupler or N-tupler circuit for efficient RF to DC conversion A multistage voltage multiplying circuit for single chip passive RF tags is provided, wherein the parasitic capacitance of the diodes of each stage of the voltage multiplying circuit is much less than the parasitic capacitance of the diodes of the preceding stage. | 02/22/2005 |
| 6768111 | Method for SEM measurement of topological features A method of measurement of topographic features on a surface of a substrate is presented, wherein a focused beam of particles falls onto the surface of the substrate, and backscattered particles are detected with a particle detector. An opaque material is interposed... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6661957 | Diffusion barriers for holey fibers A diffusion barrier attached to the cladding layer prevents significant diffusion of a Raman active gas out of the holes in a holey fiber or photonic band gap fiber.... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6593739 | Apparatus and method for measuring magnetization of surfaces An optical apparatus and methods for efficiently determining the magnetization of a material at very high optical resolution are disclosed. Individual components of the magnetization may be determined. Components in the plane of the sample surface are ima... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6449428 | Gas driven rotating susceptor for rapid thermal processing (RTP) system Air bearings support a rotating wafer carrying base in an RTP system. The base in proximity to the air bearing is protected from warping due to absorption of radiation from the hot wafer being treated. The most preferred embodiment splits the base into an... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6282359 | Injection molded light pipe An injection molded light pipe having a sharp curve is proposed, wherein the injection molding mark is on the inside surface of the sharp curve. The light pipe has a 180° curve with a radius of curvature less than approximately 3 times the diameter of th... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6100149 | Method for rapid thermal processing (RTP) of silicon substrates A method of rapid thermal processing (RTP) of a silicon substrate is presented, where a very low partial pressure of reactive gas is used to control etching and growth of oxides on the silicon surface.... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6077751 | Method of rapid thermal processing (RTP) of ion implanted silicon A method for rapid thermal processing (RTP) of a silicon substrate, the substrate having a surface with a plurality of areas implanted with dopant ions, comprising a) contacting the surface with a reactive gas, b) processing the substrate for a first proc... | 06/20/2000 |
| 6051512 | Apparatus and method for rapid thermal processing (RTP) of a plurality of semiconductor wafers A plurality of substrates is closely stacked together in a Rapid Thermal Processing (RTP) chamber, and the stack is processed simultaneously.... | 04/18/2000 |
| 5965047 | Rapid thermal processing (RTP) system with rotating substrate A rapid thermal processing (RTP) chamber, wherein one wall of the chamber supporting a substrate rotates with respect to the rest of the chamber so that the substrate being treated in the RTP chamber is relatively rotated with respect to the lamps heating... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5872889 | Apparatus and method for rapid thermal processing A closable enclosure for rapid thermal processing of semiconductor wafers is presented, wherein the closable enclosure has an enclosed volume less than 10 times the volume of the wafer, and wherein the closable enclosure may be closed about the wafer whil... | 02/16/1999 |
| 5861609 | Method and apparatus for rapid thermal processing A thin visible and near IR absorbing plate is placed between the radiation source and the object to be processed in a rapid thermal processing system. The object is heated in part by the near IR and far IR radiation from the thin plate, and the material a... | 01/19/1999 |
