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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6567690 | Method and apparatus for probe localization in brain matter Method and apparatus for probe localization in brain matter. A method is disclosed for determining the insertion point for an object at a desired location within tissue of varying types. The parameters of tissue are first measured at an entry point into t... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6559629 | Supply voltage monitor using bandgap device without feedback A voltage monitor having a bandgap reference circuit driven by a voltage to be monitored. The bandgap reference circuit produces a voltage and a second voltage that each vary with the voltage to be monitored. The magnitudes of these voltages are compared ... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6552657 | Dual-igniter airbag control switch A dual-igniter airbag control switch is provided for a motor vehicle airbag system having a module with a plurality of igniters for causing an airbag to inflate, a diagnostic monitor that determines if a collision is occurring and initiates the igniters, ... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6546268 | Glucose sensor A biochemical sensor based on ball integrated circuit technology which is designed to be biocompatible for implantation within a human or animal body. A sensor media is mounted to the ball integrated circuit, the sensor media operable for sensing biochemi... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6535150 | Method and apparatus for implementing run-length compression A method and apparatus of run-length compression is disclosed where a contiguous stream of bits is input to a compression circuit. The contiguous stream of bits is analyzed in sets of a fixed number of bits, the sets of bits analyzed successively using on... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6529152 | High precision SAR converter using resistor strip with auto zeroing function A digital-to-analog converter having a semiconductor resistor strip with plural voltage taps. One voltage tap formed of the semiconductor material defines a nonzero reference voltage for the converter. An auto-zeroing amplifier is utilized to charge a cou... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6526449 | Method and apparatus for controlling a computer from a remote location A method for controlling a user computer is disclosed wherein a broadcast program is operable to transmit a broadcast to the user in the form of an audio/visual program, in addition to an encoded tone. This encoded tone is detected by the user computer an... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6510633 | Panel illustration apparatus An apparatus for illuminating a display panel is disclosed comprising an elongated housing for an illuminating assembly having a generally U-shaped cross-section, an open side and a light reflecting interior surface disposed around and forward of the peri... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6509758 | IC with digital and analog circuits and mixed signal I/O pins An integrated circuit providing mixed signal processing. I/O pin interface circuits include logic gates and other circuits for processing digital and analog signals. Processor-controlled configuration circuits allow the various I/O pin interface circuits ... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6507215 | Programmable driver for an I/O pin of an integrated circuit A pin interface for an integrated circuit. The pin interface includes logic gates for processing digital signals, and analog lines for carrying analog signals. The pin interface includes circuits for disabling the digital circuits when configured to carry... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6501837 | Telephone call connection architecture A telephone call connection architecture is disclosed which establishes a call connection between two parties. A caller at a caller location initiates a call request to an intermediate location over a first communication network requesting a call be conne... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6493596 | Method and apparatus for controlling a non-linear mill A method and apparatus for controlling a non-linear mill. A linear controller is provided having a linear gain k that is operable to receive inputs representing measured variables of the plant and predict on an output of the linear controller predicted co... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6487459 | Method and apparatus for modeling dynamic and steady-state processes for prediction, control and optimization A method for providing independent static and dynamic models in a prediction, control and optimization environment utilizes an independent static model (20) and an independent dynamic model (22). The static model (20) is a rigorous predictive model that i... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6469496 | Electronic memory module handler with direct socket insertion and related output stacker An apparatus which inserts electronic memory modules into test equipment via direct horizontal insertion eliminating the need for intermediary connectors or adapters. The apparatus incorporates guide rails that maintain precise alignment of the electronic... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6464687 | Implantable drug delivery system A miniature implantable drug delivery capsule system. The drug delivery system (400) comprises one or more ball semiconductor aggregations (404) and (406) facilitating release of a drug stored in a reservoir (402). The first aggregate (404) is used for se... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6457177 | Dual port interactive media system An interactive broadcast or cable television or radio system, consisting of a television or radio tuner data receiver for receiving telephone number or electronic address data, a memory for storing the telephone number or electronic address data, a visual... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6456628 | DSP intercommunication network A multi-processor system includes a global bus (14) with a global address space and a plurality of processor nodes (10). Each of the processor nodes (10) has a CPU (20) interfaced with a local bus having a local address space. A dual port SRAM (DPSRAM) (3... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6456220 | Analog-to-digital converter for processing differential and single-ended inputs An analog-to-digital converter configurable for converting both differential and single-ended analog signals. Charge sharing between two input capacitors and a DAC capacitor allow the full dynamic range of the ADC device to be used when full scale differe... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6452778 | Parasitic insensitive capacitor in d/a converter A parasitic insensitive capacitor in a D/A converter. A semiconductor substrate is provided having a first face upon which the semiconductor integrated circuit is formed with a first conductive layer disposed over a portion of the first face of the semico... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6452486 | Dual-igniter airbag control switch A dual-igniter airbag control switch is provided for a motor vehicle airbag system having a module with a plurality of igniters for causing an airbag to inflate, a diagnostic monitor that determines if a collision is occurring and initiates the igniters, ... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6448917 | DAC using current source driving main resistor string An digital-to-analog converter having main DAC resistor strings and sub-DAC resistor strings for converting MSB and LSB portions of a digital word into corresponding analog voltages. The main DAC resistor strings are driven by constant current sources to ... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6448916 | Dual sub-DAC resistor strings with analog interpolation In a segmented DAC having dual main DAC resistor strings and dual sub-DAC resistor strings, an interpolation circuit for averaging the selected voltage from each sub-DAC resistor string. A first switch multiplexer selects a voltage from the first sub-DAC ... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6447448 | Miniature implanted orthopedic sensors A substantially spherical semiconductor ball implanted in orthopedic structures for sensing and/or stimulation. In one embodiment, a vertebral column (800) having a number of intervertebral discs (802) interspersed among respective vertebral bodies (804),... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6441778 | Pet locator A locating device for attachment to an animal and adapted to obtain and communicate location information about the animal to a base station, comprising a controller having an input for location data and a first communication port; a satellite navigation s... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6438430 | Kiln thermal and combustion control A kiln thermal and combustion control. A predictive model is provided of the dynamics of selected aspects of the operation of the plant for modeling the dynamics thereof. The model has at least two discrete models associated therewith that model at least ... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6433717 | D/A resistor strings with cross coupling switches A digital-to-analog converter having a main DAC resistor string formed in a semiconductor material. The main DAC resistor string is formed as two identical resistor strings connected in parallel and such that the bottom of one resistor string and the top ... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6426634 | Circuit breaker with integrated self-test enhancements A circuit switching device or circuit breaker with integrated self-test enhancements is disclosed having separable contacts operable under processor control to control power to a circuit responsive to at least one of a plurality of fault conditions and op... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6426632 | Method and apparatus for testing an AFCI/GFCI circuit breaker There is disclosed and claimed herein apparatus and a method for testing an electronic circuit breaker having separable contacts and arc fault and/or ground fault interrupting capability responsive to differential currents in the line and neutral conducto... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6423974 | X-ray imaging apparatus using spherical semiconductor detectors A solid state X-ray detector (106) is disclosed which is comprised of a plurality of Spherical ICs (202)-(208) disposed on a substrate (210). The Spherical ICs each have a plurality of detector picture elements (pixels) (302) disposed on the surface there... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6423056 | Injectable thermal balls for tumor ablation A method of tumor ablation using injectable thermal-sensing balls. A catheter system (115) is used to inject a slurry (134) of thermal-sensing balls (136) into a tumor (122) located in, for example, a liver (120). The catheter system (115) comprises a cat... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6421798 | Chipset-based memory testing for hot-pluggable memory A method of testing memory of a system is disclosed which operates the system from a second area of system address space which is outside of a first area of system address space, the system having one or more physical memory devices associated with the fi... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6421001 | Object locator There is disclosed an object locator system (10) for requesting and obtaining information about the location of an individual animal or moveable object, having a lightweight, attached object locator (42), that is present in a region served by a two-way pa... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6415184 | Implantable neuro-stimulator with ball implant A ball semiconductor for stimulating a mass of nervous system brain tissue for therapeutic purposes. The ball (120) is embedded in a mass of nervous system tissue (215) of a brain. Electrical pulses generated and transmitted to the ball (120) by a remote ... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6400300 | D/A converter street effect compensation A digital-to-analog converter (DAC) employs a main DAC resistor string and a sub-resistor string formed in a semiconductor material. A main DAC conversion circuit is formed with a headroom resistor in series with the main DAC resistor string. The headroom... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6398710 | Radiation dosimetry system A radiation dosimetry system (110) using miniature implanted transponder balls. A patient having a tumor that is the target of the radiation treatment lies in a treatment area with the tumor positioned beneath a target (112) used for alignment purposes. T... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6394661 | Fiber optic connector having receptacle housing for radially aligning mating inserts A multi-channel fiber optic connector is provided having a plug connector half and a receptacle connector half. The plug and the receptacle have respective inserts that include exterior peripheries of a particular shape for mating with an interior profile... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6389341 | Control system for a vehicle suspension A suspension system (20) controls the amount of compressible fluid (42) within struts (28) to determine spring rate coefficients (Ks) and dampening coefficients (Bs) for the struts (28). The spring rate and dampening coefficients (K | 05/14/2002 |
| 6384763 | Segemented D/A converter with enhanced dynamic range A digital-to-analog converter having series-connected transistors forming high impedance current sources for respective segmented resistor strings. A series transistor forming a current sink for one resistor string presents a high output impedance by util... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6377986 | Routing string indicative of a location of a database on a web associated with a product in commerce A method for controlling a computer is disclosed wherein one or more remote locations disposed on a network are accessed in response to scanning an optical code. A first computer disposed on the network connects to a scanner for scanning the optical code ... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6371660 | Fiber optic connector having alignment sleeves of continuous cross sections A multi-channel fiber optic cable connector (12) is provided for aligning the terminal ends (302) of optical fibers (214) of fiber optic cables for transmitting light signals therebetween. Termini (34) are provided which include end portions defined by fe... | 04/16/2002 |
