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...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8183652 | Non-volatile magnetic memory with low switching current and high thermal stability A non-volatile current-switching magnetic memory element includes a bottom electrode, a pinning layer formed on top of the bottom electrode, and a fixed layer formed on top of the pinning layer. The memory element further includes a tunnel layer formed on top of the... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8169821 | Low-crystallization temperature MTJ for spin-transfer torque magnetic random access memory (SSTTMRAM) A spin-torque transfer memory random access memory (STTMRAM) element is disclosed and has a fixed layer, a barrier layer formed upon the fixed layer, and a free layer comprised of a low-crystallization temperature alloy of CoFeB—Z where Z is below 25 atomic percen... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169267 | Wave reversing system and method for a rotary traveling wave oscillator Circuitry for establishing a traveling wave on a rotary traveling wave oscillator is described. The circuitry includes a gain portion that establishes a wave in a preferred direction by degenerating any wave traveling opposite to the preferred direction and regenera... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164947 | Low current switching magnetic tunnel junction design for magnetic memory using domain wall motion A multi-state low-current-switching magnetic memory element (magnetic memory element) comprising a free layer, two stacks, and a magnetic tunneling junction is disclosed. The stacks and magnetic tunneling junction are disposed upon surfaces of the free layer, with t... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8156270 | Dual port serial advanced technology attachment (SATA) disk drive An embodiment of the present invention is disclosed to include a hard disk drive allowing for access by two hosts to a device. Further disclosed are embodiments for reducing the delay and complexity of the SATA disk drive. ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8148174 | Magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) formation with two-step process A method of manufacturing a magnetic memory element includes the steps of performing a first etching an oxide layer is etched, using a first photo-resist, the oxide layer formed on top of a contact layer that is formed on top of a magneto tunnel junction (MTJ), depo... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8126095 | Maximum ratio combining architectures for optimal complementary code keying receiver design A multi input multi output (MIMO) receiver for receiving signals having a plurality of equalizers being responsive to aligned signals for processing the same to generate a plurality of equalized outputs using filter coefficients, in accordance with an embodiment of ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8120949 | Low-cost non-volatile flash-RAM memory A flash-RAM memory includes non-volatile random access memory (RAM) formed on a monolithic die and non-volatile page-mode memory formed on top of the non-volatile RAM, the non-volatile page-mode memory and the non-volatile RAM reside on the monolithic die. ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8095971 | Universal serial bus (USB) flash drive having locking pins and locking grooves for locking swivel cap In one embodiment of the present invention a Universal Serial Bus (USB) flash drive with locking swivel cap includes a USB device, a swivel cap having a top swivel cap face and a bottom swivel cap face. The swivel cap is connectably attached to the USB device, four ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8084835 | Non-uniform switching based non-volatile magnetic based memory A non-uniform switching based non-volatile magnetic memory element includes a fixed layer, a barrier layer formed on top of the fixed layer, a first free layer formed on top of the barrier layer, a non-uniform switching layer (NSL) formed on top of the first free la... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8074002 | Route aware serial advanced technology attachment (SATA) switch An embodiment of the present invention is disclosed to include a SATA Switch allowing for access by two hosts to a single port SATA device Further disclosed are embodiments for reducing the delay and complexity of the SATA Switch. ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8063459 | Non-volatile magnetic memory element with graded layer A non-volatile magnetic memory element includes a number of layers one of which is a free layer which is graded. The graded free layer may include various elements with each element having a different anisotropy or it may include nonmagnetic compounds and magnetic r... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8061905 | Multi-level cell (MLC) dual personality extended fiber optic flash memory device A multi-level cell (MLC) dual-personality extended fiber optic flash drive includes a MLC dual-personality extended fiber optic Universal Serial Bus (USB) plug connector connected to a dual-personality extended fiber optic flash drive and being removably connectable... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8059701 | Flexible and in-band signaling for nested preamble A multi input multi output (MIMO) receiver is disclosed for transmitting and receiving packets having a preamble format of a packet of information and having a short training sequence (STS), a long training sequence (LTS) and signal (SIG) for training receivers, in ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8058696 | High capacity low cost multi-state magnetic memory A multi-state current-switching magnetic memory element includes a stack of magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) separated by a non-magnetic layer for storing more than one bit of information, wherein different levels of current applied to the memory element cause swit... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8040970 | Method and apparatus for adaptive reduced overhead transmit beamforming for wireless communication systems A multi input multi output (MIMO) transceiver having a channel estimation module being responsive to received samples including channel state information (CSI) and operative to generate time domain beamforming parameters, in accordance with an embodiment of the pres... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8032134 | Beamforming with global positioning and orientation systems A wireless communication system for transmitting signals having a wireless positioning system being responsive to incoming signals for processing the same to generate coordinate information for determining the position of said wireless communication system, in accor... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8018011 | Low cost multi-state magnetic memory A multi-state current-switching magnetic memory element has a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ), for storing more than one bit of information. The MTJ includes a fixed layer, a barrier layer, and a non-uniform free layer. In one embodiment, having 2 bits per cell, w... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7995672 | Method and apparatus for reception in a multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency domain modulation (OFDM) wireless communication system An embodiment of the present invention includes a transceiver for use in a multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) Orthogonal Frequency Domain Multiplexing (OFDM) wireless communication system. The transceiver decodes and remodulates certain signal fields and uses the same ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7986755 | Method and apparatus for calibration for beamforming of multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) orthogonol frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transceivers An embodiment of the present invention includes a calibration system employed in a multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) system for beamforming and receiving a plurality of streams. The system includes a first calibration circuit responsive to inphase (I) and quadrature (... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7986630 | High performance architecture for fiber channel targets and target bridges An embodiment of the present invention is disclosed to include a fiber channel target device for receiving information in the form of frames and including a controller device coupled to a microprocessor for processing the frames received from the host, at least one ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7981697 | Current-confined effect of magnetic nano-current-channel (NCC) for magnetic random access memory (MRAM) One embodiment of the present invention includes a memory element having a composite free layer including a first free sub-layer formed on top of the bottom electrode, a nano-current-channel (NCC) layer formed on top of the first free sub-layer, and a second free su... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7977762 | Effective shield structure for improving substrate isolation of analog circuits from noisy digital circuits on a system-on-chip (SOC) An integrated circuit (IC) is disclosed to include a central area of the IC that is partitioned into a first section containing at least one digital circuit and a second section containing at least one analog circuit; and a guard strip (or shield) that is within the... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7962836 | Electronic data flash card with bose, ray-chaudhuri, hocquenghem (BCH) error detection/correction A Bose, Ray-Chaudhuri, Hocquenghem (BCH) decoder is employed in non-volatile memory applications for determining the number of errors and locating the errors in a page of information. The decoder includes a syndrome calculator responsive to a sector of information. ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7962676 | Debugging multi-port bridge system conforming to serial advanced technology attachment (SATA) or serial attached small computer system interface (SCSI) (SAS) standards using idle/scrambled dwords An embodiment of the present invention includes a communication system configured to conform to SATA or SAS standards and causing communication between one or more hosts and a SATA device. The communication system includes a communication device adapted to generate ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7920006 | Clocking scheme for efficient digital noise reduction in mixed-signal systems-on-chip In one embodiment of the present invention, a clock generator circuit receives a clock signal having a period. The clock signal is employed by a digital circuit that is resident on the same substrate as an analog circuit, the digital circuit generates disturbance cl... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7898056 | Seal ring for reducing noise coupling within a system-on-a-chip (SoC) Disclosed is a seal-ring architecture that can minimize noise injection from noisy digital circuits to sensitive analog and/or radio frequency (RF) circuits in system-on-a-chip (SoC) applications. In order to improve the isolation, the seal-ring structure contains c... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7895457 | Memory card with power saving A memory system includes power saving arbitrator responsive to a clock oscillator and having a first clock rate. The power saving arbitrator includes an active enable circuit responsive to a host clock and a host command and operative to generate an active enable si... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7890846 | Electronic data flash card with Reed Solomon error detection and correction capability One embodiment of the present includes a electronic data storage card having a Reed Solomon (RS) decoder having a syndrome calculator block responsive to a page of information, the page being organized into a plurality of data sections and the overhead being organiz... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7878852 | Single chip universal serial bus (USB) package with metal housing A Universal Serial Bus (USB) memory card includes a tube metal housing that is rectangularly-shaped and a Chip-On-Board (COB)-Universal Serial Bus (USB) device and a carrier substrate having a U-block disposed on one side of thereof and vertically extending upwardly... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7869266 | Low current switching magnetic tunnel junction design for magnetic memory using domain wall motion A multi-state low-current-switching magnetic memory element (magnetic memory element) comprising a free layer, two stacks, and a magnetic tunneling junction is disclosed. The stacks and magnetic tunneling junction are disposed upon surfaces of the free layer, with t... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7866562 | Fixed write-protect seamless memory card In an embodiment of the present invention, a memory card includes a bottom plastic piece having a plurality of lateral sides, one of which includes a notch, and a cavity interposed along the lateral sides. A printed circuit board (PCB) assembly, including memory, is... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7865652 | Power control by a multi-port bridge device An embodiment of the present invention includes a communication system configured to conform to SATA and/or SAS standards and causing communication between one or more hosts and a SATA device. A multi-port bridge device is in communication with the one or more hosts... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7856068 | Nested preamble for multi input multi output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing A multi input multi output (MIMO) system for transmitting and receiving packets having a nested preamble format included in said packets and having poly-carrier long training sequence (LTS) and signal field (SIG) for training receivers, in accordance with an embodim... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7852248 | Analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with reduced jitter sensitivity and power consumption In one embodiment of the present invention, at least at one stage of a Sigma-Delta analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is disclosed to include means for receiving a voltage at least one of the inputs of an operational amplifier, the operational amplifier having at lea... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7822908 | Discovery of a bridge device in a SAS communication system An embodiment of the present invention includes a communication system configured to conform to SAS standard and causing communication between one or more hosts and a SATA/SAS device. The communication system includes a multi-port bridge device including two or more... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7817286 | Iteration method to improve the fly height measurement accuracy by optical interference method and theoretical pitch and roll effect In one embodiment and method of the present invention, an optical interference fly height (FH) test apparatus for measuring FH is disclosed, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, to include a slider, a transparent disk, means for directing a lig... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7804163 | Seamless secured digital card manufacturing methods with male guide and female switch A secured digital (SD) card including a bottom plastic piece having a plurality of lateral sides, said bottom plastic piece further having a cavity interposed along said plurality of lateral sides, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. The SD ca... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7799138 | In-situ method to reduce particle contamination in a vacuum plasma processing tool The method and apparatus of the embodiments of the present invention employ an in-situ particle decontamination technique that allows for such decontamination while a wafer is a vacuum tool or deposition chamber, thereby eliminating the need for another device for p... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7797734 | Systems and methods for user interface control Enabling and disabling login access to a web-based application by examining automatic number identification (ANI) information from a received telephone call, associating the ANI information with a user account, determining a current state of login access to a web-ba... | 09/14/2010 |
