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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8182805 | Prevention of allergic sensitization The present invention relates to prevention and treatment of allergic sensitization and diseases associated therewith by treatment with an enterovirus vaccine, wherein the enterovirus does not contain an exogenous nucleic acid sequence that is integrated into the vi... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180183 | Parallel modulator photonic link An RF photonic link having at least one light source, at least one photodetector, multiple optoelectronic modulators, and an RF waveguide common to each one of said multiple optoelectronic modulators. The multiple optoelectronic modulators are optically arranged in ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178946 | Modulation doped super-lattice base for heterojunction bipolar transistors A heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) having an emitter, a base, and a collector, the base including a first semiconductor layer coupled to the collector, the first semiconductor layer having a first bandgap between a first conduction band and a first valence ba... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176607 | Method of fabricating quartz resonators A method for fabricating VHF and/or UHF quartz resonators (for higher sensitivity) in a cartridges design with the quartz resonators requiring much smaller sample volumes than required by conventional resonators, and also enjoying smaller size and more reliable asse... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8169001 | Method for preparing a non-self-aligned heterojunction bipolar transistor with a small emitter-to-base spacing The present invention refers to a method for preparing a non-self-aligned heterojunction bipolar transistor comprising: preparing a patterned emitter metal on an emitter epi layer of a HBT epi structure on a substrate; preparing an emitter epitaxy below the emitter ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8168487 | Programmable connection and isolation of active regions in an integrated circuit using ambiguous features to confuse a reverse engineer A technique for and structures for camouflaging an integrated circuit structure and strengthen its resistance to reverse engineering. A plurality of transistors are formed in a semiconductor substrate, at least some of the transistors being of the type having sidewa... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8151640 | MEMS on-chip inertial navigation system with error correction An on-chip navigation system, optionally combined with GPS (Global Positioning System) and/or an imaging array, which incorporates MEMS (MicroElectroMechanical Systems) components is possible by the use of careful material selection and novel bonding techniques used... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8144317 | Method to locate and eliminate manufacturing defects in a quartz resonator gyro A method for locating and eliminating defects on a substrate wafer includes illuminating a top surface of the substrate wafer with a first illumination source, illuminating a bottom surface of the substrate wafer with a second illumination source, forming an image o... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144059 | Active dielectric resonator antenna A dielectric resonator antenna that has active components on a selected surface. Also a feed element in the form of a slot may be formed on the surface to efficiently generate the proper resonance mode within the bulk of the dielectric resonator antenna. The entire ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8143648 | Unipolar tunneling photodetector A photodetector containing a 2DEG layer is disclosed. ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8138016 | Large area integration of quartz resonators with electronics Methods for integrating quartz-based resonators with electronics on a large area wafer through direct pick-and-place and flip-chip bonding or wafer-to-wafer bonding using handle wafers are described. The resulting combination of quartz-based resonators and large are... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8098187 | Wide field of view millimeter wave imager An imager comprising a sphere of dielectric material and a geodesically configured substrate disposed adjacent said sphere. The geodesically configured substrate comprises a plurality of triangularly shaped elements, at least selected ones of the triangularly shaped... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095993 | Cryptographic architecture with instruction masking and other techniques for thwarting differential power analysis An apparatus and method for preventing information leakage attacks that utilize timeline alignment. The apparatus and method inserts a random number of instructions into an encryption algorithm such that the leaked information can not be aligned in time to allow an ... | 01/10/2012 |
| D651114 | Jewellery bead | 12/27/2011 |
| 8080774 | Module for scalable millimeter wave imaging arrays A millimeter wave module for providing one pixel having a pixel resolution in a millimeter wave focal plane array includes a horn antenna having a first cross section area less than or equal to the pixel resolution, a detector for detecting the millimeter wave signa... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8065532 | Cryptographic architecture with random instruction masking to thwart differential power analysis An apparatus and method for preventing information leakage attacks that utilize timeline alignment. The apparatus and method inserts a random number of instructions into an encryption algorithm such that the leaked information can not be aligned in time to allow an ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8063833 | Method of achieving an opaque or absorption state in a tunable frequency selective surface Methods for tuning at least a region of a tunable frequency selective surface. The methods disclosed how to achieve an opaque or absorptive state in at least a region of tunable frequency selective surface. ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8059969 | Enhanced linearity RF photonic link A method and apparatus for modulating an RF signal. The RF signal is supplied to a grating modulator having a grating, and light of at least a first wavelength is supplied as a first optical carrier to the grating modulator. The first carrier light is modulated by t... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059045 | Antenna having an impedance matching section for integration into apparel An antenna having an impedance matching section for attaching to a sheet or a garment. The antenna has a first, a second, and a third leaky substantially coaxial conductor. The first and the third coaxial conductors have an electrically conductive layer placed on th... | 11/15/2011 |
| D648627 | Container cover | 11/15/2011 |
| 8050644 | Highly linear mixer and method for cancelling FET channel resistance modulation A highly linear mixer and method for cancelling field effect transistor channel resistance modulation are provided. At least a portion of the voltage of an input signal is added to a drive signal to cancel distortion arising from modulation of the voltage of the inp... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8049281 | Symmetric non-intrusive and covert technique to render a transistor permanently non-operable A technique for and structures for camouflaging an integrated circuit structure. The technique including forming active areas of a first conductivity type and LDD regions of a second conductivity type resulting in a transistor that is always non-operational when sta... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8030913 | Detector circuit with improved bandwidth A detector circuit for an operational bandwidth having a center frequency including a diode, a first inductor in series with the diode, a transmission line coupled across the diode on a first end of the transmission line, the transmission line having an impedance an... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8030688 | Ohmic metal contact protection using an encapsulation layer A method for fabricating a semiconductor device which protects the ohmic metal contacts and the channel of the device during subsequent high temperature processing steps is explained. An encapsulation layer is used to cover the channel and ohmic metal contacts. The ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8030122 | Method and apparatus for reduction of non-adaptive signals in photo-EMF sensors A method and apparatus for a photoinduced electromotive force sensor. The sensor has an active substrate formed of a semi-insulating photoconductor with sufficient carrier trap density to form an effective charge grating and pairs of electrodes disposed on the activ... | 10/04/2011 |
| D646178 | Bottle | 10/04/2011 |
| 8017217 | Variable emissivity material A material of variable emissivity includes a first metallic layer having a first aperture, a second metallic layer having a second aperture, and a variable dielectric layer interposed between the first metallic layer and the second metallic layer. ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8003928 | Method for compensating a millimeter wave imaging array A method for compensating a plurality of sensors comprises exposing each of the plurality of sensors to a scene energy from a scene, exposing each of the plurality of sensors to the scene energy from the scene and a reference signal energy, exposing each of the plur... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7996452 | Pulse domain hadamard gates A hadamard gate includes two strongly cross-coupled limit cycle oscillators. Each limit cycle oscillator includes an amplifier, a summing node, an integrator, a hysteresis quantizer, a self-feedback 1-bit DAC (Digital-to-Analog Converter) and a cross-feedback 1 bit ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7994877 | MEMS-based quartz hybrid filters and a method of making the same An integrated Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) filter includes an insulating substrate bonded to a base substrate such that at least a portion of the insulating substrate is separated from the base substrate by a gap, the insulating substrate having a first s... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7992271 | Process of manufacturing a piezoelectric actuator for tunable electronic components on a carrier substrate A processes for manufacturing actuating assembly for tuning a circuit by forming a carrier substrate containing a membrane, a conductive layer, and piezoelectric actuators are disclosed. The process includes the steps of: providing a substrate having a bottom protec... | 08/09/2011 |
| D643166 | Vacuum cleaner | 08/09/2011 |
| 7989277 | Integrated structure with transistors and Schottky diodes and process for fabricating the same A process for fabricating an integrated group III nitride structure comprising high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) and Schottky diodes, and the resulting structure, are disclosed. Integration of vertical junction Schottky diodes is enabled, and the parasitic ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7983562 | Dynamic coding for optical code-division multiple access An apparatus and methods for encoding and decoding data are disclosed. The method for transmitting and receiving data allows for coding and decoding each bit of data with a different code. The transmitter and receiver devices allow encoding and decoding, respectivel... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7972552 | Method to locate and eliminate manufacturing defects in a quartz resonator gyro A method for locating and eliminating defects on a substrate wafer includes illuminating a top surface of the substrate wafer with a first illumination source, illuminating a bottom surface of the substrate wafer with a second illumination source, forming an image o... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7971639 | Device for conducting cementing operations and inflow regulation The present invention relates to a cementing or inflow regulation valve for conducting cementing operations or inflow regulation in a wellbore comprising a casing or tubing (2), wherein the cementing or inflow regulation valve (1) is inserted between t... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7968435 | Method and device for growing pseudomorphic AlInAsSb on InAs A semiconductor device and method are being disclosed. The semiconductor device discloses an InAs layer, a plurality of group III-V ternary layers supported by the InAs layer, and a plurality of group III-V quarternary layers supported by the InAs layer, wherein the... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7965220 | Smart chaff A chaff element for interfering with radar signals. The chaff element has a dielectric substrate and a pair of elongate electrically conductive elements, having a total length of approximately one-half wavelength of the radar signals or otherwise tuned to the radar ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7965216 | Compressed sensing analog-to-digital converter A system for analog-to-digital signal conversion featuring compressed sensing analog-to-digital converter systems. An analog signal is connected to a time encoder having a pulse frequency. The analog signal frequency is higher than the pulse frequency. The time enco... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7954896 | Chair seat with mutually moveable parts The present invention concerns a chair seat (11) with mutually moveable seat parts (1, 5, 6). The seat parts (1, 5, 6) are mutually shiftable in substantially one and the same first plane. The chair seat is particularly adapted to be used as a c... | 06/07/2011 |
