Did You Know...
...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 |
| 7893814 | Method and apparatus for tracking items on a conveyer using capacitive RFID A method and apparatus are described for facilitation of radio frequency (RF) communication between a radio frequency identification (RFID) device and RFID tags for a conveyer system. The RFID device is positioned in proximity of the conveyor system. At least one co... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7498987 | Electrically small low profile switched multiband antenna A small volume antenna (100) has the form of a polygonal (e.g., square) board with multiple antenna elements (104, 110) located at vertices (114, 116) (e.g., opposite vertices). The antenna elements (104, 110) include two segments (118... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7390978 | Overmolded electronic assembly and overmoldable interface component An overmolded electronic assembly (900, 1000, 1200) is fabricated from one or more overmoldable interface components (300, 400, 500, 1220, 1750) that may be electrical contacts or electronic components that have physical interfaces, such as speakers or... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7337528 | Textured dielectric patch antenna fabrication method A textured dielectric patch antenna is fabricated by applying a first mask pattern (310, 510, 610, 710, 915, 1015, 1210) to a first side of a solid panel made of a first material that is a ceramic dielectric and then sandblasting the solid panel through the f... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7277731 | Adaptive diversity antenna system An antenna system (205) includes an antenna structure (215), a receiver (220), and an antenna system controller (225). The antenna structure includes an arrangement of antennas (237), a signal combiner (240), and a switching... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7176970 | Light sensing pixel sensor and method A photodetector (105) generates an electrical signal that has a value that changes approximately linearly at a rate that is proportional to an amount of light intensity incident on a photodetector since a most recent reset command was received at a reset inpu... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7130511 | Flexible active signal cable A flexible active signal cable (100, 200) includes a flexible printed circuit substrate (105), two electrical connectors (110), at least two metal conductors (115), at least one flexible optical waveguide (120), an optical transmit... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7056800 | Printed circuit embedded capacitors One of a plurality of capacitors embedded in a printed circuit structure includes a first electrode (415) overlaying a first substrate layer (505) of the printed circuit structure, a crystallized dielectric oxide core (405) overlaying the first ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7028001 | System and method for measuring web page advertisement impressions A system and method for measuring user interaction with a defined space, such as an advertisement space, on network site on a network, preferably being a web page of a website on the Internet. The system includes at least one server in communication with the network... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7008814 | Method and apparatus for increasing digital color imaging utilizing tandem RGB photodiodes An apparatus is directed to increasing the resolution of digital color imaging that includes a photosensing semiconductor structure. The apparatus provides a monocrystalline silicon substrate, a first buffer layer epitaxially formed and overlying the monocrystalline... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6947555 | Communication device having illuminated audio indicator A radio (100) provides multiple audio modes of operation, such as a cellular and dispatch modes. Illumination devices (108, 110) are located near the radio's audio sources (104, 106) and become activated to indicate to the user which mode of ope... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6934254 | Method and apparatus for dynamically allocating resources in a communication system A method and apparatus is provided that dynamically allocates processor resources to data transfer-related operations, minimizing the processor resources used for data transfer-related operations and maximizing the processor resources available for other application... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6928880 | High pressure sensor A high pressure sensor mounting configuration (100) includes a cylindrical pressure sensor cavity (105), an internally threaded collet (170), and a housing (160). The cylindrical pressure sensor cavity includes a convex conical open end a... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6882856 | Method for dynamically configuring group calls in a radio system A method for setting up a dynamic group call includes the step (202) of selecting a group of radios (120, 121) by a dynamic group call originator (122). Once the radios that will be part of the dynamic group have been selected, the dynamic group... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6872468 | Peelable circuit board foil In one embodiment, a peelable circuit board foil (200) has a metal support layer (205) and a conductive metal foil layer (210) bonded by an inorganic release material (215). The conductive metal foil layer has a an exposed surface (212... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6873093 | Organic light emitting diode display structure A display structure (200, 500, 600, 700, 800) comprises an emissive layer (260, 360, 460) and an excitation prevention layer (270, 370, 470, 735, 840). The emissive layer includes a set of first color emitting areas (211, 216, 221, 311, 316, ... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6850536 | Interconnection device with integrated storage An interconnection device (300) with a number of links (306, 308, 310, 312 and 314), each link having a number of link input ports (302), link output ports (304) and storage registers (316). An input selection switch (402... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6816472 | Method and apparatus for selecting a best link for supplemental channel assignment during a handoff period in a spread spectrum communication system A technique is used in a spread spectrum communication system (100) such as cdma2000 or UMTS to assign a subscriber unit (120) a link for a supplemental channel, during a handoff period. The technique includes queuing a data packet for transmission to ... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6804525 | Method and apparatus for facilitating two-way communications between vehicles An in-vehicle system (10) having a radio (12) sends and receives messages that include an identifier that uniquely identifies the vehicle and that further includes affinities as correspond to the vehicle and/or occupants of the vehicle. The messages ca... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6799261 | Memory interface with fractional addressing A memory interface device (100) providing a fractional address interface between a data processor (104) and a memory system (102) and a method for retrieving intermediate data values from a memory system using fractional addressing. The device i... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6772126 | Method and apparatus for transferring low bit rate digital voice messages using incremental messages A system controller (106) is for transferring a low bit rate digital voice message. The system controller generates from an analog voice signal representing the voice message a set of speech model parameters, and generates a first derived set of speech model ... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6721635 | Method for leveraging in-vehicle resources In-vehicle resources (wherein the resources each provide a common category of capacity to effect a processor effected activity) are leveraged by selecting the processor activity, selecting for at least one vehicle, a plurality of in-vehicle resources, and parsing fa... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6704046 | Digital pixel image sensor with independent color channel reference signals A pixel image sensor having an array of pixel elements arranged in a color mosaic pattern, each pixel element being responsive to light of a particular color. Each pixel element is supplied with a reference voltage signal corresponding to the color of lig... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6667769 | Time integrating pixel sensor A time-integrating pixel sensor having a photo-detector, a capacitor, a comparator and a pixel data buffer. In operation, the photo-current from the photo-detector charges the capacitor and produces a photo-voltage. The photo-voltage sensed by the capacit... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6661409 | Automatically scrolling handwritten input user interface for personal digital assistants and the like A handheld device 100 such as a personal digital assistant (PDA) or the like, a handwritten input user interface (HIUI), a method of interfacing handwritten text and a program product therefor. A lower portion of a touch enabled display is designated as a... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6625613 | Automatic generation of SQL for frame completion The current invention provides a method for managing a dialogue between a processing system and a user. It addresses the problem of inferring possible feature values by automatically generating an SQL query from a frame representation posting this query t... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6611197 | Selective call transceiver and method of re-registering same A method for re-establishing communication between a base station (102) that transmits on a forward channel, and a subscriber unit (108) that has temporarily lost the forward channel, uses the concept of a re-registration interval. The base station (102) ... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6459889 | DC offset correction loop for radio receiver A receiver direct current offset correction loop (DCOCL) circuit digitizes the baseband analog control voltage (148) using an Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) block 160, which is then processed at control block (162) to drive compensation circuitry 164 i... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6236835 | Method for acquiring a predetermined type of information from a selective call device in a communication system A technique is used in an infrastructure (150) of a two-way radio synchronous communication system (100) to efficiently acquire a predetermined type of information from a selective call device (106). The technique includes receiving an inquiry (1), genera... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6169889 | Method and electronic device using random pulse characteristics in digital signals An electronic device has reduced radio frequency interference (RFI) emissions. The electronic device includes a signal generator that is coupled to a reference clock signal and a first digital circuit. The signal generator generates a random signal derive... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6167078 | Conservation of power in a serial modem A serial modem (14) having a phase-locked loop (22), a central processing unit (20), a serial buffer (26) and a universal asynchronous receiver transmitter (UART) (28), wherein the serial buffer (26) and the UART (28) are connected to a host device (10) v... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6167235 | Method and apparatus for providing additional information to a selective call device about a broadcast A technique is used in a selective call communication system (100) and in a broadcast communication system (106) to provide additional information about a broadcast to a selective call device (111). A broadcast receiver (109) receives a broadcast that inc... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6163698 | Link setup method for a narrowband cellular communication system A method for setting up a link for a call in a narrowband cellular communication system (100) includes, in a selective call radio (106), determining a transmitter identity and a signal quality (310, 315) of a strongest monitoring channel of a set of N mon... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6160490 | Apparatus for improving the battery life of a selective call receiver A selective call receiver (100) operating from a battery (102), includes a battery monitor (114), a radio receiver (108), a regulator (104), a capacitor (105) coupled to the regulator and the radio receiver, and a processor (116) for controlling the foreg... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6154147 | Message processing in two-way data devices In a technique for reducing duplicate messages in a two way data device, a determination (30) is made as to whether a first signature of a new message is the same as a second signature of a matching message. An error check is performed (50) on the new mes... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6148245 | Method and apparatus for sharing processing information in a manufacturing facility A line controller (115) for controlling a manufacturing process comprises a data entry device (225) for receiving product identification information and determining circuitry (310, 315) coupled to the data entry device (225) for receiving the product iden... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6137867 | Alphanumeric message composing method using telephone keypad An interactive method for composing an alphanumeric message by a caller using a telephone keypad includes storing (215) a lexical database (135) from which unigram probabilities, forward conditional probabilities, and backward conditional probabilities fo... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6131277 | Method for accurately aligning and attaching an electrical part to a surface mount circuit An electrical circuit includes a substrate having at least two alignment pads on the substrate that are accurately aligned with a first set of electrical interconnect pads, and also includes a corresponding number of alignment posts that are cylindrical a... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6130921 | Frequency shift modulation automatic frequency correction circuit and method A method (900) and circuit (400) for automatic frequency correcting a frequency modulated (FM) digital signal determines a frequency offset value of the detected FM signal during a preamble portion of the FM digital signal, generates an offset corrected s... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6125110 | Method and system for determining a packet transmission order A method and apparatus for determining the order of transmission of packets of information in a communication system includes a priority assignment processor (330) which receives transmission delay information from a delay analyzer (315) and soft handoff ... | 09/26/2000 |
