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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8176354 | Wave pipeline with selectively opaque register stages A selectively synchronous wave pipeline segment and an integrated circuit (IC) including the segment. The segment includes a normally opaque input stage and output stage and multiple internal stages that are normally transparent. A programmable local clock control c... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8159976 | Neural network-based mobility management for healing mobile ad hoc radio networks A self healing ad hoc communications network and method of training for and healing the network. The network includes wireless devices or nodes that include a neural network element and the ad hoc network operates as a neural network. Some of the nodes are designate... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8139246 | Printer dynamically tracking print jobs and method of tracking print jobs A printer and method of managing print jobs in the printer. Print job locations are identified in the printer. Each print job being printed is always in at least one of the print job locations and the locations are monitored for entering and exiting jobs. The printe... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8122387 | Optimizing integrated circuit chip designs for optical proximity correction A method of physical design for integrated circuit (IC) chip fabrication, physical design system and program product therefor. A design shape is fragmented into segments for Optical Proximity Correction (OPC) and a harmonic mean of the segments is determined. Electr... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8017213 | Temperature tolerant hooks for hook and loop attachment A temperature tolerant hook and loop attachment, a method of forming a sheet of the hooks and, a method of insulating the skin of a flight vehicle. Temporary loops are formed in a fabric containing temperature tolerant fiber tows, e.g., the tows may be carbon, a met... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7984007 | Proactive problem resolution system, method of proactive problem resolution and program product therefor A proactive problem resolution system, method of proactive problem resolution and program product therefor. User sensors extract data from user interaction with a computer terminal and pass extracted data to a sniffer agent. The sniffer agent checks for an indicatio... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7968944 | Integrated circuit chip with FETs having mixed body thicknesses and method of manufacture thereof An Integrated Circuit (IC) chip that may be a bulk CMOS IC chip with silicon on insulator (SOI) Field Effect Transistors (FETs) and method of making the chip. The IC chip includes areas with pockets of buried insulator strata and FETs formed on the strata are SOI FE... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7937549 | Storage system and subsystem to automatically detect hardware configuration changes A storage subsystem, method of automatically maintaining the subsystem hardware configuration up to date and program product therefor. The storage subsystem automatically initiates hardware discovery in response to a triggering event. Subsystem hardware information ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936550 | Fastening assembly including washer for sealing the assembly for lightning strike protection in composite structures A fastening assembly for a composite structure including a washer sealing the assembly for internal lightning strike protection. The washer includes one or more concentric ribs that are dielectric rings on both sides. When used (e.g., with a nut and bolt) internal t... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7928420 | Phase change tip storage cell A storage cell, integrated circuit (IC) chip with one or more storage cells that may be in an array of the storage cells and a method of forming the storage cell and IC. Each storage cell includes a stylus, the tip of which is phase change material. The phase change... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7928012 | Integrated circuit with upstanding stylus A stylus, an integrated circuit (IC) and method of forming the IC. The stylus extends upward from its apex and has a substantially circular cross section that decreases in diameter upward from the apex. The stylus is formed in a mold that may be formed in an orifice... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7900178 | Integrated circuit (IC) design method, system and program product A method of integrated circuit (IC) design, an IC design system and computer program product therefore, e.g., for L3GO designs. Special case cells are cells that represent specialized, process dependent components and are provided as dual representation cells with a... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7886172 | Method of virtualization and OS-level thermal management and multithreaded processor with virtualization and OS-level thermal management A program product and method of managing task execution on an integrated circuit chip such as a chip-level multiprocessor (CMP) with Simultaneous MultiThreading (SMT). Multiple chip operating units or cores have chip sensors (temperature sensors or counters) for mon... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7881217 | Remote gateway selection in an interplanetary communications network and method of selecting and handing over remote gateways A method of selecting a gateway node in a remote network and for handing over to the selected gateway node. Nodes in a remote energy aware network connect through a gateway node to a backbone network in an interplanetary communications network. Each node optimizes a... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7848695 | Toner brush with superimposed brushes for an electro-photographic printer and printer with the toner brush A toner brush for a printer and a printer including the toner brush. The toner brush includes a substrate (e.g. a core cylinder) with a cleaning brush and a residual toner brush superimposed over one another. During printing the printer holds the residual toner brus... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7848262 | Neural network-based mobility management for healing mobile ad hoc radio networks A self healing ad hoc communications network and method of training for and healing the network. The network includes wireless devices or nodes that include a neural network element and the ad hoc network operates as a neural network. Some of the nodes are designate... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7876258 | Aircraft collision sense and avoidance system and method A collision sense and avoidance system and method and an aircraft, such as an Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) and/or Remotely Piloted Vehicle (RPV), including the collision sense and avoidance system. The collision sense and avoidance system includes an image interrogato... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7873891 | Programmable voltage divider A test circuit and programmable voltage divider that may be used in the test circuit. The programmable voltage divider develops a voltage difference signal that may be digitally selected. The test circuit may be used to test and characterize sense amplifiers. The pr... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7865457 | Knowledge management system automatically allocating expert resources A knowledge management system allocating expert resources, method of allocating expert resources and program product therefor. Information requests are provided over networked devices, e.g., over voice and data networks. Data on experts may be stored in an expert da... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7864501 | Electrical connects for charge distribution applique A lightning strike protection system for protecting composite structures, an improved lightning strike appliqué (LSA) for such a lightning strike protection system, and a method of protecting composite structures, such as an aircraft fuselage. The LSA is electrical... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7860618 | System, method and program product for predicting fleet reliability and maintaining a fleet of vehicles A system, method and program product for maintaining fleet performance for a fleet of platforms, especially for a fleet of aircraft. Part removal data is contained in a maintenance database. A query is constructed for extracting part removal data from the maintenanc... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7839175 | Local clock buffer (LCB) with asymmetric inductive peaking A Local Clock Buffer (LCB), an IC chip including registers, some of which may include master/slave latches, locally clocked by the LCB, e.g., providing a launch clock and a capture clock each with an identified critical edge. The LCB includes asymmetrically inductiv... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7821553 | Pixel array, imaging sensor including the pixel array and digital camera including the imaging sensor A pixel array in an image sensor, the image sensor and a digital camera including the image sensor. The image sensor includes a pixel array with colored pixels and unfiltered (color filter-free) pixels. Each unfiltered pixel occupies one or more array locations. The... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7819363 | Mobile cargo loader with a thermal curtain enclosure An apparatus for controlling the environment of an internal airplane space during loading and unloading of cargo, a cargo tent for use in such transfers and a method of transfer. A collapsible cargo tent is located on a cargo transfer platform at one end of a mobile... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7795068 | Method of making integrated circuit (IC) including at least one storage cell A storage cell, integrated circuit (IC) chip with one or more storage cells that may be in an array of the storage cells and a method of forming the storage cell and IC. Each storage cell includes a stylus, the tip of which is phase change material. The phase change... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7792701 | Method and computer program product for providing accessibility services on demand An accessibility service tool providing accessibility services on demand for converting between content types and program product therefore. Media input, e.g., audio or audio/video is provided to a transformation and augmentation unit that determines from the media ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7780347 | On chip temperature measuring and monitoring circuit and method A device temperature measurement circuit, an integrated circuit (IC) including a device temperature measurement circuit, a method of characterizing device temperature and a method of monitoring temperature. The circuit includes a constant current source and a clampi... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7764622 | Interplanetary communications network, interplanetary communications network backbone and method of managing interplanetary communications network An interplanetary communications network, an interplanetary communications backbone network of Artificial Neural Network (ANN) nodes, an ANN node and a method of managing interplanetary communications. The backbone network operates as a neural network with each node... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7762721 | On chip temperature measuring and monitoring method A device temperature measurement circuit, an integrated circuit (IC) including a device temperature measurement circuit, a method of characterizing device temperature and a method of monitoring temperature. The circuit includes a constant current source and a clampi... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7755876 | Fastening assembly including washer for sealing the assembly for lightning strike protection in composite structures A washer, a fastening assembly including the washer and a composite structure including the washer sealing the assembly for internal lightning strike protection. The washer includes one or more concentric ribs that are dielectric rings on both sides. When used (e.g.... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7755516 | Traffic display system, aircraft including the display system and method of displaying off-scale traffic in the display system A aircraft traffic display system, aircraft including the display system and a method of displaying aircraft and vehicle traffic in the display system. The system includes an ownship location finder determining ownship location and maps, including airport maps store... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7747075 | Salient motion detection system, method and program product therefor An apparatus and method of identifying objects with salient motion in a scene and program product therefor. A region of change is identified within a scene. Optical flow is determined for the region of change. Pixels moving in a common direction are identified as se... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7742425 | Neural network-based mobility management for mobile ad hoc radio networks A self managed ad hoc communications network and method of managing the network. The network includes wireless devices or nodes that include a neural network element and the ad hoc network operates as a neural network. One of the nodes is designated as a Network Man... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7729633 | Printer dynamically monitoring printer environment contamination An printer, such as a state of the art a high performance, electro-photographic printer. The printer includes at least one smart material sensor enclosed in the printer enclosure that monitors for the presence of a contaminant (e.g., toner or developer) above a sele... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7724759 | Method for the asynchronous arbitration of a high frequency bus in a long latency environment A method of transferring data over a plurality of optical channels. Bus access is requested. A bus grant is issued and received by the bus requester. The bus requester places data and a clock on an optical bus with the data synchronized to the clock. ... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7723207 | Three dimensional integrated circuit and method of design A three dimensional (3D) integrated circuit (IC), 3D IC chip and method of fabricating a 3D IC chip. The chip includes multiple layers of circuits, e.g., silicon insulator (SOI) CMOS IC layers, each including circuit elements. The layers may be formed in parallel an... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7693120 | Neural network-based mobility management for self-partition detection and identification of mobile ad hoc radio networks A method of managing an ad hoc communications network of wireless devices or nodes. The network is connected if all nodes can communicate with each other and otherwise partitioned. Partitions are identified by recursively applying a connectivity function to a connec... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7685457 | Interlocked synchronous pipeline clock gating An integrated circuit including a pipeline and a method of operating the pipeline. Each stage of the pipeline is triggered by one or more triggering events and are individually, and selectively, stalled by a stall signal. For each stage a stall signal, delayed with ... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7675342 | On-chip electrically alterable resistor A programmable, electrically alterable (EA) resistor, an integrated circuit (IC) chip including the EA resistor and integrated analog circuits using on-chip EA resistors. Phase change storage media form resistors (EA resistors) on an IC that may be formed in an arra... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7668616 | Method of rapid hole transfer to replacement parts A method of replacing an existing part or parts on a structure such as an aircraft. The structure is inducted for modification. An existing part is removed and a new part is temporarily installed. Hole locations are digitally transferred to the new part, e.g., photo... | 02/23/2010 |
