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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7860827 | Data synchronization method for an application database available on multiple wirelessly connected platforms A data-synchronization computer program allows many personal portable workstations to wirelessly communicate with a server and to provide updates to an applications database. Each personal portable workstation maintains its own copy of the database with opportunisti... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7603871 | High-flow cold air chiller An air-chiller comprises a primary compressor that circulates a mixture of four refrigerants with different boiling points through a primary condenser and several heat-exchanger coils in series. Each heat exchanger coil includes a large section of tubing in which ar... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7437138 | All CMOS GPS receiver with noise-matched high impedance on-chip antenna A GPS receiver depends on CMOS technology for both its GPS digital signal processing (DSP) and radio frequency (RF) stages. A resulting increase in RF input noise generated by the CMOS RF input is overcome by placing the antenna on-chip or on a lid of an application... | 10/14/2008 |
| 6850906 | Real-time financial search engine and method A real-time financial search engine retrieves financial updates in real-time. A condensation memory in the real-time financial search engine stores financial data in a compacted space that allows computation of a smaller set of numbers. Real-time feed is converted i... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6787052 | Method for fabricating microstructures with deep anisotropic etching of thick silicon wafers A method for fabricating semiconductor microstructures with a combination of etching steps, i.e. local RIE, isotropic, etc. followed by deep anisotropic etching. ... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6727859 | Radiated electric-field meter A radiated electric-field meter comprises high frequency and low frequency antennas connected to a pre-amplifier with manually adjustable gain. This feeds a linear-logarithmic amplifier/detector with a mode switch for logarithmic/linear operations. A standard panel ... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6085241 | Internet user-bandwidth management and control tool A bandwidth manager for network segments comprises a pair of media access controllers connected by respective MII data interfaces to IEEE 802.3 physical layer transceivers. A data selector connected amongst the media access controllers and physical layer ... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6056813 | Process and system for producing pigments directly from component raw materials without byproducts A process for making white pigment directly from constituent materials without byproducts. The process comprises the steps of inputting three material flows comprising a sulphate source, an alkali source, and an aluminum source. And, recycling and mixing ... | 05/02/2000 |
| 5949066 | System and method for creating and utilizing a sinusoidal based pattern sensor to achieve precise positioning of a movable element A position sensor and a method of creating the same which sensor has an incoherent light source, multiple light detectors and a sinusoidal pattern that can be directly installed to the sensor. The light source and detectors are positioned along the axis o... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5898270 | Monocoque structure and large electrode beaded rob re-entrant seals for flashlamp-pumped solid-state laser flashlamps A pulsed high energy arc-tube flashlamp comprises a quartz flashlamp envelope that is about 2000 mm long and has an outside diameter of approximately forty-eight mm. Each end necks down to an outside diameter of about thirty-eight mm to accommodate an ano... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5802243 | Time expansion method and system for slower than real-time playback with video cassette recorders A video cassette recorder includes a tape transport and servo that records digital data at one tape speed and plays back the digital data at one twentieth of the recording speed, both with a fixed speed of rotation of a drum head. On playback, each record... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5760748 | Pivoting support bracket to mount a GPS antenna above a theodolite or a total station mounted on a tripod A surveying instrument comprises a tripod with a tribrach that receives both a theodolite and a C-bracket that half vertically encircles the theodolite. The C-bracket and the theodolite are each independently pivotable on the same vertical axis and the C-... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5602741 | Centimeter accurate global positioning system receiver for on-the-fly real-time kinematic measurement and control A system embodiment of the present invention comprises a fixed and a roving pair of four-observable GPS receivers and a communication link between them for double differencing code and carrier measurements. Carrier phase integer ambiguities are resolved e... | 02/11/1997 |
| 5561338 | Packaged arc lamp and cooling assembly in a plug-in module A drop-in arc lamp assembly comprising an arc lamp with fitted cathode and anode heat sinks each including a thin-wall copper strip that is brazed in pleated folds between inner and outer cylindrical rings to create cooling fins. The drop-in lamp assembly... | 10/01/1996 |
