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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6309037 | PCI I/O bracket retainer The I/O bracket retainer is a unitary structure that provides excellent EMI shielding without the requirement of an additional gasket layer. EMI leakage is minimized by providing an I/O bracket retainer surface. typically stainless steel, that conforms to... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6298044 | Method and apparatus for determining if overloaded collision domains can be split to enhance network The present invention provides an optimization tool that utilizes traffic data across collision domain boundaries to provide suggestions as to how the network should be changed to achieve an optimal network topology. The optimization tool identifies colli... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6277696 | Surface emitting laser using two wafer bonded mirrors The present invention provides a vertical cavity surface emitting laser having high gain and high reflectivity in the desired wavelength range and good thermal and electrical conductivity. The laser structure is comprised of a first mirror region, a secon... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6229691 | Apparatus and method for mounting a power distribution unit within an equipment enclosure A power distribution unit adapted for mounting within an equipment enclosure including an inner rack. The power distribution unit includes at least one mounting hinge that is fixedly attached to the power distribution unit housing and which is adapted to ... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6175509 | Space efficient local regulator for a microprocessor The present invention is a mounting platform for placement of a first device on a first plane in close proximity to a second device on a second plane. In the preferred embodiment, the first device is a voltage regulator circuit, the second device is a mic... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6169662 | Ejection system and method for on line removal of edge connector cards The card removal method and system easily removes a PCA card from a powered on computer system while minimizing damage to the computer system and to the individual removing the PCA. The printed circuit assembly card removal system is comprised of: an ejec... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6151705 | Efficient use of the base register auto-increment feature of memory access instructions The present invention is a compiler optimization algorithm that reduces address computation overhead for architectures that support an auto-increment addressing mode for memory access instructions. The compiler algorithm identifies opportunities for auto-... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6116494 | Method for re-attachment of a SMT component using a heated air jet The present invention provides an efficient method for attaching computer system components which greatly reduces or eliminates damage to the PC board or components. The method for attaching the computer component includes the steps of: positioning the co... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6094730 | Hardware-assisted firmware tracing method and apparatus The present invention provides a test and diagnosis system for testing an embedded processor. The test system includes an ASIC having an embedded microprocessor, a debug assist logic unit for monitoring the addresses and data from the embedded microproces... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6075535 | Method and apparatus for visualizing the tile access frequencies for tiled, multi-resolution images The present invention provides a method and apparatus for visually presenting the access frequency of a two dimensional image. The method includes the steps of: determining which defined regions of the image are accessed; determining the frequency that th... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6024589 | Power bus bar for providing a low impedance connection between a first and second printed circuit board The present invention provides a reliable high current connector for connecting the ground and power planes of a first PCB to the ground and power planes of a second PCB. The power bus bar is comprised of a first conductive structure having a first and se... | 02/15/2000 |
| 6014326 | Half-bridge balancing circuit The present invention provides a voltage transformer circuit which combines half-bridge topology with a current-mode control according to the present invention. The DC--DC converter circuit according to the present invention includes: a power transformer,... | 01/11/2000 |
| 6002718 | Method and apparatus for generating runlength-limited coding with DC control The present invention provides a lossless coding scheme that maps unconstrained binary sequences into sequences that obey the (d,k)-RLL constraint while offering a degree of DC control. In the preferred embodiment, the channel encoder is a state machine w... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5951656 | Method and system for controlling queue deletions in which pointer corresponding to item to be deleted is moved back and pointers for items after deleted item are shifted The queue management control system according to the present invention provides a system that elegantly handles unlimited queue deletions without bubbles. The queue management control system is comprised of: a plurality of item registers; and a control lo... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5916287 | Modular automotive diagnostic, test and information system The present invention provides an inexpensive, automobile test diagnostic system which is capable of processing data from multiple high speed data channels. The vehicle test diagnostic system include an integrated computer for providing access to a techni... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5908455 | High performance automotive diagnostics instrumentation architecture The present invention provides an automotive test diagnostic system which is capable of achieving high data rates through multiple, independent instrumentation channels. The test diagnostic system includes a vehicle diagnostic instrumentation controller, ... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5880767 | Perceptual image resolution enhancement system The present invention provides an effective, low cost method and system for enhancing various types of images including photograph, CD, video, and graphic art images. The method of enhancing the input image, includes the steps of: filtering the input imag... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5838708 | Integration of surface emitting laser and photodiode for monitoring power output of surface emitting laser The present invention provides a structure and method for integrating a photodiode and surface emitting laser on a substrate which minimizes both process complexity and exposure of epitaxial layers. In a first embodiment, a photodiode structure is integra... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5835774 | Efficient 32-bit based case table support for 64-bit architectures The present invention describes a system and method to efficiently implement case table constructs for integral datatypes larger than the native underlying register size of the architecture. The method for generating case table constructs for a n-bit case... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5835003 | Colossal magnetoresistance sensor The present invention provides a colossal magnetoresistant sensor, and in particular a colossal magnetoresistant sensor capable of responding to the low fields emanating from the recording media. The recording media typically emanates a low field on the o... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5835119 | Face emitting electroluminescent exposure array The present invention provides a face emission printing system including an array of face emission electroluminescent devices coupled to an optical structure. The face emission EL printhead is comprised of a substrate; and a plurality of layer stack suppo... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5818114 | Radially staggered bond pad arrangements for integrated circuit pad circuitry The present invention provides a novel I/O pad structure and layout methodology which allows the effective wire bonding pitch to be reduced by circumventing the usual constraints of wire bonding technology. The bonding pad layout of the present invention ... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5812744 | Joint design of dither matrices for a set of colorants The present invention provides a system and method for generating halftone patterns. Typically the generated halftone patterns are used for generating dither matrices to halftone a image with improved visual quality. The steps for generating a plurality o... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5777347 | Vertical CMOS digital multi-valued restoring logic device The present invention provides a digital vertical multi-valued logic device including a substrate defining a horizontal plane and a vertical direction normal to the horizontal plane, a substantially vertical conductive gate structure disposed above the su... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5747889 | Redundant power supply and storage system The present invention provides a low cost, low complexity, redundant power supply for an electronic data system. The low complexity of the system minimizes system failure rate while the redundancy improves system availability. The redundant power supply i... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5659568 | Low noise surface emitting laser for multimode optical link applications The present invention provides a low noise multimode VCSEL that can be used to transmit data reliably on multimode optical media at data rates up to and exceeding 1 gigabit per second with bit error rates less than 1×10-9 errors/bit. In contra... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5596356 | Toner ejection printer with dummy electrode for improving print quality The present invention provides a method and apparatus for toner ejection printing that improves print quality by providing a pair of dummy electrodes positioned adjacent to the end shield electrodes, the dummy electrodes for improving print uniformity by ... | 01/21/1997 |
