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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6190397 | Means and method for performing an anastomosis An anastomosis is performed using a mounting structure mounted on the outside of at least one vessels. The mounting structure includes a flexible mounting structure that is attached to the vessel by a special instrument. A graft vessel is attached to the ... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6188700 | Method and apparatus for encoding MPEG signals using variable rate encoding and dynamically varying transmission buffers An encoded signal signal transmission method and apparatus is disclosed which performs stable signal reproduction without causing any breakage of a buffer on the side of a decoder system even when the transmission bit rate is changed. In encoding and tran... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6181796 | Method and system which drives left, right, and subwoofer transducers with multichannel amplifier having reduced power supply requirements A system and method which generates amplified signals indicative of left and right stereo channels, and uses the signals to drive transducers for each of subwoofer, left stereo, and right stereo channels. The amplification circuitry is operable with a pow... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6180171 | Method of producing a plated product having recesses A plated product and apparatus for forming recesses or grooves on material to be plated to produce such a product. The product includes material having a surface having many recesses, each having an opening of size d, where d is in the range 5-100 microns... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6181352 | Graphics pipeline selectively providing multiple pixels or multiple textures A graphics accelerator pipeline including a combiner stage capable of producing output values during each clock interval of the pipeline which map a plurality of textures to a single pixel or an individual texture to two pixels.... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6176296 | Apparatus for pressing sand molds The apparatus includes a molding flask having at least one bar and a squeeze board having a pressing member. The pressing member has at least one vent hole, and defines at least one groove that divides the pressing member into at least two parts. Each gro... | 01/23/2001 |
| 6175268 | MOS switch that reduces clock feedthrough in a switched capacitor circuit The accumulation of a small positive charge on the source of a MOS switch which occurs after the switch has been turned off due to the parasitic capacitance that exists between the gate and the source of the transistor, known as clock feedthrough, is redu... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6171628 | Method for rolling up a sheet of dough To make a piece of bread, such as a croissant, an apparatus is provided to prevent a sheet of dough from being loosely rolled up, to prevent the sheet from being unevenly rolled up, and to firmly roll the sheet up. The apparatus includes a conveyor that f... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6169433 | Method and apparatus using feedback to generate a ramped voltage with controlled maximum amplitude A method and circuit which employs negative feedback to generate a ramped voltage having well controlled maximum amplitude. In preferred embodiments, the invention is an integrated circuit (or portion of an integrated circuit) which generates a ramped vol... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6163211 | Cascode amplifier with positive feedback for high frequency performance and method for operating and optimizing such amplifier A cascode amplifier which includes a cascode amplifier stage, an output node (coupled directly or indirectly to the cascade amplifier stage), and positive feedback circuitry coupled between the output node and the cascade amplifier stage (or positive feed... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6153023 | Hardened metal product produced by shot peening with shot having high hardness A method for shot peening a hard metal product that has a hardened surface. The method includes projecting shot on the hardened surface of the hard metal product. The ratio of the Vickers hardness of the shot to that of the hardened surface is 0.8-1.6, an... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6104332 | Absolute value circuit and method An analog-to-digital converting including a resistor network for producing a group of coarse differential reference voltages and a group of fine differential reference voltages, a bank of coarse comparators receiving the coarse differential reference volt... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6075761 | Optical recording medium having pits that are formed with respect to a wobbled groove at substantially constant positions in each cycle of the groove having a pit An optical recording medium for accurately deriving the address information or the disc rotation control information despite narrow track pitch and for recording signals to a high density, and a method and apparatus for recording and/or reproducing such o... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6051446 | Thin liquid crystal transducer pixel cell having self-aligned support pillars A liquid crystal transducer pixel cell includes support pillars separating a top and bottom plate of the cell. During the process for forming the pixel cell, the support pillars are formed prior to formation of the pixel electrode. This process flow obvia... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6045838 | Grape handling and storage bag An improved grape storage and handling bag is disclosed. The bag has increased size and reduced venting. The bag of the invention has holes on one or both side walls of the bag to provide a percentage perforation ranging from 0.4 to 1.4%. The bag reduces ... | 04/04/2000 |
| 6043130 | Process for forming bipolar transistor compatible with CMOS utilizing tilted ion implanted base A bipolar transistor compatible with CMOS processes utilizes only a single layer of polysilicon while maintaining the low base resistance associated with conventional double-polysilicon bipolar designs. Dopant is implanted to form the intrinsic base throu... | 03/28/2000 |
| 6024516 | System for securing a face panel to an earthen formation Adjustable connections are provided to enable facing to be secured to anchor elements embedded in an earthen formation, without requiring precise alignment of the anchor elements with connectors on the facing. In one embodiment specially configured bars e... | 02/15/2000 |
| 6024882 | Process and apparatus for water decontamination Oxidizable contaminants in water are destroyed rapidly and efficiently by exposing the water to oxidizing conditions under pressure. Specifically, a single dose of hydrogen peroxide may be injected into the water, followed by the repeated injection and mi... | 02/15/2000 |
| 6016455 | Automatic control system for construction machinery An automatic control system for a construction machine includes the construction machine provided with a ground leveling implement, a target, and a laser sensor; a survey unit that has a coordinate position measuring element and projects a beam of trackin... | 01/18/2000 |
| 6011824 | Signal-reproduction method and apparatus Signal-reproduction method and apparatus receive a code string formed by coding a frequency-axial spectral signal obtained by performing the spectral transformation of a time-axial acoustic-waveform signal, and decode the received code string. Subsequentl... | 01/04/2000 |
| 6008876 | Polished self-aligned pixel for a liquid crystal silicon light valve An array of pixels in a liquid crystal silicon light valve are fabricated with a minimum of surface topology by forming raised dielectric spacer walls on an underlying array support surface prior to the deposition of the metal pixel electrode layer. Depos... | 12/28/1999 |
| 6005429 | Icc current electromagnetic interference choke with multiple choking levels An apparatus for and method of reducing electromagnetic interference of an integrated circuit by providing multiple choking levels are disclosed. A choking circuit includes a choking level select signal generator, a pulse choking circuit connected to the ... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5987082 | Playback apparatus and playback method To reduce a data-error rate caused by interpolation errors. An adder computes the sum of a sampled value Si+1 of a playback signal and a value 8×Si+1 produced by a bit shifter to output the sum 9×Si+1 to an adder. The adder adds the sum (9×Si+1) suppli... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5983355 | Power conservation method and apparatus activated by detecting specific fixed interrupt signals indicative of system inactivity and excluding prefetched signals A method and apparatus is disclosed for controlling the application of a clock stopping signal in a processor to limit power consumption. The system controller receives addresses, signals indicative of primary and secondary system activity, and at least o... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5983356 | Power conservation method and apparatus activated by detecting shadowed interrupt signals indicative of system inactivity and excluding prefetched signals A method and apparatus is disclosed for controlling the application of a clock stopping signal in a processor to limit power consumption. The system controller receives addresses, signals indicative of primary and secondary system activity, and at least o... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5975809 | Apparatus and method for securing soil reinforcing elements to earthen retaining wall components A soil reinforced structure comprised of superimposed courses of concrete blocks, at least some of which have rearward portions separable therefrom. Longitudinally extending soil reinforcing members extend around the separable rearward portions and are ca... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5972664 | Methods and compositions for synthesis of long chain poly-unsaturated fatty acids The present invention relates to a fatty acid Ɗ5-desaturase able to catalyze the conversion of dihomo-gamma-linolenic acid to arachidonic acid. Nucleic acid sequences encoding a Ɗ5-desaturase, nucleic acid sequences which hybridize thereto, DNA construc... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5954819 | Power conservation method and apparatus activated by detecting programmable signals indicative of system inactivity and excluding prefetched signals A method and apparatus is disclosed for controlling the application of a clock stopping signal in a processor to limit power consumption. The system controller receives addresses, signals indicative of primary and secondary system activity, and at least o... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5822779 | Microprocessor-based data processing apparatus that commences a next overlapping cycle when a ready signal is detected not to be active A data processing technique with which a CPU core accesses memory devices over a bus. Some of the memory devices are on-chip, and some may be off-chip. In order to optimize its operation, the CPU core accesses the on-chip devices via a core buffer interfa... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5796513 | Laser arrangement for generating narrow-band, tunable coherent radiation A laser arrangement for generating narrow-band, tunable coherent radiation has an optical parametric oscillator (10) and a tunable seed oscillator (20) whose emitted seed radiation can be set in a narrow-band fashion by means of at least one wavelength-se... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5783363 | Method of performing charged-particle lithography An improvement in a method of charged-particle lithography includes the step of spinning an electrically-conductive layer on a substrate. In one embodiment, an electrically-conductive transfer layer is applied on a substrate. In another embodiment, an ele... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5748590 | Apparatus for inspecting disc recording medium An apparatus for inspecting a disc recording medium detects whether the high-frequency signals have been missed or not by the high-frequency-signal drop-out detecting circuit (26), in addition to the verification of the reproduced data and the detection o... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5696712 | Three overlapped stages of radix-2 square root/division with speculative execution In hardware SRT division and square root mantissa units maximal quotient selection overlapping for three quotient digits per cycle are used. An effective radix-8 implementation cascades three partial remainder computation circuits and overlaps three quoti... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5684731 | Booth multiplier using data path width adder for efficient carry save addition A multiplier which uses Booth recoding to multiply large word length operands. A first operand is fully loaded into a shift register. The loading of the second operand is then begun, with the recoding operation beginning after the loading of the minimum n... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5675559 | Disc recording reproducing apparatus having memory control which allows recording immediately upon loading of the disc A recording and/or reproducing apparatus having a memory controller which controls a writ-in and read-out operation of data into the memory. When data are recorded on a disc-shaped recording medium by the recording and/or reproducing unit, the memory cont... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5666347 | Optical disk and disk chucking mechanism A plate made of a magnetic material is secured to an optical disk so that it closes a central hole formed in a disk substrate. An optical disk chucking mechanism for chucking the optical disk to a disk table attracts the magnetic plate by the magnet to ca... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5656388 | Metal hydrides as electrode/catalyst materials for oxygen evolution/reduction in electrochemical devices An at least ternary metal alloy of the formula, AB.sub.(5-Y)X(y), is claimed. In this formula, A is selected from the rare earth elements, B is selected from the elements of groups 8, 9, and 10 of the periodic table of the elements, and X inclu... | 08/12/1997 |
| 5655139 | Execution unit architecture to support X86 instruction set and X86 segmented addressing A microprocessor execution unit includes an arithmetic unit and an addressing unit. The arithmetic unit performs arithmetic and logical operations on operands. The addressing unit operates in conjunction with the arithmetic unit to calculate offsets, limi... | 08/05/1997 |
| 5652718 | Barrel shifter A barrel shifter performs multi-bit shift and rotate operations on data of different lengths using multiplexors to preprocess the data prior to introducing the data to a transistor array.... | 07/29/1997 |
| 5644532 | Method for programming a cell in a source-coupling, split-gate, virtual ground flash EEPROM array A selected cell in a virtual-ground flash EEPROM array, which is based on a source-coupled, split-gate storage cell, is programmed by grounding the source bit line of the selected cell, grounding the drain bit line of the immediately adjacent cell which s... | 07/01/1997 |
