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...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 |
| 7006729 | Optical components having reduced insertion loss An optical device is provided which includes a slab waveguide and at least one input waveguide coupled to a first side of the slab waveguide. The device also includes a plurality of output waveguides coupled to a second side of the slab waveguide. The slab waveguide... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6961502 | Optical module including an optically lossy component and an erbium-doped waveguide for insertion between stages of an optical amplifier An optical module is provided for performing a prescribed function such as dispersion compensation, for example. The optical module is to be integrated between stages of a multi-stage rare-earth doped optical amplifier. The module includes an input port for receivin... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6923996 | Processes for producing polymer coatings for release of therapeutic agent A method for furnishing a therapeutic-agent-containing medical device is provided. The method comprises: (a) providing a reactive layer comprising a cross-linking agent on a medical device surface; and (b) subsequently applying a polymer-containing layer, which comp... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6917760 | Wide passband optical interleaver A method and apparatus is provided for reformatting or interleaving a WDM signal that includes a plurality of optical channels having a first bandwidth and a first channel spacing. The method begins by receiving the WDM signal and dividing it into first and second s... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6913765 | Controlling resorption of bioresorbable medical implant material The resorption of a medical implant can be controlled with the use of particles embedded in a resorbable bulk material forming the implant or portion thereof. The implant can be removed from a body of a mammal by natural biological mechanisms after use. The resorpti... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6897474 | Protected organic electronic devices and methods for making the same An organic electronic device structure and a method of making the same. According to a first aspect of the invention, an organic electronic device structure is provided, which comprises: (a) a substrate layer; (b) an organic electronic region disposed over the subst... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6893329 | Polishing apparatus with abrasive tape, polishing method using abrasive tape and manufacturing method for magnetic disk An abrasive tape is supplied to a tape head by a tape supply unit and taken up from the tape head by a tape take-up unit. The tape head presses the abrasive tape against a surface of an object under polish, which is rotated by a rotating unit. A tape head pressuring... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6895409 | Method and apparatus for creating an adaptive application An Adaptive Software Application consists of several types of modules, called Adaptive Units, which are highly parameterized such that they can adapt to varying business requirements by virtue of externally provided parameters. An Adaptive Application is assembled t... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6888307 | Patterned oxygen and moisture absorber for organic optoelectronic device structures An OLED device structure and a method of making the same. The OLED device structure comprises (a) a substrate, (b) an OLED display area comprising one or more active pixels disposed over the substrate, wherein each of the one or more active pixels comprises an anode... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6888305 | Encapsulation structure that acts as a multilayer mirror The present invention is directed to novel structures for use in connection with OLED devices that simulaneously act as a multiplayer mirror and as a barrier to harmful species in the exterior environment. According to one embodiment of the invention, an OLED struct... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6887857 | Microparticle protection of therapeutic agents The present invention is directed to the use of microparticles to protect the pharmaceutical effectiveness of a pharmaceutically active agent. According to one embodiment, a pharmaceutically acceptable suspension is provided that comprises microparticles and a pharm... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6889085 | Method and system for forming an acoustic signal from neural timing difference data A non-invasive system and process for converting sensory data, e.g., visual, audio, taste, smell or touch, to neural firing timing differences in a human brain and using acoustic signals to generate the neural firing time differences. Data related to neural firing t... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6885500 | Optical amplifier controller having adjustable slew-rate limiter A method and apparatus is provided for controlling the optical output power from an optical amplifier arrangement. The arrangement includes a rare-earth doped fiber for imparting gain to an optical input signal propagating therethrough, a pump source for supplying p... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6884683 | Trench DMOS transistor having a zener diode for protection from electro-static discharge A trench DMOS transistor having overvoltage protection includes a substrate of a first conductivity type and a body region of a second conductivity type formed over the substrate. At least one trench extends through the body region and the substrate. An insulating l... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6886127 | Implementation of a turbo decoder A method for computing the function log(ex1+ex2) or ln(ex1+ex2) for a first argument value x1 and a second argument... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6882573 | DMOS device with a programmable threshold voltage A DMOS device is provided which is equipped with a floating gate having a first and second electrode in close proximity thereto. The floating gate is separated from one of the first and second electrodes by a thin layer of dielectric material whose dimensions and co... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6882666 | Kink free operation of pump lasers having diffraction grating for providing wavelength stabilization A semiconductor laser source includes a laser diode having front and rear facets. The laser diode includes a substrate and a lower cladding layer disposed on the substrate. The lower cladding layer is doped with a dopant of the first conductivity type. An active lay... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6874037 | Method and apparatus for synchronizing device information Two electronic devices automatically perform a synchronization session when one of the electronic devices is brought in proximity to the other electronic device. The synchronization session is initiated without user intervention based simply on the fact that the two... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6870993 | Interconnect including a repeater for an optical transmission cable An optical amplifier module contains at least one optical amplifier. The module includes an internal housing having an outer dimension substantially equal to an outer dimension of an internal fiber splice housing of an undersea optical fiber cable joint. The interna... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6868518 | Look-up table addressing scheme A method for performing a table look-up operation on a first table having N entries includes generating a second table having kN entries based on the first table. The method includes generating a first data field for the second table including table index values hav... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6865199 | Inexpensive analog laser module A method is provided for using an uncooled laser package having pre-established performance specifications that include a pre-established optical power level. The package is to be used at a second set of performance specifications that include a second optical power... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6865071 | Electrolytic capacitors and method for making them A method for making an integrated electrolytic capacitor wherein a substrate (40) is coated with at least one sequence of each of the following layers: a vacuum deposited film (42) having a high specific surface area, which is selected from the group c... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6865018 | Multistage optical amplifier having a fiber-based amplifier stage and a planar waveguide-based amplifier stage A multistage optical amplifier includes a fiber amplifier stage having an active optical fiber for imparting gain to an optical signal propagating therethrough and a coupler supplying pump energy to the optical fiber. A planar waveguide amplifier stage is optically ... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6861337 | Method for using a surface geometry for a MOS-gated device in the manufacture of dice having different sizes A surface geometry for a MOS-gated device is provided that allows device size to be varied in both the x-axis and the y-axis by predetermined increments. The actual device size is set or “programmed” by the metal and pad masks or the contact metal and pad masks.... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6859464 | Method and device for controlling outliers in offered load estimation in a shared medium communication network A technique for controlling outliers in offered load estimation in a shared medium communication network is achieved by partitioning the set of all possible sample value combinations, according to some predetermined partitioning scheme, based on a measure of proximi... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6855770 | Drug delivery compositions and medical devices containing block copolymer A composition for delivery of a therapeutic agent is provided. The composition comprises: (a) a biocompatible block copolymer comprising one or more elastomeric blocks and one or more thermoplastic blocks and (b) a therapeutic agent, wherein the block copolymer is l... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6849899 | High speed trench DMOS A method for making trench DMOS is provided that utilizes polycide and refractory techniques to make trench DMOS which exhibit low gate resistance, low gate capacitance, reduced distributed RC gate propagation delay, and improved switching speeds for high frequency ... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6850568 | Method and apparatus for decoding mpeg video signals A method and apparatus for decoding an input MPEG video stream are provided that includes a core processor with a very long instruction word (VLIW) processor and a co-processor that includes a variable length decoder (VLD) for decoding the MPEG video stream. The inp... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6847312 | Symmetric line coding A method an apparatus for symmetric line coding is provided where a binary input signal d is received; a value for each of a pair of binary bits p and q are dynamically defined in response to the input stream; and a pair of output bitstreams v1 and v... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6842586 | OTDR arrangement for detecting faults in an optical transmission system employing two pairs of unidirectional optical fibers A method and apparatus is provided for using optical time-domain reflectometry (OTDR) with a WDM transmission system that includes a plurality of terminals interconnected by at least two pairs of unidirectional optical transmission paths each of which has at least o... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6836563 | Computer-readable medium and program for quantizing a data set, method and apparatus for quantizing a data set A method for receiving and quantizing a data set originating from collected data is provided. The data set has a plurality of dimensions defined by perpendicular axes, and includes a plurality of data points. Each data point has a data characteristic. The method inc... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6835950 | Organic electronic devices with pressure sensitive adhesive layer An organic electronic device structure, according to a first aspect of the invention, includes: (a) a substrate layer; (b) an organic electronic region disposed over the substrate layer; (c) a pressure sensitive adhesive layer disposed over the organic electronic de... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6835387 | Sustained release of superoxide dismutase mimics from implantable or insertable medical devices An implantable or insertable medical device is provided which comprises (a) a superoxide dismutase mimic and (b) a polymeric release region. Upon administration to a patient, the polymeric release region controls the release of the superoxide dismutase mimic, which ... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6835173 | Robotic endoscope An endoscope is provided which comprises an elongated body adapted for insertion into a body lumen, and a plurality of electrically controlled actuators associated with the body which are controllable to impart an orientation to the body that is complimentary to the... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6834141 | Wide pass-band interferometric optical device utilizing an optical ring-resonator A filtering device such as an optical interleaver/deinterleaver includes first and second optical couplers each having two inputs and two outputs. The inputs of the first coupler are adapted to receive input optical signals to be filtered and the outputs of the seco... | 12/21/2004 |
| D500166 | No smoking sign ashtray | 12/21/2004 |
| 6827737 | EPTFE covering for endovascular prostheses and method of manufacture An implantable composite device for regulated delivery of bioactive agents to the site of implantation includes at least two zones of distinct porosities through its cross-section. One zone is of a sufficient porosity to permit regulated transport of bioactive agent... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6825764 | User programmable portable proximity detector A portable proximity alert detector is provided for a user to determine when at least one companion comes within a predetermined range of the user. The device includes a receiving portion for wirelessly receiving a first signal encoded with a code identifying a comp... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6822288 | Trench MOSFET device with polycrystalline silicon source contact structure A trench MOSFET transistor device and a method of making the same. The device comprises: (a) a silicon substrate of first conductivity type; (b) a silicon epitaxial layer of first conductivity type over the substrate, the epitaxial layer having a lower majority carr... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6812526 | Trench DMOS transistor structure having a low resistance path to a drain contact located on an upper surface A trench DMOS transistor structure having a low resistance path to a drain contact located on an upper surface and methods of making the same. The transistor structure comprises: (1) a first region of semiconductor material of a first conductivity type; (2) a gate t... | 11/02/2004 |
