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"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
Al Gore ; The basis for the later misquote by US Republicans that Gore had "invented" the Internet. Gore was the leading political champion of the modern-day Internet.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6647347 | Phase-shifted data acquisition system and method Improved data acquisition systems and methods that enable large numbers of data samples to be accumulated rapidly with low noise are described. In accordance with this inventive approach, a plurality of data samples is produced from a transient sequence i... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6546607 | Method of manufacturing a crater-style capacitor for high-voltage radio-frequency applications A method for forming a crater-style sampling capacitor. The capacitor includes a dielectric having a smooth crater shaped input electrode on a first surface and output and guard electrodes on a second surface. A sampling capacitor is defined by the input ... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6307160 | High-strength solder interconnect for copper/electroless nickel/immersion gold metallization solder pad and method A high-strength solder interconnect formed on a copper/electroless nickel/immersion gold metallization solder pad and method. The invention provides a low cost, high-strength solder interconnect on a copper/electroless nickel/immersion gold metallization ... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6239385 | Surface mountable coaxial solder interconnect and method A surface mountable coaxial solder interconnect. The invention provides a small, low-cost, passively self-aligning, high-frequency electronic interconnect adapted to mass production and method. The invention includes a substrate, a signal conductor, and a... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6214131 | Mixed solder pastes for low-temperature soldering process A mixed solder paste that reflows below 158° C., and, once reflowed, forms a solder alloy with a melting temperature at least 10° C. higher than the reflow temperature of the mixed solder paste, without ternary eutectic structures occurring at approxima... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6198523 | Ferroelectric liquid crystal light doubler with temperature and voltage controlled tilt angle A ferroelectric liquid crystal-based switchable half-wave plate with improved alignment control, a ferroelectric liquid crystal-based light valve system with improved contrast control, and a method of improving contrast in a ferroelectric liquid crystal-b... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6117187 | Automatic generation of a software installation package A method of automatically generating a software installation package. The method operates on an application program that has been ported to and debugged on a target computer system. A manifest is automatically generated, listing all application program fi... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6094665 | Method and apparatus for correcting a uniform resource identifier A computer program which causes a computer to correct a uniform resource identifier (URI) in a noisy source document. The program finds and corrects potential errors within a URI before turning the URI into a hyperlink. Testing the corrected URI is done b... | 07/25/2000 |
| 5986217 | Printed circuit board for mitigating thermally-induced mechanical damage of solder joints connecting electronic components A printed circuit board for minimizing thermally-induced mechanical damage of solder joints electrically connecting electronic components to the printed circuit board. The printed circuit board includes a first substrate, solder pads, and an expansion lay... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5971538 | Articulated nose bridge for head mounted display An articulated nose bridge for a head mounted display for adjusting the height, tilt, and distance of the display on the wearer's face. The articulated nose bridge including a nose piece configured to rest on a wearer's nose, a bridge piece located betwee... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5930429 | Micro-photonics module integrated on a single substrate An micro-photonics module includes an optical component and a photonics device mounted on a single substrate. The substrate defines a rectilinear cavity with flat bottom and flat side. The photonics device mounted on the substrate at a predefined distance... | 07/27/1999 |
