Did You Know...
...that several people are credited with the invention of the flush toilet? Most people have heard of Thomas Crapper (1837-1910), the sanitary engineer who invented the valve-and-siphon arrangement that made the modern toilet possible. Another claimant to "the throne" was British inventor Alexander Cumming who patented a toilet in 1775. Then there's a nameless Minoan (a native of ancient Crete) who lived 4,000 years ago who supposedly was ahead of his time and created the first flush toilet!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8005688 | Distributed remote asset and medication management drug delivery system A system and method for communicating and validating patient information including medication delivery information in a care-giving facility is provided. A medical transaction carrier is used to communicate information regarding medication delivery and other patient... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7981101 | Medical vial adapter with reduced diameter cannula and enlarged vent lumen A vented vial adapter for reconstitution of a medicament in a vial includes a vent lumen and a medicament lumen. The vent lumen has a cross-sectional area equal to or greater than that of the medicament lumen so that the fluid flow rate through the vent lumen is equ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7976508 | Medication safety system featuring a multiplexed RFID interrogator panel A medication safety system includes a panel mounted to an IV pole above a multi-channel infusion pump also mounted to the IV pole. The panel includes multiple RFID readers for reading the RFID tags placed on each of the medication containers mounted to the panel. Th... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7972306 | Directly engaged syringe driver system A syringe driver system comprises a rotatable threaded lead screw shaft and a plunger which directly engages the threaded shaft such that rotation of the shaft drives the plunger into the syringe body. The plunger is formed with a threaded shaft engaging portion in ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7946340 | Method and apparatus for orchestration of fracture placement from a centralized well fluid treatment center A method and apparatus for orchestrating multiple fractures at multiple well locations in a region by flowing well treatment fluid from a centralized well treatment fluid center includes the steps of configuring a well treatment fluid center for fracturing multiple ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7379580 | Method for detecting defects A method for inspecting a substrate for defects, including: (a) obtaining an inspected pixel and a reference pixel; (b) calculating an inspected value and a reference value, the inspected value representative of the inspected pixel and the reference value representa... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7285384 | Parallel genotyping of multiple patient samples The present invention relates to parallel genotyping (or other sample analysis) of multiple patients by direct sample immobilization onto microspheres of an array. The patient beads can then be used in a variety of target analyte analyses. ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7265382 | Method and apparatus employing integrated metrology for improved dielectric etch efficiency A method and apparatus for processing a semiconductor wafer is provided for reducing dimensional variation by feeding forward information relating to photoresist mask CD and profile and underlying layer thickness measured at several points on the wafer to adjust the... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7221296 | Method and system for fast context based adaptive binary arithmetic coding A method and processor for providing context-based adaptive binary arithmetic CABAC coding. Binarization is performed on one or more syntax elements to obtain a binary sequence. Data bits of the said binary sequence are provided to an arithmetic encoding unit in bul... | 05/22/2007 |
| RE39645 | Compressed image decompressing device An image processing device which processes a portion of the decompression process including a lot of comparatively complex operations like an inverse discrete cosine transform by software with using a high-performance, general-purpose processor capable of parallel p... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7182272 | System and method for facilitating control of irrigation systems A system for providing reliable communications between components of an irrigation system is provided. The system includes a central control, a number of communication systems each representing a transmission channel, an irrigation controller having a receiver that ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7184612 | Hardware configuration for parallel data processing without cross communication A method and apparatus for parallel processing of data without the need for cross-communication or synchronization between processing nodes is provided. The system is especially suitable for use in a wafer inspection system for the semiconductor industry. Embodiment... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7180579 | Three-dimensional imaging processing module incorporating stacked layers containing microelectronic circuits A 3-D LADAR imaging system incorporating stacked microelectronic layers is provided. A light source is imaged upon a target through beam shaping optics. Photons reflected from the target are collected and imaged upon a detector array though collection optics. The de... | 02/20/2007 |
| D534547 | Stacked self-priming pump and centrifugal pump | 01/02/2007 |
| 7133549 | Local bias map using line width measurements A method and apparatus for inspecting a reticle measures line widths using an inspection tool that images the reticle and compares the image with a design database to detect errors in real time. The differences between the line widths of patterns on the reticle and ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7131068 | System and method for electronic presentations having simultaneous display windows in a control screen An electronic presentation system and method provides multiple display screens for presentation materials as well as permits dynamic annotations to presentation materials that do not permanently alter the presentation materials. The presentation materials can easily... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7075092 | Charged particle beam microscope with minicolumn One embodiment of the present invention is an electron microscope that includes: (a) a main vacuum chamber housing a stage therein and connected to a vacuum pump; (b) a load lock for loading a specimen into said main vacuum chamber; (c) a minicolumn non-translatably... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7042564 | Wafer inspection methods and an optical inspection tool A method of inspecting a plurality of wafers in an optical inspection tool. The method includes the steps of generating a reference wafer and polishing the reference wafer in a chemical mechanical polishing process following a metal deposition process such that the ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7011930 | Method for control of temperature-sensitivity of polymers in solution Temperature sensitive, water soluble polymers are disclosed, together with a method for control the LCST of the polymer. The polymers include hydrophillic components and hydrophobic components joined by linking groups such as ester or amide groups wherein the hydrop... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7009731 | Image processing apparatus capable of preventing pseudo contour There is provided an image processing apparatus employing an error diffusion method capable of preventing a pseudo contour attributable to a delayed dot. The image processing apparatus receives an error diffused from a neighboring pixel and corrects a value (an inpu... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6987873 | Automatic defect classification with invariant core classes A method and apparatus is provided for automatically classifying a defect on the surface of a semiconductor wafer into one of, e.g., seven core classes: a missing pattern on the surface, an extra pattern on the surface, a deformed pattern on the surface, a particle ... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6969963 | PWM controlled motor drive The motor driver having a plurality of output circuits each having two switching elements connected in series includes: a phase switch circuit for putting a switching element on one side of one output circuit among the plurality of output circuits in the ON state du... | 11/29/2005 |
| RE38867 | Device for turning a sheet with a simultaneous change in conveying direction Sheets or sets of sheets are turned very rapidly and reliably, especially after the cutting of endless stationery, conveyed further in a different transport direction and separated in that the leading edge of each sheet is taken to a diagonal bending slot (33... | 11/08/2005 |
| RE38848 | Recording medium cartridge and signal recording apparatus A cartridge for housing a recording medium therein. The cartridge includes a cartridge body configured such that a signal recording apparatus can record a signal onto the recording medium when the cartridge is loaded in the signal recording apparatus. The cartridge ... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6958564 | Armature with unitary coil and commutator An armature for an electromotive device having a unitary coil and armature is disclosed. The armature may include a coil having inner and outer winding portions separated by an insulator, each of the winding portions comprising a plurality of sheet metal conductors,... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6955264 | Method of detecting protrusion of inspection object from palette and method of fabricating semiconductor device In order to provide a method of detecting protrusion of an inspection object from a palette improved to be capable of making highly precise detection and reducing a socket breakage ratio, an inspection object is introduced into each of a plurality of pockets provide... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6953960 | Semiconductor memory device A first level metal interconnection line in a layer below a third level metal interconnection line serving as a main word line MWL is used as a shunting interconnection line and electrically connected to a first level polysilicon interconnection line constituting a ... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6951221 | Substrate processing apparatus The substrate processing apparatus is provided with a gas-liquid mixing nozzle for generating a process liquid mist by mixing a liquid and a pressurized gas, to discharge the process liquid mist to a substrate at high speeds. The liquid may be remover liquid, interm... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6949281 | Varnish composition and liquid-crystal display element An object of the present invention is to provide a varnish composition which can achieve totally and with good balance the improvement in various properties including electrical properties such as residual charge, a voltage holding ratio and image sticking, a pre-ti... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6946655 | Spot grid array electron imaging system A high data-rate electron beam spot-grid array imaging system is provided that overcomes the low resolution and severe linearity requirements of prior art systems. Embodiments include an imaging system comprising an electron beam generator for simultaneously irradia... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6940116 | Semiconductor device comprising a highly-reliable, constant capacitance capacitor A semiconductor device, including a memory cell region and a peripheral circuit region, comprises an insulating film, having an upper surface, formed on a major surface of a semiconductor substrate to extend from the memory cell region to the peripheral circuit regi... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6924088 | Method and system for realtime CD microloading control A method and apparatus for processing a semiconductor wafer is provided for reducing CD microloading variation. OCD metrology is used to inspect a wafer to determine pre-etch CD microloading, by measuring the CD of dense and isolated photoresist lines. Other paramet... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6922482 | Hybrid invariant adaptive automatic defect classification A method and apparatus is provided for automatically classifying a defect on the surface of a semiconductor wafer into one of a predetermined number of core classes using a core classifier employing boundary and topographical information. The defect is then further ... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6914443 | Apparatus and method for enhanced voltage contrast analysis A system and method is provided for testing the resistance of a test wafer having multiple conductors. Embodiments include a method having the steps of providing a signal that is substantially larger than a signal threshold to a test structure; and scanning at least... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6914308 | Vertical PNP bipolar transistor A semiconductor device in which a vertical pnp-bipolar transistor is formed in a prescribed element region on a semiconductor substrate includes: a buried n+-layer of a high concentration formed in the prescribed element region; and a p-type collector lay... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6908630 | Combinations of sesquiterpene lactones and ditepene triepoxide lactones for synergistic inhibition of cyclooxygenase-2 A novel formulation is provided that serves to inhibit the inflammatory response in animals. The formulation comprises, as a first component an effective amount of a diterpene triepoxide lactone species and an effective amount of a second component of a sesquiterpen... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6902326 | Off-axis reflective optical apparatus Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a simple apparatus and a convenient and accurate method of mounting the components to form an off-axis reflective optical apparatus such as a collimator. In one embodiment, an off-axis reflective optical apparatus... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6898304 | Hardware configuration for parallel data processing without cross communication A method and apparatus for parallel processing of data without the need for cross-communication or synchronization between processing nodes is provided. The system is especially suitable for use in a wafer inspection system for the semiconductor industry. Embodiment... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6897941 | Optical spot grid array printer A high resolution and high data rate spot grid array printer system is provided, wherein an image is formed by scanning spot-grid array of optical beams across a substrate layered with a resist. High resolution is achieved by apodizing the optical beams to provide a... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6893845 | Surface expression libraries of heteromeric receptors The invention is directed to a composition of matter consisiting of a plurality of procaryotic cells. The plurality of procaryotic cells contain diverse combinations of first and second DNA sequences encoding first and second polypeptides which form a heteromeric re... | 05/17/2005 |
