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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7625474 | Method for a microfluidic weaklink device The present invention relates to an electrokinetic (EK) pump capable of creating high pressures electroosmotically, and capable of retaining high pressures. Both pressure creation and retention are accomplished without the need for moving parts. The EK pump uses a p... | 12/01/2009 |
| 6807537 | Mixtures of Bayesian networks One aspect of the invention is the construction of mixtures of Bayesian networks. Another aspect of the invention is the use of such mixtures of Bayesian networks to perform inferencing. A mixture of Bayesian networks (MBN) consists of plural hypothesis-specific Bay... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6529652 | Optical switch and method for aligning optical switch components An optical switch having a fiber/lens array and a switching substrate may be properly aligned using one or more static mirrors or photodetectors provided on the switching substrate. The static mirrors may be designed to reflect incident light back into an... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6465051 | Method of operating high density plasma CVD reactor with combined inductive and capacitive coupling The invention is embodied in a method of cleaning a plasma reactor by creating a vacuum in the chamber while introducing an etchant gas into the chamber through the gas injection ports, and applying RF energy to a ceiling electrode in the chamber while no... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6364995 | Dome-shaped inductive coupling wall having a plurality of radii for an inductively coupled plasma reactor A non-conductive dome-shaped portion having a plurality of different radii as a dielectric inductive coupling wall of a reactor chamber. The non-conductive dome-shaped portion having a plurality of different radii being adapted to be positioned in close u... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6330648 | Computer memory with anti-virus and anti-overwrite protection apparatus The invention is embodied in a computer including a memory and a memory protector responsive to a list of key memory locations containing information to be protected, the memory protector including (a) a write protection circuit--operating independently o... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6289440 | Virtual computer of plural FPG's successively reconfigured in response to a succession of inputs A virtual network consists of many distributed virtual computers interconnected over a communication network of individual links, such as optical fibers or electrical conductors, for example. Each distributed virtual computer has at least two ports connec... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6279248 | Digital measuring system having a multi-row encoder disk The present invention is embodied in a hand held caliper with a hand movable slide, whose motion is transformed into rotation of an apertured multi-row encoder disk, a radiation source and a radiation detector. The present invention accurately measures a ... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6248250 | RF plasma reactor with hybrid conductor and multi-radius dome ceiling The present invention adheres to an optimized coil-domed geometry including a particular dome apex height range relative to the dome base and a particular wafer position range relative to the dome apex.... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6233290 | Method for noncoherent coded modulation In a communication system receiving from a channel a received signal corresponding to a succession of received symbols during a corresponding succession of symbol times, the succession of symbols corresponding to a succession states of a code of the commu... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6220201 | High density plasma CVD reactor with combined inductive and capacitive coupling The invention is embodied in a plasma reactor having a vacuum chamber with a cylindrical side portion and a ceiling at a certain height above the top of the cylindrical side portion, a wafer-holding pedestal near the bottom of the vacuum chamber, gas inje... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6208398 | Hybrid aligned liquid crystal display employing a porous material The present invention discloses nanomechanical fabrication methods of hybrid aligned nematic (HAN) cells of liquid crystals for creating analog spatial light modulators and smart pixel arrays on conventionally fabricated VLSI integrated circuits. The liqu... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6178494 | Modular, hybrid processor and method for producing a modular, hybrid processor A method is disclosed for integrating a field programmable gate array (FPGA) with a microprocessor to form a single, multi-chip or stacked, hybrid processor module. The method includes the identification and parallel routing of selected I/O pins of the FP... | 01/23/2001 |
| 6178066 | Method of fabricating an improved thin film device having a small element with well defined corners The novel method of fabrication of the present invention allows conventional or other lithography machines to produce very small well defined thin film structures or elements. The present invention provides a method to produce well defined elements, inclu... | 01/23/2001 |
| 6175476 | Synthetic spin-valve device having high resistivity anti parallel coupling layer The present invention provides an improved synthetic spin valve sensor having a high resistivity antiparallel coupling layer, typically formed of rhenium, between pinned layers. The spin valve sensor of the present invention may be formed having a layered... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6144528 | Air bearing slider with reduced stiction The present invention is embodied in an air bearing slider. The slider contains a magnetic head for writing and reading data to and from the magnetic medium of a hard disk. The slider is attached to an actuator arm which reciprocates over the disk surface... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6134089 | Current perpendicular to plane magnetoresistive device with low resistance lead The present invention provides a thin film magnetoresistive current perpendicular to the plane read head device and method of fabrication. The structure of the thin film head of the present invention may comprise a lower pedestal shield, a lower sensor le... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6125584 | Automatic door bottom An automatic door bottom for a hinged door which is pivotable to be positioned over a sill when closed, the door having a hinge side and a width, the door bottom having an inverted channel having an open bottom, a length corresponding to the door width an... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6109114 | Caging, calibration, characterization and compensation of microstructural transducers The invention is embodied in a microstructural transducer including a microstructural platform, a movable microstructural member, a microstructural linkage elastically coupling the movable microstructural member to the microstructural platform, measuring ... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6108111 | Ferroelectric optical computing device with low optical power non-destructive read-out Photoresponse from a ferroelectric optical computing device, such as a memory cell or a logic switch, is increased by either illuminating the regions of the ferroelectric crystal under the electrode edges in a sandwich structure device or by aligning the ... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6105695 | Multifunction automated crawling system The present invention is an automated crawling robot system including a platform, a first leg assembly, a second leg assembly, first and second rails attached to the platform, and an onboard electronic computer controller. The first leg assembly has an in... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6097369 | Computer mouse glove A glove worn on the hand of a computer operator provides a computer mouse function for a computer having a video display highlighted by a cursor, in which the apparatus senses the direction of movement of an element of a computer operator's body and trans... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6078311 | Joystick game adapter card for a personal computer The invention is embodied by game adapter card for interfacing between a host bus of a host central processing unit (CPU) and a game joystick including a variable resistor having a bias voltage input and a wiper output, the game adapter card including: a ... | 06/20/2000 |
| 6055138 | Thin film pedestal pole tips write head having narrower lower pedestal pole tip The presently preferred method for fabricating the thin film magnetic head of the present invention includes depositing a first pole layer on a substrate or over a previously formed layer. A portion of the first pole layer is removed, such as by etching o... | 04/25/2000 |
| 6028848 | Apparatus and methods for use therein for an ISDN LAN modem utilizing internal DNS and DHCP servers for transparent translation of local host names to IP addresses Apparatus, and accompanying methods for use therein, for an ISDN LAN modem (300) (and various aspects thereof) that is particularly, though not exclusively, suited for small user environments and which contains an internal ISDN router (305) having a self-... | 02/22/2000 |
| 6023755 | Computer with programmable arrays which are reconfigurable in response to instructions to be executed A virtual network consists of many distributed virtual computers interconnected over a communication network of individual links, such as optical fibers or electrical conductors, for example. Each distributed virtual computer has at least two ports connec... | 02/08/2000 |
| 6022446 | Shallow magnetic fields for generating circulating electrons to enhance plasma processing The present invention is embodied in a plasma reactor for processing a workpiece such as a semiconductor wafer having an axis of symmetry, the reactor including a reactor chamber with a ceiling, a pedestal for supporting the workpiece within the chamber u... | 02/08/2000 |
| 6017273 | Joystick game adapter card for a personal computer The invention is embodied by game adapter card for interfacing between a host bus of a host central processing unit (CPU) and a game joystick including a variable resistor having a bias voltage input and a wiper output, the game adapter card including: a ... | 01/25/2000 |
| 5987415 | Modeling a user's emotion and personality in a computer user interface The invention is embodied in a computer user interface including an observer capable of observing user behavior, an agent capable of conveying emotion and personality by exhibiting corresponding behavior to a user, and a network linking user behavior obse... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5978112 | Non-volatile readout of shift multiplexed holograms The present invention is a holographic reconstruction device for reconstructing successive holograms previously recorded by a recording reference beam in a recording medium, each previously recorded successive hologram being spaced apart a recording displ... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5976308 | High density plasma CVD and etching reactor In one aspect, the invention is embodied in an RF inductively coupled plasma reactor including a vacuum chamber for processing a wafer, one or more gas sources for introducing into the chamber reactant gases, and an antenna capable of radiating RF energy ... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5961298 | Traveling wave pump employing electroactive actuators A traveling wave pump which employs one or more pairs of interfacing plates to transfer fluid (gas or liquid) from one or more inlets to one or more outlets. At least one of the plates in each pair of interfacing plates is driven so as to produce a flexur... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5952685 | Signal processing applications of massively parallel charge domain computing devices The present invention is embodied in a charge coupled device (CCD)/charge injection device (CID) architecture capable of performing a Fourier transform by simultaneous matrix vector multiplication (MVM) operations in respective plural CCD/CID arrays in pa... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5923182 | Ferroelectric optical computing device with low optical power non-destructive read-out Photoresponse from a ferroelectric optical computing device, such as a memory cell or a logic switch, is increased by either illuminating the regions of the ferroelectric crystal under the electrode edges in a sandwich structure device or by aligning the ... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5909251 | Image frame fusion by velocity estimation using region merging A process for performing image frame fusion on a pixel-by-pixel basis by estimating velocities and occlusions between at least two image frames of a sequence of frames. For each pixel, the possible matchings are those that minimize changes in a selected p... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5895448 | Methods and apparatus for generating and using speaker independent garbage models for speaker dependent speech recognition purpose Methods and apparatus for generating and using both speaker dependent and speaker independent garbage models in speaker dependent speech recognition applications are described. The present invention recognizes that in some speech recognition systems, e.g.... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5890553 | Multifunction automated crawling system The present invention is an automated crawling robot system including a platform, a first leg assembly, a second leg assembly, first and second rails attached to the platform, and an onboard electronic computer controller. The first leg assembly has an in... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5887115 | Method and apparatus for implementing a video tape recorder for recording digital video signals having either a fixed or variable data transmission rate Methods and apparatus for converting digital signals having a variable data rate to fixed data rate signals suitable for recording on a tape by a digital video tape recorder are disclosed. The methods include buffering of the received variable rate data, ... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5882424 | Plasma cleaning of a CVD or etch reactor using a low or mixed frequency excitation field An apparatus and method for cleaning the interior of a vacuum chamber of a plasma reactor which includes introducing an etchant gas through inlet ports into the vacuum chamber and applying RF power to a RF plasma excitation apparatus so as to ignite and s... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5870436 | Uniform discrete fourier transform filter parameter encoder The invention is embodied in a parameter encoder for identifying selected parameters of a digitally sampled incoming signal lying within a receiver bandwidth, wherein the receiver bandwidth is divided into plural contiguous frequency channels, each channe... | 02/09/1999 |
