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Lee deForest, American radio pioneer ; 1957
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| D659118 | Headset | 05/08/2012 |
| 8153877 | Locking mechanism for percussion musical instrument A high hat cymbal has a magnetic clutch that engages the top cymbal and allows it to be controlled by a standard high hat foot pedal. When the drummer's foot is removed from the high hat foot pedal, the magnetic clutch strikes a mechanical arm, which causes the magn... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8144714 | Assured delivery message system and method In method of providing assured message delivery across a distributed message delivery system with low delivery latency and network traffic, a set of destinations is first identified for a set of destinations for a message received at an ingress router to the network... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8135148 | Automatic gain control for mobile microphone An automatic gain control unit controls the gain applied to an input signal produced by a microphone subject to ambient noise. The automatic gain control circuit continually monitors the signal level of said input signal. A first gain control circuit decreases the g... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8090316 | Digital FM radio transmitter A digital FM transmitter has a digital controlled oscillator for generating a modulated RF carrier. A digital signal processor receives digital input samples and generates a modulating signal for input to the digital controlled oscillator. A bandpass filter for filt... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8089951 | Method of transferring timing information over packet network Timing information is transmitted over a network by sending time-stamped packets between a transmitter and receiver. The time-stamped packets are used to compute an estimate of the frequency deviation between the transmitter clock and the receiver clock. The local r... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8071486 | Method for removing residues formed during the manufacture of MEMS devices A method of removing residues from an integrated device, in particular residues resulting from processing in HF vapor, is disclosed wherein the fabricated device is exposed to dry water vapor for a period of time sufficient to dissolve the residues in the dry water ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8057852 | Microdevice for a fluorescence-based assay, and a method for making the microdevice Glass as a substrate for fluorescence-based assays is expensive. Disclosed is a poly(cyclic olefin) alternative to glass that is of comparable sensitivity. More specifically, disclosed is a method of making a microdevice for the immobilization of biomolecules for th... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8041028 | Double-talk detection Within audio telecommunications for audio-visual conferencing a means of reliable double-talk detection is required for several reasons, including control of residual echo, and control of adaptive algorithms used to estimate the echo. Existing techniques tend to eit... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8010355 | Low complexity noise reduction method A method of reducing noise in a speech signal involves converting the speech signal to the frequency domain using a fast fourier transform (FFT), creating a subset of selected spectral subbands, determining the appropriate gain for each subband, and interpolating th... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7997729 | Method for correcting patient motion when obtaining retina volume using optical coherence tomography A computer-implemented method of correcting for motion of a sample during OCT imaging obtains a series of cross-sectional volume scans through the sample at different positions on a first coordinate axis, obtains at least two cross-sectional alignment scans in plane... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7965115 | Soft reference switch for phase locked loop A phase locked loop includes a digital controlled oscillator and a number of phase detectors, each having a first input connected to a reference source and a second input coupled to the output of the digital controlled oscillator, and an output for producing a phase... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7927904 | Method of making BIOMEMS devices A MEMS device is manufactured by first forming a self-aligned monolayer (SAM) on a carrier wafer. Next, a first polymer layer is formed on the self-aligned monolayer. The first polymer layer is patterned form a microchannel cover, which is then bonded to a patterned... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7926949 | Dual-mode three-dimensional projection display A dual-mode stereoscopic three-dimensional (3D) projection display with two micro-display panels is provided. In a passive 3D mode, the 3D projection display simultaneously projects left-eye and right-eye images with first and second polarizations on the screen. The... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7925971 | Transformation module for transforming documents from one format to other formats with pipelined processor having dedicated hardware resources A method and apparatus for converting documents from one format to another in a speed efficient way involves a hardware module which implements several operating pipeline stages which work in parallel. The transformations are supplied and decomposed into sequences o... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924730 | Method and apparatus for operations, administration and maintenance of a network messaging layer A method of performing connectivity verification in a content routed network including a plurality of routers and wherein messages are transported through the network over a message transport layer, involves sending from an originating router a ping request message ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7913119 | Method and device for verifying integrity of data acquisition pathways Disclosed is a method of verifying the integrity of data acquired from a device emulating a hard disk to a host computer over a data transfer pathway. A storage medium containing known data is connected to the data transfer pathway, the storage medium capable of emu... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7908138 | Low complexity noise reduction method To reduce noise in an input signal that may contain speech, first an estimate of the noise level in the signal is obtained. The level of the input signal is then compared with the noise level estimate signal to determine whether speech is dominant. Less aggressive n... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7895299 | Dynamic links in content-based networks In a method of managing a content-based network including a plurality of content routers, such as XML routers, dynamic links are established between the content routers which are not direct neighbors. ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7895158 | Data logging in content routed networks A method of managing a content routed network, involves distributing published documents through said network for delivery to subscribers; maintaining data logs pertaining to said published documents at different points in the network; and correlating the data logs ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7889738 | Shared application inter-working with virtual private networks A method of providing a shared application infrastructure simultaneously to multiple independent virtual private networks with potentially overlapping IP addresses, involves connecting to an underlying layer 1, 2 or 3 virtual private network offering one or more vir... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7872761 | Method for reliable optical coherence tomography scans of volumes of retinal tissue A method of building up a three dimensional OCT image of an object having a limited region sensitive to movement of a scanning beam performs an OCT scan in a scanning pattern that results in said limited region, typically the fovea of the eye, being scanned last. | 01/18/2011 |
| 7859992 | Router redundancy in data communication networks A method of providing router redundancy within a distributed network of routers, wherein messages are routed within the network based on virtual router identifiers, involves organizing the routers into one or more redundancy groups; assigning a physical identifier t... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7844733 | Content router with multiple forwarding elements instantiated on hardware entities A carrier grade content router, includes a distinct management plane for housing externally visible management applications, and coordinating and relaying external management requests to appropriate underlying application code in the router; a distinct control plane... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7843954 | Scaleable VoIP telephone line circuit A telephone subscriber line device for providing an interface between a legacy telephone circuit based on circuit-switched technology and a packet network has a legacy interface for connection to telephone circuit; a packet interface for connection to a packet netwo... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7829872 | UV reactive spray chamber for enhanced sample introduction efficiency An analyte for atomic spectrometry detection is prepared by introducing an aerosol of the analyte into a chamber, and irradiating the aerosol with ultraviolet light in the presence of a low molecular weight organic acid or other suitable photoactivatable ligand dono... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7820047 | Integrated multi-zone wastewater treatment system and method A wastewater treatment system has two separate but interlinked tanks containing four different zones, namely aerobic, microaerophilic, anoxic and anaerobic, for the biological treatment of the wastewater, as well as two clarification zones and a filtration unit for ... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7810378 | Monitoring of leakage in wastewater force mains and other pipes carrying fluid under pressure A method of detecting leakage in a force main involves placing at least two spaced sensors on the force main. Liquid is pumped through the pipe by means of a pump. The pump is shut down for an interval of time, and during the period following pump shutdown while neg... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7807550 | Method of making MEMS wafers A wafer level package for a MEMS device is made by bonding a MEMS wafer and a lid wafer together to form a hermetically sealed cavity. One or more vias filled with conductive or semiconductive material is etched one of the wafers to form one or more rods extending t... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7801857 | Implicit routing in content based networks In a method of managing a content-based network, which is typically XML-based, and optionally may be overlaid on an underlying network having a plurality of network elements interconnected by links, a link state protocol maintains each network element's topological ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7799656 | Microchannels for BioMEMS devices A method is disclosed for making a MEMS device wherein anhydrous HF exposed silicon nitride is used as a temporary adhesion layer allowing the transfer of a layer from a Carrier Wafer to a Device Wafer. ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7799376 | Method of controlling film stress in MEMS devices A structural film, typically of silicon, in MEMS or NEMS devices is fabricated by depositing the film in the presence of a gas other than nitrogen, and preferably argon as the carrier gas. ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7786811 | Phase locked loop with adaptive filter for DCO synchronization A digital phase locked loop has a digital controlled oscillator, a feedback loop coupled to the output of said digital controlled oscillator, a phase detector for comparing a feedback signal from said feedback loop with a reference signal to produce a phase error si... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7758910 | Method of on-line thickness measurement of applied coatings In a method of measuring the thickness of a coating as it is applied to a substrate, wherein the coating is applied as a thin ribbon from a spray gun, at least one surface profile of the applied coating is obtained along a line intersecting the ribbon during relativ... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7747694 | Low latency and assured delivery using HTTP In a method of performing the asynchronous delivery of messages from a server to a client, the server receives the messages for the client from a message source. The server and client communicate over a packet network using an asymmetric protocol that requires reque... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7737432 | Voltage controlled computing element for quantum computer A computing element for use in a quantum computer has at least three coupled quantum dots, and at least one gate for applying an electric field to manipulate the state of said qubit. ... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7716525 | Low latency, high throughput data storage system A method of providing assured message delivery with low latency and high message throughput, in which a message is stored in non-volatile, low latency memory with associated destination list and other meta data. The message is only removed from this low-latency non-... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7706255 | Communications apparatus with redundant switching or backpressure mechanism A communications apparatus includes several functional modules for implementing an application, a pair of switch modules to provide redundant switching capability for transferring frames between the functional modules. Each functional module is connected to each swi... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7690794 | Image-combining device and projection display apparatus having image-combining devices incorporated therein An image-combining device comprising of a polarizing beam-splitter, two waveplates and two reflective micro-electro-mechanical display panels is described. It combines images with orthogonally polarized light. Projection display apparatus having such image-combining... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7688016 | Robust impedance-matching of manipulators interacting with unknown environments A system for replicating the behavior of a target robotic manipulator with respect to a payload and worksite, has a real-time simulator capturing the dynamics of the target robot manipulator; a mock-up of the payload and worksite; and an emulating robotic manipulato... | 03/30/2010 |
