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Decorative Jeweled Wheel Cover
An improved wheel is provided wherein decorative items such as gem stones are embedded in either the wheel surface, a special mounting section attached to the wheel surface, or to a spoke strap that wraps around each spoke and positions embedded gem stones on the outside surface of the spoke.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8169900 | Increasing link capacity via traffic distribution over multiple Wi-Fi access points A method and system for combining the bandwidth available to a user communications device from multiple access points by switching output requests and corresponding replies to such requests among a plurality of such access points. In the simplest implementation the ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165992 | System and method for tracking notifications in a publish subscribe system A system and method are provided for tracking notification messages from a message publisher to a message subscriber. The system includes a plurality of entities that are operatively coupled to one another via an electronic network, and each entity includes at least... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164192 | Thermo-compression bonded electrical interconnect structure An electrical structure and method for forming. The electrical structure includes a first substrate comprising a first electrically conductive pad, a second substrate comprising a second electrically conductive pad, and an interconnect structure electrically and mec... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8157158 | Modification of solder alloy compositions to suppress interfacial void formation in solder joints A solder joint comprising a solder capture pad on a substrate having a circuit; and a lead containing or a lead free solder selected from the group comprising Sn—Ag—Cu solder, Sn—Cu solder and Sn—Ag solder adhered to the solder capture pad; the solder select... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8138015 | Interconnection in multi-chip with interposers and bridges A structure formation method. The method may include: attaching a substrate, a first interposer, a second interposer, and a first bridge together such that the first interposer is on and electrically connected to the substrate, the second interposer is on and electr... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8137874 | Organic graded spin on BARC compositions for high NA lithography An antireflective coating that contains at least two polymer components and comprises chromophore moieties and transparent moieties is provided. The antireflective coating is useful for providing a single-layer composite graded antireflective coating formed beneath ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134724 | Policy based system and method for optimizing output device submission, use and wait times Disclosed is a system and method for optimizing submission of output jobs to a network of output devices, using an output job manager to assign jobs to devices. The assignments are done automatically, based on policies associated with users, output devices, organiza... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131938 | Adaptive mechanisms and methods for supplying volatile data copies in multiprocessor systems In a computer system with a memory hierarchy, when a high-level cache supplies a data copy to a low-level cache, the shared copy can be either volatile or non-volatile. When the data copy is later replaced from the low-level cache, if the data copy is non-volatile, ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8127255 | Method to extract and apply circuit features in organic substrate for automation of warp modeling A method of characterizing an organic substrate including a plurality of circuit layers is provided includes the steps of: receiving an image of the organic substrate, the image including a geometric description of the circuit layers of the substrate; segmenting the... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126762 | Method for managing and controlling stability in business activity monitoring and management systems A stabilization methodology and system component in Business Activity Monitoring and Management systems. This enables firms to use Business Activity Management (BAM) systems to manage business activity by only responding to monitored data when the overall business p... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8123089 | Dispensing assembly with an injector controlled gas environment An apparatus for dispensing fusible material onto a surface, wherein the fusible material is in molten form, is provided. The apparatus comprises a dispensing assembly comprising a seal structure. The seal structure controls dispensing of the fusible material. One o... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8123088 | Dispensing assembly with a controlled gas environment Techniques for dispensing fusible material onto a surface, wherein the fusible material is in molten form, are provided. In accordance with aspects of the invention, a dispensing assembly dispenses the fusible material and a gas environment surrounding a portion of ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8122123 | System and method for monitoring business performance using monitoring artifacts A method (and system) of monitoring business performance using a monitoring artifact includes processing an incoming event using the monitoring artifact. ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121877 | Dynamic evolution of business performance management solutions using declarative evolution policies A policy-driven approach to Business Performance Management (BPM) evolution is to capture the mechanism of BPM solution evolutions. These policies are executed by the runtime infrastructure which transforms and interprets evolution policies and allows fine granulari... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8120578 | Controller system and method for controlling a cursor A controller for controlling a cursor includes an identifying module for identifying at least one of a first period when a cursor is in motion and a second period when the cursor is not in motion, and a calibrating module for calibrating an input parameter signal us... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8111730 | 3D optoelectronic packaging An optoelectronic (OE) package or system and method for fabrication is disclosed which includes a silicon layer with a wiring layer. The silicon layer has an optical via for allowing light to pass therethrough. An optical coupling layer is bonded to the silicon laye... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108235 | System and method for applying predictive metric analysis for a business monitoring subsystem Predictive metric analysis for business management is divided into build time, corresponding to the business owner view of the enterprise, and run time, corresponding to the information technology view of the enterprise. The build time consists of a predictive model... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8090671 | Dynamic performance modeling of computer application services using a serial parallel queueing network (SPQN) modeler A generic queueing network model of a Web services environment is introduced. The behavior of a service is abstracted in three phases: serial, parallel and dormant, thus yielding a Serial Parallel Queueing Network (SPQN) model with a small number of parameters. A me... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8081280 | Method of producing UV stable liquid crystal alignment In a liquid crystal display device, a method for creating desirable pretilt angle by means of topography of the substrates, such as a surface that is sloped with respect to the surface of the electrodes. In combination with a low pretilt but highly photo-stable alig... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8080876 | Structure and method for creating reliable deep via connections in a silicon carrier A process and structure for enabling the creation of reliable electrical through-via connections in a semiconductor substrate and a process for filling vias. Problems associated with under etch, over etch and flaring of deep Si RIE etched through-vias are mitigated,... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8060169 | Superconductive compounds having high transition temperature, and methods for their use and preparation A new class of superconducting compositions, and methods for making and using them are described. These compositions exhibit superconductivity at temperatures in excess of 26° K. and are comprised of transition metal oxides having at least one additional element th... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8054926 | Clock and data recovery system and method for clock and data recovery based on a forward error correction The forward error correction based clock and data recovery system includes a data latch for intermediately storing received data, which is triggered by a sampling clock. The system further includes an error determination unit for determining whether which of the sam... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8054095 | Metalized elastomeric probe structure A probe structure for an electronic device is provided. In one aspect, the probe structure includes an electrically insulating carrier having one or more contact structures traversing a plane thereof. Each contact structure includes an elastomeric material having an... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8051878 | Magnetic valves for performing multi-dimensional assays using one microfluidic chip An apparatus for performing multi-dimensional assays using a microfluidic chip is presented. The apparatus comprises of two crossing series of micro-channels on the microfluidic chip. The apparatus further comprises of a plurality of magnetic valves placed at the cr... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8043893 | Thermo-compression bonded electrical interconnect structure and method An electrical structure and method for forming electrical interconnects. The method includes positioning a sacrificial carrier substrate such that a first surface of a non-solder metallic core structure within the sacrificial carrier substrate is in contact with a f... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8026613 | Interconnections for flip-chip using lead-free solders and having reaction barrier layers An interconnection structure suitable for flip-chip attachment of microelectronic device chips to packages, comprising a two, three or four layer ball-limiting composition including an adhesion/reaction barrier layer, and having a solder wettable layer reactive with... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8018818 | Systems and methods for storing and reading data in a data storage system Systems and methods for storing and reading data in a data storage system are provided. The data storage system includes a storage medium for storing data. The storage medium stores data as a plurality of topographical features. Further, the data storage system incl... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8008764 | Bridges for interconnecting interposers in multi-chip integrated circuits A structure and a method for forming the same. The structure includes a substrate, a first interposer on the substrate, a second interposer on the substrate, and a first bridge. The first and second interposers are electrically connected to the substrate. The first ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8005834 | Method and apparatus to map associations with BitSets Database systems using BitSets to model and manage relationships between and/or among entities describing the corresponding fast user defined scalar and column functions used for BitSets, including a technique to model categorization and steps to perform rule evalua... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7994450 | Debris minimization and improved spatial resolution in pulsed laser ablation of materials A method and an apparatus of minimizing the deposition of debris onto a sample being ablated. The method comprising the steps of: 1) reducing a laser pulse energy to approximately a threshold level for ablation; and 2) ablating a region of the sample using a multitu... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7982312 | Method for fabricating dual damascene structures using photo-imprint lithography, methods for fabricating imprint lithography molds for dual damascene structures, materials for imprintable dielectrics and equipment for photo-imprint lithography used in dual damascene patterning The process of producing a dual damascene structure used for the interconnect architecture of semiconductor chips. More specifically the use of imprint lithography to fabricate dual damascene structures in a dielectric and the fabrication of dual damascene structure... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7975379 | Method of making a land-grid-array (LGA) interposer LGA connectors are fabricated with buttons or spring contacts preformed to different heights to accommodate the initial topography of a typical module or PCB of a particular product type. This is accomplished during fabrication by measuring topographies of mating su... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7968450 | Methods for incorporating high dielectric materials for enhanced SRAM operation and structures produced thereby Methods for fabricating a hybrid interconnect structure that possesses a higher interconnect capacitance in one set of regions than in other regions on the same microelectronic chip. Several methods to fabricate such a structure are provided. Circuit implementations... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7968270 | Process of making a semiconductor device using multiple antireflective materials A lithographic structure consisting essentially of: an organic antireflective material disposed on a substrate; a vapor-deposited RCHX material, wherein R is one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Si, Ge, B, Sn, Fe and Ti, and wherein X is not pr... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7960808 | Reprogrammable fuse structure and method A reversible fuse structure in an integrated circuit is obtained through the implementation of a fuse cell having a short thin line of phase change materials in contact with via and line structures capable of passing current through the line of phase change material... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7955160 | Glass mold polishing method and structure A glass mold polishing structure and method. The method includes providing a polishing tool comprising mounting plate, a chuck plate over and mechanically attached to the mounting plate, and a pad structure over and mechanically attached to the chuck plate. A retain... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7932169 | Interconnection for flip-chip using lead-free solders and having improved reaction barrier layers An interconnection structure suitable for flip-chip attachment of microelectronic device chips to packages, comprising a two, three or four layer ball-limiting metallurgy including an adhesion/reaction barrier layer, and having a solder wettable layer reactive with ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7925813 | Method of fabricating a portable computer apparatus with thermal enhancements and multiple power modes of operation A portable computer adapted for electrical connection to a docking station having multiple power modes of operation is described. The portable computer has one or more CPU chips which have at least two power modes of operation, a low power mode and a high power mode... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7923849 | Interconnections for flip-chip using lead-free solders and having reaction barrier layers An interconnection structure suitable for flip-chip attachment of microelectronic device chips to packages, comprising a two, three or four layer ball-limiting composition including an adhesion/reaction barrier layer, and having a solder wettable layer reactive with... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7923712 | Phase change memory element with a peripheral connection to a thin film electrode A PCM cell structure comprises a first electrode, a phase change element, and a second electrode, wherein the phase change element is inserted in between the first electrode and the second electrode and only the peripheral edge of the first electrode contacts the ph... | 04/12/2011 |
