Did You Know...
...Chester Carlson was a patent agent who tired of having to make multiple copies of patent applications using the only duplication method available at the time: carbon paper. In 1959 he came up with a new copying system and took it to IBM for evaluation. The "experts" at IBM determined potential sales to be only 5,000 units because people wouldn't want to use a bulky machine when they had carbon paper. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, the company founded on the system is Xerox.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7060198 | Heat exchange fluids comprising amine carboxylates Carboxylate salts of amines are used as components of heat exchange fluids. The amines may have a ratio of N to C of 1:0 to 1:12 and the carboxylate anion may be derived from an acid of the formula H(CH2)0-3COOH. A preferred monoamine heat exch... | 06/13/2006 |
| 6974559 | Apparatus for metering catalyst in a fluid catalytic cracking catalyst injection system A method and apparatus for metering catalyst in a fluid catalytic cracking catalyst injection system are provided. In one embodiment, apparatus for metering catalyst in a fluid catalytic cracking catalyst injection system includes a low pressure storage vessel coupl... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6966062 | Method and apparatus for allocating use of an access device between host and guest operating systems A method, apparatus and article of manufacture for allocating use of an access device between a host operating system and a guest operating system. In one embodiment, a source of the received request to use the access device is determined as either the host operatin... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6911399 | Method of controlling critical dimension microloading of photoresist trimming process by selective sidewall polymer deposition A method for trimming photoresist features on a semiconductor substrate in a processing system. The method utilizes a process gas mixture comprising a hydrocarbon gas, an oxygen gas and an inert gas. The critical dimension (CD) microloading of the dense and the isol... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6885844 | System, method and computer program product for rapidly posing relevant questions to a group leader in an educational environment using networked thin client devices A system, method and computer program product are disclosed for providing feedback using networked devices. Initially, a plurality of response types are displayed on a plurality of networked devices. Further, a plurality of presented concepts are depicted on the net... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6859759 | Method and apparatus for monitoring catalyst requirements of a fluid catalytic cracking catalyst injection system A method and apparatus for monitoring catalyst requirements of a fluid catalytic cracking catalyst injection system is provided. In one embodiment, a method for monitoring catalyst requirements of a fluid catalytic cracking catalyst injection system includes the ste... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6850475 | Single frequency laser source for optical data storage system An optical data storage system utilizes optical fibers for transfer of information to and from storage media. The storage media includes magneto-optical storage disks. The optical fibers are single-mode polarization maintaining optical fibers. A single frequency las... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6825966 | Optical phase shifting device An electrically adjustable phase-shifting device is arranged on a substrate comprising at least a first waveguide designed for guiding optical signals and a thermoelectric element arranged adjacent to the first waveguide in order to shift the phase of an optical sig... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6823084 | Method and apparatus for portably recognizing text in an image sequence of scene imagery An apparatus and a concomitant method for portably detecting and recognizing text information in a captured imagery. The present invention is a portable device that is capable of capturing imagery and is also capable of detecting and extracting text information from... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6784995 | Colorimeter A colorimeter for measuring a color of light includes a color sensing device, a hanging means, and a means for reducing color distortion. The hanging means hangs the color sensing device in an operative relationship relative to a color producing device. The means fo... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6776947 | Process of adjusting WVTR of polyolefin film A process for rendering films, film composites, and articles made therefrom less resistant to passage of water vapor by passing a filled precursor film or film composite through the nip of interdigitating grooved rollers. The films or film composites are generally f... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6766083 | Tunable coupler device and optical filter An electrically tunable coupler device is disposed on a substrate comprising a first and a second waveguide, for guiding optical signals. The coupler device comprises a heater element disposed adjacent the first waveguide for thermo-optically shifting the phase of t... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6742021 | Navigating network-based electronic information using spoken input with multimodal error feedback A system, method, and article of manufacture are provided for navigating an electronic data source by means of spoken language. When a spoken input request is received from a user, it is interpreted. Additional input is solicited from the user in a modality differen... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6735592 | System, method, and computer program product for a network-based content exchange system A system, method and computer program product are provided for providing a content exchange system. A request is received from a user utilizing a local system. A determination is made as to whether the user request can be fulfilled from information stored by the loc... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6725195 | Method and apparatus for probabilistic recognition using small number of state clusters Probabilistic recognition using clusters and simple probability functions provides improved performance by employing a limited number of clusters each using a relatively large number of simple probability functions. The simple probability functions for each of the l... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6725114 | Method and apparatus for automatically generating schedules for wafer processing within a multichamber semiconductor wafer processing tool A method and apparatus for producing schedules for a wafer in a multichamber semiconductor wafer processing tool comprising the steps of providing a trace defining a series of chambers that are visited by a wafer as the wafer is processed by the tool; initializing a... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6711615 | Network surveillance A method of network surveillance includes receiving network packets handled by a network entity and building at least one long-term and a least one short-term statistical profile from a measure of the network packets that monitors data transfers, errors, or network ... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6708212 | Network surveillance A method of network surveillance includes receiving network packets handled by a network entity and building at least one long-term and a least one short-term statistical profile from a measure of the network packets that monitors data transfers, errors, or network ... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6704874 | Network-based alert management A method of managing alerts in a network including receiving alerts from network sensors, consolidating the alerts that are indicative of a common incident and generating output reflecting the consolidated alerts.... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6691180 | Apparatus for accelerating the rendering of images A direct memory access (DMA) circuit which is physically positioned with an input/output device, the DMA circuit storing a first reference value pointing to a data structure which describes a buffer portion of system memory in which data is stored for tra... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6628290 | Graphics pipeline selectively providing multiple pixels or multiple textures A method and graphics accelerator apparatus for pipelined generation of output values for a sequence of pixels, with generation of output values for each of at least two textured pixels during each pipeline clock interval. The apparatus includes a combine... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6561516 | Low power high speed disc drive spindle seal A stationary ferrofluidic seal for sealing a stationary shaft to a rotating hub. A formed magnetic is attached to the rotating hub, bounded by upper and lower members to form a shaped cavity. A stationary ring is attached to the shaft and extends into the... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6551929 | Bifurcated deposition process for depositing refractory metal layers employing atomic layer deposition and chemical vapor deposition techniques A method and system to form a refractory metal layer on a substrate features a bifurcated deposition process that includes nucleating a substrate using ALD techniques to serially expose the substrate to first and second reactive gases followed forming a b... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6530534 | Pneumatic comminution and drying system Apparatus and method of comminuting materials are provided. In one embodiment, the comminution/drying apparatus comprises a comminution/drying cyclone having an input and an output, a blower having a blower output connected to the input of the comminution... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6506290 | Sputtering apparatus with magnetron device A sputtering apparatus is provided with a plurality of ringlike targets arranged on a concentric basis in upper part of a process chamber. A pedestal for holding a semiconductor substrate is placed inside the process chamber and a dc power supply is conne... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6468816 | Method for sensing conditions within a substrate processing system A sensor device, for diagnosing a processing system, generally includes a support platform and one or more sensors mounted on the support platform. The sensor senses a condition, such as direction or inclination or acceleration in one or two axes, of the ... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6406553 | Method to reduce contaminants from semiconductor wafers A line for processing semiconductor wafers into integrated circuits (ICs) is provided with an input-output (I-O) chamber to help purge residual contamination from the wafers before they are transferred into a processing line. After a cassette containing s... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6349771 | Flow actuated shut-off valve The present invention generally provides a system and method for selectively sealing a drill string or other tubular member. In one aspect, a sealing member, such as a valve, allows a certain level of flow of drilling fluids and/or other fluids through on... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6330911 | Tong A tong for rotating tubulars, the tong having, in certain embodiments, a tong outer case, a rotary movably mounted in the case for rotating a tubular, apparatus for rotating the rotary to rotate the tubular, at least one gripper or jaw movably mounted in ... | 12/18/2001 |
