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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8078660 | Bridge fused multiply-adder circuit A bridge fused multiply-adder is disclosed. The fused multiply-adder is for the single instruction execution of (A×B)+C. The bridge fused multiply-add unit adds this functionality to existing floating-point co-processor units by including a fused multiply-add hardw... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8051318 | Method and apparatus for controlling power in a battery-powered electronic device A method for controlling power in a battery-powered electronic apparatus is disclosed. The electronic apparatus includes a battery, a detection unit and a power consumption estimation unit. The battery supplies electric power to each device within the electronic app... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8030889 | Docking device A docking device for receiving a portable computer is disclosed. The docking device includes a device housing and a charging connector that is provided on a side surface of the device housing and is connected to a battery connector of a battery pack in order to char... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7932882 | Method and apparatus for changing a display direction of a screen of a portable electronic device A portable electronic device having a display screen capable of changing display directions is disclosed. The portable electronic device, such as a tablet personal computer, includes a tiltmeter, a display direction determining circuit and a display direction changi... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7831859 | Method for providing fault tolerance to multiple servers A method for providing fault tolerance to multiple computer servers is disclosed. Basically, t backup computer servers are utilized to back up data from multiple active computer servers such that up to t faults can be tolerated. Data from the active computer servers... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7711504 | Method and system for performing optical proximity correction with process variations considerations A method for performing optical proximity correction with process variations considerations is disclosed. The maximum aerial gradient direction for a control point associated with an edge is initially determined. Then, a variational edge placement error E along th... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7664084 | Techniques for selecting an access point apparatus based on an allowance area A wireless station that includes an access point apparatus detection section which detects a usable access point apparatus from among a plurality of access point apparatuses; an allowance area calculation section which calculates an allowance area according to recei... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7663374 | Electrical apparatus, computer system, intelligent battery, battery diagnosis method, batter-state display method, and program An electrical apparatus includes a body for consuming power; a battery for supplying power to the body, wherein the body is capable of detecting an installation of the battery into the body, correlating the installation of the battery to a current real-time date, an... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7621964 | Near-field scanning optical microscope probe having a light emitting diode An improved near-field scanning optical microscope probe is disclosed. The near-field scanning optical microscope probe includes a probe body and two electrodes extending from the probe body to form a probe tip. In addition, a light-emitting diode is disposed betwee... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7595678 | Switched-capacitor circuit A low-power switched-capacitor circuit is disclosed. The low-power switched-capacitor circuit includes a p-channel switched-capacitor integrator and an n-channel switched-capacitor integrator. The p-channel switched-capacitor integrator includes a first set of input... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7428304 | Method and apparatus for detecting subscriber alerting signal tones and customer premises equipment alerting signal tones to non-echo canceling modems A non-echo canceling voice band modem capable of detecting subscriber alerting signal (SAS) tones and customer premises equipment alerting signal (CAS) tones is provided. The modem includes a shaping filter, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), a SAS tone detector,... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7355447 | Level shifter circuit A level shifter is disclosed. The level shifter includes a level shifter core circuit and a pull-up control logic circuit. In response to an input signal and an output signal of the level shifter core circuit, the pull-up control logic circuit selectively turns on a... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7302010 | Method for handling data transmissions within a modem A method for handling data transmissions within a modem is disclosed. A codeword is generated by compressing one or more incoming characters. The incoming characters and codeword are subsequently stored in a buffer. Then, a cost difference between transmitting all t... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7099187 | Read/write circuit for accessing chalcogenide non-volatile memory cells A read/write circuit for accessing chalcogenide non-volatile memory cells is disclosed. The read/write circuit includes a chalcogenide storage element, a voltage limiting circuit, a current-to-voltage converter, and a buffer circuit. The voltage limiting circuit, wh... | 08/29/2006 |
| 6487134 | Single-event upset tolerant latch for sense amplifiers A single-event upset tolerant sense latch circuit for sense amplifiers is disclosed. The single-event upset tolerant sense latch circuit includes a first set of isolation transistors, a second set of isolation transistors, a first set of dual-path inverte... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6479931 | Extended temperature range fluorescent lamp An extended temperature operating range low pressure discharge lamp (10) including: an envelope (12) containing an ionizable medium (20) at a selected pressure; an electrode (16, 18) sealed at each end of the envelope (12) for sustaining an electric disch... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6215694 | Self-restoring single event upset (SEU) hardened multiport memory cell A single event upset hardened multiport memory cell to be utilized in a register file is disclosed. The single event upset hardened multiport memory cell includes a storage cell, a write bitline, a read bitline. The storage cell, which is utilized for sto... | 04/10/2001 |
