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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5969488 | Remotely-controllable bed system A vibratory, motorized articulated bed including a head motor, a foot motor and a vibratory massage motor, is controlled by a remote control hand-held device. The device has (a) a first user-activated mechanism which controls an operation of at least one ... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5919926 | Salinamides Salinamides A and B are disclosed. These two bicyclic depsipeptides are produced by fermentation of a specific marine actinomycete, a Streptomyces sp, (CNB-091) in saltwater-based media. Salinamides A and B are useful as anti-biotic and anti-inflammatory ... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5850572 | Error-tolerant video display subsystem A Video Display FIFO includes a circular buffer and counters that allow the FIFO to properly recover from data alignment problems caused by FIFO underflow. A pair of counters store read and write pointers, which indicate the addresses of data read from an... | 12/15/1998 |
| 5848068 | ATM communication system interconnect/termination unit An asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) digital electronic communication system includes an ATM communication system interconnection and termination unit (ATMCSI/TU). This ATMCSI/TU includes both a programmable microprocessor and several hardware-implemented ... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5843769 | Double stage drumshaped composting device The invention relates to a two-stage composter drum which includes an inner, rotatably mounted drum and an insulated, stationary, outer drum. Waste is introduced into an opening at one end of the inner drum where it is partially degraded and then discharg... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5838163 | Testing and exercising individual, unsingulated dies on a wafer Signals (including probes) from an external system are selectively connected to a plurality of unsingulated dies on a semiconductor wafer with a minimum number of connections and an electronic selection mechanism resident on the wafer. The electronic sele... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5836459 | Compact, High visibility display rack and configuration A compact, high-visibility display rack and assembly system is disclosed. The innovative display rack includes a base, a pair of sides, and a mounting bracket which is connected to the base and the sides at an angle relative to the horizontal elongated pl... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5836017 | Corsage assembly and combination thereof with clothing A corsage mounting device including a small wire element having two ends. Each end having buttons with holes wherein the wire ends are inserted therein in order to attach the corsage to a wearer's garment.... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5834436 | Membrane-permeant second messengers Acyloxyalkyl esters of phosphate-containing second messengers which are capable of permeating cell membranes. Once inside the cell, the ester derivatives undergo enzymatic conversion to the biologically active form of the second messenger. The acyloxyalky... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5832934 | Hand held portable cigar humidor A hand held portable humidor for cigars including a humidifying material for maintaining a substantially constant relative humidity within the humidor, the humidor including an upper housing and a lower housing which is formed of a material less rigid tha... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5823981 | Resilient orthopaedic support with independently stretchable layers An orthopaedic support having outer and inner resilient layers wherein the outer resilient layer is comprised of neoprene or another material suitable for surrounding and supporting a portion of the human anatomy through compression and a inner resilient ... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5823302 | Toggle brake assembly for a wheel of a shopping cart or the like For a shopping cart wheel, for example, a toggle brake assembly which can be automatically actuated by an audio frequency signal when the cart is taken out of a designated area. When actuated, a battery-powered solenoid coil of the brake assembly is energ... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5822214 | CAD for hexagonal architecture Several inventions are disclosed. A cell architecture using hexagonal shaped cells is disclosed. The architecture is not limited to hexagonal shaped cells. Cells may be defined by clusters of two or more hexagons, by triangles, by parallelograms, and by o... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5819419 | Business card displaying letter opener device A letter opening device, having a letter opening blade for opening envelopes which is molded partially within a plastics molded body suitable for being hand held and for cutting open envelopes is provided with a generally rectangular recess in the body of... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5816623 | Self-locking quick disconnect coupling device A self-locking quick-disconnect coupling device includes a female coupler including a stop formed thereon and an opening defined therethrough. A male adaptor through which a recess is defined is insertable into the female coupler. A cam handle includes a ... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5816298 | Two-part fluid coupling with guide structure A two-part coupling structure includes a male coupling part and a female coupling part which are mutually engageable to open fluid communication between a fluid-storage vessel and a conduit, for example. The coupling parts are disengageable from one anoth... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5816247 | Monitoring an EEG An apparatus and method for EEG monitoring provides multi-dimensional classification of EEG samples, using a neural network having multiple outputs trained upon a training set of samples to define an n-dimensional space in which to classify the samples an... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5816142 | Method of stacking and compressing tires A device for compressing tires and other compressible items in a shipping container comprises a support frame 22 attached to the lift end of a forklift. A fixture 20 is attached to and moves vertically with the support frame. The fixture comprises a horiz... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5815360 | Integrated circuit input/output ESD protection circuit with gate voltage regulation and parasitic zener and junction diode An integrated circuit structure with input/output gate voltage regulation and parasitic zener and junction diodes for protection against damage resulting from electrostatic discharge (ESD) events. The circuit includes a first protective FET connected betw... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5814049 | Process for applying suction to bone drilling and reaming operations The tool of the present invention comprises a stem. Cutting teeth extend outward from the stem. The stem has a central, longitudinal passage, connects to a suction or evacuation line. An outlet of the passage is at or near the cutting site. As material is... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5806932 | Seat adjustment and dumping mechanism with memory of adjustment A system for controlling the recline and dumping of a seat has a master unit and a slave unit. The master unit has two base plates that attaches to a seat and pivots with respect to ground. A master lock, which attaches to the base plate, allows the base ... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5803632 | Method and apparatus for preventing envelope flaps from sealing in laser printers An insert for preventing a gummed flap from adhering to an envelope while being printed upon in a laser printer is substantially nonadherent to moister-activated and/or heat-activated gums and adhesives. The nonadherent insert is made from sheet material ... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5802287 | Single chip universal protocol multi-function ATM network interface An asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) processing system interconnection or termination unit is implemented on a single integrated circuit chip. The unit includes a universal protocol device having Virtual Channel Memory (VCR) for storing ATM cells for segme... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5796130 | Non-rectangular MOS device configurations for gate array type integrated circuits A novel configuration for MOS devices employed in a partially generic gate array type chip having large numbers of generally MOS devices. The MOS devices have a non-rectangular configuration and include at least a first and second region of conductivity t... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5795405 | Machine and method for processing of printed circuit boards by immersion in transversely flowing liquid chemical An apparatus for chemically treating the surfaces of printed circuit board work pieces (PCBWP's) includes a tank for holding a bath of the chemical treatment liquid. A receiving device is provided for receiving the PCBWP's from a conventional transport co... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5795179 | Socket for energy-saving bulbs A lamp socket for an energy-saving bulb includes a housing integrally formed of a substantial elliptical projection; a cross-shaped projection and a rectangular wall plate formed on a top surface of the elliptical projection for defining four compartments... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5793566 | Self securing compliant gasket for a disk drive assembly housing A novel self-securing sealing gasket for a disk drive assembly housing ensures predictable securement of the sealing gasket to a mounting surface. Elastomeric material is preferably molded to a rigid frame. The elastomeric material defines the sealing mem... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5789813 | Ball grid array package with inexpensive threaded secure locking mechanism to allow removal of a threaded heat sink therefrom An integrated circuit package having a die supported on a ball grid array substrate and wire bonds electrically connecting the die to the substrate. Supported on the substrate is a lock ring having a threaded opening encircling the die. Encapsulant covers... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5789811 | Surface mount peripheral leaded and ball grid array package A surface mounted integrated circuit die package includes a group of peripheral leads extending laterally outwardly from the perimeter of the package and also includes an array of solder balls on the bottom of the package. The arrangement provides for a g... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5789783 | Multilevel metallization structure for integrated circuit I/O lines for increased current capacity and ESD protection A first metal layer is formed on a substrate of an integrated circuit and electrically interconnects a microelectronic device and an Input/Output (I/O) pad. A second metal layer is insulated from the first metal layer by a dielectric layer, and is connect... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5788865 | Process for separating a hydrophobic liquid from a liquid contaminated therewith Disclosed herein is a process for separating a hydrophobic liquid from a substantially polar medium through the application of expanded graphite particles. Upon contacting the hydrophobic liquid floating agglomerates of expanded graphite and hydrophobic l... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5785898 | Potassium lithium tantalate niobate photorefractive crystals Photorefractive crystals having the formula K1-y Liy Ta1-x Nbx O3 wherein x is between 0 and 1 and y is between 0.0001 and 0.15. The crystals are useful as a photorefractive material for use in optica... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5783470 | Method of making CMOS dynamic random-access memory structures and the like A CMOS DRAM integrated circuit includes paired P-type and N-type wells in a substrate. The wells are fabricated using a self-aligning process. Similarly, FETs of the DRAM circuit are fabricated in the wells of the substrate using a self-aligning process t... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5782826 | System and methods for detecting ancillary tissue near tissue targeted for ablation Systems and methods detect ancillary tissue within a tissue region targeted for ablation by locating a region to apply ablation energy to tissue targeted for ablation and applying energy within the region to stimulate selected ancillary tissue not targete... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5781439 | Method for producing integrated circuit chip having optimized cell placement In a physical design automation system for producing an optimized cell placement for an integrated circuit chip, a placement optimization methodology is decomposed into a plurality of cell placement optimization processes that are performed simultaneously... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5778711 | High security electronic dial combination lock An electronic combination lock is disclosed which allows access to a closed or secure location wherein the lock includes a locking mechanism for operating between a locked condition and an unlocked condition. A rotatable cam wheel has a circumferential su... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5776772 | Method for producing secretable glycosyltransferases and other golgi processing enzymes A method for genetically engineering cells to produce soluble and secretable Golgi processing enzymes instead of naturally occurring membrane-bound enzymes. Cells are genetically engineered to express glycosyltransferases which lack both a membrane anchor... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5771639 | Emergency shelter A shelter (1) comprising an array of substantially rigid panels (2, 3, 4) hingedly joined together, the arrangement being such that a central polygonal roof panel (2) is surrounded by a number of wall panels (3) equal in number to the sides of the polygon... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5770169 | Rotary drum structure for a sterilizing apparatus The invention relates to a rotary drum structure for a sterilizer. The structure includes: four beams (30, 32, 34, 36) disposed parallel to said axis and defining a rectangular parallelepiped volume; a plurality of spacer elements (52, 54, 56) disposed in... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5769037 | Hollow valve in an internal combustion engine A hollow valve is used as an inlet or exhaust valve in an internal combustion engine. A hollow valve has a valve head and a valve stem. A cavity extends from the valve head to the valve stem. A low melting point alloy in solid is inserted into the cavity ... | 06/23/1998 |
