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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7944063 | Application of 2-dimensional photonic crystals in alignment devices Alignment marks for use on substrates. In one example, the alignment marks consist of periodic 2-dimensional arrays of structures, the spacing of the structures being smaller than an alignment beam but larger than an exposure beam. ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7943278 | Low friction electrostatographic imaging member Present embodiments pertain to an improved electrostatographic imaging member having low contact friction surfaces to ease sliding mechanical interaction and suppressing abrasion/wear failure and methods of preparing thereof. The improved imaging member has layers c... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7943080 | Alignment for imprint lithography A method of aligning an imprint template with respect to a target region of a substrate is disclosed, the method including depositing a volume of an imprintable medium within the target region; contacting an imprint template to the imprintable medium so that the imp... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7942352 | Shredder with rotatable device for moving shredded materials adjacent the outlet Disclosed herein is a shredder having a rotatable device located at least partially between a shredder mechanism and a bottom of an output opening of the shredder housing. The rotatable device includes a shaft configured to rotate about an axis parallel to an axis o... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7533188 | System and method for staggering the start time of scheduled actions for a group of networked computers A system and method are provided for staggering the start time of scheduled actions for a group of networked addressable devices. A time period in which a scheduled action is to be performed may be determined. The time period may be divided into timeslots based on t... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7532310 | Apparatus, method for supporting and/or thermally conditioning a substrate, a support table, and a chuck An apparatus includes a support table for supporting a substrate. The support table includes a plurality of support protrusions that contact the substrate during use for supporting the substrate. The support table includes a plurality of heat transfer protrusions th... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7532308 | Lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method A uniformity controller is arranged to control a profile of a radiation intensity along the length of a target portion of a substrate so as to substantially compensate for irradiation-induced variation of the profile with respect to time. The uniformity controller i... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7532304 | Lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method Liquid is supplied to a space between the projection system of a lithographic apparatus and a substrate. A flow of gas towards a vacuum inlet prevents the humid gas from escaping to other parts of the lithographic apparatus. This may help to protect intricate parts ... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7531726 | Controlled alignment of nanobarcodes encoding specific information for scanning probe microscopy (SPM) reading The methods, apparatus and compositions disclosed herein concern the detection, identification and/or sequencing of biomolecules, such as nucleic acids or proteins. In certain embodiments of the invention, coded probes comprising a probe molecule attached to one or ... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7531283 | Laser ablation of welded seam area A seamless flexible electrophotographic imaging member comprising a flexible substrate strip material having an unmelted photodecomposed seam of carbon-black loaded polyimide polymer. ... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7531170 | Methods of treating OX40 mediated recall immune responses and agents useful for identifying same T cell memory can persist in the absence of antigen. However, some memory cells by default are subject to signals accompanying periodic antigen exposure. OX40 is essential to the extent and persistence of Th2 memory when antigen is re-encountered. In an animal model... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7531098 | Integrated automatic blood processing unit A system for automatically processing blood components is described. The system includes a console, which contains all motors, pumps, sensors, valves and control circuitry, and a unique disposable set that includes a cassette supporting a centrifuge with an improved... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7529253 | IP packet ready PBX expansion circuit for a conventional personal computer with expandable, distributed DSP architecture A personal computer includes a PBX control program and one or more switch cards located in expansion board slots. The one or more switch cards are coupled to one or more port expansion units (PEU), which are coupled to telecommunication lines out to the various exte... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7529172 | Optical disk recording and playback device An optical disk recording and playback device comprises a first laser driving circuit that supplies a driving signal to a first laser diode, a second laser driving circuit that supplies a driving signal to a second laser diode, a signal recording pulse generating ci... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7528965 | Lithographic apparatus and method for calibrating the same A measurement system configured to measure a position of an object in a lithographic apparatus, includes at least three position detectors configured to detect the position of the object, the at least three position detectors each including a single or multi-dimensi... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7528934 | Lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method A method of transferring an image of a mask pattern onto a substrate with a lithographic apparatus is presented. The lithographic apparatus includes an illumination system configured to provide an illumination configuration and a projection system. In an embodiment ... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7528931 | Lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method In a single or multiple stage lithography apparatus, a table provides a confining surface to a liquid supply system during, for example, substrate table exchange and/or substrate loading and unloading. In an embodiment, the table has a sensor to make a measurement o... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7528929 | Lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method An immersion lithographic projection apparatus is disclosed in which liquid is provided between a projection system of the apparatus and a substrate. The use of both liquidphobic and liquidphilic layers on various elements of the apparatus is provided to help preven... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7528395 | Radiation source, lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method A radiation source comprises an anode and a cathode that are configured and arranged to create a discharge in a gas or vapor in a space between anode and cathode and to form a plasma pinch so as to generate electromagnetic radiation. The gas or vapor may comprise xe... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7527906 | Imaging member having adjustable friction anticurl back coating The presently disclosed embodiments are directed to anticurl back coatings useful in electrostatography. More particularly, the embodiments pertain to an electrophotographic imaging member with an improved anticurl back coating formulated by a polymer blend comprisi... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7527902 | Photoreceptor layer having solid and liquid lubricants An imaging member containing a substrate, and an outer layer containing solid and liquid lubricants, and an image forming apparatus for forming images on a recording medium including the imaging member above, a development component to apply a developer material to ... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7526557 | System and method for transferring data in high latency firewalled networks A system and method are provided for establishing multiple parallel connections between a client and a server on a single server port. Data may be transferred on the multiple parallel connections between the server and the client through an opening in a network fire... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7526542 | Methods and apparatus for information processing and display for network management Apparatus and methods for automatically processing and displaying information for managing equipment or services in a network. The information is automatically inserted into a hierarchical data structure, which can then presented in a ticker display for viewing by a... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7526478 | System and method of searching for organizing and displaying search results The invention is directed to a system and method of searching a focal object for related objects. The invention may extract clues or information from the focal object and search the information to identify related objects. The invention also may leverage a chronolog... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7525642 | Lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method A lithographic projection system has an illumination system with a polarization member. A plurality of directing elements reflect different sub-beams of an incident beam into adjustable, individually controllable directions. By means of re-directing optics any desir... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7525640 | Lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method A lithographic apparatus is disclosed that includes an optical arrangement having an array of optical elements arranged in a plane perpendicular to the radiation beam. Each optical element comprises an electrical heating device to change an optical path length of th... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7525638 | Lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method A method and apparatus make use of data representing changes in wavelength of a radiation source to provide control of focal plane position or to provide correction of sensor data. In the first aspect, the wavelength variation data is provided to control systems tha... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7525636 | Lithographic apparatus and exposure method A lithographic apparatus includes a control unit arranged to perform a first position measurement of the patterning device, apply an asymmetric acceleration profile to the support supporting the patterning device, perform a second position measurement of the pattern... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7525635 | Contamination barrier and lithographic apparatus A rotatable contamination barrier for use with an extreme ultraviolet radiation system includes a blade structure configured to trap contaminant material coming from a radiation source, and an eccentric mass element displaced relative to a central axis of rotation t... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7524885 | Compounds that stimulate glucose utilization and methods of use The invention provides novel compounds of the Formula (I) that stimulate rates of glucose oxidation in myocardial cells: wherein W, Cyc, p, Y, X, Z, R, R1, R2, R3, R... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7524597 | Imaging member having nano-sized phase separation in various layers Imaging members useful in electrostatographic apparatuses, including printers, copiers, other reproductive devices, and digital apparatuses. More particularly, imaging members having nano-sized particles serving as fillers dispersed or contained in one or more layer... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7524071 | Image-forming optical system A high-performance image-forming optical system made compact and thin by folding an optical path using reflecting surfaces arranged to minimize the number of reflections. The image-forming optical system has a single prism. When image-side three surfaces of the pris... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7523946 | Expandable chuck The process provides an expandable chuck with a variable diameter bulb having a variable wall thickness, the chuck being operatively designed to stretch the bulb to reduce its diameter for insertion into a photoreceptor pipe and upon relaxation to compress the bulb ... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7523701 | Imprint lithography method and apparatus An imprinting method is disclosed that involves, in an embodiment, redistributing a volume of imprintable medium in a flowable state over a target portion of a surface of a substrate into regions of differing volume corresponding to regions of differing pattern dens... | 04/28/2009 |
| D591335 | Shredder | 04/28/2009 |
| 7523438 | Method for improved lithographic patterning utilizing optimized illumination conditions and high transmission attenuated PSM A method for optically transferring a lithographic pattern corresponding to an integrated circuit utilizing a high transmission attenuated phase-shift mask onto a semiconductor substrate by use of an optical exposure tool. The method comprising the steps of generati... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7522261 | Lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method An immersion lithographic projection apparatus has a liquid confinement structure configured to at least partly confine liquid to a space between a projection system and a substrate, the confinement structure having a buffer surface, when in use, positioned in close... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7522100 | Method and device for acquiring weak global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signals A Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver and associated method capable of acquiring weak GNSS signals from a plurality of GNSS satellites produces a GNSS signal's code time, carrier frequency, and data bit transition parameters for subsequent signal trac... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7521344 | Method of forming semiconductor compound film for fabrication of electronic device and film produced by same using a solid solution A process of forming a compound film includes formulating a nano-powder material with a controlled overall composition and including particles of one solid solution The nano-powder material is deposited on a substrate to form a layer on the substrate, and the layer ... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7521080 | Process for the granulation of an animal feedstuff additive The invention relates to a process for the granulation of an animal feedstuffs additive comprising amino acids or vitamins in a circulating fluidized bed, wherein the additive is preferably a fermentation product and optionally comprises further constituents from th... | 04/21/2009 |
