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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8159771 | Controlling a heat resistive element with a pulse modulated signal The disclosure is related to pulse width modulating a power signal to a heat resistive element of a transducer. The power signal may be a power output signal of preamplifier. The power signal may be provided to a heat resistive element in a transducer that is operab... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159769 | Heat-assisted magnetic recording with shaped magnetic and thermal fields to minimize transition curvature Devices and methods are provided for heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR). In an illustrative example, a device includes a magnetic write pole having a convex pole tip; a magnetic opposing pole longitudinally displaced from the magnetic write pole; and a thermal-... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159202 | Quasi-continuous voltage regulator with dual polarity outputs A controller includes a hysteretic circuit that provides a first ON level pulse when a corresponding first negative regulated voltage rises above a respective first voltage threshold. Similarly, a second ON level pulse is provided when a corresponding second positiv... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156454 | Virtual data representation through selective bidirectional translation A computer-aided circuit design application has a virtual node feature and a design tool. The virtual node feature is adapted to access design specification information in a first data format and to represent the accessed design specification information as a virtua... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156409 | Selectively applied hybrid min-sum approximation for constraint node updates of LDPC decoders In accordance with one or more embodiments, a decoder may determine whether a lowest reliability value of a plurality of codeword bits that correspond to a particular output reliability value for a particular constraint node of a parity-check matrix is greater than ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8144425 | Magnetic recording head with compact yoke A compact magnetic recording head is provided. The recording head includes a write pole and a substantially planar yoke, which is coupled to the write pole. The yoke is configured to support a substantially single vortex configuration of magnetization. ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8135495 | Systems and methods for processing packaged goods in the nature of cigarettes A materials handling system for processing packaged tobacco products is disclosed. The system includes a picking area where individual packages of tobacco products are picked and placed onto a transport mechanism. The system also includes a picking support software ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8122327 | Symbol-level soft output viterbi algorithm (SOVA) and a simplification on SOVA A method and apparatus for processing symbols of a block code is presented. A sequence of symbols is received, e.g., from an inter-symbol interference (ISI) channel. A soft value is determined for each symbol using a binary trellis. ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8122322 | System and method of storing reliability data Systems and methods of storing error correction data are provided. A method may include storing data at a first memory having a first non-volatile memory type. The method may also include determining error correction data related to the stored data. The method may f... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8120380 | Comprehensive application power tester An electronic device power testing method is provided in which applying a nominal voltage to an electronic component, introducing a voltage disruption to the nominal voltage, and repeating the voltage disruption for a specified number of instances is done. The prese... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8092930 | Chromium nitride film layer In a recording medium, a CrN film layer comprising a B1 phase crystal structure. ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8040994 | Phase coefficient generation for PLL A method and apparatus is provided for synchronizing a clock signal by generating time varying PLL phase coefficients which approximate optimal PLL phase coefficients. An acquisition mode phase coefficient is determined by adding an error signal (A) to the sample co... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8035909 | Coding technique for correcting media defect-related errors and random errors A method of writing data on a storage medium that takes into account a condition of the storage medium. The method includes receiving data to be written on a portion of a storage medium and encoding the data based on a condition of the portion of the storage medium.... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8027119 | Vibration detection and compensation filter The application relates to an adaptive vibration damping scheme that provides for detection of, and adjustment for, vibration-related disturbances in devices. The vibration damping scheme utilizes a common filter function to implement vibration detection and vibrati... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8021713 | Bit-patterned magnetic media formed in filler layer recesses A recessed field is formed surrounding resist columns that are in a pattern of bit patterned magnetic media. A filler layer is formed in the recessed field. The resist columns are removed to leave recesses in the filler layer that replicate the pattern. Bit patterne... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7986493 | Discrete track magnetic media with domain wall pinning sites A magnetic recording medium with domain wall pinning sites including a substrate, a soft magnetic underlayer, and a magnetic recording layer overlying the soft magnetic underlayer. In one embodiment the magnetic recording layer has at least two grooves providing a t... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7977914 | Battery maintenance tool with probe light A battery maintenance tool, which electrically couples to a battery, includes a maintenance tool housing and electronic circuitry within the maintenance tool housing. A cable, substantially external to the maintenance tool housing includes a plurality of conductors.... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7965459 | Wavelets-based detection of proximity between a sensor and an object A circuit includes a proximity detection component that applies wavelet analysis to a sensed signal from a sensor and responsively provides an output indicative of whether proximity exists between the sensor and an object that causes the sensor to produce the sensed... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7959476 | Clamp for electrically coupling to a battery contact A clamp that is capable of attaching to a battery post and also to a female receptacle terminal. The clamp includes a post-grasping portion that is capable of attaching to the battery post. The clamp also includes a male plug feature that is configured to fit into a... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7958331 | Storage device with opportunistic address space A data storage device comprises storage media including physical data blocks. The data storage device comprises a storage circuit. The storage circuit compresses a user data block into a compressed user data block before storing the compressed user data in one of th... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7958017 | Automatic book purchasing and consolidation method A system and method that includes several automatic purchasing features. The method includes establishing purchasing criteria for items to be purchased, and automatically searching marketplaces for availability of the items to be purchased. The method also includes ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7952829 | Detecting contact between a slider and a data storage medium without a separate contact-detection voltage source A circuit includes a slider, a data storage medium and a contact detection circuit electrically coupled to the slider and to the data storage medium. The contact detection circuit is configured to sense an electrical current indicative of contact between the slider ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7892664 | Magnetic recording media having a chemically ordered magnetic layer A thin film structure having a magnetic layer and a seed layer positioned adjacent to the magnetic layer is provided. The seed layer includes a L10 structure. ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7885282 | Dynamic control of physical layer quality on a serial bus A control system controls a physical layer quality of user data transmitted between first and second ends of a serial bus. The control system comprises a first line driver that has a control input that controls the physical layer quality at the first end. A physical... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7885025 | Generating PES using readback signal distortion A data storage system includes a storage medium having a plurality of data sectors and a head that communicates with the data storage medium. The head produces a readback signal when reading information from the data storage medium. A computation unit extracts a dis... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7880999 | Magnetic storage system with read during write A magnetic storage system includes a magnetic storage medium and a transducer positioned adjacent the magnetic storage medium. The transducer has a reader positioned adjacent writer and a reader bias coil located on the transducer. Transducer circuitry is configured... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7867637 | Low coupling oxide media (LCOM) A low-coupling perpendicular magnetic recording media comprising a magnetic storage layer and at least one low saturation magnetization layer. The magnetic storage layer has a saturation magnetization between about 400-900 emu/cm3 and the at least one low... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7864470 | Patterned media with spacings adjusted by a skew function Recording media comprises multiple first and second patterned media islands sequentially placed at different first and second radii along a length of a recording track. A recording head sequentially accesses the first and second islands as the head moves along a len... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7723993 | Electronic battery tester configured to predict a load test result based on open circuit voltage, temperature, cranking size rating, and a dynamic parameter A method and apparatus is provided for rapidly and safely estimating the high-rate load test voltage of a storage battery utilizing open-circuit voltage, temperature and a dynamic parameter such as conductance or resistance. An output indicative of the condition of ... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7710119 | Battery tester that calculates its own reference values A battery tester that is capable of calculating its own reference values is provided. The battery tester includes test circuitry that is configured to obtain dynamic parameter values for batteries, and to compute at least one reference value based on the dynamic par... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7689624 | Graph-based search leveraging sentiment analysis of user comments A search system and method is provided. The method includes constructing a graph-based query that is indicative of a user's preference-levels for different features of a search item (a product, for example). The constructed graph-based query is executed by comparing... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7686871 | Integrated filter assembly An integrated filter assembly is provided. The filter assembly includes a fastener that holds two substantially opposing elements of a housing together. Also included is a multi-purpose filter that has at least a particle filter component and a chemical filter compo... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7680514 | Wireless speech recognition A portable wireless-enabled system includes an input transducer (for example, a microphone), an output transducer (for example, a speaker) and a wireless transceiver system. Also included, is a memory having a programmable user speech profile. A processor system con... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7677815 | Photographic device with retractable lens A photographic device that includes a main body, a lens barrel and a barrel-positioning mechanism, which is operably coupled to the lens barrel and the main body. The barrel positioning mechanism is capable of moving the lens barrel between a retracted position, in ... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7642786 | Battery tester capable of identifying faulty battery post adapters An electronic battery tester for testing a storage battery. The tester includes a first connector configured to electrically couple to a first terminal of the battery via a first battery post adapter and a second connector configured to electrically couple to a seco... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7634444 | Method and apparatus for applying/linking transactions in a financial management system A computer-implemented financial management system that includes a standardized apply system that, in general, allows a user to relatively easily apply any transaction/document to any other transaction/document. The apply system includes a uniform apply interface th... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7631124 | Application-specific mapping of input device elements A method for carrying out application-specific mapping of input device elements (for example, human input device buttons). The method includes, from an application matching program, determining, for an application program, whether a control element event (for exampl... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7627554 | Uniform financial reporting system interface utilizing staging tables having a standardized structure The present invention relates to a uniform financial reporting system interface, between a financial reporting tool and a general ledger database, which is capable of receiving a generalized request (non-database-specific request) from a report object or engine of a... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7619417 | Battery monitoring system A battery monitoring system (BMS), which utilizes a minimum amount of input data (time, voltage, current, temperature and conductance, for example) to periodically determine a vehicle battery status or condition is provided. The BMS combines electronic hardware and ... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7595643 | Apparatus and method for simulating a battery tester with a fixed resistance load A method and apparatus for simulating a battery tester with a fixed resistance load, such as a widely used Japanese load tester that rates the strength of Japanese batteries that are categorized under the Japanese Industrial Standard (JIS), are provided. This invent... | 09/29/2009 |
