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User-operated amusement apparatus for kicking the user's buttocks
An apparatus including a user-operated and controlled apparatus for self-infliction of repetitive blows to the user's buttocks by a plurality of elongated arms bearing flexible extensions that rotate under the user's control.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7632736 | Self-aligned contact formation utilizing sacrificial polysilicon In general, in one aspect, a method includes forming a spacer layer over a substrate having patterned stacks formed therein and trenches between the patterned stacks. A sacrificial polysilicon layer is deposited over the substrate to fill the trenches. A patterning ... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7626434 | Low leakage state retention circuit In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes an apparatus comprising a low leakage latch to store a state of a circuit during inactive periods. The state is transferred to the low leakage latch upon receipt of an inactive pulse. A buffer is used to receive th... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7623524 | Scheduling system utilizing pointer perturbation mechanism to improve efficiency In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a switching device that includes a plurality of ingress ports to receive data from external sources and a plurality of egress ports to transmit data to external destinations. The switching device also includes a pl... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7619452 | Mutual charge cancelling sample-reset loop filter for phase locked loops In general, in one aspect, an apparatus includes a phase frequency detector, a charge pump, a voltage controlled oscillator, an integral capacitor to maintain an integral charge and provide an integral voltage, and a mutual-charge canceling sample reset (MCSR) capac... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7598630 | IC with on-die power-gating circuit In some embodiments a semiconductor device is described that includes, on a single die, both a functional circuit and a power-gating circuit. The power-gating circuit may be used to control the power delivered to core circuit elements on the semiconductor device. Th... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7595698 | PLL lock time reduction In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a method including determining a change in a lock state of a phase lock loop (PLL). Current provided to a charge pump (CP) is adjusted based on the change in the lock state of the PLL. The adjusting of the current ... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7590102 | Multi-stage packet switching system In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a multi-stage switch having at least one ingress switch module to receive data and to generate frames that are transmitted as a wavelength division multiplexed signal. The multi-stage switch further includes a core... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7577015 | Memory content inverting to minimize NTBI effects In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes an apparatus that includes a memory device having a plurality of memory cells. An inverter is used to invert data and tag information destined for the memory device. A register is used to capture the inverted data ... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7570654 | Switching device utilizing requests indicating cumulative amount of data In general, in one aspect, a switching device includes a plurality of ingress ports to receive data from external sources and a plurality of egress ports to transmit data to external destinations. The switching device also includes a plurality of queues to store dat... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7561480 | Ground biased bitline register file In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes an apparatus including a memory cell. Ground biased write control circuitry is used to bias write and writebar bitlines when the memory cell is not performing a write operation. Ground biased read control circuitry... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7549795 | Analog thermal sensor array In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a localized IC thermal sensor. The thermal sensor includes an array of analog thermal sensors distributed across a circuit die to provide localized thermal measurements across the circuit die. The analog thermal se... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7546399 | Store and forward device utilizing cache to store status information for active queues In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes an apparatus capable of queuing and de-queuing data stored in a plurality of queues. The apparatus includes a status storage device to track status for each of the plurality of queues, a status cache to track statu... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7541852 | Self-correcting buffer In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes an apparatus having a capacitor to receive an input signal and to block DC portion of the incoming signal. A buffer is used to receive the DC blocked incoming signal and output an outgoing signal. A low pass filter... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7533286 | Regulating application of clock to control current rush (DI/DT) In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes an apparatus for engineering di/dt. The apparatus includes a plurality of functional blocks to perform different functions. The apparatus also includes a clock source to provide a clock signal to said plurality of ... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7532789 | Process tolerant planar ring resonator dispersion compensator In general, in one aspect, an apparatus includes an optical bus arm and a ring resonator arm. The apparatus also includes first, second and third directional couplers between the optical bus arm and the ring resonator arm. A first tuner is included on one of the opt... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7519054 | Replication of multicast data packets in a multi-stage switching system In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a multi-stage switch having at least one ingress switch module to receive data and to generate frames that are transmitted as a wavelength division multiplexed signal. The multi-stage switch further includes a core... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7489625 | Multi-stage packet switching system with alternate traffic routing In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a multi-stage switch having a plurality of ingress switching modules to receive data and to generate frames that are transmitted as a wavelength division multiplexed signal. The multi-stage switch further includes ... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7482792 | IC with fully integrated DC-to-DC power converter In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a semiconductor device that includes a functional circuit and a dc-to-dc power converter. The power converter converts, regulates, and filters a DC input voltage to produce a DC output voltage and provides the DC o... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7479810 | Slew-rate detection circuit using switched-capacitor comparators In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes an apparatus that includes a first switched capacitor comparator to be charged to a first reference voltage and to compare an input signal to the first reference voltage and to generate a first output signal when t... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7380084 | Dynamic detection of block boundaries on memory reads In some embodiments a processing device is disclosed. The processing device is configured to read data from a memory device. The processing device transmits a read request to the memory device for a data block at a certain address and reads the data block for the ce... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7310020 | Self-biased phased-locked loop In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a phase-locked loop circuit. The circuit includes an oscillator having a first control input, a second control input, and a third control input, wherein the first control input, the second control input, and the th... | 12/18/2007 |
