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| 7944055 | Spin-on antireflective coating for integration of patternable dielectric materials and interconnect structures The present invention provides a method of fabricating an interconnect structure in which a patternable low-k material replaces the need for utilizing a separate photoresist and a dielectric material. Specifically, this invention relates to a simplified method of fa... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7943654 | 1H-thieno[2,3-c]pyrazole compounds useful as kinase inhibitors There are provided thieno[2,3-c]pyrazole derivatives of formula (I), wherein A is an aryl or heteroaryl ring, on which the substituent-NHZR5 is at the ortho position to the CONH linker; R1 and R2 are the same or different and, indepe... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7943493 | Electrical fuse having a fully silicided fuselink and enhanced flux divergence A contiguous block of a stack of two heterogeneous semiconductor layers is formed over an insulator region such as shallow trench isolation. A portion of the contiguous block is exposed to an etch, while another portion is masked during the etch. The etch removes an... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7943467 | Structure and method to fabricate MOSFET with short gate A method of producing a semiconducting device is provided that in one embodiment includes providing a semiconducting device including a gate structure atop a substrate, the gate structure including a dual gate conductor including an upper gate conductor and a lower ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7941859 | Reducing access to sensitive information Method, system, and storage medium for reducing or minimizing access to sensitive information. A method includes identifying processes and data associated with a computer system and classifying each of the data as one of either sensitive information or non-sensitive... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941857 | Data network and method for checking nodes of a data network The invention provides a data network, systems and methods for checking nodes of a data network that are used for detecting whether a privacy policy concerning an information is maintained. The information comprises a mark corresponding to the privacy policy. The ma... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941780 | Intersect area based ground rule for semiconductor design A design rule that determines a degree of overlap between two design elements in two adjoining levels by estimating a physical overlap area, or an “intersect area,” of corresponding structures in a semiconductor chip is provided. The estimation of the physical i... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941478 | Method and apparatus for distributed application execution This invention provides methods and apparatus for executing applications in a distributed manner employing one or more proxy servers and one origin server. The invention allows the applications to be executed primarily at the proxy servers rather than at the origin ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941310 | System and method for determining affixes of words A computer system and a method for analyzing text in one or more electronic documents are disclosed. The computer system comprises one or more system interfaces; and an affix process that determines one or more affixes of one or more words in one or more of the docu... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940967 | Medical procedure support system and method A medical procedure support system of the invention includes an endoscope for obtaining images of an internal part of the body cavity of a subject, an endoscopic image creating unit for creating an endoscopic image obtained by the endoscope, an image reading unit fo... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940603 | Ultrasonic transducer cell An ultrasonic transducer cell according to the present invention includes: a substrate; a charge holding portion provided on the substrate; a lower electrode provided on the charge holding portion and used to input and output a signal; and a vibration membrane provi... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940381 | Semiconductor nanowire electromagnetic radiation sensor A semiconductor nanowire is coated with a chemical coating layer that selectively attaches to the semiconductor material and which forms a dye in a chemical reaction. The dye layer comprises a material that absorbs electromagnetic radiation. A portion of the absorbe... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940347 | Backlight units with quick installation and removal of light emitting structures A backlight unit comprises a chassis having a bay, wall means defining the bay, an aperture opening to the bay, and an optical panel that includes at least one light management feature. The optical panel has one side forming a wall portion of the wall means. A light... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939911 | Back-end-of-line resistive semiconductor structures In one embodiment, a back-end-of-line (BEOL) resistive structure comprises a second metal line embedded in a second dielectric layer and overlying a first metal line embedded in a first dielectric layer. A doped semiconductor spacer or plug laterally abutting sidewa... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939894 | Isolated high performance FET with a controllable body resistance The present invention provides a method of controlling bias in an electrical device including providing semiconductor devices on a bulk semiconductor substrate each including an active body region that is isolated from the active body region of adjacent devices, and... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939876 | Metallized conductive strap spacer for SOI deep trench capacitor A conductive strap spacer is formed within a buried strap cavity above an inner electrode recessed below a top surface of a buried insulator layer of a semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) substrate. A portion of the conductive strap spacer is metallized by reacting wit... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939293 | Method for producing carboxy-terminal-amidified peptides The invention relates to the production of carboxy-terminal (C-terminal) amidified peptides with C-terminal amidified lysin, in particular with the biological activity of GLP-1, the chemical and/or biotechnological precursors and intermediate products thereof. The i... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7938976 | Method of removing graphitic and/or fluorinated organic layers from the surface of a chip passivation layer having Si-containing compounds A method for removing undesirable contaminants from a chip passivation layer surface without creating SiO2 particles on the passivation layer, wherein the undesirable contaminants include graphitic layers and fluorinated layers. The use of N2 p... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7938779 | Treating apparatus and treating device for treating living-body tissue In a treating apparatus, a forceps body as a treating device is connected to a generator as a control device. The forceps body mainly includes a pair of handle portions, which are used for manipulation by being held by an operator, a pair of jaws provided between th... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7938774 | Endoscope apparatus having controlled heater An endoscope apparatus of the invention includes an endoscope, camera control unit (CCU), and a trocar. The endoscope includes a heater and a temperature sensor. The CCU is configured to include a resistance value-voltage value conversion section, an analog-digital ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7938773 | Electrically-operated curving control device At startup, a main CPU renders and copies various types of unique parameters stored in an SRAM card corresponding to an ID unique to endoscopes to DPRAM and SDRAM and enables the endoscopes to be used with these parameters. Also in the event of desiring to change th... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7938772 | Insertion apparatus An insertion apparatus includes: an introducing duct including; insertion portion cover portion for covering an insertion portion extending from a distal side portion of a handling portion constituting an endoscope; and a spiral duct which is disposed on an inner ci... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7938771 | Endoscope image pick-up apparatus An image pick-up unit inserted in the body picks up an image of the body, and transmits by radio the image to an extra-corporeal unit which is arranged outside the body. The image pick-up unit includes an image pick-up portion capturing an image, a data transmitting... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7937618 | Distributed, fault-tolerant and highly available computing system A method and system for achieving highly available, fault-tolerant execution of components in a distributed computing system, without requiring the writer of these components to explicitly write code (such as entity beans or database transactions) to make component ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937407 | Access control method, access control system, metadata controlling device, and transmitting apparatus The present invention provides an access control method of controlling acceptance or rejection of access to content from metadata. The access control method according to the present invention includes a step of producing metadata 3A for content 6A and ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936369 | Endoscope An endoscope includes an insertion unit having an inclined portion in a distal surface of the insertion unit; an illuminating unit provided in the inclined portion of the distal surface, and illuminating an inside of a body cavity; an observation window provided in ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936056 | Airtight package comprising a pressure adjustment unit An airtight sealed package with a device sealed therein in an airtight manner under vacuum, the device being placed in a space defined in the airtight sealed package by a lid and a substrate, includes at least one pressure adjustment unit provided on at least one of... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936042 | Field effect transistor containing a wide band gap semiconductor material in a drain A field effect transistor comprising a silicon containing body is provided. After formation of a gate dielectric, gate electrode, and a first gate spacer, a drain side trench is formed and filled with a wide band gap semiconductor material. Optionally, a source side... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7935993 | Semiconductor device structure having enhanced performance FET device A method for making a semiconductor device structure, includes: providing a substrate; forming on the substrate: a first layer below and second layers on a gate with spacers, source and drain regions adjacent to the gate, silicides on the gate and source and drain r... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7935819 | Cyclic urea derivatives, preparation thereof and pharmaceutical use thereof as kinase inhibitors Compounds of formula (I): wherein Ra, Rb, R, X1 and X2 are as defined in the disclosure, pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds, processes for making and methods of using the same are pr... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7935637 | Resist stripping methods using backfilling material layer A method for fabricating a microelectronic structure provides for forming a backfilling material layer at least laterally adjacent, and preferably laterally adjoining, a resist layer located over a substrate. Preferably, the resist layer comprises a surface treated ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7935560 | Imagers having electrically active optical elements A method of fabricating a CMOS image sensor comprising an array of active pixel cells. Each active pixel cell includes a substrate; a photosensing device formed at or below a substrate surface for collecting charge carriers in response to incident light; and, one or... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7935106 | Treatment tool for endoscope In a forceps 1 of the present invention, an operating section 12 is provided with a main body 12 and a pair of slider sections 13 which advance and retract an operating wire 11 by relative closing-and-departing motions thereof; the... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7935047 | Double-balloon endoscope system An endoscope system, serving as a double-balloon endoscope system, includes an endoscope apparatus for examinations using an endoscope, a shape detection apparatus used in combination with the endoscope apparatus, and a balloon controller. The shape detection appara... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934181 | Method and apparatus for improving SRAM cell stability by using boosted word lines The present invention relates to methods and apparatus for improving the stability of static random access memory (SRAM) cells by using boosted word lines. Specifically, a boosted word line voltage (Vdd′) is applied to the word line of a selected SRAM cell, while ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932913 | Method and apparatus for collating object An object collation method comprising a registration procedure for registering the registered data of a registered object in a database, and a collation procedure for collating the input image of a target object with the registered data. The registration procedure i... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932614 | Method of thinning a semiconductor substrate A C4 grind tape and a laser-ablative adhesive layer are formed on a front side of a semiconductor substrate. A carrier substrate is thereafter attached to the laser-ablative adhesive layer. The back side of the semiconductor substrate is thinned by polishing or grin... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932507 | Current constricting phase change memory element structure A layer of nanoparticles having a dimension on the order of 10 nm is employed to form a current constricting layer or as a hardmask for forming a current constricting layer from an underlying insulator layer. The nanoparticles are preferably self-aligning and/or sel... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932502 | Fluorescence observation apparatus A fluorescence observation apparatus according to the present invention includes a light source section that emits excitation light for exciting a first fluorescent substance and a second fluorescent substance, a fluorescence detection section that detects first flu... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932416 | Ortho-substituted pentafluorosulfanylbenzenes, process for their preparation and their use as valuable synthetic intermediates Pentafluorosulfanyl-benzenes according to Formula (I): a process for their preparation and their use as valuable synthetic intermediates for preparing, for example, medicaments, diagnostic aids, liquid crystals, polymers, p... | 04/26/2011 |
