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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7797236 | Internet settlement system A method and apparatus for collecting information about an event in which a user accesses the Internet through the system of a first Internet Service Provider with whom the user does not have an account. The apparatus includes a first server that creates a record of... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7254555 | System for invoice record management and asset-backed commercial paper program management A computerized system that will allow healthcare providers to access the commercial paper market by “selling” their patient claims to asset backed commercial paper conduits. The system generates the statistical information on the historic collection experience o... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7125302 | Personal flotation device and method for same A personal flotation apparatus including an inflatable bladder assembly coupled along a sleeve. The inflatable bladder assembly includes an inflatable bladder extending at least part way along the sleeve and a gas canister coupled with the inflatable bladder. The in... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7007725 | System for sanitary water filling and dispensing A sanitary bag having an outlet tube, the bag adapted to be sanitarily filled with water by an end-user of the bag, and an insulated container to hold the bag in a location remote from a water-filling location, the container including a spigot, wherein the outlet tu... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6964402 | Holder for multiple documents A pyramidal desktop document holder has banks of curved and tilted slots on each of the slant edges. The curved slots prevent the documents from bending over, falling sideways, and interfering with each other. A rotation mechanism may allow the holder body to rotate... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6884311 | Method of image transfer on a colored base The present invention includes an image transfer sheet. The image transfer sheet comprises a release layer and a polymer layer. One or more of the release layer and the polymer layer comprise titanium oxide or other white pigment. ... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6746247 | Choreographed athletic movement to music The present invention is directed to a method of producing an instructional tool for teaching an athlete how to develop and maintain a consistent tempo for performing a particular athletic activity. The method includes a step of analyzing the tempo of an athlete as ... | 06/08/2004 |
| 7362169 | Power efficient amplifier In one embodiment, an amplifier to drive a load in response to an input voltage signal, the amplifier including a first amplifier to drive the load, a second amplifier, and a control sub-circuit to put the second amplifier into an active mode to drive the load when ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7319935 | System and method for analyzing electrical failure data A system and method to perform analysis on test results of multiple integrated circuits. Based on the analysis, the system and method display a wafer map having map indicators representing statistical values of the test results. ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7317306 | Nonlinear adaptive voltage positioning for DC-DC converters The present invention provides a nonlinear adaptive voltage positioning DC-DC converter method and apparatus that enable improved voltage transient response under changing current conditions for a load with known current draw characteristics. The invention in some e... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7297254 | Systems and methods for extracting and purifying water from groundwater sources Systems and methods for water extraction and purification are disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, a system includes at least one water lifting unit that fluidly communicates with a groundwater source, and a gas generator that is fluidly coupled to the at ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7288819 | Stable PD-SOI devices and methods One aspect of the present subject matter relates to a partially depleted silicon-on-insulator structure. The structure includes a well region formed above an oxide insulation layer. In various embodiments, the well region is a multilayer epitaxy that includes a sili... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7276788 | Hydrophobic foamed insulators for high density circuits A conductive system and a method of forming an insulator for use in the conductive system is disclosed. The conductive system comprises a foamed polymer layer on a substrate. The foamed polymer layer has a surface that is hydrophobic, and a plurality of conductive s... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7276442 | Method for forming a metallization layer A method for depositing metal on a semiconductor device having a substrate, an exposed first surface, and an exposed second surface is provided. Metal ions are deposited on the exposed first surface and on the exposed second layer by applying a first voltage between... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7276802 | Semiconductor integrated circuit package having electrically disconnected solder balls for mounting Integrated circuit packages that connect solder balls between solder ball pads of a die and substrate pads of a printed circuit board (PCB). The solder balls are electrically disconnected from any circuit of the die, i.e., “dummy” solder balls, and are used to t... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7277046 | Single transmit multi-receiver modulation radar, multi-modulation receiver and method A single transmit multi-receiver modulation radar modulates radar return signals received through an associated receive-signal path with one of a plurality of differing modulation waveforms having low-cross correlation products. Each receive-signal path may be assoc... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7272224 | Echo cancellation A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that in an embodiment determine a degree of correlation between a speaker output signal and a microphone input signal and modulate an adaptive gain of an acoustic echo canceller based on the degree of correlatio... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7271467 | Multiple oxide thicknesses for merged memory and logic applications Structures are provided for multiple oxide thicknesses on a single silicon wafer. In particular, structures are provided for multiple gate oxide thicknesses on a single chip. The chip can include circuitry including but not limited to the memory and logic technologi... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7271445 | Ultra-thin semiconductors bonded on glass substrates A method for forming a semiconductor on insulator structure includes providing a glass substrate, providing a semiconductor wafer, and performing a bonding cut process on the semiconductor wafer and the glass substrate to provide a thin semiconductor layer bonded to... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7271072 | Stud electrode and process for making same A process of making a stud capacitor structure is disclosed. The process includes embedding the stud in a dielectric stack. In one embodiment, the process includes forming an electrically conductive seed film in a contact corridor of the dielectric stack. A storage ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7271065 | Horizontal memory devices with vertical gates Structures and methods for memory devices are provided which operate with lower control gate voltages than conventional floating gate transistors, and which do not increase the costs or complexity of the device fabrication process. The novel memory cell includes a s... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7270754 | Apparatus and method for processing of animal manure wastewater According to the present invention, there is provided a wastewater processing apparatus and method comprising a rotating filter thickener (20) receiving and filtering a wastewater mixture and producing a first filtrate output and a first sludge output, a scre... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7272742 | Method and apparatus for improving output skew for synchronous integrated circuits A method and apparatus for improving output skew across the data bus of a synchronous integrated circuit device. The device includes a clock input buffer that receives a system clock signal and generates a buffered clock signal, a delay line that receives the buffer... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7271805 | System and method for displaying text A system and method for displaying text are described. According to embodiments of the invention, the system and methods describe operations for displaying text, where the text does not include hints. ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7272544 | Integrated modeling through symbolic manipulation Integrated modeling and symbolic manipulation is leveraged for the derivation, construction, maintenance, and reuse of application-independent models. Related models created for different applications share a common ancestry and maintain model consistency while enab... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7272444 | Medical device interface system with automatic rate threshold adjustment A medical device programmer automatically adjusts parameters to be programmed to a medical device in response to a user modifying related parameters. Slide controllers on the programmer display screen can adjust parameters. In response to slide controller movement, ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7269850 | Systems and methods for detecting and tracing denial of service attacks Systems and methods for detecting and tracing a denial-of-service attack are disclosed. One aspect of the systems and methods includes providing a plurality of attack detection modules and a plurality of broker modules operable to communicably couple to a network. T... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7269458 | Cardiopulmonary functional status assessment via heart rate response detection by implantable cardiac device An implantable cardiac device is configured and programmed to assess a patient's cardiopulmonary function by evaluating the patient's heart rate response. Such evaluation may be performed by computing a heart rate response slope, defined as the ratio of an increment... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7268067 | Semiconductor integrated circuit package having electrically disconnected solder balls for mounting Integrated circuit packages that connect solder balls between solder ball pads of a die and substrate pads of a printed circuit board (PCB). The solder balls are electrically disconnected from any circuit of the die, i.e., “dummy” solder balls, and are used to t... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7268413 | Bipolar transistors with low-resistance emitter contacts Many integrated circuits include a type of transistor known as a bipolar junction transistor, which has an emitter contact formed of polysilicon. Unfortunately, polysilicon has a relatively high electrical resistance that poses an obstacle to improving switching spe... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7267797 | Nanofabricated photon tunneling based sensor A system and method for detecting changes in the refractive index of a fluid in a small test volume. A change in the refractive index can indicate a change in the chemical composition of the fluid. The test volume has a depth comparable to or less than the wavelengt... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7268022 | Stable PD-SOI devices and methods One aspect of the present subject matter relates to a partially depleted silicon-on-insulator structure. The structure includes a well region formed above an oxide insulation layer. In various embodiments, the well region is a multilayer epitaxy that includes a sili... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7269721 | Method, system, and apparatus for booting with remote configuration data Method, apparatus and computer software provide for the loading of configuration data from a remote source to set the initial configuration of a computing system during a boot process. One or more software components are operable on the computing system to determine... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7269024 | Printed wiring assembly retainer A retainer secures one or more printed wiring assemblies in a processor unit. In one embodiment, the retainer has one or more protuberances that abut against a wiring assembly to secure it in place, or sit within a cutout section in the wiring assembly to secure the... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7268220 | Bridged aromatic substituted amine ligands with donor atoms The present invention provides for substituted metal chelating compounds in which at least two of the chelating atoms are nitrogen which are directly attached to aromatic rings and one or more of those nitrogen atoms has attached thereto a substituent other than hyd... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7263692 | System and method for software-pipelining of loops with sparse matrix routines A method that uses software-pipelining to translate programs, from higher level languages into equivalent object or machine language code for execution on a computer, including sparse arrays/matrices. In one example embodiment, this is accomplished by transforming s... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7263105 | WLAN device and method for interfacing between a MAC sublayer and a physical layer A wireless local area network (WLAN) device (200, FIG. 2) includes a medium access control (MAC) device (204) and a physical (PHY) device (202). The PHY device receives and transmits frames (FIG. 3) over a wireless medium. The MAC ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7261928 | Package coating, processes of making, and packaging systems A package coating is processed by applying a plurality of aqueous mixtures over a substrate. The aqueous mixtures each include a combination of pigments and binders. A packaging article is also disclosed that is made from the package coating on a substrate. Addition... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7262130 | Methods for making integrated-circuit wiring from copper, silver, gold, and other metals Integrated circuits, the key components in thousands of electronic and computer products, include interconnected networks of electrical components. The components are typically wired, or interconnected, together with aluminum wires. In recent years, researchers have... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7263718 | Security framework for supporting kernel-based hypervisors within a computing system An inventive security framework for supporting kernel-based hypervisors within a computer system. The security framework includes a security master, one or more security modules and a security manager, wherein the security master and security modules execute in kern... | 08/28/2007 |
