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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5903917 | Method and system for alignment of blocks in a program image A computer system and method for aligning blocks within source program image in accordance with alignment constraints. The source program image is divided in pages. The alignment system receives an indication of which of the blocks are accessed during eac... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5903776 | Multiple priority accelerated graphics port (AGP) request queue A single queuing structure enqueues requests of multiple priorities. The queuing structure is especially well adapted for use with requests that are part of AGP operations. For instance, the queuing structure may enqueue low priority read requests, high p... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5903520 | Electronic module for conventional parking meter An electronic module for enhancing an operation of a conventional parking meter. The electronic module comprises a shell defining a hollow conformation and being attachable to a conventional parking meter, in substitution to an upper housing portion of th... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5903498 | Low-supply-voltage nonvolatile memory device with voltage boosting The memory device has a plurality of local boost circuits, each connected to a sector of the memory array, and each having a control circuit, at least a respective boost capacitor, and a respective drive circuit. Each drive circuit is only enabled in read... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5903096 | Photoluminescent lamp with angled pins on internal channel walls A planar photoluminescent lamp having a plurality of internal walls to form a serpentine channel includes a deflection member at a distal end at least portion of the internal walls to force a plasma discharge into a central portion of the channel to there... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5903075 | Permanent magnet coupler with soft start adjustment system The soft start of a permanent magnet coupler of the type in which magnetic flux from permanent magnets on a rotary magnet rotor bridges an air gap between the magnets and an electroconductive element on a rotary conductor rotor to magnetically couple said... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5901990 | Toggle locking release mechanism An improved toggle locking release mechanism (8) is provided, including a connecting body (10), and opposing pivoted jaw (22), and multi-pivoted floating links or movable lock/release links (30) and a movable toggle link/release lever (34). The mechanism ... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5902491 | Method of removing surface protrusions from thin films A method for removing a surface protrusion projecting from a layer of a first material deposited on a surface of a substrate. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a layer of a second material is applied on the layer of first material. A suf... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5902987 | Apparatus and method of rapidly locating edges of machine-readable symbols or other linear images A method and apparatus locates edges of patterns in a stored image, such as edges of bars or finder patterns of machine-readable symbols. The present invention first selects an edge point or pixel within a stored image. A dominant direction is determined ... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5902949 | Musical instrument system with note anticipation A music system including a musical instrument, such as a keyboard strummer, in which the musical notes produced by the playing of the instrument are controlled by musical assistance data mapped unto the instrument keys and strum vanes from tracks speciall... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5901312 | Providing application programs with unmediated access to a contested hardware resource A system and method are disclosed for executing, in a multitasking operating system, an application program that accesses a protected resource directly without mediation by the operating system. For example, the application can be a backup application and... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5901188 | Method of and apparatus for RDS phase synchronization on the receiver side A method of phase synchronization of a bit rate clock signal generated on a receiver side with a biphase-modulated digital RDS signal that is demodulated on the receiver side with both signals having the same bit rate. The bits of both the RDS signal and ... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5901092 | Memory device having pipelined access and method for pipelining data access In one embodiment of the invention, a word line is coupled to a row of memory cells, and some of the memory cells are accessed before the firing signal has propagated all the way to the back end of the word line. In another embodiment of the invention, a ... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5901085 | Programmable reference voltage source, particularly for analog memories A programmable reference voltage source includes a nonvolatile memory cell, the floating-gate region of which stores electric charges determining a memorized threshold value. The drain terminal of the cell is biased at a constant voltage, and the source t... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5900974 | Backing plate for contrast enhancement of photolithographic images on transparent substrates and method of using same A backing plate for a transparent substrate constructed of two polarizer sheets. The axes of polarization of the polarizer sheets are substantially orthogonal to each other. The backing plate thus absorbs more than 98% of incident light and prevents subst... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5899446 | Universal fixture for holding printed circuit boards during processing The present invention is a universal fixture for holding printed circuit boards with different sizes and shapes during stencil printing and other manufacturing processes related to printed circuit boards. In one embodiment, a universal fixture for holding... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5899303 | Hoistway door seal structure A hoistway door seal structure for limiting the flow of air through a hoistway opening when the door is closed. The hoistway door seal structure includes a hoistway door that covers a hoistway entrance defined by an opening in a hoistway wall structure. A... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5900764 | Efficient Vccp supply with regulation for voltage control A highly efficient compact multiple output voltage generation circuit is designed for use in integrated circuit devices such as DRAMs which require multiple internal voltage supplies for optimum performance. An oscillator is connected to a primary coil of... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5897987 | Use of arabinogalactan in cell cryopreservation media Methods and compositions for cryopreserving somatic cells are provided. In one embodiment, a cell cryopreservation medium is provided which includes an effective amount of arabinogalactan to maintain the viability of cells upon freezing, storage and thawi... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5898310 | Device and method for determining properties of a soil A measuring instrument for measuring the matrix potential in a soil, has a measuring cell with a housing that includes at least in certain sections thereof, material permitting the moisture of the soil to penetrate into the interior of the housing, at lea... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5898625 | Fast power up reference voltage circuit and method A reference voltage circuit includes a self-decoupling boost circuit coupled between a supply voltage and an output node. The boost circuit provides a boost current to accelerate the transition of the output node's voltage. The boost circuit is controlled... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5898635 | Power-up circuit responsive to supply voltage transients A power-up circuit in a computer system drives a memory device such as a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) to an initial condition after the computer system is turned on or reset. The power-up circuit also advantageously drives the memory device into th... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5898638 | Latching wordline driver for multi-bank memory A memory device is described which includes latching wordline driver circuits. The wordline driver circuits include a latch responsive to phase lines of an address tree decode configuration. The latch has been described as a single latching transistor whi... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5898868 | Method and system for file system management using a flash-erasable, programmable, read-only memory A method and system for managing memory in a block-erasable, flash-erasable, programmable, read-only memory. The system comprises a block-erasable FEProm with a block header, a block allocation table, a data storage area, a block allocation routine for se... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5897680 | Method of making a twisted optical fiber with low polarisation mode dispersion A method of manufacturing an optical fiber, whereby a fiber is drawn from a molten extremity of a preform and is subsequently subjected to a torque, thereby causing a portion of the fiber to be twisted about its longitudinal axis and to be endowed with a ... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5897255 | Speed fonts for matrix printers A method of printing font character bars comprised of a plurality of rows in a direction of printing movement perpendicular to the font character bars which are in turn comprised of a plurality of close adjacent dots to improve print quality at printing s... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5898891 | Method for transferring data directly between the first and second data storage devices without transferring data to the memory array or over the input-output bus A system provides for direct transfer of data from one mass storage device, such as a hard disk drive, to another storage device, through an EIDE controller. Data from one disk drive, on one of the primary or secondary EIDE channels, is routed through the... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5897904 | Method for the production of high proof liquor Methods for producing a liquor having a high alcohol content are disclosed. Such methods employ mild conditions for increasing the alcohol content of the liquor, resulting in decreased levels of by-products that may adversely affect the taste. The high pr... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5896041 | Method and apparatus for programming anti-fuses using internally generated programming voltage A programming circuit for an anti-fuse utilizes a boot circuit that charges a capacitor to the supply voltage during a non-programming period. Anti-fuse is to be programmed, the plate of the capacitor to which the supply voltage has been applied is switch... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5895962 | Structure and a method for storing information in a semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a plurality of conductive layers that are formed on the substrate. Two electrically intercoupled sections of a read-only storage element, such as a fuse element, which together compose the storage element, are each formed i... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5895893 | Mobile scale A combination flight simulating mobile device and scale formed in appearance of a variety of different birds, or like flying creatures, that may be fabricated from steel sheet or like material, readily assembled, and balanced in such manner that when susp... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5896287 | Bridge-type direct current boost converter for driving a capacitive load A direct current boost converter which has a simple structure using only one coil, and which can apply a driving voltage to a capacitive load which reciprocates in polarity is discussed. A first direct current branch circuit composed of first and second t... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5894146 | EEPROM memory cells matrix with double polysilicon level and relating manufacturing process A matrix of EEPROM memory cells having a double polysilicon level of MOS technology and being arranged into rows and columns is monolithically integrated on a substrate of semiconductor material. Each cell comprises, in series, a transistor of the floatin... | 04/13/1999 |
| 5893221 | Footwear having a protuberance Footwear having an upper and a bottom, the bottom having an inwardly curved mid region, a protuberance is formed at the mid region which extends medially from the mid region beyond an imaginary line drawn from the widest part of the toe section of the foo... | 04/13/1999 |
| 5894235 | High speed data sampling system A system for sampling an analog or digital data signal at a relatively high rate utilizing relatively slow circuitry. The system includes several sample and hold circuits, each of which receive the data signal. The sample and hold circuits are clocked by ... | 04/13/1999 |
| 5892782 | Laser with split-wave hybrid resonator A laser includes a split-wave hybrid resonator that produces a high quality laser beam from a low gain laser medium. The split-wave hybrid resonator includes a resonator cavity formed by a pair of resonator mirror surfaces positioned at opposite ends of t... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5892707 | Memory array having a digit line buried in an isolation region and method for forming same A memory array includes a semiconductor substrate, an isolation trench disposed in the substrate, and a conductor that is disposed in the trench. The array also includes a memory cell that is coupled to the conductor in the trench. The conductor may be a ... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5892557 | Adjustable-height device for viewing an audiovisual work A device for viewing an audiovisual work is shown and described. A hooded enclosure containing a monitor is mounted on an adjustable-height support, the monitor being movable from an initial position to a user-selected viewing height. The enclosure is pro... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5892470 | Method and system for mnemonic encoding of numbers A computer-based method and system for encoding a number as a sequence of words. The system has a table of words from which the words in the sequence are selected. Each word in the table has an index. To encode the number, the system first calculates an i... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5891505 | Method for pressure processing a pumpable food substance An improved method and apparatus for pressure processing a pumpable substance are shown and described. In a preferred embodiment, a valve is coupled to a source of a pumpable food substance and a pressure vessel, the valve being movable to a first, second... | 04/06/1999 |
