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...that two musicians were responsible for the invention of color print film? Fascinated by photography, Leopold Godowsky and Leopold Mannes worked together to produce an easy-to-use, practical color film. They worked full time as music teachers and gave concerts while experimenting during their off hours in Mannes' kitchen. Their success earned them full-time, well-paying jobs at Kodak and their efforts resulted in Kodachrome film, which was introduced in 1935.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7941762 | Display of real time information for selected possibilities One or more possibilities that are normally displayed in response to input from a user are augmented with real time information. Displaying real time information for one or more of the possibilities enables the user to take such information into account in deciding ... | 05/10/2011 |
| D637563 | Linear LED module | 05/10/2011 |
| 7921241 | Instruction set for programmable queuing A traffic manager includes an execution unit that is responsive to instructions related to queuing of data in memory. The instructions may be provided by a network processor that is programmed to generate such instructions, depending on the data. Examples of such in... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7904846 | Method for automatically extracting a functional coverage model from a constraint specification A computer is programmed to automatically generate in memory, goals for functional verification of a design of a circuit by use of constraints that are specified in the normal manner. Specifically, a predetermined set of rules are automatically applied to the constr... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7904756 | Repair planning engine for data corruptions A computer is programmed to automatically generate repairs to fix failure(s) while taking into account dependencies between repairs relative to one another, by grouping failures. In some embodiments, the computer uses a map that associates each failure type with rep... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7900165 | Determining a design attribute by estimation and by calibration of estimated value A computer-implemented method of determining an attribute of a circuit includes using a computationally expensive technique to simulate the attribute (such as timing delay or slew) of a portion of the circuit, at predetermined values of various parameters (e.g. nomi... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7849221 | Online instance deletion in a multi-instance computer system In an application executing in multiple computers connected by a network, an instance of the application is deleted from a group of instances that share a resource, such as a database. Specifically the to-be-deleted instance is shut down, followed by deleting connec... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7847939 | Overlay measurement target In an overlay metrology method used during semiconductor device fabrication, an overlay alignment mark facilitates alignment and/or measurement of alignment error of two layers on a semiconductor wafer structure, or different exposures on the same layer. A target is... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7873678 | Lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) schema definition using extensible markup language (XML) A computer receives a schema that lacks information required by a directory access protocol (e.g. LDAP) and automatically generates information that conforms to the directory access protocol and supplies the generated information as output in a new schema. Such auto... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7864756 | Systems and methods for providing a network conversion interface Systems and methods are provided wherein an incoming plain old telephone systems (PSTN) signal is input into a network conversion interface. The network conversion interface first determines the data type of the incoming signal. Next, the network conversion interfac... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7842179 | Sealing ring assembly and mounting method A sealing ring assembly and an improved method for mounting a sealing ring into an electrochemical cell used for Electrochemical Capacitance Voltage (ECV) profiling measurements. The ring is located in a holder having at least one secondary bore providing fluid comm... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7841068 | Methods of fabricating single-pole recording head having trapezoidal main pole and bevel angle promotion layer A method of fabricating a single-pole perpendicular magnetic recording head to contain a bevel angle promotion layer that facilitates the fabrication of the bevel angle in a trapezoidal main pole. The bevel angle promotion layer is made of a non-magnetic material th... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7836431 | Pipelining of input/output parameters between application tests written in a DBMS procedural language To implement pipelining, data from a first test written in a DBMS procedural language (such as PL/SQL) is automatically passed to a second test which may or may not be in the same language. A user creates a container test to identify names of the two tests, and adds... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7831561 | Automated disk-oriented backups Space on disk, designated for storage of recovery files is automatically managed so as to not exceed a predetermined limit. Specifically, after creation of information to be stored in a new recovery file, an automatic check is made to see if creation of the new reco... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7827051 | Scheduling with layovers and layover charge computation in transportation planning A computer, for planning moves of freight automatically adds one or more layover(s) to a mission. Next, the computer determines one or more charge(s) for the layovers, using carriers' rules. Thereafter, the computer uses the charge(s) in deciding whether to include ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7818158 | Method for symbolic simulation of circuits having non-digital node voltages In a computer simulation of an analog device in a digital circuit, a piece-wise linear lookup table is used to determine the channel resistance of the transistors in the analog device, allowing the node voltages to take on non-digital values. The piece-wise linear l... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7814444 | Scan compression circuit and method of design therefor A scan-based circuit includes a selector that is implemented by multiple observation logics. Each observation logic is coupled to a scan chain to receive data to be supplied to a combinational compressor. Each observation logic is also coupled to a single input line... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7809763 | Method(s) for updating database object metadata Two computers are respectively programmed to generate descriptions of database objects (such as tables) in a first database, and compare the generated descriptions to corresponding schema objects in a second database. Objects in the second database are changed to co... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7808643 | Determining overlay error using an in-chip overlay target Overlay error between two layers on a substrate is measured using an image of an overlay target in an active area of a substrate. The overlay target may be active features, e.g., structures that cause the device to function as desired when manufacturing is complete.... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7808265 | Differential voltage defectivity monitoring circuit A circuit uses a differential voltage response to identify fabrication process defects that would result if an IC design is fabricated (without re-designing to correct such defects). The circuit includes two stacks, whose respective outputs may be compared by a comp... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7804662 | Perpendicular magnetic recording head including wrap around shield with notched top write gap and method of fabricating the same In a perpendicular recording head, a notch is formed in the top write gap at a location on top of the main pole. A perpendicular head with this notched top write gap structure has less transition curvature and better writability while reducing the adjacent track int... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7804641 | Focusing system and method A method of automatically focusing a microscope in which a beam of light is directed from a light source through an objective of the microscope system to an object whereby light is reflected from the surface thereof; reflected light is collected and directed to an i... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7797654 | Power network analyzer for an integrated circuit design A design of an integrated circuit device, in which locations of power wires and memory/logic circuitry are known, is analyzed by at least: identifying intersections of power wires with one another, for power wires that are electrically connected to one another throu... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7793241 | Power network analyzer for an integrated circuit design A design of an integrated circuit device, in which locations of power wires and memory/logic circuitry are known, is analyzed by at least: identifying intersections of power wires with one another, for power wires that are electrically connected to one another throu... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7761411 | Delta operations on a large object in a database A computer modifies data inside a database large object (LOB) of unknown structure without modifying other data in the remainder of the LOB. Insertion of new data at a specified location in the LOB does not require movement of existing data in the LOB. Instead, the ... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7751061 | Non-contact apparatus and method for measuring a property of a dielectric layer on a wafer Non-contact apparatus and methods for evaluating at least one of the DC (or RF) dielectric constant, the hardness, and Young's Modulus of a dielectric material on a microelectronic workpiece under process and for generating a correlation factor that relates a measur... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7739265 | Deleting a continuous query from a data stream management system continuing to operate on other queries A first continuous query is deleted from several continuous queries that are being executed, by performing different actions that depend on how resources are shared therebetween. As an example, a second continuous query is deleted if a view is referenced by the firs... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7738565 | Peak detector A peak detector provides repeatable and accurate measurements of the signal amplitude for variable frequencies of input signals. The peak detector includes a pulse edge generator circuit that generates a pulse edge signal in response to the signal peaks of an input ... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7734581 | Vector reads for array updates An array update operation which specifies number of (row-identifier, value) pairs for updating rows in a table of a database is implemented as follows. A block-identifier of a block (on disk) that holds a row identified by a row-identifier in a specified pair is loo... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7722436 | Run-to-run control of backside pressure for CMP radial uniformity optimization based on center-to-edge model During planarization of wafers, the thickness of a layer of a wafer is measured at a number of locations, after the wafer has been planarized by chemical mechanical polishing. The thickness measurements are used to automatically determine, from a center to edge prof... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7718134 | Controlling gas in a well plate reactor A well plate and its supporting devices provide capabilities found in larger fermenters, such as controlling the oxygen level, the pH level, and temperature of the contents of the well. The well plate includes a plurality of wells, each of which can be independently... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7714567 | Power cable magnetic field sensor A method and apparatus to detect non-cancelled magnetic field produced when current flows through an electric conductor are provided. The sensor includes multiple coils, which allow the sensor to be arbitrarily oriented and attach to the outside of an electrical pow... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7713486 | Well plate reactor A well plate and its supporting devices provide capabilities found in larger fermenters, such as controlling the oxygen level, the pH level, and temperature of the contents of the well. The well plate includes a plurality of wells, each of which can be independently... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7713404 | Monitoring apparatus and method for improving the accuracy and repeatability of electrochemical capacitance voltage (ECV) measurements An apparatus and method for improving the accuracy of Electrochemical Capacitance Voltage (ECV) profiling measurements by alerting the operator to the presence of surface films or gas bubbles during the etching process and by using this in-situ monitoring apparatus ... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7711695 | Reducing memory used by metadata for duplicate user defined types A computer automatically identifies multiple occurrences of an abstract data type that is embedded within an object of metadata of another abstract data type (hereinafter “top-level” abstract data type), e.g. by recursively visiting each element of the top-level... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7703067 | Range pattern definition of susceptibility of layout regions to fabrication issues A memory is encoded with a data structure that represents a pattern having a range for one or more dimensions and/or positions of line segments therein. The data structure identifies two or more line segments that are located at a boundary of the pattern. The data s... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7697135 | Scanning focal length metrology An optical metrology system collects spectral data while scanning over the focal range. The spectral data is evaluated to determine a plurality of peak intensity values for wavelengths in the spectra. The peak intensities are then combined to form the measured spect... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7673065 | Support for sharing computation between aggregations in a data stream management system A computer is programmed to process a continuous query that is known to perform a new aggregation on one or more stream(s) of data, using one or more other aggregations on the stream(s). The computer creates an operator to execute the continuous query, and schedules... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7664040 | Method of accelerating the shortest path problem The solution to the shortest path between a source node and multiple destination nodes is accelerated using a grouping of nodes, where the nodes are grouped based on distance from the source node, and a corresponding set of memory locations that indicate when a grou... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7663385 | Apparatus and method for electrical characterization by selecting and adjusting the light for a target depth of a semiconductor The present disclosure provides methods and apparatus that enable characterization of an electrical property of a semiconductor specimen, e.g., dopant concentration of a near-surface region of the specimen. In exemplary method, a target depth for measurement is sele... | 02/16/2010 |
