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A combination beverage container and spittoon includes a bottom portion including outer wall and a first inner wall defining a spittoon space.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8079007 | Programmable analog tile programming tool A programmable analog tile integrated circuit programming tool communicates a power management control characteristic query soliciting control requirement information for a novel power management integrated circuit (PMIC) tile in a multi-tile power management integr... | 12/13/2011 |
| 7978029 | Multiple-layer signal conductor A multiple-layer signal conductor has increased surface area for mitigation of skin effect. Parallel extending elongated strips of conductive material are placed in parallel layers and are separated by a thin layer of dielectric. The elongated strips are conductivel... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7831874 | Local defect memories on semiconductor substrates in a stack computer A reconfigurable high performance computer includes a stack of semiconductor substrate assemblies (SSAs). Some SSAs involve FPGA dice that are surface mounted, as bare dice, to a semiconductor substrate. Other SSAs involve memory dice that are surface mounted to a s... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7829994 | Semiconductor substrate elastomeric stack A reconfigurable high performance computer occupies less than 360 cubic inches and has an approximate compute power of 0.7 teraflops per second while consuming less than 1000 watts. The computer includes a novel stack of semiconductor substrate assemblies. Some semi... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7795761 | Power converters with switched capacitor buck/boost A power converter having a switched capacitor buck/boost operation has first and second switches coupled to a first switching node, third and fourth switches coupled to a second switching node, a capacitor coupled between the first and second switching nodes, and an... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7792190 | Inserting a high resolution still image into a lower resolution video stream A high resolution still image is inserted into a stream of lower resolution video. The lower resolution video stream is a compressed video stream having I-frames. One of the I-frames is a lower resolution version of which a higher resolution image is desired. The I-... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7787026 | Continuous burst mode digital camera A camera has a continuous full-resolution burst mode wherein a sequence of full-resolution images is captured, is image processed by a pipeline of dedicated hardware image processing engines, is zoomed by a zoom engine, is compressed by a compression engine, and is ... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7764498 | Comb-shaped power bus bar assembly structure having integrated capacitors A reconfigurable high performance computer occupies less than 360 cubic inches and has an approximate compute power of 0.7 teraflops per second while consuming less than 1000 watts. The computer includes a novel stack of semiconductor substrate assemblies. Some semi... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7719844 | Stackable self-aligning insulative guide tray for holding semiconductor substrates A reconfigurable high performance computer includes a stack of self-aligning, injection-molded plastic, insulative guide trays. Each insulative guide tray retains at least one semiconductor substrate assembly (SSA) in a lateral dimension with respect to a set of ela... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7679936 | Compensating for base current in a primary side power converter that uses an NPN bipolar transistor A comparing circuit and a control loop are used to maintain the peak level of current flowing through an inductor of a flyback converter. An inductor switch control signal controls a switch through which the inductor current flows. The inductor current increases at ... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7667443 | System and method for near zero light-load supply current in switching regulator Techniques for near zero light-load supply current in switching regulators are described. In one aspect a voltage regulator operating a normal mode is generating an error signal indicating a difference between the output and the regulated voltage. A control signal, ... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7616459 | System and method for a primary feedback switched mode power supply A primary side controlled power converter having a voltage sensing means coupled to a transformer of the power converter and configured to provide a voltage feedback waveform representative of an output of the transformer is provided. A primary switching circuit ope... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7574585 | Implementing software breakpoints and debugger therefor Program code for a processor is stored in a non-volatile memory (for example, flash memory). An individual data bit stored in a memory cell of the non-volatile memory can be changed from an unprogrammed state to a programmed state using a write cycle. An individual ... | 08/11/2009 |
