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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8131909 | System and method of signal processing engines with programmable logic fabric A high performance field programmable gate array is described with one or more signal processing engines coupled to a programmable logic fabric. Each signal processing engine includes a signal processing unit for performing specifying tasks and a bus-based configura... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8063455 | Multi-terminal electromechanical nanocsopic switching device with control and release electrodes A multi-terminal electromechanical nanoscopic switching device which may be used as a memory device, a pass gate, a transmission gate, or a multiplexer, among other things. ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8063409 | Systems, devices and methods of broadband light sources with tunable spectrum Broadband light source systems, devices, and methods with a tunable spectrum are described by multiplexing a plurality of light sources, such as LEDs, with thin-film filters or diffraction gratings. A plurality of light sources with different or same wavelengths are... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8009803 | Treatment plan optimization method for radiosurgery Systems and methods for providing radiosurgery treatment to a patient by combining methods from both traditional radiosurgery and radiotherapy are disclosed. A dose sufficient to kill tissue is applied to a target area while a steep drop off, or gradient, is provide... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7605605 | Programmable logic cells with local connections A programmable logic structure is disclosed employing input logic routing cell (ILRC) multiplexers and output logic routing cell (OLRC) multiplexers for making local connections between dedicated logic cells. In a simple programmable logic structure, a dedicated log... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7604355 | Systems and methods for handheld projection displays Systems and methods are described employing a first lens array and a second lens array that are separated by one focal length that receives a plurality of colors signals from an X-prism and transmits to a condenser for overlapping lenslet images onto a display panel... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7439768 | Dedicated logic cells employing configurable logic and dedicated logic functions A dedicated logic cell in a programmable logic structure is described that comprises the following primary components: a configurable logic function or look-up table (LL), a dedicated logic function (DL), a sequential logic function (LS), and a control logic functio... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7428722 | Versatile multiplexer-structures in programmable logic using serial chaining and novel selection schemes Logic design apparatus and method provides serial multiplexer chains in a programmable logic fabric, each element in the chain either selects output of block, or passes output from earlier element of the chain. Select line is a decoder structure or output from confi... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7417456 | Dedicated logic cells employing sequential logic and control logic functions A dedicated logic cell in a programmable logic structure is described that comprises the following primary components: a configurable logic function or look-up table (LL), a dedicated logic function (DL), a sequential logic function (LS), and a control logic functio... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7417455 | Programmable function generator and method operating as combinational, sequential and routing cells A function generator is described that can be configured as a combinational logic, sequential logic, or routing cell. The function generator couples to a plurality of selector blocks that select a wire from a plurality of inputs. The selected wires are inputs to a f... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7414432 | Dedicated logic cells employing sequential logic and control logic functions A dedicated logic cell in a programmable logic structure is described that comprises the following primary components: a configurable logic function or look-up table (LL), a dedicated logic function (DL), a sequential logic function (LS), and a control logic functio... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7414431 | Dedicated logic cells employing configurable logic and dedicated logic functions A dedicated logic cell in a programmable logic structure is described that comprises the following primary components: a configurable logic function or look-up table (LL), a dedicated logic function (DL), a sequential logic function (LS), and a control logic functio... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7386822 | Simultaneous timing-driven floorplanning and placement for heterogeneous field programmable gate array A timing-driven simultaneous placement and floorplanning method based on a multi-layer density system for heterogeneous field programmable gate arrays are disclosed. The field programmable gate arrays are designed with heterogeneous resources including look-up table... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7368941 | Dedicated logic cells employing sequential logic and control logic functions A dedicated logic cell in a programmable logic structure is described that comprises the following primary components: a configurable logic function or look-up table (LL), a dedicated logic function (DL), a sequential logic function (LS), and a control logic functio... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7358765 | Dedicated logic cells employing configurable logic and dedicated logic functions A dedicated logic cell in a programmable logic structure is described that comprises the following primary components: a configurable logic function or look-up table (LL), a dedicated logic function (DL), a sequential logic function (LS), and a control logic functio... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7358761 | Versatile multiplexer-structures in programmable logic using serial chaining and novel selection schemes Logic design apparatus and method provides serial multiplexer chains in a programmable logic fabric, each element in the chain either selects output of block, or passes output from earlier element of the chain. Select line is a decoder structure or output from confi... | 04/15/2008 |
