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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6019496 | System and method for relating disparate data models of physical objects A method for deriving a two-dimensional first-range data model at a distance, d, from a two-dimensional second-range data model at a distance, d0. The method (10) comprises the steps of first smoothing the second-range data model, I, by masking... | 02/01/2000 |
| 5939781 | Thermally enhanced integrated circuit packaging system The present invention is a thermally enhanced integrated circuit packaging system that can be produced using standard assembly tooling and equipment and that provides increased heat dissipation with little or no additional cost. The present invention prov... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5932323 | Method and apparatus for mounting, inspecting and adjusting probe card needles A method and apparatus for mounting, inspecting, and adjusting probe card needles used during testing of fabricated circuits. A build wafer, comprised of build and scrub target patterns, is used to mount and re-work probe needle assemblies onto a probe ca... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5907258 | Fully integrated two axis shock detector The present invention discloses a fully integrated precision HDA shock sense circuit with high-order filters implemented in integrated circuit technology. Filters are integrated with an improved on-chip bias generator so that they can provide stable, trim... | 05/25/1999 |
| 5838595 | Apparatus and method for model based process control The present invention configures a control strategy and a process model to calculate a setting of a machine. The present invention adjusts the process model in accordance with an analysis of the setting to control the machine.... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5832377 | Combined transmitter/receiver integrated circuit with learn mode An integrated circuit configurable as a transmitter/receiver includes learn capabilities that allows a receiver IC to memorize the identification pattern of a specific transmitter.... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5826077 | Apparatus and method for adding an associative query capability to a programming language An object-oriented query language apparatus and method provides data abstraction, seamlessness with respect to the host programming language, set support orthogonal to persistence and strong typing. Such apparatus for processing queries includes a preproc... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5826040 | Method and system for production planning A method for planning a production schedule within a factory is disclosed herein. A capacity model is determined for the factory. The capacity model is determined by determining a plurality of contiguous time intervals, partitioning the factory into a plu... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5822590 | dbX: a persistent programming language model The dbX persistent programming language model solves the problem of seamlessly providing an unfragmented, persistible, complex object heap space that extends beyond virtual memory to a program in a host programming language X. It does so without rewriting... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5789940 | Reduced complexity multiple resonant tunneling circuits for positive digit multivalued logic operations Multiple resonant tunneling devices offer significant advantages for realizing ultra-dense, ultra-high performance multivalued logic arithmetic integrated circuits. A multivalued logic adder is disclosed, wherein two numbers represented by positive digit ... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5773991 | Motor current sense circuit using H bridge circuits A circuit is used for sensing motor current. This circuit maximizes the power delivered to the motor whose current is being sensed. Further, this circuit results in maximum voltage drop across the motor. This circuit implements a mirrored H-bridge to mirr... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5758537 | Method and apparatus for mounting, inspecting and adjusting probe card needles A method and apparatus for mounting, inspecting, and adjusting probe card needles used during testing of fabricated circuits. A build wafer, comprised of build and scrub target patterns, is used to mount and re-work probe needle assemblies onto a probe ca... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5761493 | Apparatus and method for adding an associative query capability to a programming language An object-oriented query language apparatus and method provides data abstraction, seamlessness with respect to the host programming language, set support orthogonal to persistence and strong typing. Such apparatus for processing queries includes a preproc... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5754694 | System and method for distinguishing objects A method and system are provided for distinguishing objects. Signals representative of the objects are input (63). From the signals, measurements of multiple types are acquired (64). At least one of the measurement types is continuously variable. In respo... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5739682 | Circuit and method for providing a reference circuit that is substantially independent of the threshold voltage of the transistor that provides the reference circuit A current source (10) for use on an integrated circuit chip (14), particularly in conjunction with CMOS circuits or the like, includes a first MOS transistor (12), having a gate to control a current in a current flow path therethrough. A second MOS transi... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5719774 | System and method for relating disparate data models of physical objects A method for deriving a two-dimensional first-range data model at a distance, d, from a two-dimensional second-range data model at a distance, d0. The method (10) comprises the steps of first smoothing the second-range data model, I, by masking... | 02/17/1998 |
| 5719773 | System and method for relating a passive sensor to a geographic environment A method and system are provided for relating a passive sensor (14) to a geographic environment (42, 44). The passive sensor (14) senses an image (40) of the geographic environment (42, 44). At least one feature (46) is extracted (26) from the image (40).... | 02/17/1998 |
| 5717557 | Low side line driver A low side line driver (10) includes a slew rate limiter (12) providing current to a pre-charge reference circuit (16). The pre-charge reference circuit (16) generates a constant voltage at the input of a pre-drive circuit (18). Upon a transition to the a... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5717621 | Speedup for solution of systems of linear equations An apparatus and method for solving a system of linear equations uses a sequence of matrix-vector multiplications wherein the matrix to be multiplied is derived from an expansion point matrix that permits rapid convergence. The matrix-vector multiplicatio... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5696770 | Method and apparatus for testing circuitry with memory and with forcing circuitry A method and apparatus for testing circuits with memories is provided in which a memory array (26) is coupled to memory input logic (33) and memory output logic (34). Furthermore, forcing circuitry (36) is coupled in parallel with memory (26). An automati... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5691656 | Precision (nπ)/2 latching phase detector The present invention discloses a novel latching phase detector which eliminates prior art errors in phase detection due to DC and low frequency offsets present in reference and input signals. The invention also eliminates prior art errors in phase detect... | 11/25/1997 |
| 5684394 | Beta helper for voltage and current reference circuits A reference circuit 10 includes a current generator 12 and a voltage generator 14. The current generator 12 includes an N-channel MOS transistor MN5 and an N-channel MOS transitor MN6 which function as a beta helper. Transistors MN5 and MN6 are connected ... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5682049 | Method and apparatus for trimming an electrical value of a component of an integrated circuit An integrated circuit and method for using same is constructed on a semiconductor substrate (15) with a structure (24) in the substrate (15) having an electrical value desired to be trimable and with a conducting layer (33) on the substrate (15) insulated... | 10/28/1997 |
| 5680627 | Method and apparatus for character preprocessing which translates textual description into numeric form for input to a neural network A preprocessor translates problem descriptions in text format to a numeric form, usable by a neural network. Problem descriptions and associated solutions are used as training sets for the neural network. From a word domain collected from a number of prob... | 10/21/1997 |
| 5672898 | Platinum silicide Schottky diodes in a titanium-silicided CMOS-based high performance BICMOS process A method for constructing a Schottky diode in an integrated circuit on a semiconductor substrate (18) includes forming a mask layer (22) over a region (12) of the semiconductor substrate at which the Schottky diode is to be formed. First portions of said ... | 09/30/1997 |
| 5672212 | Rotational megasonic cleaner/etcher for wafers A method and apparatus for a wafer processing apparatus using a rotation mechanism. Wafers 13 are placed into a carrier 1 which has a central axis. The carrier 1 and wafers 13 are placed into a megasonic tank 15 with a megasonic transducer 23. A rotationa... | 09/30/1997 |
| 5671351 | System and method for automated testing and monitoring of software applications The present invention includes a system and method for testing and monitoring an application (1i h). The application (1i h) includes and is operable to execute at least one test case operable to test at least one aspect of the application. The present inv... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5648294 | Integrated circuit and method Heterojunction bipolar transistors (130) with bases (138) including an etch stop element are disclosed. The preferred embodiment devices have Alz Ga1-z As emitters (140) and GaAs collectors (136) and bases (138) with Iny G... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5644770 | Coupling rules to an object-oriented program A method of coupling rules to a data domain of an object-oriented computer program. During run time, the coupling permits the computer to use rules to directly access user-defined objects for both the matching and the action phases of the inferencing proc... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5644595 | Method and apparatus for an adaptive three tap transversal equalizer for partial-response signaling An improved adaptive three tap transversal equalizer for partial-response signaling. The invention reduces the complexity of the hardware, as well as reducing the sensitivity of the equalizer to gain and timing errors. The present invention employs an alg... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5642244 | Method and apparatus for switching between data and servo modes A servo gate method and apparatus to allow switching between a servo mode and a data mode in the read channel of a disk drive. The present invention uses a servo gate signal to select components and parameters in the read channel of a disk drive. The serv... | 06/24/1997 |
| 5641906 | Apparatus and method for automated non-destructive inspection of integrated circuit packages An apparatus and method are disclosed for producing acoustical reflected images from selected planes within an integrated circuit package to detect flaws within the package.... | 06/24/1997 |
| 5638530 | Direct memory access scheme using memory with an integrated processor having communication with external devices A method and system are provided for improved processing between a host computer (200) and process logic (170). Data instructions are stored at multiple memory locations of a memory (150). The data are processed in response to instructions by the process ... | 06/10/1997 |
| 5638424 | Telephone voice mail delivery system Apparatus and a method are disclosed for establishing communication between a sending system and a receiving system. Upon initiation of the communication, the sending system sequentially monitors the receiving system for a response from one of a human int... | 06/10/1997 |
| 5636360 | Method for preventing overwriting cache buffer transaction entries until corresponding log buffer entries have been copied to log partition of the disk A method for logging transactions which alters a file system stored on a secondary storage device is disclosed. The method includes the steps of writing data to a buffer in a buffer cache and logging the transaction in a log buffer residing on a primary s... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5633528 | Lead frame structure for IC devices with strengthened encapsulation adhesion This invention relates to lead flames upon which chips (A or B) are mounted prior to encapsulation during IC device packaging. A lead frame structure (6) for manufacturing an IC device comprises a lead frame base (1) including a plurality of leads (10) an... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5625317 | Tuning method for integrated continuous-time filters A high-frequency integrated continuous-time filter with built-in test mode. The present invention provides the ability to easily track the cutoff frequency of the filter without the additional power and area requirements and noise sources present in prior... | 04/29/1997 |
| 5625209 | Silicon based sensor apparatus A biomedical sensor (20) is formed on a semiconductor substrate (22). Insulated dielectric layers (23, 24) are formed on the face and backside of the semiconductor substrate (22). Metal leads (26, 28) contact the substrate (22) through openings in the die... | 04/29/1997 |
| 5623265 | Flash analog-to-digital converter and method of operation A flash analog-to-digital converter (8) is provided which includes a comparator array (10) which provides a thermometer code output THC1 through THC7. A binary search encoder (12) is coupled to the comparator array (8) as shown, and provides a binary code... | 04/22/1997 |
| 5623654 | Fast fragmentation free memory manager using multiple free block size access table for a free list A memory manager for operating a memory computing system, determines free block size of a free block size of a free block of a system memory to be used by an application program; determines an entry in a table having a table size less than a system size o... | 04/22/1997 |
