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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8159904 | Force-feedback seismometer A broadband weak-motion seismometer includes: a frame, a mass, a suspension means for movably connecting the mass to the frame, a sensing transducer for measuring displacement of the mass with respect to the frame and for generating a sensing transducer output signa... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8118119 | Impregnated rotary bit A drill bit includes a plurality of continuous segments impregnated with diamond that are each mounted to form a corresponding blade. The regions between the blades define a plurality of fluid passages on the bit face. The blades extend radially outwardly to the gag... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8099093 | Inquiring of a protected communications services database to address concerns over blind base station operation in conflict with protected communications services A database stores updated information concerning protected communications services. A base station for a coexisting, and potentially co-channel, non-protected communications service makes an inquiry of the database requesting an identification of geographically rele... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8082702 | Ground anchor and weight distribution plate for decking and other structural installations A ground anchor and weight distribution plate assembly includes a ground anchor member and a weight distribution plate member. The weight distribution plate member includes an opening formed therein which is sized and shaped to allow for only partial passage of the ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8059704 | Near-end crosstalk noise minimization and power reduction for digital subscriber loops To optimize the performance of DSL modems in the same cable bundle, the size and position of the group of subcarriers used for transmission is intelligently selected when the bit rate necessary for making the transmission is less than the total available bandwidth p... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8054122 | Analog switch with a low flatness operating characteristic An analog switch includes a transistor whose source connected to a signal input and whose drain is connected to a signal output. An output of a gate control circuit is connected to the transistor gate. A first input of the gate control circuit is connected to the so... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8013438 | Semiconductor package with a stiffening member supporting a thermal heat spreader A semiconductor package includes a substrate board and a semiconductor die attached to a top surface of that substrate board. A heat spreader is provided over the semiconductor die. A stiffening ring is positioned surrounding the semiconductor die, the stiffening ri... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7996598 | Memory management module A methodology for efficiently copying data is presented. An internal controller RAM is multiplexed between storing existing RAM data such as look up table data) and storing copy back data with respect to a flash memory. The data in the controller RAM is temporarily ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7994008 | Transistor device with two planar gates and fabrication process A planar transistor device includes two independent gates (a first and second gates) along with a semiconductor channel lying between the gates. The semiconductor channel is formed of a first material. The channel includes opposed ends comprising dielectric zone wit... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7992517 | Gantry tower spraying system with cartridge/receptacle assembly A gantry tower spraying system with a cartridge/receptacle assembly includes a gantry and a spray assembly coupled to the gantry to allow for translational movement of the spray assembly along the gantry. The spray assembly includes a receptacle for receiving a cart... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7978502 | Method of programming a memory device of the one-time programmable type and integrated circuit incorporating such a memory A memory device of the irreversibly electrically programmable type is provided with a memory cell having a dielectric zone disposed between a first electrode and second electrode. An access transistor is connected in series with the second electrode, and an auxiliar... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7978485 | Thyristor power control circuit with damping circuit maintaining thyristor holding current A thyristor power control circuit reduces EMI and maintains a holding current in the thyristor to prevent flickering at a load. The power control circuit includes a thyristor configured to receive an input AC voltage, and responsive to a gate pulse generates a modif... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7978425 | Adjustable lens mounting assembly A lens barrel is mated with a lens mount through use of a screw thread whereby relative rotation adjusts lens focus. The lens barrel and lens mount are additionally provided with an interengaging formation that is interposed between an optical axis of the lens barre... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7978095 | Test mode circuitry for a programmable tamper detection circuit An integrated circuit includes an output pad, an alarm output pad, and a test mode output pad. A first multi-bit register is programmable to store programmable data such as data that identifies a customer for whom the integrated circuit has been manufactured. A seco... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7977187 | Method of fabricating a buried-gate semiconductor device and corresponding integrated circuit A semiconductor device includes a semiconductive channel region and a gate region. The gate region has at least one buried part extending under the channel region. The buried part of the gate region is formed by forming a cavity under the channel region. That cavity... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7971660 | Rock bit with a thermal insulating seal ring positioned in the seal gland A rock bit includes a shaft and a cone mounted for rotation about the shaft at a journal bearing. A seal gland for the rock bit is defined at least by the shaft and the cone. A compressible seal ring is positioned within the seal gland. A thermal insulating ring is ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7969946 | MAC and TCP coordination approach for performance improvement in IEEE 802.16E mobile broadband access systems A mobile device includes a communications protocol stack including a MAC layer and TCP layer separated by an IP layer. A cross-layer coordination module parallel to the communications protocol stack is coupled to both the MAC layer and TCP layer. The MAC layer gener... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7965725 | Hyper-ring-on-chip (HyRoC) architecture A network-on-chip interconnects an array of integrated circuit resources. The network-on-chip includes at least one vertical communications ring per column of the array and at least one horizontal communications ring per row of the array. A network interface is asso... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7962949 | Electronic component allowing the decoding of digital terrestrial or cable television signals A dual-conversion tuner firstly upconverts so as to place itself outside the receive band and then downconverts with zero intermediate frequency. A filter of the surface acoustic wave type is disposed between the two frequency transposition stages of the tuner. Afte... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7961969 | Artifact removal from phase encoded images PSF coding has become well known in recent years. Although it enables significant increases in the depth of field, defocus introduces artifacts in images that are a major detraction from the final image quality. A method is described that enables the deduction or de... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7961888 | Method and system for enhancing bass effect in audio signals The quality of music output from audio systems is improved by simulating the effect of low frequency signals in the human ear. This thus allows listeners to perceive the lower frequency signals, even though the speakers may be incapable of providing such low frequen... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7961776 | Digital receiver device for DSSS-encoded signals A device for decoding a direct sequence spread spectrum-encoded binary message includes a sampler that captures at least one sequence of binary samples corresponding to one bit of the transmitted message. The captured sequence of samples are applied to a filter matc... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7961203 | Method for controlling a display screen, in particular a plasma display screen, and device for same A display screen is controlled through successive scans of the display screen. Each scan of the display screen includes a successive selection of rows of the display screen. For each row selected, and in accordance with a normal selection, a first column selection m... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7960734 | FinFET field effect transistor insulated from the substrate A finFET field effect transistor is produced by the formation of an electrical junction between the thin fin portion of semiconductor material which forms the channel of the transistor and the circuit substrate. Doping particles are implanted in the substrate throug... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7960255 | Process for forming a wire portion in an integrated electronic circuit A process for forming a wire portion in an integrated electronic circuit includes epitaxially growing the wire portion on a side surface of a seed layer portion (11, 12). Cross-sectional dimensions of the wire portion correspond t... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7956475 | Step cavity for enhanced drop test performance in ball grid array package A ball grid array (BGA) package includes a substrate layer having first and second sides. A semiconductor chip is attached to the first side of the substrate layer by a dielectric adhesive layer. A plurality of solder balls are attached to the second side of the sub... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7953286 | Automatic contrast enhancement In a process for enhancing contrast of an image having pixels in different brightness intensities, a histogram in discrete bins is generated. Each bin represents a pixel population of at least one pixel brightness intensity. A peak and a peak region of the histogram... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7949072 | Local oscillator with injection pulling suppression and spurious products filtering A single sideband mixer circuit includes a voltage controlled oscillator operable a tunable frequency f1. The mixer circuit outputs a frequency signal at a frequency f1±f2. A tracking filter operates to filter the frequency signal and generate ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7948314 | Tunable linear operational transconductance amplifier A tunable, linear operational transconductance amplifier includes a differential voltage to current conversion unit adapted to generate first and second output signals at respective first and second output nodes responsive to first and second differential input sign... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7932623 | Method and system for driving a vehicle trailer tow connector In a method for driving electronic devices connected to a vehicle trailer tow connector a trailer electronic device control signal is receiving from a vehicle data communication network. In response to the received control signal, a solid state power control device ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7924085 | Negative analog switch design A transmission gate includes first and second MOS transistors of opposite conductivity type coupled in parallel with each other. Each transistor includes a body connection that is separately biased by corresponding first and second biasing circuits. The first biasin... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7908101 | Integrated circuit and method for monitoring and controlling power and for detecting open load state An integrated circuit and method for monitoring and controlling power and for identifying an open circuit state at an output port is disclosed. A circuit is implemented to determine whether an open circuit state exists based on a comparison of data received from the... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7904260 | Integrated circuit and method for classification of electrical devices and short circuit protection An integrated circuit device and method for classifying electrical devices is disclosed. A reference current response of a plurality of electrical devices is determined and stored in a memory. Real-time current response of a specific electrical device is measured an... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7903725 | Near-end crosstalk noise minimization and power reduction for digital subscriber loops To optimize the performance of DSL modems in the same cable bundle, the size and position of the group of subcarriers used for transmission is intelligently selected when the bit rate necessary for making the transmission is less than the total available bandwidth p... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7826387 | Method and apparatus for application driven adaptive duplexing of digital subscriber loops To improve the performance of DSL modems, a DSL duplexing ratio for a new communication is selected according to the communications needs of an application. A required upstream and downstream bit rate for application communications is determined. From the ratio of t... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7764937 | Frequency error estimation and correction Counter-clockwise and clockwise quadrant transitions are detected and accumulated with respect to a received complex signal over a certain time period. These transitions may then be compared in order to obtain information indicative of both a magnitude and phase of ... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7737769 | OPAMP-less bandgap voltage reference with high PSRR and low voltage in CMOS process A circuit includes an OPAMP-less bandgap voltage generating core circuit connected between a regulated voltage and a ground reference to generate an output bandgap voltage. A preregulator circuit generates the regulated voltage from an unregulated supply voltage. Th... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7729077 | Disk drive write driver and associated control logic circuitry An H-bridge driver for a disk drive system includes first and second high side switched legs and first and second low side switched legs. An inductor head for writing data to and reading data from a magnetic media is connected to form a center of the H-bridge. The s... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7724172 | Digital-to-analog converter circuit and method A digital-to-analog converter, in response to a digital signal, selectively taps a resistor string to generate an analog output and selectively shunts around resistors in the string to voltage shift the analog output. If two supply voltage sets are present, two stri... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7688669 | Programmable SRAM source bias scheme for use with switchable SRAM power supply sets of voltages A memory circuit has a high voltage and low voltage supply nodes. One of a first and second sets of voltages is selectively applied to the supply nodes of the memory circuit in dependence upon memory operational mode. If in active read/write mode, then the first set... | 03/30/2010 |
