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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8168871 | Bow attachment A bow attachment device attaches to the end of a bow to compensate for a smaller or under-developed digit. The bow attachment device provides a block that attaches to the bow in a manner allowing the stick of the bow to slide through the block. A leg on the block pr... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8077555 | Sponge replacement and reminder system and method A method and system for identifying when a cleaning article, such as a sponge, should be replaced or disposed within a period of time is disclosed. A cleaning article such as a sponge is labeled with a time increment that will act as an expiration date or reminder f... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8069946 | Portable sound recording device A portable sound recording device and method comprises a first enclosure having symmetrical halves and a second enclosure having symmetrical halves. The second enclosure is fitted inside the first enclosure such that neither enclosure has direct contact with each ot... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8042561 | Auxiliary curtain A curtain suitable for attachment to the perimeter of an umbrella has a flexible sheet with an upper edge, a lower edge, a first side edge and a second side edge. The flexible sheet also has a front surface and a rear surface, each surface defining an area between a... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7963257 | Sustainable waste heat management system A self-contained waste heat recovery system for a commercial oven provides circulating an energy source to an oven heating system. The oven heating system recovers heat from an oven stack or downstream of oxidizer if used and distributes the heat to bakery systems s... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7884797 | Conductive cap A connector featuring a conductive cap and conductive peg to be attached to any digit covering apparatus, such as a glove. The connector comprises a cap and peg made of a conductive material. The peg is placed on a user's digit and the at least one post mechanism is... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7849592 | Method of compensating for thermal expansion in SMT interconnects The present invention relates to a method of providing end and center locating connectors in interconnects between surface mount technology (SMT) connectors and printed circuit boards (PCBs). The connectors are adapted to maintain their connection even when the prin... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7842263 | Sanitizing and dampening container An apparatus for sanitizing or dampening objects comprising a container having corner pockets that support springs is provided. Springs are extended upwardly from the corner pockets. A platform is positioned above container, wherein pocket covers on the platform are... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7837568 | Method and apparatus for supporting a child in a swing A back support device utilizes a removable fabric support strap attached to chain attachment assemblies for connection to the support chains of a swing. The chain attachment assemblies are attached to chain elements of the support chains so that the support strap of... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7791209 | Method of underfill air vent for flipchip BGA This invention relates to ejecting an underfill resin at multiple semiconductor die edges such that vacuum suction provided at a laminate through hole located beneath a stage enables spread of underfill resin from each edge simultaneously for quicker spread and redu... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7757734 | Two wheeled device cover A protective cover for a two wheeled device protects bicycles, mopeds, motorcycles or the like. A lightweight material is sized to cover the device. The material has a top portion covering at least two handlebars and a seat on the device. An opening is located on th... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7719842 | Method of providing flexible heat sink installations for early blade board manufacturing An apparatus for mounting a plurality of heat sinks onto a circuit board during testing while the circuit board is tested in a fixed manufacturing station. The apparatus has a polygonal shaped frame with a size that is limited to an area on the circuit board which c... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7698749 | Total tie keep Apparatus for restraining a necktie; the necktie has a front portion, a rear portion and a label attached to a back side of the front portion of the necktie. The apparatus includes a material having upper, middle and lower button holes that connect with upper, middl... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7627177 | Adaptive OCR for books A system is presented for scanning entire books or document all at once using an adaptive process where the book or document has known fonts and unknown fonts. The known fonts are processed through a verification system where sure words and error words are determine... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7548674 | Alignment method for circular multi-core optical fiber The present invention relates to a method of aligning circular multi-core fibers, wherein the method utilized independent and individually selected cores to receive, transmit, and emit light from input devices. The present invention further relates to positioning th... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7545050 | Design structure for final via designs for chip stress reduction A design structure to provide a package for a semiconductor chip that minimizes the stresses and strains that arise from differential thermal expansion in chip to substrate or chip to card interconnections. An improved set of design structure vias above the final co... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7540509 | Forced extension caster assembly A caster assembly with a horizontally orientated arm is attached to a base plate of a rack during a travel state and a stored state. A leveling foot with a flat portion and a non-flat portion is inserted through a slot on the arm and a hole on the base plate such th... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7539622 | Programmable RFID postage stamps The user can attach a stamp without a predetermined postage to an article to be mailed. The stamp has a top layer having a visual display, middle layer having an electronics layer, and a bottom layer having an adhesive layer. The stamp is encoded such that the visua... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7537517 | Self-brushing air moving device An air moving device assembly in a computer system has an air moving device such as a fan or blower within a housing for moving air from an air inlet to an air outlet. A mesh with a plurality of openings covers the air outlet. A back flow damper assembly is position... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7533360 | Flow based package pin assignment The present invention provides a method of performing BSM assignments for each routing layer typically having one BSM group (e.g. memory bus) per layer. Further, the present invention provides for routable BSM assignments. Further, the present invention provides a m... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7525373 | Compensation of process and voltage variability in multi-threshold dynamic voltage scaling circuits This invention relates to adaptively compensating for variations in integrated chip circuitry due to delays caused by multiple thresholds. The multi-threshold adaptive dynamic scaling system disclosed compensates for normal on-chip variations which affect system pro... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7522320 | Document character box dropout The present invention relates to a method of document character box dropout. A character box within the document is printed in thermosensitive ink which is rendered transparent upon the document's heating by a heating element or device. The heating process may be tr... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7518264 | Digital current share method for power supplies in parallel The present invention relates to a digital current share apparatus and method for supplies in parallel wherein a digital current sharing is used to eliminate oscillations during current sharing by raising current in steps until the currents in power supplies in para... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7514276 | Aligning stacked chips using resistance assistance The present invention relates to a method of aligning stacked chips wherein the apparatus and method utilize bumps in the form of exposed metal lines on a first chip. The present invention further relates to taking a resistance measurement to determine a quality of ... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7511454 | Battery label with wireless battery charging circuit This invention relates to an apparatus and method for making a battery charging unit using induction to eliminate the requirement to constantly remove rechargeable batteries from their particular units in order to recharge them. This invention further relates to an ... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7508676 | Cold plate structure and method for cooling planar arrays of processors during assembly and test allowing for single module site reworkability A method of cooling a module attached to a board by a spring mechanism that provides access to the module during testing. A cold plate assembly features a dry thermal interface coupled with spring loaded plunger to ensure a module, such as a dual chip module (DCM), ... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7507121 | EMC clamp for three exit backshell An electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) clamp for an electrical connector which allows in one embodiment the reduction of a 12× cabling system to four 3× cabling system. The construction of another embodiment is compatible with the Infiniband technology especially ... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7501294 | VCSEL for high speed lower power optical link A method of manufacturing a coherent light generator, especially a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL), includes a gallium based semiconductor alloy substrate, a first DBR stack over the substrate, a first n-type clad layer over the first DBR stack, an ac... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7483630 | Exchanging asynchronous system information using optical transmission A method for sending and receiving asynchronous signals using optical techniques. The present invention implements open-drain circuit signaling utilizing a Finite State Machine and additional logic to reduce power requirements when transmitting asynchronous informat... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7478819 | Forced extension caster assembly A novel caster assembly with a horizontally orientated arm is attached to a base plate of a rack during a travel state and a stored state. A leveling foot with a flat portion and a non-flat portion is inserted through a slot on the arm and a hole on the base plate s... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7480411 | Adaptive OCR for books A system/method is presented for scanning entire books or document all at once using an adaptive process where the book or document has known fonts and unknown fonts. The known fonts are processed through a verification system where sure words and error words are de... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7470069 | Optoelectronic MCM package A structure for electronics package for module packaging and a method of manufacturing a single chip module (SCM) or multi-chip module (MCM) for an opto-electronic package having an improved structure for heat dissipation and testing is disclosed. The optical transc... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7456606 | Battery label with wireless battery charging circuit This invention relates to a cost effective and long-awaited apparatus and method for making a battery charging unit wherein the apparatus and method solution used induction to eliminate the requirement to constantly remove rechargeable batteries from their particula... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7457760 | Programmable radio-frequency identification (RFID) postage stamps A method of using digital electronic paper in the form of a reusable stamp. The user can attach a stamp without a predetermined postage to an article to be mailed. The stamp has a top layer having a visual display, middle layer having an electronics layer, and a bot... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7439170 | Design structure for final via designs for chip stress reduction A design structure to provide a package for a semiconductor chip that minimizes the stresses and strains that arise from differential thermal expansion in chip to substrate or chip to card interconnections. An improved set of design structure vias above the final co... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7438597 | EMC clamp for three exit backshell An electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) clamp for an electrical connector which allows in one embodiment the reduction of a 12x cabling system to four 3x cabling system. The construction of another embodiment is compatible with the Infiniband technology especially wh... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7431640 | Self-brushing air moving device An air moving device assembly in a computer system has an air moving device such as a fan or blower within a housing for moving air from an air inlet to an air outlet. A mesh with a plurality of openings covers the air outlet. A back flow damper assembly is position... | 10/07/2008 |
