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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7039469 | Device for shaping infarcted heart tissue and method of using the device A device and method for treating an infarct scar on a heart comprising an electric cable with proximal and distal ends; a handle with proximal and distal ends with the proximal end connected to the distal end of the cable; a stem with proximal and distal ends with t... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7233936 | Artificial intelligence systems for classifying events, objects and situations The present invention relates to a system of artificial intelligence for the classification of events, objects or situations from signals and discriminant parameters produced by models comprising at least one processing branch comprising a fuzzy expert system making... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7203194 | Method and system for encoding wide striped cells A system and method for encoding wide striped cells that carry packets of data across stripes. The method encodes an initial block of a first wide striped cell is encoded with initial cell encoding information, and distributes initial bytes of packet data into avail... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7200512 | Method for avoiding peak temperatures in communication devices A method for regulating a temperature increase rate of a communication device as the communication device transmits data is provided. The communication device transmits the data to a second communication device at a rate set. The method includes monitoring the tempe... | 04/03/2007 |
| RE39534 | Method and apparatus to calibrate a semi-empirical process simulator A method and apparatus for calibrating a semi-empirical process simulator used to determine process values in a plasma process for creating a desired surface profile on a process substrate includes providing a test model which captures all mechanisms responsible for... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7180171 | Single IC packaging solution for multi chip modules A multilayer printed circuit board (PCB) interface includes a top PCB layer, a middle PCB layer, and a bottom PCB layer. A top surface of the top PCB layer receives at least one top module. The middle PCB layer includes an electrically conductive layer disposed betw... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7167905 | Token-based Web browsing with visual feedback of disclosure A data communications network may be browsed using one or more tokens by receiving an input keyword string from a user, determining whether there is a match between the input keyword string and a database of keyword strings, determining a category of the keyword str... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7168042 | Force effects for object types in a graphical user interface Force effects for a graphical user interface of a computer are provided based on user preference information, which indicates the types of graphical objects in the graphical user interface which are to have force effects associated with them, and at least one partic... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7164861 | Node apparatus, optical wavelength division multiplexing network, and system switching method An optical wavelength division multiplexing network which can carry out large-capacity access service with a simple constitution is provided. In an optical network comprising a plurality of layers, a highest level network comprises a ring network having a center nod... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7165117 | Dynamic IP addressing and quality of service assurance An address is allocated to a host device which is selected to obtain network access from any access point within a given communications system, while maintaining a network bandwidth management scheme that is consistently applied to a user's network bandwidth usage r... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7160585 | Process for making at least one nanotube between two electrically conducting elements and device for implementing such a process A process makes at least one nanotube between two electrically conducting elements located on a substrate, using, inside a deposition chamber, a microwave power, a magnetic field, and at least one electronic cyclotron resonance zone faciliting ionization and/or diss... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7161580 | Haptic feedback using rotary harmonic moving mass A haptic device comprises an actuator and a mass. The actuator has a shaft. The actuator is elastically coupled to the mass and/or a base. ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7158112 | Interactions between simulated objects with force feedback A method and apparatus for providing force feedback to a user operating a human/computer interface device and interacting with a computer-generated simulation. In one aspect, a computer-implemented method simulates the interaction of simulated objects displayed to a... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7154076 | Image sensing device including image sensor with high dynamic range An image sensor with a high dynamic range is provided. The image sensor includes a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of light-receiving elements formed on the semiconductor substrate, and light-shield films formed on upper ends of some of the light-receiving elem... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7154470 | Envelope modulator for haptic feedback devices An amplitude modulator circuit includes a reference oscillator and an envelope modulator coupled to the reference oscillator for receiving a reference signal. A microcontroller is coupled to the envelope modulator for providing an envelope signal to the envelope mod... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7153747 | Method for making a transistor on a SiGe/SOI substrate A process for producing a MOS-type transistor includes providing a substrate comprising a thin layer of silicon (26), integral with an insulating support (14), and covered with a superficial layer (28) of a semi-conductor material, local etching... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7150883 | Self forming, thermodynamically stable liposomes and their applications A lipid composition forms liposomes spontaneously upon mixing with an aqueous solution. The lipid composition includes diacylglycerol-PEG compounds. Such lipid compositions are useful for forming liposomes, which in turn are useful for a variety of purposes, includi... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7148875 | Haptic feedback for touchpads and other touch controls A haptic feedback planar touch control used to provide input to a computer. A touch input device includes a planar touch surface that inputs a position signal to a processor of the computer based on a location of user contact on the touch surface. The computer can p... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7149118 | Method and apparatus for programming single-poly pFET-based nonvolatile memory cells Methods and apparatuses for programming a single-poly pFET-based nonvolatile memory cell bias the cell so that band-to-band tunneling (BTBT) is induced and electrons generated by the BTBT are injected onto a floating gate of the cell. Following a predetermined event... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7146718 | Apparatus for mounting semiconductors When mounting semiconductor chips, the semiconductor chips are presented on a wafer table where they are picked one after the other by a pick and place system, transported and placed onto a substrate that rests on a supporting surface of a substrate table. The wafer... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7147960 | Conductive composite material and electrode for fuel cell using said material formed by thermo-compression This invention relates to a composite conducting material comprised of a mixture of flake graphite and thermoplastic polymer powder sintered at high pressure that can be used for realizing a fuel cell electrode. The mixture comprises a first type of flake graphite c... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7145203 | Graded-junction high-voltage MOSFET in standard logic CMOS A high-voltage graded junction LDMOSFET includes a substrate of a first conductivity type, a well of the first conductivity type disposed in the substrate, a first region of a second conductivity type disposed in the well of the first conductivity type, a source ter... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7145370 | High-voltage switches in single-well CMOS processes Circuits are provided for high-voltage switching in single-well CMOS processes. ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7145297 | L-band inductive output tube An inductive output tube (IOT) operates in a frequency range above 1000 MHz. An output window may be provided to separate a vacuum portion of the IOT from an atmospheric pressure portion of the IOT, the output window being surrounded by a cooling air manifold, the m... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7142507 | Traffic monitoring equipment and system and method for datagram transfer The purpose of the present invention is to provide a datagram transfer network that can operate stably by avoiding a state of congestion collapse by utilizing information derived from evaluating the impact of datagrams on the operation of the network. To achieve thi... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7139632 | Enhanced process and profile simulator algorithms A method for enhancing a process and profile simulator algorithm predicts the surface profile that a given plasma process will create. An energetic particle is first tracked. The ion fluxes produced by the energetic particle are then recorded. A local etch rate and ... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7139276 | Load sharing between L2TP tunnels A method for load sharing between tunnels connecting communication networks includes receiving a communication from a subscriber using the first communication network, determining tunnel selection criteria for the communication, selecting one of the at least one tun... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7136045 | Tactile mouse A low-cost tactile feedback mouse device for providing haptic feedback to a user for enhancing interactions and manipulations in a graphical environment provided by a computer. The mouse device includes a sensor device able to detect the movement of the mouse in the... | 11/14/2006 |
| D531613 | Telephone | 11/07/2006 |
| 7130917 | Quality of service in a gateway A host object representing a user, a service object representing a service, and a connection object linking the two may be utilized in order to provide Quality of Service (QoS). The host object and/or connection object may contain a provisioning scheme defining a li... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7131073 | Force feedback applications based on cursor engagement with graphical targets A method and apparatus for providing a click surface in a graphical environment, such as a graphical user interface, implemented on a host computer for use with a force feedback interface device. A displayed cursor is controlled by a user-moveable user object, such ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7130417 | Telephone-coupled device for internet access An apparatus is provided which can be physically connected underneath a guest telephone in a hotel. The apparatus is set up with interconnection logic and a networking card so as to allow for a notebook computer to interconnect with a local area network in the hotel... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7125170 | Fluid dynamic bearing motor Provided is a fluid dynamic bearing motor in which a rotor is rotatably supported by forming an oil gap between the rotor and a stator to form a fluid dynamic pressure bearing and a plurality of oil grooves are formed in a surface of the rotor or stator forming the ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7120995 | Apparatus for mounting semiconductors An apparatus for mounting semiconductors contains a bonding station, whereby the bonding station comprises a wafer table for presenting the semiconductor chips, a substrate table and a pick and place system with a bondhead with a chip gripper. Part of the wafer tabl... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7123620 | Apparatus and method for scalable and dynamic traffic engineering in a data communication network A global path identifier is assigned to each explicit route through a data communication network. The global path identifier is inserted into each packet as the packet enters a network and is used in selecting the next hop. When encountering a new selected path, an ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7120144 | Universal application decode engine A universal application decode engine that can be programmed to decode packet streams and identify the application which is generating the packet streams is disclosed. The universal application decode engine comprises a packet receiver, a state machine execution eng... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7113166 | Force feedback devices using fluid braking A haptic feedback device including a fluid viscosity-controlled brake that outputs high forces to the device user at low cost while maintaining inherent safety. An interface device includes a manipulandum physically contacted by the user. A sensor senses a position ... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7110493 | X-ray detector system having low Z material panel A method and apparatus for detecting concealed items on or in an object by utilizing a low Z material panel. The object to be scanned is located between an x-ray detector and the low Z material panel. The method includes producing a pencil beam of x-rays from an x-r... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7106159 | Mobile magnet actuator This magnetic actuator comprises a fixed magnetic part (3) cooperating magnetically with a mobile magnetic part (1) and means (4) for initiating movement of the mobile magnetic part (1). The mobile magnetic part (1) comprises at le... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7104804 | Method and apparatus for memory module circuit interconnection An IC package for mounting to a surface of a device board includes a first IC having a first surface supporting a first plurality of conductive leads extending orthogonally from the first surface, a second IC having a second surface supporting a second plurality of ... | 09/12/2006 |
