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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7572340 | High resolution substrate holder leveling device and method A device for adjusting a spacing between a chamber body such as a chamber body and a leveling plate such as a leveling plate comprises a mounting stud configured to be mounted to the chamber body. The mounting stud includes a stud threaded surface. A bushing is capa... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7554576 | Information capture and recording system for controlling capture devices Techniques for capturing and receiving digital information. The digital information may comprise information of one or more types including video information, audio information, images, documents, whiteboard information, notes information, and the like. Various acti... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7316963 | Method for manufacturing semiconductor device Disclosed herein is a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device. According to the present invention, a device isolation film having a step difference occurring during a process of forming a device isolation film in a scribe lane region serves as a first alignm... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7314825 | Method for forming contact plug of semiconductor device Disclosed is a method for fabricating a semiconductor device; and more particularly, to a method for fabricating a plurality of contact plugs capable of preventing a self-aligned contact (SAC) fail during forming a plurality of contact holes formed by using a SAC et... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7200720 | System and method for efficiently performing memory intensive computations including a bidirectional synchronization mechanism for maintaining consistency of data A system and method for efficiently performing memory intensive computations including a bidirectional synchronization mechanism for maintaining consistency of data on which computations will be performed. This can be used to solve various problems such as those in ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7179590 | High temperature reverse transcription using mutant DNA polymerases The present invention relates to improved reverse transcription methods using a modified thermostable DNA polymerases, particularly in a magnesium ion buffer. These methods are particularly useful in combined reverse-transcription/amplification reactions. ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 6984128 | Methods for enabling and stabilizing tooth movement Orthodontic methods comprise applying force to reposition teeth and administering a tissue remodeling and/or an angiogenic substance(s) to the periodontal tissue surrounding the teeth to be moved. The substance(s) may be delivered before, during, or after the teeth ... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6656715 | Recombinant minimal catalytic vanadium haloperoxidases and their uses The present invention provides new recombinantly produced vanadium haloperoxidases. The enzymes are useful in a number of industrial applications.... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6595828 | Synthetic bee pollen foraging pheromone and uses thereof A method for increasing pollen foraging activity in colonies of bees by application of a synthetic brood pheromone to the colony. The synthetic brood pheromone may comprise methyl palmitate, ethyl palmitate, methyl stearate, ethyl stearate, methyl oleate,... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6576202 | Highly efficient compact capacitance coupled plasma reactor/generator and method A compact capacitively coupled electrode structure for use in a gas plasma reactor/generator is disclosed. The electrode structure comprises a parallel plate type anode and cathode spaced to define a gas flow path or volume therebetween. A plurality of el... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6458366 | Compounds and methods for diagnosis of tuberculosis Compounds and methods for diagnosing tuberculosis are disclosed. The compounds provided include polypeptides that contain at least one antigenic portion of one or more M. tuberculosis proteins, and DNA sequences encoding such polypeptides. Diagnostic kits... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6127118 | bcl-1 locus nucleic acid probes and assay methods Nucleic acid probes substantially complementary to nucleic acid sequences within the bcl-1 locus are disclosed as well as polymerase chain reaction (PCR) primers substantially complementary to nucleic acid sequences within that locus that are useful in de... | 10/03/2000 |
| 5973886 | Adjustable head load ramp for digital video disk drive system A disk drive for use with a digital video disk has an adjustable head load ramp mounted to a housing. The head load ramp comprises a ramp body having a proximal end, a distal end and a cam surface near the distal end. An adjustment mechanism at the proxim... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5936445 | PLL-based differential tuner circuit Various circuit techniques to implement continuous-time filters with improved performance are disclosed. The present invention uses RMC type integrators that exhibit lower harmonic distortion. In one embodiment, a novel high-gain two-pole operational ampl... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5918051 | Object-oriented communication system with support for multiple remote machine types An apparatus for communicating with a plurality of remote machines, of a plurality of machine types includes a computer system including a processor and memory a data communication means, coupled to the computer system and to the plurality of remote machi... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5764939 | RISC processor having coprocessor for executing circular mask instruction An add with circular mask operation is executed in a RISC processor which includes a coprocessor having a register for storing a circular mask value. A circular mask instruction to the coprocessor includes a value in an immediate field and identifies a ge... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5568395 | Modeling and estimating crosstalk noise and detecting false logic A system for modeling and estimating crosstalk noise and detecting false logic is provided. The noise is caused by culprit signal nets that are in a switching state and affect a victim net which is in a non-switching (DC) steady state. This estimated nois... | 10/22/1996 |
| 5557887 | Yieldable gearing and safety mechanisms for garage door operators A garage door operator which senses obstructions and takes corrective action before entrapment can occur. Yieldable gears are utilized as a failsafe mechanism such that when the applied torque exceeds certain limit, the gears disengage so that the garage ... | 09/24/1996 |