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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6608726 | Solid immersion lens structures and methods for producing solid immersion lens structures A microlens structure such as a solid immersion lens structure is a radiation transmissive pliant elastomer cast to a desired shape and smoothness. A method for construction of a solid immersion lens structure includes providing a mold defining a lens sha... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6590916 | Method for fabricating a wave division laser array multiplexer An IC laser array package is provided wherein standard CMOS integrated circuit (IC) processes are used for fabricating the controller for the laser array and wherein p-channel MOSFET devices are used as switches with the controller which short the anode o... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6591299 | Method for automatically classifying traffic with enhanced hierarchy in a packet communications network In packet communication, a method for automatically classifying packet flows for use in allocating bandwidth resources and the like by a rule of assignment of a service level. By rendering discoverable the attributes of a flow specification for packet flo... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6583743 | Differential bipolar stray-insensitive pipelined digital-to-analog converter A pipelined digital-to-analog converter (DAC) converts a digital input to an analog output. The pipelined DAC has a plurality of stages. A first of the plurality of stages is coupled to an initialization capacitor and ground. Each of the remainder of the ... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6576066 | Supercritical drying method and supercritical drying apparatus According to a supercritical drying method of this invention, a substrate having a pattern is dipped in water and rinsed with water. Then, the substrate is placed in the reaction chamber of a predetermined sealable vessel, and surfactant-added liquid carb... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6563405 | Multi-resonator ferrite microstrip coupling filter A micro-resonator ferrite microstrip coupling filter that has reduced susceptibility to variations in the manufacturing process, as well as from changes due to mechanical or environmental stress, and allows for an assembly process that can be easily autom... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6560030 | Solid immersion lens structures and methods for producing solid immersion lens structures A solid immersion lens structure is a translucent pliant elastomer cast to a desired shape and smoothness. A method for construction of a solid immersion lens structure includes providing a mold defining a lens shaped cavity in which a solid immersion len... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6556285 | Method and apparatus for optical beam alignment detection and control Methods and apparatus are provided for detection and control of multiple-axis active alignment for a free-space-coupled single-mode fiber-optic transmission system that automatically optimizes the coupling through the system. In a specific embodiment, a m... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6552591 | Method and apparatus for processing a wide dynamic range signal Method and apparatus are provided for processing a wide dynamic range analog signal which comprises a compressive nonlinear transfer function responsive to the average amplitude of the signal without feedback along the signal path. The invention employs f... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6542877 | Method and apparatus for power series training using a change-variable A method is provided for calculating the change in level which is output from a multivariable power series as a separate variable, where this change out put signal is the change in level which is output when supply input is from two different data points.... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6526353 | Method and apparatus for extracting selected feature information and classifying heterogeneous regions of n-dimensional spatial data A method and apparatus are provided to process spatial data including seismic data. Given a spatial dataset of n dimensions, a data-driven partitioning of the dataset is effected into topographically contiguous regions using feature specific indices. Then... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6509816 | Electro ceramic MEMS structure with oversized electrodes An array apparatus has a micromachined SOI structure, such as a MEMS array, mounted directly on a class of substrate, such as low temperature co-fired ceramic, in which is embedded electrostatic actuation electrodes disposed in substantial alignment with ... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6509204 | Transparent solar cell and method of fabrication A device such as a transparent solar cell or optical filter and method of its manufacture. The method includes steps of forming a first conductive layer overlying a substrate. The method also includes forming a first amorphous silicon layer overlying the ... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6504459 | Planar coupling of spherical ferrites A spherical resonator device includes a resonant sphere around which transducers for electrical coupling are metallized layers on a flat surface shaped to provide exposure of a sphere to a quasi constant field. In particular, the pattern comprises a trans... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6498572 | Method and apparatus for delta modulator and sigma delta modulator According to the invention, oscillating signals are generated from analog signals by providing an analog signal having a variable slope or amplitude to a circuit with a variable operating point and having a transfer function characterized by an unstable o... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6498578 | Method and apparatus for generating pulses using dynamic transfer function characteristics A method and apparatus for generating pulses that includes a circuit having a dynamical transfer function is disclosed. The circuitry exhibits oscillatory behavior when its operating point is forced to an unstable region of the transfer function by means ... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6486819 | Circuitry with resistive input impedance for generating pulses from analog waveforms A decoder for generating output pulses or oscillations in response to input analog waveforms includes a circuit having a variable operating point and having a transfer function characterized by an unstable operating region bounded by a first stable operat... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6476744 | Method and apparatus for generating pulses from analog waveforms A method and apparatus that allows an analog waveform to carry multilevel of information is disclosed. This allows information capacity enhancement in pulse decoding communication system by concatenating several information regions in one cycle of analog ... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6466923 | Method and apparatus for biomathematical pattern recognition In an analysis of a set of discrete multidimensional data which can be represented in an array with a topology, where the array that can be mapped to an image space of discrete elements, such as digitized image data, seismic data and audio data, genotype/... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6457051 | Method for automatically classifying traffic in a pocket communications network In a packet communication environment, a method is provided for automatically classifying packet flows for use in allocating bandwidth resources by a rule of assignment of a service level. The method comprises applying individual instances of traffic clas... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6456221 | Method and apparatus for signal detection in ultra wide-band communications Methods and apparatus for detecting ultra wide-band signals using circuitry having nonlinear dynamics characteristics are disclosed. The receiver circuit can be implemented using a simple tunnel diode or using an op-amp to provide dynamic characteristics.... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6456216 | Method and apparatus for generating pulses from analog waveforms A method and apparatus are provided for generating output pulses or oscillations in response to input analog waveforms which involves exciting, with a known but arbitrary analog waveform, a circuit with a variable operating point and having a transfer fun... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6456630 | Method for data rate control for heterogenous or peer internetworking In a packet telecommunications environment, a method is provided for end to end explicit rate control through a plurality of heterogeneous internetworked networking topologies comprising networks without explicit rate signaling, such as TCP/IP based LAN s... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6452530 | Method and apparatus for a pulse decoding communication system using multiple receivers A multiple receiver approach is disclosed for a pulse decoding communication system, which can enhance system robustness and increase information carrying capacity. Two or more receivers are used to produce groups of pulses from a received signal. In one ... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6449274 | Apparatus for high speed communication system Methods and devices useful in high-speed scalable switching systems include a memoryless switch fabric, per virtual channel queuing, digital phase aligners, randomized and complement connection modes, a mid-point negative acknowledge and output negative a... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6445705 | Method for a high speed communication system Methods and devices useful in high-speed scalable switching systems include a memoryless switch fabric, per virtual channel queuing, digital phase aligners, randomized and complement connection modes, a mid-point negative acknowledge and output negative a... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6445065 | Routing driven, metal programmable integrated circuit architecture with multiple types of core cells A user customizable integrated circuit architecture having separate regions for different types of core cells. In an embodiment of the present invention, all asynchronous core cells are placed in a first region and all synchronous core cells are placed in... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6430237 | Method for accurate signal-to-interference measurement for wireless communication receivers An interference measurement technique in for example a wireless receiver uses a received, unprocessed signal and correlates it with a signal reconstructed from detected information, then compares a square of the correlated signal with a square of the rece... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6426638 | Compliant probe apparatus A mechanically compliant probe for electrically connecting to contact pads on microelectronic devices. The probe is used for burn-in of integrated circuits at the wafer level. Additional applications include probe cards for testing integrated circuits and... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6412000 | Method for automatically classifying traffic in a packet communications network In a packet communication environment, a method is provided for automatically classifying packet flows for use in allocating bandwidth resources by a rule of assignment of a service level. The method comprises applying individual instances of traffic clas... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6396809 | Method for signaling in a high speed communication system Methods and devices useful in high-speed scalable switching systems include a memoryless switch fabric, per virtual channel queuing, digital phase aligners, randomized and complement connection modes, a mid-point negative acknowledge and output negative a... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6392498 | Method and apparatus for a digital clock multiplication circuit A clock multiplication technique includes driving two oscillatory circuits by an input signal. One of the circuits has an inverted input. The oscillatory circuits are characterized by a transfer function having an unstable region bounded by two stable reg... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6371098 | Split limb compact archery bow A compound or recurve bow has split limbs mounted to limb pockets which are on pivots connected to a handle riser wherein the riser provides an arrow slot between the upper limbs so the arrow is launched from between the upper limbs. The result is an effe... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6374189 | Frequency analyzing device A frequency analyzing device for detecting a signal component of a predetermined analytic frequency to be analyzed in an input signal includes a multiplication circuit and an integration circuit. The multiplication circuit controls a switched capacitor ci... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6366195 | Power control in two-way paging systems A method and system for controlling the level of subscriber unit transmission power in a two-way paging network. The ability to adjust the transmission power of individual subscriber units saves critical subscriber unit resources while still ensuring that... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363327 | Method and apparatus for extracting selected feature information and classifying heterogeneous regions of N-dimensional spatial data Given a spatial dataset of n dimensions, a data-driven partitioning of the dataset is effected into topographically contiguous regions using feature specific indices (for example, by examining the change in polarity of the impedance of seismic data). Then... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6345050 | Method for manipulating cells in a high speed communication system Methods and devices useful in high-speed scalable switching systems include a memoryless switch fabric, per virtual channel queuing, digital phase aligners, randomized and complement connection modes, a mid-point negative acknowledge and output negative a... | 02/05/2002 |
| 6342919 | Power saving method using interleaved programmable gain amplifier and A/D converters for digital imaging devices For use in a low-power digital imaging devices, for example a low-power single CCD-based digital camera, particularly in a battery-operated camera, a method for implementing video signal processing is provided wherein a single amplifier is employed in swi... | 01/29/2002 |
| 6341296 | Method and apparatus for efficient selection of a boundary value In accordance with the present invention, a logic circuit identifies the maximum or minimum boundary values from a group of values and also designates the input value(s) which match the boundary values. The logic circuit includes a number of slice logic b... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6320350 | Modulation control type of AC machine A modulation control type of AC motor includes a modulator and a modulation motor. The modulation motor has the structure in which a DC field power source of a two-phase synchronous motor is replaced by a load and a DC main magnetic flux is replaced by an... | 11/20/2001 |
