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...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7936631 | Non-volatile memory element and method of operation therefor A very small magnetic tunnel junction is formed on a semiconductor p-i-n diode. Spin-polarized current which is generated by circular polarized light or elliptically-polarized light, is injected into a free layer of the magnetic tunnel junction so that magnetization... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7839710 | Nano-electro-mechanical memory cells and devices A scalable nano-electro-mechanical memory cell design that requires only conventional semiconductor fabrication materials and surface micromachining technology, and is suited for use in cross-point memory arrays for very high density non-volatile storage. This desig... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7609575 | Method, apparatus and system for N-dimensional sparse memory using serial optical memory In some embodiments, a method, apparatus and system for n-dimensional sparse memory using serial optical memory are presented. In this regard, a memory device is introduced to circulate a signal among a plurality of optical emitters and receivers. Other embodiments ... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7609574 | Method, apparatus and system for global shared memory using serial optical memory In some embodiments, a method, apparatus and system for global shared memory using serial optical memory are presented. In this regard, a memory device is introduced to circulate a signal among a plurality of optical emitters and receivers. Other embodiments are als... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7433255 | Information carrier, and system for positioning such an information carrier in an apparatus The invention relates to an information carrier, and a system for positioning such an information carrier in an apparatus. This system comprises an optical element (102) for generating a periodic array of light spots (103) intended to be applied to an ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433256 | Information carrier, and system for positioning such an information carrier in a reading and/or writing apparatus The invention relates to an information carrier (101) intended to be read and/or written by a periodic array of light spots, said information carrier (101) comprising a data area (105) defined by a set of elementary data areas, a first periodic ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7411807 | System and method for optically interconnecting memory devices A memory device includes a semiconductor substrate in which memory circuitry has been fabricated. An address converter and a control signal converter are coupled to an address decoder and control logic, respectively. The address and control converters are operable t... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7382639 | System and method for optically interconnecting memory devices A memory device includes a semiconductor substrate in which memory circuitry has been fabricated. An address converter and a control signal converter are coupled to an address decoder and control logic, respectively. The address and control converters are operable t... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7370016 | Music distribution systems Music is blanket transmitted (for example, via satellite downlink transmission) to each customer's user station where selected music files are recorded. Customers preselect from a list of available music in advance using an interactive screen selector, and pay only ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7342818 | Hybrid circuit having nanotube electromechanical memory A hybrid memory system having electromechanical memory cells is disclosed. A memory cell core circuit has an array of electromechanical memory cells, in which each cell is a crossbar junction at least one element of which is a nanotube or a nanotube ribbon. An acces... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7332222 | Hybrid materials and methods for producing the same A hybrid material is provided which comprises a first single-walled nanotube having a lumen, and a fill molecule contained within the lumen of the single-walled nanotube. A method for producing the hybrid material is also provided wherein a single-walled nanotube is... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7310004 | Apparatus and method of interconnecting nanoscale programmable logic array clusters An apparatus and methods for interconnecting a plurality of nanoscale programmable logic array (PLA) clusters are disclosed. The appartus allows PLA clusters to be built at nanoscale dimensions, signal restoration to occur at the nanoscale, and interconnection betwe... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7308172 | System for reading data stored on an information carrier The invention relates to a system for reading data stored on an information carrier. The system comprises a waveguide (1203) which allows displacing laterally the different components in exploiting the reflection of the light beams between a first surface ( | 12/11/2007 |
| 7289347 | System and method for optically interconnecting memory devices A memory device includes a semiconductor substrate in which memory circuitry has been fabricated. An address converter and a control signal converter are coupled to an address decoder and control logic, respectively. The address and control converters are operable t... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7277211 | Hologram recording and reproduction apparatus, hologram recording and reproduction method and hologram recording medium An apparatus and method is disclosed wherein, even if the multiplicity in multiplexing of recording data is increased, positioning of data upon reproduction can be performed with a high degree of accuracy without decreasing the recording capacity. Interference fring... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7274208 | Nanoscale wire-based sublithographic programmable logic arrays An apparatus and methods for a sublithographic programmable logic array (PLA) are disclosed. The apparatus allows combination of non-restoring, programmable junctions and fixed (non-programmable) restoration logic to implement any logic function or any finite-state ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7254056 | Apparatus for optically pre-programming electrically-programmable phase-change memory devices In an embodiment, a phase change non-volatile memory includes a number of memory cells. The memory cells include a phase change material which may transition between two memory states. The phase change material has different electrical properties in different states... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7242601 | Deterministic addressing of nanoscale devices assembled at sublithographic pitches A method for constructing and addressing a nanoscale memory with known addresses and for tolerating defects which may arise during manufacture or device operational lifetime. During construction, nanoscale wires with addresses are stochastically assembled. During a ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7243177 | Method and system for throttling data packets in a data transmission system A system for controlling packet transfers includes a packet transfer core; an application layer coupled to the packet transfer core by an application interface; a buffer in the packet transfer core for receiving packets from a packet source and transferring the pack... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7239309 | Display drivers Display driver circuitry for electro-optic displays, in particular active matrix displays using organic light emitting diodes. The circuitry includes a driver to drive an electro-optic display element in accordance with a drive voltage, a photosensitive device optic... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7238913 | Flexible scan field An energy beam machining system includes an emitter for emitting an energy beam and beam adjusting optics, such as a zoom telescope, for adjusting the pupil size of the system to multiple values. The adjusting of the pupil size can be carried out automatically, semi... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7236281 | Optical scanner and image forming apparatus An optical scanner includes a single deflector to optically scan a plurality of target surfaces to be scanned. The deflector has a common rotary axis for deflecting reflective surfaces and is shared by all the beams from a plurality of light sources. The optical sca... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7233739 | Optical bit stream reader system An all optical fiber bit stream reader system for examining the data contents of an optical fiber involving the conversion of a temporal timing signal into a spatially located signal is provided. The invention generally comprises generating and detecting a signal in... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7233781 | System and method for emergency notification content delivery A method for disseminating emergency notification content from an emergency originating source. The method comprising: delivering the emergency notification content from the emergency originating source to at least one transmitting party; selecting a subset of users... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7218555 | Imaging cell that has a long integration period and method of operating the imaging cell The integration period of an imaging cell, or the time that an imaging cell is exposed to light energy, is substantially increased by utilizing a single-poly, electrically-programmable, read-only-memory (EPROM) structure to capture the light energy. Photogenerated e... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7209900 | Music distribution systems Music is blanket transmitted (for example, via satellite downlink transmission) to each customer's user station where selected music files are recorded. Customers preselect from a list of available music in advance using an interactive screen selector, and pay only ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7200024 | System and method for optically interconnecting memory devices A memory device includes a semiconductor substrate in which memory circuitry has been fabricated. An address converter and a control signal converter are coupled to an address decoder and control logic, respectively. The address and control converters are operable t... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7192793 | Fused passive organic light emitting displays An organic light emitting device display may include transverse row and column lines. In a passively driven OLED display, a fuse may be positioned between the OLED material and the row electrode. When a short occurs, the single pixel may be separated from the circui... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7145165 | Tunable laser fluid sensor A sensitive fluid sensor for detecting fluids and particularly trace fluids. The sensor may be adjustable for detecting fluids of various absorption lines. To effect such adjustment, a tunable laser may be used. The laser may be an edge emitting diode, a VCSEL or ot... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7145143 | Tunable sensor A tunable bolometer device for detecting infrared light (IR) from a target at specific frequencies and in a broadband mode. The device may have an array of pixels of which each is controllable to be sensitive to a particular wavelength of light that is selected and ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7142337 | Method for generating a hologram on a disc surface A method for generating a hologram on a disc surface provides for the use of calibration spots burned onto a disc with an accuracy greater than one half wavelength of light. ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7106622 | Phase-change memory device capable of preprogramming memory cells optically and reading/writing memory cells electrically In an embodiment, a phase change non-volatile memory includes a number of memory cells. The memory cells include a phase change material which may transition between two memory states. The phase change material has different electrical properties in different states... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7103724 | Method and apparatus to generate cache data Briefly, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention, a method to generate cache data is provided, wherein the method includes identifying access data transmitted from a storage device during execution of a predetermined software program and generating cache d... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7073157 | Array-based architecture for molecular electronics An architecture for nanoscale electronics is disclosed. The architecture comprises arrays of crossed nanoscale wires having selectively programmable crosspoints. Nanoscale wires of one array are shared by other arrays, thus providing signal propagation between the a... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7054256 | High capacity digital data storage by transmission of radiant energy through arrays of small diameter holes A storage media for storage of data thereon is provided. The storage media including: a first layer, the first layer being substantially transparent to a predetermined radiant energy used for reading the data; and a second layer formed on the first layer and being s... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7049153 | Polymer-based ferroelectric memory Integrated memory circuits, key components in thousands of electronic and computer products, have been made using ferroelectric materials, which offer faster write cycles and lower power requirements than some other materials. However, the present inventors have rec... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7015457 | Spectrally tunable detector A spectrally tunable optical detector and methods of manufacture therefore are provided. In one illustrative embodiment, the tunable optical detector includes a tunable bandpass filter, a detector and readout electronics, each supported by a different substrate. The... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6999657 | High density optical data storage A data storage apparatus includes an array of optical fibers. The array has a first end and a second end. The first end of the array includes multiple optical fiber ends, each optical fiber end having an end face adapted for receiving light of a wavelength λ into t... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6967912 | Method and apparatus for determining a recordable position of a writable disk The present invention relates to method and apparatus for recording new data in a writable disk such as a once-writable disk CD-R and a rewritable disk CD-RW after previous recording to the disk is interrupted abnormally. A method of determining a recordable positio... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6963077 | Sublithographic nanoscale memory architecture A memory array comprising nanoscale wires is disclosed. The nanoscale wires are addressed by means of controllable regions axially and/or radially distributed along the nanoscale wires. In a one-dimensional embodiment, memory locations are defined by crossing points... | 11/08/2005 |
