The ice cream cone was invented at the St. Louis Worlds Fair by Ernest Hamwi in 1904. His waffle booth was next to an ice cream vendor who ran short of dishes. Hamwi rolled a waffle to hold ice cream and the cone was born.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7378698 | Magnetic tunnel junction and memory device including the same A magnetic tunnel junction device includes a magnetically programmable free magnetic layer. The free magnetic layer includes a lamination of at least two ferromagnetic layers and at least one intermediate layer interposed between the at least two ferromagnetic layer... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7336515 | Method of manipulating a quantum system comprising a magnetic moment A method for manipulating a quantum system comprises at least one mobile charge carrier with a magnetic moment. The method comprises the steps or acts of applying magnetic field to the charge carrier. The magnetic is spatially non-homogeneous. The method also compri... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7295465 | Thin film magnetic memory device reducing a charging time of a data line in a data read operation During data reading, a sense enable signal is activated to start charging of a data line prior to formation of a current path including the data line and a selected memory cell in accordance with row and column selecting operations. Charging of the data line is comp... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7275135 | Hardware updated metadata for non-volatile mass storage cache An apparatus and method to de-allocate data in a cache memory is disclosed. Using a clock that has a predetermined number of periods, the invention provides a usage timeframe information to approximate the usage information. The de-allocation decisions can then be m... | 09/25/2007 |
| 6954375 | Magnetic storage element, recording method using the same, and magnetic storage device A magnetic storage element and a recording method using the same capable of ensuring correct information recording without causing erroneous writing are proposed. A magnetic storage device having the magnetic storage elements incorporated therein, and being capable ... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6940750 | Magnetic memory, magnetic memory array, method for fabricating a magnetic memory, method for recording in a magnetic memory and method for reading out from a magnetic memory A magnetic memory includes a magnetic substance composed of a disc-shaped first magnetic layer and a ring-shaped second magnetic layer which is formed on the first magnetic layer. ... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6933550 | Method and system for providing a magnetic memory having a wrapped write line A method and system for providing magnetic memory are disclosed. The method and system include providing a plurality of magnetic memory elements and providing at least one wrapped write line. Each wrapped write line includes a bottom write line and a top write line ... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6795339 | Thin film magnetic memory device having communication function, and distribution management system and manufacturing step management system each using thereof A thin film magnetic memory device includes an antenna section transmitting and receiving a radio wave to an from an outside of the thin film magnetic memory device. An inductance wiring constituting the antenna section has a metal wiring, and a magnetic film formed... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6788569 | Thin film magnetic memory device reducing a charging time of a data line in a data read operation During data reading, a sense enable signal is activated to start charging of a data line prior to formation of a current path including the data line and a selected memory cell in accordance with row and column selecting operations. Charging of the data line is comp... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6341080 | Hall effect ferromagnetic random access memory device and its method of manufacture A Hall effect ferromagnetic non-volatile random access memory cell comprising a Hall effect sensor adjacent to a ferromagnetic bit which is surrounded by a drive coil. The coil is electrically connected to a drive circuit, and when provided with an approp... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6236586 | Micro magnetic core memory A micro magnetic core memory having a magnetic core, which serves as a storage medium, a coil, which is located in close vicinity to the magnetic core and magnetizes the magnetic core, and a sensor, which is located in close vicinity to the magnetic core ... | 05/22/2001 |
| 5982660 | Magnetic memory cell with off-axis reference layer orientation for improved response A magnetic memory cell including a data storage layer having an easy axis and a reference layer having an orientation of magnetization which is pinned in a direction that is off-axis with respect to the easy axis. This structure increases the signal obtai... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5754465 | No physical movement component record reproduce device and flat display device A non-physical movement component recording and reproducing device produces a pair of special waves with special waveforms that form a special stationary waveform. An electrically-conducting media contains three overlaid layers, a first layer contains the... | 05/19/1998 |
| 4237544 | Magnetic memory organization A magnetic bubble memory herein includes a direct propagation path between a bubble generator and a detector. A control circuit is adapted to store indications of the current state of the memory and the address of presently accessed data in the path respo... | 12/02/1980 |