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...that the x-ray was discovered purely by accident? When German physicist Wilhelm Konrad von Roentgen was experimenting with cathode rays in 1895, he put an activated Crookes tube in a book and went out to lunch. When he returned, he discovered that a key that had also been placed in the book showed up as an image on the developed film!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7120510 | Method and device for executing work consisting of a plurality of steps under computer control A method of executing a plurality of steps that are performed sequentially in temporal order under computer control. Each of the plurality of steps is executed by one of a plurality of terminal computers. When a terminal computer assigned to a step has completed the... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7117478 | System and method for lithography simulation There are many inventions described and illustrated herein. In one aspect, the present invention is directed to a technique of, and system for simulating, verifying, inspecting, characterizing, determining and/or evaluating the lithographic designs, techniques and/o... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7117477 | System and method for lithography simulation There are many inventions described and illustrated herein. In one aspect, the present invention is directed to a technique of, and system for simulating, verifying, inspecting, characterizing, determining and/or evaluating the lithographic designs, techniques and/o... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7117122 | Field maintenance tool An improved field maintenance tool is provided. The tool is operable with process communication loops in accordance with a plurality of process industry standard protocols. Aspects of the invention include hardware features such as an infrared port; removable memory... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7117043 | Method for programming a programmable logic controller A method for programming a programmable logic controller (PLC) is disclosed. The PLC may be used to control devices of a secured facility, such as a detention center, jail, or prison. The disclosed method may include creating a spreadsheet including information rela... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7117054 | System and method of designing cooling fans A computer program product stored in a computing device has a processor and a communication interface to determine cooling specifications of a remote housing. The computer program product includes a machine-readable storage medium and machine-readable program code, ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7117460 | Method for physical parameter extraction for transistor model A method is disclosed for modifying a device dimension extraction model. After collecting in-line data with regard to at least one feature of a device for one or more layouts, a proximity and linearity effect with regard to the feature based on the collected data is... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7117117 | System and method for providing environmental impact information, recording medium recording the information, and computer data signal An environmental impact information collection system modifies and analyzes environmental impact information, which is collected and stored in advance, and obtains the environmental impact at each process done in an organization, according to each product. The envir... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7114133 | Broken symmetry for optimization of resource fabric in a sea-of-platform architecture The present invention is directed to a method and system for optimally mapping a general set of resources to a specific integrated circuit design. In an exemplary aspect of the present invention, a method for optimally mapping a general set of resources to a specifi... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7114145 | System and method for lithography simulation There are many inventions described and illustrated herein. In one aspect, the present invention is directed to a technique of, and system for simulating, verifying, inspecting, characterizing, determining and/or evaluating the lithographic designs, techniques and/o... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7113841 | Implant forming method An implant designing method to be applied to a body of bone which has a bone deficient portion, wherein the bone being substantially symmetric with respect to a plane of symmetry, includes generating three-dimensional data of the bone based on a plurality of pieces ... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7110921 | Method for designing a profile die for polymer extrusion A method for designing a profile extrusion die is based on an analogy that exists between membrane deflection under pressure and low Reynolds number pressure driven fluid flow. The analogy is used to predict the relative shape of the die to correct for die swell or ... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7110842 | Modular design method A method of modular design suitable for use, for example, in a CAD program is provided. In one aspect, the method is embodied in a CAD program specifically configured to support modular design, or more specifically, concurrent and consistent design of multiple insta... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7111277 | System and method for lithography simulation There are many inventions described and illustrated herein. In one aspect, the present invention is directed to a technique of, and system for simulating, verifying, inspecting, characterizing, determining and/or evaluating the lithographic designs, techniques and/o... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7107112 | Method and system for simulating and modeling a batch manufacturing facility A system and method for the simulation and modeling of biopharmaceutical batch process manufacturing facilities using process time lines is described herein. The system employs an eleven-field delimited string code which specifies the unit identifier code and the it... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7107197 | Wiring harness data systems A wiring harness design is analyzed and module data is created automatically and stored for a plurality of harness modules representing wire and component element requirements for those modules, the modules being capable of assembly in selected combinations to creat... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7103515 | Method for analyzing turbine engine disks The present invention provides, in one embodiment, a method for automatically analyzing an article of manufacture comprising the steps of a) providing a master model and a context model specification; b) creating a context model from the master model and the context... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7103527 | Negotiated interconnection of visual modeling elements Described is a method and system that enables open, non-proprietary and extensible visualization and modeling tools by providing multiple-way negotiations between model element end points (nodes) and a connecting model element (arc). Based on these negotiations, a u... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7103434 | PLM-supportive CAD-CAM tool for interoperative electrical and mechanical design for hardware electrical systems This invention is a tool for computer-aided design, computer-aided manufacturing forming a Project Management System, comprising: (1) a Component Database; (2) a Component Data Management System; (3) a Design and Manufacturing System; (4) an Assembly Drawing Generat... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7103435 | System and method of control factor management A system and method for control factor management for a work-in-process (WIP) in a production system. A plan engine is programmed to receive an order for a product, reserve a capacity for the order based on a capacity model that considers a plurality of capacity vec... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7103436 | Method for optimizing foundry capacity The invention provides a method and system for determining a production plan that includes a first step that determines the minimum number of manufacturing starts that are required to meet contractual obligations; and a second step which determines a production plan... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7103439 | Method and apparatus for initializing tool controllers based on tool event data A method for initializing process controllers based on tool event data includes providing a tool having a process controller adapted to employ a control model to control an operating recipe of the tool; receiving a tool event notification; and initializing the contr... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7099803 | Data exchange between computer aided design systems A user emulation module is operable to emulate generating a feature by a user by issuing graphical user interface based commands in a computer aided design system associated with either a source technical system or a target technical system. An associated pattern re... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7099731 | Method of manufacturing a multiple component device The present invention is a method of manufacturing a product from at least two individual components comprising the steps of providing data regarding at least a first and a second component to a customer; permitting the customer to request a product comprising the c... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7099726 | Production planning system The production of semiconductor devices manufactured through a plurality of manufacturing sites is unitarily managed and an appropriate production plan is instructed. A computer projects a production plan of an entire company based on various information. The produc... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7099727 | Knowledge repository system for computing devices A system is disclosed that generates a data source representation using at least one data source. The system includes a set of services that synchronize the data source representation with the data source, or sources, from which the data source representation is gen... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7099737 | Intelligent STEP-NC controller An intelligent STEP-NC (Standard for the Exchange of Produce model-Numerical Controller) overcomes short-comings of conventional NCs with a closed structure The intelligent STEP-NC intelligently performs a machining process based on ISO 14649 data while autonomously... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7096083 | Design support apparatus and method for supporting design of resin mold product A design support apparatus including: a flow analyzer for analyzing a flow of thermosetting resin injected into a resin filling cavity to mold a resin mold product made of the thermosetting resin, using a finite difference method or a finite element method; a residu... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7096085 | Process control by distinguishing a white noise component of a process variance A method, system and medium is provided for enabling improved control systems. An error, or deviation from a target result, is observed for example during manufacture of semiconductor chips. The error within standard deviation is caused by two components: a white no... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7096417 | System, method and computer program product for publishing interactive web content as a statically linked web hierarchy With a client connected to a server, an agent tool simulates user interaction and traversal of dynamic web pages, causing the server-side processes to serve HTML pages to the client. As these pages are served, they are collected by the agent, modified to include sta... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7096439 | System and method for performing intellectual property merge An intellectual property (IP) merge system includes first and second storage device portions, a graphical user interface server, and an IP server. A user inputs integrated circuit (IC) configuration information into the first storage device by way of a network. The ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7096082 | Design control document linking template A control document template streamlines the creation of control documents and facilitates consistent entry of data. A multi-page spreadsheet file incorporates the design and process failure mode effects analysis pages, the control plan, tools for forming the process... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7093113 | Application model for dynamic computing environments in software sales cycle A method of using a dynamic computing environment to facilitate a sales preparation of a first software is provided. The method comprises configuring the dynamic computing environment for a first hardware, a first software environment and a first network configurati... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7093205 | Method and apparatus for efficient semiconductor process evaluation A method is described that involves automatically generating a physical behavior curve from a process description; where, the process description describes a process. The method also involves automatically generating a device model for the process from the physical ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7092775 | Production planning apparatus and production planning method The invention proposes a method for devising a production plan of a product to be produced through multiple production steps having different characteristics in a supply chain across multiple companies and/or multiple factories. The method divides a production step ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7092902 | Automated system for designing and testing a probe card A method and system for designing a probe card from data provided by prospective customers via the Internet is provided. Design specifications are entered into the system by prospective customers and compiled into a database. The collective feasibility of each set o... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7093211 | Techniques for modeling current spreading uniformity in light emitting diodes Techniques for automatically generating three dimensional geometric circuit models from a computer aided design (CAD) of a light emitting diode (LED) device. The models may comprise a robust netlist that may be executed using circuit simulation packages. The spatial... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7092861 | Visual anti-virus in a network control environment To detect a potential virus-infected control script in a networking system, visual representations of control structures and operations effected by a suspect script are presented to a user. A visual representation of the control links that are contained within the s... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7092863 | Model predictive control (MPC) system using DOE based model A system for automatic control of a process, comprising a process model using data and further comprising a data model for generating data for said process model and an empirical data extractor for extracting data from said process for said model, and wherein said d... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7089196 | System and method for lean inventory management A system (100) for inventory management includes memory (116) containing a cumulative demand value (252) for each of a plurality of time windows (204) within a planning horizon (200). The cumulative demand value (252) for a ... | 08/08/2006 |
