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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7609563 | Simultaneous read circuit for multiple memory cells A memory device including a simultaneous read circuit design for multiple memory cells on a single interconnect using a fast fourier transform analysis circuit. The simultaneous read circuit can be used with any memory type storing information as an energy-absorbing... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7535744 | Semiconductor integrated circuit and IC card system having internal information protection A semiconductor integrated circuit capable of protection from card hacking, by which erroneous actions are actively induced by irradiation with light and protected secret information is illegitimately acquired, is to be provided. Photodetectors, configured by a stan... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7367119 | Method for forming a reinforced tip for a probe storage device Systems and methods in accordance with the present invention can include a tip contactable with a media. In an embodiment, the tip comprises a substantially hollow structure formed of a metal. The tip can be formed by depositing a first metal layer over silicon ther... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7352786 | Apparatus for driving light emitting element and system for driving light emitting element In case of driving each of light emitting parts of a surface emitting laser, each of light emitting parts is made to be in forward-bias state and switches appropriately change bias voltage, which is lower than laser oscillation threshold voltage, and drive voltages,... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7339822 | Current-limited latch A current-limited latch circuit is used within a nonvolatile memory integrated circuit for decoding, programming, erase, and other operations. In one implementation, there are a number of latches connected together in parallel between two power supply lines. A curre... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7335551 | Method to fabricate a thin film non volatile memory device scalable to small sizes A thin film non volatile memory scalable to small sizes and its fabrication process are disclosed. The thin film memory comprises a thin film transistor control circuitry fabricated on a flexible substrate, together with an optoelectronic cross bar memory comprising... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336524 | Atomic probes and media for high density data storage A device in accordance with embodiments of the present invention comprises a contact probe for high density data storage reading, writing, erasing, or rewriting. In one embodiment, the contact probe can include a silicon core having a conductive coating. Contact pro... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7309630 | Method for forming patterned media for a high density data storage device Systems in accordance with the present invention can include a tip contactable with a media, the media including a substrate and a plurality of cells disposed over the substrate, one or more of the cells being electrically isolated from the other of the cells by a m... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7295455 | Semiconductor integrated circuit with photo-detecting elements for reverse-engineering protection A semiconductor integrated circuit capable of protection from card hacking, by which erroneous actions are actively induced by irradiation with light and protected secret information is illegitimately acquired, is to be provided. Photodetectors, configured by a stan... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7278094 | Variable text processing for an electronic press A software system is useful for generating a page file from a template file and database entries. The database entries are representative of variable information and the template file includes data designating a variable text area. The software system includes a com... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7265381 | Opto-electronic memory element on the basis of organic metalloporphyrin molecules A memory cell for opto-electronic applications includes a substrate, a first electrode and a second electrode, and an active layer arranged between the first and the second electrodes, wherein the active layer includes a metalloporphyrin derivative, and wherein the ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7224532 | Optical uses diamondoid-containing materials Novel optical devices based on diamondoid-containing materials are disclosed. Materials that may be fabricated from diamondoids included diamondoid nucleated CVD films, diamondoid-containing CVD films, molecular crystals, and polymerized materials. Devices that may ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7049181 | Method of making heterojunction P-I-N diode A heterojunction P-I-N diode switch comprises a first layer of doped semiconductor material of a first doping type, a second layer of doped semiconductor material of a second doping type and a substrate on which is disposed the first and second layers. An intrinsic ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7042752 | IC card system using photo-detectors for protection A semiconductor integrated circuit capable of protection from card hacking, by which erroneous actions are actively induced by irradiation with light and protected secret information is illegitimately acquired, is to be provided. Photodetectors, configured by a stan... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6977883 | Information recording medium having pair of electrodes Disclosed herewith is a method for enabling fast and high density recording of information. A voltage is applied to a recording layer formed between a pair of electrodes. The distance between the pair of electrodes is set wider at one of land and groove areas of a s... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6957158 | High density random access memory in an intelligent electric device Methods and devices for monitoring distributed electric power are disclosed, including energy devices with a sensor for monitoring an electric circuit, and a memory to store sensor measurements. Various techniques are disclosed for using polymeric RAM, 1T-DRA... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6952801 | Book assembly process and apparatus for variable imaging system The present invention is useful for assembling a book. The inventive method includes the steps of specifying pagination information including an indication of whether a page is to be selectively included in the book, determining whether the page is to be assembled i... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6937379 | Molecular architecture for molecular electro-optical transistor and switch Observable changes in electrical and optical characteristics of individual molecules adsorbed on a conductor or semi-conductor caused by electrical and/or optical excitation or de-excitation of electrons within such molecules can be used as signals which in turn can... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6925047 | High density data storage module A data storage module for a high density data storage device. The storage module includes a planar rotor having top, bottom, left and right edges. The rotor is suspended within a frame surrounding the top, bottom, left and right edges of the rotor. The rotor is susp... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6744681 | Fault-tolerant solid state memory A solid state memory device is fabricated by forming a level of the device; identifying defective areas in the level; and programming address logic of the level to avoid the defective areas in the level. ... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6392914 | Storage device encompassing a diffusion process and a dissipation process of information carriers and storage method thereof A nonlinear coupling oscillator array is configured in such a manner that, for example, two layers in each of which a number of quantum dots as oscillators are arranged two-dimensionally are laid one on another. Adjacent quantum dots in the upper layer ha... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6385080 | DNA optical storage device using Forster energy transfer mechanism An optical memory system includes memory cells which utilize synthetic DNA as a component of the information storage mechanism. In the preferred embodiment, memory cells contain one or more chromophoric memory units attached to a support substrate. Each c... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6297984 | Structure and method for protecting integrated circuits during plasma processing A protection circuit and method for preventing high word line voltages during plasma processing of integrated circuits. The protection circuit includes a shunt transistor connected between each word line and ground, and a light sensitive element connected... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6219160 | Optical logic element and methods for respectively its preparation and optical addressing, as well as the use thereof in an optical logic device In a multistable optical logic element with a light-sensitive organic material (1) which undergoes a photocycle with several physical states by irradiation with light, and wherein a physical state is assigned a logical value which can be changed by addres... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6136457 | Manganese oxide material having MnO3 as a matrix A manganese oxide material that can be used as a switching device or as a memory device or the like is formed of Mn-based oxide material. The Mn-based oxide material exhibits insulator-to-metal transitions induced by irradiating the material with laser li... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6067246 | Method for writing data to and reading multiple bit data words from a DNA optical storage device An optical memory system includes memory cells which utilize synthetic DNA as a component of the information storage mechanism. In the preferred embodiment, memory cells contain one or more chromophoric memory units attached to a support substrate. Each c... | 05/23/2000 |
| 6028686 | Energy-depleted radiation apparatus and method A generator of energy-depleted radiation and various methods and applications using the energy-depleted radiation. Various embodiments are disclosed of the energy-depleted radiation generator and an energy-restored radiation generator, which permits detec... | 02/22/2000 |
| 6025857 | Photosensitive member and electrostatic information recording method A photosensitive member which has an electrode provided on the front side and a photoconductive layer stacked on the electrode, the photosensitive member being disposed face-to-face with an electrostatic information recording medium that includes a charge... | 02/15/2000 |
| 6001519 | High molecular weight information recording medium and related data writing method An information recording medium including a substrate, an intermediate conductive layer, and a high molecular weight layer. When the high molecular weight layer is heated to close to its glass (transition) temperature by applying an AC field in order to i... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5923581 | Information recording medium, reading apparatus for said medium and processes for implementing said apparatus Information recording medium, reading apparatus for said medium and processes for implementing the apparatus. According to the invention, the material constituting the recording layer (15) is photoconducting. The apparatus comprises in particular a microp... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5922843 | Analog bacteriorhodopsin molecules A method of preparing an analog of bacteriorhodopsin in which organic cations selectively replace calcium and magnesium cations. The method comprises preparing a cation-free blue membrane and incubating the blue membrane with an organic cation selected fr... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5917747 | Digital memory element A digital memory element having three miniaturized electron tubes, which is faster and smaller by at least one further order of magnitude than known digital memory elements, can be produced through conventional and additive lithography. The digital memory... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5898607 | Recording/reproducing method and recording/reproducing apparatus A voltage of an intensity corresponding to information to be recorded is applied to a recording medium which comprises a film containing a charge generating material. The film is sandwiched between two electrodes. Electric charges are accumulated in the r... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5892939 | Emulator for visual display object files and method of operation thereof A system for, and method of, emulating, on a non-native computer, a native environment for a visual display object file for a real time process control system and a real time process control system employing the emulator. The visual display object file co... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5835404 | DNA optical storage device utilizing non-radiative energy transfer An optical memory system includes memory cells which utilize synthetic DNA as a component of the information storage mechanism. In the preferred embodiment, memory cells contain one or more chromophoric memory units attached to a support substrate. Each c... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5825725 | Method and apparatus for reversible optical data storage Storage, retrieval and erasure of optical information in bacteriorhodopsin (bR) films by alteration of the bR's absorption spectrum by photo-induction and by application and switching of an electrical field.... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5717627 | Optical memory device incorporating photodetector devices and light emitting devices The optical memory device of the present invention comprises a photodetector device which generates a current when light is incident thereon and a light-emitting device which is connected to the photodetector device in series so as to emit light upon rece... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5717626 | Photoelectric sensor, information recording system, and information recording and reproducing method In a photoelectric sensor that enables information to be recorded on an information recording medium at an intensity amplified to a level higher than that of a current induced by information exposure and allows conductivity to remain maintained by a conti... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5629920 | Photoelectric sensor, information recording system, and information recording method An information recording system including a photoelectric sensor having a semiconductive, photoconductive layer stacked on an electrode, and an information recording medium having an information recording layer stacked on an electrode so that information ... | 05/13/1997 |
| 5615143 | Optomechanical terabit data storage system An ultra-high density optical storage system includes an array of nanometer-scale emitter tips which are associated with corresponding storage surfaces. The tips are optically selectively activated to produce data features simultaneously on their correspo... | 03/25/1997 |
