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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7382012 | Reducing parasitic capacitance of MIM capacitor in integrated circuits by reducing effective dielectric constant of dielectric layer A memory device having improved sensing speed and reliability and a method of forming the same are provided. The memory device includes a first dielectric layer having a low k value over a semiconductor substrate, a second dielectric layer having a second k value ov... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7209375 | Method and apparatus for positioning an optical fiber Eccentricity of a optical fiber installed in a passageway of a ferrule is minimized by imposing a force on the end of the optical fiber projecting from the passageway at the ferrule end face to push the optical fiber to a desired position in the passageway, prior to... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7190602 | Integrated circuit incorporating three-dimensional memory array with dual opposing decoder arrangement A very high density field programmable memory is disclosed. An array is formed vertically above a substrate using several layers, each layer of which includes vertically fabricated memory cells. The cell in an N level array may be formed with N+1 masking steps plus ... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7085190 | Variable boost voltage row driver circuit and method, and memory device and system including same A row driver circuit receives a supply voltage and operates to develop a boosted voltage having a magnitude that is equal to the sum of an incremental boost voltage and a magnitude of the supply voltage. The magnitude of the incremental boost voltage is a function o... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7020004 | Double density MRAM with planar processing The semiconductor industry seeks to replace traditional volatile memory devices with improved non-volatile memory devices. The increased demand for a significantly advanced, efficient, and non-volatile data retention technique has driven the development of integrate... | 03/28/2006 |
