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Lee deForest, American radio pioneer ; 1957
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8117537 | Platform-independent method for computer aided schematic drawings A CAD/CAM method is disclosed for a computer system to capture and interchange schematic drawing and associated design information. The schematic drawing and design information are stored in an extensible, platform-independent format. ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 7444195 | System and method for morphable model design space definition A method, system, and apparatus for preparing geometric models for use in a design tool are disclosed. The method comprises generating a first base shape model, separating the first base model into components, and characterizing the components. Further, the method p... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7441201 | Method for placing graphical user interface components in three dimensions A method for creating a three-dimensional (3D) graphical user interface (GUI) involves creating a first two-dimensional (2D) container and a second 2D container, and placing the first 2D container and the second 2D container in a 3D environment to create the 3D GUI,... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7418666 | System, method and computer program product for managing CAD data A system and method providing an optimal way to create, manage and use resource data is provided. In an exemplary embodiment, the system and method provide the ability to store resource data in a library, namely a resource library. A resource library includes resour... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7415674 | Method and system for editing an electronic drawing A method, system, and medium for editing electronic drawings or drafting documents are provided. The method includes presenting a representation of an electronic drawing, including a version of the drawing itself, to be edited, receiving edits to the representation,... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7392480 | Engineering drawing data extraction software A method for extracting data from a computer aided design (CAD) file comprising the steps of displaying at least one part attribute stored in the CAD file on a computer display, ballooning the at least one part attribute, extracting data based upon the ballooned at ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7356774 | Grouping components of a measurement system One embodiment of the invention comprises a system and method method for creating a sub-system in a measurement system. A user may group together various components of the measurement system into a sub-system. Grouping a subset of components together in the sub-syst... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7346408 | Two-dimensional graphics for incorporating on three-dimensional objects A method and a carrier medium carrying code to execute a method of designing a carton. The method includes accepting carton structural information, forming a 2D unfolded model of the substrate that when cut and folded forms the carton, and forming a 3D model of the ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7337407 | Automatic application programming interface (API) generation for functional blocks A method of generating an application programming interface (API) for an electronic circuit. A graphical user interface is displayed through which a user can initiate generation of the API. A component is selected from a plurality of components for placement in said... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333868 | Systems and methods for designing and manufacturing engineered objects A system for manufacturing an engineered object comprising an estimate generator, layout drawing generator, and design generator. The estimate generator generates a cost estimate based on a request for proposal defining the engineered object. The layout drawing gene... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7324103 | System and method of direct mesh manipulation A system and method for computer-aided engineering analysis using direct mesh manipulation of a mesh model is provided. The system includes a computer system having a memory, a processor, a user input device and a display device. The method includes the steps of sel... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7312802 | Coordinate design and information system A coordinate design and information system (CDIS) combining coordinate geometry, spatial features and drafting into one package. CDIS uses an object-oriented and spatial-based approach in which all objects have a set of attributes, while space and areas are defined ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7280887 | Outsourcing method and system for sheet metal processing industry An outsourcing service center (7) discloses information obtained through outsourcing services for a first sheet metal processing factory (3) to promote sales. A first ordering customer (5) requests a first sheet metal processing factory (3 | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280123 | Display priority for 2D CAD documents Three values for each CAD image element are set: an element priority, a level priority, and a model reference priority. In addition, for the CAD project that contains the CAD image element, a separate priority multiplier value may be set project-wide for elements, l... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7275218 | Method, apparatus, and program for analyzing a prosthetic device A method for analyzing a prosthetic device includes the step of displaying a graphical user interface. The method further includes determining a user selected prosthetic device via the graphical user interface. The method also includes determining a first user selec... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7246085 | Electronic catalogue system, server, and medium for displaying on one screen images of a commercial product and articles for comparison An electronic catalogue system which, for easy sensory recognition of the size of a commercial product which is displayed in an electronic catalogue, displays on one screen the image of the commercial product together with the image of an article for comparison whic... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7228503 | Method for remote mask data jobview through a network A method for remote mask data jobview through a network featuring 24-hour service, reduced cycle time and lower cost, whereby customers can obtain real time mask data access instead of downloading entire pattern files. Expensive CAD/CAM software is unnecessary for t... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7222295 | Method and apparatus for conveying design information of computer aided design (CAD) models The invention includes computer instructions that detect a cursor in a proximity of a geometry piece of a mechanical design having multimedia associated with the geometry piece. Once the cursor is detected, the instructions automatically generate an icon associated ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7213207 | System and method for accessing registers of a hardware device in a graphical program A system and method for creating a graphical program which accesses registers of a hardware device. In one embodiment, a register access node or primitive may be included in a graphical program, such that when the graphical program is executed on the computer system... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7185287 | Wireless deployment / distributed execution of graphical programs to smart sensors System and method for deploying a graphical program to a device in a wireless manner. A graphical program (GP) is created that implements a measurement function. Some or all of the GP is transmitted to a measurement device via wireless means in accordance with a wir... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7130775 | Integrated building production information system An integrated building production information system including design CAD (computer-aided-design) based on software of building, structure, and equipment, and databases built in the outside separately from the design CAD, the databases making an integrated DB (share... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7127308 | Product design system and method A method of implementing an administration system for use with a computer aided design (CAD) system. The method includes generating multiple CAD objects using the CAD system, and generating multiple web objects. A set of object properties is defined for each of the ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7098933 | Acquiring and unacquiring alignment and extension points A method, apparatus, and an article of manufacture for acquiring and unacquiring data points of interest in a drawing program. Data points of interest are acquired after a display cursor is positioned over the data point of interest for an acquisition pause time. Th... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7099738 | CAM system and program, and method for controlling CAM system A Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) system enables high efficiency and high quality. The CAM system of this invention includes a unit that uses a computer aided design (CAD) model that is solid model data of a metal mold to be made and a measured work geometric mod... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7086014 | Automatic generation of application program interfaces, source code, interrupts, and datasheets for microcontroller programming A method to facilitate programming a microcontroller is disclosed. In one embodiment, after a user configures the circuit by selecting circuit parameters and pin-outs, various items are automatically generated to facilitate programming the microcontroller. The gener... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7069521 | Method and apparatus for exploring a multi-element design through user directed selective rendering An element selection is made in reference to a first graphical display showing a first subset of elements of a design having a number of elements coupled to one another. The selection is learned. In response, a second graphical display is provided. The second graphi... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7068282 | Coloration indicative of draft angles An object may be colored to indicate draft angles of a pull direction at various locations of the object. The coloration advantageously employs a color map specifying a color spectrum for a range of trigonometric values of the draft angles. ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7062495 | Design work assistance apparatus A design work assistance apparatus, comprising: a design work guidance means for guiding along with a process template, which represents processing steps of design work process by unit work processes in a sequence thereof; a design work history accumulation means | 06/13/2006 |
| 7055105 | Drop-enabled tabbed dialogs The mouse cursor is moved over the register of a register dialog once a drop-and-drag action has been initiated, then the register under the mouse cursor is automatically moved to the foreground after a variable time interval, and the contents can thus be seen. Proc... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7055107 | Method and system for automated selection of optimal communication network equipment model, position, and configuration A method for engineering management and planning for the design of a communications network in three dimensions (3-D) combines computerized organization, database fusion, and site-specific communication system performance prediction models. The method enables a desi... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7013247 | Method of designing forms of cable clamp and cables using three-dimensional CAD system, and computer readable storage medium storing relevant processes A method of designing the form of a cable clamp and cables using a three-dimensional CAD system for easily designing the form of the cables passing through the cable clamp is disclosed. According to the method, the cable clamp is checked by comparing the area necess... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7010753 | Anticipating drop acceptance indication Permitting or prohibiting a drop is executed at the beginning of the drag-and-drop action initiated by the user, by mouse-clicking on the object to be dragged, for example. Thus, the drag-and-drop action is shown as a visual drop permission or prohibition in the rel... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7003362 | System and method for customized tape-out requests for integrated circuit manufacturing The present disclosure provides a system and method for a tape-out request. In one example, the method includes receiving initial information from a customer and loading a mask tooling template based on the initial information. A mask tooling form may be customized ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7003371 | Apparatus for processing electronic drawing data Disclosed are an apparatus and a method, which assist CAD data to be usable by supplier's own CAD and automatic programming tool no matter how a format of the CAD data from an orderer may be. Electronic drawing data Dx prepared in an orderer 11 is received in... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6985835 | Method and apparatus for edge correlation between design objects Computer implemented techniques for edge correlation between design objects in computer-aided design systems are provided. According to one embodiment, a source edge is exported from a source CAD system into a data representation in a global scene. The global scene ... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6980211 | Automatic schematic diagram generation using topology information A netlist of a schematic diagram is generated. The netlist indicates the connectivity of components through connection lines. A normal display mode is provided in which at least a portion of the components are presented on the display, and connection lines correspon... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6971063 | System, method, and apparatus for portable design, deployment, test, and optimization of a communication network A system and method which employ one or more portable hand held computers and one or more servers, allows a field engineer to complete the entire design, deployment, test, optimization, and maintenance cycle required to implement successful communications networks. ... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6968516 | LSI development support system Information on a plurality of IPs (intellectual properties) serving as LSI design assets is stored in a registered-IP database, from which IP-based operation manual data, specification data and design data are extracted, and each converted and synthesized according ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6968245 | Flexible recipe modeling and recipe cluster management system A flexible recipe modeling system and method is provided for improving the processing reliability of a fabrication process by customizing recipes processed by fabrication equipment including associated different chambers of a multi-chamber processing machine by allo... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6959421 | Quick click icons for workspace flow between views for major subsystems and views within a design tool A method and system for helping a user perform tasks in software. Graphic elements (e.g., icons) are rendered and displayed regardless of which task is being performed. An element can be either active or inactive; user selection of an element with the element active... | 10/25/2005 |
