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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7589962 | Apparatus for cooling a heat dissipating device located within a portable computer An apparatus for cooling a heat generating component located within a portable computer system enclosure. In one embodiment a flat heat pipe is attached to the bottom surface of the portable computer keyboard support plate. The flat heat pipe is thermally coupled to... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7426420 | System for dispatching semiconductors lots A system for dispatching a plurality of semiconductor lots among a plurality of tools is provided. The system includes a dispatch server manager and a dispatch integrator and display device. The dispatch integrator and display device conveys a dispatch request to th... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7424343 | Method and apparatus for load reduction in an electric power system A system for load control in an electrical power system is described, wherein one or more data interface devices are provided to a cooling system. The data interface devices are configured to receive commands for controlling the cooling system. A remote monitoring s... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7400940 | Method and apparatus for generating a volatilized liquid A programmable aerosol generator forms a volatilized liquid by supplying a material in liquid form to a flow passage and heating the flow passage, such that the material volatilizes and expands out of an outlet of the channel. The volatilized material, if desired, m... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7392713 | Monitoring system for turbomachinery A sensing system for monitoring a property of an electrically conductive moving element of turbomachinery. The sensing system includes a sensing system housing. A magnetic core is contained within the sensing system housing. A coil is positioned about at least a por... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7392104 | Material reservation distribution system and method The present invention relates to a system and methodology facilitating material-driven processing in an industrial controller environment. Various models supported by database objects are provided to automatically and dynamically map inventory systems/processes to c... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7392100 | System and methodology that facilitate factory automation services in a distributed industrial automation environment The present invention relates to a system and methodology providing automation services in a distributed industrial controller environment. In one aspect of the present invention, a data access service is provided that includes, sending and receiving data to and fro... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7388968 | Method and device for length measurement of packaging webs The present invention concerns a method and a device for absolute measurement of a print repeat length and/or at least one package length of a moving packaging web (1) in line with a printing machine. Normally the print repeat length and one package length ar... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7386358 | Available to promise allocation optimization tool A distributed, network-based system, method, and computer program product determines an optimal allocation of available to promise components in a supply chain. An aggregate demand request is generated by a demand entity intelligent agent. The aggregate demand reque... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7379782 | System and method of monitoring and quantifying performance of an automated manufacturing facility The present invention is directed to a method and system for identifying, quantifying and presenting to a user constraints in an automated manufacturing or processing facility. A data processing system continuously receives basic status signals and state signals fro... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379781 | Constraint based order optimization system and available to promise system A computer system which uses customer-based business rules that are customized for each customer. These business rules, along with order information, are provided to a linear programming engine. The linear programming engine determines the priority of customer order... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376491 | Detection of islanding in power grids A method for detecting islanding conditions in an electrical grid having a power line voltage includes monitoring a detectable signal different from the power line voltage at a generating station, superimposing the detectable signal onto the power line voltage at a ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7373215 | Transistor gate shape metrology using multiple data sources The claimed subject matter can provide a mechanism for ascertaining a variety of metrological data relating to one or more features (e.g., a transistor gate) of a chip/wafer. In addition, results of electrical testing on the chip/wafer can also be gathered and, toge... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373212 | Allocating products using classifications of orders for the products A method and device for planning a production includes determining material flows of products that are part of the production. This determination is done by allocating available quantities of a product for covering demanded quantities of the product in time. An allo... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373222 | Decentralized energy demand management A decentralized load management and control system and method are provided herein. A plurality of loads in a system are associated with a multitude of respective networked load controllers. If energy demand exceeds optimum limits in operation then the networked load... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373221 | Energy consumption monitoring A system for analysing energy usage on a network, such as an electricity network (4) which includes a number of energy sources (1, 2, 3) and a number of energy consumers (6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12) the system including a plurality of meters (5,9 | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373216 | Method and apparatus for verifying a site-dependent wafer The present invention includes a method of verifying a Site-Dependent (S-D) wafer that includes receiving a first set of S-D wafers by one or more S-D processing elements in one or more processing subsystems, creating a first set of unverified S-D wafers by performi... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369917 | System and method for automatic sorting of elements in drawing specifications for efficient tracing using motion control System and method for utilizing a drawing specification for motion control. A plurality of elements in a drawing specification may be automatically identified. The elements may include one or more lines, polygons, arcs, splines, alphanumeric characters, and/or ellip... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369909 | Producing three-dimensional objects from deformable material Three-dimensional objects are produced from a deformable material received substantially continuously in the direction of production and the objects are produced by a deforming process substantially in the direction of production. Rotatable devices are arranged to d... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369916 | Drill press A power tool control system connected with a drill press provides a system for determining operational settings for the drill press and/or structural factors of a workpiece to be operated upon by the drill press. For instance, the power tool control system may estab... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369908 | Method for manufacturing product formed with a plurality of parts and method for combining parts A parts-combining method having high quality or yield for a product having a large number of parts. First entering an identification number group of nondefective completed products, a table of a product identification number group and a parts identification number g... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369910 | Method for the optimizing of a production process The present invention relates to methods for optimizing a production process having starting products, intermediate products and at least one final product. The present invention also relates to a digital storage medium and a computer program product that can be use... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366582 | Method for defining status index in copper electrolysis The invention is a method for controlling an electrolytic process and plant, utilizing history data collected in the process as well as mathematical and heuristic models created on the basis of empirical knowledge, and by means of said models, there are defined inde... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363112 | Digital moisture monitor controller with wide applications soil, and hydroponics moisture sensors, and optional X10 multi-sensor, multi-pump controller Utilizing the latest microprocessor technology, the digital moisture monitor controller along with its wide applications alternating current conduction moisture sensors and optional X10 multi sensor multi pump controller, controls moisture levels in all soils and al... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363099 | Integrated circuit metrology Sites to be measured on a device that is to be fabricated using at least one fabrication process, are selected based on a pattern-dependent model of the process. A metrology tool to measure a parameter of a semiconductor device includes a control element to select s... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363098 | Method to identify machines causing excursion in semiconductor manufacturing The present invention discloses a method that recognizes and uses the grouping patterns of process material by different machines at different process steps to identify potential problem machines causing the excursion in semiconductor manufacturing. The excursion co... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363159 | Method of determining resistivity and/or dielectric values of an earth formation as a function of position within the earth formation A technique of estimating electrical parameters of an earth formation accounts for spatial inhomogeneities and frequency dispersion. The results are achieved using a model which is evaluated to generate predicted values for a plurality of electrical signals measured... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359775 | Method and apparatus for information transfer in vehicle service systems A vehicle service system having a vehicle service computer which is configured for communication with at least one on-board vehicle computer of a vehicle undergoing a vehicle service procedure via a vehicle fault tolerant communication bus, to retrieve or access inf... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359762 | Measurement and alignment device including a display system A graphical user interface communicatively coupled with a non-contact measurement and alignment device enables user control over and display of the readings from the non-contact measurement and alignment device. In operation with a power tool, the graphical user int... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356377 | System, method, and medium for monitoring performance of an advanced process control system A method for monitoring performance of an advanced process control system for at least one process output includes calculating a variance of a prediction error for a processing performance and/or a probability for violating specification limits of the processing per... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356385 | End-user electrical load controller An end-user load controller that can be used in an electrical energy supply system for controlling electrical energy to an end-user load is disclosed. The controller periodically evaluates whether the load should be on or off based on comparisons of load-operating i... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356386 | Method for reducing instantaneous current on startup A method for reducing instantaneous current on startup is applicable to an electronic device with a management controller. The management controller is electrically connected to a startup processing module of the electronic device such that operations of fans equipp... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356379 | Method and associated system for recording and retrieving fabrication and/or fitting data associated with a prosthetic component A method of socket design and fabrication for Below-the-Knee (BK) amputees that utilizes manual measurements. This method, known as BK by Measurement, utilizes a manual measurement procedure where predetermined points are identified and measurements are taken of a p... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356376 | Work when ready load balancing using critical dates A method of balancing workload using critical dates and including the following steps: (a) assigning a promised delivery date to orders received from customers; (b) identifying one or more tasks associated with each of the orders; (c) assigning an expedited date or ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356380 | Process control method A methodology for doing process control by using a heating apparatus comprising heating zones is revealed. First, a target CD (critical dimension) map is assigned. A baseline CD map corresponding to a substrate processed with the heating apparatus at a baseline sett... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356378 | Method and system for smart vehicle route selection In one aspect a factory automation system for a wafer fab is provided. The factory automation system comprises: a manufacturing execution system (“MES”) for providing lot information; a material control system (“MCS”) for providing dynamic traffic informatio... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353071 | Method and apparatus for authoring and playing back lighting sequences Systems and methods for authoring and playing back lighting programs that include a plurality of lighting sequences for controlling a plurality of lights. One aspect stores the lighting program in a data format that represents a final data stream capable of directly... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353078 | Semiconductor wafer processing apparatus and method for processing batch of wafers having variable number of wafer lots Disclosed is a semiconductor processing apparatus for processing batches of wafers with variable numbers of wafer lots. The apparatus includes an operator interface server adapted to receive batch information for a track-in operation, an equipment management server ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353072 | Method for interpreting design data and associating manufacturing information with the data and software and systems for implementing the method A method of generating a manufacturing process for producing an assembly and a computer system or systems implementing the method. The method generally includes the steps of: designing at least one assembly to be produced having at least two components to be engaged... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353085 | Electrolyzer cell stack system As an electrochemical cell stack gets older the internal resistances within the stack rise overtime as the materials that the stack is made of degrade. Consequently, an old and “worn” electrochemical cell stack draws less current at the same stack voltage and op... | 04/01/2008 |
