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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8158014 | Multi-exposure lithography employing differentially sensitive photoresist layers A stack of a second photoresist having a second photosensitivity and a first photoresist having a first photosensitivity, which is greater than second photosensitivity, is formed on a substrate. A first pattern is formed in the first photoresist by a first exposure ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8128830 | Labeling an imprint lithography template Embodiments herein provide relatively permanent labeling of an imprint lithography template. The imprint lithography template generally has first and second sides, one side having a pattern to imprint a substrate and the other being optically smooth to unobstructabl... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8092704 | System, method and apparatus for fabricating a c-aperture or E-antenna plasmonic near field source for thermal assisted recording applications A method of fabricating a c-aperture or E-antenna plasmonic near field source for thermal assisted recording applications in hard disk drives is disclosed. A c-aperture or E-antenna is built for recording head applications. The technique employs e-beam lithography, ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8083957 | Decorative material, method for producing decorative material, and molded article Disclosed is a decorative material in which a metal layer (e.g., a radio-wave-transmitting metal layer) on a non-metallic-lustrous part can be removed readily and sufficiently even when the metal layer is formed partially by a process involving an etching treatment,... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8070967 | Method for manufacturing patterned magnetic recording medium A method for manufacturing a patterned magnetic recording medium that allows processing only required sites with high precision, in a dry etching process during formation of an uneven pattern in an interlayer. The method includes forming sequentially, on a substrate... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8066893 | Method for creating a magnetic write pole having a stepped perpendicular pole via CMP-assisted liftoff A method for manufacturing a magnetic write head having a stepped, recessed, high magnetic moment pole connected with a write pole. The stepped pole structure helps to channel magnetic flux to the write pole without leaking write field to the magnetic medium. This a... | 11/29/2011 |
| RE39716 | System and method for creating a controlling device A system and method for creating a controlling device. In response to a user specifying one or more operating criteria for the controlling device, the system selects executable instructions from a library of executable instructions and command code sets from a libra... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7209966 | Method and system for facilitating mediated communication A mediation system as disclosed herein is capable of performing a method for facilitating mediated communication. In at least one embodiment of the method for facilitating mediated communication, the method includes receiving a service selection from a mediation sub... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7200449 | Control system for plant and air-fuel ratio control system for internal combustion engine A control system for a plant, having an identifier and a controller. The identifier identifies model parameters of a controlled object model which is obtained by modeling the plant. The controller calculates a control input to the plant so that an output from the pl... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7139616 | Real-time alert mechanism for monitoring and controlling field assets via wireless and internet technologies An apparatus and system are disclosed for real-time monitoring and control of field assets. A monitoring device may be coupled to a field asset to determine the occurrence of one or more error conditions. Error conditions may be detected either as they occur or by t... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7133729 | Pattern-and model-based power line monitoring Power line monitoring is disclosed. The monitoring can be performed in conjunction with an automation system designed to control and monitor devices and sensors. Model-based power line monitoring uses a model of acceptable power line activity. Activity that does not... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7111048 | Using dynamic Web Components to automatically customize web pages Internet web pages displayed via an Internet web browser or other applications are automatically customized. Dynamic “Web Components” are used to automatically customize web pages. Further, these Web Components use the same script and HTML for all implementation... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7103422 | Safety network system A network master (M) having charge of an operation of a main device (L) and one or more network slaves (S1 to S3) each having charge of a safety determining device (A to C) for determining safety which is an operating permission condition of the main d... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7099730 | Terminal table unit A terminal table unit is associated with an output apparatus such as valves and solenoids and an input apparatus such as switches and includes not only a main body with a control device and a memory device but also a cassette with a memory medium that is detachably ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7099720 | Method for identifying a control path of a controlled system A method for identifying a control path of a controlled system, and more particularly to a method for identifying a control path in the presence of deterministic perturbations is described. At least one deterministic perturbation correcting signal is determined in a... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7096073 | Configurable controller A configurable controller, comprising a configurable digital unit having a synchronization control module; a plurality of signal acquisition modules connected with said synchronization control module for receiving reference control data therefrom; and a control logi... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7096075 | Apparatus, method and program for physical state controller For determination as to whether there is a possibility that temperature control satisfying conditions according to an upper limit LH_i and a lower limit LL_i of the annealing control temperatures of annealing object steel sections i will be realized under restrictio... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7096078 | Boolean logic function block A technique for configuring a Boolean logic function block displays a matrix associated with the Boolean logic function block on a display screen of a computer. A programmer may then enter configuration data into the matrix to configure the Boolean logic function bl... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7096074 | Methods and apparatus for early fault detection and alert generation in a process A method and apparatus for providing early fault detection and alert generation in a multi-parameter process is provided. The method comprises defining a multi-dimensional space, each dimension representing a parameter of the process; applying an analysis of the pro... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7092772 | Home automation system An improved home automation system that permits the user of the system to remotely control the operation of various devices including garage doors and powered entry gates. The system is packaged in a manner that “walks” the user through the initialization proces... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7092998 | Software architecture for wireless data and method of operation thereof A software architecture, data model, and access protocol to facilitate real time, session-based access to server-based data from low bandwidth wireless computing devices. ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7082340 | Parameterization and diagnostic system for field devices A system is described for the diagnosis and/or for the parameterization of devices forming sensors, actuators or controls and connected to a bus system, with device parameters being able to be read out of the device and/or being able to be transmitted into the devic... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7082339 | Home automation system An improved home automation system that permits the user of the system to remotely control the operation of various devices. The system is packaged in a manner that “walks” the user through the initialization process to thereby reduce or eliminate errors associa... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7076538 | Method and system for disguising a computer system's identity on a network A method and system are disclosed for substituting an anonymous Universal Unique Identifier (UUID) for a computer system's real UUID in order to disguise an identity of the computer system to an application which is requesting a UUID for the client computer system. ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7069105 | Process module for a handling station, handling station and procedure for the line-up of a handling station A process module for a processing station (18) for performing a predetermined function. The module comprises a controller (60) associated with a program control unit (76; 76′) to which a program for controlling the process module is supplied. ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7069158 | System and method for analyzing structures subjected to catastrophic events A computer-implemented system and method for analyzing a structure subjected to a catastrophic event. Based on linear elastic input data, the system automatically determines non-linear hysteretic behaviors. The nonlinear models are then analyzed through any one of a... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7062540 | System and method for remotely monitoring and managing applications across multiple domains A system (10) for enabling remote monitoring and management of one or more applications (42) within a domain (30) includes one or more computers (40) that execute one or more applications (42) being monitored and managed. The syste... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7062334 | Positioning control method, positioning control device, and electronic component mounting apparatus using same There are provided a positioning control method and a positioning control device, which enables high speed positioning with low power consumption without repeating two or more acceleration and deceleration operations during travel from an original position to a targ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7058457 | Hot water supply system A hot water supply system operated by linking plural water heaters. A system controller is provided in every specific number of water heaters for centralizing controls thereof. A host system controller is further provided in every specific number of the system contr... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058458 | Power controller A command transmission/reception section (4R), a power-control determination section (8) and a power control section (9) are provided in a controlled device (3) which is connected to a network (1) and which performs power control i... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058459 | Method and device for operating a decentralized control system A method of and a device for operating a decentralized control system, at least two control units are provided to control at least one actuating element each. In this control, different operating modes are to be differentiated, the selection of the respective operat... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7054711 | Unit for the production of track elements According to the invention, a unit (10) is proposed for the production of track elements (25), which comprises a plurality of clamping devices (14) arranged one after another in the longitudinal direction of the unit. Provided in the clamping de... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054945 | Technique for providing announcements in mobile-originated calls A technique for providing an announcement in a communications network includes setting up a first level communication session in a first network element of the network. A determination is then made that an announcement is to be played to the first network element. A... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7050865 | Control system for plant A control system for a plant is disclosed. According to this system, a model parameter vector of a controlled object model which is obtained by modeling the plant, is identified. A controller controls the plant using the identified model parameter vector. An identif... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7047090 | Method to obtain improved performance by automatic adjustment of computer system parameters A method for the automatic selection of computer system parameter values to improve system performance as workload on the system changes. Methods are disclosed for automatically making minor adjustments to computer system parameters and comparing long-term associate... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7047097 | High performance controller for shifting resonance in micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) devices Devices being controlled electronically via physical manipulation often display a resonance. In many circumstances, the frequency range of operation is not close to the resonance frequency. In these cases, the resonance can be removed through the use of simple compe... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7047089 | Kiln thermal and combustion control A method and apparatus for controlling a non-linear mill. A linear controller is provided having a linear gain k that is operable to receive inputs representing measured variables of the plant and predict on an output of the linear controller predicted control value... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7043310 | Device and process for operation of automation components The operation of automation components is to be configured conveniently. Consequently, use is made of generally available IT units, for example PDA or mobile radio telephones, as simple HMI (Human Machine Interface). In this case, the nearest automation component ca... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7043309 | Distributed actuation allocation for large assemblies of implementation units Apparatus and methods that approximately solve an actuation allocation problem by breaking the solution into modules, which may or may not be overlapping. The solution to the actuation allocation problem is expressed in terms of solutions for each of the modules. Th... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7039475 | System and method of adaptive control of processes with varying dynamics The present invention provides a method for controlling nonlinear process control problems. This method involves first utilizing modeling tools to identify variable inputs and controlled variables associated with the process, wherein at least one variable input is a... | 05/02/2006 |
