| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7408802 |
Nano-contacted magnetic memory device |
August 5, 2008 |
| A magnetic memory device includes a plurality of transistors (316, 317) formed on a substrate and a common magnetic memory block (312) including a multiple effective magnetoresistive elements (318, 319), a ferromagnetic recording (312), a non-magnetic space (232), and a free magnetic |
| 7405466 |
Method of fabricating microelectromechanical system structures |
July 29, 2008 |
| A method of simultaneously bonding components, comprising the following steps. At least first, second and third components are provided and comprise: at least one glass component; and at least one conductive or semiconductive material component. The order of stacking of the component |
| 7405002 |
Coated water-soluble nanoparticles comprising semiconductor core and silica coating |
July 29, 2008 |
| Nanoparticles and methods of making nanoparticles are provided. The nanoparticles may include semiconductor nanocrystals. A shell may encapsulate a nanoparticle core, and the shell may include non-organic material and may be silica. The shell may also include additional species such |
| 7397090 |
Gate electrode architecture for improved work function tuning and method of manufacture |
July 8, 2008 |
| A method of forming gate electrodes having different work functions includes forming a first well of a first conductivity type and a second well of a second conductivity type. Subsequently, a gate dielectric layer is deposited over the first and second wells. A multi-layer stack comp |
| 7395256 |
Method and platform for term extraction from large collection of documents |
July 1, 2008 |
| A method and platform for statistically extracting terms from large sets of documents is described. An importance vector is determined for each document in the set of documents based on importance values for words in each document. A binary document classification tree is formed by c |
| 7388201 |
Radiation detector having coated nanostructure and method |
June 17, 2008 |
| A radiation detector has an electron emitter that includes a coated nanostructure on a support. The nanostructure can include a plurality of nanoneedles. A nanoneedle is a shaft tapering from a base portion toward a tip portion. The tip portion has a diameter between about 1 nm to about |
| 7381629 |
Method of forming through-wafer interconnects for vertical wafer level packaging |
June 3, 2008 |
| A substrate having target transfer regions thereon is provided. A sacrificial wafer is coated with a polymer layer with low adhesion to metals. A conductive layer is coated on the polymer layer and covered with a photoresist layer which is patterned to provide openings to the conduct |
| 7369098 |
Compact multi-tiered plate antenna arrays |
May 6, 2008 |
| An antenna array having a plurality of array elements is disclosed. The antenna array comprises a first array element (204A) having a first suspended radiator (207A) and a first ground conductor (206A), the first suspended radiator being displaced from the first ground conductor. The |
| 7357898 |
Microfluidics packages and methods of using same |
April 15, 2008 |
| Microfluidics packages and methods of use are described, comprising in one embodiment a substrate having a top surface and means to lower pressure on the top surface; a fluidics card having a bottom surface and means to allow fluids to traverse through the card; and a polymeric barrier f |
| 7356106 |
Clock and data recovery circuit |
April 8, 2008 |
| A clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit comprises a phase detector (PD) and a quadrature phase (QP) detector. A frequency detector (FD) is coupled to the PD and QP detector. The FD detects frequency difference between the output signals of the PD and QP detector and provides an FD ou |
| 7349614 |
VLSI-photonic heterogeneous integration by wafer bonding |
March 25, 2008 |
| A new method to form a VLSI-photonic heterogeneous system device is achieved. The method comprises providing an optical substrate comprising at least one passive optical component formed therein. An electronic substrate is provided comprising at least one active electronic component |
| 7346491 |
Method of text similarity measurement |
March 18, 2008 |
| In one aspect, the present invention provides a for estimating the similarity between at least two portions of text including the steps of forming a set of syntactic tuples, each tuple including at least two terms and a relation betweeen the two terms; classifying the relation betwee |
| 7343095 |
Optical interleaver |
March 11, 2008 |
| An optical interleaver comprising a first optical 3.times.3 coupler for receiving a broadband optical signal at one input port thereof, a second 3.times.3 optical coupler, three differential delay lines connected in parallel port-to-port between output ports of the first optical 3.times. |
| 7341847 |
Promoter construct for gene expression in neuronal cells |
March 11, 2008 |
| The invention relates to a chimeric promoter construct useful for neuronal cell specific gene expression. The invention provides a recombinant nucleic acid molecule that comprises a neuronal cell specific promoter such as platelet-derived growth factor .beta.-chain promoter, operably |
| 7341728 |
Internalisation of virus into cells |
March 11, 2008 |
| A chimeric transmembrane protein which promotes viral entry into cells comprises: (i) an extracellular domain capable of binding a virus; and (ii) an intracellular internalisation signal. |
| 7335990 |
Process of forming a composite diffusion barrier in copper/organic low-k damascene technology |
February 26, 2008 |
| A semiconductor device, having a composite barrier layer, comprising the following. A substrate has a dielectric layer formed thereover and having an opening within the dielectric layer. The opening exposes a first portion of the substrate. A composite barrier layer lines the opening. |
| 7335984 |
Microfluidics chips and methods of using same |
February 26, 2008 |
| Microfluidics chips and methods of use are described, comprising a pair of wafers, at least one having a patterned surface, and two polymeric barrier films between the wafers conforming to the patterned surface. The polymeric barrier films allow the wafers of the inventive microfluidics |
| 7335606 |
Silicide formed from ternary metal alloy films |
February 26, 2008 |
| A NiSi layer over silicon that is thermally stable and can form even in the presence of oxides. The method of fabricating the nickel silicide layer includes providing a substrate comprising silicon, depositing a layer of at least a 3-component metal alloy comprising nickel on a surfa |
| 7332971 |
Multi-gigabit/s transimpedance amplifier for optical networks |
February 19, 2008 |
| A Gigabit/s transimpedance amplifier system includes a forward-path amplifier section with a very large bandwidth and an overall frequency-selective feedback section which is active only from DC to low frequencies. The forward-path of the amplifier comprises a regulated cascode for r |
| 7326629 |
Method of stacking thin substrates by transfer bonding |
February 5, 2008 |
| This invention describes a method of stacking, bonding, and electrically interconnecting a plurality of thin integrated circuit wafers to form an interconnected stack of integrated circuit layers. The first integrated circuit layer is formed by conventional processing on a silicon wafer |
| 7316816 |
Temperature and pH sensitive copolymers |
January 8, 2008 |
| The invention is directed to a copolymer comprising at least three types of monomeric units, said three types of monomeric units comprising: a temperature-sensitive unit, a hydrophilic unit, and a hydrophobic unit comprising at least one pH-sensitive moiety; wherein said hydrophobic |
| 7315866 |
Method for incremental authentication of documents |
January 1, 2008 |
| A method of protecting an electronic document, the method comprising dividing an original document into data blocks; generating a corresponding hash value for each data block; generating a corresponding hash value for a group of data blocks (GOB); generating a hash tree structure bas |
| 7310265 |
Magnetic memory device |
December 18, 2007 |
| A memory cell (310) for a magnetic memory device (300) includes a free layer (311), a cap layer, an antiferromagnetic layer, and a synthetic antiferromagnetic layer which comprises two or more than two ferromagnetic layers that are antiferromagnetically coupled through non-magnetic s |
| 7309814 |
Nucleic acid molecules encoding bacterial autoinducer inactivation protein as targets for engine |
December 18, 2007 |
| The present invention relates to isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding a bacterial autoinactivation protein and methods for increasing disease resistance and preventing or reducing bacterial damage in plants and animals. The nucleic acid that encodes the bacterial autoinducer inac |
| 7309757 |
Polymers for the delivery of bioactive agents and methods of their preparation |
December 18, 2007 |
| Provided is a poly(amino ester) having a polymer backbone comprising at least one secondary amine linkage and at least one tertiary amine linkage in the polymer backbone. Poly(amino ester)s are prepared via the Michael addition of a bis(acrylate ester)monomer to a diamine monomer, wherei |
| 7303883 |
Diagnosis of parasites |
December 4, 2007 |
| Detection of Plasmodium ssp. by analysis of extrachromosomal DNA. It has been found that the molecular composition, physical arrangements, and nucleotide sequences of the extrachromosomal plastid-like element and mitochondrial element are highly conserved in different Plasmodium ssp. |
| 7298018 |
PLT/PZT ferroelectric structure |
November 20, 2007 |
| An electrically stable PbLa.sub.0.5TiO.sub.3/PbZr.sub.0.52Ti.sub.0.48O.sub.3 (PLT/PZT) ferroelectric structure may fabricated using precursor solutions formed using a simple sol-gel process. The PLT/PZT ferroelectric structure may be extended to a PLT/PZT/PLT ferroelectric capacitor |
| 7294890 |
Fully salicided (FUSA) MOSFET structure |
November 13, 2007 |
| A method is described to form a MOSFET with a fully silicided gate electrode and fully silicided, raised S/D elements that are nearly coplanar to allow a wider process margin when forming contacts to silicided regions. An insulator block layer is formed over STI regions and a conform |
| 7286024 |
Voltage-controlled oscillator with differential output |
October 23, 2007 |
| A voltage-controlled oscillator for generating differential output is disclosed. The voltage-controlled oscillator comprises a Colpitts oscillator having a first inductor and a capacitive divider having at least two capacitors connected in series. A varactor is connected in series wi |
| 7271879 |
Decoupled planar positioning system |
September 18, 2007 |
| A planar positioning system having a rigid base, and first and second linear actuator means mounted to the rigid base, the first and second linear actuator means being arranged orthogonal to one another. A rigid reference surface (2A, 2B) is mounted to the base, (1) and a moveable pl |
| 7269395 |
Envelope detection circuit for low power communication systems |
September 11, 2007 |
| An envelope detection circuit includes a signal rectifier, first and second capacitors, and first, second and third transistors. The signal rectifier includes an input port coupled to receive a modulated input signal, and an output port. The first capacitor has a first port coupled t |
| 7266225 |
Face direction estimation using a single gray-level image |
September 4, 2007 |
| A method, apparatus, and computer program product for estimating face direction using a single gray-level image (110, 150) of a face are described. Given the single image (110, 150), a face direction can be determined by computing a nose axis (140, 180) maximising a correlation measu |
| 7260055 |
Method for reducing channel estimation error in an OFDM system |
August 21, 2007 |
| A method for channel response estimation for an OFDM communication system based on a certain normal training symbols plus one virtual training symbol begins with receiving at least one preamble symbol of a transmitted data frame. A first channel state information is estimated from th |
| 7248773 |
Method to trim and smooth high index contrast waveguide structures |
July 24, 2007 |
| Formation, through etching, of structures whose minimum width is less than can be achieved by optical means alone has been achieved by inserting a layer of sandwiching material between the photoresist (or hard mask if used) and the structure. By adjustment of the relative etch rates of t |
| 7244674 |
Process of forming a composite diffusion barrier in copper/organic low-k damascene technology |
July 17, 2007 |
| A method of forming a composite barrier layer comprising the following steps. A substrate having a dielectric layer formed thereover is provided. An opening exposing a first portion of the substrate is formed within the dielectric layer. A dielectric flash layer is formed within the |
| 7236617 |
Method and device for determining a total minutiae template from a plurality of partial minutiae |
June 26, 2007 |
| A reference minutiae template comprising reference minutiae and a first partial minutiae template, which overlaps the reference minutiae template, the first partial minutiae template comprising first minutiae, are selected. The reference minutiae of the reference minutiae template ar |
| 7235712 |
Bacterial isolates of the genus Klebiella, and an isomaltulose synthase gene isolated therefrom |
June 26, 2007 |
| Two strains of a novel bacterial species, Klebsiella singaporensis LX3 and LX21, are claimed. A nucleotide sequence (kis) encoding a novel form of isomaltulose synthase, KIS, is also claimed. Also claimed is a method for production of isomaltulose in a plant, which method comprises intro |
| 7233782 |
Method of generating an authentication |
June 19, 2007 |
| A method of generating an authentication for updating a mobile communications device's 40 location to a second communications device 60 is disclosed herein. The mobile communications device 40 is registered to a home network 30 comprising a proxy server but roams to a foreign network |
| 7231047 |
Private retrieval of digital objects |
June 12, 2007 |
| A database (104) maintains one or more groups (106) of digital objects (202). A user (102) wishes to retrieve one or more digital objects (202) from the database (104), without the database (104) being able to determine which particular digital objects (202) have been retrieved. In a |
| 7230318 |
RF and MMIC stackable micro-modules |
June 12, 2007 |
| A new method to form shielded vias with microstrip ground plane in the manufacture of an integrated circuit device is achieved. The method comprises, first, providing a substrate. The substrate is etched through to form holes for planned shielded vias with microstrip ground plane. A |
| 7223623 |
Method for forming a modified semiconductor having a plurality of band gaps |
May 29, 2007 |
| A method for forming a modified semiconductor having a number of band gaps involves providing a semiconductor having a surface and a quantum region which emits photons in response to electrical or optical stimulation, the quantum region having an original band gap and being disposed unde |
| 7221924 |
Wideband monolithic tunable high-Q notch filter for image rejection in RF application |
May 22, 2007 |
| A notch filter with a high Q factor, which is integrated with a first and a second cascoded LNA, is totally contained on an integrated chip. The notch filter, comprising two Q-enhancement circuits, is coupled to the second differential LNA. The two Q-enhancement circuits are combined to |
| 7218808 |
Equalizer circuit for a light source |
May 15, 2007 |
| An optical equalizer circuit for a light source, the optical equalizer circuit comprising M optical couplers linked by differential delay lines, wherein coupling ratios for the respective M optical couplers of the equalizer circuit are calculated based on an input signal from the light |
| 7208806 |
Micromachined electromechanical device |
April 24, 2007 |
| A method for fabricating a MEMS device comprises providing a substrate having a back side, a front side opposite to the back side and a periphery portion. A desired microstructure is formed on the back side of the substrate. The substrate is then supported for rotation. A precursor s |
| 7208204 |
Thin film magnetic recording media |
April 24, 2007 |
| A method and apparatus for forming a thin film magnetic recording media, the method comprises generating magnetic nanoclusters from a target of magnetic material, crystallizing the magnetic nanoclusters, and depositing the magnetic nanoclusters onto a substrate to form a thin film of |
| 7208096 |
Method of cleaving GaN/sapphire for forming laser mirror facets |
April 24, 2007 |
| A laser device has a substrate and at least one GaN-based layer upon a first surface of the substrate, and the laser device is cleaved by cutting linear grooves into a second surface of the substrate such that the grooves are in alignment with vertical planes of the substrate. The su |
| 7205452 |
Control of bacterial infection by quenching quorum-sensing of plant pathogenic bacteria |
April 17, 2007 |
| Transgenic plants having resistance against bacterial soft rot diseases, harboring the bacterial autoinducer inactivation gene encoding (AiiA) protein, and methods for protecting plants from bacterial pathogens by transforming the plants with the aiiA gene are disclosed. |
| 7205387 |
Recombinant polypeptide useful for neurotrophin receptor mediated gene delivery and as neurotrop |
April 17, 2007 |
| The invention provides a novel recombinant polypeptide that comprises a nucleic acid binding element and a hairpin motif that selectively binds to a neurotrophin receptor. The recombinant polypeptide may be used for neurotrophin receptor mediated delivery of nucleic acid, including t |
| 7203387 |
VLSI-photonic heterogeneous integration by wafer bonding |
April 10, 2007 |
| A new method to form a VLSI-photonic heterogeneous system device is achieved. The method comprises providing an optical substrate comprising at least one passive optical component formed therein. An electronic substrate is provided comprising at least one active electronic component |
| 7193983 |
Path diversity equalization CDMA downlink receiver |
March 20, 2007 |
| A code division multiple access downlink receiver for providing wireless communication via a wireless channel between a base station and a mobile station in which the receiver is implemented. The receiver comprises a plurality of subchannels of which each conveys at least one signal |
