| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| RE35859 |
Interface system for a television receiver |
July 28, 1998 |
| An interface system for a television receiver includes an interface connector having a plurality contacts connected to various component circuits in the television receiver. In order to provide various functions for the television receiver, the interface system includes various circuit |
| D445099 |
User-interface for a multi-channel digital video recorder |
July 17, 2001 |
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| D444777 |
Speakerphone module for video conferencing system |
July 10, 2001 |
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| D435912 |
Light treatment device |
January 2, 2001 |
|
| D434747 |
Speakerphone module for video conferencing system |
December 5, 2000 |
|
| D429028 |
Hair dryer with sensor |
August 1, 2000 |
|
| D424087 |
Pendant mounted surveillance camera housing |
May 2, 2000 |
|
| D412569 |
Aromatherapy device |
August 3, 1999 |
|
| D411646 |
Accessory attachment for hair dryer |
June 29, 1999 |
|
| D409938 |
Sound selector |
May 18, 1999 |
|
| D384328 |
Adaptor |
September 30, 1997 |
|
| D383755 |
Combined environmental sound machine and digital alarm clock |
September 16, 1997 |
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| D383566 |
Dry shaver |
September 9, 1997 |
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| D382854 |
Adaptor |
August 26, 1997 |
|
| D381627 |
Adaptor |
July 29, 1997 |
|
| D381624 |
Converter |
July 29, 1997 |
|
| D381410 |
Decorative environmental aroma machine |
July 22, 1997 |
|
| D381019 |
Environmental sound machine |
July 15, 1997 |
|
| D380538 |
Decorative environmental aroma machine |
July 1, 1997 |
|
| D380258 |
Basic environmental aroma machine |
June 24, 1997 |
|
| D379619 |
Adaptor |
June 3, 1997 |
|
| D379458 |
Combined enviromental sound machine, night light and picture frame |
May 27, 1997 |
|
| D378001 |
Garment steamer |
February 11, 1997 |
|
| D378000 |
Garment steamer |
February 11, 1997 |
|
| D356033 |
Package for an electric lamp |
March 7, 1995 |
|
| 6579462 |
Plasma addressed liquid crystal display with glass spacers |
June 17, 2003 |
| A flat display device, preferably of the PALC type, in which the plasma channels are formed by etching laterally-spaced slots in a spacer plate, attaching a thin dielectric sheet over the etched spacer plate, and bonding the etched spacer plate to a transparent substrate such that each |
| 6569757 |
Methods for forming co-axial interconnect lines in a CMOS process for high speed applications |
May 27, 2003 |
| A method of forming a co-axial interconnect line in a dielectric layer is provided. The method includes defining a trench in the dielectric layer and then forming a shield metallization layer within the trench. After forming the shield metallization layer, a conformal oxide layer is |
| 6438364 |
Radio frequency device with fast charging of an input capacitance |
August 20, 2002 |
| A radio frequency device has an input transistor from which a capacitance is seen, and a fast charging circuit for charging the capacitance. The input transistor receives a radio frequency signal. The capacitance is quickly charged when the device is switched from off to on and/or from l |
| 6433471 |
Plasma addressed liquid crystal display with glass spacers |
August 13, 2002 |
| A flat display device, preferably of the PALC type, in which the plasma channels are formed by etching laterally-spaced slots in a spacer plate, attaching a thin dielectric sheet over the etched spacer plate, and bonding the etched spacer plate to a transparent substrate such that each |
| 6424567 |
Fast reconfigurable programmable device |
July 23, 2002 |
| A programmable cell comprises an externally loadable electrically erasable (EE) transistor cell that is configured to be independent of the currently active state of the programmed cell. When all of the EE cells are loaded with a new configuration, the contents of all of the EE cells are |
| 6418477 |
Communication network |
July 9, 2002 |
| A communications network for transmitting at least one information packet between a source node and a destination node of the network. The network includes an information cluster transmittable between the source node and the destination node and for having attached thereto an information |
| 6407014 |
Method achieving higher inversion layer mobility in novel silicon carbide semiconductor devices |
June 18, 2002 |
| The invention provides a method for the production of high quality thermally grown oxide on top of silicon carbide. The high quality oxide is obtained by selectively removing the carbon from the silicon carbide in the areas where oxide formation is desired or required. The method inc |
| 6401155 |
Interrupt/software-controlled thread processing |
June 4, 2002 |
| Rapid thread processing is achieved by transferring complete thread contexts between a memory and a context register set. Each thread context is read from a respective memory location in response to either a designated interrupt or an instruction. |
| 6400127 |
Dual mode pulse-width modulator for power control applications |
June 4, 2002 |
| A dual-mode modular pulse-width-modulator capable of outputting low-speed and high-speed control signals is presented. In one mode, a control signal is generated based on timing parametric data stored in a memory. In a second mode, a control signal is generated based on timing parametric |
| 6400100 |
System and method for determining the frequency of longitudinal mode required for color mixing i |
June 4, 2002 |
| In a power source system, a method for providing color mixing in a high intensity discharge (HID) lamp comprises the steps of providing a swept frequency signal having a sweeping frequency ranging between a first lower frequency value and a second higher frequency value, within a specifi |
| 6393572 |
Sleepmode activation in a slave device |
May 21, 2002 |
| In a master-slave configuration wherein a sleepmode activation is effected by the cessation of a clocking signal, the need for an analog device or auxiliary clock for detecting the cessation of the clocking signal is obviated by anticipating the cessation of the clock signal. Upon an |
| 6389070 |
Device for indicating the received signal quality in a digital television receiver |
May 14, 2002 |
| A device for indicating the quality of a received digital broadcast video signal in a digital television receiver includes circuitry for determining the amount of multipath interference. The device generates a display graph indicative of the signal quality. Optionally, the device may als |
| 6388332 |
Integrated circuit power and ground routing |
May 14, 2002 |
| An integrated circuit includes a plurality of blocks of cells, and a plurality of layers with conductors for signal and power routing. Power and ground connections for individual cells are supplied by power and ground conductors in a first layer of conductors at the cell level. Power |
| 6384817 |
Apparatus for applying voltages to individual columns of pixels in a color electro-optic display |
May 7, 2002 |
| In an electro-optic display device, such as a liquid crystal display device which serves as a modulator for projected light, a global ramp generator is used in conjunction with track and hold circuits to convert incoming digital display signals to analog signals, and to address the indiv |
| 6376999 |
Electronic ballast employing a startup transient voltage suppression circuit |
April 23, 2002 |
| An LCD backlight inverter that comprises a power stage that includes a first power switch and a second power switch that powers one or more cold cathode fluorescent lamps. A controller generates control signals, receives an IC supply input signal having a voltage level equaling or ex |
| 6376991 |
Circuit assembly for inclusion within fluorescent lamp |
April 23, 2002 |
| A compact circuit assembly is provided for containment within the end of a circular fluorescent lamp envelope. The circuit assembly includes a plurality of circular circuit boards arranged along the length of the envelope end and having respective peripheries contacting an inner surface |
| 6374369 |
Stochastic performance analysis method and apparatus therefor |
April 16, 2002 |
| A programmable method for analyzing the performance of software using a combination of statistical sampling, hardware events and feedback, and a finite state machine execution model. Performance analysis code is integrated with the object code of the software it is analyzing and prof |
| 6374319 |
Flag-controlled arbitration of requesting agents |
April 16, 2002 |
| A method and an system are provided for servicing a plurality of agents requesting access to a bus. The agents are arranged in a hierarchical order of groups, each having first and second pairs of the agents. Within each group, flags are set to indicate which pair was last serviced and |
| 6373725 |
Reconfigurable converter for multiple-level input-line voltages |
April 16, 2002 |
| A switchable power converter includes an input section that receives an AC input voltage and rectifies the AC input voltage and a switchable converter section operative to receive the rectified AC input voltage and convert the rectified AC input voltage to an intermediate DC output v |
| 6373199 |
Reducing stress on ignitor circuitry for gaseous discharge lamps |
April 16, 2002 |
| Igniter circuitry for a gaseous discharge lamp includes an inductive igniting pulse generating circuit and a capacitive timing circuit. The pulse generating circuit includes a unidirectional voltage-sensitive switch which is electrically connected in series with a capacitor in the ti |
| 6373076 |
Passivated silicon carbide devices with low leakage current and method of fabricating |
April 16, 2002 |
| Semiconductor power devices with improved electrical characteristics are disclosed including rectifying contacts on a specially prepared semiconductor surface with little or no additional exposure to other chemical treatments, with oxide passivation and edge termination at a face of |
| 6370623 |
Multiport register file to accommodate data of differing lengths |
April 9, 2002 |
| A multiport register file includes a first file unit having registers of a first width and a second file unite having registers of a second width. The second width being less than the first width. The first file unit accommodates data destined to be operands for functional units of a VLI |
| 6368149 |
Insulating cover for dual connector |
April 9, 2002 |
| A ballast assembly facilitates alternative wiring configurations via the use of one or more dual-port connectors with corresponding insulating covers. The dual-port connectors provide a choice of wiring options, and the insulating cover provides the protection of the connector from the |
| 6362575 |
Voltage regulated electronic ballast for multiple discharge lamps |
March 26, 2002 |
| A method and apparatus for regulating the lamp output voltage in a multiple (parallel) discharge lamp fixture irrespective of the number of operating lamps and based upon monitoring of the lamp filament current. A modification thereof provides constant and equal currents in the discharge |
| 6362504 |
Contoured nonvolatile memory cell |
March 26, 2002 |
| A nonvolatile memory cell of the type having a single lateral transistor includes source and drain regions separated by a channel region. A floating gate is provided over at least the channel region and is separated therefrom by a gate oxide, with a control gate over the floating gat |
