Abstract: If you know the name of a film star or a sports person then it is easy to find information about them. But suppose you don't know the name of the person you are trying to find. Suppose all that you know is that he is a singer who is homosexual and was knighted. My invention is a web search engine and you can submit a query to it such as: Occupation=“Singer”, Sex=“Male”, Sexuality=“Homosexual” and Honors=“Knighted”. In my invention I maintain a database of people, entities, things, places i.e. any proper noun. Each proper noun has a list of attributes such as Sex, Occupation, Education and hundreds of other attributes. This database is fed by many sources such as parsing web pages obtained by a web crawler, a human being entering the data manually, loading names from a telephone book, reading from the social security database etc. The database can be searched by the public and maintained by contributions or advertising revenue. The web search page can also serve as a gateway to other web search engines, i.e.

Abstract: This invention is a method of extracting a semiconductor device compact model by using knowledge of the equations used inside the compact model. Starting by fitting a small subset of the model parameters, the remaining model parameters are fitted and as each new subset of model parameters are fitted, the previously fitted model parameters are adjusted to compensate for the changes introduced due to the currently optimized parameters. This invention details the method of making these adjustments.

Abstract: This invention describes a new method of supplying a moving automobile with electricity. Electrodes placed beneath the automobile pass over electrodes embedded in the roadway. The capacitance between the electrodes beneath the car and the electrodes embedded in the roadway closes the circuit and high voltage pulses or a high voltage sinusoidal signal is transferred from the electrodes in the roadway to the electrodes beneath the car. This power is used to charge the car batteries. Hence the charging occurs while the automobile is in motion so that the automobile can travel from city to city without ever stopping.

Abstract: In this invention a fluorescent lamp is described containing semiconductor laser diodes used to ionize the gases inside the lamp. This avoids the need for a high voltage to cause the gases to ionize sufficiently that current can flow through the lamp. If configured correctly, the use of Mercury vapor to initiate breakdown of the gases can be avoided. Also by regulating the light output of the laser the current flowing through the lamp can be regulated thus avoiding the need for a ballast.

Abstract: This invention describes a low cost method for electrical and electronic appliances to communicate with a master control appliance (such as a computer). It has often been said that very soon all appliances will be connected to the internet. However this is economically infeasible at this time. The minimum cost of adding ethernet connectivity to an appliance is approximately $100. For an appliance that costs less than $100 (and there are many) this is obviously infeasible. This invention describes a method which can be implemented for less than $2 and will meet the needs of an appliance to communicate with a master control appliance (such as a computer).