Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Intellectual Property Law Group
  • Spread spectrum clock generator
    Patent number: 8160193
    Abstract: A delay-type phase adjusting circuit including a first variable delay circuit for receiving a reference clock signal and adding a delay to the reference clock signal, for output a phase comparator for receiving an output of the first variable delay circuit and the reference clock signal and detecting a phase difference therebetween a control circuit for generating a control signal for variably controlling a delay value of the first variable delay circuit based on a result of phase comparison by said phase comparator a second variable delay circuit for receiving an input signal and adding a delay to the input signal, for output a computation circuit for receiving a predetermined value and the control signal and variably controlling a delay value of the second variable delay circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Satoshi Yoneda
  • Method and system for storing memory compressed data onto memory compressed disks
    Patent number: 8161206
    Abstract: In a computer system supporting memory compression and wherein data is stored on a disk in a different compressed format, and wherein an IOA (input/output adaptor)/IOP (input/output processor) selectively reads from and writes to a main memory through a direct memory access (DMA) operation, a method for transmitting compressed data from the IOA/IOP to the main memory includes reserving a set of free memory sectors to contain the data in said main memory, sending to the IOA/IOP addresses of said memory sectors, copying the data from the IOA/IOP to said memory sectors using said DMA operation, constructing at the IOA/IOP compressed memory directory information defining how and where the data is stored in memory, sending the memory directory information to a memory controller, and storing the memory directory information in the compressed memory directory structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Caroline Benveniste, Vittorio Castelli, Peter A. Franaszek
  • Electrical connector with a lug rotationally coupled to a base having an aperture for mounting to a base board
    Patent number: 8152573
    Abstract: An electrical connector with a base and a lug rotationally coupled to the base with a bolt having an integral compression washer. The lug and the base have complementary gear faces. A set screw in the lug has a threaded shaft and a head with a projecting hexagonal configuration. The lug can be rotated so as to receive a relatively large gauge wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Rotational Lug Technologies
    Inventors: David Bauer, Ron Farber
  • Magnetic material antenna and ferrite sintered body
    Patent number: 8154464
    Abstract: A magnetic material antenna using a ferrite sintered body comprising one or more conductors disposed at least on a surface or in internal portion of the ferrite sintered body, wherein the ferrite sintered body is a sintered body of Y-type ferrite containing BaO, CoO, and Fe2O3 as main components and wherein the ferrite sintered body contains Cu and, in a cross section for the sintered body, an area rate of a cubic Co-rich phase, which has a ration of an amount of Co being higher than a Y-type ferrite phase being a mother phase, is 1% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Gonda, Shigeo Fujii, Hiroyuki Aoyama
  • Reduction in load of image transmission
    Patent number: 8154596
    Abstract: An image transmitting method is disclosed for reducing the load on a CPU of an image transmission apparatus. An image change monitoring unit provided in the image transmission apparatus monitors the latest image used to generate image data transmitted to an image reception apparatus via a network, and a subsequent image to determine whether or not the latest image has changed. An image capture unit captures the image after the image has changed to acquire the image when the image change monitoring unit determines that the latest image has changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: NEC Viewtechnology, Ltd
    Inventor: Eisaku Ishii
  • Roulette apparatus and roulette gaming machine
    Patent number: 8152170
    Abstract: A roulette apparatus includes: a roulette wheel having a rolling region where a ball rolls; and a ball reception member provided contiguously to the rolling region to receive the ball. The ball reception member includes: a plurality of reception portions that receives the ball in one of the reception portions; and a plurality of separation walls that separates the reception portions from one another, wherein the ball reception member is formed separately from the roulette wheel and removably attached to the roulette wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Yokota, Katsuhiro Kido, Yoshitomo Sasaki
  • Data line drive circuit and method for driving data lines
    Patent number: 8154501
    Abstract: A data line drive circuit includes a plurality of output circuits and a plurality of switch portions. The plurality of output circuits outputs voltages corresponding to grayscale voltages with respect to display data. The plurality of switch portions becomes an ON-state in response to a line output signal and connects the plurality of output circuits and a plurality of data lines, respectively. ON-resistance values of at least part of the plurality of switch portions vary in the ON-state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Junya Yokota
  • Device for guiding powdery fluidic media
    Patent number: 8147213
    Abstract: A device for guiding powdery fluidic media, in particular powder paint, including a receptacle which is provided with an inner chamber for the media which is to be guided, and from where the medium is suctioned via a connection channel which can be closed by a valve body. The connection channel and the valve body comprise, respectively, an upper end area formed in such a manner that an annular Venturi nozzle is formed therebetween which is used as a pump. The valve body is inserted in a sealed manner in the end region of the connecting channel by a sealing section when in the closed position thereof and comprises a conveyor gas channel which can impinged upon by conveyor gas, through which the conveyor gas can be guided to the connection channel in the vicinity of the sealing section, essentially, in the direction of flow of the medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Eisenmann AG
    Inventors: Erwin Hihn, Apostolos Katefidis
  • AC light emitting diode and AC LED drive methods and apparatus
    Patent number: 8148905
    Abstract: An AC LED package and circuits are disclosed along with an AC LED driver. The AC LED circuit may include as few as one LED or an array of anti-parallel LEDs driven with AC power sources and AC LED drivers at various voltages and frequencies. The AC LEDs are pre-packaged in various forms and materials and designed for mains or high frequency coupling in various forms to AC power sources, inverter type drivers or packages. The AC LED driver is a fixed frequency driver that provides a relatively constant voltage output to different size loads within the wattage limitation of the driver and in some cases is a direct mains power source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Lynk Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Miskin, James Anderson
  • Semiconductor device with plate-shaped component
    Patent number: 8143716
    Abstract: The invention provides a semiconductor device including a plurality of stacked semiconductor chips, which offers a higher degree of freedom in selecting a chip size of the semiconductor chip and arranging the routing, and increase of the reliability and speed in signal transmission between the semiconductor chips. The semiconductor device includes a lower semiconductor chip, an upper semiconductor chip and a silicon spacer formed between the lower semiconductor chip and the upper semiconductor chip and including a projecting portion projecting farther outward than an outer periphery of the upper semiconductor chip, and the silicon spacer includes through electrodes and reroutings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Masaya Kawano, Nobuaki Takahashi
  • Method and apparatus for compensating infrared sensor for temperature
    Patent number: 8143574
    Abstract: To improve the precision of temperature compensation in an infrared sensor and obtain a sharp image, a correction is applied to a variation in output voltage (referred to as “background infrared radiation absorption intensity distribution” below) due to intensity distribution of background infrared radiation, which is light other than the incident infrared radiation on the infrared sensor, and the temperature characteristic of each individual bolometer constituting the infrared sensor. That is, the temperature of the infrared sensor is measured as a first temperature, a correction value for the output voltage of each bolometer is found by referring to a table, which indicates the background infrared radiation absorption intensity distribution versus the temperature of the infrared sensor, as well as the first temperature, and the variation in output voltage is corrected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Tsutomu Endo
  • Method and system for demand and supply map/shopping path model graphical platform and supplying offers based on purchase intentions
    Patent number: 8145544
    Abstract: Methods and systems allowing a consumer to use a graphical tool that summarizes, compares and browses multiple offers for products or services over a network or communications medium such as via the Internet. In specific embodiments, potential purchasers can make declarations to buy, which sellers can use to generate improved and customized offers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Inventor: Guilherme N. Leal
  • Method and system for tone inverting of residual layer tolerant imprint lithography
    Patent number: 8137997
    Abstract: A system for imprint lithography, which includes a substrate, a patterned mask, an imprint applying unit that imprints, via the patterned mask, a pattern into a resist layer on the substrate, and an overlay device that overlays a cladding layer over the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machine Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew E. Colburn, Theodore G. van Kessel, Yves C. Martin, Dirk Pfeiffer
  • Analyzing large data sets using a computer system
    Patent number: 8139833
    Abstract: A method and/or system for making determinations regarding samples from biologic sources. A computer implemented method and/or system can be used to automate parts of the analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Inventor: Boris Fain
  • System and method for managing computer operations according to stored user preferences
    Patent number: 8140979
    Abstract: A system and method for managing computer operations according to stored user preferences is disclosed. The system includes a calendar module for scheduling an event and centrally storing the user preferences regarding the computer operations during the event, and a controller module for retrieving the user preferences centrally stored in the calendar module and centrally controlling the computer operations according to the user preferences during the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yefim Shuf, Alex Zlatsin, Dimitri Kanevsky, Genady Grabarnik
  • Test management system and method
    Patent number: 8141097
    Abstract: An execution management method includes providing an execution plan, balancing an execution load across a plurality of servers, automatically interpreting the execution plan, and re-driving a failed test to another of the plurality of servers if the test case fails on an originally selected available server. The execution plan includes a plurality of test cases and criteria corresponding to the test cases. More than one of the plurality of test cases may be run on each of the plurality of servers at a same time in parallel. Each of the plurality of servers is run independently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Stefan Alexander, Jason F. Basler, Neeta Garimella, Clemens Kalbfuss, Dale Mark Mock, Frank Albert Mueller
  • Method and system for causal modeling and outlier detection
    Patent number: 8140301
    Abstract: A method (and system) for causal modeling includes modeling a data set. The modeling includes estimating a reverse Bayesian forest for the data set and detecting outliers in a separate data set. Detecting the outliers includes applying the reverse Bayesian forest to the separate data set to obtain a probability value assigned to data points in the separate data set and identifying outliers in the separate data set by evaluating the probability value given by the reverse Bayesian forest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Abe, David L. Jensen, Srujana Merugu, Justin Wai-Chow Wong
  • Antenna insulator for mobile telephone edges
    Patent number: D656134
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: ZAGG Intellectual Property Holding Co., Inc
    Inventors: Jordan Melville, Alex Buckalew
  • Pedometer
    Patent number: D657702
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Ariel Premium Supply, Inc.
    Inventor: Kwok Keung Au Yeung
  • Spotlight
    Patent number: D657901
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Flying Dragon Development Limited
    Inventor: Daniel Cheung Shing Hei