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  • Particulate matter sensor with an insulating air gap
    Patent number: 8161796
    Abstract: An electrode assembly for a particulate matter sensor in a gas environment. The electrode assembly includes an insulating tube, a conductor, and a positioning structure. The insulating tube has an outer surface and defines an interior cavity with an interior surface. The conductor is disposed within the interior cavity of the insulating tube. The conductor is electrically coupled to an electrode at a first end of the insulating tube and includes a contact portion at a second end of the insulating tube for connection to an external conductor. The positioning structure is coupled to the conductor. The positioning structure mechanically supports the conductor at a distance from the interior surface of the insulating tube to at least partially define an air dielectric gap at approximately a heater location corresponding to a heater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: EmiSense Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Balakrishnan G. Nair, Brett Tamatea Henderson
  • Absorbent article having colored regions
    Patent number: 8162910
    Abstract: An absorbent article having colored regions. The absorbent article has at least three colored regions. The colored regions are spaced apart from one another. Each colored region has a major axis. The major axis of each colored region converges towards a common focal region on the longitudinal centerline of the absorbent article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Naomi Ruth Nelson
  • Semiconductor memory device with ferroelectric device and refresh method thereof
    Patent number: 8164941
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device with a ferroelectric device comprises a channel region, a drain region and a source region formed in a substrate, a ferroelectric layer formed over the channel region, and a word line formed over the ferroelectric layer. A different channel resistance is induced to the channel region depending on a polarity state of the ferroelectric layer, a data read operation is performed by a cell sensing current value differentiated depending on the polarity state of the ferroelectric layer while a read voltage is applied to the word line and a sensing bias voltage is applied to one of the drain region and the source region, and a data write operation is performed by a polarity of the ferroelectric layer changed depending on a voltage applied to the word line, the drain region and the source region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventors: Hee Bok Kang, Suk Kyoung Hong
  • Box cutter and method
    Patent number: 8161854
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for cutting boxes. The box cutter has a rectangular work area defined by the upper run of an oblique-roller conveyor belt selectively driven forward or reverse in coordination with the actuation and deactuation of the obliquely rotatable belt rollers. Cutting tools along the sides of the work area cut into the side panels of the boxes as they are translated without rotation in a rectangular path against guide surfaces on the periphery of the work area by the sequential reversing of the conveyor belt direction and the actuation and deactuation of the box-supporting rollers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Laitram, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Matthew L. Fourney
  • Magnetoresistive memory cell using floating body effect, memory device having the same, and method of operating the memory device
    Patent number: 8159871
    Abstract: A magnetoresistive memory cell includes an MTJ device and a select transistor. The select transistor includes a first conduction-type semiconductor layer, a gate electrode formed by disposing a gate insulating layer on top of the semiconductor layer, and first and second diffusion regions formed in the semiconductor layer to be spaced apart from each other and to have a second conduction type. A part of the semiconductor layer between the first and second diffusion regions is formed as an electrically floating body region. By using a high-performance select transistor with a floating body effect, high integration of a magnetoresistive memory device may be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventor: Sung Woong Chung
  • Achieving power savings through packet grouping
    Patent number: 8160000
    Abstract: Power savings may be achieved in a packet-switched system by grouping packets. For example, packets may be queued while a portion of the system is in a suspended state. In some embodiments, power savings are provided in a wireless system to increase talk time. Here, packets may be queued while one or more components such as a radio of the wireless device are in a suspended state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Srinivasan Balasubramanian
  • Throwing disc
    Patent number: 8157607
    Abstract: A throwing disc includes an elliptical, continuous, flexible frame which changes shape during flight. The flexible frame defines a central opening through the thickness thereof. The flexible frame has an arched shape with a height that changes during flight and which defines a three dimensional cavity situated at the bottom side of the frame to provide lift to the throwing disc during flight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Inventors: William Cowles, William DiMotta
  • Method for forming active pillar of vertical channel transistor
    Patent number: 8158529
    Abstract: A method for forming an active pillar of a vertical channel transistor includes forming a hard mask pattern on a substrate, etching vertically the substrate using the hard mask pattern as an etch barrier to form an active pillar, and etching horizontally to remove by-product remaining on the exposed substrate, the hard mask pattern and the active pillar and at the same time to reduce line width of the hard mask pattern and the active pillar, wherein a unit cycle in which the vertical etching and the horizontal etching are each performed subsequently once, respectively, is performed repeatedly at least two times or more. According to the present invention, an active pillar having vertical profiles on its sidewalls and having height and line width (or diameter) required in a highly integrated vertical channel transistor can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventor: Myung-Ok Kim
  • Method and apparatus for multi-port arbitration using multiple time slots
    Patent number: 8161249
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a programmable device that has an interface and command ports that can each receive commands, each command requesting an information transfer through the interface. A technique relating to the device involves: selecting during field programming a number of priority definitions; configuring each of the priority definitions during field programming to specify an order of priority for a group of the command ports; and using the priority definitions in succession and, for each of the priority definitions, causing a command to be accepted from the command port of highest priority that contains a command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Xilinx, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Elkins, Thomas H. Strader, Wayne E. Wennekamp, Schuyler E. Shimanek
  • Self-clearing conveyor transfer system and transfer plate
    Patent number: 8157083
    Abstract: A self-clearing conveyor transfer system for transferring articles between two mutually perpendicular conveyor belts. One version of the transfer system includes a finger transfer plate with fingers at one end extending into the end of a raised-rib belt and powered rollers at the opposite end rotating about axes perpendicular to the fingers. A second conveyor belt perpendicular to the raised-rib belt advances parallel to the roller axes. Articles transfer from one belt to the other across the finger transfer plate. Because the rollers are powered, straggling articles are not stranded on the transfer plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Laitran, L.L.C.
    Inventor: David W. Bogle
  • Multi-transmitter interferometry
    Patent number: 8159387
    Abstract: Systems and methods for obtaining target elevation information are disclosed. The systems and methods use multiple vertical transmitters and one or more receivers to infer changes in the elevation plane and the height of objects. Changes in elevation and heights of objects are inferred from path length differences between the transmitters and a particular backscattering point. Using known geometric information regarding the configuration of the transmitters, propagation time differences can be estimated via time delay estimation methods in either the time or frequency domain. Appropriate modulation schemes are used such that the multiple signals transmitted are separable upon reception.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Jose Fernandez, Richard Rikoski, John Stroud
  • Confocal imaging methods and apparatus
    Patent number: 8158926
    Abstract: The invention provides imaging apparatus and methods useful for obtaining a high resolution image of a sample at rapid scan rates. A rectangular detector array having a horizontal dimension that is longer than the vertical dimension can be used along with imaging optics positioned to direct a rectangular image of a portion of a sample to the rectangular detector array. A scanning device can be configured to scan the sample in a scan-axis dimension, wherein the vertical dimension for the rectangular detector array and the shorter of the two rectangular dimensions for the image are in the scan-axis dimension, and wherein the vertical dimension for the rectangular detector array is short enough to achieve confocality in a single axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Illumina, Inc.
    Inventors: Wenyi Feng, Theofilos Kotseroglou, Mark Wang, Alexander Triener, Diping Che, Robert Kain
  • Inhibiting unwanted photography and video recording
    Patent number: 8157396
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system are disclosed. The apparatus includes a shaft operable to be held by an entity and a housing extending from one end of the shaft and operable to allow multiple deterrents to be emitted there from. The housing includes a rotation member coupled to a rim portion of the housing and operable to rotate along a track portion within the rim portion. The apparatus further includes a transparent material coupled to the rotation member and operable to allow a deterrent to travel there through. The housing includes a light source coupled to the transparent material and operable to emit a light. Further, the apparatus includes a swivel meshed between the shaft and the housing and operable to allow the housing oscillate in an angular direction. Each deterrent is operable to obscure an image of the entity captured by filming equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Inventors: Wilbert Leon Smith, Jr., Keelo Lamance Jackson
  • Method, system, and program product for assigning device identifiers
    Patent number: 8161146
    Abstract: Method, system, and program product for assigning device identifiers. A device requests a device identifier from a server. The server obtains the device identifier, marks a status of the device identifier as pending, and sends it to the device. The device sends an acknowledgment back to the server. The server then marks the status of the device identifier as in use and sends a confirmation to the device. The device starts to use the device identifier after receiving the confirmation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Frank P. Baldiga, Micah M. Cross
  • Data operations across parallel non-volatile input/output devices
    Patent number: 8161212
    Abstract: An embodiment of a system for implementing parallel usage of a plurality of non-volatile input/output (I/O) devices can include an interface configured to receive, from a source, a source request and a first memory coupled to the interface. The first memory can be configured to store a data unit specified by the source request. The system can include an I/O device controller coupled to the interface. The I/O device controller can be configured to correlate the source request with a plurality of I/O device requests and initiate sending of the plurality of I/O device requests to the plurality of non-volatile I/O devices in parallel. The system also can include a decoder coupled to the first memory and the I/O device controller. The decoder can be configured to receive data from the plurality of non-volatile I/O devices in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Xilinx, Inc.
    Inventors: Ting Lu, Kam-Wing Li, Bradley L. Taylor
  • Nonvolatile memory device and method of testing the same
    Patent number: 8159892
    Abstract: A nonvolatile memory device includes a storage unit configured to store pattern data selected based on a test command set, and a control unit configured to consecutively perform a program operation on a number of pages in response to the pattern data to obtain programmed pages, consecutively perform a read operation on the programmed pages, and provide information about a bit line coupled to a fail memory cell and about a number of fail bit lines checked as a result of the read operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventor: Tai Kyu Kang
  • Process for preparing dynamically vulcanized alloys
    Patent number: 8158721
    Abstract: This invention relates to processes for the preparation of a dynamically vulcanized alloy comprising at least one isobutylene-containing elastomer and at least one thermoplastic resin. More specifically, the processes produce dynamically vulcanized alloys with unique morphological features which have good impermeability and low temperature flexibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: William G. Stevenson, Joseph M. DeLucia, Michael K. Lyon, Jianya Cheng
  • Visible light transporter
    Patent number: 8157404
    Abstract: A visible light transporter (1) having a carrier (25) for holding a plurality of lighting devices (L1 through L4). The lighting devices frequently employed as road flares emit a light usually concentrated into a horizontal light beam (HB) and pulsing. Carrier (25) has body 9 constructed of a light transmitting resin which permits light from the held lighting devices to be transmitted with attenuation through body 9 of the carrier. Carrier (25) also includes openings (01 through 04) which permit lighting devices (L1 through L4) to be removeably installed in pockets (S1 through S4) provided for holding the lighting devices. Openings also permit some light to pass unattenuated exterior to carrier (25).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Inventor: Kevin F McDermott
  • Package with surface ornamentation
    Patent number: D658069
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: PUR Water Purification Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Clancy Gerald Boyer, Frank Delmar Macaulay
  • Personal care product with indicia
    Patent number: D658070
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Tracey Anne Lanz