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  • Semiconductor memory device
    Patent number: 8068372
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes: a repair node; a fuse one side of which is coupled to the repair node; a pull-down unit configured to selectively transfer a ground voltage to the repair node; a pull-up unit configured to selectively transfer a driving voltage to another side of the fuse; and a voltage drop unit coupled between the pull-up unit and the fuse and configured to lower a voltage level of the driving voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventor: Tae-Sig Chang
  • Authenticating a signal based on an unknown component thereof
    Patent number: 8068534
    Abstract: Authentication of a signal, signalA, that is provided as having been received from a source at a first global location by comparing it to a signal that is received from the source at a second global location, signalB, where signalB contains an unknown signal that is unique to the source, and determining that signalA contains the same unknown signal that is contained in signalB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Inventors: Peter Levin, David S. De Lorenzo, Per K. Enge, Sherman C. Lo
  • Receiver with means for ensuring bona fide of received signals
    Patent number: 8068054
    Abstract: A receiver that receives a plurality of signals that are modulated with a common carrier, where each signal of said signals originates at a different source and experiences a transit delay and Doppler frequency shift before reaching the receiver, and where the transit delay and Doppler frequency shift are related to position and movement of each of the respective sources. The receiver includes means, such as a directional antenna, to ensure that the received signals are bona fide, or at least not subject to the same bogus signal or signals to which a second receiver may be subjected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Zanio, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Levin, David S. De Lorenzo, Per K. Enge, Sherman C. Lo
  • Preparation-at-use device comprising pre-formed hydrogel product
    Patent number: 8066117
    Abstract: Disclosed is a preparation-at-use device comprising: (1) a pre-formed hydrogel component packaged in a first compartment; the pre-formed hydrogel component comprising a gelling agent and a solvent; and (2) a benefit component packaged in a second compartment; the benefit component comprising at least one compound that is unstable when contacted with the pre-formed hydrogel component; wherein the first and second compartments are separately packaged prior to use, and wherein the device comprises means for contacting the pre-formed hydrogel component and benefit component upon use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Akihiro Ueda, Koishiro Masuda, Kimio Tamiya, Haruhiko Kajimoto, Masahiko Ishimoto
  • Integrated circuit
    Patent number: 8067969
    Abstract: An integrated circuit includes a pull-up compensation path unit configured to adjust a pull-up driving power of an input signal; a pull-down compensation path unit configured to adjust a pull-down driving power of the input signal; and a path control unit configured to route the input signal to one of the pull-up compensation unit and the pull-down compensation unit in response to a conditional signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventor: Woo-Hyun Seo
  • System and method for precise, accurate and stable optical timing information definition
    Patent number: 8068743
    Abstract: An optoelectronic timing system includes an adaptive frequency generator system in which optical pulses are developed by a semiconductor laser. The pulses are directed into a number of time-quantifiable optical paths. Time quantification for a pulse is based upon the time required for a pulse to travel a particular length at the speed of light. Pulses are recombined at a nodal point and exhibit a numerical relationship with the periodicity of the issued pulse train equal to the numerical relationship between the lengths of the number of optical waveguides. A pulse detector and a regenerator are coupled to the semiconductor laser. A regeneration waveguide having a length equal to the longest of the optical paths is coupled to receive pulses from the laser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: LightTime, LLC
    Inventor: James P. Siepmann
  • Process for conducting an organic reaction in ionic liquids
    Patent number: 8067644
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes processes for producing cyclohexenes using Lewis acidic ionic liquids comprising the steps of providing to a reactor an ?,?-unsaturated carbonyl dienophile, providing to the reactor a 1,3-diene, providing a Lewis acidic ionic liquid to the reactor; and reacting the ?,?-unsaturated carbonyl dienophile with 1,3-diene to form a substituted cyclohexene product. The ?,?-unsaturated carbonyl dienophile can be mesityl oxide, the 1,3-diene can be piperylene; and the Lewis acidic ionic liquid can be AlCl3:[C2mim]Cl; AlCl3:[C8mim]Cl; or mixtures thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Daniel Martin Bourgeois, Gregory Scot Miracle, Phillip John Porter, Eva Boros, Kenneth Richard Seddon, Harambage Quintus Nimal Gunaratne
  • Testing an integrated circuit having configurable input/output terminals
    Patent number: 8065570
    Abstract: Testing an integrated circuit (IC) having numerous terminals coupled to numerous digitally controlled impedance (DCI) modules, where the numerous DCI modules control configurable impedances of the numerous terminals. The IC further includes a control circuit having outputs coupled to enable inputs of the numerous DCI modules, where operating the IC in a test mode configures the control circuit to selectively couple a control signal to the enable terminals of the numerous DCI modules. One DCI module of the numerous DCI modules can be enabled at a time facilitating testing of the configurable impedances of the I/O terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Xilinx, Inc.
    Inventors: Tuyet Ngoc Simmons, Madan Mohan Patra
  • Method of fabricating transistor for semiconductor device
    Patent number: 8062948
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a transistor in a semiconductor device includes forming a gate structure over a substrate, forming a first trench by etching the substrate on either side of the gate structure to a first depth, ion-implanting dopants of a first conductivity type to form a source/drain region in the substrate on the side of the gate structure with the first trench, etching the substrate on the side of the gate structure with the first trench to a second depth larger than the first depth to form a second trench, and growing an epitaxial layer within the second trench.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventor: Min-Jung Shin
  • System and method for closed loop gyroscope stabilization
    Patent number: 8061226
    Abstract: A device for use with a gyroscopic stabilizer for use in an assembly that is moveably connected to a vehicle. The gyroscopic stabilizer has a gyroscope, a skew motor, and a skew motor velocity servo-control system. The gyroscopic stabilizer can control a skew of the assembly based on a torque signal to maintain the assembly in an intended position. The skew motor velocity servo-control system can control the skew motor. The skew motor can move the gyroscope. The gyroscope can provide the torque signal. The device comprises an assembly position determining system, a detector, a state estimator and an output portion. The assembly position determining system can generate an assembly position signal based on one of a position of the assembly, a position of the gyroscopic stabilizer, a position of the gyroscope, a position of the skew motor and a position of the skew motor velocity servo-control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: KVH Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Ahmed Zaki
  • Separation of chlorosilanes
    Patent number: 8062483
    Abstract: Crude chlorosilane streams containing lower-boiling chlorosilanes and higher-boiling chlorosilanes are separated by contacting them with a distillation aid. The lower-boiling chlorosilanes are separated from the crude chlorosilane stream, and then the distillation aid and the higher-boiling chlorosilanes are separated from one another. The distillation aid is a mono-cyano-substituted organic compound, a nitro-substituted organic compound, a mono-cyano-substituted organosilicon compound, a nitro-substituted organosilicon compound, or a mixture thereof. These distillation aids increase the relative volatility of crude chlorosilane streams such as methyltrichlorosilane and dimethyldichlorosilane resulting in improved separation at lower capital and/or fixed costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Dow Corning Corporation
    Inventors: David Clay Miller, Jonathan David Wineland, Ora L. Flaningam
  • Reducing susceptibility of circuit designs to single event upsets
    Patent number: 8065644
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of reducing susceptibility of a circuit design to single event upsets can include determining a susceptibility level of the circuit design to single event upsets, comparing the susceptibility level with a target susceptibility, and selectively applying a mitigation technique to at least one of a plurality of regions of the circuit design when the susceptibility level of the circuit design exceeds the target susceptibility. The circuit design including the mitigated region can be output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Xilinx, Inc.
    Inventors: Neil G. Jacobson, John D. Corbett
  • Interference cancellation for wireless communication
    Patent number: 8064496
    Abstract: Interference in a wireless communication is minimized, or at least reduced, by scaling the symbols received from an interfering transmitter. Input samples from the interfering transmitter are isolated and decovered to generate received symbols. The gains of the received symbols are scaled to reduce the interference and the scaled symbols are covered to produce output samples that are spread to generate interference cancelled samples with reduced interference from the interfering transmitter. The function applied to scale the symbols may be linear or nonlinear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Thomas B. Wilborn, Brian Clarke Banister
  • Boron containing functionalizing agent
    Patent number: 8063152
    Abstract: The present invention relates to functionalizing agents that are particularly useful for functionalizing living rubbery polymers to make the polymer more compatible with fillers, such as carbon black and silica. These functionalizing agents are comprised of a boron containing compound having a structural formula selected from the group consisting of: wherein R is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen atoms, alkyl groups and aryl groups, wherein R1, R2, and R3 can be the same or different and are selected from the group consisting of alkyl groups, and aryl groups, and wherein R4 represents an alkylene group or a bridging aromatic group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Robert Alan Woloszynek, Stephan Rodewald
  • Method for reducing oil fouling in heat transfer equipment
    Patent number: 8062504
    Abstract: A method of reducing asphaltene and particulate induced fouling during the thermal processing of petroleum oils utilizes resin extracts from HSDP crude oils to disperse and solubilize asphaltenes and disperse inorganic particulate contaminants such as salts and iron oxide. The extracts are essentially maltene fractions which may be separated from the HSDP crude by a process of extraction from a precipitated asphalt fraction using light paraffinic solvents such as n-heptane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research & Engineering Company
    Inventors: Chris A Wright, Glen B. Brons
  • Isolation verification for implementing modular redundancy within programmable integrated circuits
    Patent number: 8065642
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of verifying isolation of a plurality of instances of a redundant module of a circuit design that is implemented within a single, programmable integrated circuit can include counting component failures needed to establish a connection between at least two different ones of the plurality of instances of the redundant module. The method can include determining whether each instance of the redundant module is isolated from each other instance of the redundant module according to the counting of component failures, and outputting an indication whether each of the plurality of instances of the redundant module is isolated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Xilinx, Inc.
    Inventor: John D. Corbett
  • Quick release mask bracket
    Patent number: 8061570
    Abstract: An assembly for securing an apparatus to a facemask includes a U-shaped frame extending along similarly shaped portions of the facemask. Removable attachment clips secure the frame to the facemask. Two cylindrical pins with circumferential radiused grooves are attached to and extend from the top portion of the frame. The pins mate with bores in a clevis assembly, to which the apparatus can be attached. A spring-loaded bar spans between the bores. The bores in the clevis assembly receive the pins and the spring-bias causes the bar to engage with the grooves to secure the clevis assembly to the frame. A lever is rotatably attached to the clevis assembly. Pivoting the lever works against the spring-bias to lift the bar out of the grooves, disengaging the pins, and allowing the clevis assembly to be disengaged from the frame and facemask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Charles G. Holmes, Dennis G. Gallagher, William D. Olstad, William W. Hughes, III, Charles M. Edmondson, II
  • Surface ornamentation for a container
    Patent number: D649044
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Doug Sovonick, Rob Anthony
  • Overcap
    Patent number: D649051
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Murphy Greene Mongeon, Ian Andrew Carnduff, Akina Kurihara
  • Container lid
    Patent number: D649052
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Murphy Greene Mongeon, Ian Andrew Carnduff, Akina Kurihara