Patents - 2003
Background estimation and segmentation based on range and color
Gaile Gordon, Michael Harville, John Woodfill and Trevor Darrell
U.S. Patent 6,661,918. December 2003
Module and method of making same
Ark-Chew Wong and Clark T.-C. Nguyen
U.S. Patent 6,667,558. December 2003
Method and system for resource scheduling composite multimedia objects
Minos Garofalakis, Yannis E. Ioannidis and Banu Ozden
U.S. Patent 6,665,732. December 2003
Method of operating a dual mode FET & logic circuit having negative differential resistance mode
Tsu-Jae King
U.S. Patent 6,664,601. December 2003
Apparatuses and methods for forming electronic assemblies
Jeffrey Jay Jacobsen, John Stephen Smith and Mark A. Hadley
U.S. Patent 6,665,044. December 2003
User interface for displaying document comparison information
Alexander Aiken
U.S. Patent 6,658,626. December 2003
Method and apparatus to reduce jitter in packet switched networks
Ayman Fawaz and Jean Walrand
U.S. Patent 6,654,374. November 2003
Method and apparatus for measuring performance in packet-switched networks
Jean Walrand, Brian Anthony Fuller, Ayman Said Fawaz, Fadi Abourjeily and Matthew Kenneth Siler
U.S. Patent 6,647,413. November 2003
Apparatus and method for a digital delay locked loop
Elad Alon and Scott Best
U.S. Patent 6,642,760. November 2003
Sense amplifier-based flip-flop with asynchronous set and reset
Wenyan Jia and Borivoje Nikolic
U.S. Patent 6,633,188. October 2003
Controlled cleaving process
Francois J. Henley and Nathan W. Cheung
U.S. Patent 6,632,724. October 2003
Patterning three dimensional structures
Calvin K. Li, N. Johan Knall, Michael A. Vyvoda, James M. Cleeves and Vivek Subramanian
U.S. Patent 6,627,530. September 2003
Micromechanical resonator device and micromechanical device utilizing same
John R. Clark and Clark T.-C. Nguyen
U.S. Patent 6,628,177. September 2003
Method of fabricating a non-floating body device with enhanced performance
Horng-Huei Tseng, Jyh-Chyurn Guo, Chenming Hu and Da-Chi Lin
U.S. Patent 6,627,515. September 2003
Thermal processing for three dimensional circuits
Vivek Subramanian, James M. Cleeves, N. Johan Knall, Calvin K. Li and Michael A. Vyvoda
U.S. Patent 6,624,011. September 2003
Methods and apparatus for fluidic self assembly
John Stephen Smith, Mark A. Hadley, Gordon S. W. Craig and Frank Lowe
U.S. Patent 6,623,579. September 2003
Performing multicast communication in computer networks by using overlay routing
Steven McCanne
U.S. Patent 6,611,872. August 2003
Method of fabricating epidermal abrasion device
Kyle S. Lebouitz and Albert P. Pisano
U.S. Patent 6,610,235. August 2003
Fluidic self-assembly of active antenna
John Stephen Smith
U.S. Patent 6,611,237. August 2003
Pixel integrated circuit
John Stephen Smith
U.S. Patent 6,606,079. August 2003
Apparatus and method for recommending to an individual selective information contained within a computer network
Kenneth Y. Goldberg
U.S. Patent 6,606,624. August 2003
Antifuse structure suitable for VLSI application
Guobiao Zhang, Chenming Hu and Steve S. Chiang
U.S. Patent 6,603,187. August 2003
Method and subsystem for processing signals utilizing a plurality of vibrating micromechanical devices
Clark T.-C. Nguyen
U.S. Patent 6,600,252. July 2003
CMOS compatible process for making a tunable negative differential resistance (NDR) device
Tsu-Jae King and David K. Y. Liu
U.S. Patent 6,596,617. July 2003
Transmission and reception of duobinary multilevel pulse-amplitude-modulated optical signals using finite-state machine-based encoder
Joseph Mardell Kahn and Keangpo Ho
U.S. Patent 6,592,274. July 2003
Method and apparatus for filtering signals in a subsystem including a power amplifier utilizing a bank of vibrating micromechanical apparatus
Clark T.-C. Nguyen
U.S. Patent 6,593,831. July 2003
Charge pump for negative differential resistance transistor
Tsu-Jae King
U.S. Patent 6,594,193. July 2003
Methods for creating elements of predetermined shape and apparatus using these elements
John Stephen Smith, Mark A. Hadley and Jay Tu
U.S. Patent 6,586,338. July 2003
Controlled cleaving process using pressurized fluid
Francois J. Henley and Nathan Cheung
U.S. Patent 6,582,999. June 2003
Multigate semiconductor device with vertical channel current and method of fabrication
James M. Cleeves and Vivek Subramanian
U.S. Patent 6,580,124. June 2003
Method and apparatus for generating a signal having at least one desired output frequency utilizing a bank of vibrating micromechanical devices
Clark T.-C. Nguyen
U.S. Patent 6,577,040. June 2003
Magnetic dipole antenna structure and method
Eli Yablonovitch, Laurent Declos and Sebastian Rowson
U.S. Patent 6,567,053. May 2003
Method for making a module including a microplatform
Ark-Chew Wong and Clark T.-C. Nguyen
U.S. Patent 6,569,754. May 2003
Negative differential resistance (NDR) element and memory with reduced soft error rate
Tsu-Jae King
U.S. Patent 6,567,292. May 2003
Metehod and apparatus for selecting at least one desired channel utilizing a bank of vibrating micromechanical apparatus
Clark T.-C. Nguyen
U.S. Patent 6,566,786. May 2003
System for interferometric distortion measurements that define an optical path
Jeffrey Bokor and Patrick Naulleau
U.S. Patent 6,559,952. May 2003
Silicon-on-silicon hybrid wafer assembly
Francois J. Henley and Nathan W. Cheung
U.S. Patent 6,558,802. May 2003
Negative differential resistance field effect transistor (NDR-FET) and circuits using the same
Tsu-Jae King
U.S. Patent 6,559,470. May 2003
Methods for transferring elements from a template to a substrate
Jeffrey Jay Jacobsen, Mark A. Hadley and John Stephen Smith
U.S. Patent 6,555,408. April 2003
Method and apparatus for inspecting reflection masks for defects
Jeffrey Bokor and Yun Lin
U.S. Patent 6,555,828. April 2003
Reduced-complexity sequence detection
Borivoje Nikolic, Leo Fu, Michael Leung, Vojin G. Oklobdzija and Richard Yamasaki
U.S. Patent 6,553,541. April 2003
Microfabricated surgical device for interventional procedures
Kirk Patrick Seward and Albert P. Pisano
U.S. Patent 6,547,803. April 2003
Gettering technique for wafers made using a controlled cleaving process
Francois J. Henley and Nathan W. Cheung
U.S. Patent 6,548,382. April 2003
Determining the spatio-temporal and kinematic parameters of a signal receiver and its clock by information fusion
Anant Sahai, Andrew Chou, Wallace Mann and Stefano Casadei
U.S. Patent 6,542,116. April 2003
Oscillator phase noise prediction
Alper Demir and Jaijeet Roychowdhury
U.S. Patent 6,529,859. March 2003
Vertical cavity apparatus with tunnel junction
Julien Boucart, Constance Chang-Hasnain, Michael Jansen, Rashit Nabiev and Wupen Yuen
U.S. Patent 6,535,541. March 2003
Method for fabricating multi-layered substrates
Nathan W. Cheung, William G. En, Sharon N. Farrens and Mikhail Korolik
U.S. Patent 6,534,381. March 2003
Determining location information using sampled data containing location-determining signals and noise
Anant Sahai, John Tsitsiklis, Benjamin Van Roy, Andrew Chou, Wallace Mann, Jesse Robert Stone and Wungkum Fong
U.S. Patent 6,535,163. March 2003
Methods and apparatuses for improved flow in performing fluidic self assembly
John Stephen Smith, Mark A. Hadley, Gordon S. W. Craig and Paul F. Nealey
U.S. Patent 6,527,964. March 2003
Controlled cleavage process and device for patterned films
Francois J. Henley and Nathan Cheung
U.S. Patent 6,528,391. March 2003
System and method for analyzing forced and unforced oscillators
Onuttom Narayan and Jaijeet Roychowdhury
U.S. Patent 6,518,742. February 2003
Micromachined optomechanical switches
Ming C. Wu, Li Fan and Anis Husain
U.S. Patent 6,526,198. February 2003
Efficient processing of quadtree data
Jelena Kovacevic, Martin Vetterli and Laurent Lorenzo Balmelli-Quadranti
U.S. Patent 6,526,176. February 2003
Delay spread estimation for multipath fading channels
Ahmad Reza Bahai and Kumud Kumar Sanwal
U.S. Patent 6,522,706. February 2003
High performance PD SOI tunneling-biased MOSFET
Kuo-Nan Yang, Yi-Ling Chan, You-Lin Chu, Hou-Yu Chen, Fu-Liang Yang and Chenming Hu
U.S. Patent 6,518,105. February 2003
Grating fabrication process using combined crystalline-dependent and crystalline-independent etching
Lilac Muller, Kenneth Edmund Arnett, Larry Fabiny and Kristofer Stefan Josef Pister
U.S. Patent 6,517,734. February 2003
Dual mode FET & logic circuit having negative differential resistance mode
Tsu-Jae King
U.S. Patent 6,518,589. February 2003
Low cost three-dimensional memory array
Mark G. Johnson, Thomas H. Lee, Vivek Subramanian, P. Michael Farmwald and N. Johan Knall
U.S. Patent 6,515,888. February 2003
Signal acquisition using data bit information
Anant Sahai, Wallace Mann, Andrew Chou and Benjamin Van Roy
U.S. Patent 6,512,479. January 2003
Controlled cleavage process using pressurized fluid
Francois J. Henley and Nathan Cheung
U.S. Patent 6,511,899. January 2003
CMOS-process compatible, tunable NDR (negative differential resistance) device and method of operating same
Tsu-Jae King and David K. Y. Liu
U.S. Patent 6,512,274. January 2003