The following patents were issued to IBM inventors by the United States Patent Office.

United States
6,351,871	J. T. Butler, M. E. Cropp, D. W. DiAngelo, J. F. Harmuth, J. N. Humenik, J. U. Knickerbocker, D. S. MacKin, G. A. Pomerantz, K. G. Sachdev, D. E. Speed, C. A. Sullivan, B. E. Tripp, and J. C. Utter		Aqueous quaternary ammonium hydroxide as a screening mask cleaner
6,351,883	G. D. Beaumont		Self align leadframe having resilient carrier positioning means
6,352,014	D. B. Goland, J. U. Knickerbocker, D. C. Long, and S. L. Shinde		Method for making punches using multi-layer ceramic technology
6,352,104	L. S. Mok		Heat sink with enhanced heat spreading and compliant interface for better heat transfer
6,352,596	T. G. Van Kessel, G. J. Beardsley, T. S. Bullard, C. K. Huynh, and D. L. Walker		Post CMP cleaning method using a brush cleaner with torque monitor
6,352,882	F. Assaderaghi, L. L.-C. Hsu, and J. A. Mandelman		Silicon-on-insulator structure for electrostatic discharge protection and improved heat dissipation
6,352,892	R. Jammy, J. A. Mandelman, and C. J. Radens		Method of making DRAM trench capacitor
6,352,895	C. H. Lam		Method of forming merged self-aligned source and ono capacitor for split gate non-volatile memory
6,352,902	J. M. Aitken and A. W. Strong		Process of forming a capacitor on a substrate
6,352,903	D. B. Colavito and N. Rovedo		Junction isolation
6,352,905	R. J. Gauthier, Jr., D. J. Schepis, and S. H. Voldman		Method and structure of high and low K buried oxide for SOI technology
6,352,906	E. Leobandung		Nitridization of STI sidewalls
6,352,912	J. S. Brown, S. S. Furkay, R. J. Gauthier, Jr., D. W. Martin, and J. A. Slinkman		Reduction of reverse short channel effects by deep implantation of neutral dopants
6,353,182	C. S. Chang, W. T. Chen, and A. Trivedi		Proper choice of the encapsulant volumetric CTE for different pgba substrates
6,353,246	R. Hannon, S. S. Iyer, S. R. Stiffler, and K. R. Winstel		Semiconductor device including dislocation in merged SOI/DRAM chips
6,353,248	H. Haffner, L. Hsu, G. Lehmann, and A. M. Reith		Optimized decoupling capacitor using lithographic dummy filler
6,353,249	D. C. Boyd, H. I. Hanafi, M. Ieong, and W. C. Natzle		MOSFET with high dielectric constant gate insulator and minimum overlap capacitance
6,353,369	D. W. Boerstler		Multiphase voltage controlled oscillator with variable gain and range
6,353,449	L. E. Gregg and W. Jaaskelainen, Jr.		Communicating screen saver
6,353,452	S. Hamada, R. Logie, and T. Ogura		Data item display method and device, and recording medium storing a program for controlling display of data item
6,353,518	M. Pinarbasi		Spin valve sensor having antiparallel (AP) pinned layer structure with low coercivity and high resistance
6,353,519	M. Pinarbasi		Spin valve sensor having antiparallel (AP) pinned layer structure with high resistance and low coercivity
6,353,524	J. H. Sloan		Input/output circuit having up-shifting circuitry for accommodating different voltage signals
6,353,548	K. Helwig, H.-W. Tast, and F.-C. Wernicke		Method and data processing system for data lookups
6,353,558	G. M. Lattimore and J. A. Paredes		Method and apparatus for writing to memory cells
6,353,778	J. N. Brown		Automobile computer control system for limiting the usage of wireless telephones on moving automobiles
6,353,833	P. M. Bird and M. J. Snowbell		Caching of distributed dynamic SQL statements in a multiple node RDBMS
6,353,845	W. J. Armstrong, Jr. and T. J. Torzewski		Computer system, program product and method for tracking asynchronous I/O with timeout support
6,353,854	D. C. Cromer, B. J. Ellison, E. R. Kern, H. J. Locker, and J. P. Ward		Automatic reconfiguration system for change in management servers having protocol destination addresses
6,353,859	M. D. McKeehan, A. Tost, and E. E. Voldal		Object-oriented apparatus and method for controlling accesses to objects in a distributed object environment
6,353,871	C. D. Benveniste, P. A. Franaszek, J. T. Robinson, and C. O. Schulz		Directory cache for indirectly addressed main memory
6,353,875	R. K. Arimilli, J. S. Dodson, G. L. Guthrie, J. B. Joyner, and J. D. Lewis		Upgrading of snooper cache state mechanism for system bus with read/castout (RCO) address transactions
6,353,897	C. M. Nock, F. E. Stewart, A. T. Tauferner, and L. S.-M. Wellman		Object oriented apparatus and method for testing object oriented software
6,353,903	R. D. Adams, J. Connor, D. A. Evans, and L. Ternullo, Jr.		Method and apparatus for testing differential signals
6,353,910	M. J. Carnevale and D. F. Moertl		Method and apparatus for implementing error correction coding (ECC) in a dynamic random access memory utilizing vertical ECC storage
6,353,922	G. J. Dick		Automatic generation of one dimensional data compaction commands for electron beam lithography
6,353,998	W. L. Cox, T. R. Richards, and R. W. Wagner		Method for clamping a circuit component to a printed circuit board before soldering
6,354,309	R. H. Arndt, G. W. Gale, F. W. Kern, Jr., K. P. Madden, H. F. Okorn-Schmidt, G. F. Ouimet, Jr., D. Salgado, and R. W. Wuthrich		Process for treating a semiconductor substrate
6,354,477	J. B. Trummer		Mobile computing bag
6,354,732	D. Casati and F. Mauri		Temperature calibration for a thermogravimetric analyzer
6,354,844	P. A. Coico and B. V. Fasano		Land grid array alignment and engagement design
6,354,858	L. T. Cooper, B. M. Kerrigan, and J. R. Pugley		Retention apparatus for flash memory card
6,354,869	W. V. Cranston III, P. E. Grady, J. K. Koenig, J. E. McCloskey, and J. J. Tout, Jr.		Cable attachment bracket with an attachment tab
6,355,111	R. H. Gaylord III, F. W. Kern, Jr., D. J. Martin, H. F. Okorn-Schmidt, J. J. Snyder, and W. A. Syverson		Method for removing contaminants from a workpiece using a chemically reactive additive
6,355,122	Y. Ichimura, K. Itoh, N. Kurosu, and T. Yoshida		Method for ultrasonically connecting and inspecting slider-lead joints for disk drive head gimbal assemblies
6,355,364	R. M. Japp, L. J. Jimarez, and B. S. McClure		Process of heat treating and annealing cic and cic created thereby
6,355,501	K. H. Fung and H. B. Pogge		Three-dimensional chip stacking assembly
6,355,531	L. L. Hsu, J. A. Mandelman, C. J. Radens, W. R. Tonti, and L.-K. Wang		Method for fabricating semiconductor devices with different properties using maskless process
6,355,565	L. D. David, P. M. Feeney, T. C. Krywanczyk, M. T. Tiersch, and E. J. White		Chemical-mechanical-polishing slurry and method for polishing metal/oxide layers
6,355,567	S. D. Halle, P. C. Jamison, D. E. Kotecki, and R. S. Wise		Retrograde openings in thin films
6,355,569	M. Shimizu, K. Yasutake, and K. Yoshii		Dry etching method and apparatus
6,355,756	C. J. Hawker, G. Klaerner, J.-I. Lee, V. Y.-W. Lee, R. D. Miller, and J. C. Scott		Dual purpose electroactive copolymers, preparation thereof, and use in opto-electronic devices
6,355,889	S. Butcher, J. P. Karidis, S. Kesavarapu, S. Lekuch, T. Maners, J. R. Moulic, and B.-O. Schneider		Method and apparatus for linking electronic ink to electronic personal information systems
6,356,089	T. Bayer, J. Greschner, K. Meissner, W. Steiner, and R. Stoehr		Contact probe arrangement
6,356,103	D. T. Hui		CMOS small signal terminator and network
6,356,104	D. T. Hui		CMOS small signal switchable, impedence and voltage adjustable terminator network
6,356,113	J. T. Contreras, D. A. Freitas, and K. B. Klaassen		Recording channel with voltage-type write driver for use with transmission-line interconnect
6,356,114	K. Selander		High speed receiver with integrated CMOS and pecl capability
6,356,134	L. A. Clevenger, K. P. Guay, L. L. C. Hsu, and L.-K. Wang		Universal clock generator circuit and adjustment method for providing a plurality of clock frequencies
6,356,147	U. S. Ghoshal		Wideband dual amplifier circuits
6,356,262	J. L. D. Comba, J. T. Klosowski, J. S. B. Mitchell, C. T. Silva, G. Taubin, and P. L. Williams		System and method for fast polyhedral cell sorting
6,356,275	C. M. Ansberry and T. W. Fuqua		Pixel color matching across X servers in network conferencing systems by master-participant pair mapping
6,356,286	J. A. Lawrence		User-interactive computer display interface with a tree having a plurality of user selectable nodes representing a plurality of search queries to a tabular database
6,356,291	L. M. Ernst		Method and apparatus for providing print quality enhancement
6,356,297	K.-. F. Cheng, K. G. Kumar, J. S. Lipscomb, J. P. Menon, and M. H. Willebeek-LeMair		Method and apparatus for displaying panoramas with streaming video
6,356,346	J. P. Hagen and D. A. Neseth		Device and method for inspecting a disk for physical defects
6,356,355	M. L. Cohen, M. R. Cooper, P. E. Nogay, and M. W. Vanderwiele		Method and apparatus in a data processing system for generating metadata streams with per page data
6,356,367	C. M. DeCusatis and W. E. Hall		Open fiber control propagation in multi-link fiberoptic connections
6,356,409	A. K. Hanlon and K. B. Price		Balancing apparatus and method for high speed hard disk drive spindles
6,356,419	H. S. Gill		Antiparallel pinned read sensor with improved magnetresistance
6,356,440	E. J. Selker		Notebook computer having a resilient, portfolio-type case
6,356,567	R. E. Anderson, E. M. Foster, and M. R. Hodges		Embedded clock recovery and difference filtering for an MPEG-2 compliant transport stream
6,356,589	C. A. Gebler, B. A. Hall, A. Y. Ngai, and M. P. Vachon		Sharing reference data between multiple encoders parallel encoding a sequence of video frames
6,356,653	J. A. Brigante, G. W. Gale, M. R. Hevey, F. W. Kern, Jr., B. Kim, J. M. Sharrow, and W. A. Syverson		Method and apparatus for combined particle location and removal
6,356,655	M. Sumikawa and H. Takahashi		Apparatus and method of bitmap image processing, storage medium storing an image processing program
6,356,664	J. M. Dunn, E. H. Stern, and B. E. Willner		Selective reduction of video data using variable sampling rates based on importance within the image
6,356,686	J. P. Kuczynski		Optoelectronic device encapsulant
6,356,801	B. G. Goodman and L. G. Jesionowski		High availability work queuing in an automated data storage library
6,356,803	B. G. Goodman, L. G. Jesionowski, M. P. McIntosh, F. Quintana, C. A. Thompson, Jr., and R. Yardy		Automated data storage library distributed control system
6,356,812	B. J. Cragun		Method and apparatus for displaying information in a vehicle
6,356,858	A. Gluska, Y. Malka, S. Ur, and A. Ziv		Coverage measurement tool for user defined coverage models
6,356,879	C. C. Aggarwal and P. S. Yu		Content based method for product-peer filtering
6,356,888	R. L. Egan and K. J. Kathmann		Utilize encoded vector indexes for distinct processing
6,356,889	G. M. Lohman and G. Valentin		Method for determining optimal database materializations using a query optimizer
6,356,892	C. F. Corn, L. G. Fichtner, R. A. Mancisidor, and S.-B. Shi		Efficient implementation of lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) search queries with structured query language (SQL)
6,356,895	M. J. Anderson and R. D. Driesch, Jr.		Method and computer program product for processing system files using a trigger program
6,356,896	J. M. Cheng, J.-H. Chow, and M. L. Pauser		Data visualization of queries over joins
6,356,898	R. C. Barrett, A. L. Cohen, P. P. Maglio, and M. A. Sheldon		Method and system for summarizing topics of documents browsed by a user
6,356,899	S. Chakrabarti, B. E. Dom, D. A. Gibson, P. Raghavan, S. Rajagopalan, S. Ravikumar, and A. Tomkins		Method for interactively creating an information database including preferred information elements, such as preferred-authority, world wide web pages
6,356,908	M. W. Brown, K. R. Lawrence, and M. A. Paolini		Automatic web page thumbnail generation
6,356,911	T. Shibuya		Shortest path search system
6,356,912	J. C. Kleewein, E. T. Lin, and Y. Wang		Compensation for different connection and cursor characteristics among heterogeneous database management systems
6,356,918	C.-M. Chuang and H. Q. Le		Method and system for managing registers in a data processing system supports out-of-order and speculative instruction execution
6,356,921	K. Kumar, J. Lipscomb, J. Menon, and A. Ramchandra		Framework for progressive hierarchial and adaptive delivery rich media presentations and associated meta data
6,356,924	G. L. Mullen-Schultz		Configurable disablement of display objects in a browser
6,356,925	R. D. Waltermann		Check digit method and system for detection of transposition errors
6,356,929	T. A. Gall and J. D. Haumont		Computer system and method for sharing a job with other computers on a computer network using IP multicast
6,356,954	M. M. Golding		Method for enabling interaction with external computer programs from an editor environment
6,356,955	R. S. Ehrlich, U. Hollberg, U. Scheere, and O. Zimmerman		Method of mapping gdmo templates and asn.1 defined types into c++ classes using an object-oriented programming interface
6,356,964	A. Mohindra, A. Purakayastha, D. M. Shofi, and W. H. Tetzlaff		Method and apparatus for enabling location-independent and location-transparent interaction between a program and a user
6,356,976	S. Itoh, M. Murakami, T. Sakai, and H. Ueki		Lsi system capable of reading and writing at high speed
6,356,980	L. B. Arimilli, R. K. Arimilli, and J. S. Fields, Jr.		Method and system for bypassing cache levels when casting out from an upper level cache
6,356,981	A. L. Roberts and R. A. Wistort		Method and apparatus for preserving data coherency in a double data rate SRAM
6,356,982	L. B. Arimilli, R. K. Arimilli, J. S. Fields, Jr., and S. Ghai		Dynamic mechanism to upgrade o state memory-consistent cache lines
6,356,990	N. Aoki, S. H. Dhong, N. Kojima, and J. A. Silberman		Set-associative cache memory having a built-in set prediction array
6,357,007	D. C. Cromer, H. Locker, M. J. Steinmetz, and J. P. Ward		System for detecting tamper events and capturing the time of their occurrence
6,357,019	R. C. Blaisdell and E. J. Hilpert, Jr.		Method and apparatus for employing network loadable debugging agents, capable of first failure support on retail versions of software products
6,357,020	T. J. Bohizic, S. Kapoor, and W. M. Kobrosly		Method and system for low level testing of central electronics complex hardware using test nano kernel
6,357,030	M. Demura, H. Itagaki, A. Sasaki, and T. Tamura		ECC block format for storage device
6,357,032	K. G. Plotz and A. A. Slane		Method and apparatus for implementing cyclic redundancy check calculation for data communications
6,357,095	S. Duan, W.-M. Lee, and W. C. Leung		Hard disk burnishing head
6,358,332	H. S. Gill		Method of resetting a spin valve sensor
6,358,439	F. Y. Aoude, L. D. David, R. S. Divakaruni, S. Farooq, L. W. Herron, H. M. Lasky, A. Mastreani, G. Natarajan, S. S. N. Reddy, V. M. Sura, R. V. Vallabhaneni, and D. R. Wall		Copper-based paste containing copper aluminate for microstructural and shrinkage control of copper-filled vias
6,358,627	J. A. Benenati, C. L. Bertin, W. T. Chen, T. E. Dinan, W. F. Ellis, W. J. Howell, J. U. Knickerbocker, M. V. Pierson, W. R. Tonti, and J. M. Zalesinski		Rolling ball connector
6,358,791	L. L. Hsu and L.-K. Wang		Method for increasing a very-large-scale-integrated (VLSI) capacitor size on bulk silicon and silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers and structure formed thereby
6,358,813	C. Black, D. J. Frank, T. Furukawa, K. W. Guarini, M. C. Hakey, S. J. Holmes, D. V. Horak, W. H.-L. Ma, and K. R. Milkove		Method for increasing the capacitance of a semiconductor capacitors
6,358,832	T. J. Dalton, D. C. Edelstein, J. G. Gaudiello, M. Krishnan, S. G. Malhotra, M. McGlashan-Powell, E. J. O'Sullivan, and C. J. Sambucetti		Method of forming barrier layers for damascene interconnects
6,358,850	L. Economikos, S. Pandey, R. Ramachandran, and R. J. Schutz		Slurry-less chemical-mechanical polishing of oxide materials
6,358,855	N. Nagel, C. C. Parks, and R. Ramachandran		Clean method for recessed conductive barriers
6,358,867	J. E. Faltermeir, O. Gluschenkov, C. Heenan, R. Malik, and H. H. Tews		Orientation independent oxidation of silicon
6,359,289	S. S. P. Parkin		Magnetic tunnel junction device with improved insulating tunnel barrier
6,359,300	L. Economikos and B. Park		High aspect ratio deep trench capacitor having void-free fill
6,359,325	L. A. Clevenger and M. D. Naeem		Method of forming nano-scale structures from polycrystalline materials and nano-scale structures formed thereby
6,359,433	D. R. Gillis, K. V. Schouterden, and R. F. Wolter		Method and apparatus for preventing data loss in disk drives using predictive failure analysis of magnetoresistive head resistance
6,359,464	D. T. Hui		Method of use with a terminator and network
6,359,465	D. T. Hui		CMOS small signal switchable adjustable impedence terminator network
6,359,471	D. R. Hanson and G. Mueller		Mixed swing voltage repeaters for high resistance or high capacitance signal lines and methods therefor
6,359,627	T. Someya		Method for selecting a graphic primitive and a recording medium
6,359,634	B. J. Cragun and D. R. Petty		Method and computer program product for graphical user interface (GUI) organization control for extending GUI applications
6,359,637	A. C. Perkins and P. B. Young		Drill-down apparatus for display of tree-based hierarchies and method therefor
6,359,709	C. M. DeCusatis and W. E. Hall		Method for open fiber control propagation in multi-link fiberoptic connections
6,359,713	C. M. DeCusatis and W. E. Hall		System for open fiber control propagation multi-link fiberoptic connections
6,359,749	C. N. Fukushima		Dual element head with radial offset optimized for minimal write-to-read track error
6,359,750	T. S. Hughbanks, N. L. Robertson, S. H. Voldman, and A. J. Wallash		Data storage system with TIC MR-head magnetic shield dummy shield spark gap
6,359,755	A. Dietzel and F. Fleischmann		Micromechanical cantilever suspension system
6,359,766	T. J. Youngman and P. J. Zuroski		Apparatus for proper grounding of twisted pair cabling
6,359,768	C. C. Eversley and W. A. Goodman		Planar shield with high density, interleaved contacts for grounding electromagnetic emissions
6,359,862	C. D. Jeffries and K. V. Vu		ATM network available bit rate (ABR) explicit rate flow control system
6,360,001	I. Berger, D. Chevion, A. Heilper, Y. Navon, M. Tross, A. Tzadok, and E. Wallach		Automatic location of address information on parcels sent by mass mailers
6,360,029	C. H. L. Moller		Method and apparatus for variable magnification of an image
6,360,104	R. A. Budd, J. P. Karidis, and G. McVicker		Personal communicator including a handset phone with an integrated virtual image display
6,360,201	J. R. Lewis, K. A. Ortega, R. Vanbuskirk, and H. Wang		Method and apparatus for activating and deactivating auxiliary topic libraries in a speech dictation system
6,360,213	A. Balachandran, J. A. Byard, P. M. Fernandez, G. Johnson, D. L. Morandi, D. A. Schneider, and W. M. Wagstaff		System and method for continuously adaptive indexes
6,360,225	J. C. Kleewein, E. T. Lin, and Y. Wang		System, method and computer program product for host variable support
6,360,227	C. C. Aggarwal, S. C. Gates, and P. S.-L. Yu		System and method for generating taxonomies with applications to content-based recommendations
6,360,229	K. R. Blackman, S.-M. F. Ho, and T. B. Sander		Generic execution model for isolating applications from underlying databases
6,360,232	V. L. Brewer, J. A. Fisher, and G. T. Kishi		Disaster recovery method for a removable media library
6,360,238	S. H. Dhong, K. T. Lee, H. C. Ngo, and K. J. Nowka		Leading zero/one anticipator having an integrated sign selector
6,360,251	K. Fujita and S. Meguro		Methods, apparatus and computer program products for message processing control including selective display of user addresses associated with a group address
6,360,260	D. R. Compliment and T. J. Prorock		Discovery features for snmp managed devices
6,360,262	T. J. Guenthner, F. D. Lawlor, D.-H. Lin, and C. R. Schmitt		Mapping web server objects to tcp/IP ports
6,360,263	J. M. Kurtzberg and M. Levanoni		Dynamic resource allocation for user management in multi-processor time shared computer systems
6,360,273	J. B. Beurket, P. K. Malkin, W. G. Rubin, P. S.-L. Yu, and G. Ziedins		Method for collaborative transformation and caching of web objects in a proxy network
6,360,297	R. K. Arimilli, V. E. Chung, G. L. Guthrie, and J. B. Joyner		System bus read address operations with data ordering preference hint bits for vertical caches
6,360,299	L. B. Arimilli, R. K. Arimilli, L. J. Clark, J. S. Dodson, J. S. Fields, Jr., and G. L. Guthrie		Extended cache state with prefetched stream ID information
6,360,300	B. J. Corcoran and S. Singh		System and method for storing compressed and uncompressed data on a hard disk drive
6,360,302	S. J. Baylor		Method and system for dynamically changing page types in unified scalable shared-memory architectures
6,360,304	W. S. Cadden, R. S. Lee, and O. Skudal		Method for multi-volume, write-behind data storage in a distributed processing system
6,360,350	C. I. Gabele, P. T. Patel, S. T. Quay, P. G. Villarrubia, and J.-P. Watson		Method and system for performing circuit analysis on an integrated-circuit design having design data available in different forms
6,360,360	C. L. Bates, E. C. Prosser, and W. J. Schmidt		Object-oriented compiler mechanism for automatically selecting among multiple implementations of objects
6,360,365	B. A. Curtis		System, method, and program for preserving background settings during install and uninstall operations
6,360,938	S. A. DeLaurentis, M. J. Interrante, R. A. Jackson, J. U. Knickerbocker, S. K. Ray, and K. A. Stalter		Process and apparatus to remove closely spaced chips on a multi-chip module
6,360,940	L. R. Bolde, J. Hennekens, G. M. Johnson, and D. Olson		Method and apparatus for removing known good die
6,361,313	O. Beyaert, J.-P. Mazur, P. Raffin, and F. Rodier		Ladder boat for supporting wafers
6,361,402	D. F. Canaperi, R. Jagannathan, M. Krishnan, M. G. Levy, U. Satyendra, M. Sendelbach, J. A. Tornello, and W. Wille		Method for planarizing photoresist
6,361,627	P. W. DeHaven, C. C. Goldsmith, J. L. Hurd, S. Kaja, M. S. Legere, and E. D. Perfecto		Process of controlling grain growth in metal films
6,361,880	L. Clevenger, R. C. Iggulden, R. F. Schnabel, and S. Weber		CVD/PVD/CVD/PVD fill process
6,361,923	J. S. Kresge, J. M. Lauffer, and D. J. Russell		Laser ablatable material and its use
6,362,040	J. Faltermeier, U. Gruening, R. Jammy, B. S. Lee, and H. H. Tews		Reduction of orientation dependent oxidation for vertical sidewalls of semiconductor substrates
6,362,056	J. A. Mandelman and W. R. Tonti		Method of making alternative to dual gate oxide for MOSFETs
6,362,416	I. M. Denny, P. A. Smith, and G. Wright		Electromagnetic compatibilty (EMC) shield
6,362,440	J. P. Karidis, K. S. Nathan, R. A. Smith, and R. E. Steinbugler		Flexibly interfaceable portable computing device
6,362,531	A. K. Stamper and S. J. Yankee		Recessed bond pad
6,362,557	P. A. Gruber, F. Maurer, and G. F. Walker		Ultrasonic method and actuator for inducing motion of an object
6,362,653	T. C. Coughlin, Jr., J. M. Milewski, L. K. Nguyen, and D. W. Stout		High voltage tolerant receivers
6,362,766	B. S. Rowan, L. J. Serrano, and M. M.-H. Yu		Variable pulse PWM dac method and apparatus
6,362,786	T. Asano, A. Naitoh, and A. Sakurai		Patch antenna utilized in conjunction with an electronic apparatus
6,362,842	N. Ichikawa, Y. Matsuyama, Y. Tahara, and D. Tomoda		Operation picture displaying apparatus and method therefor
6,362,901	D. G. Fox, A. Passman, F. J. Preston, and C. D. Stone		Document scanning system
6,362,929	K. Arai, T. Kitagawa, and Y. Kotani		Method and apparatus for retracting a transducer head from a recording medium in a disk drive storage device
6,362,936	F. Harako, H. Inoue, H. Matsuda, and K. Takahashi		Suspension assembly with integral projections having a coating of elastic material
6,362,941	H. S. Gill		Spin valve sensor having free layer stabilized by ferromagnetic and sense current fields
6,362,980	K. Ohashi and K. Suzuki		Active filter for computer, filter module, power module and computer
6,363,023	J. E. Andersen and M. R. Ouellette		Bi-directional differential low power sense amp and memory system
6,363,056	M. S. M. Beigi, R. B. Jennings, and D. C. Verma		Low overhead continuous monitoring of network performance
6,363,076	S. S. Allison, K. J. Barker, and J. K. Lee		Phantom buffer for interfacing between buses of differing speeds
6,363,154	S. M. Matyas, Jr., M. Peyravian, and N. Zunic		Decentralized systems methods and computer program products for sending secure messages among a group of nodes
6,363,294	J. Canteloup, P. Coronel, R. MacCagnan, and J.-P. Vassilakis		Method and system for semiconductor wafer fabrication process real-time in-situ interactive supervision
6,363,325	C. L. Bates, J. M. Ryan, and J. M. Santosuosso		Automotive emergency awareness system
6,363,365	W. Kou		Mechanism for secure tendering in an open electronic network
6,363,389	R. W. Lyle and J. A. Yothers		Technique for creating a unique quasi-random row identifier
6,363,397	F. Kitayama		Method for selecting objects to be cached, method for discarding cached objects, and computer
6,363,436	L. E. Hagy, G. K. Harish, J. D. Heath, C. Jagannadhan, and D. A. Kulkarni		Method and system for loading libraries into embedded systems
6,363,457	G. F. Sundberg		Method and system for non-disruptive addition and deletion of logical devices
6,363,478	H. S. Lambert and S. Wright		Security mechanisms in a web server
6,363,495	K. B. MacKenzie, R. J. McCarty, and A. A. Shaheen		Method and apparatus for partition resolution in clustered computer systems
6,363,521	H. Komatsu, T. Ogasawara, and T. Yasue		Process for processing programs, process for detecting depth of frame associated with specified method, detection method, and computer