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Patent No. 5443036

Method of exercising a cat

A method for inducing cats to exercise consists of directing a beam of invisible light produced by a hand-held laser apparatus onto the floor or wall.

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Assignee: The University of Maryland


Location: Not specified.
No. of applications: 4

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04/09/2009
20070086020Shadow moire using non-zero talbot distance
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04/19/2007
20060023111Device using a camera and light polarization for the remote displacement of a cursor on a display
A system and method is provided for imaging a screen of a display device, including filtering light emitted or reflected from the screen and a background region in proximity to the screen using first and second polarizing angles; sensing the filtered light; and generati...
02/02/2006
20050185186Far-field optical microscope with a nanometer-scale resolution based on the in-plane image magnification by surface plasmon polaritons
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08/25/2005
 
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