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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7710828 | Systems and methods for determining shooter locations with weak muzzle detection Systems and methods for locating the shooter of supersonic projectiles are described. The system uses at least five, preferably seven, spaced acoustic sensors. Sensor signals are detected for shockwaves and muzzle blast, wherein muzzle blast detection can be either ... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7693653 | Vehicle routing and path planning A method of determining a path having an ordered set of waypoints to be visited by a mobile agent to accomplish a mission includes: producing candidate paths using a multi-objective optimization algorithm, subject to a path production heuristic; selecting a path fro... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7606927 | Systems and methods for forwarding data units in a communications network A network device (110) includes a forwarding module (230) and one or more network interfaces (240) that may be configured to transmit data units. The forwarding module (230) may be configured to identify one of the network interfaces (... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7564812 | Method and apparatus for varying times/channels of broadcast beacons Method and apparatus for varying the times and channels of broadcast beacons. The method and apparatus make it more difficult to monitor and/or disrupt such beacon transmissions. In one embodiment, pseudo-random times and pseudo-random channels are selected for tran... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7551892 | Low-power ad hoc network entry A method, a node and an energy-conserving ad hoc network are provided that facilitate nodes joining the energy-conserving ad hoc network. A node includes a transceiver (210), a transmitter (206), and processing logic (202). The processing logic ... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7483711 | Spectrum-adaptive networking The present invention increases the available spectrum in a wireless network by sharing existing allocated (and in-use) portions of the RF spectrum in a manner that will minimize the probability of interfering with existing legacy users. The invention provides inter... | 01/27/2009 |
