...that to encourage use of his new invention, the shopping cart, market owner Sylvan Goldman hired fake shoppers to push the carts around his store in Oklahoma City? Seems his customers were reluctant to give up their hand-carried baskets.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5406570 | Method for a maximum likelihood decoding of a convolutional code with decision weighting, and corresponding decoder A method for the decoding of digital data obtained according to a convolutional coding and transmitted on a noise-ridden channel aimed at improving the methods of maximum likelihood decoding such as the Viterbi algorithm consisting in associating, with ea... | 04/11/1995 |