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Mouthguard made at least partially from an edible candy
A mouthguard includes a U-shaped upper bite plate which removably fits over upper teeth of a person, with the entire upper bite plate being made from a soft, deformable and edible gummi candy.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8126818 | Knowledge-management systems for law firms The present inventors devised unique systems, methods, interfaces, and software for managing and leveraging knowledge in law firms and potentially other enterprises. For example, one system provides a single user interface for researching case law for online legal r... | 02/28/2012 |
| 7065514 | Document-classification system, method and software Every year, professional classifiers at West Group manually classify over 350,000 headnotes, or abstracts of judicial opinions, across approximately 82,000 separate classes of the Key Number System. Although most headnotes are classified from the memory of the class... | 06/20/2006 |
| 5644720 | Interprocess communications interface for managing transaction requests The present invention provides a method of processing transaction requests from client applications within a computer network having a plurality of client servers. Each client server has a work share and a set of attributes that including a name, an addre... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5488725 | System of document representation retrieval by successive iterated probability sampling An information retrieval system based on probabilities that documents meet information needs. The frequency of occurrence of a representation in a collection of documents is estimated by identifying the frequency of occurrence of the representation in a s... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5434932 | Line alignment apparatus and process A computer implemented process of matching two lines of text produced by optical character readers analyzes words in the two lines to identify matching words in corresponding positions in the two lines. Lines are then identified as matching based on the n... | 07/18/1995 |
| 5418948 | Concept matching of natural language queries with a database of document concepts A computer implemented process for creating a search query for an information retrieval system in which a database is provided containing a plurality of stopwords and phrases. A natural language input query defines the composition of the text of documents... | 05/23/1995 |
| 5265065 | Method and apparatus for information retrieval from a database by replacing domain specific stemmed phases in a natural language to create a search query A computer implemented process for creating a search query for an information retrieval system in which a database is provided containing a plurality of stopwords and phrases. A natural language input query defines the composition of the test of documents... | 11/23/1993 |
