Did You Know...
...that the Eveready Battery began as an invention called the "electric flowerpot," which was a tube with a battery and light bulb inside? The idea was to fasten this gizmo to the side of a flowerpot so it would illuminate the flowers from the bottom. The idea died on the vine and the businessman who licensed the flower pot, Conrad Huber, was left with a pile of useless tubes -- until he found a way to market them as batteries to light the world!
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| 20110013331 | Polarized lightning arrestors Systems and methods for dynamically defending a site from lightning strikes are provided. The systems and methods involve dynamically altering electrostatic fields above the site and/or dynamically intervening in lightning discharges processes in the vicinity of the sit... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20100266090 | Nuclear fission reactor fuel assembly and system configured for controlled removal of a volatile fission product and heat released by a burn wave in a traveling wave nuclear fission reactor and method for same A nuclear fission reactor fuel assembly and system configured for controlled removal of a volatile fission product and heat released by a burn wave in a traveling wave nuclear fission reactor and method for same. The fuel assembly comprises an enclosure adapted to enclo... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100235178 | Computational systems and methods for health services planning and matching Methods, apparatuses, computer program products, devices and systems are described that carry out accepting an indication of at least one health-related status of an individual; determining at least one health service option for the individual based on the indication of... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100131503 | Soliciting data indicating at least one objective occurrence in response to acquisition of data indicating at least one subjective user state A computationally implemented method includes, but is not limited to: acquiring subjective user state data including data indicating at least one subjective user state associated with a user; soliciting, in response to the acquisition of the subjective user state data, ... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100114188 | System and method for providing therapy by altering the motion of a person A method for providing motor control therapy for a user by altering a user's motional response is generally described. The method includes directing a user to perform a specified motion in accordance with a schedule. The method also includes detecting the user's motions... | 05/06/2010 |
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| 20100113150 | System and method for game playing using vestibular stimulation A method of gaming is generally described which includes detecting motions associated with the user by a feedback sensor device and providing motion information from the feedback sensor device to the game device. The method also includes providing a vestibular stimulati... | 05/06/2010 |
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| 20100083668 | Hybrid propulsive engine including at least one independently rotatable compressor stator One aspect relates to a hybrid propulsive technique, comprising providing a flow of a working fluid through at least a portion of an at least one jet engine. The hybrid propulsive technique comprises extracting energy from the working fluid that is at least partially co... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100083631 | Hybrid propulsive engine including at least one independently rotatable turbine stator One aspect relates to a hybrid propulsive technique, comprising providing a flow of a working fluid through at least a portion of an at least one jet engine. The at least one jet engine includes an at least one turbine section, wherein the at least one turbine section i... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100081927 | Histological facilitation systems and methods Systems, methods, and other modalities are described for generating or otherwise handling images or other data indicating (a) an extraction of chemically treated tissue frozen in vivo, (b) a treatment of a tissue sample in a chamber extended into tissue of an organism, ... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100081919 | Histological facilitation systems and methods Systems, methods, and other modalities are described for generating or otherwise handling images or other data indicating (a) an extraction of chemically treated tissue frozen in vivo, (b) a treatment of a tissue sample in a chamber extended into tissue of an organism, ... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100078995 | Beam power with multipoint reception A beam power source transmits a signal indicating power availability, receives a request for power in response, and beams power in response to the request.... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100070215 | System and method for identifying appliances by electrical characteristics Illustrative embodiments provide systems, applications, apparatuses, computer software program products, and methods related to identification of electrical appliances by electrical characteristics.... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100068275 | Personalizable dosage form Provided embodiments include a final dosage form, an article of manufacture, and a method. A method of fulfilling a request specifying a dose of a medicament for an individual animal includes choosing pursuant to the request an instance of a final dosage form that inclu... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100022411 | Method and sequences for determinate nucleic acid hybridization Provided are methods for using nucleic acid sequences having two or more degenerately pairing nucleotides, each degenerate nucleotide having a partially overlapping set of complementarity, to reduce the number of hybridizing nucleotide sequences or probes used in bioche... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20090292770 | Determination of extent of congruity between observation of authoring user and observation of receiving user A computationally implemented method includes, but is not limited to: acquiring a result of an observation of an authoring user; acquiring a result of an observation of a receiving user; comparing the result of the observation of the authoring user with the result of th... | 11/26/2009 |
| 20090292222 | Circulatory monitoring systems and methods Systems and methods are described for obtaining and acting upon information indicative of circulatory health and related phenomena in human beings or other subjects.... | 11/26/2009 |
| 20090292213 | Circulatory monitoring systems and methods Systems and methods are described for obtaining and acting upon information indicative of circulatory health and related phenomena in human beings or other subjects.... | 11/26/2009 |
| 20090287110 | Circulatory monitoring systems and methods Systems and methods are described for obtaining and acting upon information indicative of circulatory health and related phenomena in human beings or other subjects.... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090287094 | Circulatory monitoring systems and methods Systems and methods are described for obtaining and acting upon information indicative of circulatory health and related phenomena in human beings or other subjects.... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090287093 | Circulatory monitoring systems and methods Systems and methods are described for obtaining and acting upon information indicative of circulatory health and related phenomena in human beings or other subjects.... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090177569 | Water alteration structure risk management or ecological alteration management systems and methods A method of managing risk includes selling individual insurance policies regarding areas to be protected by storm suppression equipment. The method discussed also includes finding at least one of purchase, operation, or maintenance of the storm suppression equipment at ... | 07/09/2009 |
| 20090175685 | Water alteration structure movement method and system A structure described generally for altering one or more properties within a body of water includes a vessel configured to hold water. The vessel may have at least one wall. The at least one wall extends at least above a mean surface water level. At least one conduit ex... | 07/09/2009 |
| 20090173386 | Water alteration structure applications and methods A method is generally described which includes environmental alteration. The method includes determining a placement of at least one vessel capable of moving water to lower depths in the water via wave induced downwelling. The method also includes placing the at least o... | 07/09/2009 |
| 20090164403 | Methods and systems for indicating behavior in a population cohort Avatars, methods, apparatuses, computer program products, devices and systems are described that carry out identifying a member of a population cohort; and indicating at least one behavior in the member of the population cohort based on an association between the popula... | 06/25/2009 |
| 20090164401 | Methods and systems for inducing behavior in a population cohort Avatars, methods, apparatuses, computer program products, devices and systems are described that carry out identifying a member of a population cohort; and inducing at least one behavior in the member of the population cohort based on an association between the populati... | 06/25/2009 |
| 20090164302 | Methods and systems for specifying a cohort-linked avatar attribute Avatars, methods, apparatuses, computer program products, devices and systems are described that carry out obtaining collected population cohort data; and specifying at least one cohort-linked avatar attribute at least partly based on the collected population cohort dat... | 06/25/2009 |
| 20090163964 | System, devices, and methods including sterilizing excitation delivery implants with general controllers and onboard power Systems, devices, methods, and compositions are described for providing an actively-controllable disinfecting implantable device configured to, for example, treat or prevent an infection in a biological subject.... | 06/25/2009 |
| 20090157055 | Treatment indications informed by a priori implant information Systems and methods are described for implementing or deploying therapeutic administration systems for obtaining a priori implant information and signaling a decision whether to initiate implant-site-targeting treatment partly based on the a priori implant information a... | 06/18/2009 |
| 20090151008 | Media markup system for content alteration in derivative works A classification method and system for possible content alteration of a media work may include criteria regarding content that is feasible for alteration. Such criteria may be maintained in records that are accessible to an interested party. Some embodiments may include... | 06/11/2009 |
| 20090149912 | Method for electrical modulation of neural conduction Methods and related systems for modulating neural activity by repetitively blocking conduction in peripheral neural structures with electrical stimuli are disclosed. Methods and systems for reversing effects of blocking stimuli and/or for producing substantially permane... | 06/11/2009 |
| 20090149911 | System for electrical modulation of neural conduction Methods and related systems for modulating neural activity by repetitively blocking conduction in peripheral neural structures with electrical stimuli are disclosed. Methods and systems for reversing effects of blocking stimuli and/or for producing substantially permane... | 06/11/2009 |
| 20090149694 | System for magnetic modulation of neural conduction Methods and related systems for modulating neural activity by repetitively blocking conduction in peripheral neural structures with magnetic stimuli are disclosed. Methods and systems for reversing effects of blocking stimuli and/or for producing substantially permanent... | 06/11/2009 |
| 20090149693 | Method for magnetic modulation of neural conduction Methods and related systems for modulating neural activity by repetitively blocking conduction in peripheral neural structures with magnetic stimuli are disclosed. Methods and systems for reversing effects of blocking stimuli and/or for producing substantially permanent... | 06/11/2009 |
| 20090112914 | Returning a second content based on a user's reaction to a first content Embodiments include a device, a system, a computer program product, and a method. A method embodiment includes receiving from a requester sensor data indicative of a response by a person to a first content displayed to the person. The method also includes analyzing the ... | 04/30/2009 |
| 20090112713 | Opportunity advertising in a mobile device Provided embodiments include a device, apparatus, system, computer program product, and method. A provided method includes a method implemented in a mobile device having a core communication function and operable to present human perceivable content using a display. The... | 04/30/2009 |
| 20090112696 | Method of space-available advertising in a mobile device Provided embodiments include a device, apparatus, system, computer program product, and method. A provided method includes a method implemented in a mobile device having a core communication function and operable to present human perceivable content using a display surf... | 04/30/2009 |
| 20090112656 | Returning a personalized advertisement Provided embodiments include a device, apparatus, system, computer program product, and method. A provided method includes receiving from a requestor device a marketing impact information indicative of a physiological response by a person to a general advertisement. The... | 04/30/2009 |
