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Method and apparatus for making a drink hop along a bar or counter
A method for generating a drink which appears to hop from a remote spot on the bar or counter and take one or more leaps, before landing in a patron's glass.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8026382 | Lipid raft, caveolin protein, and caveolar function modulation compounds and associated synthetic and therapeutic methods The present invention is directed to the modulation of lipid rafts, caveolin proteins, or caveolar functions and processes by platinum(IV) compounds. Caveolae and/or lipid rafts are associated with cell transcription regulation, membrane and cellular transport, cell... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8008531 | Compounds and methods of arylmethylation (benzylation) as protection for alcohol groups during chemical synthesis A process for benzylating an alcohol includes mixing 2-benzyloxy-1-methylpyridinium triflate in an aromatic hydrocarbon solvent having a predetermined boiling point; adding an acid scavenger to the mixture; combining the alcohol to be benzylated with the mixture; re... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8007770 | Purified linear polypeptide epitopes from walnuts and associated methods A purified Ig-E binding immunogenic polypeptide the amino acid sequence of which consists of SEQ ID NO:1 is disclosed. The purified amino acid sequence is a major allergen of the walnut Juglans regia. Also described are a diagnostic test kit and use of the pu... | 08/30/2011 |
| D638196 | Bodyshaper and nursing bra | 05/24/2011 |
| 7887616 | Potassium polyphosphite composition for agricultural use and associated methods A fungicidal composition having fertilizer properties, the composition containing a high percentage of potassium polyphosphate is disclosed. The composition is useful as a fungicide and as a fertilizer for application to plants and, particularly, commercial crops. A... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7480523 | Telephone system having reduced sensitivity to RF interference and related methods A telephone to be connected to a wireline having reduced sensitivity to RF interference over a predetermined frequency range from an adjacent mobile wireless communications device may include a transmit amplifier, a receive amplifier, an audio input transducer conne... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7474693 | Electronic component notably for decoding signals modulated by a digital quadrature modulation over a large number of orthogonal carriers An input/output terminal receives a multi-channel analog signal within a predetermined frequency band, and transmits a single-channel analog signal within this frequency band. A tuning module has a reception channel based upon a two-stage down conversion to baseband... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7468489 | Cable having internal identifying indicia and associated methods A cable for ensuring the authenticity thereof and discouraging the unauthorized counterfeiting of the cable may include a cable core and an opaque outer jacket surrounding the cable core. The jacket may include identifying indicia visible on an inner surface of the ... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7460587 | Electronic circuit for performing fractional time domain interpolation and related devices and methods A clock offset compensation arrangement may include a fractional interpolator for applying a trigonometric interpolation to a sampled input signal according to a clock offset signal. It uses transform-based processing in the frequency domain. Compared to a polynomia... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7459663 | Image sensor having parallel pixel value readout The image sensor includes a plurality of pixels, arranged in rows and columns to form a pixel array, each pixel having a pixel output. The image sensor includes at least two column bitlines for each pixel column, each column bitline connected to each pixel output in... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7460718 | Conversion device for performing a raster scan conversion between a JPEG decoder and an image memory The conversion device includes an input for receiving data corresponding to an image to be displayed. The received data is in a JPEG decoder output data format A processor is included for reconstructing and writing the image to be displayed into the image memory, in... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7459890 | Method and circuit for controlling an electric power plant A control circuit is for an electric power plant including an asynchronous generator of an AC voltage, a motor to rotate a rotor of the asynchronous generator as a function of a first control signal of a developed motor torque, and a bank of capacitors coupled to th... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7446334 | Electronic device comprising active optical devices with an energy band engineered superlattice An electronic device may include first and second integrated circuits including respective first and second active optical devices establishing an optical communications link therebetween. The first active optical device may include a superlattice including a plural... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7440839 | Method and associated device for sensing the air/fuel ratio of an internal combustion engine A method of sensing the air/fuel ratio in a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine that may be easily implemented by a respective low-cost device includes a pressure sensor and a learning machine that generates a sensing signal representing the air/fuel... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440572 | Secure wireless LAN device and associated methods A secure wireless LAN device includes a housing, a wireless transceiver carried by the housing, a medium access controller (MAC) carried by the housing, and a cryptography circuit carried by the housing and connected to the MAC and the wireless transceiver. The cryp... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7436441 | Method for down-scaling a digital image and a digital camera for processing images of different resolutions A digital camera for capturing and processing images of different resolutions and a corresponding method for down-scaling a digital image are provided. The method includes forming an image of a real scene on an image sensor that is made up of a plurality of pixels a... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436201 | Architecture for reducing leakage component in semiconductor devices An architecture for reducing leakage component in semiconductor devices using a gated power supply is based on the supply being split into two parts. An alternate inverter is connected to a different power rail derived from the same single power rail. The power rail... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436026 | Semiconductor device comprising a superlattice channel vertically stepped above source and drain regions A semiconductor device may include a semiconductor substrate and at least one metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET). The at least one MOSFET may include spaced apart source and drain regions in the semiconductor substrate, and a superlattice cha... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436005 | Process for fabricating a heterostructure-channel insulated-gate field-effect transistor, and the corresponding transistor The insulated-gate field-effect transistor includes a substrate surmounted by a layer of silicon-germanium alloy, the ratio of the germanium concentration to the silicon concentration of which increases towards the surface of the substrate. The transistor is formed ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7435988 | Semiconductor device including a MOSFET having a band-engineered superlattice with a semiconductor cap layer providing a channel A semiconductor device may include a substrate and at least one MOSFET adjacent the substrate including a superlattice. The superlattice may include a plurality of stacked groups of layers and a semiconductor cap layer on an uppermost group of layers. Each group of ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7434761 | Cable deployment and storage system and associated methods A cable deployment and storage system includes a cable reel mounting device, and a cable reel for carrying a length of cable. The cable reel includes a hub that may be rotatably mounted on the cable reel mounting device during deployment of the length of cable, a pa... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436963 | Process for generating codes for CDMA communications, system and computer program product therefor To generate the main scrambling code of order N and the secondary scrambling code of order K within the set identified by the primary scrambling code of order N, a first m-sequence and a second m-sequence are generated using Fibonacci linear feedback shift registers... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436235 | Digital clock modulator A digital clock modulator provides a smoothly modulated clock period to reduce emitted electro-magnetic radiation (EMR). The digital clock modulator includes a plurality of delay elements connected in series and receiving as an input an unmodulated clock signal. A m... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433430 | Wireless communications device providing enhanced block equalization and related methods A wireless communications device may include a wireless receiver receiving signals having alternating known and unknown symbol portions over a channel, and a demodulator systolic array. The demodulator systolic array may include a channel estimation module generatin... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433239 | Memory with reduced bitline leakage current and method for the same The memory includes a plurality of access transistors with each of the access transistors coupled to one of the wordlines at its control terminal and connected to one of the bitlines at its output terminal. A plurality of memory cells have each output coupled to an ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7432524 | Integrated circuit comprising an active optical device having an energy band engineered superlattice An integrated circuit may include at least one active optical device including a superlattice including a plurality of stacked groups of layers. Each group of layers of the superlattice may include a plurality of stacked base semiconductor monolayers defining a base... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433822 | Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding pause information At an audio source, pause information is added to audio data, the combination of which is subsequently packetized. The resulting packets are transmitted to an audio destination via a network in which different packets may be subjected to varying levels of delay. At ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433729 | Infrared biometric finger sensor including infrared antennas and associated methods A finger sensor may include an integrated circuit substrate for receiving a user's finger adjacent thereto, and a plurality of infrared sensing pixels on the substrate. Each infrared sensing pixel may include at least one temperature sensor, at least one infrared an... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433392 | Wireless communications device performing block equalization based upon prior, current and/or future autocorrelation matrix estimates and related methods A wireless communications device may include a wireless receiver for receiving signals comprising alternating known and unknown symbol portions, and a demodulator connected thereto. The demodulator may include a channel estimation module for generating respective ch... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7424136 | Finger sensing with enhanced mounting and associated methods A finger sensor may include a finger sensing integrated circuit (IC) having a finger sensing area, an IC carrier having a cavity receiving the finger sensing IC therein and having at least one beveled upper edge, and a frame surrounding at least a portion of an uppe... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7396736 | Magnetic sensor of very high sensitivity A magnetic sensor includes a thin deformable membrane made of a conductive material forming a first plate of a capacitor which conducts an electric current therethrough. A second capacitor plate of the capacitor includes a doped region of a semiconductor substrate. ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7397290 | Method and relative circuit for generating a control voltage of a synchronous rectifier A control voltage for a synchronous rectifying transistor is generated with the desired anticipation time. The anticipation time is continuously controlled with a closed-loop technique by comparing it with the duration of a reference pulse. The resulting error signa... | 07/08/2008 |
| 5999447 | Non-volatile electrically erasable and programmable memory A non-volatile electrically erasable and programmable memory provides both a SDP (software data protection) function and an OTP (one-time protection) function. The memory comprises a memory array having a plurality of memory cells each for storing an info... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5978295 | Sequential access memories A sequential access memory comprises N register elements each storing an information bit. These N register elements are divided into P groups each comprising L elements. In a first phase of operation whose duration corresponds to P-1 consecutive periods o... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5857996 | Method of epidermal surgery A method of epidural surgery is provided that improves visibility in the epidural space of a patient for more effectively conducting therapeutic surgery therein. The method includes the steps of distending a portion of the epidural space of a patient by f... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5782732 | Tray forming apparatus and method of forming same A tray forming apparatus and method are provided which advantageously increase the efficiency and production speed of tray-type containers formed thereby. The apparatus preferably includes a loader for loading one of a plurality of blanks to be transporte... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5775079 | Apparatus for imparting virtual twist to strand material and method of imparting same An apparatus and method for imparting a virtual twist to strand material is provided. The apparatus preferably has a textile strand supply source for supplying a plurality of strands of textile strand material and a virtual twister positioned downstream f... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5733453 | Wastewater treatment system and method An improved wastewater treatment system requires less land usage and achieves greater control of the modular treatment processes embodied therein. A vertically stacked system contains at least two different treatment process zones, one atop the other and ... | 03/31/1998 |
