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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 |
| 7102628 | Data steering flip pen system A computing system includes a handwriting input device and a computing device, the handwriting input device including an electronic pen input device having a first tip that emits a signal having a first characteristic and second tip that emits a signal having second... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7043476 | Method and apparatus for data mining to discover associations and covariances associated with data Data mining techniques are provided which are effective and efficient for discovering useful information from an amorphous collection or data set of records. For example, the present invention provides for the mining of data, e.g., of several or many records, to dis... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6982897 | Nondestructive read, two-switch, single-charge-storage device RAM devices A random access memory (RAM) circuit is coupled to a write control line, a read control line, and one or more bitlines, and includes a write switch having a control terminal and first and second terminals. The first terminal of the write switch is coupled to the one... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6938174 | Method and system with adaptive data transfer policy based on a power state of a computing device The present invention pertains to a computing system having an input system with local storage interfaced with a computing device, wherein input information is transferred from the digitizer input system to the interfaced computing device based on an adaptive transf... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6879991 | Synchronous collection of cyclic garbage in reference counting systems Techniques are provided that speed synchronous garbage collection in systems that use reference counting. The present invention performs each of the steps of marking, scanning, and collecting on all nodes that are possibly nodes in a cycle of garbage. These nodes ar... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6816790 | Method and apparatus for determining gene expression levels Techniques for analyzing gene expression levels are provided. In one aspect of the invention, the technique provides a method for determining a concentration level of a target nucleic acid, the target nucleic acid comprising at least one target oligonucleotide. The ... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6785650 | Hierarchical transcription and display of input speech Generally, the present invention provides the ability to present a mixed display of a transcription to a user. The mixed display is preferably organized in a hierarchical fashion. Words, syllables and phones can be placed on the same display by the present invention... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6785672 | Methods and apparatus for performing sequence homology detection In a sequence homology detection aspect of the invention, a computer-based method of detecting homologies between a plurality of sequences in a database and a query sequence comprises the following steps. First, the method includes accessing patterns associated with... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6743670 | High dielectric constant materials forming components of DRAM such as deep-trench capacitors and gate dielectric (insulators) for support circuits A method and structure for an improved DRAM (dynamic random access memory) dielectric structure, whereby a new high-k material is implemented for both the support devices used as the gate dielectric as well as the capacitor dielectric. The method forms both deep iso... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6721807 | Extensible and efficient double dispatch in single-dispatch object-oriented programming languages An improved method and system is described for implementing double dispatch extensibly and efficiently in single-dispatch object-oriented programming languages. Objects of type Visitor encapsulate double dispatch functionality, while objects of type Element act as o... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6672775 | Cross-machine web page download and storage A method and system is disclosed for downloading data, such as a web page, over a network such as the internet. The method includes the steps of (a) initiating a web page download request with a requesting entity having a first network address, the reques... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6671626 | Determination and use of three-dimensional moments of molecular property fields Generally, the present invention provides and uses a set of descriptors of three-dimensional molecular property fields. A portion of the descriptors are calculated in such a way as to separate property fields from the underlying structure of the molecule.... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6518136 | Sacrificial polysilicon sidewall process and rapid thermal spike annealing for advance CMOS fabrication A process for making abrupt, e.g. | 02/11/2003 |
| 6333247 | Two-step MOSFET gate formation for high-density devices A method of manufacturing a metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor MOSFET device gate includes patterning and etching the mesa of a gate material. A dielectric layer is formed on the mesa and is planarized using chemical mechanical polishing (C... | 12/25/2001 |
| 6314193 | Method and device for localizing and detecting plastic strips and window areas on mail A method and a device for the identification of plastic strips and/or window areas on mail is presented. The problem of dust build-up on the arrangement, causing it to fail, is avoided because the components can be arranged at a sufficient distance from t... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6288722 | Frame buffer reconfiguration during graphics processing based upon image attributes The present invention allows the frame buffer to be dynamically reconfigurable during the processing of graphics data. Lower resolution double buffer mode is used when objects are moving, and higher resolution single buffer mode is used when objects are s... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6255671 | Metal embedded passivation layer structure for microelectronic interconnect formation, customization and repair A structure includes a metal nitride film of the form MN, where M is selected from the group consisting of Ga, In, AlGa, AlIn, and AlGaIn. The structure has at least one electrically conductive metal region that is formed within and from the metal nitride... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6245005 | Method and apparatus for facilitating radiation treatment of deep tumors The invention allows more accurate localization of radiation volumes during radiation treatment of tumors. The equipment includes radiation detector elements placed behind the patient during radiation, for treatment of a tumor condition. Such a detector m... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6224690 | Flip-Chip interconnections using lead-free solders An interconnection structure suitable for the connection of microelectronic circuit chips to packages is provided by this invention. In particular, the invention pertains to the area-array or flip-chip technology often called C4 (controlled collapse chip ... | 05/01/2001 |
