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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 |
| 8099330 | System and method for soliciting and receiving merchandise orders A rider signal is transmitted over programming signal. The rider signal is stored in a rider buffer and includes merchandise ordering data. When a user wishes to order the merchandise, the system establish a channel of communication with an ordering center and place... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8084683 | Low-cost multi-junction solar cells and methods for their production Solar cells fabricated without gasification of metallurgical-grade silicon. The substrates are prepared by: melting metallurgical grade silicon in a furnace; solidifying the melted metallurgical grade silicon into an ingot; slicing the ingot to obtain a plurality of... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8004117 | Current bypass for distributed power harvesting systems using DC power sources A converter circuit providing multiple current bypass routes between the output leads to provide reliability in a series connection of several converters. If the converter malfunctions due to component failure, the current bypass routes provide a path for the curren... | 08/23/2011 |
| D642625 | Electronic board game | 08/02/2011 |
| 7970264 | Water dispenser with Sabbath function Water dispensers are disclosed which include a Sabbath function. When activating the Sabbath function, water refill of the hot water reservoir tank is prevented and the heating of the water in the hot reservoir tank is modified to provide a constant heating at a les... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7960644 | Low-cost multi-junction solar cells and methods for their production Methods for fabricating solar cells without the need to perform gasification of metallurgical-grade silicon are disclosed. Consequently, the costs and health and environmental hazards involved in fabricating the solar or silicon grade silicon are being avoided. A so... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7956283 | Low-cost solar cells and methods for their production Methods for fabricating solar cells without the need to perform gasification of metallurgical-grade silicon are disclosed. Consequently, the costs and health and environmental hazards involved in fabricating the solar or silicon grade silicon are being avoided. A so... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7951640 | Low-cost multi-junction solar cells and methods for their production Solar cells fabricated without gasification of metallurgical-grade silicon. The substrates are prepared by: melting metallurgical grade silicon in a furnace; solidifying the melted metallurgical grade silicon into an ingot; slicing the ingot to obtain a plurality of... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7702116 | Microphone bleed simulator The invention is a microphone bleed simulator which processes the audio signals recorded with one spot microphone and one room mic (or one spot mic alone) and simulates the sound that would be created in a typical studio recording environment wherein multiple spot m... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7699693 | Electronic card system and method An electronic game card (1) comprising a controller and one or more communication devices (12), all contained within a planar card having three or more sides. The communication devices (12) allow communications between adjacent cards when two ca... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7697146 | Apparatus and method for optical interference fringe based integrated circuit processing An apparatus and method for processing an integrated circuit employing optical interference fringes. During processing, light is directed on the integrated circuit and based upon the detection of interference fringes, further processing may be controlled. One implem... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7695233 | Substrate processing apparatus The substrate processing apparatus is capable of highly efficiently feeding and carrying out work and improving production efficiency. The substrate processing apparatus comprises: a processing chamber including a processing stage; a first load lock chamber for feed... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7672576 | Water dispenser with sabbath function Water dispensers are disclosed which include a Sabbath function. When activating the Sabbath function, water refill of the hot water reservoir tank is prevented and the heating of the water in the hot reservoir tank is modified to provide a constant heating at a les... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7400154 | Apparatus and method for detecting photon emissions from transistors A system, apparatus, and method for analyzing photon emission data to discriminate between photons emitted by transistors and photons emitted by background sources. The analysis involves spatial and/or temporal correlation of photon emissions. After correlation, the... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7363493 | Method for protecting computer programs and data from hostile code A method that protects computer data from untrusted programs. Each computer's object and process is assigned with trust attributes, which define the way it can interact with other objects within the system. The trust attributes are defined hierarchically so that pro... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7339661 | Dark field inspection system Apparatus for inspection of a sample includes a radiation source, which is adapted to direct optical radiation onto an area of a surface of the sample, and a plurality of image sensors. Each of the image sensors is configured to receive the radiation scattered from ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7325715 | Unitary vacuum tube incorporating high voltage isolation A housing for microelectronic devices requiring an internal vacuum for operation, e.g., an image detector, is formed by tape casting and incorporates leads between interior and exterior of said housing where said leads are disposed on a facing surface of green tape ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327347 | Image classifying systems and methods Methods and systems for classifying images, such as photographs, allow a user to incorporate subjective judgments regarding photograph qualities when making classification decisions. A slide-show interface allows a user to classify and advance photographs with a one... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327452 | Light beam apparatus and method for orthogonal alignment of specimen A system for orthogonal alignment of a specimen disclosed. The system includes a light-beam illumination source, collection optics, imaging optics, and a tiltable specimen holder. The light-beam source is activated to illuminate a spot on the specimen, and the imagi... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7323862 | Apparatus and method for detecting photon emissions from transistors A system, apparatus, and method for analyzing photon emission data to discriminate between photons emitted by transistors and photons emitted by background sources. The analysis involves spatial and/or temporal correlation of photon emissions. After correlation, the... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7314767 | Method for local wafer thinning and reinforcement A method is provided for preparing a semiconductor wafer for testing. The method includes selecting a die to be tested; measuring a diagonal of the die; thinning an area over the die extending beyond the scribe lines, the thinned area may be a circular area having a... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7309946 | Motion actuator A motion actuator comprises a cylindrical movable shaft and a stage that contains an expansible/contractible device and two clamps. The expansible/contractible device can be controlled to drive the axial motion of the movable shaft, and the two clamps can be control... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7297948 | Column simultaneously focusing a particle beam and an optical beam The invention concerns a column for producing a focused particle beam comprising: a device (100) focusing particles including an output electrode (130) with an output hole (131) for allowing through a particle beam (A); an optical focusing devic... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7287223 | System for editing and aligning captured events and data to a common time base to create customer service engagement multimedia document When a hardware or software problem reoccurs, a customer is rarely able to remember and repeat the process that was performed by a customer service representative to correct the problem the first time. By capturing desktop events and/or one or more other available d... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7275210 | Systems and methods for generating video summary image layouts Systems and methods for creating aesthetically pleasing visual image summaries from a collection of input images. The systems and methods determine a visual image summary by creating candidate partial layouts, assigning penalty scores to the candidate partial layout... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7275147 | Method and apparatus for data alignment and parsing in SIMD computer architecture Execution of a single stand-alone instruction manipulates two n bit strings of data to pack data or align the data. Decoding of the single instruction identifies two registers of n bits each and a shift value, preferably as parameters of the instruction. A first and... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7265900 | Inspection system with oblique viewing angle Apparatus for imaging an area of a surface along a viewing angle that is oblique to the surface includes an afocal optical relay, which is adapted to form a tilted initial image of the area by collecting optical radiation from the area along an optical axis oriented... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7263730 | Sleeping bag The sleeping bag is an insulated bag for covering and protecting the body of a user when the user is seated. The bag is formed from front and rear fabric sheets joined to one another and sized and shaped to receive the body of the user. At least one pair of slots is... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7263090 | System and method of timing and frequency control in TDM/TDMA networks A method and system of synchronizing two nodes of a network uses a demodulated output signal of a time division multiplex (TDM) demodulator to perform frequency and timing synchronization independently. Frequency synchronization is performed without using a program ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7260439 | Systems and methods for the automatic extraction of audio excerpts A method of extracting audio excerpts comprises: segmenting audio data into a plurality of audio data segments; setting a fitness criteria for the plurality of audio data segments; analyzing the plurality of audio data segments based on the fitness criteria; and sel... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7256667 | Waveguide device and method for making same A monolithic micromachined waveguide device or devices with low-loss, high-power handling, and near-optical frequency ranges is set forth. The waveguide and integrated devices are capable of transmitting near-optical frequencies due to optical-quality sidewall rough... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7257774 | Systems and methods for filtering and/or viewing collaborative indexes of recorded media Systems and methods for filtering and viewing collaborative indexes of annotations of multimedia or video streams can include obtaining a multimedia or video stream, obtaining user indexes of annotations of the multimedia or video stream, merging the indexes, associ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7257507 | System and method for determining probing locations on IC An apparatus and method for tracing back a probing location to identify the circuit element being probed on a device under test (DUT). The coordinates of the irregularity on the DUT are used to trace back to the logic cone to decipher the root-cause of the irregular... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7242860 | Optical protection switching using 2 by 2 switching functions A network is protected against interruption of service while one or more faulty switches or optical fiber transmission lines are repaired or replaced, by an interconnecting configuration of small N×N optical input/output switches, where N is 2 or greater than 2. Th... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7243086 | Methods and systems for automatically generating provably correct computer program code A provably correct computer program can be generated using genetic programming techniques. A desired behavior is used to define a formal specification. An initial population of programs is created where each program has a meaning that can be defined using a formaliz... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7243039 | System and method for determining probing locations on IC A method for identifying an area of a chip to be probed proceeds as follows. A callout list of failures is obtained from a tester, the list including cell name and pin for each failure. A Def file is interrogated to locate a Def entry matching the cell name, and a c... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7230240 | Enhanced scanning control of charged particle beam systems A charged particle beam system and scanning control method capable of imaging, and possibly editing, a device under test (DUT). The charged particle beam system contains a charged particle beam generation unit, such as a focused ion beam (FIB) column, which emits a ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7227580 | Knife edge tracking system and method A system and method for automatically and accurately determining the exact location of a knife-edge, such as an edge of an optical shutter, so that it can be controlled automatically. In one aspect the system comprises a mechanized shutter coupled to a shutter contr... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7228464 | PICA system timing measurement and calibration PICA probe system apparatus is described, including apparatus for calibrating an event timer having a coarse measurement capability in which time intervals defined by clock boundaries are counted and a fine measurement capability in which time between boundaries is ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7227702 | Bi-convex solid immersion lens A bi-convex solid immersion lens is disclosed, having a top and bottom convex surfaces. The radius of curvature of the bottom surface is larger than that of the top surface. A conical sloped side-wall connects the top and bottom surface. ... | 06/05/2007 |
