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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| D623007 | Wok insert | 09/07/2010 |
| D623006 | Griddle insert | 09/07/2010 |
| 6719493 | Method and system for encasing an endless, laid pipeline conduit with backfill concrete The present invention provides, in one aspect, a method and corresponding system in which the production costs may be reduced by virtue of the fact that the laying of the pipe conduit on the one hand and the encasing of the pipe conduit with backfill concrete on the... | 04/13/2004 |
| 7298222 | Systems and method for automatic quadrature phase imbalance compensation using a delay locked loop An automatic quadrature phase compensation system comprises an on-chip analog phase sense circuit capable of detecting small differences in quadrature phase error and providing a corresponding DC voltage, a voltage-controlled or programmable phase delay circuit to i... | 11/20/2007 |
| D549955 | Percussion case | 09/04/2007 |
| 7129717 | Systems and methods for measuring tear film osmolarity An osmolarity measuring system is configured to receive a contact lens in a measurement chamber. The measurement chamber includes a volume of fluid, and a series of electrodes are configured to measure the electrical properties of the fluid. A processing device corr... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7123072 | High-accuracy capacitor digital-to-analog converter A capacitor digital-to-analog converter for N-bit digital-to-analog conversion comprises a converter capacitor network comprising 2N capacitors and 2N+1 MOS switches and an output buffer. The MOS switches are connected in a series chain at thei... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7074201 | Measurement device for fitting a bracing device A measurement device includes a plurality of measurement belts and a plurality of side plates configured to be positioned around a user's body. A plurality of locking mechanisms each operable to adjustably couple one of the measurement belts and one of the side plat... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7070572 | Dynamically adjustable stabilization brace In one embodiment, a stabilization brace includes an upper belt configured to be positioned around a portion of a user's body, a lower belt configured to be positioned around the portion of the user's body, and one or more supports coupled between the upper and lowe... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7054595 | Systems and methods for amplifying a transmit signal in a RFID interrogator An RFID interrogator comprises an amplifier configured to amplify signals being transmitted by the RFID interrogator. The RFID interrogator also comprises a bypass path to direct received signals around the amplifier so that the amplifier does no block the reception... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7035147 | Overerase protection of memory cells for nonvolatile memory The invention provides a nonvolatile memory and corresponding method having an optimal memory erase function and, more particularly, a method for erasing a nonvolatile memory comprising a source, a gate, a drain, a channel and a trapping layer. The method according ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7031371 | CDMA/TDMA communication method and apparatus for wireless communication using cyclic spreading codes A communication system (20) uses TDMA techniques to distinguish intended recipients of a communication signal (26) from one another, and direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) techniques to encode and distinguish diverse parallel substreams (70, 74 | 04/18/2006 |
| 7012371 | Plasma display panel structure with shielding layer The present application describes a plasma display panel structure with high contrast ratio and high luminance. In one embodiment, display cells in the plasma display panel are arranged in a delta structure. The delta structure of display cells enhances the luminanc... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7008283 | Method for manufacturing high-brightness planar lamp In a method for manufacturing a high-brightness planar lamp, a reflecting plate is first provided, and several UV light sources are placed on the reflecting plate. Next, liquid macromolecular polymer is uniformly coated on the reflecting plate and the UV light sourc... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7001351 | Brace with integrated lumbar support system In one embodiment, a brace with an integrated lumbar support system includes a belt adapted to be positioned about a user's lower torso, the belt including a tube at least partially integrated within the belt. The brace includes a lumbar pad coupled to the belt, the... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6997892 | Ambulatory cyclic traction device In one embodiment, an ambulatory cyclic traction device includes two support belts configured to be positioned about a user's body and one or more lifting mechanisms coupled between the support belts, the one or more lifting mechanisms adapted to apply a decompressi... | 02/14/2006 |
| D513324 | Impulse therapy garment | 12/27/2005 |
| 6977136 | Method for manufacturing an organic electroluminescent display A method for manufacturing an organic electroluminescent display is disclosed; the method utilizes only one photo mask to produce the cathode ramparts and insulating layer so as to simply the manufacturing procedure, reduce the time and the cost required for manufac... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6974432 | Traction device adjustment mechanism and method In one embodiment, a method is provided for adjusting the length of a belt having right and left front portions and a back portion, the right and left front portions of the belt each moveable with respect to the back portion of the belt. Opposite ends of a strap are... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6967579 | Radio frequency identification for advanced security screening and sortation of baggage An RFID conveyor system comprises one or more wedges designed to allow an RFID scanner to detect and uniquely identify RFID-tagged baggage as they are conveyed through an antenna array. The RFID conveyor system can also be designed to prevent the reading of previous... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6950804 | Systems and methods for distributing targeted multimedia content and advertising A method of delivering content from a content delivery system to a user's terminal over a communication link that provides users with flexibility in determining how to pay for content, one option being to receive targeted advertising with the content. Other options ... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6945774 | Gas burner with flame stabilization structure The present invention provides a gas burner such as for use in a barbecue grill with at least one row of burner ports in a linear arrangement along the burner and a flame stabilizing structure having a flame stabilizing port with an extent transecting the linear arr... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6899430 | Color imaging systems and methods A system for separating light into different spectrums and for recombining the light includes at least one polarizing beamsplitter and at least one retarder stack configured to condition the polarization of input light differently for different spectrums. A device e... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6892877 | Dispensing container A dispensing container for dispensing confectionary items. The dispensing container includes a body having a chamber for storing confectionary items and a door connected to the body and operable to dispense the confectionary items stored in the chamber. The body als... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6881602 | Gallium nitride-based semiconductor light emitting device and method According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a novel and optimal semiconductor light emitting device comprising a substrate, an n layer disposed co-extensively on the substrate, an n++ layer disposed non-extensively and ... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6868426 | Virtual document organizer system and method A system and method of managing virtual documents is described. In this approach, a user database is set up on a network-connected computer. There are a number of virtual documents that are created by on other network-connected computers. These virtual documents hav... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6855121 | Blood-related dialysis and treatment A method of treating blood or plasma of a subject to remove metabolic contaminants by electrophoresis. Blood or plasma from the subject is placed in a first solvent stream, the first solvent stream being separated form a second solvent stream by an electrophoretic m... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6852807 | Resin compositions having biodegradation and hydrolysis properties There are provided a biodegradable and hydrolyzable resin composition having good physical properties such as tensile strength and elongation and a resin having widespread applications as wastebag films and food packaging films. ... | 02/08/2005 |
| D501348 | Slat for venetian blind | 02/01/2005 |
| D501401 | Dispensing container | 02/01/2005 |
| D501136 | Dispensing container | 01/25/2005 |
| 6838251 | Method for determining the coagulation potential of a plasma sample A method of determining the coagulation potential of a plasma sample be pre-incubating the plasma sample with a reagent such that endogenous protein C in the plasma is at least partially converted into activated protein C by the reagent, adding factor Xa which is pr... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6823383 | Stealth network Described in this application is a system and device in which taps, which mirror or provide a copy of network traffic, are connected to monitoring equipment through shadowing units, which pass data to the monitoring equipment but block outbound data transmissions fr... | 11/23/2004 |
| D498788 | Data card | 11/23/2004 |
| 6819748 | Menuing method and system A method and system for menuing on a voice response unit (VRU) or the like that avoids creating customer confusion on low volume calls that results in customer service representatives having to spend time clearing up that confusion without otherwise adversely affect... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6816872 | Apparatus and method for reconstructing a file from a difference signature and an original file Invention maintains duplicate files in safe places. A SCAN computer program creates a TOKEN Table of an earlier file. The TOKEN Table reflects the indices of successive segments of the file and the exclusive-or (XR) and Cyclic redundancy check (CRC) products of the ... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6816309 | Compensated color management systems and methods Beamsplitters are frequently used in projectors based on reflective liquid crystal displays for separating input and output light, and more recently for color management systems. Retarder stack filters are used in such systems to orthogonally polarize primary colors... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6800184 | Electrophoresis separation and treatment of samples A system for separating biomolecules by electrophoretic separation including a first separation barrier having a defined molecular mass cut-off disposed in the first electric field area, a first restriction barrier disposed between a first cathode zone and a first s... | 10/05/2004 |
| D495549 | Slat for venetian blind | 09/07/2004 |
| 6786400 | Multiple account banking system and method A system and method that offers a consumer the option to pay for a transaction at a point-of-sale or to conduct a transaction at an automated teller machine using either a credit line or funds in an account, both the credit line and the funds being available upon us... | 09/07/2004 |
