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...that two musicians were responsible for the invention of color print film? Fascinated by photography, Leopold Godowsky and Leopold Mannes worked together to produce an easy-to-use, practical color film. They worked full time as music teachers and gave concerts while experimenting during their off hours in Mannes' kitchen. Their success earned them full-time, well-paying jobs at Kodak and their efforts resulted in Kodachrome film, which was introduced in 1935.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6826514 | Monitoring of controlled mobile environments A container 11, carries a component 12 of the telemetry system. The container mounted unit 12 transmits via its antenna 34, a signal 41 containing data indicating the status of the container. This signal is received by shipboard tr... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6773459 | Medical, bioresorbable implant, process for its production and the use thereof A medical, bioresorbable implant, particularly for cruciate ligament augmentation, is constructed as a composite structure in textile construction from at least two biocompatible polymer materials, which differ in their chemical composition and/or polymer structure ... | 08/10/2004 |
| 7016606 | Error mitigation system using line coding for optical WDM communications An apparatus and method of line coding to mitigate collision induced errors in Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) optical communications systems is disclosed. The apparatus and method prevents Soliton-Soliton-Collision induced errors by reducing a variance in a ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6997117 | Stowable lectern Improved lectern table, made up of a bearing column (1) that rests on a base (2) to be fixed to the floor, while at its upper part it incorporates a board (3) situated in tiltable assembly, having on the rear of the column (1) a support (... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6934731 | Rational frequency synthesizers employing digital commutators A method and an apparatus are disclosed for digital synthesis of signals having a frequency which is a rational factor n/m times an existing reference or clock frequency, wherein n and m may be large relatively prime integers. The invention provides for the use of a... | 08/23/2005 |
| D506659 | Stapler | 06/28/2005 |
| 6897639 | Circuit arrangement for the power supply of a two-wire sensor A two-wire sensor (6) is attached to one pole of a voltage distribution source (U) by an initial connecting line (V1) in which a current-limiting resistor (R1) is positioned and is attached to the other pole by a second connecting line (V2 | 05/24/2005 |
| 6895814 | Method and device for measuring levels A level indicator emits measuring pulses (M) onto the surface (O) of a material (F) that is filled into a container, wherein second echo pulses (E2) are directly reflected at the surface of the material to the transmitting and receiving antenna (A) of the lev... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6891675 | Optical device There is disclosed an optical device in which a first light source for outputting a first wavelength light is apart from a second light source for outputting a second wavelength light by a predetermined distance. An information recording medium is irradiated with th... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6888967 | Data coding method and apparatus therefor A picture target amount-of-code calculating unit calculates a target amount of codes for each picture type that corresponds to an encoding rate that has been determined by an audio/video encoding rate determining unit. An amount-of-code controlling unit controls the... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6889327 | Copyrighted digital data management method, contents provider, user terminal, and data recording medium After a user terminal executes a data usage accounting procedure for a contents provider, enciphered copyrighted digital data generated by enciphering chargeable copyrighted digital data using encryption key data, digital sample preview data generated from an outlin... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6883439 | Non-swiveling pneumatic lectern The disclosure describes a non-swiveling pneumatic lectern with a base, a hollow column secured to the plate, a sleeve secured to the interior of the column, an adjustable tube having an upper end and a bottom end wherein the first end slides inside the sleeve secur... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6860790 | Buffer system for a wafer handling system An apparatus is provided for supporting semiconductor wafer in a wafer processing system. The apparatus comprises at least two wafer support assemblies, defining respectively at least two wafer support levels and being mounted between opposing support beams; one or ... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6857734 | Ink jet printer and method of hardening ink for the printer An inkjet printer for printing a print paper (3) by ejecting a UV-curing type ink through an inkjet print head (5) incorporates an ultraviolet irradiation device (A) for irradiating the ultraviolet light to a target ink position following the ejection ... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6853419 | Reflective liquid crystal display having fine pixels A reflective liquid crystal display has a matrix of pixels formed on a semiconductor substrate. The pixels include pixels A aligned in pixel-A columns and pixels B aligned in pixel-B columns. The pixel-A and pixel-B columns are alternated in a horizontal direction. ... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6851313 | Vibratory level sensor The invention pertains to a method for determining and/or monitoring a predetermined level of a material in a container by means of a probe in the form of a vibrating rod that protrudes into the interior of the container and forms part of an electromechanical oscill... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6848837 | Fibre-optic connector An optical fibre connector comprises a housing and an internal core member defining a channel means for receiving an optical fibre, a chamber for receiving a quantity of curable adhesive being in communication with the channel means, the connector including plunger ... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6846073 | Ink jet printer and its thick film printing method An inkjet printer performing printing a print paper (3) by ejecting an UV-curing type ink to the print paper (3) through an inkjet print head (5) includes an ultraviolet irradiation device (A) having an ultraviolet light generation section (1... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6846725 | Wafer-level package for micro-electro-mechanical systems A method for forming wafers having through-wafer vias for wafer-level packaging of devices, the method comprising the steps of depositing metal on one of two wafers; bonding the two wafers using the metal deposited on the one of the two wafers; forming a through-waf... | 01/25/2005 |
| D500643 | Cheese cutter with a dome | 01/11/2005 |
| 6840050 | Thermal jacket for battery A thermal jacket adapted to accommodate and cool a storage battery placed in the engine compartment of an automobile and exposed to heat at elevated temperatures emanating from the engine. The walls of the rectangular jacket are formed of rigid, foam-plastic materia... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6832608 | Getter support assembly for a solar energy collector system A getter support assembly for supporting getters in a focusing collector type solar collector system comprising a tube radiation absorber (TRA) and a glass enclosure tube, defining therebetween an annular space, and a solar radiation focusing reflector. The getter s... | 12/21/2004 |
| D499609 | Coffee mug with closed handle | 12/14/2004 |
| 6829932 | Method and device for detecting a filing process In order to detect a filling process, a signal is emitted into the container and an echo reflected from the container is recorded. At least one parameter, e.g., the amplitude h(t) of the reflected echo at a time t, is determined, and a filling process is detected if... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6828530 | Apparatus for marking the operation of an induction coil by illumination An illuminating apparatus for an induction coil of an induction cooking field is in the form of a ⅓ circular ring segment and carries conducting tracks, which form turns of a coil, which is connected to several LEDs. During induction coil operation an alternating ... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6823782 | Stencil printing machine A stencil printing machine 1 is provided as including a downstream rotary printing drum 50 with an outer circumferential periphery 50a mounted with a stencil sheet 20, and a rotary press roller 56 which is moveable between a... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6821607 | Acoustically effective foil stack for a vehicle heat shield The method and the device for manufacturing an acoustically effective foil stack (9) made of embossed foil webs (5e, 5f, 5g, 5h) is characterised by the fact that at least two foil webs lying over one an... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6819497 | Color separation and color synthesis optical system and reflection type projection display apparatus Disclosed is a color separation and color synthesis optical system provided between a light source portion and a projection optical system in a reflection type projection display apparatus, which color-separates a white color beam emitted from the light source porti... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6819724 | Viterbi decoder and Viterbi decoding method A data estimating circuit outputs estimation data which estimates input data at a time earlier by a predetermined bit cycle than the input data based on decoded data series outputted from a path memory. A target value computing circuit corrects the target value with... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6815947 | Method and system for thickness measurements of thin conductive layers A method and system are presented for measuring in an electrically conductive film of a specific sample including data indicative of a free space response of an RF sensing coil unit to AC voltage applied to the RF sensing coil. The sensing coil is located proximate ... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6815572 | Method and device for incineration and vitrification of waste, in particular radioactive waste The present invention provides a method of processing organic waste (D) in divided solid and/or liquid form, the method being implemented in a single reactor (1) containing a bath of molten glass (V) surmounted by a gas phase (G), the method comprising incine... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6811214 | Sofa lovers sofa A sofa or the like has an end cushion comprising a lower stationary member approximating the height of an arm of the sofa and a rotatable upper member that may be rotated to overlie an arm of the sofa. Thus, a back support may be provided for sitting crosswise on th... | 11/02/2004 |
| D497772 | Chimney starter | 11/02/2004 |
| 6802402 | Braking device that can be released electromagnetically A braking device that can be released electromagnetically exhibits at least one brake shoe (20), which is pressed against a braking area by the force of a brake spring (14) in order to brake a linear or rotary motion. A magnet system exhibits a coil ( | 10/12/2004 |
| 6803951 | Apparatus and method for video image information processing In a digital video camera unit wherein its CCD outputs an image pickup signal with an odd line and an even line in the 1HD period to convert the image pickup signal to luminance signal and color signal, a line memory portion for separating each line of two image pic... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6801257 | Optical three-dimensional digital imaging and mensuration system for industrial applications An image acquisition arrangement that acquires at least one image of at least one portion of a scene has a camera and an illumination source controlled by a control module. The camera includes an image recording medium and a shutter controllable to enable the image ... | 10/05/2004 |
| D496818 | Thermos coffee maker 8 cup | 10/05/2004 |
| D496827 | Coffee mug with open handle | 10/05/2004 |
| 6793210 | Folding/stitching apparatus A folding/stitching apparatus (1) includes a sheet setting tray (3) having a slit (7), on which a plurality of superimposed sheets (P1) are set, a folding/stitching plate (16) provided to be freely moved between a standby position ... | 09/21/2004 |
