Did You Know...
...that a workman who left the soap mixing machine on too long was responsible for making Ivory Soap? He was so embarrassed by his mistake that he threw the mess in a stream. Imagine his dismay when the evidence of his error floated to the surface! Result: Ivory soap, the soap that floats.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8176836 | Double action short reset trigger system The mechanism is simple, with longer service life, and allows for a safe carrying for prolonged periods and quick subsequent shots of the firearms. The striker (1) has a middle enlargement (1b) that is closer to the front enlargement (1 | 05/15/2012 |
| 8166649 | Method of forming an electroded sheet A sheet in an electronic display is composed of a substrate containing an array of wire electrodes. The wire electrodes are preferably electrically connected to patterned transparent conductive electrode lines. The wire electrodes are used to carry the bulk of the c... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8157229 | Vehicle bed raingutter bracket for rack system A mounting bracket for securing a raingutter-mountable roof rack system to the bed or cargo management rail of a pickup truck or SUV. The bracket comprises a simple device with a minimal number of parts required for removably clamping the bracket to the side member ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8151746 | Control system for a variable compression engine A control system for an adjustment device for a variable compression ratio engine comprising: a jack head, a jack piston, a sprocket wheel, a movable transmission member, and a control valve. The jack piston is received within a chamber of the jack head defining fir... | 04/10/2012 |
| D657499 | Earplug | 04/10/2012 |
| 8148186 | Long-wavelength resonant-cavity light-emitting diode An efficient long-wavelength light-emitting diode has a resonant-cavity design. The light-emitting diode preferably has self-organized (In,Ga)As or (In,Ga)(As,N) quantum dots in the light-emitting active region, deposited on a GaAs substrate. The light-emitting diod... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8146551 | Concentric cam with phaser An assembly for an engine comprising at least one phaser and a camshaft assembly. The camshaft assembly has an outer camshaft piece and an inner camshaft piece. The outer camshaft piece includes an outside cam integrally attached to the housing of the phaser through... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8132308 | Fastener extraction tool The hand tool is used to extract a fastener from a material by preferably gripping the fastener from a horizontal orientation. The hand tool has a head with two pivotally joined halves including at least one pair of gripping jaws. The tool head preferably includes t... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131738 | Search engine service utilizing hash algorithms A secure search method of securing searches by a user through a hash provider using a search engine. The user registers with the hash provider. The hash provider sends a unique number, encrypted result database, and hashed index to the search engine. The user enters... | 03/06/2012 |
| D655273 | Earcup for a headset | 03/06/2012 |
| 8125545 | Photo sensor array using controlled motion A movable sensor including a plurality of photo pixel sites arranged in an array comprising a photo sensor and a neutral density filter filtering the photo sensor. Each of the neutral density filters have a density value that are graduated over a range of densities.... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8113972 | Baseball bat A baseball bat includes a wood portion and a filling material contained by the wood portion. The filling material fills a longitudinal hole in the length of the wood portion to form a cord and a pair of widened portions at either end of the longitudinal portion to f... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8106853 | Wire-based flat panel displays An effective method to create very large electronic displays forms the structure using fiber or tube arrays or electroded sheets containing wire electrodes. The electroded sheets are formed by embedding wire electrodes into the surface of a polymer substrate and ele... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8105195 | Rotational one way clutch chain tensioner with frictional damping A tensioner for a power transmission system includes two tensioning arms operatively engaged with a strand of either the chain or the belt of the power transmission system. The upper end of each tensioning arm is connected to a one way rotational clutch which is piv... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8105194 | Torque biased friction hinge for a tensioner A pivot joint for a single blade spring tensioner or double blade spring tensioner generates a biased friction loss at a pivot joint. The friction torque generated in one direction of joint rotation is greater than the friction torque generated in the opposite direc... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8100095 | Combustion devices for powdered fuels and powdered fuel dispersions An engine includes at least one cylinder, an intake valve, a conduit, a positive displacement powdered fuel dispensing device, and an oxidizing gas source supplying an oxidizing gas to the conduit. The cylinder is defined by a cylinder block having a bore, a cylinde... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8097633 | Uses for quaternary ammonium anticholinergic muscarinic receptor antagonists in patients being treated for cognitive impairment or acute delirium A method for treating the adverse effects of acetyl-cholinesterase inhibitors used in the treatment of cognitive disorders such as acute delirium and cognitive impairment in elderly human patients. The administration of a clinically effective amount of a quaternary ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8093970 | Braided electrical contact element based relay A relay including a coil or solenoid, at least one fixed substrate and a moving substrate, a plurality of braided electrical contact element contacts making contact with pads on the fixed and moving substrates, returning springs mounted on alignment pins, and an opt... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8092840 | Dietary supplement and a method to enhance sleep and lucid dreaming A nutritional supplement for enhancing sleep and lucid dreaming in humans. It contains a combination of ingredients in proportions calculated to enhance lucid dreaming. The primary ingredients are Calea ternifolia, L-5-Hydroxytryptophan (L-5-HTP), and Vinpoce... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8089434 | Electroded polymer substrate with embedded wires for an electronic display A sheet in an electronic display is composed of a substrate containing an array of wire electrodes. The wire electrodes are preferably electrically connected to patterned transparent conductive electrode lines. The wire electrodes are used to carry the bulk of the c... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086621 | Search engine service utilizing the addition of noise A method and modified client that disguises user search terms by adding a plurality of faux search phrases using a phrase-reuse-table comprising resulting faux search phrases and real search phrases the faux search phrases were derived from, a word-reuse-table compr... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8075314 | Method of teaching thinking skills and knowledge acquisition A method of teaching thinking skills and knowledge acquisition using an educational toy is disclosed. In a first step, a user chooses at least one idea variable. In a second step, the user chooses a process from a group having a distinctions process, a systems proce... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8074575 | Machine for positioning and aligning of railroad ties The invention relates to a machine for positioning and squaring crossties of railway tracks, formed by at least one wagon (1), provided with its own means for traveling over the rails (2) of the railway track under construction in which the crossties (... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8067048 | Method and apparatus for cooking low fat French fries The present invention provides an apparatus and method for cooking French fries without cooking oil. The apparatus relies on high pressure inert gas at high temperature as the cooking medium. The inert gas acts both as a heat transfer medium to cook the potatoes, an... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8066602 | Tension-reducing random sprocket A sprocket is provided having a plurality of teeth around its circumference. Adjacent teeth are separated by roots each having a root radius defined as the distance between the center of the sprocket and a point along the root closest to the sprocket center in a rad... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8066600 | Ratchet mechanism for a chain drive A ratcheting tensioning device for a closed loop chain driven power transmission system of an internal combustion engine consisting of a base tensioner arm (12) and an adjusting tensioner arm (14) which each contact different strands or chain. Optional... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8066580 | Putt and swing training plate A golf training plate including a body rectangular in shape comprising a top surface, a left side, a right side, a forward side and a rear side having two foot placement cutouts extending from the rear side towards the forward side and an alignment arm in the shape ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8062144 | Putt and swing training plate A golf training plate including a body rectangular in shape comprising a top surface, a left side, a right side, a forward side and a rear side having two feet placement cutouts extending from the rear side towards the forward side and an alignment arm in the shape ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8057333 | Series spring blade tensioner A blade tensioner includes a blade shoe assembly with parallel stacked flat springs that pivots at one end and is supported in series by a spring loaded ramp at the opposite end. Providing a spring loaded ramp in series reduces the overall stiffness of the tensioner... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8052859 | Aluminum production process control The method of process control is for a Hall-Héroult process of aluminum production from alumina ore in an industrial potline. The method includes measuring an array of sampled potline data including a plurality of cell voltages (V) and a plurality of line amperages... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8052559 | Tensioner with two way damper A tensioner for a power transmission system includes two tensioning arms operatively engaged with the strand of the chain or the belt of the power transmission system. The upper end of each tensioning arm is connected to a two way damper which is pivotally mounted b... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8052558 | Force limiting tensioning arm A tensioner for a chain driven power transmission system of an internal combustion engine, having a ratchet as part of the tensioning system is disclosed. The tensioner contains at least one bracket that is pivotally mounted to the engine adjacent one strand of the ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8049517 | Sensor and method for detecting a substance A sensor for detecting a substance in a physical space, having an RF energy emitter fed by a signal source on one side of the space and an RF energy receiving element coupled to a detector at an opposite side of the channel, spaced apart by a distance (r) selected s... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8038549 | Basketball shooting training aid and method for its use The present invention provides a shooting aid apparatus for basketball players including a device worn by a basketball player to aid the player's shooting forearm to be kept parallel to the vertical centerline of the body during the shooting motion without any appar... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8027729 | Micro integrated cardiac pacemaker and distributed cardiac pacing system A micro integrated cardiac pacemaker includes a control unit for outputting a control signal according to cardiograph information, heart stimulating means for stimulating heart tissue in response to the control signal, cardiograph information extracting means for ex... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8025599 | Pivot arm tensioner with sliding ratchet mechanism An engine chain or belt tensioning system includes a tensioner pivot arm with a ratcheting means that includes backlash in an engine timing system. The tensioner system includes a tensioner pivot arm having a fixed pin, radially projecting ratchet teeth, a tensioner... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8025295 | Christmas tree game A game comprises: a game board; a tree trunk for each player playing the game, the tree truck attachable to the game board; a plurality of branches for the each player playing the game, the plurality of branches attachable to the tree trunk; a tree topper; and a pai... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8021255 | Silent chain power transmission device The present invention is directed to decreasing noise from the onset of engagement with the sprocket teeth till seating thereon and also to reducing wear to the silent chain and the sprocket. A face (a) of a sprocket tooth, which contacts the chain at the onset of e... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8010199 | Blood pressure regulating system by substituting native biological regulatory function A blood pressure regulating system uses a native regulation rule to estimate at least one nerve activity in response to blood pressure changes, comprising at least one blood pressure sensing means which senses blood pressure and outputs a input blood pressure signal... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8010195 | Cardiac pacing system by substituting native biological regulatory function The present invention provides a cardiac pacing system based on biological activities, comprising: a) at least one nerve activity sensing means which senses nerve activity of a cardiac sympathetic nerve and/or a vagal nerve, and outputs a plurality of input nerve ac... | 08/30/2011 |
