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A microwave oven adapted for use within a motor vehicle dashboard area. The microwave oven has a removable storage cassette, and slidable platforms for securing and serving containers of beverages and foods.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8163973 | Integrated wound dressing system An integrated wound dressing system and method including a bandage and a self-contained receptacle that stores treatment material for the care and treatment of wounds. The treatment material is easily accessible and can be removed from the receptacle through an exit... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8163828 | Additive for polymers and process for preparation thereof The invention concerns a process for preparing an additive for polymers, the additive itself and the use of the additive for improving the surface properties of polymers. ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8150611 | System and methods for providing predictive traffic information A method for providing predictive traffic information to global positioning satellite systems on board vehicles includes a plurality of GPS-enabled vehicles, each estimating at least one travel route comprising a plurality of road segments and estimating arrival and... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8148030 | Separation membrane for fuel cell and production method thereof Disclosed is a process for producing a diaphragm for a fuel cell comprising a modified anion exchange membrane that substantially maintains durability and hydroxide ion conductivity as an electrolyte membrane and has improved resistance to methanol permeation. The p... | 04/03/2012 |
| D657071 | Metal section | 04/03/2012 |
| 8142586 | Method for manufacturing a fiber-reinforced composite sabot by using resin-injection vacuum assisted resin transfer molding after stitching Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a fiber-reinforced composite sabot for use in APFSDS (Armor. Piercing Fin Stabilized Discarding Sabot) wherein a plurality of fiber mats are laminated instead of one-directional prepreg ply and whole part is reinforced by stit... | 03/27/2012 |
| D656516 | Portion of a display screen with an icon | 03/27/2012 |
| 8136090 | System and methods for applying social computing paradigm to software installation and configuration A method for installation and configuration of a software product includes installing a software product and determining configuration settings of the software product based upon a social network of peers. A system for installation and configuration of at least one ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8132090 | Dynamic creation of symptom databases from social bookmarks A method for the dynamic creation of a symptom database from at least one social bookmark includes bookmarking a webpage comprising a solution to a problem using a web browser; defining a bookmark for the webpage by editing a bookmark field to characterize the solut... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8128581 | Vacuum apparatus and method for treating sores A device and method for the treatment of mouth sores or ulcers, such as canker sores. The device includes a vacuum bulb connected to a treatment tip via a fluid-tight conduit. The device allows for a vacuum to be applied to the area of a canker sore by positioning o... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8127055 | Resilient packet ring add/drop device supporting plug and play redundancy A Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) add/drop device (102′) supporting plug & play redundancy to connect at least one ring (100-i), e.g. SDH/SONET ring, to a switch or router device is disclosed. The add/drop device according to the invention compris... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8122662 | Low-cost, energy-efficient building panel assemblies comprised of load and non-load bearing substituent panels This invention relates to building materials and methods. A building assembly for constructing a building includes load bearing structural panels joined and finished with a non-load bearing panels. The load bearing panels comprise a structural concrete insulating pa... | 02/28/2012 |
| D653574 | Finned hazardous condition detector | 02/07/2012 |
| D653566 | Plug-in hazardous condition detector | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108864 | Method and system for dynamically tracking arbitrary task dependencies on computers in a grid environment A method, system and computer program product for tracking arbitrary task dependencies on computers in a grid environment including the steps of downloading a task to a computer coupled to the grid and identifying the dependencies necessary to perform the task and d... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8108683 | Mitigating dictionary attacks on password-protected local storage The invention includes a method for key creation and recovery based on solutions to puzzles solvable by humans and not computers. In some exemplary embodiments, the key is created and recovered based on the solution(s) in conjunction with the password entered by the... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107362 | Multi-ring resilient packet ring add/drop device A Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) add/drop device to connect multiple rings, e.g. SDH/SONET rings, wavelength or fibers, to a single switch or router device is disclosed. The add/drop device according to the invention comprises two multiplexing framer devices and an Add... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8106522 | Adhesive sheet for a stealth dicing and a production method of a semiconductor wafer device An adhesive sheet is provided enabling to efficiently produce the very small size semiconductor chip by a stealth dicing method. An adhesive sheet for a stealth dicing includes a substrate and an adhesive layer formed on one side of the substrate, wherein a Young's ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8084994 | System to extend the service life of portable devices A method for extending the service life of a portable device includes monitoring a battery of a portable device; identifying a problem bank; reconfiguring a connection schema for the battery to replace the problem battery bank with at least one spare bank; condition... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8078826 | Effective memory clustering to minimize page fault and optimize memory utilization An embodiment of the invention provides a method for effective memory clustering to minimize page faults and optimize memory utilization. More specifically, the method monitors data access requests to secondary storage and identifies data addresses in secondary stor... | 12/13/2011 |
| D649642 | Tourniquet handle | 11/29/2011 |
| 8056399 | Liquid gas vaporization and measurement system and method A liquid gas vaporization and measurement system, and associated method, for efficiently vaporizing a continuous sample of liquid gas, such as liquid natural gas (LNG), and accurately determining the constituent components of the gas. A constant flow of liquid gas s... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8055518 | Method for handling claims arising under representation and warranty insurance for mortgage loans An insurance program for entities in the mortgage industry that provides coverage for financial loss as a result of material inaccuracies in the financial information provided by or on behalf of the borrower. The insurance program preferably includes the initial ins... | 11/08/2011 |
| D647331 | Trestle table | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041696 | Idea tracking and management Disclosure is related to idea tracking and management. The disclosure invokes a method and system for displaying and tracking ideas from a database. The invention accesses a data repository via a data connection, displays the data from the data repository, and allow... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8028048 | Method and apparatus for policy-based provisioning in a virtualized service delivery environment In a distributed computing network having computers interconnected with each other, a method and apparatus of providing policy based provisioning of middleware components to provide a solution for a service. With this invention, the middleware components that are ne... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8025534 | System and method for coupling a LTO HH tape device with a serial attached SCSI connection to a SAS-cable A method, system and apparatus for efficiency coupling a LTO HH tape drive device having a Serial Attached SCSI connector to a SAS-Cable. The method for coupling a LTO HH tape drive device having a Serial Attached SCSI connector to a SAS-Cable includes employing an ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8023251 | Hybrid energy storage device and method of making same A hybrid energy storage device includes at least one cell comprising at least one positive electrode, at least one negative electrode, a separator placed between said at least one positive and said at least one negative electrode, and an electrolyte. The at least on... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8019814 | Service for standardization of resource metadata models via social networking—arriving at an agreed upon (standard) resource meta-model via social consensus Disclosed are systems and methods for generating standardized models for a resource via social computing. The disclosed systems and methods generate standardized models for resources via social computing and include receiving a request for the registration of a reso... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8011569 | Cable storage and dispensing system An embodiment of the invention provides a method for storing a cable, including receiving one or more cables on an adjustable central coil. An RFID chip connected to the cable is read via a RFID reader proximate the central coil. The cable is routed from the central... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8010512 | System and method for model-driven object store Disclosed is a system and method for model-driven datastore. The model-driven datastore includes an object persistence model editor for developing specific object persistence models based on an object persistence metamodel. The object persistence model consists of o... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8003441 | Manufacturing method of semiconductor device A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device according to the present invention comprises: laminating a surface protective sheet to a circuit surface side of a wafer formed with grooves which divide each circuit wherein an adhe... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8002131 | Chambered bottle stopper A stopper apparatus for closing wine bottles and like receptacles having an elongated stopper body of flexible material adapted for insertion into the neck of the bottle so as to create a water-tight and air-tight seal between the media contained within said bottle ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8001068 | System and method for calibrating and extrapolating management-inherent complexity metrics and human-perceived complexity metrics of information technology management The invention broadly and generally provides a method for calibrating the relationship between management-inherent complexity metrics deriving from the management structure and human perceived complexity of information technology management comprising: (a) obtaining... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7998616 | Negative electrode for hybrid energy storage device A negative electrode for a hybrid energy storage device includes a current collector; a corrosion-resistant conductive coating secured to at least one face of the current collector; a sheet comprising activated carbon adhered to the corrosion-resistant conductive co... | 08/16/2011 |
| D642899 | Barrel nut decorative accessory | 08/09/2011 |
| 7991802 | Method and system for creation and reuse of concise business schemas using a canonical library An exemplary feature is a method for using XML Schema based standards. The method consists of constructing a reduced schema for a specific interaction from a collection of reusable artifacts. The method further consists of publishing the reduced schema in a reposito... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7991744 | Method and system for dynamically collecting data for checkpoint tuning and reduce recovery time A system and method for checkpoint tuning in a computer environment comprising a processor coupled to a statistical database and at least one database or table manager and data log files. The data log files store data relating to the operations of the database or ta... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7986456 | Scanner arrangement and method for optically scanning an object A scanner arrangement (50), in particular a scanning microscope, for optically scanning an object (101) in a sequence of scanning steps, has: a drivable moving object stage (40) and an objective assembly (4, 7-10), which has a fron... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7985477 | Liquid-repellent, alkali-resistant coating composition and coating suitable for pattern forming A cationically polymerizable composite coating composition comprising: a) a condensation product of at least one hydrolyzable silane having a fluorine-containing group, b) at least one cationically polymerizable organic resin, and c) a cationic initiator, provides, ... | 07/26/2011 |
