Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8177059 | Closure arrangement The present invention concerns a closure for a container (1). The closure contains an additive to be added to the content of the container (1) at the first opening of the container (1). The closure comprises a cap (2), an insert (4... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8170226 | Acoustic echo cancellation and adaptive filters In one embodiment, a two-way telecommunication device may perform acoustic echo cancellation on incoming signals. An audio decoding module may produce an audio render signal. An audio capture interface may receive an audio capture signal. A short length adaptive fil... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165881 | System and method for variable text-to-speech with minimized distraction to operator of an automotive vehicle A text-to-speech (TTS) system implemented in an automotive vehicle is dynamically tuned to increase intelligibility over a wide variety of vehicle operating states and environmental conditions by tuning characteristics of the synthesized voice in response to measure... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8156550 | Establishing secure data transmission using unsecured E-mail In one embodiment, a host entity may create a trusted connection with a guest entity. The host entity may encrypt a trusted connection invitation for an external guest entity using a proof of possession of a trusted token for the external guest entity. The host enti... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8152404 | Constructions means A construction element in the form of an openable clamping element (1) being applicable to a primary object and including at least one clamping element (1) surrounding the primary object and a locking element, characterized in that the clamping element... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150789 | Transparent parallelism among linear solvers A model, which defines a mathematical problem, and multiple directives may be received. Each of the multiple directives may be mapped to a respective linear solver instance. The linear solver instances may be launched to execute in parallel. Each of the linear solve... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150214 | Inferred discovery and construction of multi-resolution images A method and a processing device may be provided for discovering and constructing multi-resolution images. Content, including an image, may be obtained from a specified address via a network and rendered to a display monitor of the processing device. The processing ... | 04/03/2012 |
| D657044 | Inhaler | 04/03/2012 |
| 8146158 | Extensible activation exploit scanner An extensible activation exploit scanner may have a modular structure, such that capabilities of the activation exploit scanner may be updated easily. The extensible activation exploit scanner may include an exploit data file, at least one detection module, at least... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144780 | Detecting visual gestural patterns A processing device and method are provided for capturing images, via an image-capturing component of a processing device, and determining a motion of the processing device. An adaptive search center technique may be employed to determine a search center with respec... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8134481 | Method and system for receiving and sending navigational data via a wireless messaging service on a navigation system A system and method are provided for receiving navigational data via a wireless messaging service on a navigation system. The system and method provide a way to send requests for destination information via the wireless messaging service and capture navigational dat... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8128404 | Artificial teeth easily enabling bilateral balanced occlusion It is intended to provide artificial teeth designed to easily enable bilateral balanced occlusion with less grinding adjustment. According to the present invention, angles formed by occlusal facets of the artificial teeth with an occlusal plane are suitably set. An ... | 03/06/2012 |
| D655214 | Body composition analyzer with scale | 03/06/2012 |
| 8124268 | Gasket and a bipolar battery A gasket 20; 40; 80 for use in a starved electrolyte bipolar battery comprises a structural part 27; 44; 82 in the shape of a frame having an upper surface 1 and a lower surface 2, and at least one channel 23, 24; 83, 84 to permit ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121412 | Recognition of tabular structures A number of regions and partitions may be created based on input handwritten atoms and a grammar parsing framework. Productions for tabular structures may be added to the grammar parsing framework to produce an extended grammar parsing framework. Each of the regions... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8117329 | Flow of streaming data through multiple processing modules Frame-based streaming data flows through a graph of multiple interconnected processing modules. The modules have a set of performance parameters whose values specify the sensitivity of each module to the selection of certain resources of a system. A user specifies o... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116570 | User interface for providing digital ink input and correcting recognition errors In embodiments consistent with the subject matter of this disclosure, a user may input one or more strokes as digital ink to a processing device. The processing device may produce and present a recognition result, which may include a misrecognized portion. A user ma... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8108450 | Aggregation of write traffic to a data store A method and a processing device are provided for sequentially aggregating data to a write log included in a volume of a random-access medium. When data of a received write request is determined to be suitable for sequentially aggregating to a write log, the data ma... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103823 | Host initiated background formatting of optical medium A method and a host processing device are provided for background formatting, or de-icing, an optical medium with no de-icing assistance from an optical drive upon which the optical medium is mounted. In a foreground mode, an optical medium may be initially formatte... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103498 | Progressive display rendering of processed text A method and a system are provided for processing displayed text and progressively displaying results of processing the displayed text. In some embodiments, displayed text may be submitted as processing requests to process portions of the displayed text. The process... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102281 | Method and system for receiving and sending navigational data via a wireless messaging service on a navigation system A system and method are provided for receiving navigational data via a wireless messaging service on a navigation system. The system and method provide a way to send requests for destination information via the wireless messaging service and capture navigational dat... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8095987 | Software anti-piracy protection Licensing aspects of vendor software packages can be protected with reduced user interaction and effort by automating licensing exploit identification, and if allowed, exploit correction. Automating licensing exploit detection ensures that known exploits are more qu... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8095884 | Automatic alignment with subcomponents on a visual layout A processing device may include a WYSIWYG tool for designing two-dimensional visual layouts. The processing device may display a visual layout including a first object component and a second object component. The first object component, or an object subcomponent the... | 01/10/2012 |
| D651716 | Sphygmomanometer | 01/03/2012 |
| 8079036 | Method and system for structured DMA transactions Disclosed is a structured model for developing DMA code and for performing DMA transactions. This model of structured DMA transactions provides a framework with default behaviors. Developers need only provide a minimal amount of configuration information and can the... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8066159 | Dosing device and dosing utensil for granular material, such as salt A dosing device (1) for sprinkling granules (2) comprises upper elements (3) which delineate a storage space (4) for the granules, and lower elements (5) with a portion (6) which forms the bottom (6a) of the st... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8064696 | Geometric parsing of mathematical expressions A processing device may parse a group of strokes representing a mathematical expression. The group of strokes may be examined to determine whether the group of strokes satisfies any of a finite set of rules. When the group of strokes, included in a region, satisfies... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8051886 | Distressing process and apparatus for applying such process A method is provided for treating the decorative face of a panel to simulate the visual effect of a distressed panel. The decorative face may include at least a layer of wood or the like. The method may involve passing the panel with respect to two or more distressi... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8049172 | Radiometric measuring of thin fluid films Methods and devices relate to radiometric measurement of a thin fluid film (4) using absorption of IR radiation. At least one IR radiator (1) is directed to send signals to an IR detector (2) via a bed (3) on which the fluid film (4 | 11/01/2011 |
| 8046167 | Navigation with contextual color, texture, and structure cues A method and a processing device may provide navigational information including non-photographic cues, such as, contextual color, texture, and structure cues, corresponding to physical entities visible to a party traveling along a determined route. In one embodiment... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041678 | Integrated data availability and historical data protection A single native integrated system may be provided for replicating data to one or more copies of high-availability data and for replicating the data to one or more copies of backup data. The data may be replicated, in near real-time, to the one or more copies of high... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8037033 | Log manager for aggregating data A processing device and a machine-implemented method may be provided for sequentially aggregating, or writing, data to a log included in a data store. The log may store multiple log entries. Each of the log entries may include an entry metadata portion, describing a... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8020335 | Mount for mounting accessories on a weapon A mount for mounting an accessory (19) on a weapon comprises a base plate (12) with an upper surface and a lower surface, to be connected with the accessory. The base plate (12) is clamped to a rail (10) on the weapon with the lower surfa... | 09/20/2011 |
| D644439 | Electric toothbrush handle | 09/06/2011 |
| 8009915 | Recognition of mathematical expressions In embodiments consistent with the subject matter of this disclosure, a user may input strokes as digital ink to a processing device. The processing device may partition the input strokes into multiple regions of strokes. A first recognizer and a second recognizer m... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8001483 | Selective display of cursor An application may be provided with an interface for hiding a cursor from or showing a cursor to a video driver and for causing cursor information to be saved in data storage and retrieved from data storage. The interface may include an application program interface... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8001357 | Providing a single drive letter user experience and regional based access control with respect to a storage device A method and a storage device may be provided. The storage device may include physical storage subdivided into a number of regions. The regions may start and end based on logical block addresses specified in a region table. At least one of the regions may be mapped ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7999703 | Method and system for receiving and sending navigational data via a wireless messaging service on a navigation system A system and method are provided for receiving navigational data via a wireless messaging service on a navigation system. The system and method provide a way to send requests for destination information via the wireless messaging service and capture navigational dat... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7992104 | Viewing data A processing device and method may be provided for displaying a graph, including a number of icons. The icons may be thumbnail images of data elements of a data set. A position of the icons may indicate one or more attribute values of an associated set of attributes... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7991949 | Embedded virtual media A method and an optical storage medium are provided for storing data to and accessing data from an embedded virtual medium within the optical storage medium. Information describing the embedded virtual medium may be stored on to the optical storage medium. Space for... | 08/02/2011 |
