Did You Know...
...that one person who claimed to be the inventor of the television is Russian emigre Vladimir Zworykin? In 1929 David Sarnoff, founder of RCA, asked Zworykin what it would take to develop TV for commercial use. He said: a year and a half and $100,000. In reality, it took 20 years and $50 million! Before his death in 1982 at the age of 92, Zworykin said of his invention: "The technique is wonderful. It is beyond my expectations. But the programs! I would never let my children even come close to this thing."
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8017065 | System and method for forming a container having a grip region A container forming assembly and method includes receiving a parison within a cavity of a mold, enclosing the parison within the mold having a wall with a recess, inflating the parison in the mold to form a blow molded container where the blow molded container has a... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8011166 | System for conveying odd-shaped containers A process for efficiently conveying containers along a table-top conveying system includes the steps of temporarily securing a transfer stabilizing support (1a, 1b) to a bottom end of a formed container (14) so that the container c... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8010244 | Intervisibility determination A system and method for efficient intervisibility determination. The intervisibility determination method of the present invention provides a multiple threat processing capability within a specified area of terrain using a common database. Computation is simplified ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8005764 | Automatic verification of postal indicia products A system and method for receiving and storing data about a unique postal indicium, the data being received from a printing location after printing of the postal indicium and determining whether scanned information about the postal indicium received from a reading lo... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8005657 | Survivability mission modeler A method of determining survivability is disclosed. The method can include selecting a mission scenario and providing data associated with the scenario as input to a plurality of low-level modeling tools each associated with a corresponding spectrum, and performing ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8005260 | Correcting video coding errors using an automatic recognition result A method for sorting mail includes performing an automatic address recognition process on a digitized image of a mail piece and generating a plurality of conditional address recognition results and a plurality of confirmation values each associated with one of the p... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7995930 | Optical receiver using Mach-Zehnder interferometer The present invention relates to an optical receiver, in which the transmittance of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer can be locked at a normal operation point in a simple structure and control. A transmittance detecting circuit and a minute modulation signal detecting ... | 08/09/2011 |
| D642820 | Sofa | 08/09/2011 |
| D642816 | Sofa | 08/09/2011 |
| 7988002 | Plastic container and closure and system and method of making the same A plastic container and closure and method of making the same. The container can include a solid bottom end, an outer sidewall extending from the solid bottom end, and a neck portion extending from the outer sidewall to create an open end of the container. The neck ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7980404 | Multi-functional base for a plastic, wide-mouth, blow-molded container A container can have a body with an integrally formed base attached to the body. The base includes a concave annular wall extending from the container sidewall to a standing surface, and an inner wall extending from the standing surface to a substantially flat inner... | 07/19/2011 |
| D639085 | Sofa | 06/07/2011 |
| D639084 | Sofa | 06/07/2011 |
| 7948120 | Modular power distribution backplane, system, and method A modular power distribution backplane, system, and method. The modular power distribution backplane can be configured with a plurality of dual-operation tags for placement of components in the backplane. The system and method also can automatically and electronical... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7945478 | Historical vehicle parts database system A computer system, method and computer readable media for processing historical vehicle replacement part database queries is disclosed. The system can include a data preprocessing unit, a database server coupled to the data preprocessing unit, a web server and an ap... | 05/17/2011 |
| D637913 | Beverage container | 05/17/2011 |
| 7937332 | Automatic verification of postal indicia products A method for verifying uniquely identifiable postal indicia in a closed loop system is provided. An embodiment of the method may include scanning a mail piece for human-readable and machine-readable images in a single image, including a postal indicium representing ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7933844 | Address forwarding for parcels A method for sorting parcels may include reading, during a first sortation pass, machine readable indicia applied to the parcel prior to mailing and at least a portion of delivery address information on a parcel. The method may also include selecting a reference ind... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7926243 | Method and system for handling containers Method and system for handling a plurality of hot-filled and capped containers having temporary deformations or distortions caused by vacuums induced in the containers. For each container, temporary deformations are confined or directed to a particular portion of th... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7925046 | Implicit video coding confirmation of automatic address recognition A method for sorting mail that may include performing an automatic address recognition process on a digitized image of a mail piece and generating a plurality of conditional address recognition results and a plurality of confirmation values each associated with one ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7900425 | Method for handling a hot-filled container having a moveable portion to reduce a portion of a vacuum created therein Systems and methods for vacuum compensation in hot-filled and cooled containers. Each container reduces, via one or more vacuum panels, a first portion of a vacuum created in the container. Each container also has a repositionable portion to reduce a second portion ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7830872 | Signal processing device, method, and computer readable medium To provide a signal processing section of a software radio device or the like which can dynamically change connection itself of an internal function structure at the time of execution. A switching module ISM1(2) or the like selects and uses one of the ... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7823062 | Interactive electronic technical manual system with database insertion and retrieval A Class V Interactive Electronic Technical Manual (IETM) system that allows remote diagnostic engineers to interact directly with on-site maintenance technicians and a system under test. In addition, the IETM system permits automatic synchronization of files on a ma... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7801702 | Enhanced diagnostic fault detection and isolation A system and method for enhanced diagnostic fault detection and isolation is provided, wherein COTS/MOTS subsystems of a system under test are evaluated in a hierarchical manner providing improved test coverage and a reduction in ambiguity group size. The enhanced d... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7799264 | Container and method for blowmolding a base in a partial vacuum pressure reduction setup A base of a container may include a standing surface, a first wall, a second wall, a first hinge, and a second hinge. The first hinge may be positioned between the standing surface and the first wall, the first wall being rotateable about the first hinge relative to... | 09/21/2010 |
| D623869 | Sofa | 09/21/2010 |
| 7785282 | Spinal orthosis A spinal orthosis comprising a torso unit, a base member secured to the torso unit, a spring biased hinge connected at a first end to the base member and connected at a second end to a sternal support, and one or more sternal pads (or plates) connected to the sterna... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7769246 | Multiple map image projecting and fusing A system and method for multiple map image projecting and fusing in an object oriented computer environment. The multiple map image projecting and fusing method may provide a flexible and efficient architecture for generating combined map images from one or more map... | 08/03/2010 |
| D618007 | Sofa | 06/22/2010 |
| 7738679 | Map image object connectivity A system and method for creating a connectivity framework between map image objects and map data objects in an object oriented computer environment. The connectivity framework may provide a flexible and efficient architecture for generating multiple map images from ... | 06/15/2010 |
| D617571 | Sofa | 06/15/2010 |
| 7730527 | Procedure for controlling access to a source terminal network using a block mode tunnel and computer programs for its implementation Disclosed is a method and system for controlling access of a source terminal to a network that includes, in particular, a firewall and an authentication portal that maintains the firewall during an access request originating from the source terminal and which permit... | 06/01/2010 |
| D616215 | Sofa | 05/25/2010 |
| D616214 | Sofa | 05/25/2010 |
| D615766 | Sofa | 05/18/2010 |
| D615317 | Chair | 05/11/2010 |
| D615316 | Chair | 05/11/2010 |
| D615315 | Sofa | 05/11/2010 |
| 7684421 | Information routing in a distributed environment An information management system for a device network is disclosed. The information management system may include a service requester node, a monitoring node, and a service provider node. The system may include a service oriented request message including a message ... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7577508 | Mobility traction control system and method A system and method for vehicle mobility traction/ride control. The system includes a mode controller configured to output control signals to a variety of vehicle control subsystems in response to operator mode selection input. ... | 08/18/2009 |
