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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| D660393 | Surfboard fin mount | 05/22/2012 |
| D659927 | Drywall pan cover | 05/15/2012 |
| 8171943 | System and method for applying and removing cosmetic hair using biomimetic microstructure adhesive layer A cosmetic hair assembly has a shaped piece of wig netting or mesh holding a plurality of cosmetic hairs attached to a correspondingly shaped layer of biomimetic microstructure adhesive (BMA) with tiny synthetic seta for adhesion to human skin. The wig netting is di... | 05/08/2012 |
| D658263 | Thumb support for a gun | 04/24/2012 |
| 8084873 | Induced surface flow wave energy converter A wave energy conversion device that employs a submerged horizontally-aligned structure provided with a central opening formed in a horizontally extending surface, focuses wave induced water-particle motion, resulting in a flow into and away from the central opening... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8061050 | Hydrostatic sensor device and method for measuring below-ground elevation changes in grade A hydrostatic sensor device and method is provided for detecting changes in elevation in pipes, boreholes, and tunnels below ground. A pressure transducer for sensing differential changes in fluid pressure is provided at one end of an extensible hose or other flexib... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8047240 | Sandbag for mechanical filling using earth loader equipment An implement for mechanically filling multiple sandbags at a time is used on a loader bucket of loader-type equipment. The implement has a planar surface in which a plurality of filler apertures are formed in a plurality of rows evenly spaced over its surface area. ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8029318 | Electric power plug and method of producing the same An electric power plug comprises blades, a bridge and a plug body. The bridge includes sleeves for covering the roots of the blades and a core for holding the lower ends of the blades. The blades and the core are integrally molded. The plug body is molded so that th... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8016304 | Board sliding device for sliding on ground A sliding device for sliding on the ground down a sloped or inclined surface (grass, dirt, sand, synthetic turf, etc.) has an upper deck and a slide mechanism mounted below and in parallel with the upper deck. The slide mechanism has a slide base of an elongated pla... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8013690 | Electronically tunable, absorptive, low-loss notch filter An electronically tuned, absorptive, low-loss notch filter with high RF power handling capability is obtained using a four-port quadrature hybrid coupler connected to a matched pair of band pass resonator devices and resistive terminations. The notch filter design u... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7997582 | Multi-player audio game playable on internet An audio game system and method playable with a website server having an online connection on a network such as the Internet to a plurality of computers for respective participants employs a website enabled to receive from each participant's computer a music file en... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7993467 | Apparatus for removing matte-sticking and method for using the apparatus An apparatus and method are provided to remove matte-sticking adhered to an inner surface of an inclined rear jacket of an exhaust gas hood for collecting exhaust gas discharged during the converter operation in copper smelting. Scraping means 10a˜... | 08/09/2011 |
| D640493 | Rubber-sided airplane pillow cover | 06/28/2011 |
| 7959718 | Flotage trapping device and flotage repelling device A flotage trapping device has at least one plus electrode and at least one minus electrode. The plus electrode and minus electrode are alternately disposed. The electrodes trap the flotage floating in the air. Another flotage trapping device has at least one electro... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7943082 | Water-cooling jacket structure for inspection hole of flash furnace A water-cooling jacket structure 10 for an inspection hole of a flash furnace 1 is arranged at the periphery of a concentrate burner 7 to inspect and clean the inside of the furnace and the concentrate burner 7, and formed in a cylindrica... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7942171 | Device and method for filling multiple sandbags at a time An implement for mechanically filling multiple sandbags at a time is used on a loader bucket of loader-type equipment. The implement has a planar surface in which a plurality of filler apertures are formed in a plurality of rows evenly spaced over its surface area. ... | 05/17/2011 |
| D637251 | Inflatable stand-up paddle board | 05/03/2011 |
| 7924165 | Electronic shark deterrent An Electronic Shark Deterrent provides protection from, and for, sharks and other aquatic creatures. Compact low power circuitry generates high voltage periodic pulse train bursts, disturbing the electroreceptors of the aquatic Elasmobranchi subclass. A train of thi... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7902490 | Solid-state sun tracker This invention deals with the general topic of adaptive non-imaging tracking of the sun. A transmission-mode electro-optical system is presented for solar energy tracking and collection. The scale of the system may range from small portable systems to large-scale in... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7896911 | Device and method for tacking plaque to blood vessel wall A plaque tack device for treating atherosclerotic occlusive disease is formed as a thin, annular band of durable, flexible material having a plurality of barbs or anchoring points on its outer periphery for preventing it from being dislodged. The plaque tack may be ... | 03/01/2011 |
| D632642 | Solar panel with offset opposite-side interconnect modules | 02/15/2011 |
| D632629 | Extendible handled paddle for paddleboarding | 02/15/2011 |
| D631513 | Carrier for business card and memory card | 01/25/2011 |
| 7863517 | Electric power generator based on photon-phonon interactions in a photonic crystal A solar power plant (10) capable of generating electricity comprising a light pipe carrying highly concentrated solar light (19), a hot reservoir (24), a cold reservoir (20), and a plurality of large-scale solid-state nano-structured phot... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7833323 | Flotage trapping device using electrostatic field There is provided a flotage trapping device using electrostatic field. The flotage trapping device has a body including a power source portion and a boosting portion fed from the power source portion, and a collector portion including a collector to which the plus a... | 11/16/2010 |
| D626921 | In-line switching module | 11/09/2010 |
| 7788136 | Online agent ordering server and system for ordering items including booking activities from an in-room TV A system and method for online ordering of items of real-time availability from vendor inventories in which an online agent ordering server acts as an intermediary between a TV system and an online ordering website. The online agent ordering server stores TV orderin... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7780810 | Adhesion device for applying and releasing biomimetic microstructure adhesive from a contact surface An adhesion device is made up of three parts: an anchor portion; a peeler layer; and a “biomimetic microstructure adhesive” (BMA) portion. The anchor portion has one side affixed to a part of an object to be releasably adhered to a surface. The peeler layer has ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7774819 | System for managing, converting, and transmitting video content for uploading online to a digital TV services provider system A video-on-demand (VOD) content delivery system has a VOD Application Server which manages a database of templates ordered in a hierarchy for presentation of video content elements of different selected types categorized in hierarchical order. The templates include ... | 08/10/2010 |
| D620298 | Airbag lumbar support pillow | 07/27/2010 |
| D618946 | Fiber-filled lumbar support pillow | 07/06/2010 |
| D618945 | Airbag lumbar support pillow | 07/06/2010 |
| 7736095 | Pile assembly for engineering and construction works A conventionally available pile for civil engineering work is constructed such that the pile has in its inside a core body with wedges that stick into soil deep in the ground and function to prevent the pile from coming out of place. A problem exists with such a pil... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7697219 | Non-imaging facet based optics A high efficiency and compact optical device comprising two or more active and resonating optical facet surfaces defined by a three-dimensional representation and configured to provide a three-dimensional device. A focal region, remote from the optical surfaces and ... | 04/13/2010 |
| D610799 | Padded underbelt for utility belt | 03/02/2010 |
| 7656459 | Crane hook and trolley camera system A crane camera system employs a hook camera transmitter to send wireless signals vertically upward to a trolley receiver, which are then relayed by a trolley transmitter to the operator cabin. This allows line-of-sight wireless transmission of signals from the hook ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7631336 | Method for converting, navigating and displaying video content uploaded from the internet to a digital TV video-on-demand platform Video content is uploaded via the Internet to a video-on-demand (VOD) server identified by a title and a hierarchical address of categories and subcategories for categorizing the title. The VOD server converts and stores the video content at a storage address in a v... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7630874 | Data visualization methods for simulation modeling of agent behavioral expression A computer simulation method is provided for modeling the behavioral expression of one or more agents in an environment to be simulated, then running a simulation of the modeled agent(s) against real-world information as input data reflecting changing conditions of ... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7622816 | Power control interface and energy storage between a wind farm and a power transmission system A power control interface between an unstable power source such as a wind farm and a power transmission line employs an electrical energy storage, control system, and electronic compensation module which act together like an “electronic shock absorber” for stori... | 11/24/2009 |
| D604029 | Hawaiian wedding shirt | 11/17/2009 |
