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Reward Candy Dispenser for Personal Computers

A personal computer peripheral, battery powered reward candy dispenser which immediately presents students with a single candy for each problem completed correctly.

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Attorney: Cochran Freund & Young, LLC


Number of patents: 11
Last date: April 24, 2012

NumberTitleIssue Date
8166428Synthesized logic replacement
Disclosed is a method of improving a synthesized circuit design comprising searching the synthesized circuit design for a first instance of a first pattern of gates. The first instance is removed from the synthesized circuit design. The first instance is replaced wi...
04/24/2012
D542524Box
05/15/2007
7171518Data storage system recovery from disk failure during system off-line condition
A method for returning a logical volume which is part of a redundant data storage system to on-line status following a disk failure within the logical volume during the time when another of that volume's disks is unavailable as a result of having its firmware update...
01/30/2007
7062678Diagnostic memory interface test
Disclosed is a test method for a computer microprocessor adapted to stress the data transfer interfaces within a microprocessor. The method incorporates patterns designed to stress the interfaces and are further repeated in different widths such that interfaces of v...
06/13/2006
7042717Data storage system with a removable backplane having a array of disk drives
An array of disk drives may be mounted onto a backplane that may slide as a single unit into an enclosure, such as a rack mounted enclosure. The backplane may allow the disk drives to be arranged in multiple columns and rows such that the disk drives are generally p...
05/09/2006
7000142Mirrored extensions to a multiple disk storage system
Disclosed is a system and method for using a mirrored disk as a bootable backup disk for a computer system. A mirroring routine may be used to create a backup disk, then discontinued during normal operations. Should a problem occur with the main disk, the computer s...
02/14/2006
6987674Disk storage system with removable arrays of disk drives
Two sets of disk drives are mounted in a grid arrangement onto a backplane to form a removable multi-disk drive unit for a high capacity disk storage system. The removable units may be mounted into an enclosure that contains a RAID controller. The disk drives are mo...
01/17/2006
6982514Electrochemical devices incorporating high-conductivity conjugated polymers
The present invention includes the preparation of highly conducting conjugated polymers and their use as electrochemical actuators, A typical electrochemical actuator comprises a highly conducting, conjugated polymer for the anode or the cathode, or for both the ano...
01/03/2006
6954810Transparent switch
A transparent switch is able to emulate the arbitration and addressing steps for devices that are normally connected to a bus-type communications network. The switch is connected to the devices in a star-type arrangement, with each device connected to a separate por...
10/11/2005
6793755Method and machine for placement of multiple labels
The present invention is a machine to perform two or more processes to an bottle wherein registration of the first process to the second process is required. The products produced with such registration have distinct advantages over prior art. These include labeling...
09/21/2004
6732230Method of automatically migrating information from a source to an assemblage of structured data carriers and associated system and assemblage of data carriers
A system for automatically migrating a portion of a collection of information located on source data carrier(s) into an assemblage of data carriers, having: a computer memory for pass-through of a first strip of the collection; the assemblage has at least a first st...
05/04/2004
 
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