Did You Know...
...that the inventor of the electric motor was a blacksmith named Thomas Davenport? Described as "a brilliantly unsuccessful inventor", Davenport invented the first rotary electric motor. In 1836 he headed out -- on foot -- from his Vermont home to file a patent application at the Patent Office in Washington, D.C. By the time he got there, he had squandered away his money and couldn't afford the $30 filing fee so he turned around and went home. When he later mailed in his application with money he'd raised, the Patent office was destroyed in a fire. He did finally get credit for his invention on Feb. 5, 1837.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| D637806 | Tablet holder compartment | 05/17/2011 |
| 7939735 | Stringed musical instrument The present subject matter relates to novel soundboard apparatus for stringed musical instruments. Specifically, the present subject matter teaches an apparatus capable of enhanced phonetic quality, improving the phonetic consistency of a stringed musical instrument... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939080 | HER-2 binding antagonists There is disclosed a pharmaceutical composition for treating solid tumors that overexpress HER-2, comprising an agent selected from the group consisting of (a) an isolated polypeptide having from about 50 to 79 amino acids taken from the sequence of SEQ ID NO:1, whe... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7936602 | Use of data latches in cache operations of non-volatile memories Methods and circuitry are present for improving performance in non-volatile memory devices by allowing the inter-phase pipelining of operations with the same memory, allowing, for example, a read operation to be interleaved between the pulse and verify phases of a w... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7935799 | Methods of treating diarrhea caused by small intestinal bacterial overgrowth Disclosed is a method of diagnosing irritable bowel syndrome, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus erythematosus, or Crohn's disease, which in... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7935784 | HER-2 binding antagonists There is disclosed a pharmaceutical composition for treating solid tumors that overexpress HER-2, comprising an agent selected from the group consisting of (a) an isolated polypeptide having from about 50 to 79 amino acids taken from the sequence of SEQ ID NO. 1 or ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7933876 | Data storage system and method by shredding and deshredding A system and method for data storage by shredding and deshredding of the data allows for various combinations of processing of the data to provide various resultant storage of the data. Data storage and retrieval functions include various combinations of data redund... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933722 | Methods of analysis of polymorphisms and uses thereof The present invention provides methods for the assessment of diseases that result from the combined or interactive effects of two or more genetic variants, and in particular for diagnosing risk of developing such diseases in subjects using an analysis of genetic pol... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7926720 | Optimized non-volatile storage systems A memory card that adapts its operation according to the application to which it applied or the conditions under which it is operated. This allows the card to dynamical self optimize. In a first set of embodiments, the card uses host profiling where it will learn ab... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7921196 | Adaptive file delivery with transparency capability system and method An adaptive file delivery system and method transmits a data file, such as an audio-video file, over a network or collection of networks in segments, each segment transmitted during a different time period. Each time period has a transmission portion to transmit its... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7919915 | Cold cathode fluorescent display A monochromic, multi-color and full-color cold cathode fluorescent display (CFD), comprises of some shaped white or multi-color or red, green blue color cold cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFL), reflector, base plate, temperature control means, luminance and contrast e... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7919780 | System for high efficiency solid-state light emissions and method of manufacture In one embodiment of the invention, a bonding material is used to bond a substitute substrate to the LED, wherein the bonding material does not including gold or tin. The bonding material preferably includes gallium (Ga), such as a combination of Ga and Al or Cu. Th... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7919534 | Mixing device Particular aspects provide compositions comprising an electrokinetically altered oxygenated aqueous fluid, wherein the oxygen in the fluid is present in an amount of at least 25 ppm. In certain aspects, the electrokinetically altered oxygenated aqueous fluid compris... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7919232 | Advanced pathogen testing and carcass-certification methods for slaughter operations The invention provides methods for certification of carcasses, and for detecting a contaminated carcass and preventing its movement into or across a production area. The inventive methods comprise obtaining, early in the production process (pre-fabrication), a test ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7917686 | Host system with direct data file interface configurability Data files are assigned addresses within one or more logical blocks of a continuous logical address space interface (LBA interface) of a usual type of flash memory system with physical memory cell blocks. This assignment may be done by the host device which typicall... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7915251 | Alpha-helix mimetics and methods relating to the treatment of fibrosis The invention provides α-helix mimetic structures of formula (I) with the definitions of A, B, D, E, G, W, R1 and R2 as set out in the description and a chemical library relating thereto. The compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising t... | 03/29/2011 |
| PP21831 | plant named ‘Tifton 23-O’ The new variety Pennisetum ‘Tifton 23-O’ is provided. The new and distinct variety has increased tillers under drought conditions; superior Helminthosporium leaf spot resistance; high ornamental value; narrow canopy; narrow base; and narrow leaves.... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7913061 | Non-volatile memory and method with memory planes alignment A non-volatile memory is constituted from a set of memory planes, each having its own set of read/write circuits so that the memory planes can operate in parallel. The memory is further organized into erasable blocks, each for storing a logical group of logical unit... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7913004 | Portable selective memory data exchange device A portable data exchange device including a storage memory for storing data, a USB interface, and a device controller having a file-selection-and-transfer mechanism is disclosed. Upon coupling of the presently disclosed data exchange device with a USB flash drive (U... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7911836 | Data restoration in case of page-programming failure The present invention discloses systems and methods for restoring data in flash memory after an operational failure. The method includes: setting bits of a data buffer in accordance with the data; programming a plurality of memory cells in accordance with the data b... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7909656 | High speed data communications connector with reduced modal conversion A plug including first, second, third, and fourth pairs of contacts connected to first, second, third, and fourth wire pairs, respectively. The first pair of contacts is positioned between first and second contacts of the third pair of contacts, the second pair of c... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7907580 | LAN access by ultra-wideband system and method An ultra-wideband (UWB) system and method provide a local area network (LAN) and/or LAN access. LAN access versions of the UWB system includes an emulator layer and bridge that allow data to be transmitted between a LAN-UWB hybrid device and a LAN network switch, su... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7907458 | Non-volatile memory with redundancy data buffered in remote buffer circuits A memory has defective locations in its user portion replaceable by redundant locations in a redundant portion. Data latches in column circuits of user and redundant portions allow data sensed from or to be written to a memory to be exchanged with a data bus. A remo... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7906082 | Method and apparatus for refining biodiesel Method and apparatus for producing biodiesel fuel, i.e., alkyl ester, from vegetable and/or animal oil. A transesterification catalyst is prepared in a base catalyst tank by spraying alkyl alcohol under pressure through jets at metal hydroxide pellets until the pell... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7905229 | Aerosol generating and delivery device Particular aspects provide novel atomizers for generating particles over a broad range of MMAD size distributions, the eliminating the requirement for an impaction baffle in generating the desired particle sizes. In particular aspects, the atomization means communic... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7899330 | Compact high-resolution tunable optical filter using optical diffraction element and a mirror At least one diffraction element is used to diffract light of multiple wavelengths into different wavelength components. Instead of moving the diffraction element as in certain prior filters, light from the at least one element is reflected back towards the at least... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7898868 | Multi-state memory Maximized multi-state compaction and more tolerance in memory state behavior is achieved through a flexible, self-consistent and self-adapting mode of detection, covering a wide dynamic range. For high density multi-state encoding, this approach borders on full anal... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7898661 | Spectroscopic scatterometer system Before the diffraction from a diffracting structure on a semiconductor wafer is measured, where necessary, the film thickness and index of refraction of the films underneath the structure are first measured using spectroscopic reflectometry or spectroscopic ellipsom... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7896692 | Method of improving isolation between circuits on a printed circuit board A method of improving electrical isolation between a first circuit and a second circuit sharing a common substrate having an effective dielectric constant greater than that of air. The first and second circuits are spaced apart and separated from one another by an i... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7895668 | Nursing apron A nursing apron for a breastfeeding mother is disclosed. The apron comprises a blanket of sufficiently large size to wrap around an upper portion of the mother's torso, and fixing means arranged so as to retain the blanket around the mother's torso. The fixing means... | 03/01/2011 |
| D633292 | Tablet holder | 03/01/2011 |
| 7894583 | Method for automatic information capturing of communication events This invention provides a method for automatically integrating and assembling the timestamp of a communication event with the identification of the communicating parties and available event attributes, presenting prompts for user entries on a terminal or interface d... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7894373 | Networked computer telephony system driven by web-based applications A networked telephony system and method allow users to deploy on the Internet computer telephony applications associated with designated telephone numbers. The telephony application is easily created by a user in XML (Extended Markup Language) with predefined teleph... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7894273 | Nonvolatile memory and method with reduced program verify by ignoring fastest and/or slowest programming bits A group of non-volatile memory cells are programmed in a programming pass by a series of incremental programming pulses where each pulse is followed by a program-verify and possibly program-inhibition step. Performance is improved during the programming pass by dela... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7894269 | Nonvolatile memory and method for compensating during programming for perturbing charges of neighboring cells Shifts in the apparent charge stored on a charge storing element of a non-volatile memory cell can occur because of the coupling of an electric field based on the charge stored in adjacent charge storing elements. To compensate for this coupling, the programming pro... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7892753 | Diagnostic and therapeutic applications of soluble LHCGR protein The invention relates to a soluble luteinising hormone/chorionic gonadotropin receptor (LHCGR) protein and its use in diagnosing, treating and preventing conditions associated with over- and under-production of the said receptor, with over- and under-production of l... | 02/22/2011 |
| D632926 | Beverage container | 02/22/2011 |
| 7890694 | Latched address multi-chunk write to EEPROM An EEPROM system includes flash EEPROM cells organized into subarrays. Pairs of subarrays share row address decoders by sharing word lines, and individual subarrays have dedicated column address decoders and data registers. Each row decoder has an associated row add... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7890157 | Method for fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy and spectroscopy A method and system for analysis of fluorescence emission spectroscopy data and fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy data are described. A unique Laguerre expansion can be found for fluorescence intensity decays of arbitrary form with convergence to a correct so... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7889590 | Flash EEPROM system with simultaneous multiple data sector programming and storage of physical block characteristics in other designated blocks A non-volatile memory system is formed of floating gate memory cells arranged in blocks as the smallest unit of memory cells that are erasable together. One feature is the storage in separate blocks of the characteristics of a large number of blocks of cells in whic... | 02/15/2011 |
