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 |
| 8094324 | Combined host and imaging device menu interface An imaging method enabling spontaneous, single-site implementation of, and control over, the execution of an imaging job employing the combinable native functionalities and related user-accessible controls of plural, currently available, imaging-related instrumental... | 01/10/2012 |
| 7802406 | Multi-function building panel beam tube with homogeneous anchor sites A skin-panel sub-frame panel having spaced, upper, lower and lateral edges, designed to occupy an upright plane adjacent the outside of a plural-story building frame, with a vertical dimension which is substantially the same as inter-floor story-height in the frame.... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7790274 | Layered panel structure including self-bonded thermoformable and non-thermoformable layer materials A layered panel structure featuring a first layer formed of non-thermoformable material, having opposite faces, a thickness T as measured between its opposite faces, and an effective layer density d, and a second layer formed of thermoformable material having opposi... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7735445 | Deployable marker banner structure and system A deployable marker banner structure and system including (a) an elongate, rollable/unrollable fabric body having opposite ends, a long axis, and opposite faces, (b) shape-forming biasing structure operatively connected to the body, applying shape-forming biasing fo... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7732028 | Adhereable, pre-fabricated, self-healing, anti-puncture coating for liquid container A bulk, generally elastomeric and pliable, layered mat formed to permit selective trimming into size-chosen mat trims/tiles, each of which is structured to perform as a self-puncture(wound)-sealing, defined-liquid-reactive, anti-puncture-leakage coating element appl... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7717560 | Eye-administered, moving-image physiologic test system and method A physiologic test, and a system for implementing this test, including, from a methodologic point of view, (a) illuminating the central field in a test subject's eye with a relative-motion test image produced on an image display structure by a motion-image-creation ... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7716820 | Rotational apparatus for welding beam-mount structure to the side(s) of a column Apparatus for precision deploy-attaching beam-mount structure to the outside of an elongate column at plural, defined attachment sites that are distributed and spaced along the length of the column. During use, a column support jig with plural openable/closeable yok... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7668589 | Integrated, plural-signal, heart-signal sensor system and related data-presentation methodology A system and a related methodology for gathering, during a selected time span, and from a common anatomical site, time-contemporaneous ECG-electrical and heart-sound signals including (1) processing such signals to effect (a) time-based, related ECG fiducials, and (... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7665397 | Plural-panel armor system A plural-panel, plural-layer armoring system including (a) an outer layer of elongate, side-by-side adjacent, laterally-interlocking, hardened-material armor panels having long axes substantially paralleling one another, and (b) a contacting, but not bonded-to, inne... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7624760 | Liquid tank puncture-repair method A structure-aided method for sealing, from the outside, a liquid-leaking puncture wound in the wall of a liquid container. This method is implemented utilizing a patch body having a perimetered cavity selectively securable to the outside of such a container with the... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7621099 | Rotational method for welding beam-mount structure to the side(s) of a column A method and related apparatus for precision deploy-attaching beam-mount structure to the outside of an elongate column at plural, defined attachment sites that are distributed and spaced along the length of the column. The method involves (a) preparing an elongate ... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7621088 | Shear-wall structure and method employing laterally bounding columns Building frame shear-wall structure and associated methodology wherein the resulting structure includes (a) plural, elongate, spaced, interconnected columns and beams including elongate stretches which define and perimeter nominally open panes, and (b) within each d... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7614347 | Solid-fuel-combustion fire-insulation interface with adjacent container-wall A solid-fuel rocket assembly including an elongate fuel container having a long axis, and an inner surface spaced outwardly from, and generally circumsurrounding, that axis, and a continuous, elastomeric, heat-insulative, intumescence-behavior jacket adhered to the ... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7546198 | Dynamic noise-reduction baselining for real-time spectral analysis of internal combustion engine knock A real-time, dynamic method for creating a body of cycle-and-cylinder-specific noise-reduction baseline data useable in conjunction with analyzing the engine-knock behavior of a subject internal combustion engine involving operating the engine in an operating mode w... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7530205 | Structural chase beam An elongate structural chase beam adapted for assembly in a building frame as a unit extending between a pair of upright columns. This beam includes an elongate, axially central, vertical through-passage located between its ends for accommodating the vertical passag... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7527466 | Building-erection structural member transporter A machine-liftable, open-framework, cage-like transporter for lifting and maneuvering horizontal structural beam elements, and the like, to appropriate installation elevations at and from the side of a plural-story building frame which is under construction. The tra... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7503151 | Building frame with open/openable-top, hollow, tubular column structure A building frame including a load-bearing portion which is defined by a pattern of interconnected, elongate, upright columns and laterally extending beams, with each column taking the form of an assembly of hollow, tubular column components, at least some of which e... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7441692 | Method and structure for I-beam end geometry stabilization A method for stabilizing, in correctness, the transverse cross section of the end of an elongate structural beam during weld attachment to that end of a beam-end mounting component. This method includes the steps of (a) configurationally correcting and capturing the... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7437987 | Blast shielding A blast shockwave shield including an upright, monolithic body having a lateral center, and front and back sides, and a blast-facing, curved strike face formed on the upright, front side of the body, including a pair of companion, laterally spaced, laterally symmetr... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7409969 | Liquid tank puncture repair kit Structure, for sealing, from the outside, a liquid-leaking puncture wound in the wall of a liquid container. This structure includes a patch body having a perimetered cavity selectively securable via a self-torque-limiting bolt to the outside of such a container in ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7393572 | Anti-leak projectile barrier and method Barrier structure placeable as a projectile-disabling, anti-liquid-leakage protective shield for the outside surface of a container designed to hold liquid of a certain nature including (a) a first-type (innermost) layer formed as an expanse of high-elastomeric mate... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7389280 | Computer-based intelligence method and apparatus for assessing selected subject-area problems and situations A computer-based method and apparatus for assessing problems and situations in a defined knowledge domain, employing both (a) an inferential database of elemental data components, as domain-wide as possible, which are relevant to the domain, and (b) periodic statist... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7381287 | Adhereable, pre-fabricated, self-healing, anti-puncture coating for liquid container and methodology A bulk, generally elastomeric and pliable, layered mat formed to permit selective trimming into size-chosen mat trims/tiles, each of which is structured to perform as a self-puncture(wound)-sealing, defined-liquid-reactive, anti-puncture-leakage coating element appl... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7375837 | User-definable print-option conversion for heterogeneous cluster printing A method and system for handling an imaging job in a heterogeneous imaging environment, and in particular for enabling and implementing dynamic conversion and/or configuration of imaging control data, such as print control data, so as to match imaging job requiremen... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7363334 | Digital signal-processing structure and methodology featuring engine-instantiated, wave-digital-filter componentry, and fabrication thereof Digital signal-processing structure and methodology which feature a time-slice-based digital fabricating engine, and software operating structure operatively associated with that engine structured to operate the engine in a time-slice-based fabrication mode wherein ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359086 | Graphic-interface, anti-clipping, color-image correction Computer-based, anti-clipping, pre-printing, color-image correction via virtual color-parameter controllers that are provided within the graphic user interface of a print driver. Parameters accommodated include Red, Green and Blue offset, Lightness offset, Gamma and... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7354106 | Impact-injury-minimizing seat structure and methodology A vehicle safety seat and related methodology featuring (a) an anti-spring-back seat platform having a generally upwardly facing support surface, (b) a triggerable acceleration structure disposed cooperatively relative to that support surface in a manner whereby the... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352489 | Color error diffusion method for multi-level output device An improved color-image error diffusion process for use in conjunction with the operation of a multi-level, halftone, color-image output device. This process involves, first, performing output-device-dependent color error diffusion on color-image input data utilizin... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7342896 | Centralized network organization and topology discover in Ad-Hoc network with central controller A method for the self-organization of a plural-node communication network which involves (1) selecting a central coordinator (CCo) node from a collection of nodes initially lacking a CCo, (2) employing the selected CCo to oversee a procedure for discovering, from th... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343627 | Secure document-data-handling system and methodology The method and system which assure tight security over access to document data which is being handled in a system during scanning, copying, printing and faxing modes of operation. Security takes place with (1) substantially complete blockage of outside-world (networ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7336240 | Integrated microwave transceiver tile structure Integrated microwave modular transceiver tile structure in the form of a cube-like configuration, and including (a) a first, generally planar, circuit-board layer structure possessing an array of plural, integrally formed microwave transceivers arranged in a defined... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7302290 | Heart-activity monitoring with multi-axial audio detection Apparatus and associated methodology for monitoring correlatable anatomical electrical and sound signals, such as electrical and audio signals produced by human heart activity, including (a) attaching to a selected, common anatomical site ECG (or other) electrode st... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7299505 | Helmet cushioning pad with variable, motion-reactive applied-load response, and associated methodology A site-selectable, helmet-installable load-cushioning pad structure employable inside a helmet shell as a part of a plural-spaced-pad distribution featuring a compressible viscoelastic foam core which resists rapid, but not slow-movement, compression. Associated met... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7282462 | Body armor strand structure, method and performance Structure, methodology and performance involving and utilizing body armor strand material which includes an elongate strand body possessing elongate brittle ceramic surface structure, elongate ductile core structure disposed within that surface structure, and elonga... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7269860 | Moisture-barriered, body-contact protective interface structure A moisture-barriered, body-contact protective interface structure including a core, viscoelastic, acceleration-rate-sensitive cushioning structure, and a moisture-barriering container surrounding the cushioning structure, with the container being operable to block t... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7257251 | Chrominance smoothing A method for reducing chrominance entropy in a digital color image. This method is practiced in relation to pixels in the two chrominance channels in a luminance-chrominance-chrominance representation of the image. The method involves shifting the chrominance values... | 08/14/2007 |
| D547681 | Whimsical, bottle-cap-appearance, linear-measurement workpiece gripping device | 07/31/2007 |
| 7246385 | Helmet chin-strap harness structure Helmet chin-strap harness structure including a pair of bilaterally symmetric, bilaterally equi-flex, non-rigid, fabric-strap-like, substantially mirror-image, flexible lateral elements which define opposite sides for the harness structure, and a bilaterally symmetr... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7242500 | Halftone image down-sampling Halftone color image down-sampling, performed on a color-channel-by-color-channel basis, with respect to which the selected, overall down-sampling ratio determines whether one or plural down-sampling stage(s) is(are) implemented. If B | 07/10/2007 |
| 7239412 | True print preview method and apparatus A computer/printer system and method which includes and involves a screen-display device with a display screen, and wherein requests for a document print preview results in the direct and accurate creation by the printer per se of a true preview on the display scree... | 07/03/2007 |
