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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6065182 | Cordless wet mop and vacuum assembly The present invention relates to a suction cleaning device which provides liquid dispensing, scrubbing, squeegeeing, and suction drying in a single, compact, self contained device. The suction cleaning device includes a cleaning device housing, a handle c... | 05/23/2000 |
| 5797134 | Motor vehicle monitoring system for determining a cost of insurance A method and system of determining a cost of automobile insurance based upon monitoring, recording and communicating data representative of operator and vehicle driving characteristics. The cost is adjustable retrospectively and can be prospectively set b... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5786996 | Appliance control circuit comprising dual microprocessors for enhanced control operation and agency safety redundancy and software application method thereof An appliance control circuit comprising dual processor control for enhanced control operation and agency safety redundancy. A first processor is disposed in operative communication with operator control switches for primarily controlling the supply of pow... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5548890 | Lead frame processing method In a method for forming a lead frame (1) from a metallic plate, a metallic plate (11) is first etched to form outer leads (4) and outer portions (3b) of inner leads of the lead frame (1). Inner portions (3a) of the inner leads (3) are then laser-cut under... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5548732 | Bus adapter for transferring signals between a master unit and a slave unit, and system including the bus adapter Handshake control for data transfer in a computer system having a master unit connected to a bus adapter through an expansion bus, which bus adapter is connected to slave units through a main bus, is partly accomplished in the bus adapter to increase data... | 08/20/1996 |
| 4967348 | Data name standardizing system A data name standardizing/unifying system for standardizing the names of data belonging to data items having different names and transferred or compared among data files so as to be unified for programs. For standardizing the data names, names of data ite... | 10/30/1990 |
