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Behavior Modification Wristwatch
A wristwatch including a watch band and a watch body having an octagon shaped perimeter and being red in color and having the word STOP thereon to resemble a stop sign.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7539597 | Diagnostic systems and methods for predictive condition monitoring A system for empirically diagnosing a condition of a monitored system. Estimates of monitored parameters from a model of the system provide residual values that can be analyzed for failure mode signature recognition. Residual values can also be tested for alert (non... | 05/26/2009 |
| D585746 | Bottle | 02/03/2009 |
| D585747 | Bottle | 02/03/2009 |
| 7486761 | Computed tomography facilitation method and apparatus A first X-ray detector (203) is positioned to detect at least the X-rays that intersect the center of rotation (201) for an object (205) with respect to an X-ray source (202). A second X-ray detector (207) is then positioned to det... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7485989 | Tunable electrical transient generator for electromagnetic pulser A system for generating a high voltage energy pulse comprises a capacitive energy storage arrangement that is coupled to a direct current (DC) power supply. The capacitive energy storage arrangement stores energy from the power supply. The system also includes a pul... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7486771 | Process and apparatus for irradiating product pallets or containers Method for irradiating in an irradiation chamber products being stored in the form of pallets or in the form of bulk material in appropriate containers by means of a high energy X-ray beam source including the following steps: placing and arranging the products onto... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7485142 | Implantation system for annuloplasty rings Methods for reconfiguring an atrioventricular heart valve that may use systems comprising a partial or complete annuloplasty rings proportioned to reconfigure a heart valve that has become in some way incompetent, a pair of trigonal sutures or implantable anchors, a... | 02/03/2009 |
| D585755 | Bottle | 02/03/2009 |
| 7461418 | System for encouraging good personal hygiene in toilet facilities A system encouraging users to cleanse their hands after use of a tankless toilet having a flush valve controlling the flow of water into a toilet bowl through a conduit, in which an abrupt temperature change in the conduit is used to trigger a recorded message urgin... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7463265 | Constraint schemes for computer simulation of cloth and other materials Constraint schemes for use in the computer simulation and animation of cloth, clothing and other materials helps to prevent clothing from excessive stretching, bunching up in unwanted areas, or “passing through” rigid objects during collisions. Several types of ... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7459916 | Electromagnetic shielding defect monitoring system and method for using the same An embodiment disclosed herein is directed to an electromagnetic shielding defect monitoring system that includes a transmit system adapted to transmit a first electromagnetic field toward a first surface of an electromagnetically shielded enclosure, thereby generat... | 12/02/2008 |
| D581992 | Toy glider | 12/02/2008 |
| 7460028 | Vehicle licence plates monitoring system A territorial surveillance and/or security control system based on monitoring vehicle license plates, and having a number of mobile surveillance units (2) for reading vehicle license plates and generating alarms during patrol by the mobile surveillance units ... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7460572 | Optical module and method for monitoring and controlling wavelengths The present invention provides wavelength monitoring and/or control enabling size reduction and low power operation without requiring a complicated optical system in its wavelength monitoring and controlling mechanism. The measurement portion (1) measu... | 12/02/2008 |
| D582041 | Impression coping | 12/02/2008 |
| 7456591 | Cyclotron equipped with novel particle beam deflecting means The invention concerns a cyclotron for accelerating a charged particle beam circulating in the median plane essentially in the form of two poles inducing a magnetic field and having a so-called axial injector, that is an injector arranged outside the cyclotron subst... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7455239 | Cooling system for an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle The invention relates to a cooling system in which the fan output is determined by an output control from the characteristic curves of the fan motor, the operating parameters of the cooling system and the reference input variables predetermined in the form of temper... | 11/25/2008 |
| D581437 | Barrier movement operator housing | 11/25/2008 |
| D581364 | Button assembly | 11/25/2008 |
| D581363 | Button assembly | 11/25/2008 |
| D581368 | Button assembly | 11/25/2008 |
| 7457772 | Method and apparatus for interactive criteria-based commodity comparisons A method and apparatus to remember and attempt to persist relative differences between automatically adjusted current weight values for non-directly adjusted graphic user interface elements, notwithstanding previous automatic adjustment of these current weighting va... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7458091 | System, method and article of manufacture for a business layer component in a multimedia synchronization framework A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for identifying a plurality of events which are played back simultaneously on a plurality of networked client apparatuses. First, a plurality of events are stored in memory on a plurality of client apparatuses... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7455594 | Ferrule and sleeve assembly A ferrule and coupling member assembly for mounting a flag pole is disclosed. The ferrule and coupling member are both formed from a non-metallic material, such as a ceramic composite material, which aids in wear-resistance and provides a low coefficient of friction... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7452030 | Motor vehicle seat, motor vehicle, and airbag module A technology is provided effective for preventing moisture absorption of an airbag housed in a motor vehicle seat with an airbag module having a construction in which the airbag is developed and expanded from a down side to an upside of a seat cushion against moveme... | 11/18/2008 |
| D580780 | Package | 11/18/2008 |
| 7454777 | Satellite system/internet system with display option palette with multiple filtering options An integrated DS S/WebTV receiver is communicatively connected to an Internet service provider, a DSS service provider, and (optionally) a local broadcast station to provide a display of DSS programs, Internet web sites, and local broadcast channels in a seamless fa... | 11/18/2008 |
| D580678 | Food merchandiser | 11/18/2008 |
| 7454515 | Presentation of media content A media services interface for use in a readable medium playback device enables synchronization of disparate media playback, network directed playback of media, media playback control via displayed html/javascript file, logging of consumer identifier, media identifi... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7454562 | Performance information in digital storage memory module apparatus and method A digital storage memory module (200) comprises a housing (201) having a first memory (202) and a second memory (205) disposed therein. In one embodiment the first memory comprises, for example, a hot-swappable cinematic media content dis... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7453351 | Delay-based access control apparatus and method An access control mechanism such as a movable barrier operator (70) has a first time window unit (72) that is responsive to one or more triggers (71) (such as a delayed-closure button). An event detector (73) then monitors for one or more... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7452360 | Method and apparatus for clamping surgical wires or cables Disclosed is a clamp for securing cables or other elongate members used in surgical fastening procedures. The clamp advantageously applies a clamping force to the cable without direct contact with the cable, thereby reducing abrasion and shear forces applied to the ... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7451870 | Medical implant package with a cap having a cavity A medical implant package including a vial and a cap connected by a hinge. The vial includes a cavity for housing at least a portion of a dental implant. To access the implant, the cap is rotated about the hinge from a closed position to an open position. The cap de... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7451276 | Prefetch command control method, prefetch command control apparatus and cache memory control apparatus A prefetch command control apparatus is provided. A protocol slot generation unit, when receiving from a CPU a prefetch command in which a utilization time of data to be prefetched is specified, generates a protocol slot based on the utilization time and registers i... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7449820 | Surface mount type crystal device A crystal device for surface mounting is provided with at least: a container body having a substantially rectangular outer shape and mounting electrodes formed in the four corners of the outside bottom surface of the container body; and a crystal blank hermetically ... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7445406 | Rock bolt An anchor device which includes a pipe (16), an elongate member (18) which is partly inside the pipe and which has an end (20) which protrudes from the pipe (16), and a restraining component (22) which is engaged with the protrudin... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7445232 | Airbag and airbag apparatus An easily manufacturable airbag and airbag apparatus having such an airbag are provided in which the inflated shape of the airbag is regulated by panels in place of tether belts. The airbag comprises a first panel surrounding a first vacant chamber and a second pane... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7445197 | Apparatus for producing carbonated water and method for producing carbonated water using the same This invention concerns an apparatus and a method for producing carbonated water capable of obtaining high concentration carbonated water effectively. Carbon dioxide gas is passed through a first carbon dioxide gas dissolver (7) composed of a membrane module ... | 11/04/2008 |
| D579769 | Food package | 11/04/2008 |
| 7448021 | Software engine for combining video or audio content with programmatic content A system and method for combining video/audio content with programmatic content perform the following steps: generating authoring output comprising a definition for a variable, and further comprising a representation of the video/audio content; selecting a source fi... | 11/04/2008 |
