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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7127118 | System and method for compressing image files while preserving visually significant aspects The present invention concerns a way of compressing an initial data structure that defines an image as an array of pixel elements. The method includes generating a new data structure that defines contours at least some of which are contours having a constant color v... | 10/24/2006 |
| 5879558 | Water conserving reverse osmosis unit and method of operating it A reverse osmosis water purification system in which the concentrate water which is normally produced by the process is not disposed of by routing it to a drain line or otherwise, but is redirected to the main water supply. The system includes the well-kn... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5747940 | Multi-dimensional control of arrayed lights to produce synchronized dynamic decorative patterns of display, particularly for festival and Christmas lights A number of voltage and ground buses--normally four or more each of which respectively connects to groups of lights within a large number of lights that are typically both multicolored and regularly geometrically arrayed in two and three dimensions--are s... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5687437 | Modular high-low adjustable bed bases retrofitted within the volumes of, and cooperatively operative with, diverse existing contour-adjustable beds so as to create high-low adjustable contour-adjustable beds Various high-low bases including (i) a frame, and (ii) various lift mechanisms for supporting and for variably elevating the frame above a floor, fit completely under, and within the pedestal base, of a conventional contour bed. In one embodiment a motori... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5661349 | Graceful energization and degradation of an electronic device micropowered by a source of energy in its environment, particularly an irrigation controller powered by light energy An electronic device, for example an irrigation controller, accumulates energy from a source of energy, for example from incident light, in order to progress, over time, from an inoperative un-powered to an operative powered condition in a positively cont... | 08/26/1997 |
| 5657199 | Close physical mounting of leaded amplifier/receivers to through holes in monolithic, buried-substrate, multiple capacitors simultaneous with electrical connection to dual capacitors otherwise transpiring, particularly for hearing aid filters Leaded electrical circuits and components, typically receivers and amplifiers used in micro-miniature hearing aids, are closely physically mounted by their leads extending within laser-drilled through-holes, typically three such holes, to multiple buried-... | 08/12/1997 |
| 5642033 | Overload-protected and reference-voltage-loss-protected electronic voltage regulator for vehicular-type alternators that both tolerates momentary high field currents and suppresses low frequency noise An error amplifier feedback capacitor located between the signal output and the signal input of an error amplifier stage of a voltage regulator is removed, particularly preventing that charge stored on this capacitor should act through an overload protect... | 06/24/1997 |
| 5636538 | Vehicle anti-theft device separately simultaneously locking to the vehicle's steering wheel at each of two locations A vehicular steering wheel security device, having three major members A,B,C each of which is telescoping relative to the others, and also key locks for each of A-B and B-C, separately simultaneously locks onto a steering wheel at rim positions (i) at and... | 06/10/1997 |
| 5625606 | Wristwatch and strap enclosing a removable pen and/or probe, and alarming the removal of same after a preset interval An enhanced case, strap or bracelet worn upon the wrist contains in separate cavities (i) a watch, calculator, telephone, radio or like device that, among other functions, keeps time, plus (ii) a writing, probing and/or pointing instrument. The case prefe... | 04/29/1997 |
| 5619821 | Easily-installed quick-release locking modular security grill with optionally affixed penetration-resistant rotating fins serving as louvers and as a security shield A spring-loaded quick-release mechanism to a locking security grille is triggered by (i) manual activation, preferably through a foot switch, or (ii) fire, typically through a thermal fuse. Fins incorporated in, and/or affixed to the bars of, a security g... | 04/15/1997 |
| 5611066 | System for creating related sets via once caching common file with each unique control file associated within the set to create a unique record image A mainframe computer programmed to convert input data sets and build HSG or ISO-9660 Compact Disc (CD) images communicates with a channel attached controller that is in turn attached to one or more writers of respective Writable Compact Discs (CD-Ws). The... | 03/11/1997 |
| 5595651 | All-plastic hand-assembled super-strength reverse osmosis membrane housing A cylindrical central high-strength pipe, normally a custom extrusion of PVC, mounts caps, preferrably of high-strength Rhinite™ plastic, at both ends so as to create an interior reservoir that is capable of being pressurized to a working pressure of 23... | 01/21/1997 |
| 5564235 | Foundation and floor construction means A foundation structure comprises a plurality of light metal parts which assemble and secure in place prior to placement of foundation in situ concrete. Assemblage is supported by coarsely threaded rods which screw directly into earth and attach to parts b... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5544607 | Moveable sponsons for hydrofoil watercraft, including both large entended-performance hydrofoil watercraft and leaping personal hydrofoil watercraft Hydrofoil watercraft (HFWC)--particularly including extended-performance hydrofoil watercraft (E-P HFWC) characterized by a submerged demi-hull mounting hydrofoils, and also high-performance personal hydrofoil watercraft (P HFWC)--are rendered both tracta... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5541914 | Packet-switched self-routing multistage interconnection network having contention-free fanout, low-loss routing, and fanin buffering to efficiently realize arbitrarily low packet loss A new class of packet-switched extended generalized-shuffle self-routing multistage interconnection networks provides a continuous performance-cost tradeoff between, on the one hand, the knockout switch or buffered crossbar and, on the other hand, the tan... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5514255 | Vertically stacked trays overflowing liquid congealing into electrophoresis gel, and optional combination spacer-combs between the trays Multiple, typically 5+, trays of an identical special configuration are vertically stacked one atop the next, end-to-end reversed. Each tray has an overflow feature, normally in the form of either (i) a portion of a side that is reduced in height so as to... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5490298 | Modular high-low-adjustable contour-adjustable bed A high-low base including a lower frame member supported upon a floor, an upper frame member, and an elevation assembly for variably elevating the upper frame member in height above the lower frame member, fits completely under, and within the pedestal ba... | 02/13/1996 |
| 5477952 | Retrofittable universal secure activity-reporting electronic coin tracker for coin-operated machines, particularly for detecting embezzlement of monies collected by video games An electronic coin tracker for coin-operated machines, particularly video games, is retrofittable to most such coin-operated machines as produce an electrical signal upon the deposit of coins. The coin tracker is physically and electronically secure in it... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5477330 | Synchronization to a start-of-scan detection, and digital generation of variable frequencies, from a fixed-frequency fixed-phase frequency source in an image generator in order to highly accurately time the placement of pixels upon a scan line A highly accurate and stable, but continuous fixed-phase fixed-frequency, quartz crystal oscillator frequency source, typically of 80 Mhz frequency, is used as the primary frequency standard for (i) synchronized, and (ii) variable, pixel placement timing ... | 12/19/1995 |
| 5463906 | Interchangeable disposable acoustic for use with an ultrasonic flowmeter, particularly during extracorporeal measurement of blood flow An inexpensive disposable plastic flow body interchangeably flow connects in line a conduit flowing fluid, and also, concurrently, acoustically connects to one or more ultrasonic transducers, so as to serve as an acoustic chamber for use with an ultrasoni... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5455926 | Virtual addressing of optical storage media as magnetic tape equivalents An optical disk storage system emulates a magnetic tape subsystem by virtual addressing of data recorded on write once optical disk media having a predetermined group of available sectors for rewriting a disk ID, a predetermined plurality of bands of avai... | 10/03/1995 |
| 5449439 | Superheated low-pollution combustion of the gaseous products of pyrolysis, particularly in multiple small bulbous burner cups Combustible off-gas(es) produced by the process of pyrolysis are superheated; and a pressurized gaseous mixture including oxygen, normally compressed air, is preheated; before, and by, a burning of the combustible off-gas(es) produced by process of pyroly... | 09/12/1995 |
| 5445729 | Counter top reverse osmosis system A reverse osmosis (RO) unit uses a membrane permitting operation at abnormally low water pressures, typically as low as 10 PSI. Because any requirement for a pump to boost inlet water pressure is obviated, the RO unit makes do with only one, small and com... | 08/29/1995 |
| 5446473 | Vandalism-resistent antenna for wire- and radio-communicating post-mounted electronic devices, particularly irrigation controllers An antenna of special form--to wit: a tube and more precisely a tubular dipole--is positioned inside an electrically non-conducting tubular post, typically made of fiberglass, that serves to support an electronic device, typically an irrigation controller... | 08/29/1995 |
| 5440936 | Compact x-cross transducer array for a transit time flowmeter, particularly for use during in-vivo blood flow measurement Multiple, typically four, acoustic transducers of a time delay acoustic flowmeter are arrayed in a X-cross, crisscross, folded geometry so as to establish a lengthy multiple-leg, typically a two-leg, acoustic path within a compact volume. An ultrasonic si... | 08/15/1995 |
| 5438996 | Ambulatory, ultrasonic transit time, real-time, cervical effacement and dilatation monitor with disposable probes Preferred transducers in the substantial shapes of a three-dimensional bodies, normally spheres or cylinders, emit ultrasound omni-directionally. The transducers are secured to the wall of the cervix uteri of human female, preferably by a barb or corkscre... | 08/08/1995 |
| 5438674 | Optical disk system emulating magnetic tape units An optical disk system emulating a 3480 magnetic tape subsystem having one or more magnetic tape drives, includes a VMEGate channel attached processor for receiving CCW tape commands, a SCSI board for controlling SCSI optical disk drives, a serial I/O boa... | 08/01/1995 |
| 5426686 | Compact high-intensity pulsed x-ray source, particularly for lithography A photoemissive photocathode, being a metal with a low work function and preferably tantalum-surfaced cesium-antimonide, is illuminated with pulses of 5320 Å laser light, typically 20 psec at a 20 Hz repetition rate, to emit electrons by the photoelectri... | 06/20/1995 |
| 5402303 | Remotely-powdered and remotely-addressed zero-standby-current energy-accumulating high-power solenoid drivers, particularly for systems that are micropowered One or more loads, commonly solenoids, requiring a high-power drive--typically 500 ma. 7.5 v.d.c.--are selectively actuated by energy that is accumulated over time--typically over several hundred milliseconds--within associated, addressable, energy-accumu... | 03/28/1995 |
| 5375800 | Ergometric combination adjustable keyboard support stand and wrist rest, particularly for avoidance of carpal tunnel syndrome A keyboard is adjustably supported in an ergonomically neutral position relative to a typist's forearm, wrist and fingers nonetheless that the elevation, and attendant magnitude, of a support also provided to the typist's wrist is conveniently independent... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5363848 | Variable illumination of a lumen for acoustic blood flow measurement In an acoustic flowmeter of the transit time or Doppler type the electro/acoustic, and/or acousto/electric, gain of one or more elongate acoustic transducers is varied spatially along the length of the transducer. When the transducer(s) are situated acros... | 11/15/1994 |
| 5343822 | Emergency transfer of oil from a ruptured ship's tank to a receiving vessel or container, particularly during the maintenance of an underpressure in the tank A system and method to transfer oil cargo from ruptured tank(s) of a tanker to receiving vessel(s) or receiving tank(s), while maintaining a partial vacuum in the ullage space of the ruptured tank(s). A partial vacuum is created and maintained in the ulla... | 09/06/1994 |
| 5331338 | Web steering for an image recorder A photosensitive medium, normally a diazo printing plate or photopolymer-based proof, is exposed in a series of exposures each of a small rectangular area. Typically several linearly-arrayed Deformable Mirror Devices (DMD's) each spatially encode a light ... | 07/19/1994 |
| 5326011 | Reduced-skew web drive between rollers of differing coefficients of friction, particularly to transport paper, metal or film in a laser imager A web of material, typically paper, metal or film and most commonly roll photographic plate material, passes between a first, driven, roller made from material with a high coefficient of friction, typically neoprene rubber, and a second, driven, roller ma... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5325044 | Electronic voltage regulator protected against failure due to overload, or due to loss of a reference voltage An electronic voltage regulator, particularly a regulator of the voltage of a field coil of an alternator within a motor vehicle, is protected against catastrophic failure of its output transistor due to a short-circuit overload by action of a direct curr... | 06/28/1994 |
| 5323724 | Closed vapor control system for the ullage spaces of an oil tanker, including during a continuous maintenance of an ullage space underpressure Vapors, typically volatile organic compounds, emitted from a vaporizable liquid, typically oil, that is within a tank, typically a ship's tank, are (i) compressed, and (ii) stored in a reservoir that is closed to the atmosphere. The (i) compression typica... | 06/28/1994 |
| 5309337 | Twist-on/twist-off flashlight with shock-mounted bulb assembly and redundant off-switching, particularly for use at the tip of police batons Two, redundant, electrical switches in electrical series between a flashlight's battery and its bulb are simultaneously activated by an angular rotation between two sections of the flashlight's case. To implement one of the switches the functions of (i) f... | 05/03/1994 |
| 5297207 | Machine generation of cryptographic keys by non-linear processes similar to processes normally associated with encryption of data A keystream generation system for producing a cryptographically secure keystream by an "amorphous" process. Three types of keystream generation are preferred. A large seed key is directly amorphously expanded into a cryptographically secure keystream. A s... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5285745 | System to reduce spillage of oil due to rupture of the tanks of unmanned barges A slight, 13.2 psia, underpressure is created, and dynamically maintained, in the ullage space of the oil tanks of an unmanned barge in order to prevent or reduce the spillage of oil due to any rupture of the tanks. The underpressure is created by ejectin... | 02/15/1994 |
| 5263432 | Automatic trim tab control for power boats Adjustment of a power boat's trim tabs is automated throughout all phases of the operation of the boat. The boat's speed and/or the revolutions of its engine(s) are sensed and used by electronic circuits, including microprocessor-based circuits, to contro... | 11/23/1993 |
