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Patent No. 5421089

Fork With Timer

A fork with timer for providing a cue to a user after an elapsed period of time for indicating that another bite of food using the fork may be taken.

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Attorney: Gibbons; Fleit Kain


Number of patents: 3
Last date: August 19, 2008

NumberTitleIssue Date
7415556Exclusion control
An exclusion controller which allows an information processing unit to acquire a contended resource to the exclusion of the other information processing units includes a plurality of non-prioritized information processing units mutually exclusively acquiring a non-p...
08/19/2008
7383228Method and system for preventing unauthorized rerecording of multimedia content
A method, system and computer readable medium for the blocking of recording digital content at an end user multimedia end-user-system during the rendering of encrypted digital multimedia files. Before the process of rendering of encrypted digital multimedia can be s...
06/03/2008
7268963Self-servo-writing multi-slot timing pattern
Self-servo-writing of multi-slot timing patterns is described. Individual timing marks are replaced with groups of timing mark slots. At each timing mark location, a time measurement is made by detecting a timing mark in one of the slots. Also, extensions to the exi...
09/11/2007
 
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