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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8329133 | Method and apparatus for refining metallurgical grade silicon to produce solar grade silicon A method and apparatus for refining metallurgical silicon to produce solar grade silicon for use in photovoltaic cells. A crucible in a vacuum furnace receives a mixture of metallurgical silicon and a reducing agent such as calcium disilicide. The mix is melted in n... | 12/11/2012 |
| 8322271 | Infusible material capsule for brewing a beverage A sealed capsule for use in apparatus including a capsule receiving station and a water delivery system for brewing a hot beverage in which a hot liquid under pressure infuses a material. A capsule base has a concave bottom floor with angularly spaced structural rib... | 12/04/2012 |
| 8250783 | Multi-component footbeds A method and apparatus for supplying a customer with a footbed. A kiosk provides measurements of a consumer's feet with a self-guided display by using both pressure measurements and scanning of the feet. The measurement information is converted to identify which of ... | 08/28/2012 |
| 8230776 | Brewing apparatus for preparing foam, froth or crema under low pressure The present invention pertains to a brewing filter apparatus capable of preparing foam, froth, or crema, particularly for coffee beverages, under low pressure. The apparatus can operate at pressures below 15 bar and as low as 1-3 bar. The apparatus comprises a mesh ... | 07/31/2012 |
| 8224860 | Database management system A multi-user, elastic, on-demand, distributed relational database management system. The database is fragmented into distributed objects called atoms. Any change to a copy of an atom at one location is replicated to all other locations containing a copy of that atom... | 07/17/2012 |
| 8180204 | Hot beverage brewing apparatus A hot beverage brewing apparatus. A pressurized hot liquid delivery system provides liquid under pressure within a range of acceptable brewing temperatures without any mechanical pump. Water is apportioned into sealable tank volumes, one of which is heated to boil t... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8169332 | Tactile device with force sensitive touch input surface A tactile device includes a touch input surface in any number of forms including a force sensitive touch screen. In this embodiment a cover captures a transparent screen located on capacitive sensors. Touching the screen produces signals from each sensor that can be... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8131804 | Method and apparatus for immunizing data in computer systems from corruption A system for immunizing a computer network against adverse effects caused by the receipt of a corrupting message. Each message transfers into a protocol-based controlled environment for a specific recipient where message criteria determine whether the incoming messa... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8128337 | Omnidirectional vertical-axis wind turbine A two-stage, omnidirectional vertical axis wind turbine includes a first chamber in which a plurality of angularly spaced horns guide wind from any side of the wind turbine into a chamber to rotate a first rotor. Wind exiting the first rotor passes through a diverte... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8069776 | Toaster A toaster in which spaced, vertically oriented heating assemblies are nested within a cover that pivots between open and closed positions. In the open position, an consumer can add food slices to or remove toasted food slices from baskets in the toaster remotely fro... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8065974 | Apparatus for coating an item with a dry particulate material Apparatus for coating an item with a dry particulate material. An electrically operated sifter in a dry coating assembly generates a shower of the dry particulate material which coats the items held in an open mesh basket. A collector recovers residual material whic... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8058321 | Syntactic foam incorporating vapor-grown carbon fibers Fibered particles combine microscale spheroid particles and nanoscale fibers in an integrated body. Fibered particles may be combined with a matrix precursor to form syntactic foams incorporating both particles and fibers. ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7993219 | Bat swing training device A bat swing training device for enabling the diagnosis and correction of an individual batter's swing. The training device includes a conventional bat modified to receive a training aid at its distal end in either an exposed extended assembly or an embedded assembly... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7784396 | Hydraulic sealing assembly for a beverage machine brewing head This invention uses a hydraulic system to seal the brew chamber of a coffee maker. The sealing mechanism consists of a heating part, sealing part and slider drawer. The heating part provides the hot water and forms a chamber that allows the piston seal to expand for... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7758498 | Endoscope with relief of axial loading A rigid endoscope includes an outer housing subassembly that supports an optics subassembly. The outer housing subassembly includes concentric tubes with optical fiber for providing object illumination. The optics subassembly includes a tubular sheath sealed at both... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7715105 | Acylindrical optical device A lens structure and method for manufacture of such a lens. A lens element has multiple sawn planar faces between image forming surfaces so the lens element has a polygonal cross section. The manufacture includes the step of utilizing oversized conventional cylindri... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7707186 | Method and apparatus for data set migration A method and apparatus for migrating one or more data sets each having one or more extents from one or more source logical devices to one or more target logical devices concurrently with interaction between the application and the data being migrated. A background o... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7694624 | Cabinet design of filter holder for pressurized espresso machines This invention provides a brewing head unit of a coffee machine for easily inserting or removing the filter (15) and locking the filter and the filter holder (17) into the brewing head of a coffee machine to form a water-and pressure tight connection. ... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7631594 | Gear-driven locking assembly for brew head assembly The present invention pertains to a brew head assembly comprising a gear-driven locking assembly and a sealing assembly, whereby the brew head assembly is capable of sustaining pressures up to 20 bars. The locking assembly comprises a lever, drive rod having a gear ... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7621868 | Convergence optics for stereoscopic imaging systems A convergence prism assembly with a housing and a prism structure having a plurality of prisms mounted in a unitary assembly. ... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7617763 | Motorized and remote-controlled cabinet design of filter holder for pressurized espresso machines This invention pertains to a brewing head assembly of a coffee machine that enables easy insertion and removal of the filter as well as locking of the filter and the filter holder into the brewing head to form a water-tight seal under pressure. The filter holder can... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7565985 | Apparatus including dripless bucket and liner A container having an external gutter located below a primary wiping surface or edge. Drips from the wiping surface to the exterior of the container accumulate in the gutter and drain back into the container through drain notches at the bottom of the gutter. A liner... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7552494 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing custom orthotic footbeds that accommodate the effects of tibial torsion A method and apparatus for providing a topographical map of the bottom of a patient's rear foot with the foot in a semi-weight bearing condition and in the neutral position adjusted for the effects of tibial torsion. A foot scanner with a pivoted air cushion is adju... | 06/30/2009 |
| D594640 | Footbed | 06/23/2009 |
| 7516168 | Program for monitoring update activity in a data storage facility A method and apparatus for monitoring update activity, particularly in the form of write requests, to a data storage facility, over at least one cycle to identify any write operation or update that occurs to that data storage facility on a track-by-track basis. At t... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7504636 | Radiation detector using pulse stretcher A radiation detection apparatus for use in noisy environments in which radiation detection and external noise generate interaction event pulses. A first interaction pulse initiates a following time interval during which the effect of received interaction event pulse... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7468612 | Dermal phase meter with improved replaceable probe tips A probe for a dermal phase meter includes a handle with a removable extension that terminates with a displaceable center conductor. A replaceable tip attaches to the distal end of the extension and includes a center conductor that engages the center conductor in the... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7448398 | Sonic jewelry cleaner A sonic cleaner for small articles includes two tanks for receiving a liquid and articles to be cleaned and a base unit having chambers for receiving each tank. A vibratory motion generator attaches to the base unit through an isolating structure. Complementary atta... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7438687 | Patient monitoring system with blood pressure measurement capacity A patient monitoring system including a sensing-recording device that attaches to a patient and a probe utilized by attending personnel at a trauma site. After an initial interaction between the probe and the sensing-recording device, the sensing-recording device sa... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7395283 | Method and apparatus for making independent data copies in a data processing system A method for copying data from a source logical device to a destination logical device. In response to a copy command from a requesting host application identifying the source and destination logical devices, an environment is established. Thereafter a calling syste... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7392559 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing custom orthotic footbeds A method and apparatus for providing a topographical map of the bottom of a patient's rear foot with the foot in a semi-weight bearing condition and in the neutral position. A flexible membrane defines the top of an air cushion that captures the patient's foot in th... | 07/01/2008 |
| D571597 | Beverage dispenser | 06/24/2008 |
| D571678 | Foot measurement kiosk | 06/24/2008 |
| D570637 | Beverage dispenser | 06/10/2008 |
| 7385772 | Optical device with lens positioning and method of making the same Optical devices which accurately position optical elements and methods for producing such optical devices. Each optical element is carried by a support on an axis that has portions plastically deformed to overlap portions of the faces of the optical element adjacent... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7313578 | Method and apparatus for cascading data through redundant data storage units A data storage facility for transferring data from a data altering apparatus, such as a production data processing site to a remote data receiving site. The data storage facility includes a first data store for recording each change in the data generated by the data... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310743 | Data recovery method and apparatus A method and apparatus for data recovery in a system involving a first data store acting as a standard device and a physical moving mirror data store that operates as moving mirror with a first mode to be synchronized and in a second, isolated mode. In response to a... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7309319 | Apparatus and method for measuring the dimensions of the palpable surface of the prostate A method and system for measuring the dimensions of the palpable surface of the prostate in the physician's office and calculating prostate volume, rate of growth and changes in rate of growth. A membrane with a grid pattern is located proximate the prostate. A phys... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7297123 | Method and apparatus for accessing oral mucositis Overall and constituent oral mucositis assessment scale scores are generated by the use of a probe to obtain moisture measurements at a particular site. A control collects data samples. A converter produces a value for the oral mucositis assessment scale (OMAS) in r... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7281157 | Method and apparatus for enabling consistent ancillary disk array storage device operations with respect to a main application A method and apparatus for enhancing data recovery in data processing systems in which applications span multiple logical devices. A data processing system includes multiple standard devices for storing data and corresponding BCV devices for, in one mode, operating ... | 10/09/2007 |
