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Mouthguard made at least partially from an edible candy
A mouthguard includes a U-shaped upper bite plate which removably fits over upper teeth of a person, with the entire upper bite plate being made from a soft, deformable and edible gummi candy.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6167475 | Data transfer method/engine for pipelining shared memory bus accesses A data transfer engine, method and article of manufacture are provided for use in a functional unit of an integrated system for enhanced access and transfer of data over a shared data bus. The data transfer technique comprises pipelining data transfer req... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6157740 | Compression/decompression engine for enhanced memory storage in MPEG decoder A compression/decompression engine is disclosed for reducing memory requirements of a decode system by storing decoded video data in compressed form. The compression engine comprises parsing chrominance UV data into separate chrominance U data and chromin... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6118823 | Control scheme for shared-use dual-port predicted error array An MPEG-2 compliant digital video encoder system having a refinement processor for reconstructive processing for I-picture and P-picture encoding. The refinement processor includes a frame difference unit which has a predicted error array (PE array). The ... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6111913 | Macroblock bit regulation schemes for video encoder An MPEG2 compliant digital video encoder system employs an I-frame video encoder module having a quantization unit and variable length encoding to encode coefficients of each macroblock of a picture. Bit regulation schemes are presented for constraining s... | 08/29/2000 |
