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Patent No. 5970981

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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Attorney: Horstemeyer; Scott A.


Number of patents: 13
Last date: October 21, 2008

NumberTitleIssue Date
7440502Signal processing system
Methods and systems are disclosed for a video system. In a first exemplary embodiment, the video system comprises a video processing circuit that receives a picture and provides video compression by using an optimal macroblock mode of operation, the optimal macroblo...
10/21/2008
D547638Adaptor for moving electrical wiring
07/31/2007
D544676Peach shaped cookie
06/19/2007
7229107Security seal for cargo containers
The security seal for cargo containers and freight trailers which has a gas cartridge which supplies gas through a two position valve when it is opened and onto a two way valve which in the activated position supplies gas under pressure to a pressure hose looped aro...
06/12/2007
7184751System for detecting, tracking, and translating changing identification codes
Disclosed herein are systems, apparatus and methods for (1) detecting codes assigned to utility meters that have frequently changing codes and (2) translating codes between the central data acquisition system that contains a fixed identification code for each utilit...
02/27/2007
7043262Two-way pager and method for communicating preset messages over the global system for mobile communications (GSM/GPRS) network
The present invention provides a communication system for transmitting messages from one or more dispatcher stations to and from one or more stand-alone, two-way pagers via a radio frequency communication channel, namely, the short message service (SMS) of the Globa...
05/09/2006
6539156Apparatus and method of optical transfer and control in plasmon supporting metal nanostructures
An apparatus and method are provided for converting light into a surface plasmon polariton on a plasmon supporting nanostructure and then controlling the emission of the re-emitting light. A circuit component is also described that is constructed of a nan...
03/25/2003
6377117Method and system for efficiently transmitting energy from an RF device
A method and system for efficiently transmitting RF energy from a RF device is disclosed. The method and system comprises a multi-stage power amplifier having a plurality of power amplifier stages arranged in parallel with associated switches for selectiv...
04/23/2002
6320879Communication system and method for interleaving or transmission of telephone rings and data
A telephone communication system is implemented to enable data communication and ring signaling to coexist on a subscriber loop. The communication system transmits data during the silence intervals of a ringing cadence and withholds the transmission of da...
11/20/2001
6310864Voice echo cancellation for SVD modems
Disclosed is a circuit and method that eliminates the problem of voice echo created by the use of simultaneous voice and data (SVD) modems in a remote office application. In the instant invention, a voice signal originates in a remote office telephone and...
10/30/2001
6272108Apparatus and method to allow a frame check sequence to determine the updating of adaptive receiver parameters of a high speed communication device
A DSL device performs a frame check sequence operation in a digital signal processor (DSP), i.e., layer one of the OSI seven layer model, heretofore performed only in layer two of the OSI seven layer model. Performing the layer two framing and calculating...
08/07/2001
6212374Disabling of echo cancelers after call startup
An echo canceler disabling system is associated with a cellular data communications device, such as a modem, which is utilized to communicate digital data over a cellular network for the purpose of enhancing digital data communications over the network. T...
04/03/2001
5812537Echo canceling method and apparatus for data over cellular
A processor of a cellular modem monitors for the presence of a residual echo signal during a full-duplex portion of a training sequence. In particular, the processor monitors an equalizer error signal during a full-duplex training phase that follows the h...
09/22/1998
 
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