Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7243919 | Card game The invention features a method of playing a card game using a deck of numbered cards. Each player is dealt a predetermined number of cards, so that each player possesses a card set, or “hand” of cards. The remaining cards form a draw pile, and one card from the... | 07/17/2007 |
| D573918 | Cheering sock pennant | 07/29/2008 |
| 7396689 | Method of adjusting the working range of a multi-analyte assay The invention features a method of adjusting the concentration of at least one but not all of a plurality of analytes in a fluid sample to match a known working range of detection of an analyte assay system, where each of the plurality of analytes may or may not be ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7384735 | Retinoblastoma nucleic acids This invention relates to nucleic acid, or fragments thereof, encoding the retinoblastoma polypeptide, the retinoblastoma polypeptide itself, methods of detecting a defective retinoblastoma gene in human patients, and methods of treating these patients. ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7368191 | Electrode array for use in electrochemical cells The invention features an electrode array (7) in which pairs of electrodes (1) are geometrically arranged so that the broadest faces of the exposed electrodes are not directly opposing to each other. Rather, the broadest facing surfaces of the electrod... | 05/06/2008 |
| D560064 | Cheering sock pennant | 01/22/2008 |
| 7234601 | Display organizer The invention addresses the needs of a professional service provider to organize and display items at or on his or her work stations that are of both a personal and professional nature, in a manner that is compact, efficient, and tidy. The apparatus includes a subst... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7223842 | Detection of proteins whose absence is associated with a neoplasm This invention relates to nucleic acid, or fragments thereof, encoding the retinoblastoma polypeptide, the retinoblastoma polypeptide itself, methods of detecting a defective retinoblastoma gene in human patients, and methods of treating these patients. ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7097983 | Method for detecting the presence of an analyte in a sample The invention features a method of determining whether one or more members of an analyte family are present in a sample. The method makes use of a test zone binder, e.g., a receptor that can bind one or a plurality of analytes within an analyte family, the analytes ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 6921322 | Apparatus and methods for refinishing a surface in-situ The invention features a self-contained, portable apparatus for performing precision grinding operations on metal disks of up to, e.g., 54 inches in diameter. The apparatus can be attached to the surface of the disk to be refinished and is leveled using special prec... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6814465 | Security flashlight and method A security flashlight for emergency light situations, with a handgrip area, which area incorporates one or more radial pressure switches, which are activated between on and off positions by designated hand grip pressure, without longitudinal movement of the user's h... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6781817 | Fringe-field capacitor electrode for electrochemical device The invention features an electrochemical device which includes at least two capacitor electrodes 16, each of which includes a conductive material characterized in that at least ten percent (10%) of the overall surface area of the conductive material is an ed... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6778378 | Flow-through capacitor and method A flow-through capacitor and method for the purification of fluids, like soft water. The capacitor includes anode-cathode electrodes (3) composed of a low surface area electrode material having a surface area between 10 to 1000 square meter per gram BET (Brun... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6743879 | Methacrylic-urethane oligomers, method of preparation and oligomer-containing resin compositions Low viscosity methacrylic-urethane oligomers useful as a styrene monomer substitute in unsaturated resin compositions, are prepared by reacting a hydroxy ethyl or propyl methyl methacrylate monomer with an elastomeric urethane prepolymer having free NCO groups. ... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6723821 | Polyurea polymers prepared from polyamine epoxide adduct The invention features a polyamine epoxide adduct, prepared by admixing a source of epoxy group with a polyamine, and allowing the epoxy groups to react with the terminal amino groups of the polyamine so as to form the polyamine epoxy adduct. The polyamine epoxide a... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6709560 | Charge barrier flow-through capacitor Flow-through capacitors are provided with one or more charge barrier layers. Ions trapped in the pore volume of flow-through capacitors cause inefficiencies as these ions are expelled during the charge cycle into the purification path. A charge barrier layer holds t... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6628505 | Flow-through capacitor, system and method A flow-through capacitor and fluid for the purification system wherein the flow-through capacitor comprises a plurality of individuals, electrolyte-isolated cells (7), and the cells are electrically connected in series in a cartridge holder.... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6490844 | Film wrap packaging apparatus and method A packaging apparatus for forming a film about a foldable sheet material and an article immobilized on the base portion of the sheet material. The sheet material and article on a load board are moved sequentially by the apparatus through a load station, a... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6475805 | Method for detection of an analyte A test device, system and method, the device composed of an elongated, toothbrush-shaped, transparent, plastic housing and a lateral-flow test strip for the detection of an analyte, such as a beta-lactam in milk, in the housing, the housing having an expa... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6451430 | Polyurethane, foam-polyester composite structure and method A composite polyurethane foam structure and method of preparing the composite structure, which structure includes a semirigid-rigid polyurethane foam layer having bonded, free, unreacted, ethylenically unsaturated groups like allyl or acrylic groups. The ... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6437078 | Aliphatic polyurea prepolymers, compositions and methods An aliphatic polyurea prepolymer prepared by the catalyst-free, exothermic reaction of a caprolactone monomer, an aliphatic primary polyamine, and an aliphatic monomer-free polyisocyanate, such as a hexamethylene diisocyanate dimer or trimer or mixtures t... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6413409 | Flow-through capacitor and method of treating liquids with it A separator (1), electrode (2) and collector (3), each made of a polygonal sheet, are stacked up in a multi-layer serial arrangement of [3/2/1/2] sub n /3, with the provision of a through-hole in the respective sheets in the corresponding posit... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6409496 | Thermoformer machine A thermoformer, which produces zero scrap during the heating, forming and cutting of a blister package uses a precut roll having a series of adjacent webs connected by a cut area. Each of the webs are defined by an overall length L, a width W, and a radiu... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6399184 | Precut blister roll for thermoformer machine The present invention is a thermoformer which produces zero scrap during the heating, forming and cutting of a blister package. In one embodiment, the thermoformer comprises a precut roll having a series of adjacent webs connected by a cut area. Each of t... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6325907 | Energy and weight efficient flow-through capacitor, system and method An energy efficient flow-through capacitor, particularly for the concentration and/or separation of seawater. The flow-through capacitor is successively charged and discharged prior to the cell voltage exceeding 1.5 volts.... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6319466 | Test device for detecting the presence of a residue analyte in a sample A test device for detecting the presence of a residue analyte in a sample includes a support strip and a sample-absorbing matrix attached to the support strip. The sample-absorbing matrix has a material for absorbing an amount of the sample. The test devi... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6308828 | Package kit and method A package kit to immobilize and package an article, which kit comprises a sheet material with a base portion for the article and a film tube. The sheet material has fold lines to provide for box sections at each end, which are arranged and constructed to ... | 10/30/2001 |
