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 |
| 7809565 | Method and apparatus for improving the transcription accuracy of speech recognition software The present invention involves an enhanced method for operating a speech recognition system in which sequential vocabularies are loaded for comparison to the input speech. Form each sequential vocabulary a subset of candidate vocabulary elements are selected for mat... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7636650 | Method and apparatus for automating electrical engineering calculations A computer-based method and apparatus are provided for designing a building's electrical power distribution system. An electrical circuit design module accepts electrical requirements for individual circuits and automatically determines values for a set of variables... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7591658 | Light string with improved shunt system The present invention relates to a lamp holder having two terminals arranged at the end of two wires of a light string and a light bulb preassembled in a lamp base. Electrodes from the lamp and base make contact with the terminals as the lamp is inserted into the in... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7426468 | Method and apparatus for improving the transcription accuracy of speech recognition software The present invention involves the dynamic loading and unloading of relatively small text-string vocabularies within a speech recognition system. In one embodiment, sub-databases of high likelihood text strings are created and prioritized such that those text string... | 09/16/2008 |
| D574293 | Inscribed pyramid ornament | 08/05/2008 |
| 7040795 | Fiber optic Christmas tree stand A Christmas tree stand has a base for supporting the stand above a ground level and a shell having a lateral surface. The shell is disposed atop the base so as to define an inner volume and the shell houses electrical components within the inner volume. The shell ha... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6648497 | Fiber optic christmas tree stand A Christmas tree stand has a base for supporting the stand above a ground level and a shell having a lateral surface. The shell is disposed atop the base so as to define an inner volume and the shell houses electrical components within the inner volume. T... | 11/18/2003 |
