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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6290454 | Apparatus for gripping parcels An apparatus for gripping parcels which includes a pair of cooperating side clamps connected by a scissors actuator, configured for movement with a suction holding device. A controller and a trigger switch are likewise used to facilitate accurate gripping... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6193061 | Disc holder The present invention relates to an indexed storage cradle system for compact discs comprising a series of storage cradles rotatably mounted in parallel in a housing. Each cradle consists of a base having generally parallel vertically upstanding side wall... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6172177 | Grafted poly(ethylene oxide) compositions Modifyied poly(ethylene oxide) compositions are disclosed. The poly(ethylene oxide) compositions have improved melt processability and properties and can be used to thermally process articles which have improved properties over articles similarly processe... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6149922 | Vaccine adjuvant and vaccine The present invention includes novel polyoxyethylene/polyoxypropylene block copolymers as well as methods for making the block copolymers. The block copolymers are high molecular weight molecules and are useful as general surfactants and display enhanced ... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6135031 | Pallet with housing for anchoring device A reusable pallet for use with a reusable anchoring device for securing a load. The anchoring device comprises a strap and clamping mechanism for selectively receiving and clamping to the strap and, alternatively, releasing the strap. The pallet includes ... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6131192 | Software installation An executable file contains materials necessary for the installation of a software product, and the executable file is executed to provide a compressed file and a shell program module. The shell program module locates a suitable temporary storage space, e... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6129432 | Multiple chest of drawers having invertible capabilities Furniture such as chest of drawers including reversible drawers thereinwhich include roller-type drawer brackets but also provides reversible features which allow for the selective use of a chest of drawers which can be used with its "smooth" side up, or ... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6131102 | Method and system for cost computation of spelling suggestions and automatic replacement Suggestions may be ordered by their associated costs so that the best suggestions may be displayed to the user and so that, in certain instances, a misspelled word entered by the user may be automatically replaced with a suggestion. To begin generating su... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6125897 | Method and apparatus for processing pan-shaped wood members A method and apparatus for reducing the size of wood members, particularly pan-shaped wood members known in the industry as "lilypads", such that the orientation of the fibers of the lilypads are encouraged to be substantially perpendicular to the longitu... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6128633 | Method and system for manipulating page-breaks in an electronic document A system for manipulating page-breaks in an electronic document. A User Interface Process provides a graphical user interface allowing a user to select a page-break within an electronic document and then identify a new location for the page-break. A Syste... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6123189 | In-container sachet A sachet for insertion into a beverage container prior to the sealing and pressurization of the beverage container. The sachet is made from a gas permeable and substantially liquid impermeable material. The article is positioned within this material and s... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6125275 | Cellular communications device for communicating data via a cellular network control channel A cellular communications device for communicating over a cellular network control channel of a cellular mobile radiotelephone (CMR) system. A transmitter can transmit a data message formatted to correspond to an identification signal transmitted by a cel... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6120241 | Apparatus for selecting package from a line of accumulated packages An apparatus for selecting individual packages from an accumulated package line, which measures one common dimension of a plurality of packages, combines the packages together in line contract, establishes an "actual line error" by comparing the actual ov... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6121170 | Water-sensitive compositions for improved processability The present invention is directed to thermoformable ion-sensitive compositions having improved processability. In addition, the present invention is directed to a process of making water-dispersible fibers, films and fabrics, which maintain their structur... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6117947 | Method of modifying poly(ethylene oxide) A method for modifying poly(ethylene oxide) by grafting polar vinyl monomers, such as poly(ethylene glycol) methacrylates and 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate, onto the poly(ethylene oxide) is disclosed. The grafting is accomplished by mixing the poly(ethylene... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6114355 | Methods and compositions for inhibition of angiogenesis The present invention comprises a group of compounds that effectively inhibit angiogenesis. More specifically, thalidomide and various related compounds such as thalidomide precursors, analogs, metabolites and hydrolysis products have been shown to inhibi... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6113990 | Method for providing fire retardancy, microbial, and pest control to a structure A method of insulating a structure and providing fire retardancy, microbial and pest control to the structure is disclosed. A slurry of a dry boric acid stabilized cellulose insulation product and a borate salt solution is applied to the area to be insula... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6112547 | Reduced pressure carbon dioxide-based refrigeration system There is disclosed an novel refrigeration apparatus and a method of refrigeration. The novel refrigeration apparatus comprises a desorber/evaporator, a gas/liquid compressor operatively connected to said desorber/evaporator, a resorber/condenser operative... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6112216 | Method and system for editing a table in a document A method and system for inserting a table over text, for splitting a cell with text into two or more cells, for converting a bordered paragraph into a table, and for adding cells to a table. A table drawing tool allows a user to insert a table over existi... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6105328 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing and installing roof tiles having improved strength and stacking features A method and apparatus for manufacturing and installing a roof structure, in which clay is formed into tiles which simulate wood shakes, and the tiles are attached atop a supporting surface in a predetermined manner in a substantially unrecognizable patte... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6106962 | Air manager control using cell voltage as auto-reference An air manager system for a metal-air battery. The system includes a housing for enclosing at least one metal-air cell with an air electrode. The housing also has at least one air inlet opening, at least one air outlet opening, and a fan positioned to for... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6103391 | Titanium product with mega-crystal grains separated near the surface and its manufacture The present invention seeks to provide a titanium product applicable to construction material, daily necessities, cutlery and a trowel which has an excellent decorative effect or an excellent smoothing ability in smoothing the kneaded material surface and... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6094509 | Method and apparatus for decoding two-dimensional symbols in the spatial domain A method and system for decoding a two-dimensional optical symbol in the spatial domain. The system determines the orientation of an imaged symbol in the spatial domain by using a template to derive a correlation coefficient between radially adjacent sign... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6090984 | -phenoxy-alkanols, their methods of preparation and their applications New -phenoxy-alkanols represented by the general formula ##STR1## in which R1 and R2, which may be identical or different, represent a hydrogen atom or the CH3 radical, and their stereoisomers of R,S conformati... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6088041 | Method of dropout control for scan conversion of a glyph comprising a plurality of discrete segments An improved scan converter to support the efficient and accurate display of character outlines by pixel-oriented display devices. To conserve the finite resource of memory, the improved scan converter supports an efficient use of available memory workspac... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6081816 | Method for placing text around polygons and other constraints An object-oriented text layout engine that implements an efficient two-pass text placement procedure. The interface allows the text layout engine to receive parameters that define the document space into which text is to be placed. The interface also allo... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6073454 | Reduced pressure carbon dioxide-based refrigeration system There is disclosed an novel refrigeration apparatus and a method of refrigeration. The novel refrigeration apparatus comprises a desorber/evaporator, a scroll compressor operatively connected to said desorber/evaporator, a resorber/condenser operatively c... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6069882 | System and method for providing data services using idle cell resources Providing data services using idle cell capacity in a cellular communications system. The system and method assign priorities to each remote user device in the cellular communications system. In response to a request for service for a remote user device, ... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6065735 | Electric valve universal retrofit configuration having misalignment correction A retrofittable electric valve operating mechanism is provided which can be attached to an existing manual valve configuration while still allowing the manual feature of the valve to be utilized in two different manners. The configuration includes feature... | 05/23/2000 |
| 6058863 | Pillow sham apparatus An apparatus for manufacturing a pillow sham from a sheet of material. The apparatus includes one or more hemmers positioned on a predetermined path for hemming one or more lateral edges of the sheet, a tri-fold assembly positioned on the predetermined pa... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6049141 | Device and a method allowing multiple batteries to share a common load The present invention provides a battery system, a device, and a method to allow multiple batteries with varying capacities and power capabilities to drive a common load. Furthermore, the present invention provides a method for adjusting the output curren... | 04/11/2000 |
| 6047179 | Debit service systems and methods for wireless units Systems and methods for exchanging information, and particularly debit information, between a visited and a home wireless network with respect to a wireless unit operating in the visited network. A translator is provided which includes a receiver for rece... | 04/04/2000 |
| 6038823 | Adjustable pier railroad house assembly having dual adjustment capabilities An adjustable pier assembly for use with a railroad control house includes a frame member, a movable sleeve having a pair of flanges rigidly attached to an extending sidewardly therefrom, and a pair of fine adjustment threaded members having associated ha... | 03/21/2000 |
| 6040299 | Cold storage stabilized organophosphorus insecticide formulation and method of making same There is disclosed a cold storage stabilized organophosphorus insecticide formulation. The formulation comprises a solid carrier and between approximately 2% and 40% by weight of the ultimate formulation of a nominally solid organophosphorus insecticide a... | 03/21/2000 |
| 6020489 | Cytoprotective fatty moiety compounds Water or lipid soluble, pharmacologically active, antioxidant, anti-phospholipase compounds that are chemically defined. The compounds protect mammalian cells by inhibiting PLA2 and preventing oxidation. In particular, each compound has at leas... | 02/01/2000 |
| 6019023 | Cutting machine using a rotary wheel for cutting a flexible material consisting of a single sheet or a small mat of sheets, and method for adjusting said machine The invention relates to a cutting machine for cutting a flexible material by a cutting wheel rotated by a motor. The cutting wheel and the motor are carried by a cutting head mounted to move horizontally along two orthogonal axes and to rotate about a ve... | 02/01/2000 |
| 6020510 | Cytoprotective compounds The present invention provides compositions and methods for protecting cells from injury due to intrinsic membrane lysis, oxidation and/or invasion by destructive agents. Even more particularly, the present invention provides compositions and methods for ... | 02/01/2000 |
| 6013318 | Method for the combustion chemical vapor deposition of films and coatings A method for applying coatings to substrates using combustion chemical vapor deposition by mixing together a reagent and a carrier solution to form a reagent mixture, igniting the reagent mixture to create a flame, or flowing the reagent mixture through a... | 01/11/2000 |
| 6008803 | System for displaying programming information A system for retrieving and displaying programming information in response to selection of a category of programming information. Programming information is presented via a schedule display having a category display, a subcategory category display, and a ... | 12/28/1999 |
| 6006914 | Golf souvenir holder A golf souvenir holder for safe keeping and display of golf score cards, tees, and pencils. The holder includes a backing sheet and a thin cover sheet of clear plastic film attached to the backing sheet. The cover sheet overlays the backing sheet and form... | 12/28/1999 |
