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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| D625474 | Pet throw toy | 10/12/2010 |
| D621447 | Housing having two interconnecting housing portions for use in an educational apparatus | 08/10/2010 |
| D617060 | Anchor for a pet restraint | 06/01/2010 |
| D617059 | Anchor for a pet restraint | 06/01/2010 |
| D616616 | Pet throw/chew toy | 05/25/2010 |
| D613800 | Informational sign | 04/13/2010 |
| 7691164 | Suction device A suction device for a cyclone filter of a hand-guided work apparatus includes a blower which is located in a housing and a starting unit with a cable drum which is rotatably mounted about an axis, wherein ambient air sucked in with dirt particles is divided by the ... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7690523 | Bottled food basket A food storage and retrieval system includes a food storage container and a basket disposed within the container. The basket includes a base and a plurality of wings disposed about a periphery of the base. The wings are pivotally attached to the base and biased to e... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7690126 | Adjustable carpenter's measuring tool A measuring tool for use particularly in carpentry combines the features of a square, a level and a bevel tool into a single device. The measuring tool includes a handle which supports a slide rule at one end and a pitch slide which can be adjustably positioned with... | 04/06/2010 |
| D612982 | Ashtray | 03/30/2010 |
| D612980 | Ashtray | 03/30/2010 |
| 7674194 | Baseball swing training aid A baseball swing training aid includes a housing and a lid for retaining a batting tee in a first or storage configuration and in a second or use configuration. In the first configuration, the batting tee is stowable on an underside of the lid such that the tee does... | 03/09/2010 |
| D605493 | Toggle latch | 12/08/2009 |
| 7623336 | Feedthrough capacitor having reduced self resonance insertion loss dip The self-resonance insertion loss dip of a feedthrough capacitor is reduced or eliminated by raising the equivalent series resistance of the capacitor, thus minimizing the capacitor Q. The equivalent series resistance of the capacitor can be raised by forming voids ... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7609769 | Image complexity computation in packet based video broadcast systems A method to determine real time image complexity in video streaming, IPTV and broadcast applications using a statistical model representing channel bandwidth variation and image complexity that considers scene content changes. Available channel bandwidth is distribu... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7576659 | Smoke detection and laser escape indication system utilizing base and satellite A smoke detector system having a base unit and multiple satellite units is provided. The base unit detects various hazards, i.e., smoke or carbon monoxide, and broadcasts a radio frequency signal to activate warning devices on the various satellite units. The satell... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7574899 | Fluid contaminant detection device A contaminant detector disposed within a base fluid for detecting the presence of a contaminating fluid includes a conductive core, a conductive sensor probe extending from the core in non-conductive relation, and a circuit board within the core. The circuit board i... | 08/18/2009 |
| D598272 | Mounting bracket | 08/18/2009 |
| 7556832 | Process and formula for treating irritable bowel syndrome A process for treating irritable bowel syndrome wherein sometime before a meal, a user ingests a pill or tablet that slows down the muscles of their lower intestine that serve to push waste out from the user's digestive tract. At the same time, the user takes a fibe... | 07/07/2009 |
| D595632 | Wheel | 07/07/2009 |
| 7549196 | Tool The invention pertains to a hand-operated tool (100) with a housing (12) and at least one handle (14) that is arranged on the housing such that it can be turned about an axis (13), wherein said handle comprises handle shells (15, 16 | 06/23/2009 |
| D594410 | Multi-voltage electrical transformer | 06/16/2009 |
| 7520060 | Trimming device with a reel protector The invention pertains to a trimming device with a motor-driven cutting tool that is rotatable about a shaft and with a shell-like reel protector (100), wherein said trimming device can be operated with different cutting tools. In order to achieve a simple ad... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7506398 | Adjustable trowel An adjustable trowel for spreading material on a surface includes a trowel plane and a post extending from the trowel plane. A mechanism for selectively attaches a handle to the post in either a left-handed orientation or a right-handed orientation relative to the t... | 03/24/2009 |
| D588497 | Novelty mug containing burlap-type bag | 03/17/2009 |
| D588426 | Trowel with web grip | 03/17/2009 |
| 7501922 | Permanent magnetic male and female levitation supports A permanent magnetic male and female levitation support has a first part with a cavity and a plurality of retainment mechanisms incorporated therein, and a plurality of first permanent magnets evenly distributed around the perimeter of the cavity and held in place b... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7497197 | Motor-operated tool A chainsaw includes an internal combustion engine with a fuel-air mixture inlet and a carburettor with a fuel-air mixture outlet disposed in the direction of flow of a fuel-air mixture in front of the fuel-air mixture inlet. A fuel-air mixture channel is provided be... | 03/03/2009 |
| D587605 | Quilter's cutting ruler angle guide | 03/03/2009 |
| 7493167 | Magnetically shielded AIMD housing with window for magnetically actuated switch An active implantable medical device (AIMD) having a magnetic shield on its housing for shielding the interior of the device from magnetic fields originating outside the housing. The magnetic shield is created using a magnetic absorbing coating on the inner surface ... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7487746 | Engine-driven tool A drive system for a tool, particularly a chain saw, includes a fresh air inlet and an intake manifold arranged after the fresh air inlet in the flow direction of the fresh air that opens into a carburettor. A combustion engine is provided that is arranged after the... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7489495 | Apparatus and process for reducing the susceptibility of active implantable medical devices to medical procedures such as magnetic resonance imaging A feedthrough terminal assembly for an active implantable medical device (AIMD) includes magnetic shielding elements to block incident magnetic fields during medical procedures such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging. The assembly includes conductive or ground plate(s) e... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7481047 | Reflection catalytic converter To provide an exhaust system (100) for a combustion engine having a housing (10) in which at least one aperture for an exhaust gas inlet (11) and an additional aperture for an exhaust gas outlet (12) are provided, and having a catalytic e... | 01/27/2009 |
| D585262 | Letter opener and staple remover | 01/27/2009 |
| D583084 | Decorative panel | 12/16/2008 |
| D582991 | Domino | 12/16/2008 |
| D581817 | Quilter's cutting ruler angle guide | 12/02/2008 |
| 7455070 | Swimming pool vacuum relief safety valve A vacuum relief safety valve includes a housing defining an inner chamber and attached to the suction-side of the swimming pool or spa pump. An air inlet aperture is formed in the housing so as to be open to ambient air. A sealing element is disposed within the hous... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7432879 | Personal viewer A personal viewer system includes a head-mounted display linked to an optical generator which receives images from an electronic image source. The head-mounted display includes a scanner which receives light-based optical images from the optical generator and scans ... | 10/07/2008 |
| D577332 | Solar module | 09/23/2008 |
