Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6401425 | Method of installing roofing shingles A method of installing differently colored roofing shingles to create the appearance of a substantially random colored pattern. The method includes the selection of at least two colors of roofing shingles. The shingles are installed in a plurality of rows... | 06/11/2002 |
| 5961396 | Golf club shaft Tubular golf club shaft made from composite materials comprising layers of fibers impregnated with plastic resin and provided over its length with at least one are of enlargement (6) and or narrowing. The curve of generation of the internal diameter of th... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5811665 | Large scale sorption-driven solid state chromatography A system for preparative sorption driven chromatographic separation of organic compounds comprising a chromatographic element having a focusing zone in a porous tip with a vertex having a first diameter for receiving sample and solvent and a base having a... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5491724 | Mean phase predictor for maximum a posteriori demodulator A system and method for optimal maximum a posteriori (MAP) demodulation using a novel mean phase predictor. The mean phase predictor conducts cumulative averaging over multiple blocks of phase samples to provide accurate prior mean phases, to be input int... | 02/13/1996 |
| 5472868 | Stable rabbit-mouse fusion partner A stable xenogeneic fusion partner that is a product of the fusion of a mouse myeloma cell and a non-transformed rabbit partner cell. The fusion partner produces undetectable levels of antibody, as determined by an enzyme linked immunosorbent assay. A met... | 12/05/1995 |
| 5469536 | Image editing system including masking capability A system and method for editing digital images in three dimensions includes a computer for storing a digital image of an object and a background, as well as at least one additional background image. Based upon the difference between the hues of the edge o... | 11/21/1995 |
| 5165764 | Braking hydraulic pressure control device A braking hydraulic pressure control device includes an antilock control system and a traction control system in integrally combined form. A first valve unit for preventing liquid returning is included in a hydraulic pressure master path extending from a ... | 11/24/1992 |
| 5037481 | Megasonic cleaning method A transducer array for use in a megasonic cleaning system including a transmitter element made of a material which will efficiently transmit megasonic energy when bonded to one conductive surface of a transducer. In one form, the transmitter and the trans... | 08/06/1991 |
| 4975691 | Scan inversion symmetric drive A thin-film electroluminescent display panel system has a plurality of vertical column electrodes driven by column driver circuits and a plurality of horizontal row electrodes driven by row driver circuits. The system includes a row driver control circuit... | 12/04/1990 |
| 4858039 | Streaming tape drive with direct block addressability A streaming tape drive for use in computer systems for the storage and retrieval of data on magnetic tape has the capability of locating a selected block of data stored on magnetic tape in serpentine fashion by first moving the magnetic head of the tape d... | 08/15/1989 |
| 4784947 | Flash-photometer for nephelometric determinations A method and apparatus for photographically recording and determining fluorometric and nephelometric analysis are described.... | 11/15/1988 |
| 4733337 | Miniature flashlight A waterproof flashlight wherein the flashlight is activated by means of a switch located in the flashlight's end cap. Another aspect of the invention being the orientation of the positive terminals of the flashlight's batteries away from the head assembly... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4707032 | Armrest support bracket for a reclining seat A "U"-shaped bracket having two parallel, flat side plates and a front plate connecting the front ends of the two plates. The rear ends of the parallel plates opposite the front plate are left open. The open end of the U-shaped bracket is sized such that ... | 11/17/1987 |
| 4645397 | Tire theft prevention device This invention is directed to protection against theft or other unauthorized removal of articles secured by threaded nuts or the like, particularly truck tires. A tamper-proof fastener is provided having a locking cap which engages the underlying lug bolt... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4601623 | Fastener system and method A fastener system is disclosed comprising a nut having an axial bore provided with interior thread and a bolt having exterior thread for engagement with the interior bore of the nut. The nut has an end portion having an elliptical cross section for engagi... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4496879 | System for driving AC plasma display panel An improvement to sustain drive circuitry for an AC plasma display panel wherein the sustainer signal applied to panel electrodes is simplified to comprise a sequential series of square waves. The actions of writing, selectively erasing and bulk erasing o... | 01/29/1985 |
| 4493528 | Fiber optic directional coupler Apparatus and method of manufacture for coupling optical power between two strands of fiber optic material in a given direction of propagation. The coupler employs generally parallel, intersecting strands of fiber optic material having the cladding remove... | 01/15/1985 |
| 4494156 | Selectable format computer disk copier machine A disk copier machine uses a host computer, disk controller, disk drive, and mechanical disk feeder in order to automatically copy information onto each of a number of disks. The selectable format computer disk controller is used in order to connect the h... | 01/15/1985 |
| 4493081 | Dynamic memory with error correction on refresh An apparatus is disclosed for error correcting during the refresh cycle of a dynamic memory. The apparatus includes a refresh counter means for supplying row addresses to a dynamic memory during refresh cycles and decoder circuitry for supplying row addre... | 01/08/1985 |
| 4469397 | Fiber optic resonator A fiber optic resonator comprises a single strand of optical fiber forming a loop and a fiber optic directional coupler for optically closing the loop. The length of the loop is selected to cooperate with the phase shift of the coupler to provide a resona... | 09/04/1984 |
| 4441557 | Method and device for hydraulic jet well cleaning A method for cleaning well liners employing a jet carrier assembly having a plurality of jet nozzles spaced along its length each of said nozzles expelling a stream of fluid against the liner. The jet carrier is rotated at a specified rotational speed and... | 04/10/1984 |
