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Attorney: Kraft; Clifford H.


Number of patents: 9
Last date: December 20, 2011

NumberTitleIssue Date
8080970System and apparatus for use of a 3-phase motor in a vehicle
A system and apparatus that allows the use of a 3-phase AC motor in a vehicle by associating a series capacitor with each phase winding. The capacitor can be charged through the motor winding and then switched to discharge through the winding in a resonant oscillato...
12/20/2011
8046963Expandable drywall corner piece
A drywall corner piece with flange surfaces forming a near right angle forming a cup for fitting over drywall corners where the web sections of the flanges have at least one strain relief channel allowing the piece to flex to different angles. ...
11/01/2011
7627094Selective response telephone answering system
A telephone answering system and method for playing particular different greeting messages to different callers. When an incoming call is received, either caller-ID is decoded, or the caller's identification is determined some other way if possible, and if the parti...
12/01/2009
D588953Faceted gemstone arrangement
03/24/2009
7486798Method and apparatus for tooth bone conduction microphone
A two-way communication system particularly valuable for noisy environments where a user has a tooth bone conduction microphone in his mouth normally controlled by a tongue switch that transmits an electrical signal representing speech to a retransmit module usually...
02/03/2009
6807583Method of determining causal connections between events recorded during process execution
A method of determining scenario causality, along with precedence causality, is disclosed. Information is recorded relating to events occurring during execution of a process. The information includes object related information and process related information. The in...
10/19/2004
6753958Resolution enhanced optical spectrometer having a fixed number of photodetector elements
A waveguide optical monitor is disclosed. The device has an optical input port coupled through a switch to a plurality of input waveguides. A dispersive element disperses light within the input optical waveguides toward a plurality of output waveguides. There are a ...
06/22/2004
5649734Tail gate box, table, and sink
A fold-up combination tail gate table, sink, and storage box for the rear of a pickup truck containing a box or table made of steel, molded epoxy resin plastic or other suitable material mounted pivotally on an arm that can be attached to and removed from...
07/22/1997
5343481BCH error-location polynomial decoder
An error correction circuit wherein the coefficients of the error-location polynomial ς(x) of any three-error correcting binary BCH code over the Galois Field GF(2m) are found from the first three odd components S1, S3, a...
08/30/1994
 
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