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Wearable Device For Feeding and Observing Birds and Other Flying Animals
A device for feeding and observing flying animals comprising a hat, a support mounted on the hat and extending outward from the hat, and a feeder mounted on the support.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184780 | System and method for controlling voicemail transcription from a communication device Systems, methods and software product control voicemail transcription from a communication device. An audio mode is monitored within the communication device to determine a change in status between a sound-on mode and a sound-off mode. Automatic transcription of voi... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182640 | Process for bonding components to a surface A process for bonding aircraft components with a surface, such as an aircraft skin, includes positioning the skin on a tool surface and placing a floorless component on the skin, with bonding agent therebetween. A vacuum bag is placed within the floorless component ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8178464 | Isocyanate prepolymer catalysts and related curing processes Isocyanate prepolymer catalysts and processes for rapidly curing isocyanate prepolymers are disclosed herein. Substrates coated with the isocyanate prepolymers are treated with a drying agent and water, which combine to form a hydrated catalyst complex. Co-catalysts... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8174694 | Hyperspectral imaging systems Hyperspectral imaging system and methods that may be used for imaging objects in three-dimensions are disclosed. A cylindrical lens array and/or a slit array may be used to re-image and divide a field of view into multiple channels. The multiple channels are dispers... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174348 | Two-phase coupled inductors which promote improved printed circuit board layout Two-phase coupled inductors including a magnetic core, at least a first winding, and at least three solder tabs. Power supplies including a printed circuit board, a two-phase coupled inductor affixed to the printed circuit board, and first and second switching circu... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174253 | Systems and methods that detect changes in incident optical radiation Systems, methods and sensors detect changes in incident optical radiation. Voltage is applied across one or more active areas of a detector while the incident optical radiation illuminates the active areas. Current is sensed across one or more of the active areas, a... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8173787 | Plant wall degradative compounds and systems The present invention relates to cell wall degradative systems, in particular to systems containing enzymes that bind to and/or depolymerize cellulose. These systems have a number of applications. ... | 05/08/2012 |
| RE43350 | Microporous diffusion apparatus Apparatuses for removal of volatile organic compounds in a soil formation include a microporous diffuser for injecting air and gaseous ozone as bubbles into water in the soil formation. The gaseous ozone is present at concentrations to effect removal of volatile org... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171038 | System and method for managing legislative information A method for managing legislative information. in operation, legislative information, including text comprising legislative bills, is collected via an electronic search of at least one website. The text of the bills is then parsed into predefined categories. The tex... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8168257 | System and method for printing a pattern on footwear The invention provides a method for applying a pattern onto the upper of a shoe or other footwear. The footwear is preferably made by injection molding where raw materials are injected into a mold to form the shape of a footwear. ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8167227 | Foot operated lever-lift vertical reel unroller assembly A lever lift assembly is provided for lifting a reel of cable, wire or other material off the floor. In one embodiment of the lever lift assembly, a lever assembly is actuated to retract a lifter assembly underneath the reel causing the reel to be lifted on a pair o... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166745 | Tool for extracting and inserting pins of roller chains A tool for inserting and extracting pins of roller chains includes a body having a bridge adapted to engage a chain and a drive screw assembly coupled to the main body on a first side of the bridge. The drive screw assembly includes a drive screw which is rotatable ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164040 | Saturation optics An imaging system includes a detector for receiving electromagnetic energy and generating sampled data in accordance with the electromagnetic energy so received. The detector is characterized by a threshold point such that the sampled data is in one of two states: i... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8163698 | Dolastatin 15 derivatives Compounds of the present invention include cell growth inhibitors which are peptides of Formula I, A-B-D-E-F-(G)r-(K)s-L (I), and acid salts thereof, wherein A, B, D, E, F, G and K are α-amino acid residues, and s and ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8152892 | Liquid fertilizing compositions Liquid fertilizer compositions and methods of making liquid fertilizer compositions are set forth herein. In one embodiment, a liquid fertilizing composition includes an aqueous ammonium chloride solution and an acrylamide copolymerized with acrylic acid. In another... | 04/10/2012 |
| D657521 | Fishing line recycling receptacle | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150140 | System and method for a semiconductor lithographic process control using statistical information in defect identification A system and method is described for evaluating a wafer fabrication process for forming patterns on a wafer based upon data. Multiple inspection regions are defined on the wafer for analysis. For each inspection region, images of patterns within the inspection regio... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8148526 | Reverse amide compounds as protein deacetylase inhibitors and methods of use thereof The present invention relates to novel “reverse amide” compounds comprising a zinc chelator group, and the use of such compounds in the inhibition of HDAC6 and in the treatment of various diseases, disorders or conditions related to HDAC6. ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8147672 | Process for the preparation of sucralose A process for preparing sucrose-6-ester is provided, which comprises electrolyzing an electrolyte solution containing sucrose, an acylating reagent and a halide catalyst. Also disclosed is a process for preparing sucralose, which involves the preparation and chlorin... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8146785 | Tool retaining apparatus An apparatus for tethering tool(s) to a worker, object, support or the like, allows single or multiple tools to remain in close proximity to the worker for easy access and use. The tool(s) remain secured, so as not to fall out of the worker's range or fall to a poin... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144208 | Task-based imaging systems A method for generating an output image of a scene is disclosed. A detector of a task-based imaging system includes a plurality of pixels, and the scene includes at least one object located at a given object distance within a range of object distances between the ob... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8141760 | Hitch-mounted carrier Hitch-mounted carriers, including portable bicycle racks, are set forth herein. One carrier includes a height member, an insert arm coupled to height member for movement between storage and use configurations, and at least one support arm coupled to height member fo... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8138991 | Real-time image scanning and processing An apparatus for displaying at least one image with respect to a line-of-sight (LOS), with an image source, a display processor and a displaying unit. The display processor is coupled with the image source and the displaying unit. The image source provides at least ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135497 | Portable, personal medication dispensing apparatus and method A portable, medication dispensing device which dispenses prepackaged pill strands of medication from a secure, storage compartment through a mechanism which physically limits the quantity dispensed per a pre-programmed protocol. The device has a detachable storage c... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135000 | Methods and systems for selecting a buddy from a buddy list and for placing call to a buddy A method selects a buddy with which a user wants to connect. The buddy has a buddy identification listed in a pre-identified group of Internet-accessible destinations. The user using a user telephone means to which is associated identification information. A call is... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131714 | Linguistic assistance systems and methods System and Methods determine a linguistic preference between two or more phrases. Each of the phrases is submitted to at least one search engine as a search string. Search results are retrieved from each of the at least one search engine for each submitted search st... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130312 | Reflowable camera module with integrated flash A reflowable camera module is implemented using a Chip Scale Package (CSP). An image sensor is formed on one portion of the carrier. A light emitting diode (LED) is formed on another portion of the carrier. The LED serves as an integrated camera flash. Additional op... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8129407 | Hemiasterlin derivatives and uses thereof in the treatment of cancer The present invention provides compounds having formula (I): and additionally provides methods for the synthesis thereof and methods for the use thereof in the treatment of cancer, wherein R1-R7, X1... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8129382 | Compounds, methods and pharmaceutical compositions for inhibiting PARP The present invention provides compounds which inhibit poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (“PARP”), compositions containing these compounds and methods for using these PARP inhibitors to treat, prevent and/or ameliorate the effects of the conditions described herein. | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126675 | Product integrity tracking shipping label, and associated method A product integrity tracking shipping label includes a label body for attaching to a product to be shipped or to packaging containing the product. One or more movement monitoring configured with the label body detects a movement metric of the product. A microprocess... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8124870 | Systems and processes for bifacial collection and tandem junctions using a thin-film photovoltaic device A thin-film photovoltaic device includes a semi-transparent back contact layer. The semi-transparent back contact layer includes a semi-transparent contact layer and a semi-transparent contact interface layer. The thin-film photovoltaic device may be formed in a sub... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8123819 | System and method for dry cleaning articles Systems and methods for dry cleaning articles using siloxane solvents are provided. In the systems and methods according to the present invention, the siloxane solvent suspends impurities extracted from the articles being cleaned, and the system filters off the impu... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8123718 | Charging mechanism for a needle free injector The present invention provides a needle-free injector for delivering a medicament under pressure into an animal or human, the injector having a charging mechanism comprising a threaded shaft/nut member combination. The injection device is of the type that includes a... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8122659 | Quick-connect/disconnect enveloping post cover Disclosed is a cover for a conventional post, e.g., a T-post commonly used in landscaping, farming, and other fields. The cover has a partially hollow tubular body that is able to slidingly receive a post. A ratchet strip is included on the inside of the cover. Catc... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8120423 | OP-AMP sharing with input and output reset An operational amplifier with two pairs of differential inputs for use with an input switch capacitor network. The operational amplifier has reset devices for resetting the second pair of differential inputs while amplifying the first pair of differential inputs, an... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8119770 | Modified soluble FGF receptor Fc fusions with improved biological activity The invention relates to modified soluble FGF receptor Fc fusions comprising a fusion of a soluble fragment or domain of the FGF receptor part (targeting or binding moiety) with an Fc region of an immunoglobulin part (effector function moiety), having improved biolo... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8111937 | Optimized image processing for wavefront coded imaging systems An image processing method includes wavefront coding a wavefront that forms an optical image, converting the optical image to a data stream and processing the data stream with a color-specific filter kernel to reverse effects of wavefront coding and generate a final... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8109859 | Bilaterally actuated sculling trainer An apparatus for simulating sculling or rowing on water includes a support frame with foot rests, a sliding seat, bilateral oars that are rotationally coupled to a set of actuators, integrated input velocity and torque sensors, computer and computer display. Each ac... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108512 | System and method for accessing and using a supercomputer Systems and methods form and control a supercomputer based upon a parallel processing architecture such as a Howard cascade. A graphical user interface allows a user to interact with one or more virtual power centers of the supercomputer facility. A plurality of pro... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107705 | Systems and methods for minimizing aberrating effects in imaging systems A biometric optical recognition system includes optics, including a wavefront coding mask, for imaging a wavefront of object to be recognized to an intermediate image, and a detector for detecting the intermediate image. A modulation transfer function detected by th... | 01/31/2012 |
