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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7932980 | Liquid crystal display device having patterned electrodes for repetitive divided horizontal electric field and fringing electric field Apparatus, methods, systems and devices for high aperture ratio, high transmittance, and wide viewing angle liquid crystal display having first and second substrates each with an alignment layer and polarizer on the interior and exterior surface thereof and a liquid... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7931763 | Burn rate sensitization of solid propellants using a nano-titania additive Adding nanoparticles as a catalyst to solid propellant fuel to increase and enhance burn rates of the fuel by up to 10 times or more and/or modifying the pressure index. A preferred embodiment uses TiO2 nanoparticles mixed with a solid propellant fuel, wh... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7930036 | Tactile application of herboelectrical stimulation to augment mammary glands Therapy and treatment devices, systems and methods for providing tactile and electrical stimulation to augment mammary glands and for making the tissues healthy and anti-carcinogenous. The devices, systems and methods combine both massage (tactile) stimulation with ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7929097 | Fast response liquid crystal mode A novel nematic liquid crystal (LC) mode is based on the Fringing-Field-Switching of Vertically-Aligned liquid crystals. The VA-FFS mode is capable of generating very fast optical modulation without the use of very thin cell gap. IA major feature of this LC mode is ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7927484 | Passive underground drainfield for septic tank nutrient removal using functionalized green filtration media Methods, systems and compositions for a green sorption media for bioretention soil amendments in drainfields for on-site waste water systems filled with the green sorption media to foster an anaerobic or anoxic environment saturated. The green sorption media include... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7927076 | Quick assembly blades for ceiling fans Easy to attach and detach blades for overhead ceiling fans. A first version has a ceiling fan blade with keyhole slots that fit over flat topped fasteners on a mounting arm. Pulling the blade away from the arm locks the slots to the fasteners. A second version is si... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7927071 | Efficient traditionally appearing ceiling fan blades with aerodynamical upper surfaces Efficient traditionally appearing ceiling fan blades with aerodynamical upper surfaces and wide tip ends for ceiling fans with blades formed from plastic and/or wood and/or separately attached surfaces that run at reduced energy consumption that move larger air volu... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7917039 | Signal processing using spectrally phase-encoded optical frequency combs Methods, apparatus and systems for an optical system for data harvesting and pattern recognition. The system includes a mode locked laser for producing a comb of optical frequencies that is split into two identical combs, a wavelength division demultiplexer separate... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7914683 | Particles of spilled oil-absorbing carbon in contact with water Hydrogen generator coupled to or integrated with a fuel cell for portable power applications. Hydrogen is produced via thermocatalytic decomposition (cracking, pyrolysis) of hydrocarbon fuels in oxidant-free environment. The apparatus can utilize a variety of hydroc... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7913741 | Screen connection pass-through for hoses, electric/power cords, telephone and cable lines Devices, apparatus, systems and methods for providing a pass through connection opening for water hoses, electrical and power cords, telephone lines, and cable lines to freely pass through screens such as screen pool enclosures, screen doors, and the like. The pass-... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7913609 | Machine gun ammunition holder incorporating center of gravity downward ejection-deflector Devices, apparatus, systems and methods of mounting ammunition holders for side loading machine guns and weapons that downwardly eject spent cartridges. The ammunition holders include a side plate that both moves the center of gravity of the left side supported ammu... | 03/29/2011 |
| D635236 | Ceiling fan housing | 03/29/2011 |
| D635216 | Single accessory rail mount for vertical foregrips | 03/29/2011 |
| 7912786 | Integrated technology money transfer system An automated business process system and method for transferring money funds with a computer machine system that receives, processes and transmits account information data to effect money transfers from human sender's debit card accounts to human recipients debit ca... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7900527 | Electrically deflected nanomechanical sensors An electrically-induced deflective amplification sensor as an actively controlled and reconfigurable nanomechanical sensor for the detection and recognition of chemicals, biomolecules, and gaseous molecules. The electrically-induced deflective amplification sensors ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7900390 | Light rail and accessory rail mount for vertical fore grip Devices, and methods of attaching accessory mounts to vertical fore grip handles on firearms, such as rifles. The accessory mounts can be molded to extend off of the handles. The accessory mounts can attach to the handles by interlocking plugs and slots. The accesso... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7899093 | Combination of up-converting materials with semiconductor light sources Methods, apparatus and systems for an up-converter resonant cavity light emitting diode device includes a semiconductor light source, an up-converter to form the light emitter with up-converting materials and an electrical source coupled with the semiconductor light... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7897252 | Surfaces of thermoplastic sheets and structures modified with photocatalytic materials Thermoplastic surface modification is achieved with photocatalysts, such as titanium dioxide, tungsten oxide and mixtures thereof. A uniform coating of a powdered photocatalyst is applied to a thermoplastic surface that is wetted with an organic solvent. The coating... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7891146 | Channel tracks for attaching storm panels over openings on buildings Devices, apparatus, systems and methods of attaching storm panels over window and door openings with end fastenable H tracks. Each of the tracks can have H cross-sectional shapes with elongated opposite facing C shaped channels back to back along the elongated track... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7891126 | Canting vertical fore grip with bipod Devices, systems and methods of canting firearms such as rifles relative to fore grip having extendable and expanded legs. One version allows for a rocking and canting of the firearm by pivotally attaching an upper portion of the expanded legs. Another version allow... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7883534 | Personal tuner Handheld flashlight type vibratory therapeutic treatment invention, devices, and methods that can house a small piezoelectric crystal adjacent to a bulb in the emitting chamber portion of a flashlight housing, where the crystal is located next to or between light so... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7881347 | Hybrid gain guiding in laser resonators Methods and systems for hybrid gain guiding in laser resonators that combines the features of gain guiding and fiber or other types of lasers into a single system. Hybrid gain guiding in laser resonators is not limited to conventional fiber lasers. Any type of gain ... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7848479 | Image reconstruction for a general circle-plus trajectory Methods, apparatus and systems for an exact filtered back projection process for circle-plus trajectories, which consist of two components: C and L. The first component C, is analogous to a circle in the traditional circle-plus trajectories, is any closed (not neces... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7847207 | Method and system to attach carbon nanotube probe to scanning probe microscopy tips An easy and controllable method and system to attach a carbon nanotube to a scanning probe tip such as a scanning probe microscopy (SPM) tip using a focus ion beam (FIB) technique. The method and system includes selecting a carbon fiber by a Focus Ion Beam micromani... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7846079 | Lightweight portable training device to simulate kayaking Methods and devices for kayak training and/or exercising. One embodiment can use two PVC type pipes (one shorter than the other) in a parallel configuration. A flexible bungee type stretchable cord can be passed through the small pipe and have ends that are each att... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7845611 | Door operated page turner device, system and method for books Door/lid operated page turner devices, systems and methods for reading materials such as books is provided for hands-free reading for the able-bodied and disabled reader. A platform supports a book that is covered by a bottomless box having an open top, with left an... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7879308 | Multiwall carbon nanotube field emitter fabricated by focused ion beam technique A multi-wall carbon nanotube field emitter and method of producing the same is disclosed. The multi-wall carbon nanotube field emitter comprises a nanotube having a diameter between approximately 1 nanometer and approximately 100 nanometers with an integrally attach... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7868510 | High-efficiency wheel-motor utilizing molded magnetic flux channels with transverse-flux stator A motor including an outside rotor having a rotor disc with plural magnets alternating polarities flush mounted in the disc, an inside stator assembly with a ring of pole pieces forming a channel to house a transversely wound stator windings, and a controller couple... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7861452 | Vertical foregrip leg extender Devices, and methods of extending legs from vertical fore grip handles on firearms, such as rifles, to different height positions. The vertical fore grip can include expandable bipod legs. The legs can be individually extended to different lengths by moving telescop... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7861451 | Folding stack plate for foregrips Adapter devices, apparatus, systems and methods of allowing a firearm to be supported by a foldable fore grip/gun handle. The fore grip gun handle can have bipod type legs that can be extendable from the handle. The fore grip handle can be just a vertical extension.... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7858149 | Methods and systems for coating and sealing inside piping systems Methods and systems for cleaning, coating and sealing leaks in existing pipes, in a single operation. A piping system can be cleaned in one pass by dry particulates forced and pulled by air throughout the piping system by a generator and a vacuum. Pipes can be prote... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7857928 | Cover up Methods, systems and devices for providing a shell cover to cover up an existing motorcycle fuel tank, and methods of installing the cover on the motorcycle fuel tank. The process allows the fuel tank to remain on the motorcycle without being removed. The fuel tank ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7857592 | Quick install blade arms for ceiling fans Quick attachable and detachable mounting arms for ceiling fans. A first version has flat headed fasteners initially attached to one end of mounting arms, with key-hole slots in the endshield of the ceiling fan motor. The user raises the mounting arm so that the flat... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7855768 | Transflective liquid crystal display using separate transmissive and reflective liquid crystal cells and materials with single cell gap A transflective liquid crystal display (TLCD) using separate transmissive (T) and reflective (R) cells in which two liquid crystal materials with different birefringence changes are used. The birefringence change of the R region is half of the birefringence change o... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7855091 | Excitation band-gap tuning of dopant based quantum dots with core-inner shell-outer shell A composition and method for fabricating and tuning a dopant based core-shell semiconductor having a quantum dot core with an excitation band-gap are provided. A quantum dot core composed of an alloy of cadmium sulfide (CdS) and zinc sulfide (ZnS) as semi-conductor ... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7850513 | High efficiency solar powered fans Highly efficient solar fans used in portable and built in configurations. A ventilation fan can be used for exhausting air out from underneath roofs, and/or for being portable in use and application. The fan can include optimized airflow blades having a twisted conf... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7842276 | Catalysts for the evolution of hydrogen from borohydride solution Organic pigments are capable of catalyzing the decomposition reaction of hydrogen-rich, stabilized, borohydride solutions to generate hydrogen gas on-board an operable hydrogen-consuming device such as a motor vehicle or other combustion engine. The organic pigments... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7840463 | Retirement and financial planning calculator apparatus and methods Systems, devices, apparatus and methods of allowing one to use a handheld type calculator and/or computer based program having factory pre-set and preprogrammed color indicia buttons/keys to allow the user to easily and quickly do a variety of specialized calculatio... | 11/23/2010 |
| RE41938 | Kit and method for masking and removing stains from rugged solid surfaces Methods, compositions and kits for masking and subsequent removal of oil, grease, rust and other stains from a variety of rough solid surfaces, including, but not limited to stone, concrete, asphalt, stucco brick, and ceramic. The methods include coating the stains ... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7825805 | Delayed offset multi-track OFC sensors and tags Apparatus, systems, devices and methods for providing an orthogonal frequency coding technique for surface acoustic wave sensors incorporating the use of multiple parallel acoustic tracks to provide increased coding by phase shifting and delaying a code sequence. Th... | 11/02/2010 |
