Did You Know...
...that the inventor of the electric motor was a blacksmith named Thomas Davenport? Described as "a brilliantly unsuccessful inventor", Davenport invented the first rotary electric motor. In 1836 he headed out -- on foot -- from his Vermont home to file a patent application at the Patent Office in Washington, D.C. By the time he got there, he had squandered away his money and couldn't afford the $30 filing fee so he turned around and went home. When he later mailed in his application with money he'd raised, the Patent office was destroyed in a fire. He did finally get credit for his invention on Feb. 5, 1837.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8183995 | Systems and methods for modifying power usage Systems and methods for providing energy management utilize wireless wide-area network broadcast signals and a decentralized receiver architecture to allow customers to make informed choices with regard to energy consumption and load shedding for particular applianc... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183458 | Photovoltaic apparatus having a filler layer and method for making the same Devices for converting light into electric current are provided. A representative device has an encasing structure having at least one portion transparent. The encasing structure is configured to pass light energy into an interior of the encasing structure. The devi... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8171159 | Systems and methods for adaptive communication control Computer program products, apparatus, and methods for processing digital messages to recipients at destination domains is provided. A plurality of profiles are established, each profile for handling digital to a specific domain or set of domains. A request to proces... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8140376 | System and method for optimization of viral marketing efforts A system and method for improving the performance of a viral marketing program develops a plurality of trials of a viral marketing program having a business objective with each trial having a plurality of attributes at least one of which differs from an attribute of... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8136786 | Folding wire easel A collapsible easel with three legs is provided. First ends of the three legs are attached at an apex. The legs are moveable with respect to one another about the apex. The legs are moveable between collapsed and opened positions. The legs are disposed substantially... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8110828 | Real time process monitoring and control for semiconductor junctions A method of manufacturing a semiconductor layer is provided. In a first deposition during a first period of time, at least one Group IIIA element and at least one Group VIA element are deposited on a substrate or on a layer optional disposed on the substrate such as... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8109004 | Constant force mechanical scribers and methods for using same in semiconductor processing applications A scribing system comprising a mounting mechanism, stylus, and force generating mechanism is provided. The mounting mechanism is configured to rotate an elongated object in such a manner that the object is subjected to a bow effect wherein a middle portion of the ob... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8106292 | Volume compensation within a photovoltaic device Volume compensation in photovoltaic device is provided. The photovoltaic device has an outer transparent casing and a substrate that, together, define an inner volume. At least one solar cell is on the substrate. A filler layer seals the at least one solar cell with... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8095408 | System and method for facilitating network connectivity based on user characteristics A computer system for facilitating user connectivity in a computer network includes an attention manager, an identity manager, and an introduction manager. The attention manager generates data indicative of the current interests of the user. The identity manager man... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8093493 | Volume compensation within a photovoltaic device A photovoltaic device having (i) an outer transparent casing, (ii) a substrate, the substrate and the outer transparent casing defining an inner volume, (iii) at least one solar cell on the substrate, (iv) a filler layer sealing the at least one solar cell and (v) a... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8005620 | Systems and methods for biopolymer engineering Methods, computer systems, and computer program products for biopolymer engineering. A variant set for a biopolymer of interest is constructed by identifying, using a plurality of rules, a plurality of positions in the biopolymer of interest and, for each respective... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7969191 | Low-swing CMOS input circuit The invention relates to a CMOS input circuit for receiving low-swing input signals, which is an alternative to the CMOS input circuits as known from the prior art. The CMOS input circuit according to the invention comprises a leveling circuit (LC) that is construct... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7964418 | Real time process monitoring and control for semiconductor junctions A method of manufacturing a semiconductor layer is provided. In a first deposition during a first period of time, at least one Group IIIA element and at least one Group VIA element are deposited on a substrate or on a layer optional disposed on the substrate such as... | 06/21/2011 |
| D640401 | Portable solar powered light | 06/21/2011 |
| 7959540 | Systems and methods for administering an exercise program Systems and methods for facilitating an isometric contraction exercise regimen for many subjects across a network are provided. One or more exercise constraints are developed for a subject as a function of the medical health information of the subject. The subject p... | 06/14/2011 |
| D638571 | Casing for a portable solar powered light | 05/24/2011 |
| 7940550 | Systems and methods for reducing memory array leakage in high capacity memories by selective biasing A source-biasing mechanism for leakage reduction in SRAM in which SRAM cells are arranged into a plurality of sectors. In standby mode, the SRAM cells in a sector in the plurality of sectors are deselected and a source-biasing potential is provided to the SRAM cells... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7898261 | Lamp with metering device A lamp includes a generator that generates electricity. A battery stores the generated electricity. A light source produces light from the stored electricity. A metering device tallies an operating parameter indicative of the amount of electrical energy consumed by ... | 03/01/2011 |
| D633437 | Casing for a solar mobile charger | 03/01/2011 |
| 7882600 | Cable organizer A cable organizer having a centerpiece, a first loop portion, and a second loop portion is provided. The first loop portion defines a first bore adapted to receive at least one cable therein. It also includes a first end that abuts a first side of the centerpiece to... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7879685 | System and method for creating electric isolation between layers comprising solar cells Methods for forming a patterned layer from common layer in a photovoltaic application are provided. The patterned layer is configured to form one or more portions of one or more solar cells on a rigid substrate. A first pass is made with a first laser beam over an a... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7877881 | Constant force mechanical scribers and methods for using same in semiconductor processing applications A scribing system comprising a mounting mechanism, stylus, and force generating mechanism is provided. The mounting mechanism is configured to rotate an elongated object in such a manner that the object is subjected to a bow effect wherein a middle portion of the ob... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7873558 | Methods and apparatus for determining an effect of a selection A method, computer program product, and system are disclosed. The method comprises receiving a selection of a first object. The first object is associated with a value, and receiving the first object is controlled by one or more parameters. The first object is used ... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7869664 | Systems and methods for alignment of objects in images Systems and methods for aligning objects in object sets are provided. An object set has objects that are in a corresponding image in a plurality of images. For each respective object in a first object set, a corresponding object group is constructed that contains th... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7860775 | Method and apparatus for increasing investment return and asset liquidity Investment return on a liquid or illiquid asset is increased by granting the right to pledge the asset to an entity that can deploy the asset more efficiently than its owner. Using the committed assets—and the resulting ability of the entity to pledge those assets... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7809342 | Systems and methods for providing product information over a carrier wave A customer relationship management (CRM) method using IBOC-radio signals is provided. A message in the radio signal is parsed to obtain a key. The key is compared to a plurality of stored keys. When the received key matches a stored key, a data structure associated ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7806806 | Systems and methods for administering an exercise program Systems and methods for facilitating an isometric contraction exercise regimen for many subjects across a network are provided. One or more exercise constraints are developed for a subject as a function of the medical health information of the subject. The subject p... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7805252 | Systems and methods for designing and ordering polynucleotides Computer systems, computer program products and methods for designing oligonucleotides are provided. A set of sequence elements is defined. Each sequence element represents an amino acid sequence segment or a nucleic acid sequence segment. The set of sequence elemen... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7780574 | Systems and methods for administering an exercise program Systems and methods for facilitating an isometric contraction exercise regimen for many subjects across a network are provided. One or more exercise constraints are developed for a subject as a function of the medical health information of the subject. The subject p... | 08/24/2010 |
| D622430 | Casing for a light | 08/24/2010 |
| D617099 | Storage container | 06/08/2010 |
| 7720911 | Email using queues in non-persistent memory An e-mail processing system that preferably operates solely within nonpersistent storage such as random access memory. Queues of e-mails are formed within the random access memory, where each queue includes a pointer to personalized information about the e-mail, dir... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7707732 | Constant force mechanical scribers and methods for using same in semiconductor processing applications A scribing system comprising a mounting mechanism, stylus, and force generating mechanism is provided. The mounting mechanism is configured to rotate an elongated object in such a manner that the object is subjected to a bow effect wherein a middle portion of the ob... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7698462 | Systems and methods for adaptive communication control Computer program products, apparatus, and methods for processing digital messages to recipients at destination domains is provided. A plurality of profiles are established, each profile for handling digital to a specific domain or set of domains. A request to proces... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7698369 | Email delivery system using metadata on emails to manage virtual storage E-mail system which organizes e-mails into queues based on their locations and characterizes the e-mails. Metadata, indicative of the e-mail, is appended to the e-mail. The queues are organized based on the metadata, and processed. The metadata is always stored in l... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7647188 | Systems and methods for processing nucleic acid chromatograms Computer systems, computer program products and methods for processing an input nucleic acid chromatogram having a plurality of substantially simultaneous traces. Each trace in the plurality of traces has a plurality of datapoints. Each respective datapoint in each ... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7584446 | Method and apparatus for extending processing time in one pipeline stage A single channel or multi-channel system that requires the execution time of a pipeline stage to be extended to a time longer than the time interval between two consecutive input data. Each processor in the system has an input and output port connected to a “bypas... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7561973 | Methods for determining properties that affect an expression property value of polynucleotides in an expression system A method of determining a property that affects expression of polynucleotides in an expression system. A plurality of polynucleotides, each encoding a polypeptide sequence, is constructed. An amino acid is encoded a plurality of times in both a first and second poly... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7561972 | Synthetic nucleic acids for expression of encoded proteins A method of designing a polynucleotide sequence encoding a polypeptide sequence of a predetermined polypeptide is provided. A frequency lookup table corresponding to an expression system is obtained. The table comprises a plurality of sequence elements and a plurali... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7537032 | Key locator A key locator includes first and second members. The first member has opposed ends and an intermediate u-shaped region. One of the ends of the first member comprises a hook for engaging the second member which includes a clasp while the other end comprises an enlarg... | 05/26/2009 |
