Did You Know...
...that one person who claimed to be the inventor of the television is Russian emigre Vladimir Zworykin? In 1929 David Sarnoff, founder of RCA, asked Zworykin what it would take to develop TV for commercial use. He said: a year and a half and $100,000. In reality, it took 20 years and $50 million! Before his death in 1982 at the age of 92, Zworykin said of his invention: "The technique is wonderful. It is beyond my expectations. But the programs! I would never let my children even come close to this thing."
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| D657773 | Smart phone | 04/17/2012 |
| D657770 | Media device with hub | 04/17/2012 |
| D656527 | Magnifier | 03/27/2012 |
| D656487 | Hand held remote | 03/27/2012 |
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| D650353 | Media device and hub assembly | 12/13/2011 |
| 8062228 | Dual mode intracranial temperature detector Apparatus for detecting thermal radiation emanating from two different intracranial depths in a patient includes a dual-mode transducer having a working surface for placement against a patient's cranium. The transducer includes a first antenna with an aperture adjac... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8011241 | Level meter A level meter employs the radar concept for measuring the fill level of a medium in a container and incorporates an electric conductor system for conducting an electromagnetic signal into the container and returning reflected components of the electromagnetic signal... | 09/06/2011 |
| D644229 | In-wall iPod dock | 08/30/2011 |
| D644228 | In-wall iPad dock | 08/30/2011 |
| 7992439 | Ultrasonic probe head An ultrasonic probe head, in particular for an ultrasonic flow meter having a housing and an ultrasonic transducer in the housing, wherein ultrasonic signals can be created and/or detected by the ultrasonic transducer and the ultrasonic signals from the ultrasonic t... | 08/09/2011 |
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| 7989741 | In-line microwave warming apparatus Microwave warming apparatus includes a housing defining a heating waveguide with a heating cavity. An integral internal electrically conductive ridge projects from one of the longitudinal waveguide walls and extends along the waveguide. A slot having opposite ends e... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7971494 | Coriolis mass flowmeter having a reinforcing bridge between two end connection plates A Coriolis mass flowmeter has exactly two measuring tubes that can be excited to oscillation and a housing. An end connection plate from a pipe to both measuring tubes is provided on each end of the measuring tube, and these the end connection plates are attached to... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7933660 | Apparatus for detecting and treating vulnerable plaques Apparatus for detecting vulnerable plaques embedded in the wall of a patient's blood vessel includes an intravascular catheter containing a microwave antenna, an extracorporeal radiometer having a signal input, a reference input and an output, a cable for electrical... | 04/26/2011 |
| D636778 | Desktop ipad dock | 04/26/2011 |
| D636777 | Desktop dock for iPad | 04/26/2011 |
| 7908919 | Level meter employing the radar principle A level meter, employing the radar principle for measuring the fill level of a medium in a container, includes a signal transmitter serving to transmit an electromagnetic signal, an electric conductor system for conducting the electromagnetic signal into the contain... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7905366 | Energy dissipation device for a multi-member vehicle The invention relates to an energy dissipation device (100) for a multi-member vehicle, a rail-mounted vehicle in particular, comprising a first end plate (10), a second end plate (20) and an energy dissipation element (30) in the form of... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7895681 | Protective structure and method of making same A protective structure for protecting a body from impact includes an inner layer of relatively flexible material, and which has a plurality of spaced-apart openings extending between opposite faces thereof and a corresponding plurality of protective units. Each prot... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7843199 | Level meter A level meter for measuring the fill level of a medium in a vessel, includes a reference container that can be connected to the vessel in a manner whereby the level in the reference container is identical to that in the vessel. The reference container is provided wi... | 11/30/2010 |
| D551673 | User interface for a computer display | 09/25/2007 |
| D551672 | User interface for a computer display | 09/25/2007 |
| 7243555 | Transmitting and receiving circuitry for an ultrasonic flowmeter, and method for operating such transmitting and receiving circuitry A transmitting and receiving circuitry system for an ultrasonic flowmeter includes an ultrasound transducer interface for connection to an ultrasound transducer of the ultrasonic flowmeter, an amplifier with a first input and a second input, as well as a signal gene... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7234175 | Lavatory cleansing devices A liquid dispensing unit for a toilet bowl comprises a first container containing a first, liquid formulation, a second container containing a second formulation, which may be a solid tablet. The liquid from container flows onto a delivery surface from where it is w... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7233391 | Optical device integrated with well Methods and systems are disclosed that include an optical device for providing information about one or more samples. The system includes well(s) for holding the sample(s), and in one embodiment, the optical device(s) have non-parallel sidewalls optically contacting... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7227495 | Radar fill-level sensing device A radar fill-level sensing device has a high-frequency unit that serves to generate and process radar signals of a predefined frequency and wavelength, an antenna for transmitting and/or receiving the radar signals, as well as circuitry, provided on a circuit board.... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7219557 | Method and apparatus for calculating flowing medium temperature in a magnetoinductive flowmeter A method for calculating the temperature of a medium traveling through a measuring tube, while with the aid of at least one field coil a magnetic field is generated which permeates the measuring tube. The electrical resistance of the field coil is measured and the t... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7199633 | Electric pulse generator and method for generating short electric pulses A method for generating short electric pulses, comprising the steps of generating a control pulse, feeding the control pulse to a bipolar transistor, which subsequently emits an output signal with a steep switch-off side by exploiting the charge storage effect of th... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7197356 | Microwave detection apparatus Microwave detection apparatus includes an intravascular catheter containing inner and outer conductors, the distal ends of the conductors forming an antenna at a distal end of the catheter. A gap is provided in the inner conductor near the antenna thereby forming sp... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7174256 | Magnetoinductive flowmeter and measuring method for a magnetoinductive flowmeter The magnetoinductive flowmeter measures the flow volume of a medium traveling through a measuring tube, with a magnet that serves to generate a magnetic field permeating the measuring tube that has a magnetic-field component that extends perpendicular to the directi... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7171336 | Method for operating a measuring instrument A method for operating a measuring instrument is capable of performing multiple diagnostic functions. For this, a process control is provided for the execution of the diagnostic functions in a manner whereby the normal measuring operation of the measuring instrument... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7162651 | Electric device and method for operating an electric device An electric device features a two-wire interface which two-wire interface serves to feed electric power to the electric device and also to transmit a signal, with the maximum power drawn via the two-wire interface in normal operation being restricted to a predefined... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7156539 | Adjustable reflector device A reflector device for a luminaire, said reflector device comprising a pair of resilient sheets positioned one to either side of a spine in the manner of the pages of a book, said sheets when in an unbiased condition lying substantially in two planes intersecting at... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7134348 | Method for operating a mass flowmeter A method for operating a Coriolis mass flowmeter incorporates a measuring tube through which flows a medium and which is stimulated into oscillating at a minimum of one frequency, the resulting oscillations of the measuring tube being detected and measured. The visc... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7136777 | Coriolis mass flowmeter and method for operating a coriolis mass flowmeter A Coriolis mass flowmeter incorporates at least one measuring tube, at least one oscillator for the excitation of the measuring tube and at least one oscillation detector for registering the oscillations of the measuring tube, with an activator serving to energize t... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7117750 | Method for operating a magnetoinductive flowmeter A method for operating a magnetoinductive flowmeter of the type including a measuring tube through which flows an electrically conductive medium, at least two electrodes that are in direct conductive contact with the medium, and at least one magnetic field coil that... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7114400 | Magnetoinductive flowmeter and method for operating a magnetoinductive flowmeter A magnetoinductive flowmeter incorporates a magnet for generating a magnetic field that permeates the flowmeter's measuring tube with a magnetic field component perpendicular to the direction of flow, a first electrode and a second electrode which collect a voltage ... | 10/03/2006 |
