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Behavior Modification Wristwatch
A wristwatch including a watch band and a watch body having an octagon shaped perimeter and being red in color and having the word STOP thereon to resemble a stop sign.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6497276 | Combined refrigerator-oven apparatus A combined refrigerator-oven (20) includes an enclosed chamber (28) having a top wall (22), a bottom wall (24), and vertical side walls (26). The refrigerator-oven (20) further includes a heating unit (50) and a refrigeration unit (70). A controller (118)... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6097764 | Pragmatic trellis-coded modulation system and method therefor A digital communication system (20) communicates using a polar amplitude phase shift keyed (P-APSK) phase point constellation (70, 70', 70"). Pragmatic encoding is accommodated using the constellation (70, 70', 70") to simultaneously communicate both enco... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6078625 | Pragmatic decoder and method therefor A communication system (11) uses concatenated coding in which an inner code is configured to match the needs of an outer code. The inner code is implemented through a pragmatic trellis coded modulation encoder (18) and decoder (34). A parser (50) of the e... | 06/20/2000 |
| 6050068 | Protective eye covering for animals A protective eye covering (20) for a domestic animal (24) includes a flexible material (48) for covering the eyes (34) and adjacent portions of the animal's head (22). The flexible material (48) has a V-shaped lower edge (52) trimmed with a fabric portion... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6013939 | Monolithic inductor with magnetic flux lines guided away from substrate A monolithic inductor (20, 20') is formed over a silicon or other substrate (22). The inductor (20, 20') includes at least one coil (62, 78) arranged so that its axis (58) is parallel to the substrate (22). Other inductive features, such as other coils (6... | 01/11/2000 |
| 6008694 | Distributed amplifier and method therefor A distributed amplifier (10) configured to amplify an input signal (20) is presented. Within the amplifier (10), a first input phase-shift element (40) shifts the input signal (20) into a first shifted input signal (56). A first active element (18'), coup... | 12/28/1999 |
| 5995551 | Rotationally invariant pragmatic trellis coded digital communication system and method therefor A communication system (10) includes a rotationally invariant pragmatic trellis coded modulator (18) and demodulator (34). The modulator (18) partitions information bits (20) into primary (42) and secondary (44) data streams. The secondary data stream (44... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5954566 | Method and apparatus for reconditioning digital recording discs An apparatus (96) and method for reconditioning the protective coating (14) of a digital recording disc (10) is provided. The apparatus (96) includes a turntable (98) configured to receive the non-data center section (17) of the digital disc (10), a brake... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5949769 | Multirate local multipoint data distribution system A local multipoint data distribution system (10) simultaneously accommodates many communication sessions occurring at a wide variety of data rates. space surrounding cell sites (12) is partitioned into sectors (16), and the spectrum is allocated to the ce... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5891158 | Method and system for directing an instrument to a target A method and a surgical guidance system (20) direct an instrument to a target (40) located inside a patient (22). The surgical guidance system (20) includes a fixation frame (28), a first arc member (36), a second arc member (38), and first (78) and secon... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5883807 | Schematic synthesizer A schematic diagram (32) for a printed circuit board (34) is synthesized (20) from a physical design file (56) and a graphical symbol file (86). The printed circuit board (34) has a plurality of parts (36) at least one of which has a plurality of pins (38... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5878085 | Trellis coded modulation communications using pilot bits to resolve phase ambiguities A communication system (10) includes a rotationally invariant pragmatic trellis coded modulation (PTCM) encoder (18) and decoder (34). The PTCM encoder (18) partitions information bits (20) into primary (42) and secondary (44) data streams. A pilot bit (5... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5870047 | Signal converter using multiple data streams and method therefor A signal converter (20) processes an incoming digital data stream (24) to produce an analog signal (26). A pulse shaping network (28) is configured to receive the incoming digital data stream (24) and generate a plurality of subset data streams (30). A pr... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5852418 | Notched-spectrum swept-frequency generator and method therefor A notched-chirp generator (20), utilizing first and second chirp generators (28, 30), a functional conversion element (40), an antichirp generator (42), a summing element (64), and a translation element (66), generates a notched-chirp signal (24). The sec... | 12/22/1998 |
| 5842181 | Remote hand-held time tracking device and method therefor A remote hand-held data collection device associates time with charge accounts at the instant when and the place where work is performed. The device obtains a set of descriptive codes that describe a work assignment and accrues time during which the work ... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5819155 | Active system and method for remotely identifying RF broadcast stations A survey electronics package (32) of a survey system (10) includes a transmitter (36) and a receiver (38). The transmitter (36) transmits a survey signal which a radio (12) residing in a detection zone (14) receives and demodulates to generate an audio ec... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5818832 | Rapid synchronization for communication systems A local multipoint data distribution system (10) simultaneously accommodates many communication sessions occurring at a variety of data rates. Space surrounding cell sites (12) is partitioned into sectors (16), and the spectrum is allocated so that adjace... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5774084 | Method and apparatus for translating digital data into an analog signal A pulse width modulation (PWM) circuit translates digital data into an analog signal. The PWM circuit includes at least a digital counter, a significance reverser, and a comparator circuit. The significance reverser reverses the relative order of signific... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5764102 | Multi-stage symbol synchronization A digital communication receiver (#10) takes one complex sample (#20) of a baseband analog signal (#12) per symbol. A rectangular to polar converter (#44) separates phase attributes of the complex samples from magnitude attributes during coarse symbol syn... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5749043 | System and method for estimating characteristics of broadcast radio audiences A system for estimating listening audience characteristics in response to radio broadcast programming includes a central office, a plurality of remote survey sites, and a plurality of remote access sites. The survey sites collect survey data describing ra... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5733179 | Method and apparatus for reconditioning digital recording discs An apparatus for reconditioning the protective coating of a digital recording disc is provided. The apparatus includes a turntable configured to receive a digital disc, a first motor for rotating the turntable, a turntable support for attaching the turnta... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5727963 | Modular power connector assembly A modular power connector includes male and female housings that releasably couple together. Each housing has ten apertures that locate conductive pin and socket elements. The apertures are arranged in a compact, asymmetrical, three-tier array that ensure... | 03/17/1998 |
