Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7937332 | Automatic verification of postal indicia products A method for verifying uniquely identifiable postal indicia in a closed loop system is provided. An embodiment of the method may include scanning a mail piece for human-readable and machine-readable images in a single image, including a postal indicium representing ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7933844 | Address forwarding for parcels A method for sorting parcels may include reading, during a first sortation pass, machine readable indicia applied to the parcel prior to mailing and at least a portion of delivery address information on a parcel. The method may also include selecting a reference ind... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7928637 | Piezoelectric materials A piezoelectric perovskite mixed oxide compound has the general formula (BiFeO3)x—(PbTiO3)1-x and contains up to 5 at % lanthanum or other rare earth substitution, in which x has a value in the range 0.5 to 0.9. Such com... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7926243 | Method and system for handling containers Method and system for handling a plurality of hot-filled and capped containers having temporary deformations or distortions caused by vacuums induced in the containers. For each container, temporary deformations are confined or directed to a particular portion of th... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7900425 | Method for handling a hot-filled container having a moveable portion to reduce a portion of a vacuum created therein Systems and methods for vacuum compensation in hot-filled and cooled containers. Each container reduces, via one or more vacuum panels, a first portion of a vacuum created in the container. Each container also has a repositionable portion to reduce a second portion ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7823062 | Interactive electronic technical manual system with database insertion and retrieval A Class V Interactive Electronic Technical Manual (IETM) system that allows remote diagnostic engineers to interact directly with on-site maintenance technicians and a system under test. In addition, the IETM system permits automatic synchronization of files on a ma... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7801702 | Enhanced diagnostic fault detection and isolation A system and method for enhanced diagnostic fault detection and isolation is provided, wherein COTS/MOTS subsystems of a system under test are evaluated in a hierarchical manner providing improved test coverage and a reduction in ambiguity group size. The enhanced d... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7792724 | System and method for allocating resources using spot market and derivative market techniques A method for controlling access to a system of finite resources with excess demand employs a two stage admission process. Subscribers are first admitted based on an initial bid price and resource availability. The market price is determined by the highest bid price ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7785282 | Spinal orthosis A spinal orthosis comprising a torso unit, a base member secured to the torso unit, a spring biased hinge connected at a first end to the base member and connected at a second end to a sternal support, and one or more sternal pads (or plates) connected to the sterna... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7769246 | Multiple map image projecting and fusing A system and method for multiple map image projecting and fusing in an object oriented computer environment. The multiple map image projecting and fusing method may provide a flexible and efficient architecture for generating combined map images from one or more map... | 08/03/2010 |
| D618007 | Sofa | 06/22/2010 |
| 7738679 | Map image object connectivity A system and method for creating a connectivity framework between map image objects and map data objects in an object oriented computer environment. The connectivity framework may provide a flexible and efficient architecture for generating multiple map images from ... | 06/15/2010 |
| D617571 | Sofa | 06/15/2010 |
| D615317 | Chair | 05/11/2010 |
| D615316 | Chair | 05/11/2010 |
| D615315 | Sofa | 05/11/2010 |
| 7705852 | System and method for managing compressed graphic image data Compressed graphic image data files, such as Compressed ARC (Arc-second Raster Chart/map) Digitized Raster Graphics (CADRG) map files for a region of interest, are stored in blocks of memory (nodes) preferably arranged as a linked list. Portions of files containing ... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7684421 | Information routing in a distributed environment An information management system for a device network is disclosed. The information management system may include a service requester node, a monitoring node, and a service provider node. The system may include a service oriented request message including a message ... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7652551 | Toroidal inductive devices and methods of making the same An inductive device comprises an electric winding component having a generally toroidal shape, and a plurality of discrete magnetic components at least partially embracing the electric winding component so as to complete a magnetic flux path and to form at least one... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7599289 | Electronic communication control An electronic communication control device suitable for embedding into a network interface card or a line card of a switch or router. The electronic communication control device is capable of communications in multiple protocols. The processing architecture of the e... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7584420 | Graphical authoring and editing of mark-up language sequences A graphical mark-up language authoring system using drag and drop placement of symbols representing mark-up language elements on a computer screen drawing and connecting the blocks by lines representing data and control flow to create a mark-up language sequence des... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7577508 | Mobility traction control system and method A system and method for vehicle mobility traction/ride control. The system includes a mode controller configured to output control signals to a variety of vehicle control subsystems in response to operator mode selection input. ... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7544300 | Batch filtration system for preparation of sterile fluid for renal replacement therapy A method and device for blood treatments that use fluids such as dialysate and replacement fluid for renal replacement therapy. In an embodiment, fluid is passed either by pump or passively by gravity feed, through a microporous sterilization filter from a fluid sou... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7543713 | Multi-functional base for a plastic, wide-mouth, blow-molded container A container can have a body with an integrally formed base attached to the body. The base includes a concave annular wall extending from the container sidewall to a standing surface, and an inner wall extending from the standing surface to a substantially flat inner... | 06/09/2009 |
| D592416 | Sofa | 05/19/2009 |
| 7500687 | Vehicle suspension systems A vehicle suspension system includes an airbag (10) arranged to act substantially horizontally so as to apply a substantially horizontal force to a horizontally movable force-transmitting member (12) and a parallelogram linkage (16, 17, 18, 19) ... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7492965 | Multiple map image projecting and fusing A system and method for multiple map image projecting and fusing in an object oriented computer environment. The multiple map image projecting and fusing method may provide a flexible and efficient architecture for generating combined map images from one or more map... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7486840 | Map image object connectivity A system and method for creating a connectivity framework between map image objects and map data objects in an object oriented computer environment. The connectivity framework may provide a flexible and efficient architecture for generating multiple map images from ... | 02/03/2009 |
| D580670 | Lounge chair | 11/18/2008 |
| 7447959 | Semiconductor integrated circuit and a method of testing the same A semiconductor integrated circuit (LSI) in which control information for determining a voltage or a width of a pulse produced itself can easily be set in parallel with other LSIs, and set information can be corrected easily. From an external evaluation device, a vo... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7427025 | Automated postal voting system and method A voting indicium product including a human-readable portion to represent a unique vote identification element for a specific ballot choice by a specific voter. The voting indicium further including a bar-coded portion to represent the unique vote identification ele... | 09/23/2008 |
| D575545 | Sofa | 08/26/2008 |
| 7404972 | Process to extract quassinoids A means for the extraction and crystallization of quassinoids such as quassin and neoquassin from natural sources containing these compounds, using compounds that are Generally Recognized As Safe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is provided. In particular, a... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7404768 | Telescopic shaft for motor vehicle steering A telescopic shaft for vehicle steering has first and second torque transferring members. The first torque transferring member is interposed, with an elastic body in between, between axial grooves formed in an outer peripheral surface of a male shaft and an inner pe... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7401813 | Steering apparatus for motor vehicle In a steering apparatus for a vehicle in which an inner column is supported to be movable in the axial direction by an outer jacket supported by a body-side bracket and a steering shaft is fixed to an adjustment position by clamping the inner column by the use of te... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7403436 | Non-volatile semiconductor memory device When a non-volatile memory write error occurs in a card storage device containing a non-volatile memory and an error correction circuit, write data is read from the non-volatile memory and a check is made if the error can be corrected by the error correction circuit... | 07/22/2008 |
| D573359 | Chair | 07/22/2008 |
| 7393065 | Redundant braking system Disclosed is a redundant braking system for a vehicle. A controller may monitor a status of a hydraulic braking system, and during vehicle travel, automatically switch to a modulated electric braking system which is separate from the hydraulic braking system when th... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7392457 | Memory storage device having a nonvolatile memory and memory controller with error check operation mode A memory card includes a non-volatile memory, a memory controller for controlling the operation of the memory card. The memory controller is capable of providing an interface with outside according to a predetermined protocol, and performs error detection and correc... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7391667 | Semiconductor integrated circuit An apparatus is to reduce, during the standby time, the electric power caused by the leakage current flowing through a storage transistor in a 3-transistor dynamic cell. Source electrodes of storage transistors in a plurality of 3-transistor dynamic cells constituti... | 06/24/2008 |
