Did You Know...
...that the Eveready Battery began as an invention called the "electric flowerpot," which was a tube with a battery and light bulb inside? The idea was to fasten this gizmo to the side of a flowerpot so it would illuminate the flowers from the bottom. The idea died on the vine and the businessman who licensed the flower pot, Conrad Huber, was left with a pile of useless tubes -- until he found a way to market them as batteries to light the world!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8156023 | Incentive structure for centralized trading market An automated marketplace is separated into tiers, with behavioral requirements for each tier. Tier eligibility is a “structural incentive” for market participants to exhibit desirable behavior and eschew undesirable behavior. Tiered eligibility also reflects the... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149111 | Central facility that communicates with portable container via mobile device A central facility communicates with a portable container via a mobile device. A computer at the central facility receives (a) usage data, in association with identification tag information for the portable container, from the mobile device associated with the porta... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8073912 | Sender authentication for difficult to classify email The portion of email traffic that cannot be definitively determined to be spam or definitively determined to be ham (non-spam) is processed by sending a bounceback email to the sender, requiring the sender to reply using a sub-address created by the bounceback gener... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8055575 | Central counterparty for data management A central counterparty for data management (CCDM) receives data relating to financial transactions, associates the data with metadata to create reference data, stores the reference data and provides the reference data in “push” and “pull” ways. The “push... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8044778 | Injection device and case with reporting ability A container for a product uses a location circuit for determining the location of the container, a storage element for storing a container identification code, a plurality of data acquisition components for acquiring status of at least two characteristics of at leas... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8011057 | Retractable interproximal brush There are provided a device and a method for cleaning teeth. The device comprises a brush, a shaft connected to the brush, a neck surrounding the shaft along a substantial portion of the length of the shaft, and a controller coupled to the shaft at the end of the sh... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7871393 | Injection device with reporting ability An injector, when dispensing its dosage, determines its location, and sends a message to a central facility, such as a rescue center or product management system, giving its unique identification number and its location. The injector is a syringe or an auto-injector... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7814216 | System and method for accessing host computer via remote computer In a peer-to-peer fashion, various host computers communicate with various remote computers using the Internet so that user inputs from the remote computers are transferred to the host computers as if the user inputs occurred locally, and information generated by th... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7752085 | Product information management system A product information tag, typically for a medical product such as a drug or device, is prepared in accordance with various rules. The product information tag is associated with the product as it travels from a product distributor to a shipper, to a customer such as... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7739726 | Portable device for accessing host computer via remote computer A portable device enables access to a host computer via a guest computer. The portable device is connected to the guest computer, and a program stored in a memory on the portable device is activated, the program including instructions for establishing communication ... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7529679 | Automated alternative dispute resolution In automated alternative dispute resolution, a communication from a party is automatically received, the communication being a portion of a pre-defined dispute resolution process, the communication is processed, and returned to the party. A comment relating to an au... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7501926 | Heat sensing electrical receptacle An electrical receptacle has an outlet and senses the operating temperature and automatically turns off when the temperature rises above a predetermined threshold. The receptacle has a reset button that must be manually operated to enable operation of the outlet to ... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7489227 | Electrical receptacle with multiple heat sensors An electrical receptacle has multiple thermal sensors, each of which can trigger automatic shut off when the temperature rises above a predetermined threshold. After automatically turning off, the receptacle remains permanently non-conducting. ... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7385473 | One-shot heat sensing electrical receptacle An electrical receptacle senses its operating temperature and automatically turns off when the temperature rises above a predetermined threshold. The receptacle has a button that visually indicates when the receptacle has reached its temperature threshold. After aut... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7377128 | Clasp for ornamental material A clasp for an ornamental material, such as knitwear, has two portions. One end of a clasp portion serves as a mating face, while the other end of a clasp portion has an aperture. The mating faces have complementary registration structures, such as a bump and well, ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7343295 | Automated complaint resolution system A complaint resolution system, also referred to as a disputes system, enables registered consumers to file a complaint against a merchant. During complaint preparation, the disputes system advises the consumer of relevant cases and other information, allows the cons... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7315840 | Procedural order system and method A procedure is a template that specifies trigger conditions and what to do when the trigger conditions occur, or do not occur within a specified time. Generally, a procedure corresponds to an order handling strategy used by a trader. A menu of standard procedures ex... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7218187 | Bow tie coupler A wide bandwidth coupler has two outer elements around a center element. The outer elements are rectangular at their outside portions and each have a tapered nose portion next to the center element. A matching network electrically connects the two outer elements and... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7193579 | Balanced dipole antenna A balanced dipole antenna has a coaxial cable connected between a load or source and the left and right dipole arms to substantially eliminate common mode current and radiative coupling between the coaxial cable and the left and right dipole arms. The connection bet... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7151898 | Deterministic first and second order polarization mode dispersion compensator A polarization mode dispersion (PMD) feedforward compensator compensates first and second order PMD. An optical signal is provided to a PMD detector that senses first and second order PMD in the optical signal and produces control signals for the PMD compensator. Th... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7126439 | Bow tie coupler A wide bandwidth coupler has two outer elements around a center element. The outer elements are rectangular at their outside portions and each have a tapered nose portion next to the center element. A matching network electrically connects the two outer elements and... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7003183 | Independently variable first and second order polarization mode dispersion compensator A PMD compensator or generator includes one module for adjusting first order PMD without altering second order PMD (FOnSO module), and another module for adjusting second order PMD without altering first order PMD (SOnFO module). The modules enable separate compensa... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6811462 | Garment interior bra An activewear garment includes a removable bra portion, so that the amount and size of bra support can be easily adapted to the wearer. The activewear garment includes a back band which, when coupled to the bottom band of the bra portion, forms a continuous band aro... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6632142 | Internet gaming with multiple web sites A home site operates a game involving player visits to play sites, to view information at the play sites and possibly to perform additional activity at the play sites. Play sites are selected in accordance with interests of a game player and/or because ch... | 10/14/2003 |
