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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8167374 | Portable folding chair A swivel chair including a swivel-mounting assembly having a lower plate, and an upper plate, and bearings for rotatably mounting the upper plate to the lower plate. The lower plate and the upper plate defining an annular gap therebetween cooperating with the interi... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8167220 | Headpiece for actuator In one embodiment there is provided an end fitment for use with an actuator used from drawing fluid from a container through a tube, the actuator has a depression face and a neck extending there from for connection to a corner end extending downwardly for securing t... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8157612 | System to direct movement of a dancing figure The present invention provides for an interactive figure with several pivot regions in the ankles, knees and hips. Two drive mechanisms are housed within a base to drive movement of the lower portion of the figure while an additional drive mechanism is included with... | 04/17/2012 |
| D657827 | Toy construction cell component with gates | 04/17/2012 |
| D657826 | Toy construction cell component | 04/17/2012 |
| D657617 | Circular pan | 04/17/2012 |
| D657496 | Tweezers | 04/10/2012 |
| 8142254 | Toy vehicle A vehicle having a chassis and motor. An electronic controller and receiver for receiving control signals from a remote control. A pair of ground-engaging front and rear wheels mounted to a front and rear portions of the chassis, and being freely rotatably mounted t... | 03/27/2012 |
| D656564 | Toy figure | 03/27/2012 |
| D656328 | Chair | 03/27/2012 |
| 8136785 | Device to read in bed or when reclining In accordance with the aspects of the present invention, an improved book holder for reading in bed is disclosed. The present invention includes a base panel, back panel, central slotted unit and moveable plexiglass plate rectangular in shape. The plexiglass include... | 03/20/2012 |
| D655130 | Drip pan | 03/06/2012 |
| 8113905 | Directionally controllable flying vehicle and a propeller mechanism for accomplishing the same A flying vehicle in accordance to an embodiment of the present invention includes a propeller control mechanism for flying the vehicle. The propeller control mechanism includes a propeller having a center shaft for connecting to the drive shaft; first and second pro... | 02/14/2012 |
| D653868 | Chair | 02/14/2012 |
| 8108356 | Method for recovering data in a storage system In one aspect of the invention, there is disclosed a recovery method in a storage system that integrates shadow page and deferred update techniques. Updates of a page in the buffer are not immediately reflected to the database, but are deferred until the transaction... | 01/31/2012 |
| D651043 | Drip pan | 12/27/2011 |
| 7953975 | Method of generating anti-collusion fingerprint codes using (n,n,n,n,0,1) GD-PBIBD Disclosed herein is a method of generating anti-collusion fingerprint codes using a (na, n2a−2, na−1, n, 0, 1) GD-PBIBD. The fingerprint codes are generated using computer equipment that executes a program for executing a program... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7949185 | Method of performing robust auto white balance Disclosed herein is a method of performing robust white balance. The method includes a first process of dividing an input image into blocks, a second process of selecting blocks having higher color errors, and calculating average RGB values of the selected blocks, a... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7946434 | Collapsible clothes rack The present invention relates to a folding collapsible clothes rack. The rack includes two fixed side frames and two retractable side frames pivotally connected separately to the two fixed side frames. A pair of reinforcing links are pivoted together and coupled bet... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7942794 | Training device The invention relates to a training device (2) which comprises a base body (4) having a bearing surface (6) which is embodied in such a manner that the back of a user can be placed on the bearing surface (6) when in use. The base body ( | 05/17/2011 |
| 7938282 | Closure for a container A closure for a container having a top portion having a centered region; and a plurality of slots radially arrayed about the top section, each slot being sized to receive a finger tip of a human hand interspaced about the top portion. ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7931520 | Toy disk wheels and accessories therefore In one embodiment of the present invention there is provided a toy disk wheel. The disk wheel is defined to include a housing having first and second housing members, each housing member is substantially shaped as a half disk such that assembly of the first and seco... | 04/26/2011 |
| D636673 | Dispensing closure | 04/26/2011 |
| D636672 | Dispensing closure | 04/26/2011 |
| D636671 | Dispensing closure | 04/26/2011 |
| 7927174 | Vehicle with controlled motorized movements A toy vehicle is provided having a wheel base, a chassis, and a cab. The wheel base has pairs of rear wheels. The chassis is attached to the wheel base about a horizontal rotational axis which is capable of raising and lowering the chassis from a first position to a... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7926258 | Advanced pulsed plasma thruster with high electromagnetic thrust A pulsed plasma thruster provides for an advanced lightweight design with solid propellant and predominately electromagnetic thrust in a coaxial geometry. Electromagnetic forces are generated in a plasma by current flowing from a small central electrode to an electr... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7926257 | Advanced pulsed plasma thruster with high electromagnetic thrust A pulsed plasma thruster provides for an advanced lightweight design with solid propellant and predominately electromagnetic thrust in a coaxial geometry. Electromagnetic forces are generated in a plasma by current flowing from a small central electrode to an electr... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7918679 | Test and burn-in socket for integrated circuits (ICs) Disclosed herein is a test and burn-in socket for integrated circuits. The socket includes a socket body (37). A lead guide (36) is provided under the socket body. A slide (35) is mounted to the socket body to move horizontally. A plurality of s... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7909188 | Composite lined closure A composite lined closure for use with a container having a container neck crown includes a top having a periphery and an underside, a skirt depending downward from the periphery, the skirt including an inner surface and a locking bead radially extending inward from... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7905490 | Interactive game and method of play A multi-player interactive card game, preferably having character cards with images of people with different occupations and different types of animals. An oval face cutout is included on each of the character cards. Game play involves impersonations and guessing al... | 03/15/2011 |
| D633333 | Pan and lid with indented handles | 03/01/2011 |
| D633332 | Pan and lid | 03/01/2011 |
| 7891511 | Scallop cap closures The present invention is directed to a closure for a container. In one of the embodiments provided herein, the closure is provided with a roof portion, a shoulder portion that merges with the roof portion, and a skirt portion depending from the shoulder portion. Pro... | 02/22/2011 |
| D628434 | Cookie sheet | 12/07/2010 |
| 7874947 | Lawn dart In one embodiment there is provided a lawn dart having a shaft that connects to a head assembly at one end thereof. A sleeve is mounted coaxially about the shaft. The sleeve has an inner profile that matches a predetermined cross-section of the sleeve such that the ... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7874863 | Test and burn-in socket for integrated circuits (ICs) Disclosed herein is a test and burn-in socket for integrated circuits. The socket includes a socket body (37). A lead guide (36) is provided under the socket body. A slide (35) is mounted to the socket body to move horizontally. A plurality of s... | 01/25/2011 |
| D628009 | Pizza pan | 11/30/2010 |
| 7832579 | Manufacture of removable manufacture sealing components for consumer packaging A closure for a container having a container opening is provided herein. The closure includes an annular top having an inner skirt depending downwardly from an inner perimeter of the annular top and having an outer skirt depending downwardly from an outer perimeter ... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7830038 | Single chip solution for solar-based systems In one embodiment there is provided a power management system for managing the power from solar panels and rechargeable batteries to power a system that includes DC loads and AC loads. The power management system includes a DC-DC converter in communication with the ... | 11/09/2010 |
