Did You Know...
...that the inventor of the electric motor was a blacksmith named Thomas Davenport? Described as "a brilliantly unsuccessful inventor", Davenport invented the first rotary electric motor. In 1836 he headed out -- on foot -- from his Vermont home to file a patent application at the Patent Office in Washington, D.C. By the time he got there, he had squandered away his money and couldn't afford the $30 filing fee so he turned around and went home. When he later mailed in his application with money he'd raised, the Patent office was destroyed in a fire. He did finally get credit for his invention on Feb. 5, 1837.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7307277 | Organic field effect transistors A field effect transistor is provided which comprises a gate electrode, a source electrode, a drain electrode, at least one organic semiconducting layer, and a hole transport layer for transferring holes from said source and drain electrodes to said organic semicond... | 12/11/2007 |
| D552541 | Portable power system | 10/09/2007 |
| 7270243 | Method for erecting an at least two-piece main boom for a lattice-boom crane and lattice-boom crane built accordingly The present invention substantially relates to a method for erecting and disassembling an at least two-piece main boom for a lattice-boom crane. The erecting and disassembling procedure results in that the geometric kinematic properties of the main boom (1, 2... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7261896 | Methods for preventing strokes by inducing tolerance to e-selectin The present invention provides a method for reducing stroke-related tissue damage by treating a mammal with E-selectin. Preferably, this treatment induces E-selectin tolerance in the mammal. Another aspect of the invention is a method for inducing E-selectin toleran... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7263652 | Maximum likelihood detector and/or decoder A maximum likelihood detector receiving a data stream corresponding to ideal values which may include noise, and outputting information specifying a sequence of states of maximum likelihood selected from possible states corresponding to the data stream according to ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7260595 | Logic circuit and method for carry and sum generation and method of designing such a logic circuit Logic circuit for generating carry or sum bit output by combining binary inputs, includes bit level carry generate and propagate function logic receiving binary inputs and generating bit level carry generate/propagate function bits for binary inputs by respectively ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7259726 | Compact loop antenna for inductive read/write apparatus In order to provide a compact loop antenna, for use in an inductive read/write apparatus, capable of extending a communication range even if the antenna area or power supply thereto is constrained, a compact loop antenna, for use in an inductive read/write apparatus... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7258242 | Mobile crane boom having an autarchic hydraulic power unit mounted thereon The present invention relates to a mobile crane boom having a self-sufficient energy supply arranged on it for supplying hydraulic energy to at least one hydraulic load arranged on the mobile crane boom. The supply of the hydraulic load arranged on the mobile crane ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7249720 | Spray device with combined drive and resilient pivoting head for a spray bottle The invention relates to a liquid spray bottle with combined drive, equipped with a liquid propulsion member (50) that has a main axis of translation (X′X) coupled, on the one hand, to a spray member (9) comprising a nozzle (11) having an axis... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7248487 | Switch mode power supply controllers This invention generally relates to discontinuous conduction mode switch mode power supply (SMPS) controllers employing primary side sensing. We describe an SMPS controller which integrates a feedback signal from a point determined by a target operating voltage to a... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7247296 | Radiation therapy by accumulation of therapeutic radionuclides in tumor-targeting bacteria The invention can be summarized as follows. According to the present invention there is provided an attenuated, tumour-targeting bacterium comprising a heterologous nucleotide sequence encoding a protein permitting the accumulation of a radionuclide within the bacte... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7242345 | Method for controlling a radar antenna A method is described for detecting an object with target radar. After the first detection of an object, the antenna is tilted. The original direction towards the object is restored by electronically steering the emitted beam. The beamsteering is obtained by changin... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7240112 | Service quality monitoring process A method and system are provided for monitoring service quality of at least one network connection point of a remote network connection service. The method includes establishing a network connection between a client device and the remote network connection service v... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7235647 | Intermediate and process for preparing of β- anomer enriched 21-deoxy,21,21-difluoro-D-ribofuranosyl nucleosides The present invention provides a highly stereoselective, simple and economical glycosylation process for preparation of β-anomer enriched 21-deoxy-21,21-D-ribofuranosyl difluoronucleosides of formula (II), and physiologically accept... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7233973 | Evolving interactive dialog box for an internet web page A host Web page includes an evolving interactive dialog box wherein an Internet user may enter user data to be processed. When the user completes entering user data in a first revolution of the interactive dialog box, the first revolution is replaced with a second r... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7229825 | Double-transfected cell line useful for the identification of transport inhibitors Described is a double-transfected cell line containing (a) a DNA sequence encoding an uptake transporter for organic anions, preferably OATP8, operatively linked with a promoter and (b) a DNA sequence encoding an export pump for organic anions or anionic conjugates,... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7228609 | Extractor To extract a bushing from a housing, a number of cylindrical engaging elements are inserted in the bore of the bushing. The elements are clipped together by clips and have a lip which bears on the bushing end surface. An extractor head pushes on the elements to forc... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7230051 | Use of polyacrylate-modified polysiloxanes as levelling agents in coating compositions The invention relates to the use of block copolymers as leveling agents for surface coatings, having a weight-average molecular weight of from 1000 to 100000. The leveling agent is a linear or branched block copolymer composed of a polysiloxane block and one or more... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7224968 | Network testing and monitoring systems A method of testing a digital mobile phone network such as a GPRS or 3G network comprises either using real traffic or creating test traffic using test mobile phone coupled to a computer, and using the computer to measure a parameter associated with the network's re... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7222155 | Synchronous updating of dynamic interactive applications An automation server interfaces with broadcast scheduling systems of various types to automatically synchronize the behavior of interactive applications relative to various broadcast programs, such as television shows and commercials, so as to maintain the appropria... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7217378 | Simple and efficient process for the preparation of pencil lead from spent pot-liners The present invention relates to a simple and efficient process for the preparation of pencil lead from the spent or waste pot liners of aluminum industries, said process comprising steps of crushing the liners into small sizes, adding chromic acid to the crushed li... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7217385 | Polyvinyl alcohol composition and film A method of preparing a plasticised particulate polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) composition is provided, comprising: mixing, in a mixer, at a mixer speed and for a time sufficient that the mixture attains a temperature of at least 50° C.: particulate PVA resin in an amount... | 05/15/2007 |
| D540545 | Wood mulch surface pattern for sheet goods | 04/17/2007 |
| 7205351 | Processing aids for the processing of synthetic polymer compositions The present invention relates to processing aids for the processing of synthetic polymer compositions based on carboxylic esters, where the processing aids include, partial esters which contain at least 18 carbon atoms, have a number-average molecular weight of from... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7201454 | Module for guiding bristles of a brush In order to apply mascara and comb they eyelashes, the invention proposes carrying out a selective, clean and adaptable cutting of the bristles twisted along a core by selecting some of the bristles located, along the wire, in angular sectors of adjustable amplitude... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7198955 | Method and apparatus for measurement of blood substitutes A method is disclosed whereby the concentration of a blood substitute, such as cross-linked hemoglobin, in a serum or plasma specimen is rapidly and accurately identified and quantified. The method further takes the measured concentration of the blood substitute and... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7198811 | Compositions for the preservation of fruits and vegetables The invention discloses compositions for the preservation of fruits, vegetables, partially processed products, other produce and followers. The compositions comprise at least one phospholipase D inhibitor, at least one compound comprising an isoprene subunit, at lea... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7197929 | Motion-responsive coupled masses In some embodiments, an apparatus and a system, as well as a method and an article, may include coupling a plurality of masses to provide a plurality of output signals responsive to motion relative to a common axis. Moving the plurality of masses at a substantially ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7195075 | Method for construction of low thermal expansion and low resistance wire for logging applications In some embodiments, a device includes a downhole tool comprising a wire comprising at least one strand comprising a low thermal expansion material. The low thermal expansion material may have a low electrical resistance material disposed thereon. ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7188194 | Session-based target/LUN mapping for a storage area network and associated method A storage router having an internet protocol (IP) port for coupling to a network supporting IP packets, a fibre channel port for coupling to a fibre channel network to a plurality of storage devices, and a SCSI router having an iSCSI interface that extracts SCSI com... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7139755 | Method and apparatus for providing comprehensive search results in response to user queries entered over a computer network A system and methods for providing users with comprehensive search results in response to queries entered by the user over a computer network. The user may access the network and enter a query in order to obtain information related to the query. The network is assoc... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7118878 | Method for increasing luminescence assay sensitivity The invention provides kits and methods for increasing the sensitivity of a bio-luminescent assay, which employ an organic compound that, for instance, reduces luminescence that is not dependent on the presence of an analyte by at least about 10 fold and reduces lum... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7094754 | Anti-aging and wound healing compounds The invention provides inhibitors of matrix metalloproteinases that are useful for encouraging the development of healthy skin and for treating wounds. The inhibitors are peptides having sequences related to cleavage regions of the proenzyme forms of matrix metallop... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7091756 | Integrated circuit A frequency divider circuit is provided having an even number of amplifier stages connected in series with the output of the last amplifier stage connected to the input of the first amplifier stage; and modulating means responsive to an input signal to be frequency ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7055122 | Method for automatically connecting top side conductors with bottom side conductors of an integrated circuit package A method for logically connecting at least one of a plurality of top side conductors of an integrated circuit package with at least one of a plurality of bottom side conductors of the integrated circuit package. The method includes drawing a layout of the bottom sid... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7053439 | Chemoreceptive semiconductor structure A field effect transistor has a floating gate with an extended portion. A selectively chemoreceptive finger or layer is electrostatically coupled to the extended portion of the floating gate, and induces a voltage on the gate in response to selected chemicals or oth... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7019642 | Wide area multipurpose tracking system A method of electronically tracking and locating a very large number of objects such as, but not limited to, personal case files in health care, law, or human services systems is described. Each object to be tracked has an attached miniature radio transmitter called... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7014857 | Anti-sepsis conjugate vaccine The present invention provides an immunogenic conjugate comprising biologically deacylated gram-negative bacterial moieties linked to D. discoideum proteinase 1, as well as novel subunits thereof, and methods of making and using the conjugates in vaccines to ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 5912855 | Power up initialization circuit responding to an input signal A power up pulse generator circuit generates a pulse of predetermined duration in spite of a slow rate of change of applied power supply voltage. The circuit has application to integrated logic circuits that begin operation from an initial condition after... | 06/15/1999 |
