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Mouthguard made at least partially from an edible candy
A mouthguard includes a U-shaped upper bite plate which removably fits over upper teeth of a person, with the entire upper bite plate being made from a soft, deformable and edible gummi candy.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185569 | Generation of test cases with range constraints for floating point add and subtract instructions Methods, apparatus and systems are disclosed for the generation of range-constrained test cases for verification of designs of arithmetic floating point units. Given three ranges of floating point numbers Rx, Ry, Rz, a floating point operation (op), and a rounding-m... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185227 | Method and system for determining manufacturing throughput target A first linear combination of a local moving aggregated quantity derived from a WIP distribution and a global aggregated quantity derived from the WIP distribution is calculated for each range for a given product type in a manufacturing line. The first linear combin... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184989 | Communication system and timing control method A communication system and a timing control method are proposed that optimize timing in a sender and thereby enable information to be stably transmitted at the right timing. Under instructions from a timing controller in a receiver, the timing of driving a phase mod... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184465 | Programmable semiconductor device A programmable device includes a substrate (10); an insulator (13) on the substrate; an elongated semiconductor material (12) on the insulator, the elongated semiconductor material having first and second ends, and an upper surface S; the first ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184331 | Printing device and method therefor A printing device includes a receiving unit receiving image data, a printing unit transferring printing agent onto a sheet so as to form an image according to the image data received, a printing ratio determining unit determining, based upon the image data, a printi... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184146 | Medical image processing apparatus and medical image processing method An image processing apparatus includes: a surface model generation section for performing processing for generating a three-dimensional surface model from a two-dimensional medical image; and an area reliability calculation section for dividing the surface model int... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183648 | Nanoscopic electrode molecular probes The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for enhancing the electron transport property measurements of a molecule when the molecule is placed between chemically functionalized carbon-based nanoscopic electrodes to which a suitable voltage bias is appl... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182857 | Edible products with low content of saturated and trans unsaturated fats The present invention relates to a structured, fat continuous edible product, wherein the edible product contains, expressed on total product basis, less than 35 wt. % of saturated fatty acids, between 20 and 100 wt. % of a triglyceride composition, between 0 and 80... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182814 | Methods of treating inflammatory airway conditions by inhibition of IL-11 activity The present invention provides a method for the treatment or prophylaxis of T-helper type 2 (Th2)-mediated disorders using antagonists of IL-11. ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182782 | Methods for production of double-walled carbon nanotubes The present invention relates to fullerene carbon nanotubes having a cylindrical wall comprising a double layer of carbon atoms and methods for the production and application of these double-wall carbon nanotubes; and, more particularly, to nanotubes with controlled... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182759 | Endoscope washing and disinfecting apparatus and liquid supply mouthpiece An endoscope washing and disinfecting apparatus of the present invention includes a first channel member in which a projection portion abuts on a fitting surface in a channel mouthpiece, and a first channel internally provided communicates with a suction channel ins... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182420 | Endoscope image pick-up apparatus An image pick-up unit inserted in the body picks up an image of the body, and transmits by radio the image to an extra-corporeal unit which is arranged outside the body. The image pick-up unit includes an image pick-up portion capturing an image, a data transmitting... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182414 | Endoscope system having retaining instrument An endoscope system having a first image pickup device including at least one image pickup unit that is capable of picking up an image of an object, a second image pickup device including at least one image pickup unit, the second image pickup device being different... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182278 | Connector A connector includes a first terminal housing for housing a plurality of aligned first connecting terminals, a second terminal housing for housing a plurality of aligned second connecting terminals, and a connecting member for collectively fixing and electrically co... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181328 | Fixing method for fixing components together There is provided a fixing method for fixing components together in which two components in the form of a first component and a second component are positioned such that they are mutually superimposed in predetermined relative positions, and are then fixed together,... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181069 | Method and system for problem determination using probe collections and problem classification for the technical support services A system and method for problem determination using probe collections and problem classification for the technical support services monitor and collect data associated with a computer system, raise an alarm based on the monitored and collected data, probe the comput... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180691 | System and method for generating optimal bill/payment schedule A method and system for generating bill payment schedule utilizes a composite pricing module to generate payment schedule over a predetermined period of time. In one aspect, a fraction of each pricing model attributing to the composite pricing model is determined. A... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180172 | Image processing method An image processing method corrects an original image. The method performs a retinex processing on a luminance signal of each pixel in an original image. The method determines, for each pixel, a retinex-processed pixel value based on the luminance signal that has be... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179829 | Delivery of multicast and uni-cast services in an OFDMA system A method of operating a radio telecommunications network including, a plurality of base transceiver stations (BTSs) each transmitting on a respective transmission bandwidth, and one or more mobile terminals (MTs) each having a respective maximum reception bandwidth,... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179597 | Biological specimen imaging method and biological specimen imaging apparatus In a biological specimen imaging method, a biological specimen which is stored in a storing section of a substrate having plural storing sections and emitting a feeble light is imaged through an objective lens. The biological specimen imaging method includes moving ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179429 | Body-insertable apparatus and body-insertable apparatus system To achieve a body-insertable apparatus such as a capsule endoscope that moves in a subject at a low speed at which acquisition of in-vivo information is sufficiently possible, the body-insertable apparatus is inserted into the subject and moves in the subject. The b... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179310 | Method for sensing a threat A method employed for threat analysis based on the passive-radar principle, using the transmitter in navigation satellites, a plurality of receiving stations, which are operated distributed over wide regions, and at least one evaluation center. The receiving station... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178687 | Derivatives of pyrroloindole which are inhibitors of Hsp90, compositions containing same, and use thereof Pyrroloindoles of formula (I) are provided wherein Het is an aromatic or partially unsaturated, monocyclic or bicyclic heterocycle containing between 1 and 4 heteroatoms N, O or S, optionally substituted by R1 or R′1 which are the same or different; R is X-(A-B)n-... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178628 | Aliphatic polyester resin composition and method for production thereof The present invention relates to an aliphatic polyester resin composition having excellent hydrolysis resistance, added to an aliphatic polyester resin (A), a reactive monomer (B) (e.g. a monocarbodiimide compound) and a reactive polymer (C) (e.g. a polycarbodiimide... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178382 | Suspended germanium photodetector for silicon waveguide A vertical stack of a first silicon germanium alloy layer, a second epitaxial silicon layer, a second silicon germanium layer, and a germanium layer are formed epitaxially on a top surface of a first epitaxial silicon layer. The second epitaxial silicon layer, the s... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177998 | Lithium-loaded liquid scintillators The invention is directed to a liquid scintillating composition containing (i) one or more non-polar organic solvents; (ii) (lithium-6)-containing nanoparticles having a size of up to 10 nm and surface-capped by hydrophobic molecules; and (iii) one or more fluoropho... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177715 | Capsule medical system and biological information acquiring method A capsule medical system is provided with a capsule medical device to be inserted into a subject, at least one electrode pad having a plurality of receiving electrodes, a receiving electrode switching unit, a control unit for controlling operations of the receiving ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177712 | Body insertable apparatus and body-insertable apparatus system To provide a capsule endoscope in which a degree of appearance of a sting-like member in a captured image is reduced, a capsule endoscope (2) includes an optical system (18) having a predetermined principal point, an imaging unit (19) which capt... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177709 | Rotary self-propelled endoscope system A rotary self-propelled endoscope system includes an insertion section body, an insertion section, a drive unit, a torque detection unit, and a control unit. In a distal end portion of the insertion section body, a rigid distal end portion including an image pickup ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176972 | Compliant vapor chamber chip packaging An arrangement for improving the cooling efficiency of semiconductor chips. One embodiment is to construct a vapor chamber with one compliant surface for improving the efficiency of transferring heat from a semiconductor chip to the vapor chamber, and another embodi... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176771 | Endoscope washing and disinfecting apparatus and leak detection method performed by the apparatus An endoscope washing and disinfecting apparatus includes: a connecting portion connected to a bending transmitting portion of an endoscope to transmit driving force; a distal end driving portion for transmitting the driving force to the bending transmitting portion ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176624 | Optical alignment module utilizing transparent reticle to facilitate tool calibration during high temperature process An apparatus and method for aligning one or more components while attaching the component to a substrate. The component is positioned over the substrate. An alignment tool is attachable to the component. The alignment tool includes a tool alignment element, an optic... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176433 | Application window area change surveillance A method and system for monitoring a computer program window define an area of a computer program window and compute a hash value for the defined area. The computed hash value is stored and the hash value is recomputed for the defined area after a predetermined time... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176019 | Extending the sparcle privacy policy workbench methods to other policy domains A method and system enable a user to develop domain-specific policy workbench. Domains may include, but are not limited to security, autonomic computing, workload management and systems management. The method and system in one aspect determines syntax of a policy in... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175991 | Business optimization engine that extracts process life cycle information in real time by inserting stubs into business applications A system and method for optimizing enterprise applications driven by business processes is provided. The system includes a data repository, an extractor to perform real time extraction of process life cycle information from business solutions integrating heterogeneo... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175911 | System and method for inferring and visualizing correlations of different business aspects for business transformation A system and method for inferring and visualizing correlations of different business aspects for business transformation are provided. Business models, for instance, that may include business component model, business process model, value drivers and metrics model, ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175830 | Frequency estimation of rare events by adaptive thresholding A method and system for estimating a magnitude of extremely rare events upon receiving a complete data sample and a specific exceedance probability are described. A distribution is chosen for a complete data sample. An optimal subsample fitted to the distribution is... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174841 | Adaptive interconnect structure An array of contact pads on a semiconductor structure has a pitch less than twice an overlay tolerance of a bonding process employed to vertically stack semiconductor structures. A set of contact pads within the area of overlay variation for a matching contact pin m... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174686 | Focal position determining method, focal position determining apparatus, feeble light detecting apparatus and feeble light detecting method A focal position determining method determines a focal position of an objective lens focused on an observed target region in a specimen. The focal position determining method includes measuring any one of the focal position of the objective lens at a near point and ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174338 | Impedance transforming hybrid coupler AN RF hybrid coupler is described having a coupling section and impedance matching transformer sections. The coupler, constructed of Strpline patterns, accepts an RF input signal at a first impedance value and outputs a plurality of RF signals at a second impedance ... | 05/08/2012 |
