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"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6592003 | Business card dispenser A cardholder and dispenser including a housing for encasing the plurality of business cards. The housing having an entrance slot for allowing business cards to be inserted into a housing cavity. The housing further having an exit slot opposing the entranc... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6590451 | RF amplifier with feedback based linearization A complex baseband model of the power amplifier within a DSP domain is used to develop a feedback signal that would be equivalent to the optimum negative feedback used for the analog amplifier. Once the feedback signal is available, it can be processed to... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6581040 | Project specific communications system and method The present invention relates to systems for providing enhanced communications for the managing of projects, particularly to project communications involving multiple resource providers. The invention provides for a network accessed business system and da... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6568934 | Message display candle A message display candle in which messages are displayed. In one form of the message display candle, message characters or objects are embedded in combustible transparent gel in the candle body and are visible whether the candle is burning or not. The mes... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6564455 | Socket test probe and method of making A method of making a socket test probe which results in a probe head which has flat plates which serve as electrodes encased in resin. The electrodes are conductive plates with one or more edges of the conductive plates exposed for connection to the elect... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6560165 | Medical information appliance A medical information appliance which reminds a user of times to take medications or to perform medical-related activities. It features a delay mode, which shuts the alarm off but later reminds the user to take the indicated medication. Multiple alarms ca... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6556927 | Picostrain engineering data acquisition system A sensing device for detecting and identifying vehicles or other events which apply force to a roadway or other structure. The force applied by a vehicle is interpreted to produce a force signature which is unique to a vehicle, and thus can be used to ide... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6553610 | Modular vacuum cleaning system Disclosed is a vacuum cleaning device and system for maintaining the operability of a vacuum cleaner. The device has a releasably attachable/detachable filter unit and a releasably attachable/detachable motor unit. Various filter units and motor units are... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6550347 | Vacuum air component sampler The invention is an air sampler which utilizes a hydrophobic filter and an entrapment fluid contained within a sampler body. Air to be sampled is bubbled through the entrapment fluid, which traps and retains a selected air component for later testing. Air... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6547771 | Non-invasive female urinary device A non-invasive female urinary device allows a woman to urinate in a standing or sitting position. The non-invasive female urinary device provides a scoop portion designed to be positioned adjacent to the woman's body, and is sized to fit between the labia... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6541124 | Drill resistant hard plate A drill resistant plate, which presents a rough surface of hardened particles to drilling attack, and which tends to snap or destroy drill bits before they can began drilling. The plate is made by brazing hard particles into a matrix of brazing material a... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6534000 | Sterilization cassette and method A sterilization cassette and a sterilization method for sterilizing, storing, and dispensing dental instruments. The sterilization cassette includes a mounting bar and a locking bar for dental pliers of various types, a removable instrument tray, and a ca... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6527563 | Grid interposer A grid interposer for testing electrical circuits and a method of making a grid interposer. The grid interposer includes upper and lower conductive surfaces sandwiched on either side of an insulating later, connected to each other by a plurality of vias f... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6523463 | Controlled burn smoking device A device for smoking food items using charcoal briquettes as fuel. The device has a channel into which the charcoal briquettes are placed so that ignition of one of the charcoal briquettes will result in eventual ignition of the adjacent charcoal briquett... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6485536 | Vortex particle separator The invention is a particle separator which separates entrained particulates from a fluid. The particle separator utilizes an auger enclosed within a cylinder to form a cyclonic chamber, through which air is propelled. The centrifugal motion of particles ... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6477509 | Internet marketing method and system A method and system for communication and trade on a network, in which information is directed at the computer screen of a consumer by merchants of goods, services, or information. A lending partner would provide the initial capital to offer the consumer ... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6473983 | Leveling device Disclosed is a tool for marking a pair of points on a horizontal line. The tool has a standard ruler onto which is slidably attached a first member, a leveling member, and a second member. The first member is used to mark the first point and the device pi... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6431547 | Game using playing pieces A game, and method of playing a game, using colored polygonal game pieces on a flat surface. The game pieces are divided into playing pieces and scoring pieces, and the object of the game is to surround a scoring piece with a ring of playing pieces, or to... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6401418 | Coving method for tubs and showers A method of installing flooring to a bathroom floor which utilizes a coving cap attached to a bathtub wall or shower enclosure, to form a waterproof and flexible seal. The edge of the flooring material is inserted into an inverted "J" shaped coving cap, w... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6398589 | Device for restricting operation of an electrical tool Disclosed is a device and method for using the device for inhibiting unauthorized usage of a power tool or other electrical component. The device is an electrical adapter or electrical cord having male plugs at each end. The power cord of the tool/compone... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6382062 | Apparatus for controlling work feed rate for cutting wood, metal and other materials A positioned sensing device measures and/or calculates the lateral position and movement of a saw blade. These measured and calculated values are used to automatically alter the work-feed rate and/or saw blade rim speed either up or down as sawing conditi... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6295692 | Convertible vacuum cleaner The present invention is a vacuuming apparatus convertible between a backpack mode, a canister mode and an upright mode. Additionally, the present invention is convertible into a handheld mode and a blower mode. Each of these modes are accomplished throug... | 10/02/2001 |
