Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8177252 | Fifth wheel folding hitch A tube is cut to form a tube-formed box with an opening on its top side. A hitch ball is pivotally mounting on the tube-formed box, so as to extend above the tube-formed box when the hitch ball is in the operative position and to reside within the tube-formed box wh... | 05/15/2012 |
| D656437 | Tubular underside portion of folding ball hitch | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140401 | Automated quoting of molds and parts from customer CAD file part data A customer sends a CAD file for the part to be molded to the system. The system assesses the CAD file to determine various pieces of mold manufacturing information. One or more acceptability criteria are applied to the part, such as whether the part can be manufactu... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8137347 | Method of fracture fixation An external fixator includes a main body and an outrigger for extending over a fractured joint, such as a wrist joint. The main body can be positioned next to a right arm, or flipped over and positioned next to a left arm. The outrigger is attachable to extend eithe... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8136658 | Method of preserving a sensor in a container and a container containing a sensor and a storage solution The invention relates to a method of preserving a sensor in a container, said sensor comprising a sensing area of metallic or a semi-conducting material covered with molecules having a MW>100 Dalton, said molecules being bound to the material wherein at least the se... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8105034 | Vertical-axis wind turbine and method for the production thereof The invention relates to a vertical-axis wind turbine and at least 2 turbine blades, wherein every turbine blade is connected via a supporting arm and a connecting element that can be purely tensile-loaded to the rotatable vertical axis. According to the invention, ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8099903 | Door system, door sub-system and a vehicle provided with a door system A door system has at least one door leaf and a displacement system for the door leaf. The door leaf is connected to an organ that is moveable between two suspension points, wherein the first suspension point is situated at a greater distance from the plane of the en... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8066186 | Confidentiality packaging system A packaging system uses marked, specially designed packaging to enable confidential purchasing of consumer goods. Products having a first configuration normally labeled for sale are convertible into a second configuration which conceals the identity of the goods, ot... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8033600 | Seat system with shock- and vibration-reducing bladders A seat system has separate air bladders in the seat bottom and seat back. The seat bottom bladder is in fluid communication with the seat back bladder through a plurality of rigid interconnecting tubes, and valves in the tubes or orifice size can control flow rate o... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7987247 | BACnet protocol MS/TP automatic MAC addressing A Building Automation System (BAS) includes at least one Direct Digital Control (DDC) controller operating as a BACnet MS/TP master considered to be an “Anchor”. The Anchor operates an algorithm or method which automatically assigns BACnet Protocol MS/TP Media A... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7985221 | External fixator An external fixator for treating a fracture of a long bone has six extension arms which are extendable out of and retractable into a main body. The six extension arms are arranged into two sets of three out opposing sides of the main body, with each set of three ext... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7958599 | Snap assembly friction hinge A friction hinge includes a socket made up of a compressible elastomer insert sleeve inside a relatively rigid cup substrate. The insert sleeve defines an opening with a lip around the opening, and a relatively rigid ball or other center portion can be snap assemble... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7957830 | CNC instructions for solidification fixturing of parts A customer transmits their 3D CAD file for a part to be total profile machined. Computer analysis of the transmitted CAD file produces CNC machining instructions, which are transmitted back to an address defined by the customer. The customer can then use the transmi... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7913713 | Combination wet kit A combination wet kit includes a single mounting bracket supporting an end dump/return manifold and a walking floor/side dump/low boy manifold, as well as a support bracket for the hydraulic fluid filter. A three-way valve is positioned between the end dump/return m... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7866087 | Method for repotting plants, as well as a planting head and an apparatus provided with a planting head Plants are repotted by moving a rootball from a first rootball container to a second rootball container using a planting head. The planting head has legs with pins which may be in a first retracted position or in a second extended position. ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7866013 | Urn and a method for forming a body that comprises powdery mortal remains A new type of urn has an inlet opening for water and an opening for the discharge of the water with powdery mortal remains, the opening being situated lower than the inlet opening. Ashes are introduced in the urn, for instance, in the form of a body comprising powde... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7840443 | Automated quoting of CNC machined custom molds and/or custom parts A customer sends a CAD file for the part to be manufactured to the system. The system assesses the CAD file to determine various pieces of manufacturing information. One or more acceptability criteria are applied to the part, such as whether the part can be machined... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7836573 | Method of machining a part A method and apparatus are provided for total profile machining of a part, such as from a block of thermoplastic polymer. A first side of the part is machined together with an encircling recess. A registration/potting fixture is placed into the encircling recess. Th... | 11/23/2010 |
| D626895 | Bicolored sided curved ball hitch | 11/09/2010 |
| 7810348 | Beverage container with freeze pack A container has a thermal pack aligned on a central axis of the container. The thermal pack includes a material such as a phase change material for cooling (or heating) the liquid in the container. The thermal pack attaches to the container such as by a threaded con... | 10/12/2010 |
| D623564 | Sided angled ball hitch | 09/14/2010 |
| D623563 | Bicolored sided drop ball hitch | 09/14/2010 |
| D623562 | Bicolored sided angled ball hitch | 09/14/2010 |
| D623561 | Bicolored curved ball hitch | 09/14/2010 |
| D623098 | Bicolored drop ball hitch | 09/07/2010 |
| D623097 | Bicolored angled ball hitch | 09/07/2010 |
| RE41502 | Flush closure device for an opening in bodywork A device for closing an opening formed through the bodywork of a vehicle, the device comprising a fixed panel and a panel that constitutes a moving panel relative to the fixed panel, the moving panel being connected to the fixed panel by functional elements providin... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7771761 | Cheese with calcium lactate crystal inhibitor A calcium lactate crystal inhibitor is added to the typical cheese-making recipe to inhibit the growth of calcium lactate crystals as the cheese ages. The calcium lactate crystal inhibitor is preferably a sodium salt of an organic acid, and is preferably added with ... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7691038 | Convertible gym training device and corresponding weight-training bench The invention concerns a convertible gym training device intended to be removably connected to a weight-training device that permits training of lower and upper body limbs. According to the invention, such a convertible gym training device in particular compr... | 04/06/2010 |
| D610954 | Curved ball hitch | 03/02/2010 |
| D610494 | Sided curved ball hitch | 02/23/2010 |
| D610493 | Drop ball hitch | 02/23/2010 |
| D610492 | Angled ball hitch | 02/23/2010 |
| D610051 | Sided drop ball hitch | 02/16/2010 |
| 7630783 | Communicating mold/part manufacturability issues A computer program analyzes a CAD file provided by a customer of a custom part to be injection molded. Feedback from the analysis is provided to the customer through a rendering of the part. Rather than merely communicating using color as applied to the rendering fi... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7625589 | Cheese with sodium gluconate to inhibit calcium lactate crystal formation Sodium gluconate is added to the typical cheese-making recipe to inhibit the growth of calcium lactate crystals as the cheese ages. The sodium gluconate is preferably added with sodium chloride or shortly after sodium chloride as part of the salting step. The amount... | 12/01/2009 |
| D603971 | Electronic therapy device | 11/10/2009 |
| 7590466 | Automated quoting of molds and molded parts Automated, custom mold manufacture for a part begins by creating and storing a collection of information of standard tool geometries and surface profiles machinable by each of the standard tool geometries. A customer sends a CAD file for the part to be molded to the... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7584982 | Moveable hitch with stress-free elevated bearing guide A bearing guide for a hitch allows lateral movement of the hitch. The bearing guide is elevated relative to the bearing surface. Two trucks roll on wheels each about their own elevated guide for fore-and-aft rolling of the hitch point. The bearing guide also provide... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7496528 | Automated quoting of molds and molded parts A customer sends a CAD file for the part to be molded to the system. The system assesses the CAD file to determine various pieces of mold manufacturing information. One or more acceptability criteria are applied to the part, such as whether the part can be manufactu... | 02/24/2009 |
