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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| D654160 | Vaporizer heating assembly | 02/14/2012 |
| D650071 | Oral irrigator | 12/06/2011 |
| 8056885 | Stair, ramp, or balcony railing system A railing system includes a set of vertically disposed baluster assemblies and a plurality of railing members. The baluster assemblies include a lower base member receiving a pair of opposing vertical plates. Each of the pairs of plates have opposing aligned pairs o... | 11/15/2011 |
| D648564 | Chair | 11/15/2011 |
| D648561 | Chair | 11/15/2011 |
| 8033924 | Game table assembly The invention comprises, in one form thereof, a number of improvements to the assembly and installation of a game tables, such as a pool table. Particularly, the improvements include an indexing system for assisting in the placement of the slate segments on a table ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8025583 | Billiard table and rail cloth covering system A hook and loop fastening system for attaching a billiard table cloth to a table bed and a rail, a billiard table cloth with template markings for assisting the installer in the correct positing and tensioning of the bed cloth and in the cutting of slits in the clot... | 09/27/2011 |
| 7951056 | Rockable exercise apparatus An exercise device includes a substantially planar upper surface having a first extent and a second extent and a support structure that supports and spaces the upper surface from the floor. The support structure has a curve with a vertex located between the first ex... | 05/31/2011 |
| D631227 | Gloves | 01/25/2011 |
| 7868448 | Electrical component and production thereof A modularly constructed electrical component having a module substrate, preferably, of Si, and having one or more preferably un-housed chips placed on the module substrate while being electrically connected thereto and each joined to the module substrate, e.g., by d... | 01/11/2011 |
| D627164 | Laptop bag | 11/16/2010 |
| 7828811 | Surgical clip application assembly An apparatus for the transoral invagination and fundoplication of the stomach to the esophagus includes a clip applier having sharp toothed jaws for grasping and damaging the fundus prior to applying the clip. The clip applier has an overall diameter of less than 7 ... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7771411 | Methods for operating a selective stiffening catheter A method for delivering RF energy to living tissue includes the steps of extending a guidewire to a tissue treatment site in a body. A controllable stiffness catheter is provided with a stiffness device and a temperature-changing device. The stiffness device is in a... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7746213 | Device and method for manufacturing the same A method of producing a device initially includes providing a component. The component includes a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface, a first contact formed on the first surface, a second contact formed on the second surface, and an electrica... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7746212 | Temperature sensor and method for its production In a method for producing a temperature sensor, there is first provided a substrate, on the first surface of which there is arranged a sensor structure having a first end and a second end, wherein the sensor structure substantially completely covers the first surfac... | 06/29/2010 |
| D618430 | Pair of gloves | 06/29/2010 |
| D617976 | Pair of gloves | 06/22/2010 |
| D617530 | Gloves | 06/15/2010 |
| D617529 | Pair of gloves | 06/15/2010 |
| D617528 | Pair of gloves | 06/15/2010 |
| D617527 | Pair of trident gloves | 06/15/2010 |
| D617526 | Glove with tomahawk | 06/15/2010 |
| 7731655 | Tissue retractor and method for using the retractor A tissue retractor includes a body having proximal and distal ends. The retractor also includes a retraction device having a head connected to the distal end of the body and defining two opposing openings, a connector movably disposed in the body, and two flexible n... | 06/08/2010 |
| D617444 | Oral irrigator | 06/08/2010 |
| 7720764 | Method, device, and system for completing on-line financial transaction A method for conducting a secure transaction over a network includes the steps of receiving a price and a transaction identifier from a merchant, the transaction identifier identifying a purchase selection made by a user, receiving a user identifier from a user, rec... | 05/18/2010 |
| D613864 | Tattoo applicator | 04/13/2010 |
| 7658516 | Decorative lamp cover A decorative light cover for an outdoor light source includes a substantially rigid skin with a shape that defines a void within an interior of the skin, an opening in a first portion of the skin, and an ornamental design on a second portion of the skin, wherein the... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7651856 | Mounting device for mounting a retainer means for a biological object and corresponding method for laser micro-dissection To enable contactless laser microdissection in a closed container (10, 11), for example in the form of a Petri dish, it is proposed according to the invention to use a holding device which comprises a receiving portion (4) for arrangement in the contai... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7634357 | Systems and methods for off-board voice-automated vehicle navigation A method of providing navigational information includes processing destination information spoken by a mobile processing system user. The processed voice information is transmitted to a remote center wirelessly. The processed voice information is voice recognition a... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7603819 | Pocket shutter A shutter assembly includes a first and second shutter panel, where each panel includes a missile-repelling membrane panel, a frame having an elongated hollow body with inwardly disposed wall elements forming an inwardly facing U-shaped channel adapted to retain the... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7578839 | Method for treating abdominal aortic aneurysms using a combined laparoscopic/open and endovascular technique A method for releasing an aortic prosthesis includes positioning an introducer in femoral arteries of a patient. Guiding balloon catheters are positioned through the introducers to locate balloons thereof in terminal parts of common iliac arteries. The proximal aort... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7572078 | Electronic key depth sensing device and method for interpreting keystroke levels of the device A method for recording shadow keystrokes in an electronic stenographic recording machine having keys forming stenographic keystrokes when actuated includes the steps of sensing an extent of an actuation of a subset of the keys as a stenographic keystroke, recording ... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7559916 | Catheter with controllable stiffness and method for operating a selective stiffening catheter A method and device for treating a Chronic Total Occlusion provides a controllable stiffness catheter with a shaft having a stiffness sheath and an access lumen. The device has a stiffness device in a stiff state below a given temperature and in a soft state above t... | 07/14/2009 |
| D595544 | Knife | 07/07/2009 |
| 7019708 | Portable co-located LOS and SATCOM antenna A dual-band, dual-polarization LOS/SATCOM antenna having a plurality of omnidirectional elements surrounding a directional element. When the antenna is in an omnidirectional radiating mode, the directional element is disconnected from the circuit and only the omnidi... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7537963 | Device and method for manufacturing the same In a method for manufacturing a device, at first a plurality of components each having at least a first terminal region are provided. Furthermore, a support with a first surface, in which a plurality of recesses are formed, is provided. The components provided are i... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7495889 | Process for manufacturing an electrochemical cell and an electrochemical cell A method for manufacturing an electrochemical cell first includes providing a cup-shaped housing with at least one first indentation. Thereafter, an electrode stack is placed in the housing and then, the first indentation is indented further in a direction towards t... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7479608 | Force switch A mechanical force switch to be disposed along a longitudinal device axis of a medical device includes an electrically conductive switching piston to form a first electrical contact of the switch, a hollow body, an end stop, a bias device, and an electrically conduc... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7454866 | Façade covering A façade covering for covering an outer wall of a building comprises a plurality of façade covering boards formed by circuit boards mountable to the outer wall of the building. ... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7454178 | Low-loss transmitter module A transmitter module of a wireless transmission system with at least one transmission path having a power amplifier disposed at the input side includes a low-pass filter disposed at the output side and an impedance converter disposed therebetween. The power amplifie... | 11/18/2008 |
