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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6358268 | Surgical instrument A surgical instrument including a handle assembly; a shaft connected on one end to the handle assembly; and an end assembly extending from the other end of the shaft. The end assembly is constructed to include a fixed member including on one portion there... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6272506 | Computerized verification form processing system and method A computerized form processing system including a database for storing at least one form having one or more fields; a viewer for viewing a stored form; a data entry device for entering information into the fields of a form; programming for monitoring whet... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6202893 | Sanitary dispenser for collapsible containers A sanitary dispenser for a collapsible container includes first and second plates for receiving therebetween a collapsible container of material to be dispensed; a cam in cooperation with at least one of the first and second plates to urge the at least on... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6198094 | Nested fiber optic gyro system A nested fiber optic gyro system includes at least a first fiber optic coil having a predetermined shape and size and at least a second fiber optic coil having the same shape and size as the first coil and nested within and transversely to the first coil.... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6195061 | Miniature skewed beam horn antenna A miniature horn antenna includes a housing forming a skewed beam sectoral horn, the housing forming first and second divergent walls having a primary axis in which at least one of the first and second divergent walls is transverse to the primary axis, a ... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6178888 | Detonator A detonator with a base portion including opposing electrical leads; an exploding foil initiator on the base portion, the exploding foil initiator including two conductive lands separated by a bridge portion therebetween; and a connecting barrel of a pred... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6172569 | Transconductance filter control system A transconductance filter control system for compensating for drift in transconductance of a slave transconductance amplifier in a continuous time transconductance filter including: a master transconductance amplifier having an output which is a function ... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6158347 | Detonator A detonator with a base portion including a header wall terminating in a support surface; an initiator on the support surface; an explosive charge spaced from the initiator; and a cap having an interior top surface and an enclosure wall extending downward... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6147531 | Sampled delay locked loop insensitive to clock duty cycle A write channel in read/write disc drive system for writing data signals to a drive includes a variable delay circuit having a number of selectable taps for correcting for non-linear transition shift; and a delay locked loop circuit responsive to the data... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6144981 | Programmable pulse slimmer system for low pass ladder filter A programmable pulse slimmer system for a low pass ladder filter includes a filter input current source for providing to a low pass ladder filter the input signal to be filtered; and a high frequency boost current source for injecting into the low pass la... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6137579 | Planar alignment system and method A planar alignment system and method for aligning a first planar surface parallel to a second planar surface including: attaching a target base having a first planar reflective surface so that the first planar reflective surface is parallel to the first p... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6128998 | Continuous intersecting braided composite structure and method of making same A continuous intersecting braided composite preform including a first member with at least one ply of biased fibers and a second member also with at least one ply of biased fiber. The first member intersects with the second member and passes continuously ... | 10/10/2000 |
| 5348784 | Antistatic and conductive carpet tile system A modular antistatic and conductive carpet tile system including antistatic and conductive carpet tiles for ESD control and a conductive releasable adhesive for releasably securing the carpet tiles, each tile has a primary backing layer including conducti... | 09/20/1994 |
