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 |
| 8178798 | Weighing system including a preload weighing table and clamping device for weighing sequentially fed items Weighing system for weighing sequentially fed items to be weighed, in particular containers, with a weighing table, forming a preload, for receiving the weight of the item to be weighed, wherein the item to be weighed can be fed to the weighing table or removed from... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8167706 | Bingo gaming system with player selected daub modes Players participate in bingo games through player stations each having a suitable player interface. The player may manually select between multiple modes in which the player's bingo card representations are daubed. In one daub mode, once a player is assigned a bingo... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8158896 | Weighing sensor having a stop structure A weighing sensor according to the principle of electromagnetic force compensation, wherein a stop is provided on the load receiver for a lever or a component carried by it. ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8157638 | Method, apparatus, and program product employing a touch screen button for presenting game feature information in a gaming machine A method includes displaying a button graphic on a touch screen video display device associated with a gaming machine. The button graphic defines a button display area on the touch screen video display device which may be touched to cause a touch screen controller a... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8157637 | Apparatus and method for mapping multiple bingo game results to a common display Apparatus and methods are described for presenting multiple bingo game results on a common display. A bingo game player may participate in a number of bingo games and obtain results for each of those games. These bingo game results are combined to amount to a cumula... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8147314 | Method, apparatus, and program product for presenting results in a bingo-type game A result represented by a matched bingo card representation is displayed to a player in a bingo-type game through a result representation provided at a suitable player station. Each result representation includes a graphical representation unrelated to the bingo-typ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8138431 | Weighing cell having a plug-type connection for receiving a conveyor system A weighing cell includes a load receptor having a plug connector mounted thereon. The plug connector is adapted to receive a complementary plug connector of a conveying system so as to connect the conveying system to the load receptor either mechanically or electric... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8137178 | Gaming system and apparatus with player selected gaming modes Gaming systems, apparatuses, and methods are disclosed with player selectable gaming modes for players to participate in wagering games. The disclosed gaming systems and apparatuses provides for players to manually select between multiple playing modes, such as auto... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134090 | Method for weighing with a number of weighing cells The invention pertains to a method for weighing at least one object (31) that can be or is moved relative to a number of weighing cells (3, 5, 7, 9) and to a device for effecting said method, wherein the weighing cells (3, 5, 7, 9) essentially a... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8128489 | Slot machine having multiple progressive jackpots A progressive jackpot slot machine, or group of slot machines, is described herein. A plurality of progressive jackpots are accumulated as the slot machine is played. In the preferred embodiment, a first progressive jackpot is accumulated at a first rate, and a seco... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8123233 | Clamping device The invention relates to a clamping device, especially for releasably clamping a machine tool having a fixing element extending therefrom. The clamping device includes a deforming clamping element which acts on a clamping part with a clamping force in order to secur... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8115152 | Method of operating a photoconductor in an imaging system, and read-out circuit employing an AC-biased photoconductor A photoconductor read out circuit includes a biasing signal generator connected to apply an alternating current biasing signal to a first terminal of the photoconductor. An input capacitance connected to a second terminal of the photoconductor stores charge applied ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8100755 | Method, apparatus, and program product for distributing random number generation on a gaming network Methods, apparatus, and program products are disclosed for providing distributed RNG calculation capability. Generally, gaming machines cooperate on a gaming network to calculate a result for a RNG algorithm. A preferred system uses peer machines to perform partial ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8100752 | Method, apparatus, and program product for presenting gaming results through inverse symbol logic A method displays a number of symbol locations with a respective graphic symbol at each symbol location. Each symbol location may comprise an actual reel or simulated reel which is capable of displaying any one of a number of graphic symbols included in a group of p... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8092294 | Apparatus and method for facilitating game play in an electronic lottery game network At least one pool of game play records is stored at a central processing system. Each game play record includes a record index selected from a set of unique index values, each associated with a different result type. A record index associated with a particular game ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8087990 | Method and system for conducting multiple concurrent bingo games A method for conducting bingo games includes using a server to collect game play requests from a plurality of electronic player stations. The server determines if a group of the collected game play requests meets one or more predefined conditions for establishing a ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8076596 | Weighing cell with a receiving holder A weighing cell for use in an associated receiving holder, wherein the weighing cell and receiving holder are oriented relative to each other by means of alignment elements and through the use of the weighing cell in the receiving holder for the simultaneous product... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8071534 | Material for facilitating thermal treatments of biological tissues and method of energy targeting leading to thermal treatment of biological tissues A method includes positioning an effective amount of a thermal target material at a treatment site of a patient. The treatment site, that is, the location of the thermal target material, comprises a location adjacent to biological tissue to be treated. The thermal t... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8061488 | Clamping or braking device A pneumatically actuatable clamping or braking device, has a housing with a space accommodating a hydraulic medium constructed least in part as a solid body. The space for accommodating the hydraulic medium is delimited on one side by a wall of the housing and on th... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8043644 | Method for exposing comminuted foodstuffs to a processing fluid A method includes producing a flowing sheet of comminuted foodstuff and then exposing the flowing sheet of material to a processing fluid in at least one of the major surfaces of the sheet. The transverse dimension of the flowing sheet of material may be generally e... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8036528 | Data transmission unit for high bit-rate signals, especially high bit-rate optical data signals greater than 1 Gbit/s The invention relates to a data transmission unit for high bit-rate optical data signals, in particular, high bit-rate optical data signals with a backplane, which has a line structure connecting several plug-in positions for several receiver or transceiver cards to... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8029360 | Dynamically configurable gaming system A gaming system (40) according to the present invention includes a number of gaming machines (10), each gaming machine including a single player game presentation arrangement that may be reconfigured to provide any one of a number of game presentations... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8029352 | Method, system, and program product for grouping game players by class Game play requests in a bingo gaming system are associated with different play characteristic classes and collected into different game play groups simultaneously according to play characteristic class. Once a sufficient number of game play requests are collected in... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8029349 | Networked gaming system with secondary bonus game A method includes receiving a game play input preferably in a gaming network. This game play input specifies a wager in a primary game in which a player is participating through the network, and is typically entered through a player station connected in the network.... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8025148 | Stackable roll containers A stackable roll container, in particular, for transporting foods, cosmetic articles, or other articles in large bundles. The stackable roll container includes a preferably rectangular bottom component, with transport rollers mounted on the underside. The stackable ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 7985139 | Gaming machine cabinet with vertically operating doors A gaming machine includes a cabinet defining an enclosure volume with a cabinet front opening. A main door is pivotally connected at its upper end to the cabinet so as to be pivotable with respect to the cabinet between a closed position and an open position. In the... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7985130 | Method, apparatus, and program product for applying bonus designations in a bingo game Bonus designations are considered along with the regular game designations to distinguish between different pattern result levels in a bingo game. A set of one or more bonus designations is selected. Each bonus designation included in the set of bonus designations m... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7982865 | Method and device for monitoring an optical amplifier, in particular, an optical fiber amplifier The invention relates to a method for monitoring an optical amplifier, in particular, an optical fiber amplifier which has an optical input port and an optical output port. The optical pumping power of the amplifier is presumed to be directly proportional to the ele... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7976375 | Player action incentive arrangement for gaming systems A processing device measures the time it takes for a player to take some action in a game and bases the award or result in the game for the player at least in part on that measured time. A player receives a more desirable result or outcome for a particular game play... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7963828 | Method and apparatus for preparing poultry carcasses for defeathering operations A process includes contacting a feathered poultry carcass with an ammonia-based treatment material to increase the pH at the skin of the carcass and thereby effect a loosening of the feathers on the carcass. After the contact with the ammonia-based treatment materia... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7945160 | Method and system of monitoring a data transmission link, particularly an optical, bidirectional data transmission link Systems and methods for monitoring a data transmission link, especially an optical, bidirectional data transmission link, in which a digital transmit signal is transmitted on a first transmission path from a local end of the data transmission link toward a remote en... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7938720 | Method and apparatus for presenting bingo gaming results using multiple prize distributions A method includes operating a bingo player station in a first play mode in which the result for a respective bingo game play initiated through the bingo player station is assigned according to a first pattern list. In response to detecting a trigger event, the bingo... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7922993 | Spherical carbon nanostructure and method for producing spherical carbon nanostructures A method for producing carbon nanostructures according to the invention includes injecting acetylene gas into a reactant liquid. The injected acetylene molecules are then maintained in contact with the reactant liquid for a period of time sufficient to break the car... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7917895 | Automated software testing and validation system An automated software testing system allows automated test script generation with fully parameterized scripts, execution, and result correlation in a recreatable and adaptable manner. A software Application Under Test (AUT) is identified and includes a process havin... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7901653 | Spherical carbon nanostructure and method for producing spherical carbon nanostructures A method for producing carbon nanostructures according to the invention includes injecting acetylene gas into a reactant liquid. The injected acetylene molecules are then maintained in contact with the reactant liquid for a period of time sufficient to break the car... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7900915 | Device for transporting and weighing letters Device for the transport and weighing of letters, wherein the letter is conveyed between at least two conveyance elements and is stabilized laterally outside the conveyance elements by at least one guide element so that a deflection or fluttering of the letter can b... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7861830 | Safety device A safety device is provided having a clamping system that uses pressure admission into a chamber of a clamp element dependent on the position of a weight to be carried relative to the clamping system. For this purpose a valve is provided in a medium supply line, whi... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7856183 | Circuit for transmitting signals in a network node, particularly for a channel card for an optical wavelength division multiplex (WDM) signal trasmitting device A circuit for transmitting signals in a network node, particularly for a channel card for an optical WDM signal transmission device, with a first holding device assigned to the local side of the network node, which can be freely equipped by means of a local-side tra... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7853197 | Apparatus and method for reusing satellite broadcast spectrum for terrestrially broadcast signals A satellite receiving antenna at a user location receives satellite signals at a first frequency from a satellite. The satellite signals travel along a satellite signal route encompassed within an aperture of the satellite receiving antenna. A terrestrial transmitte... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7838783 | Lever mechanism, particulary for a scale receiver of a scale that works on the principle of electromagnetic force compensation A lever mechanism, particularly for a scale receiver of a scale that works on the principle of electromagnetic force compensation includes at least one lever which is connected to a stationary base body or an element connected to the base body. The at least one leve... | 11/23/2010 |
