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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8182909 | Energy absorbing padding for sports application A method of producing a viscoelastic polyurethane foam coating in which a polyisocyanate is reacted with a polyol to form a prepolymer. The prepolymer is reacted with a polyol having at least one pendant carboxylic acid group to form a prepolymer with a pendant carb... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8177289 | Method and apparatus for improving the damage-resistance of container body top rails Various embodiments of an improved top rail for a container body, e.g. a truck body, are disclosed. In exemplary embodiments, a support structure is disposed at least partially within a channel of the top rail to provide increased strength to the top rail and to pro... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8172076 | Dual apron seal A seal member for sealing a conveyor belt is a monolithic homogeneous piece of material having opposite first and second halves and comprises first and second primary seals and first and second secondary seals. The first secondary seal is resiliently movable relativ... | 05/08/2012 |
| D659336 | Coffee cup recycling container | 05/08/2012 |
| D658919 | Drying mat | 05/08/2012 |
| D658918 | Drying mat | 05/08/2012 |
| 8160907 | System and method for allocating replacement vehicle rental costs using a virtual bank of repair facility credits Systems and methods for managing a virtual bank of repair facility credits are disclosed. Various operations for adding and subtracting credits from a repair facility virtual bank account are disclosed. Adjustments to credit totals can be based on repair facility pe... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160906 | System and method for improved rental vehicle reservation management A method and system are disclosed for managing a rental vehicle reservation based at least in part on automated processing of vehicle repair data corresponding to a disabled vehicle that is related to the rental vehicle reservation. For example, a preferred method a... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8158854 | Method for modifying plant architecture and enhancing plant biomass and/or sucrose yield The present invention relates to methodology and constructs for modifying plant architecture and enhancing plant biomass and/or sucrose yield. ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8157450 | Waveform expansion sleeve for a bearing A bearing is disclosed. The bearing has an inner ring concentrically disposed with an outer ring with rotational elements therebetween adapted for allowing rotational movement of the inner ring relative to the outer ring. The outer ring has a crowned outer surface. ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156101 | Method and system for high performance integration, processing and searching of structured and unstructured data using coprocessors Disclosed herein is a method and system for integrating an enterprise's structured and unstructured data to provide users and enterprise applications with efficient and intelligent access to that data. Queries can be directed toward both an enterprise's structured a... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151465 | Method of mounting and positioning a bearing assembly onto a shaft using a hydraulically actuated tool that applies a preload to the shaft A mounting system is disclosed for mounting a bearing assembly or other mechanical element to a shaft. The mounting system uses a tapered sleeve mechanism to secure the bearing assembly on the shaft. Specifically, a pressure loaded piston drives the sleeve from a pr... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8134275 | High efficiency 4-π negatron β-3 particle emission source fabrication and its use as an electrode in a self-charged high-voltage capacitor The present invention is directed to an encapsulated β− particle emitter that comprises a sol-gel derived core that comprises a β−-emitting radioisotope and an encapsulant enclosing the core through which at least some of the β− | 03/13/2012 |
| 8133493 | Regulated attenuation of live vaccines to enhance cross-protective immunogenicity A live attenuated derivative of a pathogenic bacterium intended for use as a vaccine. ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131697 | Method and apparatus for approximate matching where programmable logic is used to process data being written to a mass storage medium and process data being read from a mass storage medium A method and device are disclosed for an associative and approximate, analog or digital scanning of databases that allows for the asynchronous accessing of data from a mass storage medium. The invention includes providing dedicated analog and digital circuitry and d... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8128460 | Method of producing rust inhibitive sheet metal through scale removal with a slurry blasting descaling cell A method is provided for removing iron oxide scale from sheet metal and producing a sheet metal surface with rust inhibitive properties. The sheet metal is advanced through the descaling cell and a slurry mixture is propelled against at least one of the top surface ... | 03/06/2012 |
| D655334 | Greeting card | 03/06/2012 |
| D655119 | Drying mat | 03/06/2012 |
| 8109021 | Wrap around self laminating wristband A wrap around, self laminating wristband comprises a substantially transparent laminate strap with an imaging area for receiving printed information and one or more layers of adhesive adjacent the imaging area so that as the strap is wrapped around itself to overlie... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108231 | Method and apparatus for improved customer direct on-line reservation of rental vehicles Disclosed herein is an improvement to a reservation booking website for rental vehicle reservations wherein the functionality of managing customer profiles/accounts is expanded upon to provide customers with greater control over the profile data stored in their asso... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8106257 | Altering lignin and wood density In angiosperm and gymnosperm plants, overexpressing a SAMdc nucleotide sequence can decrease lignin content and, for plants with woody tissue, increase wood density. ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8101826 | Expression of Cry3B insecticidal protein in plants The present invention discloses methods and compositions comprising a group of novel expression cassettes which provide significantly improved levels of accumulation of Coleopteran inhibitory Cry3B and Cry3B variant amino acid sequences when these are expressed in p... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099888 | Wristband label assembly with outboard cinch slot A business form includes in a first embodiment a wristband with a laminate backing including a tab portion at the opposite end of a free end, with the tab portion having a cinch slot. Several self adhering labels are provided inboard of the tab and may be individual... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099300 | Method and apparatus for processing pharmaceutical orders to determine whether a buyer of pharmaceuticals qualifies for an “own use” discount Disclosed is a method and apparatus for processing pharmaceutical orders to determine whether a buyer of pharmaceuticals qualifies for an “own use” discount. “Own use” discounts on pharmaceuticals are available for a limited class of buyers under 35 U.S.C. ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098909 | Method and apparatus for efficient three-dimensional contouring of medical images A technique is disclosed for generating a new contour and/or a 3D surface such as a variational implicit surface from contour data. In one embodiment, B-spline interpolation is used to efficiently generate a new contour (preferably a transverse contour), from a plur... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095508 | Intelligent data storage and processing using FPGA devices A data storage and retrieval device and method is disclosed. The device includes at least one magnetic storage medium configured to store target data and at least one re-configurable logic device comprising an FPGA coupled to the at least one magnetic storage medium... | 01/10/2012 |
| D651827 | Furniture support | 01/10/2012 |
| 8087344 | Recoil operating pistol with nestable barrel and slide A recoil operating pistol has a barrel and slide with at least a pair of flat mating surfaces extending along a substantial length of both the barrel and slide parallel to each other on opposite sides of the barrel. The matching flat surfaces of the barrel and slide... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8080219 | Card member for receiving a tissue specimen to be processed for histological examination The present invention is directed to a card member for receiving a tissue specimen to be processed for histological examination including an absorbent portion for maintaining the tissue specimen in engageable contact with the card member, and a generally non-adhesiv... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8079834 | Exhaust dilution blower housing with remote air intake A blower housing may be used with a climate control furnace or with a water heater and provides cooling of the motor that rotates the blower fan and also provides dilution and cooling of exhaust gases drawn from the furnace or water heater. The housing has an interi... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8074389 | Wristband with separated imaging area and cinch slot A printer processible wristband has a cinch slot at one end and an imaging area at another, connected with a strap therebetween. The imaging area is shaped like a shovel and the cinch slot is shaped like a “D” and sized so that the imaging area interference fits... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8074331 | Slurry blasting apparatus for removing scale from sheet metal An apparatus and method of removing scale from the surfaces of processed sheet metal and tubular metal employs a scale removing medium propelled by counter-rotating pairs of wheels positioned in close proximity to the metal surfaces. ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8069971 | Bulk material handling system and control A bulk material handling system includes a bulk material handling apparatus to convey bulk material and a bulk material handling accessory to aid the bulk material handling apparatus in conveying the bulk material. The bulk material handling accessory includes a con... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8069102 | Method and apparatus for processing financial information at hardware speeds using FPGA devices A method and apparatus use decision logic deployed on a reconfigurable logic device to process a stream of financial information at hardware speeds. The decision logic can be configured to perform data reduction operations on the financial information stream. Exampl... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8067321 | Sodium-potassium hexametaphosphate and potassium metaphosphate with a low insolubles content Potassium-containing polyphosphate glasses having a relatively high amount of potassium and a relatively low level of insoluble material (e.g., less than about 10% by weight), and a method for their production that includes using a boron-containing glass-former addi... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8066691 | Method and system for preparing soft tissue for grafting, enhancing grafting results, and grafting autologous fat to soft tissue such as the breast A method is disclosed for preparing a soft tissue site, and augmenting the soft tissue site, such as the breast(s) of a subject through use of devices that exert a distractive force on the breast(s) and grafting of autologous fat tissue such as domes with sealing ri... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8066549 | Method of producing rust inhibitive sheet metal through scale removal with a slurry blasting descaling cell having improved grit flow A method is provided for removing iron oxide scale from sheet metal and producing a sheet metal surface with rust inhibitive properties. The sheet metal is advanced through the descaling cell and a slurry mixture is propelled against at least one of the top surface ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8062095 | Method of producing rust inhibitive sheet metal through scale removal with a slurry blasting descaling cell having improved grit flow A method is provided for removing iron oxide scale from sheet metal and producing a sheet metal surface with rust inhibitive properties. The sheet metal is advanced through the descaling cell and a slurry mixture is propelled against at least one of the top surface ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8061901 | Extension member for a flinger of a bearing A bearing is disclosed comprising an inner ring concentrically disposed with an outer ring with rotational elements therebetween adapted for allowing rotational movement of the inner ring relative to the outer ring. A flinger may be secured to the inner ring having ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8060552 | Self-organizing hive of computing engines A self-organizing hive of computing engines is used to process information. A network communicatively couples multiple of hive engines together. These hive engines are configured to self-organize into a cooperative hive for performing computing of client jobs, with ... | 11/15/2011 |
