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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7722442 | Knife-edge sharpening apparatus Two counter-rotating, intermeshing, toothed wheels grind opposite sides of an interposed blade to create or burrlessly sharpen a knife-edge on the blade. The wheels can be solid or comprised of a fixed stack of toothed disks, concentrically aligned, the teeth of eac... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7484032 | Fault tolerant computer system A computing hardware and software device called a Meta Mentor Central Processing Unit. The Meta Mentor purpose is to control memory, input/output interfaces, defining the operating system, the scheduling processes and the parsing of individual threads to an array of... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7267001 | Apparatus for securely mounting and continuously monitoring the weight of a liquified gas tank A bottle plate mates or is integrated with brackets for mounting a gas bottle atop the plate. An aft end of the bottle plate is spacedly affixed to a top of a base plate, the bottle plate being bendable about its aft end corresponding to the weight of a bottle mount... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7209701 | Cleaning blade system for electrophotography A cleaning blade system for a variety of electrophotographic apparatuses. A preferably reversible, elongated, elastic wiper blade is longitudinally supported by a relatively rigid, elongated holder. The wiper holder is universally adaptable to a variety of different... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7153216 | Putter alignment training system A laser assembly is removably attached to the shaft of a putter slightly above the head. The position and orientation of the laser assembly is adjusted to direct the laser horizontally in a plane passing through the sweet spot of the putter's face and perpendicular ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7100983 | Lumbar flexing seating apparatus A buttocks seat is supported by a post tiltably affixed at a lower end to an upper face of a base. The post is also axially rotatable relative to the base, and threadably engaged with an underside of the seat for supporting the seat on the post, the seat squarely fa... | 09/05/2006 |
| 6813466 | Cleaning blade system for electrophotography A cleaning blade system for a variety of electrophotographic apparatuses. A preferably reversible, elongated, elastic wiper blade is longitudinally supported by a relatively rigid, elongated holder. The wiper holder is universally adaptable to a variety of different... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6762942 | Break away, high speed, folded, jumperless electronic assembly Two substrate leaves are coupled by a folded flexible circuit medium. Integrated circuit components can be mounted to opposite faces of both leaves. A signal terminal projects from one of the leaves. Both leaves include paths for communicating signals between their ... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6608492 | AC impedance bridge The output of a preamplifier is communicated to an active feedback circuit which drives the primary of a balancing transformer the secondary of which is connected in series with an impedance under test (IUT), the terminals of the series connection are com... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6599134 | Transverse backplane A low profile, 1U expansion PC board for mounting at least two PCI connectors, mountable by a male-to-male connector to a PCI matrix on the transverse side of a 1U PICMG computer backplane. Additional mechanical security is provided by mounting stanchions... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6598417 | Multi-channel local beverage cooler A cooler for cooling a plurality of brands of liquid beverages for delivery at taps for dispensing to customers at a desired chilled temperature. The cooler has a heat exchanger with a shell having channels passing through it, each communicating with a ke... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6155076 | Method to optimize thermodynamic expansion in gas liquefaction processes For gas liquefaction processes, thermodynamic expansion is optimized by use of a hydraulic turbine expander for liquefied gases which can be adjusted to different flow rates and differential pressures by varying the rotational speed and/or guide vane posi... | 12/05/2000 |
| 5626527 | Golf grip installable over pre-existing grip A strong, resilient, thin-walled material in a tubular shape stretchably fits over a pre-existing golf club grip for enveloping and frictionally engaging the pre-existing grip. The tubular body has a butt end which, when installed, abuts a butt end of the... | 05/06/1997 |
| 5604509 | Remote display monitor system A monitor is remotely coupled to a source of display data for real-time display of the data thereon. The display is real-time in that the received data is converted to pixel values and is displayed by the remote monitor almost instantaneously except for s... | 02/18/1997 |