Did You Know...
...that Charles Goodyear performed some of his experiments on rubber while in debtor's prison? He was there so often he referred to it as his "hotel". Chronically in debt because of poor business sense and ill health, Goodyear depended on the generosity of friends and family. Even after he unlocked the secret to vulcanizing rubber, he was unable to improve his financial situation. When he died, his estate was $200,000 in debt.
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| 7613642 | Equity based incentive compensation plan computer system A system and process linking an external computer with a system of a lending institution, a market information vendor or brokerage company, to provide for simultaneous tracking of one or more investments by a Plan to ensure each Plan's investment provides adequate c... | 11/03/2009 |
| 6658790 | Method of propagation and product produced thereby An improvement in a method of propagating, and an article useful in association with, or produced by, the method of propagating. Plants are produced in mats by steps including: providing a bottom net made of a material that is pervious to moisture, positi... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6235176 | Computer apparatus and method for defined contribution and profit sharing pension and disability plan Device and method includes providing a digital electrical computer system receiving the input information at an input device, the input information including amounts of contribution for employees in a defined contribution plan; processing the input electr... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6163770 | Computer apparatus and method for generating documentation using a computed value for a claims cost affected by at least one concurrent, different insurance policy for the same insured A method for using a digital electrical apparatus to electrically process signals in generating output for insurance documentation for a first insurance policy for a first risk having a claims cost reflecting: a concurrent second insurance policy for a se... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6141870 | Method for making electrical device A multilayer electrical device such as a printed circuit board, and method for making the electrical device, having a tooth structure for joining at least one of the layers. The method includes the following steps: providing a base; preparing the base and... | 11/07/2000 |
| 5956491 | Group communications multiplexing system A computerized human communication arbitrating and distributing system, including a controller digital computer and a plurality of participator digital computers, each of the participator computers including an input device for receiving human-input infor... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5839118 | System and method for premium optimization and loan monitoring A system and process linking an external computer with an illustration system of an insurance carrier and a system of an independent lending institution, via modem, to determine the optimal premium structure for a contemplated variable life insurance prod... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5802501 | System and methods for computing to support decomposing property into separately valued components A computer system, and methods for making and using it, for manipulating digital electrical signals to produce an illustration of a decomposition of property into separately valued components. The computer system includes a digital electrical computer con... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5802500 | System and method for computing a financial projection of a prefunding program for other postretirement employee benefits under FASB statement 106 A computer system, and a method for using the system, for computing financial data, the computer system including a digital computer connected to receive information representing a description of a taxable trust and a description of life insurance contrac... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5703908 | Fixed reference shift keying modulation for mobile radio telecommunications A method and apparatus for improved mobile radio telecommunications employs the transmission of a pilot reference signal within the coherence band of the modulated carrier wave. The receiver in this system uses instantaneous phase estimation techniques of... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5695055 | Protective sleeve for golf bags A protective sleeve comprising a combination of a mouth and a sleeve, the combination comprising a sleeve having a first and second flaps extending beyond the sleeve, each flap having a proximate side and a distal side, with the sleeve having an opening b... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5673402 | Computer system for producing an illustration of an investment repaying a mortgage A computerized system for initiating, processing, preparing, storing, and transmitting illustrations of life insurance in conjunction with a mortgage, the illustrations being devoid of a cost containment clause. A computer accesses a database into which d... | 09/30/1997 |
| 5655085 | Computer system for automated comparing of universal life insurance policies based on selectable criteria A computerized system for initiating, processing, preparing, storing, and transmitting illustrations of universal life insurance. A computer accesses a database into which data is written and from which data is read, the data including information regardi... | 08/05/1997 |
| 5634087 | Rapidly trainable neural tree network An apparatus and methods characterized by an electric neural network including a node having multipliers respectively receiving signals representing feature vector elements and signals representing weight vector elements to produce product signals, a summ... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5628945 | Multicomponent powder mixing process and compositions produced thereby A method for controlling chemical distribution of substances in a solid state (and products produced thereby), the method comprising the steps of mixing particles of a first powder and a triggerable granule facilitator to form first microcapsules, the fir... | 05/13/1997 |
| 5590037 | Digital computer system and methods for computing a financial projection and an illustration of a prefunding program for an employee benefit In a system and methods for using a data processing system including a programmed electrical digital computer having a processor electrically connected to an input device and to an output device, generating financial projections and an illustration of an ... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5572455 | Adder-subtractor device and method for making the same An adder-subtractor includes a jth device for each bit position j for computing a result for an expression &#b1;a0 &#b1;a1, where a0 and a1 are binary numbers. The jth device is from a group of devices, the grou... | 11/05/1996 |
| 5558742 | Process for analyzing nutritional content of a composition of food to produce a calculated printed representation A process for producing pictorial labels representing content of a composition of food, the process including the following steps: obtaining nutritional data for a composition of food, the nutritional data representing a quantity of a nutrient in the comp... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5481146 | Passive null flux coil magnetic bearing system for translation or rotation An apparatus, and methods of making and using the apparatus, including at least a first path of magnetic flux perpendicular to and penetrating a first plane in space; preferably, a second path of magnetic flux perpendicular to the first plane and having a... | 01/02/1996 |
