Did You Know...
...that the Eveready Battery began as an invention called the "electric flowerpot," which was a tube with a battery and light bulb inside? The idea was to fasten this gizmo to the side of a flowerpot so it would illuminate the flowers from the bottom. The idea died on the vine and the businessman who licensed the flower pot, Conrad Huber, was left with a pile of useless tubes -- until he found a way to market them as batteries to light the world!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5500899 | Secure voice conferencing apparatus A system for communicating simultaneous encrypted messages in a jamming eronment with a low opportunity for depth exploitation. The system includes a plurality of transmitters, each having a high speed key generator for producing a plurality of pseudoran... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5351301 | Authenticator circuit An authenticator circuit and message authentication apparatus. The circuit includes a plurality of shift register stages, some of which are separated by adders having an input from a succeeding stage. Switching circuits selectively control the second adde... | 09/27/1994 |
| 5245659 | Constant ratio coding for multipath rejection and ECCM enhancement A method is disclosed for encoding signals for transmission to provide signals which simultaneously have specifiable autocorrelation properties and low predictability. To enhance the accuracy of time of arrival measurements in the presence of either noise... | 09/14/1993 |
| 5245408 | Electro-optic coherent light detector An apparatus is described which detects the presence or absence of coherent light and provides an estimate of the coherent light's wavelength. The apparatus employs a common-path "polarization interferometer" in which the two linear polarization paths act... | 09/14/1993 |
| 5224756 | Integrated child seat for vehicle A three-mode seat for a motor vehicle cooperable with an adult seat belt assembly to provide three modes of operation including an adult seat mode, a large child booster seat mode, and a small child mode. The seat includes a child's seat module arranged t... | 07/06/1993 |
| 5101374 | Secure, fast storage and retrieval without interactive checking A method and apparatus for secure, fast storage and retrieval of information relative to a storage device without interactive checking is characterized by the use of a unique variable range adder. The variable range adder automatically modifies addresses ... | 03/31/1992 |
| 5087946 | Composite instant on fuser element A fuser roll including a hollow cylinder having a relatively thin wall, the cylinder being a plastic composition reinforced with a conductive fiber filler, the plastic composition having a resistivity between 0.5 and 0.05 ohm.cm, the cylinder having an ou... | 02/11/1992 |
| 5020018 | Outer product optical interferometer with hologram An outer product shearing interferometer for an optical source of one-dimensional extent which provides interference between every two points on the source. The interferometer comprises an input plane containing the source, an output plane for observing t... | 05/28/1991 |
