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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7841118 | Training bolt for rifle A training bolt for use in an automatic or semi-automatic firearm includes a training bolt installable in a bolt receiver of a firearm, wherein the training bolt is constructed and arranged with cutouts and protrusions which cooperate with the internal structure of ... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7810660 | Model railroad coupler A model railroad coupler for use with model railroad rolling stock includes a coupler head and a coupler knuckle carried pivotally on the coupler head; an elongate coupler shank having one end thereof fixed to the coupler head; a coupler mounting structure carried a... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7802406 | Multi-function building panel beam tube with homogeneous anchor sites A skin-panel sub-frame panel having spaced, upper, lower and lateral edges, designed to occupy an upright plane adjacent the outside of a plural-story building frame, with a vertical dimension which is substantially the same as inter-floor story-height in the frame.... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7790274 | Layered panel structure including self-bonded thermoformable and non-thermoformable layer materials A layered panel structure featuring a first layer formed of non-thermoformable material, having opposite faces, a thickness T as measured between its opposite faces, and an effective layer density d, and a second layer formed of thermoformable material having opposi... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7735445 | Deployable marker banner structure and system A deployable marker banner structure and system including (a) an elongate, rollable/unrollable fabric body having opposite ends, a long axis, and opposite faces, (b) shape-forming biasing structure operatively connected to the body, applying shape-forming biasing fo... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7732028 | Adhereable, pre-fabricated, self-healing, anti-puncture coating for liquid container A bulk, generally elastomeric and pliable, layered mat formed to permit selective trimming into size-chosen mat trims/tiles, each of which is structured to perform as a self-puncture(wound)-sealing, defined-liquid-reactive, anti-puncture-leakage coating element appl... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7717560 | Eye-administered, moving-image physiologic test system and method A physiologic test, and a system for implementing this test, including, from a methodologic point of view, (a) illuminating the central field in a test subject's eye with a relative-motion test image produced on an image display structure by a motion-image-creation ... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7716820 | Rotational apparatus for welding beam-mount structure to the side(s) of a column Apparatus for precision deploy-attaching beam-mount structure to the outside of an elongate column at plural, defined attachment sites that are distributed and spaced along the length of the column. During use, a column support jig with plural openable/closeable yok... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7678453 | Multi-function surface-coating fire and fuel-leakage inhibition Barrier structure for furnishing, selectively and variously, penetration and fire-threat protection on the outside surface of a target structure. The barrier structure includes a high-elastomeric coating having an inner face bonded to such a surface, an exposed oute... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7668589 | Integrated, plural-signal, heart-signal sensor system and related data-presentation methodology A system and a related methodology for gathering, during a selected time span, and from a common anatomical site, time-contemporaneous ECG-electrical and heart-sound signals including (1) processing such signals to effect (a) time-based, related ECG fiducials, and (... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7665397 | Plural-panel armor system A plural-panel, plural-layer armoring system including (a) an outer layer of elongate, side-by-side adjacent, laterally-interlocking, hardened-material armor panels having long axes substantially paralleling one another, and (b) a contacting, but not bonded-to, inne... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7624760 | Liquid tank puncture-repair method A structure-aided method for sealing, from the outside, a liquid-leaking puncture wound in the wall of a liquid container. This method is implemented utilizing a patch body having a perimetered cavity selectively securable to the outside of such a container with the... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7621099 | Rotational method for welding beam-mount structure to the side(s) of a column A method and related apparatus for precision deploy-attaching beam-mount structure to the outside of an elongate column at plural, defined attachment sites that are distributed and spaced along the length of the column. The method involves (a) preparing an elongate ... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7621088 | Shear-wall structure and method employing laterally bounding columns Building frame shear-wall structure and associated methodology wherein the resulting structure includes (a) plural, elongate, spaced, interconnected columns and beams including elongate stretches which define and perimeter nominally open panes, and (b) within each d... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7614347 | Solid-fuel-combustion fire-insulation interface with adjacent container-wall A solid-fuel rocket assembly including an elongate fuel container having a long axis, and an inner surface spaced outwardly from, and generally circumsurrounding, that axis, and a continuous, elastomeric, heat-insulative, intumescence-behavior jacket adhered to the ... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7546198 | Dynamic noise-reduction baselining for real-time spectral analysis of internal combustion engine knock A real-time, dynamic method for creating a body of cycle-and-cylinder-specific noise-reduction baseline data useable in conjunction with analyzing the engine-knock behavior of a subject internal combustion engine involving operating the engine in an operating mode w... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7530205 | Structural chase beam An elongate structural chase beam adapted for assembly in a building frame as a unit extending between a pair of upright columns. This beam includes an elongate, axially central, vertical through-passage located between its ends for accommodating the vertical passag... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7527466 | Building-erection structural member transporter A machine-liftable, open-framework, cage-like transporter for lifting and maneuvering horizontal structural beam elements, and the like, to appropriate installation elevations at and from the side of a plural-story building frame which is under construction. The tra... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7503151 | Building frame with open/openable-top, hollow, tubular column structure A building frame including a load-bearing portion which is defined by a pattern of interconnected, elongate, upright columns and laterally extending beams, with each column taking the form of an assembly of hollow, tubular column components, at least some of which e... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7441940 | Collapsible mixing wand A collapsible mixing wand includes an elongate shaft having a longitudinal axis therealong, a free end and a mixer attachment end; a mixer assembly attached to the elongate shaft at the mixer attachment end thereof by a fixing mechanism, for rotation relative to the... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7441692 | Method and structure for I-beam end geometry stabilization A method for stabilizing, in correctness, the transverse cross section of the end of an elongate structural beam during weld attachment to that end of a beam-end mounting component. This method includes the steps of (a) configurationally correcting and capturing the... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7437987 | Blast shielding A blast shockwave shield including an upright, monolithic body having a lateral center, and front and back sides, and a blast-facing, curved strike face formed on the upright, front side of the body, including a pair of companion, laterally spaced, laterally symmetr... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7434518 | Two-piece model railroad truck frame A truck for use on a piece of model railroad rolling stock, the truck having axle/wheels sets associated therewith includes two identical truck portions, which, when joined, form a model railroad truck frame, which is held together by mechanical impedance by a frame... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7409969 | Liquid tank puncture repair kit Structure, for sealing, from the outside, a liquid-leaking puncture wound in the wall of a liquid container. This structure includes a patch body having a perimetered cavity selectively securable via a self-torque-limiting bolt to the outside of such a container in ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7393572 | Anti-leak projectile barrier and method Barrier structure placeable as a projectile-disabling, anti-liquid-leakage protective shield for the outside surface of a container designed to hold liquid of a certain nature including (a) a first-type (innermost) layer formed as an expanse of high-elastomeric mate... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7389280 | Computer-based intelligence method and apparatus for assessing selected subject-area problems and situations A computer-based method and apparatus for assessing problems and situations in a defined knowledge domain, employing both (a) an inferential database of elemental data components, as domain-wide as possible, which are relevant to the domain, and (b) periodic statist... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7375837 | User-definable print-option conversion for heterogeneous cluster printing A method and system for handling an imaging job in a heterogeneous imaging environment, and in particular for enabling and implementing dynamic conversion and/or configuration of imaging control data, such as print control data, so as to match imaging job requiremen... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7373224 | Brake monitoring system for heavy vehicles A brake monitoring system for use on a motor vehicle includes a sensor connected to each brake actuator shaft on the motor vehicle for monitoring the position and travel of the brake actuator shaft and for generating and transmitting a brake condition signal; a data... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7363334 | Digital signal-processing structure and methodology featuring engine-instantiated, wave-digital-filter componentry, and fabrication thereof Digital signal-processing structure and methodology which feature a time-slice-based digital fabricating engine, and software operating structure operatively associated with that engine structured to operate the engine in a time-slice-based fabrication mode wherein ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359086 | Graphic-interface, anti-clipping, color-image correction Computer-based, anti-clipping, pre-printing, color-image correction via virtual color-parameter controllers that are provided within the graphic user interface of a print driver. Parameters accommodated include Red, Green and Blue offset, Lightness offset, Gamma and... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7354106 | Impact-injury-minimizing seat structure and methodology A vehicle safety seat and related methodology featuring (a) an anti-spring-back seat platform having a generally upwardly facing support surface, (b) a triggerable acceleration structure disposed cooperatively relative to that support surface in a manner whereby the... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352489 | Color error diffusion method for multi-level output device An improved color-image error diffusion process for use in conjunction with the operation of a multi-level, halftone, color-image output device. This process involves, first, performing output-device-dependent color error diffusion on color-image input data utilizin... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7342896 | Centralized network organization and topology discover in Ad-Hoc network with central controller A method for the self-organization of a plural-node communication network which involves (1) selecting a central coordinator (CCo) node from a collection of nodes initially lacking a CCo, (2) employing the selected CCo to oversee a procedure for discovering, from th... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343627 | Secure document-data-handling system and methodology The method and system which assure tight security over access to document data which is being handled in a system during scanning, copying, printing and faxing modes of operation. Security takes place with (1) substantially complete blockage of outside-world (networ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7336240 | Integrated microwave transceiver tile structure Integrated microwave modular transceiver tile structure in the form of a cube-like configuration, and including (a) a first, generally planar, circuit-board layer structure possessing an array of plural, integrally formed microwave transceivers arranged in a defined... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7299505 | Helmet cushioning pad with variable, motion-reactive applied-load response, and associated methodology A site-selectable, helmet-installable load-cushioning pad structure employable inside a helmet shell as a part of a plural-spaced-pad distribution featuring a compressible viscoelastic foam core which resists rapid, but not slow-movement, compression. Associated met... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7302290 | Heart-activity monitoring with multi-axial audio detection Apparatus and associated methodology for monitoring correlatable anatomical electrical and sound signals, such as electrical and audio signals produced by human heart activity, including (a) attaching to a selected, common anatomical site ECG (or other) electrode st... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7282462 | Body armor strand structure, method and performance Structure, methodology and performance involving and utilizing body armor strand material which includes an elongate strand body possessing elongate brittle ceramic surface structure, elongate ductile core structure disposed within that surface structure, and elonga... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7269860 | Moisture-barriered, body-contact protective interface structure A moisture-barriered, body-contact protective interface structure including a core, viscoelastic, acceleration-rate-sensitive cushioning structure, and a moisture-barriering container surrounding the cushioning structure, with the container being operable to block t... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7257251 | Chrominance smoothing A method for reducing chrominance entropy in a digital color image. This method is practiced in relation to pixels in the two chrominance channels in a luminance-chrominance-chrominance representation of the image. The method involves shifting the chrominance values... | 08/14/2007 |
