Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7987863 | Modular pole tent and joining means A tensile pole tent having improved wind performance, having a polygonal projection in plan view, perimeter catenaries, a flexible canopy continuously attached to the catenaries, corner posts to support the catenaries, a membrane interface or field joint between adj... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7967390 | Machine and method for deconstructing a vertical wall A machine and method are disclosed for deconstructing walls and other substantially vertical surfaces. The machine comprises a static, stand-alone support-frame. A carriage is movably mounted on the support-frame, which carriage is operable to be raised and lowered ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7875798 | Rain shielded box for exiting through siding A mounting box for installation on an exterior wall of a building. The mounting box has a box-shaped structure having a substantially horizontally disposed top surface when in situ, a nailing flange around a perimeter of the box-shaped structure, a downwardly and ou... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7866196 | Tank wall and method and system for making A method for manufacturing a circular metal tank, from an elongated sheet of metal. The upper and lower longitudinal edges of the metal sheet are bent to produce a first “L” bend and a second “chair” bend, respectively. The sheet of metal is moved in a helic... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7857740 | Bench platform with multiple functions A bench platform assembly, which has a rectangular deck having a plurality of spaced apart holes therein for permitting the free passage therethrough of an elastic cord or tubing or rope; and a semicircular rocker assembly affixed to a central bottom portion of said... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7836526 | Negative or vanishing edge for spas and/or hot tubs A hot tub or spa (100) has a vanishing or overflow edge (110) not readily visible to a user. Water from the main holding area (101) overflows the edge (110) into a catch basin (102). A reservoir (120) holds a constant head o... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7815158 | Doubled-hinged, hoist-mounted wheel hanger There is provided a double-hinged wheel hanger for hanging a wheel on a hoist arm. The wheel hanger includes a clevis with parallel top plate and bottom plate connected by a perpendicular base plate. In one preferred embodiment the distance between the top plate and... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7751411 | System interface for cell and/or packet transfer A method of interfacing for packet and cell transfer between a first layer device and a second layer device, which includes dividing control information into an in-band portion and an out-of-band portion, transmitting the in-band portion in the data path, and transm... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7593411 | Bus interface for transfer of multiple SONET/SDH rates over a serial backplane A bus interface for transfer of SONET/SDH data that supports a plurality of SONET/SDH flows. The invention supports two line coding schemes: 8B/10B encoding of STS-12, and SONET scrambled coding for STS-12, STS-48, and STS-51. The invention additionally supports two... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7179077 | Concrete block press A concrete block-molding machine having a concrete mix feed station, and a concrete molding and block ejection station adjacent to the feed station wherein the concrete molding and block ejection station has a vibratile plate having a plurality of holes in a pre-sel... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7053867 | Moveable image display system The present invention relates to a moveable image display system comprising a plurality of moveable display frames, capable of displaying images, a power transmitter and a data transmitter. There are no electrical connections between the moveable display frames and ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7500284 | Turf sweeper and debris removal machine A turf sweeping machine having a frame, front and rear wheels coupled to the frame and an elongated chute mounted to the frame, the chute having an exit and an entrance at a level proximate to the grass of the turf. Rubber skirts are affixed to the chute and extend ... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7473094 | Multiple plate combustor The invention consists of a pulse combustor, comprising two spaced apart outer plates, the outer plates having flat outer regions, conical regions inside of the flat regions and central hubs, where the volume between conical regions of the plates defines a combustio... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7460250 | Laser triangulation system A method for measuring the range to multiple points on a surface by projecting a line of light onto the surface, imaging said line of light onto a photodetector, computing the centroid of said line of light, computing quality factors for each computed centroid and e... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7382771 | Mobile wireless hotspot system The invention relates to wireless Internet access points, and in particular to providing a mobile wireless access point for use with high-speed wireless devices. In particular, the system allows client devices configured for short-range, high-speed wireless Internet... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7357744 | Hydro-mechanical continuously variable transmission The invention comprises a hydro-mechanical continuously variable transmission (HMCVT) that uses a planetary gear system to provide a combination of hydraulic and mechanical power for a vehicle or stationary equipment. The invention further comprises various ancillar... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7358440 | Rain shielded box for exiting through siding A mounting box for installation on an exterior wall of a building. The mounting box has a box-shaped structure having a substantially horizontally disposed top surface when in situ, a nailing flange around a perimeter of the box-shaped structure, a downwardly and ou... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7321540 | Waveguide multilayer holographic data storage The invention provides a method and apparatus for providing a high information capacity, high data rate and short access time simultaneously. The method and apparatus include a multilayer waveguide holographic carrier, a multilayer waveguide holographic data storage... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7240610 | Method and apparatus for infusing a liquid with a flavoring or a scent A method and apparatus for infusing a liquid with a flavoring or a scent. The method and apparatus may be used to produce soups and beverages, including tea-based beverages which use various flavoring agents, and also scented products. Further, the method and appara... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7239727 | Method and device for verifying a person's identity by signature analysis A method of verifying identity which includes recording coordinates of a reference signature which include two dimensional space coordinates x and y exerted by a writer's writing instrument on a recording medium. The method measures and records an indicium, which id... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7191327 | Internet-enabled device provisioning, upgrade and recovery mechanism The invention consists of a boot loader for a device, comprising an IP stack supporting Internet protocols, and a scripting engine to run a default script. The IP stack includes address discovery service (for example, BOOTP and DHCP), a URI to IP address translator ... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7111344 | Infant sleeping system A crib sheet with attachment points used to attach to the crib rails or bed frame. The crib sheet is used in combination with an infant sleep garment that attaches to the crib sheet by hook and loop mechanism. Attachment to the crib frame or bed frame, rather than t... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7100622 | Pipe scarifier A scarifier for scarifying an interior surface of a sewer pipe, which includes an elongated frame having spaced apart upstanding frame elements at either end forming a plurality of guide surfaces on each side. A first track extends from one end of the frame to anoth... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7094932 | Production of glycolaldehyde by hydrous thermolysis of sugars The present invention provides a method for the production of glycolaldehyde with high specificity. The hydrous thermolysis consists of the spraying of aqueous sugar solutions containing from 25 to 80% of water but preferably 30 to 60% water, as a fine mist into a r... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7066829 | Golf putting alignment system A golf putter alignment system in which a putter has a centerline mark and the putter shaft is joined to the putter head near the toe extending upwardly and is then angled towards the golfer. Vertical alignment of the marks on the top of the putter head and the shaf... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7063669 | Portable electronic spirometer A spirometer having a housing with an elongated flow chamber open at one end, a pressure sensing end opposite the open end and an outlet passageway intercepting the flow chamber at an angle α and proximate the pressure sensing end. A differential pressure sensor is... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7008342 | Electro-mechanical continuously variable transmission The invention comprises an electro-mechanical continuously variable transmission (EMCVT) that uses a planetary gear system to provide a combination of electric and mechanical power for a vehicle or for stationary equipment. The EMCVT includes a clutch and brake syst... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7004999 | Apparatus for separating fouling contaminants from non-condensable gases at the end of a pyrolysis/thermolysis of biomass process A method of continuously capturing BioOil and its constituents from a gas stream produced in a fast pyrolysis/thermolysis process, in a usable liquid form so as to produce a non-condensable gas free of fouling contaminates. The method includes separating BioOil and ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7002560 | Method of combining data entry of handwritten symbols with displayed character data A pen or stylus-operated graphical user interface for a computer or computing device, which includes a sensing surface having an area corresponding to a data input field, the data input field being conditioned for hand entering and editing of graphical input symbols... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6984767 | Sonication treatment of polychlorinated biphenyl contaminated media The invention consists of a method for treating polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) contaminated media by: a) combining the media with a fluid containing one or more liquid hydrocarbons to form a media/fluid mixture; b) sonicating the mixture at audio frequency to extrac... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6931245 | Downconverter for the combined reception of linear and circular polarization signals from collocated satellites A microwave downconverter apparatus and scheme is hereby presented for the simultaneous reception of both linearly and circularly polarized signals from collocated satellites. A single antenna and waveguide feed is used for reception from two collocated satellites, ... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6921111 | Remotely actuated quick-release coupling A remotely actuated quick-release coupling having a male assembly and a female assembly. The female assembly has an inner sleeve and an outer sleeve, with the male assembly being removably insertable into the inner sleeve. A spring-loaded latching mechanism is locat... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6907693 | Portable gardening station A portable gardening station comprising a bed for containing a growing medium. The bed has a base comprising a shoulder, a trough, and a raised center portion, wherein the trough is lower than the shoulder and raised center portion. The underside of the bed is reinf... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6896274 | Ramp board A skateboard having a deck with an arched center, two bumper regions, one at either end of the deck, each of the bumper regions extending above and rigidly affixed to the deck. Truck and wheel assemblies mounted beneath respective ones of the bumper regions. ... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6880897 | Hub adapter for a bicycle disc brake A hub adapter used to modify a bicycle wheel hub to provide for the mounting of a disc brake rotor and/or for the repositioning of the wheel spoke mount flange to accommodate the additional components of a disc brake system. The hub adapter may be fixed to the host ... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6850523 | Interface between a link layer device and one or more physical layer devices A bus interface for exchanging packets within a communication system between a single data link layer and a physical layer device which includes a link transmit interface on the link layer device, a PHY transmit interface on the physical layer devices electrically c... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6808692 | Enhanced mercury control in coal-fired power plants A method of treating a coal combustion flue gas, which includes injecting a molecular halogen or thermolabile molecular halogen precursor, such as calcium hypochlorite, able to decompose to form molecular halogen at flue gas temperature. The molecular halogen conver... | 10/26/2004 |
| D491658 | Shield for protection from baby urination | 06/15/2004 |
