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Wearable Device For Feeding and Observing Birds and Other Flying Animals
A device for feeding and observing flying animals comprising a hat, a support mounted on the hat and extending outward from the hat, and a feeder mounted on the support.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185377 | Diagnostic evaluation of machine translators A system for evaluating translation quality of a machine translator is discussed. The system includes a bilingual data generator configured to intermittently access a wide area network and generate a bilingual corpus from data received from the wide area network. Th... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185376 | Identifying language origin of words The language of origin of a word is determined by analyzing non-uniform letter sequence portions of the word. ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184531 | Method of managing an interface comprising means for controlling remote terminals A method is provided for transmission within a telecommunication system, which includes a plurality of terminals that can exchange data flows therebetween. The method includes at least: a step of comparing a maximum throughput value offered by an interface with a cu... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184389 | Sensor resonant frequency identification and filter tuning Methods of tuning a notch filter to remove resonant frequency components from an output signal of a vibration sensor. Some methods according to the invention include exciting the vibration sensor with an excitation signal including energy in a frequency band that ma... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182549 | Terminal theft protection process, and corresponding system, terminal and computer program A process is provided for protection against theft of electronic payment terminals utilized in a group including at least two electronic payment terminals organized as a network. The process includes the following steps: mutual detection of the presence of each of t... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182140 | Thermal icing conditions detector A sensor for detecting icing conditions in an airstream includes a flow housing mounted on an aircraft and in which one or more probes are mounted. At least one of the probes subjected to impingement of the airstream and liquid moisture droplets in such airstream. T... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182029 | Open roof construction for a vehicle An open roof construction for a vehicle is disclosed. The open roof construction includes a panel movable between a closed position and a raised or tilted position via operation of a tilting lever and an auxiliary lever. In illustrated embodiments, the tilting lever... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182025 | Method of producing a panel assembly A method of constructing a reinforced closure panel assembly for a vehicle roof assembly includes providing a substantially planar panel having two opposite surfaces, providing a reinforcement having a circumferential flange fitting on one of the surfaces of the pan... | 05/22/2012 |
| D660492 | Solar light | 05/22/2012 |
| D660409 | Compact negative pressure wound treatment apparatus | 05/22/2012 |
| D660372 | Game board | 05/22/2012 |
| D660353 | Print head | 05/22/2012 |
| D660196 | Planter | 05/22/2012 |
| D660186 | Measuring cup | 05/22/2012 |
| D660040 | Chair | 05/22/2012 |
| D660039 | Chair | 05/22/2012 |
| D660038 | Chair | 05/22/2012 |
| D660037 | Chair | 05/22/2012 |
| D660036 | Sofa | 05/22/2012 |
| D660035 | Chair | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180637 | High performance HMM adaptation with joint compensation of additive and convolutive distortions A method of compensating for additive and convolutive distortions applied to a signal indicative of an utterance is discussed. The method includes receiving a signal and initializing noise mean and channel mean vectors. Gaussian dependent matrix and Hidden Markov Mo... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180636 | Pitch model for noise estimation Pitch is tracked for individual samples, which are taken much more frequently than an analysis frame. Speech is identified based on the tracked pitch and the speech components of the signal are removed with a time-varying filter, leaving only an estimate of a time-v... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180466 | Process device with supervisory overlayer A process device is configured to meet a desired Safety Integrity Level (SIL). A device interface is configured to couple to the process device and provide an output related to operation of a component of the process device. A component monitor monitors operation of... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179639 | Head gimbal assembly without bus traces for plating Head gimbal assemblies for data storage systems are provided. Some embodiments include a dielectric layer having a first and a second side. A first conductive layer is on the first dielectric layer. The first conductive layer includes a pad and a trace. A second con... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177524 | Manual locking clamp for piston paint pump Apparatus for securing and selectively releasing a piston pump from a drive assembly including two collar segments, with one segment fixed to the drive assembly and the other segment movable only linearly transversely with respect to a longitudinal axis of the pisto... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177302 | Seat cushion In one aspect, a seat includes a perimeter frame and a weight bearing surface. The perimeter frame includes a front frame member, two contoured lateral frame members, and a contoured rear frame member. Each lateral frame member has a front portion, a second portion ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177144 | Container holder in a fluid delivery system A container holder in a fluid delivery system is provided. In one example, an airless fluid delivery system is disclosed and includes a housing and a handle coupled to the housing. A first end of the handle is attached to the housing and a second end of the handle i... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176666 | Sign holder A sign holder includes a sleeve, a support and a plurality of rings. The sleeve has a front portion having a first height and a back portion having a second height that is greater than the first height of the front portion. The back portion is connected to the front... | 05/15/2012 |
| D659921 | Power steamer head | 05/15/2012 |
| D659401 | Basket | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175754 | Configuration of a multivariable process fluid flow device A method of providing configuration information for a process fluid flow device is provided. The method includes receiving a process fluid selection and providing at least one selectable fluid property relative to the selected process fluid and receiving at least on... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174508 | Pointing and data entry input device An input device includes an array of adjacent capacitive sensors arranged into rows and columns. Each capacitive sensor exhibits a capacitance characteristic when in proximity to a conductive element. A plurality of mechanical hysteresis mechanisms are each deposite... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171663 | In-store marketing sign A marketing sign is constructed of a sheet material. The sheet material includes a free portion, a base portion and a connecting portion that couples the base portion to the free portion. The base portion is configured to engage with a product display structure, whi... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171456 | Method for auditing compliance of an electronic platform and/or a computer program present on said platform, and device and computer program corresponding thereto A method is provided for auditing compliance of an electronic platform, referred to as the platform being tested, and/or a computer program being tested, which is present on the platform being tested. The method includes the following steps: transmitting the same da... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171007 | Creating business value by embedding domain tuned search on web-sites Domain specific topics, and optionally uniform resource locators (URLs) can be received from a user, and from those domain specific topics and URLs, domain tuned search definitions are generated for a given domain. The domain tuned search definitions are saved and t... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170868 | Extracting lexical features for classifying native and non-native language usage style A corpus is provided of language usage by non-native users of the language. Characteristics of the corpus are measured and used to create a language usage classifier for indicating non-native usage of the language. Once the language usage classifier is created, a na... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169179 | Open-ended control circuit for electrical apparatus An AC machine control system for an AC machine (motor, generator, transformer, etc.) having open-ended windings, the control system comprising a drive circuit configured to transfer AC power between a first set of voltages and each end of the open-ended windings wit... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8167365 | Open roof construction for a vehicle An open roof construction for a vehicle having an opening in the fixed roof, comprises stationary longitudinal guide rails on either side of the roof opening and slidable slides with operating mechanisms. A panel supported by the operating mechanisms is adjustable b... | 05/01/2012 |
| D658412 | Chaise | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166295 | Message security framework A computer-implemented method of providing security for an application running on a messaging based operating system is provided. The method includes obtaining a first message from a message queue for the application. Then, it is determined whether the first message... | 04/24/2012 |
