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...that to encourage use of his new invention, the shopping cart, market owner Sylvan Goldman hired fake shoppers to push the carts around his store in Oklahoma City? Seems his customers were reluctant to give up their hand-carried baskets.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6570530 | Method and apparatus providing improved position estimate based on an initial coarse position estimate Techniques for determining the location of a device based on an initial coarse position estimate for the device, which is derived based on initial (less accurate) estimates of the position of a plurality of transmitters. In one method, the coarse position... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6483824 | Method and apparatus for acquiring service in a "border area" A method and computer program product for acquiring service in a border area that is serviced by two communications systems that share the same frequencies. The method of the present invention includes the steps of scanning a predetermined range of contro... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6433739 | Method and apparatus for synchronizing base stations using remote synchronizing stations A method and apparatus for determining any offset between the timing of a communication base station and the timing of a GPS constellation using a remote synchronization station at which the timing of a base station can be measured and compared with known... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6363108 | Programmable matched filter searcher A novel and improved method and apparatus for searching is described. Channel data is despread utilizing a matched filter structure. The in-phase and quadrature amplitudes of the despreading delivered to coherent accumulators to sum for a programmable dur... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6267629 | Shield clip and method of securing a shield cover A method of clipping and a clip configured to retain a cover onto a circuit board. The clip comprises a base plate having right and left sides. The base plate is configured to be fixed to the circuit board. The clip further comprises at least two right wa... | 07/31/2001 |
