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Method and apparatus for making a drink hop along a bar or counter
A method for generating a drink which appears to hop from a remote spot on the bar or counter and take one or more leaps, before landing in a patron's glass.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5064773 | Method of forming bipolar transistor having closely spaced device regions A method of forming a bipolar transistor. A base region is implanted into an epitaxial layer. An emitter and collector contact regions are formed of doped polysilicon on the epitaxial layer, the emitter being formed over the base region. The implant is be... | 11/12/1991 |
| 5063539 | Ferroelectric memory with diode isolation An improved ferroelectric, non-volatile memory comprises an array of ferroelectric capacitors with each capacitor connected to one row and one column select line through a network of diodes. The select lines are connected to a power supply or ground to ac... | 11/05/1991 |
| 5025663 | Rate of angular acceleration sensor A sensor for measuring the rate of angular acceleration of an object around an axis of rotation. The sensor is relatively easy to assemble. The sensor has a fixed coil and a rotating magnet mounted on bearings with a torsion spring providing a restoring t... | 06/25/1991 |
| 5027126 | Beam steering module A beam steering module for rapidly applying control signals to a plurality of digital phase shifters in a phased array antenna system. The module can receive and store a plurality of phase shift commands for a plurality of phase shifters. The commands may... | 06/25/1991 |
| 5027422 | Confirmed boundary pattern matching A method of aligning two images of the same scene by matching features in a first image to features in a second image is disclosed. The method comprises identifying edges of objects in the first image using two different processes. The edges identified us... | 06/25/1991 |
| 5018218 | Confirmed boundary pattern matching A method of aligning two images of the same scene by matching features in a first image to features in a second image is disclosed. The method comprises identifying edges of objects in the first image using two different processes. The edges identified us... | 05/21/1991 |
| 4982165 | Set-on oscillator A fast and inexpensive set-on oscillator is disclosed. According to the invention, the input signal is processed in two paths. In the first path, a coarse estimate of the input frequency is made. In the second path, the input signal is down converted to a... | 01/01/1991 |
| 4980849 | Method and apparatus for autoregressive model simulation An autoregressive model simulator is disclosed. The simulator produces time multiplexed samples of a plurality of signals generated from autoregressive coefficients. The order of the autoregressive model is selected by the configuration of identical integ... | 12/25/1990 |
| 4980659 | Microwave dual level transition A stripline transition between two layers of a multilayer microwave stripline assembly. Two stripline layers are sandwiched between metal plates. The metal plates have formed therein complementary curved transition regions and force a stripline to undergo... | 12/25/1990 |
| 4953001 | Semiconductor device package and packaging method A semiconductor device package is provided to enclose a microstrip transmission line having a ground plane separated from a strip conductor by a dielectric and a semiconductor device having an electrode contact thereof bonded to the strip conductor by a c... | 08/28/1990 |
| 4947181 | Asymmetrical biconical horn antenna An improved biconical horn antenna having a broad azimuthal beamwidth and an asymmetrical elevation beam pattern. The antenna comprises two conical sections mounted against a grounded backplane with the tapered ends of the sections facing each other. The ... | 08/07/1990 |
| 4938434 | Restraining mechanism A restraining mechanism for a gimbal in a gyroscopically-stabilized seeker in a cannon-launched projectile is shown to consist of a movable latch, so shaped and disposed that relative longitudinal motion between the gimbal and the body of such projectile ... | 07/03/1990 |
| 4936928 | Semiconductor device A semiconductor structure is provided comprising a bulk substrate of semiconductor material having a first-type doping conductivity in a first dopant concentration. A first layer of semiconductor material is epitaxially formed on the substrate, such first... | 06/26/1990 |
| 4933295 | Method of forming a bipolar transistor having closely spaced device regions A method of forming a bipolar transistor comprising the steps of forming a base region in a semiconductor structure and disposing an emitter region on a surface of a first portion of the base region, the emitter region having upper and side surfaces. An a... | 06/12/1990 |
| 4922077 | Method of laser marking metal packages A method of marking metal packages using a laser. The power in the laser beam is set to a predetermined value. The laser is then controlled in a four pass process with the Q-switching frequency of the laser, the speed at which the laser beam is moved acro... | 05/01/1990 |
| 4902984 | Differential amplifier An improved differential amplifier having circuitry to enhance the slew rate and to provide a means for nulling the offset voltage during fabrication of the amplifier as an integrated circuit. The differential amplifier comprises an input stage connected ... | 02/20/1990 |
| 4901362 | Method of recognizing patterns A method of identifying an object from a digitized image is disclosed. One embodiment of the method is particularly applicable to the classification of ships and a second embodiment is particularly applicable to the classification of aircraft. The digitiz... | 02/13/1990 |
| 4898341 | Method of guiding missiles A method of guiding a missle during the terminal phase of an intercept. Images, successively formed as the missile approaches the target areas, are represented by a set of vectors. As the missile approaches the target, the image of the target appears to g... | 02/06/1990 |
| 4891778 | Discrete coherent chirp generator A discrete coherent chirp generator capable of generating a plurality of coherent sinusoidal signals. The chirp generator comprises a programmable read only memory containing samples of one period of a sine wave. Additional circuitry generates addresses t... | 01/02/1990 |
| 4887304 | Library image optimization A process is disclosed for forming reference images useful in object identification processes where an image of an unknown object is compared to each image in a library of reference images. The disclosed process forms the reference image by combining a pl... | 12/12/1989 |
| 4881079 | Aperture radar An improved radar is disclosed wherein an array of digital numbers describing a target area is produced. The numbers have values representing differences in ranges between the radar and reflecting points in an area on the ground illuminated by the radar. ... | 11/14/1989 |
