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Decorative Jeweled Wheel Cover
An improved wheel is provided wherein decorative items such as gem stones are embedded in either the wheel surface, a special mounting section attached to the wheel surface, or to a spoke strap that wraps around each spoke and positions embedded gem stones on the outside surface of the spoke.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6612379 | Multi-purpose gardening tool The present invention is directed to a multi-purpose gardening tool. In one preferred embodiment, the tool includes an arcuate central base. Extending from one end of the base is an arcuate scoop adapted to dig into, scoop up and transport a quantity of m... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6615216 | Lock free data structure maintenance Method and apparatus for maintaining a queue structure having data nodes within a computer memory. The queue is maintained by the steps of maintaining a pool of available data nodes for use in maintaining the queue structure. Data is added to the queue st... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6604288 | Rotary knife A rotary knife having a handle having a head section, a blade housing that comprises a split, ring-like member supported by the head section and defining a circumferentially extending groove, an annular blade supported in the blade housing groove for rota... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6597003 | Tunable radiation source providing a VUV wavelength planar illumination pattern for processing semiconductor wafers A radiation source constructed in accordance with the invention is particularly suited for use in processing semiconductor wafers. An exemplary embodiment of the invention includes a base electrode having a two dimensional surface bounding one side of a r... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6591440 | Brushroll with rotatably mounted end assembly A vacuum cleaner brushroll having skirted, one piece plastic ferrules inserted into the ends of a tufted, wood spindle so that the ferrule skirts embrace the spindle end portions to prevent the ferrules from loosening upon expansion of the spindle due to ... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6585996 | Lipid-soluble thiamine derivatives in the treatment of autism The present invention is directed to a method for the treatment of autism comprising administering to a person in need of such treatment a therapeutically effective amount of a lipid-soluble thiamine derivative. The lipid-soluble thiamine derivative is pr... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6574823 | Brushroll A vacuum cleaner brushroll having angled tuft patterns effective to increase cleanability performance of the vacuum. The brushroll comprises a spindle and at least two patterns of bristled tufts. The patterns may be helical shaped rows. The rows may defin... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6567936 | Data clustering using error-tolerant frequent item sets A generalization of frequent item sets to error-tolerant frequent item sets (ETF) is disclosed, together with its application in data clustering using error-tolerant frequent item sets to either build clusters or as an initialization technique for standar... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6558026 | Lamp masking method and apparatus A motor vehicle lamp assembly having a lamp bulb for emitting light and a bulb housing having a light transmissive portion for transmitting light from the lamp bulb to an illumination zone. The housing is coated with a coating material which covers a sele... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6550100 | Caster assembly with multi-position support pieces The present invention is directed to a caster assembly for supporting an object. The caster assembly includes a caster, a caster axle and a pair of support pieces, at least one of the support pieces being rotatably mounted on the caster axle. The support ... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6550943 | Lamp masking method and apparatus A motor vehicle lamp assembly having a lamp bulb for emitting light and a bulb housing having a light transmissive portion for transmitting light from the lamp bulb to an illumination zone. The housing is coated with a coating material which covers a sele... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6526405 | Determining similarity between event types in sequences Determining a degree of relative similarity between event types in event sequences by examining the context of the event types facilitates similarity analysis of large sets of event sequences. A method for determining the similarity between event types in... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6518533 | High strength steel tubing High strength steel tube is made from a full hard, cold rolled steel sheet having a chemistry compliant to S.A.E. J 403 grade 1026. The high strength of the tube is a result of specified thermal-mechanical processing of hot rolled sheet followed by contro... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6513029 | Interesting table-subset selection for database workload materialized view selection An index and materialized view selection wizard produces a fast and reasonable recommendation for a configuration of indexes, materialized views, and indexes on materialized views which are beneficial given a specified workload for a given database and da... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6497391 | Personal computer keyboard and mouse support having moveable mouse extension A keyboard and mouse support includes a keyboard support body and a mouse support. The keyboard support body includes a throughpassage that passes through the support body and opens on opposite sides of the support body. The keyboard support body also def... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6490582 | Iterative validation and sampling-based clustering using error-tolerant frequent item sets Iterative validation for efficiently determining error-tolerant frequent itemsets is disclosed. A description of the application of error-tolerant frequent itemsets to efficiently determining clusters as well as initializing clustering algorithms are also... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6460045 | Self-tuning histogram and database modeling Building histograms by using feedback information about the execution of query workload rather than by examining the data helps reduce the cost of building and maintaining histograms. A method of maintaining self-tuning histograms updates histograms based... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6449612 | Varying cluster number in a scalable clustering system for use with large databases In one exemplary embodiment the invention provides a data mining system for use in finding cluster of data items in a database or any other data storage medium. A portion of the data in the database is read from a storage medium and brought into a rapid a... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6388659 | Interactive display user interface computer and method A hand-held portable computer is disclosed. The computer includes a housing at least partially enclosing computer electronics, a visible display screen supported by the computer housing and a handle assembly connected to the computer housing. The handle a... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6388668 | Functional animation including sprite tree generator and interpreter The invention provides a device for converting data types corresponding to functional animations into a form that is amenable to fast renderings of the animation by using of a presentation library. It therefore bridges a gap between the high level flexibi... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6382959 | Burner with air flow adjustment A burner includes a motor driven blower, an air tube having an inlet end portion and an outlet end portion, a housing forming an air flow path between the blower and the air tube, a nozzle for spraying liquid fuel or orifice for dispersing gas toward the ... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6374251 | Scalable system for clustering of large databases A data mining system for use in finding clusters of data items in a database or any other data storage medium. The clusters are used in categorizing the data in the database into K different clusters within each of M models. An initial set of estimates (o... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6367156 | Blades for hand held power operated shears A hand-held power-operated blade-actuating or other work member actuating device, especially useful as shears for processing comestible products such as fowl. A servo mechanism and linkage connected with a movable blade and a finger control causes control... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6366903 | Index and materialized view selection for a given workload An index and materialized view selection wizard produces a fast and reasonable recommendation of indexes and materialized views which are beneficial given a specified workload for a given database and database server. Candidate materialized views and inde... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363371 | Identifying essential statistics for query optimization for databases An essential statistics identification utility tool attempts to reduce or minimize the overhead associated with statistics by identifying from an initial set of statistics a set of essential statistics that provide a query optimizer with the ability to ch... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6356891 | Identifying indexes on materialized views for database workload An index and materialized view selection wizard produces a fast and reasonable recommendation for a configuration of indexes, materialized views, and indexes on materialized views which are beneficial given a specified workload for a given database and da... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6356890 | Merging materialized view pairs for database workload materialized view selection An index and materialized view selection wizard produces a fast and reasonable recommendation for a configuration of indexes, materialized views, and indexes on materialized views which are beneficial given a specified workload for a given database and da... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6311715 | Stacked rupture disk assembly A stacked rupture disk assembly of the present invention is adapted to be positioned between flanges in a vent pipe or pressure relief port of a pressure vessel. The stacked rupture disk assembly includes a first rupture disk assembly and a second rupture... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6283619 | Lighting fixture assembly having locking arm components A light fixture assembly having at least one arm that can be preassembled wherein the arm can be adjustably positioned to minimize packaging volume, and during installation, the arm can be adjustably positioned to lockingly engage a predetermined alignmen... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6278989 | Histogram construction using adaptive random sampling with cross-validation for database systems Using adaptive random sampling with cross-validation helps determine when enough data of a database has been sampled to construct histograms on one or more columns of one or more tables of the database within a desired or predetermined degree of accuracy.... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6268840 | Unipolar waveform drive method and apparatus for a bistable liquid crystal display A flat-panel liquid crystal display having unipolar drive circuitry. The display includes a flat sheet of bistable chiral nematic liquid crystal material activated by a drive circuit that individually controls the display state of multiple picture element... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6266658 | Index tuner for given workload An index tuning wizard produces a fast and reasonable recommendation identifying database indexes to use given a specified workload. A query optimizer is used to determine the expected usefulness of potential indexes for the specified workload by taking c... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6266045 | Interactive display user interface computer and method A hand-held portable computer is disclosed. The computer includes a housing at least partially enclosing computer electronics, a visible display screen supported by the computer housing and a handle assembly connected to the computer housing. The handle a... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6263337 | Scalable system for expectation maximization clustering of large databases In one exemplary embodiment the invention provides a data mining system for use in finding clusters of data items in a database or any other data storage medium. Before the data evaluation begins a choice is made of the number M of models to be explored, ... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6263334 | Density-based indexing method for efficient execution of high dimensional nearest-neighbor queries on large databases Method and apparatus for efficiently performing nearest neighbor queries on a database of records wherein each record has a large number of attributes by automatically extracting a multidimensional index from the data. The method is based on first obtaini... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6247827 | Floatable lighting assembly An improved floatable lighting assembly includes a base with a central concave wall that can face a liquid surface and a peripheral portion extending around the concave wall. A shell is constructed so as to extend from the peripheral portion to form a cha... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6223171 | What-if index analysis utility for database systems What-if index analysis utility provides the ability to analyze the performance of the existing configuration of a database system with respect to one or more workloads of queries and to propose a hypothetical configuration for the database system to analy... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6222196 | Rotatable workpiece support including cyclindrical workpiece support surfaces for an ion beam implanter In accordance with the present invention, an ion implanter including a rotatable support disposed in an implantation chamber of an ion beam implanter for supporting a plurality of wafer workpieces. The rotatable support includes a hub adapted to be rotate... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6215475 | Highly integrated portable electronic work slate unit A portable electronic work slate unit includes a customizable array of data devices and input/output devices which are selectively integrated in a compact and highly ergonomic structure. Increased operator productivity is accomplished by use of several po... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6212526 | Method for apparatus for efficient mining of classification models from databases Method and apparatus for the construction of a classification model (for example a decision tree) from data in a large database. The database is stored in the form of data records on a storage medium for access by a computer. The computer executes a softw... | 04/03/2001 |
