Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| D627172 | Child's chair | 11/16/2010 |
| 7828181 | Universal pill splitter and method of use A universal pill splitter as an upper pill splitter body with a cutting blade affixed to a lower side of the upper body and a lower body rotating affixed to the upper body, with two pill stops affixed to the upper side of the lower body, with a slide slidingly affix... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7822819 | System and method for controlling and organizing email The current invention includes a client computer and an Email server 6, in which the client computer contains an Email client 12 having a physical Email address. A Client Control Program resides on the client computer. An Alias Email Server 100 ... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7662518 | Shutdown separators with improved properties A microporous polyolefin battery separator membrane is extremely high in porosity, high in puncture strength, very low in shrinkage and with shutdown temperature of 130-140 degrees C. and melt integrity greater than 165 degrees C. It consists of 20-30% by weight of ... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7637930 | Medical device and method for treating skin disease Methods and systems for treating skin disease are disclosed. Heat is applied at a controlled temperature, for a predetermined period of time, to a skin lesion associated with a skin disease according to embodiments. The temperature used, according to embodiments, is... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7606992 | High performance data rate system for flash devices A Flash memory system includes N flash devices, where N is an integer, each flash device having a flash device interface consisting of a control signal line, a R/B signal line, and a I/O signal line, and wherein each flash device has an operating speed of s. A logic... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7605666 | High frequency digital oscillator-on-demand with synchronization A High Frequency Digital Oscillator contains a ring oscillator having an output fn, and having coarse and fine frequency adjustments, wherein the input signal f1 is the input to both the ring oscillator and the High-Frequency Digital Oscillator, which has a m... | 10/20/2009 |
| D600512 | Pumpkin Scraper | 09/22/2009 |
| 7563649 | Chip packaging with metal frame pin grid array A packaging technology for silicon chips is similar to ball grid array packaging technology of the prior art without, however, the use of printed board substrate of the prior art Instead pins are used that are part of a planar frame, the pins folded to a position 90... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7561651 | Synchronization of a data output signal to a clock input A method for synchronizing an output signal of a device phase aligned with an input clock includes the steps of providing an oscillator signal having a period Πn of 1/(f1*2n), wherein f1 is the clock frequency, and wherein the oscillator si... | 07/14/2009 |
| 6918350 | Sea-based hydrogen-oxygen generation system A method for generation of hydrogen and oxygen contained in a salt solution provides for the disposing a number of wind turbines on navigable collection vessels in waters distant from shore. The wind turbines have a large number of blades, typically 30, to provide h... | 07/19/2005 |
| 7539024 | Active dual in line memory module connector with re-driven propagated signals An Active edge connector for memory modules has a base including two PCB sides and a spacer separating the sides, with driver chips mounted on each side of each side, printed wiring electrically connecting a first set of electrical signals from each of the driver ch... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7516746 | Status indicator A status indicator for a dishwasher that has a front-loading door and an upper basket having a wire frame within the dishwasher is made up of a body and a hook, where the hook is rotatingly affixed to the wire frame of the upper basket in one of two positions, the f... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7498887 | High frequency digital oscillator-on-demand with synchronization A High Frequency Digital Oscillator contains a ring oscillator having an output fn, and having coarse and fine frequency adjustments, wherein the input signal f1 is the input to both the ring oscillator and the High-Frequency Digital Oscillator, which has a m... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7354156 | Naturoptic method for restoring healthy vision A method for restoring healthy vision includes first establishing a visual target, then having the subject keep horizontal and vertical lines, through the center of the plane of the target, respectively parallel to corresponding horizontal and vertical lines through... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7344267 | Illuminated toy balloon An apparatus for illuminating the interior of a balloon includes a cylindrical plug with an integrally-formed radially extending integral flange insertable within the balloon neck. A light element is affixed to the plug and disposed within the neck. A battery is ele... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7323274 | Shutdown separators with improved properties A microporous polyolefin battery separator membrane is extremely high in porosity, high in puncture strength, very low in shrinkage and with shutdown temperature of 130-140 degrees C. and melt integrity greater than 165 degrees C. It is made of UHMWPE having a weigh... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7323273 | Shutdown separators with improved properties A microporous polyolefin battery separator membrane is extremely high in porosity, high in puncture strength, very low in shrinkage and with shutdown temperature of 130-140 degrees C. and melt integrity greater than 165 degrees C. It is made of UHMWPE having a weigh... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7275491 | Sail furling system with recirculating halyard A sail furler with a recirculating halyard includes a foil having a longitudinal halyard channel and a longitudinal recirculating halyard channel formed within; and a halyard, having a first and second end, the halyard affixed at its first end to a slider, the slide... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7275671 | Pill splitter with rotating bed A pill splitter splits a pill in quarters along a major axis and a minor axis The pill splitter has a lower body, and an upper body, integrally affixed to the lower body. A rotating bed receptacle is rotatingly affixed in the pill splitter, and contains a bed substa... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7243108 | Database component packet manager A component packet manager for a computer-based database processing system containing a database consists of a number of other components, including one or more user applications and an application interface which communicates data to and from each user application.... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7228812 | Sea-based hydrogen-oxygen generation system A method for generation of gasses contained in a salt solution in accomplished by disposing automated, floating wave power collection vessels in waters distant from shore, the vessels navigating within one or more predetermined geographic zones, having suitable wave... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7205789 | Termination arrangement for high speed data rate multi-drop data bit connections A circuit for terminating devices attached to a signal line and driving a load includes a resistor R1 in series with the signal line circuit CR1 having a resistor in series with a switch wherein CR1 is in parallel with R1, a circuit CR... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7193444 | High speed data bit latch circuit A latching circuit having a clock signal input and a data input, includes an inverting delay circuit having an input connected to DATA IN and having an output signal s1, a NAND circuit having a first input connected to signal s1, a second input connect... | 03/20/2007 |
| D536933 | Angled bottle rest | 02/20/2007 |
| 7162688 | Method for automated generation and assembly of specifications documents in CADD environments A method for automating the production of corroborative Textual Documentation for CADD-based Design and Engineering disciplines includes a computer-based system with Linking Software. The generation of CADD drawings creates an electronic database of unique graphical... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7108909 | Stretchable thermoplastic labels on cryogenic containers A method for cryogenic specimen identification employs marking a stretchable pressure-sensitive vinyl label, and placing it on a storage vial or other container that can withstand a temperature of approximately −80 degrees C. or lower, preferably contact with the ... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7104864 | Blocks and building system for the construction of lifesize inflatable play structures A system for the construction of life size play structures includes a multiplicity of inflatable building blocks, each being a member of a finite set of different multi-sided block types. Each such type is a cylinder having the cross section of a regular polyhedron,... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7096812 | Aerodynamic headstay foil A foil for the headsail of a sailboat for use with a headstay has an aerodynamic shape. It includes a headstay channel for containing the headstay, which may be snapped into place in the channel. The foil has a first and second sidewall, a forward wall, and two or m... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7054906 | System and method for controlling and organizing Email The method resides on a standard email system including a client computer that contains a physical email address and an email server. A client control program, which resides on the client computer and an alias email server, which communicates with the client over th... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7037471 | Disposable paper weighing dishes A disposable paper weighing dish that is configured and arranged to hold a substance during weighing. The weighing dish includes at least one sheet of paper with at least one surface that is lubricious and substantially impermeable to finely powdered dry chemicals. ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7017836 | Rotary atomizer coating distribution apparatus A feed system for a rotary coating atomizer formed from two opposed coaxially mounted rotating atomizer assemblies consists of a cylindrical, hollow distributor mounted coaxially between the atomizer assemblies. The distributor contains one or more distributor feed ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7011009 | Magnetically aligned hole punch A punching device for punching paper and like sheet material contains an upper frame, a cooperating upper magnetic base supporting the upper frame, and a punch rod slideably disposed within the upper frame, and passing through a clearance hole formed in the upper ma... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7000674 | Toy storage curtain with toy pouches A toy storage curtain contains a toy-storage pocket affixed to the lower end of a curtain panel, and further includes a tieback which supports a tieback pouch which also is used to store toys. Soft, light toys, such as stuffed animals, are the best candidates for st... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6993708 | System for automated generation and assembly of specifications documents in CADD environments A method for automating the production of corroborative Textual Documentation (‘Specifications Documents’) for CADD-based Design and Engineering disciplines includes a computer-based system with Linking Software. The generation of CADD drawings by its nature cre... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6980931 | System and method for controlling computer processes by means of biometric data A signal isolation system includes an aeroisolator to couple output signals to an electronic device. The aeroisolator is made from two commercial miniature earphones, each having a ferro-magnetic diaphragm activated by a voice coil in proximity to a permanent magnet... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6968987 | Quartering pill splitter A quartering pill splitter includes a bed having a recess formed within, the recess having a cross section which substantially conforms to the pill shape. A thin, cruciate cutting blade assembly is disposed below the pill bed, so that the pill, when inserted into th... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6949315 | Shutdown separators with improved properties A microporous polyolefin battery separator membrane is extremely high in porosity, high in puncture strength, very low in shrinkage and with shutdown temperature of 130–140 degrees C. and melt integrity greater than 165 degrees C. It is made of UHMWPE having a wei... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6944568 | System and method for providing secure testing aids A method for testing utilizing a handheld computer having software which includes a launcher and a multiplicity of previous applications includes the steps exchanging the contents of the internal flash-ROM memory for the contents of an external memory module which c... | 09/13/2005 |
