"What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck? I pray you, excuse me, I have not the time to listen to such nonsense."
Napoleon Bonaparte ; When told of the Robert Fulton steamboat
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8117034 | Synchronise an audio cursor and a text cursor during editing A speech recognition device (1) processes speech data (SD) of a dictation and thus establishes recognized text information (ETI) and link information (LI) of the dictation. In a synchronous playback mode of the speech recognition device (1), during the... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8025082 | Powder dispenser modules and powder dispensing methods Powder dispensing and sensing apparatus and methods are provided. The powder dispensing and sensing apparatus includes a tray support structure to receive a cartridge tray holding cartridges, a powder dispenser assembly including powder dispenser modules to dispense... | 09/27/2011 |
| D602090 | Clipboard | 10/13/2009 |
| 7521051 | Methods of upmodulating adaptive immune response using anti-PD-1 antibodies This disclosure provides antibodies and antigen-binding fragments that can act as agonists and/or antagonists of PD-1 (Programmed Death 1), thereby modulating immune responses in general, and those mediated by TcR and CD28, in particular. The disclosed compositions ... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7428297 | Methods and apparatus for e-beam scanning In one aspect, an x-ray scanning device is provided. The x-ray scanning device comprises a target adapted to convert electron-beam (e-beam) energy into x-ray energy, a detector array positioned to detect at least some x-rays emitted from the target, and a conveyer m... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7166870 | Light emitting devices with improved extraction efficiency Light-emitting devices, and related components, systems and methods are disclosed. ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 6882620 | Token exchange system with fault protection According to one embodiment, a system for controlling passing of a token among a plurality of clients that access a shared resource includes at least one controller. The at least one controller is configured to cause the token to be passed to each of the plurality o... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6859958 | Crib and playpen protective enclosure An enclosure for a crib or playpen includes a dome-shaped top and a box-shaped bottom structure completely enclosing the interior of a crib or playpen. The enclosure includes a flap in the dome-shaped top to allowing a parent or guardian to easily place a child in o... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6750385 | Stringed musical instrument An assembly (10) for a stringed musical instrument, the assembly (10) including an elongate neck (11) to which one end of a string arrangement (41) of the instrument can be anchored and a structural member (17) depending from the n... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6718286 | Non-intrusive application code profiling method and apparatus System and method for monitoring a processor when it executes software code for a computer program. A register collects information regarding instructions executed by the processor, from the program counter; and a sampler, operatively connected to the register, asyn... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6522249 | Two wire output/power mechanism for remote devices An interface that provides selected information from a remote device to a utilization mechanism over a two-wire connection, wherein all power for the interface and the remote device is received from the utilization mechanism over the same two-wire connect... | 02/18/2003 |