Famous Patents
In 1608, Dutch eyeglass maker Hans Lipperhey filed the first patent for a working telescope. The patent was denied.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7949781 | Flow routing for reducing internet congestion For reducing Internet congestion caused by multiple flows of the same popular content transmitted to different destinations, a single flow of content is transmitted from the content hosting server to an Internet regional domain using a conventional exterior routing ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7882054 | System for estimating audience size in a digital broadcast environment using control packets and predictions For digital media, audience evaluation is performed as a result of transmitter-receiver interaction similar to a lottery game. The transmitter provides receivers with a preliminary audience estimate and a “winning” number, both placed in control packets multiple... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7794377 | Push-up press A push-up device has at least one tubular element, a spring means located inside the tubular element and providing a spring resistance, and a handle associated with the tubular element and a movable by a user against the spring resistance applied by the spring to pr... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7720351 | Preservation and improvement of television advertising in digital environment A system for protecting commercials included in a digitally distributed and recorded video that minimizes user's inconveniences resulting from restrictions imposed on playback of the video. The video is encrypted at the distributor side and playback of the encrypted... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7590245 | Anonymous communicating over interconnected networks A method and system for concealing from an outside observer the source and destination of information transmitted over computer network. Two types of data packets are defined: content packets that are carrying application data, i.e. real information, and announcemen... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7356751 | Error handling and audience measurement in datacast network with return channel A data broadcast network with a return channel providing a guaranteed error-free data delivery simultaneously to multiple receiving devices. The network transmits data in packets and uses the return channel for audience measurement and packets recovery. Whenever a c... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7092999 | Data broadcast network for congestion-free internet access The invention is an Internet access system that puts together interactivity of the Internet and congestion-free content delivery inherent in broadcast media in order to reduce delays in content presentation. The system delivers any web object (web page, music file, ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7077049 | Active protection system A system of active protection system of objects has a central control panel, and at least one unit arrangeable on a protected object and including a target detection device, a protective ammunition connected with the target detection device, a device for moving the ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 6965913 | System for pseudo-interactive internet access The invention is an Internet access system reducing Internet traffic and delays in content presentation. It puts together interactivity of the Internet and congestion-free content delivery inherent in broadcast radio and television. An access server located at a bro... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6780383 | System for sterilization of spaces and surfaces A system of sterilization of spaces and surfaces which includes a container having a plurality of walls which jointly define an inner chamber, a cover connected with the container turnably between an open position in which the inner chamber of the container is open ... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6418776 | Method and apparatus for measuring friction and wear characteristics of materials A universal friction tester for testing tribological properties of materials comprises a frame with a carriage sliding in vertical guides and supporting a slide moveable in a horizontal direction. The slide supports a stationary upper specimen, which enga... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6363798 | Method and device for measuring forces The device of the invention is intended for measuring a loading force and a friction force in a tribological tester. The device consists of two deformation-sensitive sensors for simultaneous equal deformation in two opposite directions for eliminating mis... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6257953 | Method and apparatus for controlled polishing An apparatus for controlling a polishing process, in particular for detecting an end point of the polishing process, comprising a rotating platen with a pad, a rotating head that supports an object to be treated, e.g., a semiconductor wafer, and performs ... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6114466 | Material for purification of physiological liquids of organism Purification of physiological liquids of organism is performed by passing a physiological liquid with toxicants removed from a patient through a material which has a size a shape, and a structure selected so as to remove toxic compounds in the molecular r... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6103968 | Thermal generator and method of producing same A method of producing a thermal generator has the steps of forming two working branches including a negative branch and a positive branch, so that at least one of the branches is composed of a non-porous semiconductor material, subdividing the one branch ... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6095069 | Double-thread chain-stitch sewing machine A double thread chain-stitch sewing machine with a platform containing a needle, a needle plate with a slot, a pressing leg, a looper and a toothed rack for transporting a material, characterized in that it additionally has autonomous disk-shaped cam thre... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6039134 | Motor vehicle A motor vehicle comprising a first vehicle having a vehicle body defining a first inner space and a first drive for driving the first vehicle, and a second vehicle having a second vehicle body defining a second inner space and having a second drive for dr... | 03/21/2000 |
| 6032790 | Device for holding coins A device for holding a plurality of coins has outer sheets including at least one outer layer composed of transparent material, an intermediate layer arranged between the two outer sheets provided with a plurality of throughgoing openings for insertion of... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6021539 | Washing device A hand-held washing device has a housing, a rotor rotatable in the housing, a washing tool attached to the rotator and rotatable therewith, a holder connected with the housing, and a handle telescopably connected with the holder.... | 02/08/2000 |
| 6019942 | Method of maintaining the corrosion resistance of a steel circulation system with a lead-containing coolant The method is to develop an anticorrosive cover out of oxides of structural steel components on a circuit internal surface in which in the course of the circuit operation, the oxygen concentration, which is dissolved in the coolant, is maintained not lowe... | 02/01/2000 |
| 6016922 | Rotating lumber sorting device A rotating lumber sorting device has a rotatable transfer element provided on its periphery with a plurality of receptacles which are spaced from one another in a peripheral direction and have different widths substantially corresponding to different thic... | 01/25/2000 |
| 6006537 | Method of cooling air A method of air cooling supplied from atmosphere has the steps of subdividing an airstream into a first airstream portion and the second airstream portion, compressing the first airstream portion by compression waves to a required pressure, compressing th... | 12/28/1999 |
| 6007021 | Flying apparatus for a vertical take off and landing A flying apparatus has a body; power means; and lifting force generating units, the lifting force generating units being arranged parallel to a plane of symmetry of the body and turnable in a vertical plane, each of the lifting force generating units is f... | 12/28/1999 |
| 6004212 | Sports device for imitating weapon fight A sport device imitating weapon fight has two elongated elements which are connected with one another to form a substantially right angle therebetween, one of the elongated elements being formed to be held by a user, the other of the elongated elements be... | 12/21/1999 |
| 6002208 | Universal cold-cathode type ion source with closed-loop electron drifting and adjustable ion-emitting slit A universal cold-cathode type ion source with a closed-loop electron drifting source and with an ion-beam propagation direction perpendicular to the plane of electron drifting is intended for uniformly treating stationary or moveable objects with such pro... | 12/14/1999 |
| 6002838 | Device for storing and discharging of viscous liquid A device for storing and discharging a viscous liquid has a unit forming a storage chamber for storing a viscous liquid, a unit forming at least one mixing chamber which communicates with the storage chamber, and a unit for heating the viscous liquid in t... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5998007 | Multidirectionally stretch-crazed microencapsulated polymer film and a method of manufacturing thereof A multidirectionally stretch-crazed microencapsulated polymer film having a matrix material and microcapsules which are formed in the matrix material in the form of crazes which are filled with an encapsulated substance (30, 30a) and oriented at least in ... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5998984 | Method and apparatus to test electric circuits In order to place contour portions of an electric circuit, a local scanning curl electric shield acts on the electric circuit so as to induce an electromotive force on the electric circuit, an electric circuit is connected with a light source emitting lig... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5992119 | Construction block, and a structure provided with the same A structural block has a body which is yieldable in a transverse direction; and a plurality of reinforcing elements provided on the body and extending in a vertical direction, so that loads applied in a vertical direction are adequately taken by said rein... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5979718 | Device for spillage prevention during pouring wine and the like A device for preventing spillage of wine, liquor, etc. during their pouring from a bottle and the like, the device has a springy element which is movable between a substantially flat inoperative position and a wound operative position so that in the wound... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5974941 | Semi-automatic revolver An automatic revolver has a body, a barrel arranged in the body and having an inner passage provided with a thread-like formation, an ammunition-containing element from which a bullet is displaced into the barrel, the barrel being turnable relative to the... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5976730 | Electrical energy generation An electrical battery has a negative electrode, a positive electrode, an electrolyte including a sulfuric acid solution, a positive active mass, and a cuvette disposed horizontally and composed of a material which does not interact with the sulfuric acid ... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5967234 | Method of and device for production of hydrocarbons During a production of hydrocarbons a method and a device are used for producing a flow of hydrocarbon-containing formation fluid from a formation at a bottomhole of a well, automatically maintaining a pressure of the formation fluid at the bottomhole of ... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5956887 | Blade, and spinner type lure provided therewith A spinner blade for in-line fishing spinner type lures a blade body having a head end with a dull, elliptical-shape and a tail end which is pointed on plan view, a single opening provided in the region of the head end for a wire shaft, a groove extending ... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5959402 | Flexible electroluminescent light source An electroluminescent light source has a core member and a pair of transparent band structures between which the core member is sandwiched and which in an assembled state form a transparent sheath. The core is formed by a plurality of elongated electrodes... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5943970 | Method and equipment for thermal destruction of wastes The method and equipment are proposed for wastes thermal destruction on the surface of a bath of melted metal and slag with a heating in plasma jets and the off-gas bubbling through a bath of melted slag, including a plasma hose generated in waste introdu... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5938706 | Multi element security system A multi element security system for a vehicle and the like has a central processing unit for storing driver's fingerprint data and driver's image data, Fingerprints Entry a unit and photo image entry a unit connected with the central processing unit so th... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5928187 | Device for oxygen prophylaxis and treatment of gum diseases A device for oxygen prophylaxis and treatment has a barochamber formed as a body having at least one groove for receiving a part of a gum and teeth in the gum in the groove in a sealed manner, and passage a unit for supplying oxygen from an oxygen source ... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5921448 | Paint container lid A lid for a paint container has a body having a peripheral region engageable with an edge of the container so that the body can be mounted on the container, and a central region provided with a slot and formed so that under the action of a weight of a pai... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5921515 | Holding device A holding device for holding objects has a substantially cupshaped housing having an open side, an elastic element connected with the housing and closing the open side, at least one projection extending from the elastic element inwardly of the housing, a ... | 07/13/1999 |
