...that to encourage use of his new invention, the shopping cart, market owner Sylvan Goldman hired fake shoppers to push the carts around his store in Oklahoma City? Seems his customers were reluctant to give up their hand-carried baskets.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4156240 | System for providing angular deviation data for locating a transmitter Disclosed is a system for locating a transmitter arranged for transmitting frequency-modulated signals. The system supplies data about the angular deviation between the direction of the transmitter considered from a reference point and a reference axis pa... | 05/22/1979 |
| 4150378 | Height finding radar A height finding arrangement for a range/azimuth surveillance radar using a mechanically rotated planar antenna array. The received outputs from the array are combined with suitable weighting functions to give two sectorial pattern signals whose effective... | 04/17/1979 |
| 3943514 | Dual base line interferometer antenna A radar system for determining the position of a target using a radio frency source of opportunity. The system uses an interferometer antenna and cross-correlation techniques to measure the time delay in receiving a reflected signal from the target as co... | 03/09/1976 |
| 3942177 | Interferometer radar elevation angle measurement apparatus In the measurement of the phase difference (proportional to the elevation angle of a target) provided by the radar target signals that are received by each antenna of an antenna array, a comparison of the responses of the signal processing circuitry to th... | 03/02/1976 |