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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8137109 | Interactive oral care implement system An oral care implement has a user-interactive display that displays images representing oral care regions of the mouth. The user can interact with the display by playing a game, which can relate to oral care. An oral care implement has a plurality of lighted segment... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8075315 | Oral care implement having user-interactive display An oral care implement has an interactive display that displays images representing oral care regions of the mouth. The user can interact with the display by playing a game, which can relate to oral care. An oral care implement has a plurality of lighted segments th... | 12/13/2011 |
| 7379964 | Method of facilitating medical consultations A method for a first healthcare provider to consult a second healthcare provider regarding at least one of diagnosis of a patient and treatment of a patient includes the first healthcare provider submitting a request for consultation on a machine, and the second hea... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7365646 | Children's potty alarm A children's potty alarm is disclosed. The children's potty alarm includes a base. A simulated bedroom/bathroom setting which may include a dancing bear or other character is provided on the base. A microprocessor is provided in the base. A speaker is connected to t... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7347693 | Apparatus and method for teaching and reinforcing positive behavior A teaching and reinforcing method with a token receiving and article dispensing apparatus that dispenses an article in response to a token being fed into the apparatus. The apparatus includes a feed for feeding articles onto an article rest. A token inlet is located... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7337172 | Intergenerational interactive lifetime journaling/diaryand advice/guidance system An interactive system provides journaling and life coaching. Storage of information, images and the like is provided. Users can request referrals to product and service vendors providing appropriate advice, goods and services as may be desired at specific stages of ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7326059 | Child reward center A motivational apparatus contains a supply of tokens. The apparatus includes a release mechanism for releasing one of the tokens, which may be actuated by a child as a reward for good behavior. After being released, the token is collected in a reservoir. The apparat... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7328119 | Diet and exercise planning and motivation including apparel purchases based on future appearance The disclosed invention relates to methods for assisting and motivating persons with respect to various dietary and exercise regimens they might undertake, providing an interactive, iterative, “what-if” type of procedure where someone can see their predicted app... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7300344 | Video game apparatus, a character training controlling method, and a readable storage medium storing character training control programs A character training control includes setting a character to be trained and its training initial values when a training mode is instructed; obtaining training values to be added to the training initial values of the character by causing the set character to take act... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7287781 | Interactive sports calendar The present invention 10 discloses an interactive sports season team-tracking poster for a sports fan's favorite team. The invention is a calendar-like chart for a sports season displaying a predetermined time period by day 20 having a postable element... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286820 | Handheld electronic device providing an alert when additional user action is required to initiate an outgoing phone call, and associated method A method of facilitating the initiation of an outgoing phone call on a handheld electronic device including receiving a request to initiate the outgoing phone call and determining whether additional user action is required in order to initiate the outgoing phone cal... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7275769 | Organizational system for removably mounting or permanently mounting on a surface The present invention is an organizational system, which includes filing pockets and writing surfaces and is designed to be either removably mounted on a surface using magnets or permanently attached to a surface via nails or tacks or otherwise. The invention allows... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7274942 | System and method for providing information to a portable terminal An information providing system can include a registration terminal having a guidance information registration database which stores information groups, which are correlated with reference position information. When portable terminal position information for specify... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7264476 | Magnetic teaching aid with replaceable name tag A desktop teaching aid which has a body having a top surface and an opposite bottom surface, the bottom surface comprising a magnetic material for securing the body to a desk, the body defining a frame around an aperture, educational information represented on the t... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7264474 | Personality style method In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a plurality of color-coded cards and representing four personality styles and a set of two cards representing the Extraversion-Introversion scale of Carl Jung. On each set of two (2) cards,... | 09/04/2007 |
| RE39791 | Infant simulator An infant simulator capable of emulating the care requirements of an infant and recording the quality of care and responsiveness of a person caring for the infant simulator and/or signaling the person caring for the infant simulator when care is required. The infant... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7255672 | Method of presenting audible and visual cues for synchronizing the breathing cycle with an external timing reference for purposes of synchronizing the heart rate variability cycle with the breathing cycle The invention consists of a broad method of presenting audible and visual cues for synchronizing the breathing cycle with an external timing reference for purposes of synchronizing the heart rate variability cycle with the breathing cycle, thereby achieving coherenc... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7247023 | System and method for monitoring weight and nutrition A website provides a weight and nutritional program over a network. The website allows users to input an assessment of a subject, which can be used to generate a weight plan for the subject. The weight plan can include minimum weights for the subject, each of the mi... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7247025 | Sequential reasoning testing system and method A method for testing a working memory and fluid reasoning of a subject includes the step of sequentially presenting to a subject a first plurality of images, wherein each image is positioned in a different sector of a display device. The first plurality of images to... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7237498 | Method of providing an adorned article and an adorned article made using the method A method of providing an article to meet an actual or anticipated demand including the steps of: providing an article having an exposed surface defined by at least one substrate layer; tack stitching a first adornment layer fixedly to the at least one substrate laye... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7217133 | Method for treating pervasive development disorder A therapy-based method for increasing the communications skills of children diagnosed with Pervasive Development Disorder (“PDD”) through a combination of therapy steps performed in a particular order and for specific amounts of time. The method makes use of int... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7211051 | Reminder system for personal medical sampling or treatment procedures A method for reminding an individual to collect a urine specimen includes the steps of providing a pad or clip having a reminder area of a size such that the individual touches and discovers the pad, when preparing to urinate, and attaching the pad to the brief in t... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7196619 | Habit cessation aide A habit cessation aide includes a user-modifiable quitting schedule, a user-initiated habit-occurrence indicator, a display for displaying messages dependent upon the quitting schedule and the number of times the user-initiated habit-occurrence indicator is used, an... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7192061 | Birthday calendar The birthday calendar is a dual monthly calendar and twelve-month chart. The calendar is perpetual in that it is not designated for any particular year or month. The monthly calendar is made of a dry-erase board displaying a month grid that is filled in with erasabl... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7192628 | Magnetically interactive substrates A substrate is printed with areas of magnetizable ink. The magnetizable ink is compressed into the surface of the substrate, and overprinted to hide it. Suitable inks for the purpose are disclosed. The ink may be permanently magnetized in any of a variety of pattern... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7182601 | Interactive toy and methods for exploring emotional experience An educational, interactive toy that symbolically represents emotions through visual, kinesthetic, and linguistic means. The toy includes a plurality of playpieces. Each playpiece is generally symbolic of a particular emotion, e.g., love, happy, sad, mad, and scared... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7153138 | Health management cuff A cuff (10, 110, 210, 310) for a health managing system includes a strand (14, 114, 214, 314) having first (16, 116, 216, 316) and second (18, 118, 218, 318) strand sections interconnected to define a loop (128, 228, 328). A plural... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7137820 | Potty training cabinet A cabinet is used for potty training. The cabinet is comprised of several doors behind which are compartments. The compartments are made to contain candy. A recorded message congratulates a child when a button is pushed, and directs the child to open one door to rec... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7130864 | Method and system for accessing a collection of images in a database A method and system are disclosed for accessing a collection of images in a database. In accordance with exemplary embodiments of the present invention, each of the images is sorted into one of a plurality of time-based clusters. A weighted quality metric is used to... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7093857 | Birthday calendar The birthday calendar is a dual monthly calendar and twelve-month chart. The calendar is perpetual in that it is not designated for any particular time period. The monthly calendar displays a month, either from a single use calendar or by filling in a month grid dis... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7050816 | System and method for providing information to a portable terminal An information providing system can include a registration terminal having a guidance information registration database which stores information groups, which are correlated with reference position information. When portable terminal position information for specify... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7044740 | Educational game for reinforcing rules of etiquette An educational game to reinforce the rules of etiquette is described. A marker is passed between players when a player catches another player in a violation of the announced rules of etiquette. The player having the marker at the end of the game is subject to a sanc... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7033180 | Education set and work model, training method, work efficiency improving method, and tool employing the same An education set used for education of a work including a series of work steps. The education set includes segment diagrams (105a, 105b, 105c) where work directions for executing the series of work steps, work directions inc... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7028693 | Smoking reduction method The invention is a method to reduce the number of cigarettes consumed by a smoker, preferably towards the goal of eventual cessation. The method comprises collecting data that describes a smoker's cigarette consumption, using said data to generate a reduced smoking ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7029034 | Calendar kit and apparatus for behavior modification and a method for using the same A calendar is provided for behavior modification as well as a method for using the same. The calendar has calendar sheets and informational sheets. The calendar has objectives sections, data collection sections, analysis sections, non-date pages and/or detachable pa... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7020310 | Animated toy utilizing artificial intelligence and fingerprint verification An articulated and animated toy capable of recognizing human users and interacting therewith includes a computer-based device storing encoded first human fingerprint data, a fingerprint sensor for acquirin data representative of a second human fingerprint, and softw... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6997718 | Infant simulator with floppy neck assembly having a full range of motion An infant simulator with a neck linkage connecting the head to the torso which includes at least (a) a longitudinally extending central shaft fixedly attached to the torso proximate the lower end of the central shaft, (b) a socket fixedly attached to the head, (c) a... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6967594 | Sensory monitor with embedded messaging elements A system for measuring human perception at edges of awareness includes a message transmitter providing embedded pre-semantic messages having a predetermined meaning or a predetermined object representation for visual priming, the messages being embedded within supra... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6962494 | Teaching aid A teaching aid for teaching a user how to tell time. The teaching aid includes a clock assembly comprising a face member and a plurality of arm members. The arm members is rotatably coupled to the face member of the clock assembly whereby the arm members are designe... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6938203 | Method and apparatus for authoring of customizable multimedia documents A method and apparatus for generating customizable documents comprising a datafile including a data structure for defining relationships between elements of a document and variations thereof. A parser for reading the datafile and for creating instances of document-c... | 08/30/2005 |
