Bizarre Patents
Smoking Cessation Lighter and Method
A lighter for tobacco products suppresses the urge to smoke by operant conditioning.
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 |
| 7152791 | Identifying the location of an asset According to an aspect of the present invention, an intelligent badge having the ability of collecting the identifiers of each of the badges located within the zone of the intelligent badge may be employed to identify the location of each badge. The central processi... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7069090 | Systems and methods for providing variable output feedback to a user of a household appliance An embodiment of the present invention uses an on-board microcontroller of a household appliance to receive signals from a directionless encoder attached to a knob for receiving user input and processing the signals from the direction encoder according to a control ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 6674368 | Automated tracking system A method and apparatus for tracking the location of assets and persons are provided. According to the invention, position information is provided to a central monitoring station aperiodically. The central monitoring station utilizes software agents to ana... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6157315 | Vehicle rental system After confirmation that a user is an authorized user by bringing a user certification into proximity to a user discrimination device, following the guidance of a touch panel display device, a desired two wheeled electric vehicle is selected. A key is retr... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6142372 | Tractor/trailer having bar code thereon and a GPS receiver for tracking and logging purposes A tractor and trailer tracking system is provided including a plurality of tractor/trailers at least one of which has a bar code positioned thereon. Also included is at least one checkpoint post having a code scanner for reading the code upon the same pas... | 11/07/2000 |
| 5699048 | Omnidirectional passive electrical marker for underground use A passive marker is placed adjacent to a structure in order to locate that structure after burial. The marker has a tuned circuit arrangement contained within a housing. The tuned circuit arrangement has plural tuned circuits that are oriented substantial... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5635921 | Emergency vehicle radio transmission system An apparatus for, and method of, providing an emergency signal over preselected frequencies of various radio bands such that the operators of nearby motor vehicles, or other emergency vehicles, or the like, may respond accordingly. The preselected frequen... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5574665 | Receiver apparatus and method for frequency tagging The present invention is a system and method for resolving closely spaced frequencies in frequency patterns used to tag objects. The system comprises a base station transceiver and one or more objects that send the base station a unique frequency pattern ... | 11/12/1996 |
| 5379404 | Plug code for automatically recognizing and configuring both non-microprocessor and microprocessor based radio frequency communication devices An electronic code plug programming apparatus and operating method that automatically recognizes and configures a radio frequency communication device without reference to a prestored signal in the radio frequency communication device. The programming app... | 01/03/1995 |
| 5214793 | Electronic billboard and vehicle traffic control communication system A communication system uses simple microwave transmitters disposed along roadways and in-vehicle mounted receivers to transmit encoded signals to produce location-specific commercial, traffic regulatory, emergency and other information to operators of mot... | 05/25/1993 |
| 4959649 | Current holding circuit of two-wire instrument A current holding circuit of a two-wire instrument which includes a transmitter and a receiving resistor, remotely located from the transmitter, for detecting a signal from the transmitter as a change in loop current, and to which a commuication device is... | 09/25/1990 |
