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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7392041 | Mobile access to information using images The subject application relates to a system(s), methodology, and user interface that facilitate improving mobile awareness of information, activities, events, and occasions by way of images. The application involves providing images of a desired application such as ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7369463 | Electronic alarm timer for use with a medical regimen A timer for assisting in the control of various medical regimen is described. The timer is particularly adapted for use in avoiding or assuring conception by providing a graphic representation on the timer to alert a user as to when a medically correct step needs to... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7218575 | Angular twilight clock A method and apparatus for displaying time, the day sequence for the beginning and ending of twilight, sunrise and sunset in pie-shaped section on a circular clock face. A corresponding day sequence is retrieved from a memory and presented on a circular clock face i... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7207803 | Earth globe assembly An educational globe assembly is provided comprising a globe and a base cradle for the globe configured to removably and rotatably support the globe. The base cradle comprises a great circle ring, and the great circle ring comprises at least one annular indicia surf... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7033178 | Interactive apparatus with interactive device An interactive apparatus is disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a interactive ball includes (a) a plurality of indicia, (b) a processor and memory unit operatively coupled to the plurality of indicia, (c) an audio output unit operatively coupled to ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7012855 | World globe pocket clock and world globe desk clock A time keeping device that provides a user with the time of day at any point on earth and the current day or night condition of any point on earth. The time keeping device includes a translucent external globe indicia for indicating time and an internal globe rotata... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6962950 | Polymers of a hydrophobic nature, filled with starch complexes Hydrophobic polymers incompatible with starch containing, as a filler, a starch complex dispersed in the polymer matrix in the form of particles with numeric mean dimension of less than 3 microns, bound to the polymer matrix by coupling agents containing groups comp... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6950839 | Nature's friend An electronic device for recording a woman's menstrual cycle, recalling each recorded cycle and updating each cycle with respect to normal and abnormal menstrual flow; a frequency button is provided to record the average number of days between periods; a projection ... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6834025 | World globe pocket clock and world globe desk clock A time keeping device that provides a user with the time of day at any point on earth and the current day or night condition of any point on earth. The time keeping device includes a translucent external globe indicia for indicating time and an internal globe rotata... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6693627 | Apparatus and method for automatically displaying information The present invention provides an apparatus and method which contains a particular date preset by a user and several groups of particular information, each group relating to a pre-specified date difference between the preset date and current date, and aut... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6625086 | Terrestrial globe with world-wide watch function A terrestrial globe with a world-wide watch function according to a rotation of the globe. In the globe, a sensor is installed at one end of a rotation axis to detect a rotation amount of the globe. A world-wide time display processes an input information... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6603709 | World globe pocket clock and world globe desk clock A time keeping device that provides a user with the time of day at any point on earth and the current day or night condition of any point on earth. The time keeping device includes a translucent external globe indicia for indicating time and an internal g... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6600696 | Woman's electronic monitoring device The present invention is an electronic device or chronometer for use by women of various ages to monitor their menstrual, ovulation and menopausal cycles, as well as their pregnancy. The device displays information relating to a woman's menstrual cycle or... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6233204 | Board for displaying universal time A time board for dynamically displaying the universal time is provided, the board is adaptable to hang on the wall of lounge of an airport, a main railroad station hall, a passenger terminal of a harbor, the office of tele-communication and the classroom ... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6018503 | Time zone indicator device A horometric device includes a globe supported by an arbor (2) which is driven by means of a pinion (4) by a motor (5) and turns by one rotation in 24 hours. On the interior of the globe (1), a circular flat screen (23) is supported by a horizontal shaft ... | 01/25/2000 |
| 5457663 | Astronomical time clocks An astronomical time clock has a clock face divided into twelve segments representing the months of the year and a centrally positioned light which represents the sun. A globe representing the Earth rotates by a drive means around the light and is positio... | 10/10/1995 |
| 5197043 | Night and day earth clock calendar A clock, a calendar, and a two dimensional model of the earth viewed looking at the polar axis as the earth is rotated during a twenty-four hour period thus showing day and night, dawn and dusk. The shadow cast on the earth by the absence of the sun's ray... | 03/23/1993 |
| 5132943 | World globe and drive arrangement An electrically driven, world globe displaying Greenwich time, clock time, week of the year, season of the year and daylight-nighttime of a particular geographic location and a particular time of day relative to the rest of the world comprising a globe di... | 07/21/1992 |
| 5008867 | Ornamental clock with decorative time indicating device An ornamental clock with decorative time indicator, wherein the hour, minute and second indicator rotating shafts are elongated and can steadily rotate without swinging, characterized in that the elongated rotating shafts can accurately and co-axially and... | 04/16/1991 |
| 4985876 | Global clock apparatus An apparatus wherein a spherical globe member includes a first and second equatorial band member, wherein the upper band member is rotated at a rate of one revolution per twenty-four hours, and wherein the lower band member is rotated at one revolution pe... | 01/15/1991 |
| 4938695 | World globe rotation control device A device for controlling the direction of rotation of a world globe. The device has a ratchet ring which is affixed to the globe near the North or South Pole thereof. A deflectable pawl member is held by the support frame of the globe and permits the glob... | 07/03/1990 |
| 4671672 | Universal time clock A universal time clock that can be constructed in a very simple and inexpensive way and the globe of which is driven by the hour tube of a left-hand-rotating clockwork, a network of lines being marked on a bell-shaped top put over the globe. The lines ext... | 06/09/1987 |
| 4579460 | Synchronous world clock A synchronous world clock which allows a user to determine the exact time at any location on earth is disclosed. The clock is comprised of a planisphere of the earth, a time scale surrounding the planisphere and a drive for rotating the planisphere counte... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4477193 | Terrestrial globe including a world clock The present invention relates to a terrestrial globe comprising a world map carrying spherical body rotatably supported around the Antarctic and Arctic points on a stand, and luminous bodies such as light emitting diodes mounted on selected points corresp... | 10/16/1984 |
| 4464058 | World time and day indicator clock A novel twenty-four hour clock providing a continuous display representative of the rotation of the Earth relative to the heavens, and the changing position of illustrated geographic areas of the Earth relative to the fixed position of the Sun, thereby pr... | 08/07/1984 |
| 4447159 | Universal world time and date clock A novel twenty-four hour clock (10) providing a continuous display representative of the rotation of the Earth relative to the heavens, and the changing position of illustrated geographic continents (33a, etc.) of the Earth relative to the fixed position ... | 05/08/1984 |
| 4308604 | Globe clock A clock for indicating the different times at different places in the world, comprises a globe and a dial ring rotatable in an annular groove formed around the inside of the globe at its equatorial region. The dial ring is rotated around the globe by a cl... | 12/29/1981 |
| 4032754 | Global time system A global time system having a first disc divided into twenty-four equal sections, each section being formed by lines extending radially from the center of the first disc. Each line forming the sections representing a line of longitude. Circles are concent... | 06/28/1977 |
