William F. Semple, a dentist, was awarded the first US Patent on chewing gum in 1869. His recipe contained powdered chalk.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7009659 | System and method for establishing TV settings A system and method for automatically establishing TV audio/video/closed captioning, based on time/date/geographic location/location of the TV within the home. ... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6906684 | Controlling a telescopic antenna mast A receiver receives an electromagnetic signal via an antenna mounted on an antenna mast. A signal evaluator determines or measures a signal quality level associated with the received electromagnetic signal. The signal quality compares the determined signal quality l... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6859656 | Apparatus and method for optimizing transmission power of network An apparatus and a method for performing a protocol that optimizes a transmission power in a network. The apparatus and the method perform a protocol that optimizes the transmission power in the network for point-to-multipoint communication (1:N). The apparatus incl... | 02/22/2005 |
| 4792988 | Radio receiving circuit with a search tuning mechanism A radio receiving circuit provided with a search tuning mechanism. A broadcasting radiowave signal is received during a search tuning operation, and a shift amount of frequency produced in frequency of an intermediate frequency amplifier output is experim... | 12/20/1988 |