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Patent No. 6637447

Beerbrella

A small umbrella which may be removably attached to a beverage container in order to shade the beverage container from the direct rays of the sun.

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Examiner: Decady, Albert


Primary examiner statistics: 2784 patents; average approval time: 2782 days
Assistant examiner statistics: 208 patents; average approval time: 212 days

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Patent No. Patent Title:
8116887 Apparatus and method for performing auxiliary functions when elec...
8116894 Chemical mechanical polishing method and chemical mechanical poli...
8116916 Homogeneity based diversity prediction method for transformer sel...
8116900 Method and associated system for recording and retrieving fabrica...
8108081 System and method for associating a load demand with a variable p...
8108060 System and method for implementing a wafer acceptance test (“WA...
8108074 Apparatus and method for optimizing operation of sugar dryers
8108079 Operating method for a wind park
8108064 System and method for on-line property prediction for hot rolled ...
8103375 Fillet machining system
8103390 Methods for reading data in a utility meter in connection with a ...
8103376 System and method for the on-machine 2-D contour measurement
8103363 Device control system
8103373 Control system
8099198 Hybrid power generation and energy storage system
8099199 Digital controller
8099180 State and parameter estimator having integral and differential co...
8099194 Demand control
8095241 Fluid evacuation system with two-way communication filter
8090452 Methods and apparatus for control using control devices that prov...
8090455 Motion control servo loop apparatus
8086338 Component mounting apparatus, service providing device and servic...
8086336 Method for design and production of a custom-fit prosthesis
8086325 Process control system with a charging function
8082053 Automated manufacturing system
8082044 Apparatus and methods for precompiling program sequences processi...
8082055 Method for a bin ratio forecast at new tape out stage
8078310 Component crimping apparatus control method, component crimping a...
8078325 Usage monitoring HVAC control method
8078336 Two-way communication between a bed facility controller and a rem...
8078295 Accumulative method for estimating velocity limitation
8078291 Methods and systems for the design and implementation of optimal ...
8078293 System and method for routing selection using statistical data
8078337 Control of an adjustable bed through a network
8078289 Model predictive control with variable trajectory sharing
8078419 Polishing monitoring method and polishing apparatus
8078294 Conditional download of data from embedded historians
8078290 System and methods for controlling embedded devices using device ...
8073554 System and method for providing power management in a sensor netw...
8074098 Control method for information processing system, information pro...

Patents as Assistant Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
7715950 Non-inverter based distributed energy resource for use in a dynam...
7555358 Process and method for continuous, non lot-based integrated circu...
5970226 Method of non-intrusive testing for a process control interface s...
5819025 Method of testing interconnections between integrated circuits in...
5781721 Method and apparatus for testing cache RAM residing on a micropro...
5764877 Media recovery with time-split B-trees
5754757 Efficient schemes for constructing reliable computing nodes in ...
5717705 Image processing apparatus
5701408 Method for testing computer operating or application programming ...
5701309 Automated test equipment digital tester expansion apparatus
5699504 Multiprocessor system formed of a plurality of duplex processors
5687312 Method and apparatus for processor emulation
5680404 Cycling error count for link maintenance
5680544 Method for testing an on-chip cache for repair
5680538 System and method for maintaining a minimum quality of service du...
5675728 Apparatus and method identifying false timing paths in digital ci...
5675587 Preset virtual path determining method and device in ATM exchange...
5675730 Method and apparatus for extensible type-specific data presentati...
5675723 Multi-server fault tolerance using in-band signalling
5673388 Memory testing in a multiple processor computer system
5673381 System and parallel streaming and data stripping to back-up a net...
5673391 Hardware retry trap for millicoded processor
5673274 Test method for semiconductor device
5668945 Data security apparatus and method
5666480 Fault-tolerant hierarchical bus system and method of operating sa...
5664093 System and method for managing faults in a distributed system
5661734 Trellis coded FM digital communications system and method
5659679 Method and apparatus for providing breakpoints on taken jumps and...
5657442 Apparatus and method for debugging electronic components through ...
5642481 Method and system for validating a memory window in system addres...
5634096 Using virtual disks for disk system checkpointing
5633881 Trellis encoder and decoder based upon punctured rate 1/2 convolu...
5630051 Method and apparatus for merging hierarchical test subsequence an...
5629950 Fault management scheme for a cache memory
5627964 Reduce or fail-safe bootstrapping of a system having a graphical ...
5623600 Virus detection and removal apparatus for computer networks
5623594 Embedded thermistor for on-board thermal monitoring of electrical...
5621884 Distributed data access system including a plurality of database ...
5621885 System and method for providing a fault tolerant computer program...
5615333 Integration testing method for object-oriented software
 
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