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Patent No. 6745394

Ballistic resistant body covering

A ballistic resistant body covering for protecting the torso, groin and neck area from ballistic missiles.

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Examiner: Butler, Dennis M.


Primary examiner statistics: 681 patents; average approval time: 682 days
Assistant examiner statistics: 136 patents; average approval time: 825 days

Patents as Primary Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
7664975 Apparatus and method for controlling power of monitor
7464281 Data processing apparatus
7464257 Mis-configuration detection methods and devices for blade systems
7454635 Power saving device and electronic device using the same
7454642 Method and architecture for power management of an electronic dev...
7454643 Pre-emptive power supply control system and method
7451304 Basic input output system selection device
7447897 Method for booting up embedded system
7447918 Method, apparatus and system for enabling a new data processing d...
7444529 Microcomputer having rewritable nonvolatile memory
7441137 Voltage regulator with internal controls for adjusting output bas...
7437545 Apparatus and system for the autonomic configuration of a storage...
7434080 Apparatus for interfacing and testing a phase locked loop in a fi...
7434082 Multi-stage clock selector
7434076 Device and method for wireless communication selection and contro...
7430681 Methods and apparatus for interfacing a drawing memory with a rem...
7426651 System and method for encoding independent clock using communicat...
7424633 Method for estimating power consumption of a CPU
7421602 Computer with low-power secondary processor and secondary display
7421604 Advanced voltage regulation using feed-forward load information
7418609 Method for instant on multimedia playing
7412617 Phase frequency detector with limited output pulse width and meth...
7404098 Modem with power manager
7404075 Method, system and computer program product for generic and flexi...
7401244 Adaptive throttling system for computing systems
7398383 Method and system for using internal FIFO RAM to improve system b...
7395449 Method and apparatus for limiting processor clock frequency
7389441 Apparatus and method for controlling electronic device
7373494 Method for using a timer based SMI for system configuration after...
7370191 Method and device for playing compressed multimedia files in semi...
7366929 Combined serial and parallel port for high speed controls
7366940 Multiprotocol computer bus interface adapter and method
7356723 Method and apparatus for data transfer
7346766 Method and system for automatically transitioning of configuratio...
7346764 Optical transceiver module initialization
7340632 Domain crossing device
7340630 Multiprocessor system with interactive synchronization of local c...
7320067 Method for reprogramming a field device
7313713 Sequential/combinational logic transistor segregation for standby...
7296172 Power control and management method for uninterruptible power sys...

Patents as Assistant Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
5842001 Clock signal adjusting method and apparatus
5774727 Parallel processing system for virtual processor implementation o...
5729719 Synchronization circuit for clocked signals of similar frequencie...
5687314 Method and apparatus for assisting data bus transfer protocol
5666535 Microprocessor and data flow microprocessor having vector operati...
5664164 Synchronization of one or more data streams
5655112 Method and apparatus for enabling data paths on a remote bus
5649174 Microprocessor with instruction-cycle versus clock-frequency mode...
5649201 Program analyzer to specify a start position of a function in a s...
5644760 Printed circuit board processor card for upgrading a processor-ba...
5642508 Distributed control method and apparatus for job execution
5630111 Processing and playback apparatus for recorded digital data
5627540 Remote control system having full-function and abbreviated-functi...
5625805 Clock architecture for synchronous system bus which regulates and...
5625822 Using sorting to do matchup in smart recompilation
5619702 Method and apparatus for programming registers using simplified c...
5615241 Programmable rate generator
5615358 Time skewing arrangement for operating memory in synchronism with...
5613122 Object-oriented operating system
5613125 Method and system for selectively defining hardware parameters in...
5608897 Programmable linear feedback shift register timeout mechanism
5603016 Method for synchronizing playback of an audio track to a video tr...
5598555 Data transmission apparatus
5598556 Conditional wait state generator circuit
5594903 Operating System architecture with reserved memory space resident...
5594893 System for monitoring and controlling operation of multiple proce...
5592659 Timing signal generator
5590316 Clock doubler and smooth transfer circuit
5588144 Storage system having a bus common to a plurality of kinds of gro...
5579482 Method and apparatus for storing interface information in a compu...
5579522 Dynamic non-volatile memory update in a computer system
5579520 System and methods for optimizing compiled code according to code...
5572720 Method of extending capacity of a microprocessor timer
5572718 Mechanism for dynamically determining and distributing computer s...
5572731 Sequentially navigated object oriented computer system
5572721 High speed serial interface between image enhancement logic and r...
5572723 Dynamic clock mode indicator
5561801 System and method for multilevel promotion
5560001 Method of operating a processor at a reduced speed
5560002 Method of testing a microprocessor by masking of an internal cloc...
 
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