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Patent No. 5871518

Smoking Cessation Lighter and Method

A lighter for tobacco products suppresses the urge to smoke by operant conditioning.

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Examiner: Britton, Howard W.


Primary examiner statistics: 3553 patents; average approval time: 718 days
Assistant examiner statistics: 0 patents; average approval time: N/A

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6711210 Method of coding and decoding image
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6693966 Transmitting and recording method, reproducing method, and reprod...
6690732 Scene characteristics detection type video encoding apparatus
6686950 Device for inspecting ventilation or air-conditioning conduits, o...
6687302 Method of coding and decoding image
6680976 Robust, reliable compression and packetization scheme for transmi...
6678332 Seamless splicing of encoded MPEG video and audio
6678326 Motion picture coding and decoding apparatus
6675387 System and methods for preparing multimedia data using digital vi...
6674463 Technique for autostereoscopic image, film and television acquisi...
6674798 Motion vector detecting device capable of accommodating a plurali...
6670983 Electric mask generating apparatus of electronic endoscope
6671323 Encoding device, encoding method, decoding device, decoding metho...
6668018 Methods and apparatus for representing different portions of an i...
6665343 Methods and arrangements for a converting a high definition image...
6665345 Moving picture decoding device and moving picture decoding method
6665872 Latency-based statistical multiplexing
6661450 Automatic following device
6658058 Picture coding apparatus
6650709 Image decoding device, image decoding method, and storage medium ...
6646676 Networked surveillance and control system
6643325 Video signal processing
6625212 Pixel padding procedure using SIMD operations or vector processin...
6625221 Video compression
6621516 Panoramic pipe inspector
6618438 MPEG stream switching process
6614847 Content-based video compression
6614844 Method for watermarking a video display based on viewing mode
6603814 Video compression scheme using wavelets
6600787 MPEG decoding device
6597739 Three-dimensional shape-adaptive wavelet transform for efficient ...
6594316 Method and apparatus for adaptive bit rate control in an asynchro...
6594314 Motion vector detection method and apparatus
6594312 Method and apparatus for motion estimation quantization dithering
6587506 Video editing apparatus, video editing method, and data storage m...

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