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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: Scott, Jr., Leon


Primary examiner statistics: 2158 patents; average approval time: 630 days
Assistant examiner statistics: 432 patents; average approval time: 912 days

Patents as Primary Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
7023886 Wavelength tunable optical components
6937628 Optical transmitter modules
6914929 Radiation-hardened RLG readout
6914918 Optical device, laser beam source, laser apparatus and method of ...
6898216 Reduction of laser speckle in photolithography by controlled disr...
6898231 Off-peak optical pumping of yttrium orthovanadate
6839365 Light wavelength converting system
6829262 Aging in tunable semiconductor lasers
6829280 Device and a method for the generation of coherent x-ray radiatio...
6826209 Ultrabroad-band variable-wavelength wavelength-multiplexed pulse ...
6822982 Device and method for providing a tunable semiconductor laser
6822986 Method of controlling a wavelength of a semiconductor laser, opti...
6816533 Laser oscillator
6816516 Error signal generation system
6801559 Group III nitride compound semiconductor laser
6798814 Gas discharge laser, method of operating a gas discharge laser, a...
6798799 Wavelength locked integrated optical source structure using multi...
6798820 Adjusting device for a multi-beam source unit and image forming a...
6798810 Surface-emitting laser having lateral current injection
6795483 Optical component driving device in laser apparatus
6792010 Laser with reduced parasitic etalon effects
6792016 Cooled mirror device
6788718 Implementation of ultrahigh frequency emitters and applications t...
6788715 Stabilized laser using multiphoton absorption to reduce intensity...
6785304 Waveguide device with mode control and pump light confinement and...
6782030 Gas laser
6778562 Optical coupler for a multimode pump
6778564 Wavelength-variable light source
6778565 Pulse-generating laser
6775313 Laser having a temperature controlled solid-state dye gain elemen...
6768750 Multi-spectral line Raman laser
6765934 Laser repetition rate multiplier
6763045 Apparatus for and method of targeting
6757310 Solid-state laser for customized cornea ablation
6757309 Low inductance laser diode arrays, laser diode array assemblies, ...
6741631 Customizable apodized chiral fiber grating apparatus and method
6741628 Micro-cavity laser
6741627 Photolithographic molecular fluorine laser system
6738396 Laser based material processing methods and scalable architecture...
6738406 Precision measurement of wavelengths emitted by a molecular fluor...

Patents as Assistant Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
4802183 Microwave excited excimer laser and method
4672619 Color centers for tunable lasers in the near infrared region
4592057 Versatile digital controller for light emitting semiconductor dev...
4580270 High-energy laser system having gyroscopically stabilized optical...
4578792 High-power lasers
4575850 Multiline emission integral mirror laser
4575853 Sealed laser
4575855 Ring laser gyro cathode arrangement
4574380 Self-optimizing electrode and pulse-stabilized super high power C...
4574381 Apparatus for establishing and maintaining a stable discharge acr...
4573156 Single mode laser emission
4573159 Temperature-controlled laser apparatus
4571727 Far-infrared electromagnetic wave generator
4571730 Cross flow type laser devices
4571726 High performance orotron utilizing a dense electron beam
4569053 Laser tuner assembly
4567596 Laser apparatus
4567597 High power laser system
4566107 Laser apparatus
4564947 High-power lasers
4564948 Gas laser tube
4563763 Method and apparatus for cooling a slab laser
4562579 Light beam modulating and deflecting system
4562580 Photolytic improvement of dye laser lifetimes
4559628 Shear layer control in a free-vortex aerodynamic window
4558452 Narrow bandwidth laser apparatus
4558450 Cathode bleed arrangement for electrically excited flowing gas la...
4556980 Laser light sources
4556979 Piezoelectrically tuned short cavity dye laser
4556981 Laser of the TE type, especially a high-energy laser
4555786 High power solid state laser
4555787 Gas laser preionization device
4554666 High-energy, single longitudinal mode hybrid laser
4553243 Chemical laser
4553238 Fiber optic amplifier
4553244 Laser beam energy profile synthesizer
4553240 Gas laser with a spring-supported capillary
4553242 Gas laser
4550410 Coupled-cavity laser
4550408 Method and apparatus for operating a gas laser
 
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