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Patent No. 6368227

Method of swinging on a swing

A method of swing on a swing is disclosed, in which a user positioned on a standard swing suspended by two chains from a substantially horizontal tree branch induces side to side motion by pulling alternately on one chain and then the other.

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Examiner: Hoff, Marc S.


Primary examiner statistics: 2833 patents; average approval time: 2832 days
Assistant examiner statistics: 371 patents; average approval time: 638 days

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Patent No. Patent Title:
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7319935 System and method for analyzing electrical failure data
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7257515 Sliding window for alert generation
7257517 Detection apparatus, detection system, portable device, and machi...
7254500 Monitoring and representing complex signals
7251579 Method, system, and software for calculating a multi factor tempe...
7251570 Data integrity in a mesh network
7249000 Fluid monitoring systems and methods with data communication to i...
7248991 Method and device for detecting a rotational speed, especially th...
7248978 System and method for routing power management data via XML firew...
7248972 Computer code for portable sensing
7246028 Method for transmitting data from sensor to a control unit, and a...
7246024 Sensor malfunction detection system for gas-turbine engine
7246014 Human machine interface for an energy analytics system
7246018 Interpolator testing circuit
7243040 Web-based circuit-testing system and method
7243049 Method for modeling system performance
7243051 System for predicting three-dimensional structure of protein
7243030 Methods, systems and computer programs for deconvolving the spect...
7243043 Method of testing hard disk drive and computer readable medium th...
7239977 Method and system for systematic evaluation of evaluation paramet...
7239972 Method for setting, in a motor vehicle electrical power steering ...
7236912 Method and device for determining and/or monitoring a volume and/...
7233882 Method and apparatus for monitoring process transitions
7233883 Monitoring system for fuel cell stack
7231309 Method and apparatus for testing a bridge circuit
7231317 Correlating power signatures with automated equipment
7231302 Automated system and method for providing chemical treatment solu...
7228242 Adaptive power control based on pre package characterization of i...
7225096 Method of controlling and correcting an asymmetric waveform
7225089 System and method for remote identification of energy consumption...
7225111 Monitoring apparatus

Patents as Assistant Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
5397867 Light distribution for illuminated keyboard switches and displays
5184126 Method of decompressing compressed data
5184127 Sample-and-hold droop compensator for high speed high resolution ...
5177483 Multilevel configurable logic analyzer
5164724 Data format converters for use with digit-serial signals
5165058 Voltage comparator with sample hold circuit
5157394 Data acquisition system with multiple simultaneous sample rates o...
5136290 Message expansion decoder and decoding method for a communication...
5136289 Dictionary searching system
5134396 Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding data utilizing dat...
5126738 Circuit for decoding a sequentially and serially inputted, variab...
5121121 Fast A/D converter
5121119 Analog-to-digital conversion method and system with correction of...
5121120 Programmable digital measuring and control instrument for a vacuu...
5121117 Balanced A/D converter
5119098 Full flash analog-to-digital converter
5119095 D/A converter for minimizing nonlinear error
5113187 CMI encoder circuit
5111380 Controlled series-resonance-loaded inverter
5111203 Circuitry for conditioning analog signals and converting to digit...
5107263 NRZ to CMI (II) encoding circuit
5107264 Digital frequency multiplication and data serialization circuits
5103225 Motor-driven positioning system with reflective optical encoder
5101204 Interpolation DAC and method
5095310 Method and apparatus for using synthesized analog data for testin...
5093664 High-speed half-flash type analog/digital converter
5087913 Short-record data compression and decompression system
5086299 High speed analog-to-digital converter having a plurality of comp...
5084703 Precision digital-to-analog converter
5083126 Analog-to-digital converter
5081454 Automatic A/D converter operation using programmable sample time
5079548 Data packing circuit in variable length coder
5075678 Method and apparatus for analog-to-digital conversion
5075679 Analog/digital converter configuration with sigma-delta modulator...
5070331 High resolution D/A converter operable with single supply voltage
5070332 Two-step subranging analog to digital converter
5068658 Method and apparatus for analog-to-digital conversion
5068661 Multi-stage noise shaping over-sampling D/A converter
5068657 Method and apparatus for testing delta-sigma modulators
5063382 Construction for mounting a cap to a magnetic type rotary encoder
 
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