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Patent No. 5996568

Process For Propelling Foodstuffs or the Like into a Crowd

A method of launching foodstuffs into a crowd for promotional and entertainment purposes.

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Examiner: Le, Mark T.


Primary examiner statistics: 1501 patents; average approval time: 1501 days
Assistant examiner statistics: 461 patents; average approval time: 716 days

Patents as Primary Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
7578485 Method for reducing data in railway operation
7523708 Railroad hopper car transverse door actuating mechanism
7458324 Method and device for active radial control of wheel pairs or whe...
7458545 System for sending commands to train cars based on location in tr...
7451708 Sound systems for model railroad locomotives
7448329 Wheel set guidance assembly
7448328 Hybrid energy off highway vehicle electric power storage system a...
7441727 Highway-rail grade crossing controller with out of service mode
7439712 Energy collection
7438000 Running gear for rail vehicles
7437997 Method for delivering replacement rail ties using GPS techniques
7434701 Device for coupling to other devices and unique identification th...
7434518 Two-piece model railroad truck frame
7434768 Portable turnout system
7434520 Insulated cargo container doors
7430966 Brake, vehicle and roller coaster circuit
7427035 Rail damper
7421953 Coupling device in overhead conveyor system
7421952 Track/right of way maintenance and repair system
7419038 Reel and reel housing
7416159 Method and apparatus for controlling railway switches
7404360 Dynamically controllable, trolley brake
7404524 Traction aid device
7401557 Support for functional planes
7398611 Photo album insert
7392749 Locomotive propulsion system module for refurbishment of used loc...
7392747 Rail guide for a suspended and guided sliding component
7389730 Track-guided toy vehicle
7389732 Mechanism for selectively operating hopper doors of a railroad ca...
7389940 Method and device for fixing a guide rail
7387280 Points comprising a reinforced switch tongue blade
7383962 Model train with improved coupling mechanism
7384017 Retractable gate
7383777 Track tamping machine
7377220 Operating mechanism with latching of a pivoting cover for a chair...
7377471 Method and system for opening and securing a railroad frog
7374109 Rail cushion assembly
7374110 Rail anchor isolator
7370586 Rail track delivery and removal
7370837 Model railroad switch machine

Patents as Assistant Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
7177621 Wireless communication medium and method for operating the same
7174147 Bandpass filter with tunable resonator
7174139 Delay control in a digital radio transmitter system
7171185 Direct conversion receiver and DC offset reducing method
7171235 Arrangement and method for reducing losses in radio transmitter
7167698 Balanced sub-harmonic mixer
7162215 Method and system for setting user preference satellite radio mus...
7158758 High-speed—WPAN and method for enabling communication between d...
7155195 Input and output filtering system for a direct conversion receive...
7155234 Connection acceptance control scheme by obtaining available quali...
7149493 Direct conversion receiver employing subharmonic frequency transl...
7139541 Radio transmission device and method for aligning parameters ther...
7136618 Satellite broadcast receiving converter with lower power consumpt...
7130607 Adjusting a programmable mixer
7130666 Cell phone charger with incoming call indicator
7127220 Apparatus and method to monitor and control power
7120411 Low noise amplifier (LNA) gain switch circuitry
7116950 Direct-conversion transmitting circuit and integrated transmittin...
7116954 Tunable bandpass filter and method thereof
7117022 CDMA base station system
7113759 Controller area network transceiver having capacitive balancing c...
7113760 Direct conversion receiver for amplitude modulated signals using ...
7113761 RF power device with on-chip digital control and optical interfac...
7110736 Analog peak detection circuitry for radio receivers
7107015 ISM band to U-NII band frequency transverter and method of freque...
7095999 Signal processing semiconductor integrated circuit device
7092685 Method for tuning a radio filter and a system for tuning a radio ...
7082291 Automatic gain control
7079863 Digital broadcasting receiving apparatus
7079822 Method of and apparatus for multi-channel management, multi-chann...
7076232 Method and apparatus for DC offset cancellation
7072685 Digital/analog broadcast receiver
7072626 Polar modulation transmitter
7072635 Method for combining data from phase indeterminate data streams f...
7062244 Speed-up mode implementation for direct conversion receiver
7062292 Computer system with wireless audio signal receiving module
7058377 Dual channel downconverter for pulsed radio frequency measurement...
7058425 Communication apparatus and communication method
7050769 Electronic apparatus and design method
7046976 Receiving device with automatic gain control
 
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