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Smoking Cessation Lighter and Method

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

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Examiner: Song, Matthew


Primary examiner statistics: 20 patents; average approval time: N/A
Assistant examiner statistics: 101 patents; average approval time: 1407 days

Patents as Primary Examiner

Patent No. Patent Title:
8187377 Non-contact etch annealing of strained layers
8187382 Polycrystalline silicon manufacturing apparatus
8187378 Silicon single crystal pulling method
8182607 In-situ crystalline material screening apparatus and method
8172945 High-purity vitreous silica crucible for pulling large-diameter s...
8163085 Method and apparatus for forming protective layer
8147991 One hundred millimeter single crystal silicon carbide wafer
8142676 Magnetic garnet single crystal and optical element using the same
8137461 Piezoelectric substrate, piezoelectric element, liquid discharge ...
8123855 Device and process for growing Ga-doped single silicon crystals s...
8105436 Single crystal silicon wafer for insulated gate bipolar transisto...
8097080 Method of cutting single crystals
8092597 Method and apparatus for fabricating crack-free Group III nitride...
8092596 Bulk GaN and AlGaN single crystals
8057598 Manufacturing equipment for polysilicon ingot
8052791 Crystallization apparatus, crystallization method, phase modulati...
8052796 CVD reactor comprising a photodiode array
8016942 Process for producing metal fluoride single crystal
8012255 Method and apparatus for controlling diameter of a silicon crysta...
8002892 Group III nitride crystal substrate, method of its manufacture, a...

Patents as Assistant Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
7438761 Apparatus for fabricating a III-V nitride film and a method for f...
7422633 Method of forming gallium-containing nitride bulk single crystal ...
7410923 SiC material, semiconductor device fabricating system and SiC mat...
7407550 Method and apparatus for crystal growth
7402208 Method and equipment for producing biopolymer crystal
7402206 Method of synthesizing a compound of the formula MAX, film of the...
7399357 Atomic layer deposition using multilayers
7396409 Acicular silicon crystal and process for producing the same
7393409 Method for making large-volume CaFsingle cystals with reduced sca...
7374613 Single crystal material having high density dislocations arranged...
7357838 Relaxed silicon germanium substrate with low defect density
7357837 GaN single crystal substrate and method of making the same
7341628 Method to reduce crystal defects particularly in group III-nitrid...
7338555 Highly crystalline aluminum nitride multi-layered substrate and p...
7332031 Bulk single crystal gallium nitride and method of making same
7306670 Method for producing monocrystalline structures
7306673 Furnace purification and metal fluoride crystal grown in a purifi...
7306675 Method for manufacturing semiconductor substrate
7300516 Laser irradiation method and laser irradiation apparatus, and met...
7297209 Method and device for transferring anisotropic crystal film from ...
7294201 Method of manufacturing crystal of III-V compound of the nitride ...
7294198 Process for producing single-crystal gallium nitride
7276121 Forming improved metal nitrides
7264674 Method for pulling a single crystal
7258846 Process and installation for the dry fractionation
7250083 ALD method and apparatus
7229493 3-5 group compound semiconductor, process for producing the same,...
7226504 Method to form thick relaxed SiGe layer with trench structure
7220313 Reducing nitrogen content in silicon carbide crystals by sublimat...
7220314 Single crystalline aluminum nitride film, method of forming the s...
7221037 Method of manufacturing group III nitride substrate and semicondu...
7198671 Layered substrates for epitaxial processing, and device
7186295 Quartz thin film
7172975 Process for the wet chemical treatment of semiconductor wafers
7160388 Process and apparatus for obtaining bulk monocrystalline gallium-...
7147709 Non-contact etch annealing of strained layers
7147712 Method of semiconductor nanoparticle synthesis
7147713 Phase controlled sublimation
7141113 Production method for silicon single crystal and production devic...
7135072 Methods of fabricating silicon carbide crystals
 
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