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Patent No. 5678617

Method and apparatus for making a drink hop along a bar or counter

A method for generating a drink which appears to hop from a remote spot on the bar or counter and take one or more leaps, before landing in a patron's glass.

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Examiner: Tran, Phuoc


Primary examiner statistics: 1207 patents; average approval time: 1206 days
Assistant examiner statistics: 612 patents; average approval time: 1324 days

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Patent No. Patent Title:
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7417956 Wireless communication system which improves reliability and thro...
7408900 Method and system for automated determination of inter-system bor...
7408940 Use of precedence bits for quality of service
7406031 Multihop nested tunnel restoration
7394821 System and method for maintaining network system information
7388860 Network communication apparatus, communication system and communi...
7385977 Multicast system for forwarding desired multicast packets in a co...
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7386003 Systems and methods for communicating in a personal area network
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7369532 Apparatus and method for an audio channel switching wireless devi...
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7366194 Fibre channel zoning by logical unit number in hardware
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7352777 Data framer
7342876 Interference mitigation and adaptive routing in wireless ad-hoc p...
7339937 Wide-area content-based routing architecture
7336649 Hybrid packet-switched and circuit-switched telephony system
7333502 Services processor having a queue operations unit and an output s...
7333503 Sending permission assignment in telecommunications system
7333511 Dynamically channelizable packet transport network
 
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