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Patent No. 5421089

Fork With Timer

A fork with timer for providing a cue to a user after an elapsed period of time for indicating that another bite of food using the fork may be taken.

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Examiner: Onka, Thomas J.


Primary examiner statistics: 0 patents; average approval time: N/A
Assistant examiner statistics: 45 patents; average approval time: 1055 days

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5664052 Method and device for discriminating voiced and unvoiced sounds
5642463 Stereophonic voice recording and playback device
5630013 Method of and apparatus for performing time-scale modification of...
5621855 Subband coding of a digital signal in a stereo intensity mode
5621852 Efficient codebook structure for code excited linear prediction c...
5613037 Rejection of non-digit strings for connected digit speech recogni...
5606642 Audio decompression system employing multi-rate signal analysis
5592586 Voice compression system and method
5586215 Neural network acoustic and visual speech recognition system
5586216 Recording method and apparatus and audio data user interface
5583963 System for predictive coding/decoding of a digital speech signal ...
5579434 Speech signal bandwidth compression and expansion apparatus, and ...
5577163 System for recognizing or counting spoken itemized expressions
5572623 Method of speech detection
5572593 Method and apparatus for detecting and extending temporal gaps in...
5572681 Speech codec and a method of processing a speech signal with spee...
5568588 Multi-pulse analysis speech processing System and method
5566272 Automatic speech recognition (ASR) processing using confidence me...
5563719 Data recording/replay device and data recording medium
5559926 Speech recognition training using bio-signals
5559791 Companding of voice signal for simultaneous voice and data transm...
5553194 Code-book driven vocoder device with voice source generator
5539861 Speech recognition using bio-signals
5539860 Speech recognition using bio-signals
5539858 Voice coding communication system and apparatus
5535305 Sub-partitioned vector quantization of probability density functi...
5528731 Method of accommodating for carbon/electret telephone set variabi...
5526466 Speech recognition apparatus
5524169 Method and system for location-specific speech recognition
5522011 Speech coding apparatus and method using classification rules
5522009 Quantization process for a predictor filter for vocoder of very l...
5509103 Method of training neural networks used for speech recognition
5504832 Reduction of phase information in coding of speech
5502790 Speech recognition method and system using triphones, diphones, a...
5499320 Extended task space control for robotic manipulators
5490234 Waveform blending technique for text-to-speech system
5479560 Formant detecting device and speech processing apparatus
5475789 Method of compressing an audio signal using adaptive bit allocati...
5473727 Voice encoding method and voice decoding method
5465317 Speech recognition system with improved rejection of words and so...
 
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