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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5995727 | Video decompression An MPEG video decompression method and apparatus utilizing a plurality of stages interconnected by a two-wire interface arranged as a pipeline processing machine. Control tokens and DATA Tokens pass over the single two-wire interface for carrying both con... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5878273 | System for microprogrammable state machine in video parser disabling portion of processing stages responsive to sequence-- end token generating by token generator responsive to received data An MPEG video decompression method and apparatus utilizing a plurality of stages interconnected by a two-wire interface arranged as a pipeline processing machine. Control tokens and DATA Tokens pass over the single two-wire interface for carrying both con... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5829007 | Technique for implementing a swing buffer in a memory array A RAM implementation of asynchronous swing buffering is provided in which two buffers are operated asynchronously; one is written while the other is read. Accordingly, this allows for a data stream having a fast rate of through-put to be resynchronized to... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5821885 | Video decompression An MPEG video decompression method and apparatus utilizing a plurality of stages interconnected by a two-wire interface arranged as a pipeline processing machine. Control tokens and DATA Tokens pass over the single two-wire interface for carrying both con... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5798719 | Parallel Huffman decoder A Huffman Decoder is provided for decoding a data stream of fixed length and variable length codes and is adapted for video decompression applications. In the case of variable length codes, a table index calculation is performed using a ROM whose addresse... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5768629 | Token-based adaptive video processing arrangement An MPEG video decompression method and apparatus utilizing a plurality of stages interconnected by a two-wire interface arranged as a pipeline processing machine. Control tokens and DATA Tokens pass over the single two-wire interface for carrying both con... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5740460 | Arrangement for processing packetized data An MPEG video decompression method and apparatus utilizing a plurality of stages interconnected by a two-wire interface arranged as a pipeline processing machine. Control tokens and DATA Tokens pass over the single two-wire interface for carrying both con... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5703793 | Video decompression An MPEG video decompression method and apparatus utilizing a plurality of stages interconnected by a two-wire interface arranged as a pipeline processing machine. Control tokens and DATA Tokens pass over the single two-wire interface for carrying both con... | 12/30/1997 |
