http://www.freshpatents.com/ Timely, popular, interesting, innovative and/or weird patents! en-us Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:45:00 -0700 1000 141 31 http://www.freshpatents.com/index.php?rss=true http://www.freshpatents.com/images/freshpatentsnav_rss.gif http://www.freshpatents.com/Hydrogen-generator-and-method-of-operating-the-same-dt20080417ptan20080090112.php Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:45:04 -0700 A hydrogen generator and a method of operating the hydrogen generator. The hydrogen generator includes: a cylindrical reformer catalyst; and a cylindrical shift catalyst disposed inside of the reformer catalyst; a separation wall http://www.freshpatents.com/Automated-personal-exercise-regimen-tracking-apparatus-dt20080417ptan20080090703.php Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:45:08 -0700 A computer implemented method and apparatus for automated personal rep-counting and exercise orchestration. A portable computing device is programmed to access a preplanned exercise regimen for a user, the regimen including a series of differing http://www.freshpatents.com/Wager-insurance-for-a-no-limit-texas-hold-em-poker-game-dt20080417ptan20080088087.php Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:45:12 -0700 Wager insurance for a game of No-Limit Texas Hold'Em poker is provided to allow players to “hedge their bets” to limit the downside of losing a large bet through the provision of http://www.freshpatents.com/Aiming-device-for-billiard-cue-dt20080417ptan20080090670.php Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:45:16 -0700 An aiming device for a billiard cue is disclosed herein, which includes a fixing member, an extending member coupled with the fixing member at one end thereof, a parallel light source coupled with the other end http://www.freshpatents.com/Enhanced-detection-of-search-engine-spam-dt20080417ptan20080091708.php Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:45:20 -0700 The enhanced detection of search engine spam is provided in which an information resource is selected, the information resource including a plurality of block-level elements, each of the block-level elements are tokenized into attributes, and http://www.freshpatents.com/Content-enhancement-system-and-method-and-applications-thereof-dt20080417ptan20080091634.php Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:45:24 -0700 A source content enhancement system is described. A method for disambiguation of content and localization of culturally sensitive content including parsing content of an object for cultural objects and components, gathering knowledge about http://www.freshpatents.com/Functional-associative-coatings-for-nanoparticles-dt20080417ptan20080089836.php Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:45:34 -0700 Described herein are nanoparticles that are coated with a bilayer of molecules formed from surface binding molecules and amphiphatic molecules. The bilayer coating self assembles on the nanoparticles from readily available materials/molecules. The modular design of http://www.freshpatents.com/Garment-with-integrated-sensor-system-dt20080417ptan20080091097.php Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:45:38 -0700 A garment preferably in the form of a body suit which carries one or more sensors for sensing bodily functions of a wearer of the body suit. The body suit preferably has stretchable sections or belts http://www.freshpatents.com/Remote-health-care-diagnostic-tool-dt20080417ptan20080091470.php Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:45:42 -0700 Disclosed are patient health systems and methods for transmission of patient health data from a patient data collection system to a provider analysis system. The patient health system include the patient data collection system coupled to http://www.freshpatents.com/System-and-method-for-saving-the-rainforests--dt20080417ptan20080091456.php Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:45:46 -0700 The present invention tries to solve the problem of rainforests destruction by creating a strong financial incentive that makes preserving the rain forests much more profitable than destroying them. Preferably the idea of sustainable http://www.freshpatents.com/Predictive-score-for-lending-dt20080417ptan20080091592.php Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:45:50 -0700 Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for a predictive score for lending. A method includes receiving an employee's health insurance plan design information and general health and wellness data, weighting selected ones of the employee's health http://www.freshpatents.com/Method-and-system-for-dynamic-social-networking-based-on-similar-travel-itineraries-dt20080417ptan20080091445.php Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:45:55 -0700 In one embodiment, a method that can be performed on a system, is provided for dynamic social networking based on similar travel itineraries. In one embodiment, the method comprises