[time-nuts] Interesting Patent

[Brooke Clarke]

Hi Scott:

I got burned by using the then free IBM patent data base as the basis of 
all the links on my web pages.  But when that got sold and became a 
commercial operation all my links died, so now I only link to the USPTO 
and have also learned that you can NOT just cut and paste URLs since 
they use a strange dynamic method of assigning the URL that is 
guaranteed to NOT be valid in the future.

I do use Pat to pdf and sometimes 
http://free.patentfetcher.com/Patent-Fetcher-Form.php when I want a 
copy.  More on patents at:
file:///C:/Webdocs/Learning.shtml#Patents

Have Fun,

Brooke

Scott Newell wrote:

>At 11:20 AM 5/16/2006 , Brooke Clarke wrote:
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>>Hi:
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>>I came across a 1946 patent for a vacuum tube based counter circuit that 
>>will divide 60 Hz down to 1 Hz.  It's interesting in that there's a 
>>discussion about the advantage of using binary instead of base 10 and 
>>also about using feedback to change the scale of the counter from 64 to 
>>60 (or 50).  See:
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>Nice find.  I find it easier to enter the patent number (2410156) into the
>free service at http://www.pat2pdf.org/ and download a single pdf.
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