* US Patent 1, 647 ( Reissue # 79 ), Improvement in the mode of communicating information by signals by the application of electro-magnetism, January 15, 1846

* US Patent 1, 647 ( Reissue # 117 ), Improvement in electro-magnetic telegraphs, June 13, 1848

* US Patent 1, 647 ( Reissue # 118 ), Improvement in electro-magnetic telegraphs, June 13, 1848

U. S. Patent # 223898: Electric-Lamp.

United States Patent Office, Patent # 814993, Patent Application July 26, 1904 Serial # 218, 206, Patented March 13, 1906: FREEZING DEVICE-" freezing apparatus ... adapted for the making of ice cream.

Thomas Crapper's advertisements implied the siphonic flush was his invention ; one having the text " Crapper's Valveless Water Waste Preventer ( Patent # 4, 990 ) One movable part only ", but patent 4990 ( for a minor improvement to the water waste preventer ) was not his, but that of Albert Giblin in 1898.

* View the US " Switch Matrix " Patent # 3028659 at US Patent Office or Google

* View Kilopass Technology Patent US " High density semiconductor memory cell and memory array using a single transistor and having variable gate oxide breakdown " Patent # 6940751 at US Patent Office or Google

* View Sidense US " Split Channel Antifuse Array Architecture " Patent # 7402855 at US Patent Office or Google

* View the US " Method of Manufacturing Semiconductor Integrated Circuits " Patent # 3634929 at US Patent Office or Google

Claghorn was granted United States Patent # 312, 085 for a Safety-Belt for tourists, painters, firemen, etc.

Let It Ride was invented by John Breeding ( US Patent # 5, 288, 081 ) of Shuffle Master, which owns the trademark to both the name of the game and the logo.

On August 13, 1931, Duston filed USPTO Patent Application # 556, 743 for " Method Of And Apparatus For Electrically Recording And Reproducing Sound And Other Vibrations ", and which was renewed in 1934.

US Patent # 6889636.

In 1955, Russell Rogers and Leonard D ' Andrea of Homestead Park, Pennsylvania applied for, and in 1959 were granted, U. S. Patent # 2, 883, 195 for the hexahexaflexagon, under the title " Changeable Amusement Devices and the Like.

In 2001, after an appeal by the patent holder, the US Patent Office reinstated the patent.

Though there may have been earlier attempts to pull cars by endless ropes, the first cable car installation in operation was the West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway in New York City, which ran from 1 July 1868 to 1870.

In the early 19th century the basics of modern techniques including pre-heating and reflux were developed, particularly by the French, then in 1830 a British Patent was issued to Aeneas Coffey for a whiskey distillation column, which worked continuously and may be regarded as the archetype of modern petrochemical units.

* US Patent 502837 Engine operated by the explosion of mixtures of gas or hydrocarbon vapor and air, dated August 8, 1893.

* 1842 21 August – The Church of England Diocese of Gibraltar was founded by Letters Patent and took over the pastoral care of the chaplaincies and congregations from Portugal to the Caspian Sea.

The Hill system was first published by Edwin A. Hill of the United States Patent and Trademark Office in 1900.

* Patent Authority, depicting the Halfbakery as a well known repository used by inventors and patent attorneys

Inventors can now have their insurance US patent applications reviewed by the public in the Peer to Patent program.

Although the non-trademarkability of the term Loglan was eventually upheld by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, many supporters and members of The Loglan Institute find this usage offensive, and reserve Loglan for the TLI version of the language.

The position of prime minister is not outlined in any Canadian constitutional document and is mentioned only in passing in Schedule B of the Constitution Act, 1982, and the Letters Patent issued in 1947 by King George VI.

In 1904, The U. S. Patent Office reversed its decision, awarding Marconi a patent for the invention of radio, possibly influenced by Marconi's financial backers in the States, who included Thomas Edison and Andrew Carnegie.

The Letters of Patent attached to the Act acknowledged Aboriginal ownership and stated that no actions could be undertaken that would affect the rights of any Aboriginal natives of the said province to the actual occupation and enjoyment in their own persons or in the persons of their descendants of any land therein now actually occupied or enjoyed by such natives.

In 1863 that part of New South Wales to the north of South Australia was annexed to South Australia by Letters Patent as the Northern Territory of South Australia, which became shortened to the Northern Territory ( 6 July 1863 ).

* US Patent 1, 647, Improvement in the mode of communicating information by signals by the application of electro-magnetism, June 20, 1840

Carnegie Mellon, Capability Maturity Model, CMM, CMMI, Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method, ATAM, and CERT are registered in the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office by Carnegie Mellon University.

While the patent was initially rejected by the patent office as being a purely mathematical invention, following 12 years of appeals, Pardo and Landau won a landmark court case at the CCPA ( Predecessor Court of the Federal Circuit ) overturning the Patent Office in 1983 — establishing that " something does not cease to become patentable merely because the point of novelty is in an algorithm.

A request for reviewing the WARF patents 5, 843, 780 ; 6, 200, 806 ; 7, 029, 913 US Patent and Trademark Office were filed by non-profit patent-watchdogs The Foundation for Taxpayer & Consumer Rights, and the Public Patent Foundation as well as molecular biologist Jeanne Loring of the Burnham Institute.

Following the 2008 appeal by ATI over the validity of (' 327 ) and Silicon Graphics Inc's voluntary dismissal of the (' 376 ) patent from the lawsuit, the Federal Circuit upheld the jury verdict on the validity of GPHI's US Patent No. 6, 650, 327, and furthermore found that AMD had lost its right to challenge patent validity in future proceedings.

The Society's Bylaws state that " the Crown may elevate subjects to the Peerage by granting membership in one of the Orders conferring a Patent of Arms, after consultation with the members of the Order within the Kingdom, and in accordance with the laws and customs of the kingdom.

In 1984 Inge Telnaes received a patent for a device titled, " Electronic Gaming Device Utilizing a Random Number Generator for Selecting the Reel Stop Positions " ( US Patent 4448419 ), which states: “ It is important to make a machine that is perceived to present greater chances of payoff than it actually has within the legal limitations that games of chance must operate .” The patent was later bought by International Game Technology and has since expired.

The world's first patent for an underwater echo ranging device was filed at the British Patent Office by English meteorologist Lewis Richardson a month after the sinking of the Titanic, and a German physicist Alexander Behm obtained a patent for an echo sounder in 1913.

Patent drawing for Joseph F. Glidden's Improvement to barbed wire

The Protestant citizens received the right to establish parishes according to the 1781 Patent of Toleration by Emperor Joseph II.

Joseph N. Grasso of New Jersey had originally listed an " iPod " trademark with the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office ( USPTO ) in July 2000 for Internet kiosks.

* Joseph Raymond Jackson ( 1880 – 1969 ), judge of the U. S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals

* 1782 – An Edict of Toleration, also known as the Patent of Toleration, issued by the Holy Roman Emperor, Joseph II, extended religious freedom to non-Catholic Christians living in Habsburg lands, including: Lutherans, Calvinists, and the Greek Orthodox.

In 2002, XANGO founders Aaron R. Garrity, Gordon A. Morton, and Joseph C. Morton ( doing business as DBC, LLC ) applied for a United States patent (# 6730333 ) for XANGO Juice ; however the application was rejected by the United States Patent and Trademark Office on April 21, 2005.

WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth, by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-first day of October, in the fifth year of His reign, did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Joseph Aspdin, His special licence, that I, the said Joseph Aspdin, my exors, admors, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time at all time during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my invention of " AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MODE OF PRODUCING AN ARTIFICIAL STONE ;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, said Joseph Aspdin, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled in his Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said part recited Letters Patent ( as in and by the same ), reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.

Joseph established six state-run “ General Seminaries .” In 1783, a Marriage Patent treated marriage as a civil contract rather than a religious institution.

Patent drawing for Joseph F. Glidden's Improvement to barbed wire

The next year Franz Joseph proclaimed the February Patent, charted by liberal Minister-President Anton von Schmerling, as a new constitution for the empire.

Patent Drawing for Joseph F. Glidden's Improvement to Barbed Wire, 11 / 24 / 1874.

In 1781-82 Joseph issued a Patent of Toleration, followed by an Edict of Tolerance which granted Protestants and Orthodox Christians full civil rights and Jews freedom of worship.

In February 1861, the February Patent, a letters patent issued by Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I, was adopted as the “ Imperial Constitution of 1861 .” It was proclaimed as a revision of the previous October Diploma, the “ Irrevocable Fundamental Law of the State .” The February Patent established in the Austrian Empire a bicameral imperial parliament, still called the Reichsrat, with an upper chamber appointed by the emperor and an indirectly elected lower chamber.

In September 1865, Emperor Francis Joseph suspended the February Patent.

The Robot Patent was a labour rent abolished by Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor who had carried out a register of all land with a division between peasant and noble holdings.