Education and demonstration inventions 03/09

20090081619 - Combat training system and method: A target acquisition apparatus for use in association with a target, includes a weapon activation sensor, an image detector, a modulated light detector, a weapon processor, and a weapon transceiver for detecting activation of the weapon and producing a triggering signal. The weapon processor identifies a predetermined modulation characteristic from... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090081620 - Training device and method for learning to drive a means of transport: A training device for learning to drive a means of transport, in particular public transport or heavy transport, comprises a data processing unit to receive, from at least a means of transport operating in real operating conditions, information relating to the real operating conditions; a training station provided with devices... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20090081621 - Methods and systems for personalizing a display board featuring a product for professional presentations: Systems and methods of personalizing a display board featuring a product for professional presentations are provided. The disclosed subject matter comprises a display board, a product mounted to the board, a holder attached to the display board, and a card inserted into the holder.... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090081622 - Methods and systems teaching tonal language: A method and system for teaching a tonal language in which the meaning of at least some words depends on the application of one of a plurality of tones. The method includes associating each of the plurality of tones with a hand position, expressing one of the at least some... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090081623 - Instructional and computerized spelling systems, methods and interfaces: Methods, systems and interfaces are used in the teaching, practicing, and testing of spelling skills with a computer system. An instructor is provided words, groups of words, and filters for creating word lists to administer to one or more students in a preview. Previews are administered to each of the... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090081624 - Interactive learning appliance: An interactive learning appliance includes a body, a plurality of puzzle pieces and a control circuit. The body defines a receptacle. The puzzle pieces are provided to be placed in the receptacle selectively. Each puzzle piece has a distinct sensing surface with at least one hole defined therein. The control... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090081625 - Mathematics teaching aid: An apparatus and method for teaching involving teaching manipulatives. The teaching manipulative comprises a longitudinal rod having a plurality of multi-faced objects disposed upon its surface which are capable of substantially sliding along the length of the rod and have a unique object identifier disposed on each face. On either... Agent: Hughes Law Firm, PLLC

20090081626 - System and method for assessing cognitive function and measuring treatment efficacy: Embodiments of the invention described herein relate generally to a method for assessing cognitive function and measuring treatment efficacy. Assessing the efficacy of clinical treatments is important for development of new interventions, for example drugs, gene, protein or antibody therapies, as well as for monitoring patient responses to approved and... Agent: Dalina Law Group, P.C.

20090081627 - Dynamic human model: A dynamic human model is jointed and movable and provides an aid for understanding, studying, and mastering the structure of the human body. In one embodiment, the dynamic human model includes a skeleton model having a plurality of bone elements coupled together by articulating joints, and muscles attachable to the... Agent: DohertyIPLaw Group LLC

20090081628 - System and method for creating a lesson: Embodiments of the present invention make it significantly easier for a teacher or other author to create a lesson by allowing them to define a lesson as a state machine. This method is significantly easier for teachers to learn and use and it allows for easy adaptation of classroom lesson... Agent: Hahn And Moodley, LLP

20090081629 - System and method for matching students to schools: A match algorithm is provided that matches, rather than filters, students and schools. The output of the algorithm informs the student as to how well he/she matches against every school in the database across many criteria. The student can sort and search through the rankings to identify the schools that... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20090081630 - Text to training aid conversion system and service: A method and system of an embodiment may include receiving an image of printed material from a device associated with a user, receiving a request from the user to generate a training aid utilizing the printed material, generating the training aid utilizing the printed material; and providing access to the... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090075241 - Apparatus and method for a directional receiver: A gun system including a gun directional receiver for directionally receiving a response light from a target emitter, wherein the response light includes an identification of the target emitter, and the gun system further including a gun emitter for broadly sending an identification light to a target receiver, wherein the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090075242 - System and method for automatically defining, creating, and managing meals: A system and method for method defining, creating, and managing meals according to user preferences regarding a diet plan, preferred foods, preferred meal preparation options, and meal times. An expert system uses information about an individual's diet preferences and related goals, to develop a personalized plan including a complete meal... Agent: Standley Law Group LLP

20090075243 - Screw-thread fastener directional indicator: A threaded fastener drive simulator includes a threaded rod having first and second ends. A driver head is fixed to the first end of the threaded rod, and a threaded nut is threaded onto the rod in a position between the first and second ends of the threaded ro. A... Agent: Mckenna Mcgovern Burkhart

20090075244 - Models and methods of using same for testing medical devices: Disclosed herein are synthetic anatomical models that are designed to enable simulated use testing by medical device companies, medical device designers, individual inventors, or any other entity interested in the performance of medical devices. These models are unique in possessing a level of complexity that allows them to be substituted... Agent: Timothy H. Van Dyke Beusse Brownlee Wolter Mora & Maire, P. A.

20090075245 - Method of mounting a game animal and kit therefor: The present invention is a kit and method of mounting a game animal that allows for antlers or horns to be quickly added or interchanged to an otherwise artificial mount. The method generally comprises the following steps: measuring the game animal, taking at least one picture of the game animal,... Agent: Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver Attorneys At Law

20090075246 - System and method for quantifying student's scientific problem solving efficiency and effectiveness: In a computer implemented system and method for analyzing problem solving abilities, analytic models are produced to quantify how students construct, modify and retain problem solving strategies as they learn to solve science problems online. Item response theory modeling is used to provide continually refined estimates of problem solving ability... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20090075247 - Interactive educational tool: Graphical user interfaces, systems and methods of implementing an interactive educational tool are disclosed. More specifically, embodiments provide a graphical user interface (GUI) for presenting text and related content associated with a predetermined subject matter. Users may interact with various graphical elements of the GUI for selecting and viewing regions... Agent: Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20090068621 - Paper cutting activity kit: An activity kit including an assembly sheet with a drawing provided thereon and a strip of color paper. The kit further includes instructions instructing a user to cut the strip of color paper into smaller pieces and adhere the cut pieces onto the drawing.... Agent: Thompson Hine L.L.P. Intellectual Property Group

20090068622 - Letter guide sheet: A drawing sheet assembly including a plurality of drawing sheets, each drawing sheet including sequential instruction indicia. The instruction indicia instructs a user to draw at least part of two pre-writing shapes that cooperate to create a rudimentary drawing. Each drawing sheet further includes a drawing space providing a space... Agent: Meadwestvaco Corporation Attn:IPLegal Department

20090068623 - Method to determine that a person possesses analysis and synthesis skills: A method for demonstrating a person has strong analytic and synthetic ability. The subject is presented with a carefully chosen puzzle or problem, which is fairly easy to solve using trial and error, but which also can be solve by using analysis and synthesis. The subject is instructed to solve... Agent: William Richard Burnett

20090068624 - Letter development cards: A card set including a plurality of letter or number development cards. Each card includes opposed instruction and challenge sides. Each instruction side has instruction indicia relating to the writing of a particular letter or number associated with the card. Each challenge side has visual indicia which indirectly identifies the... Agent: Meadwestvaco Corporation Attn:IPLegal Department

20090068625 - Alphie: an algorithmic system and method for teaching and learning writing and reading: c

20090068626 - Number writing development guide: A number writing development guide including a number guide sheet having sequential instruction indicia. The sequential instruction indicia includes discrete ordered steps that cue a user in proper writing strokes to write an associated number. At least one of the discrete ordered steps relates to a common childhood activity or... Agent: Meadwestvaco Corporation Attn:IPLegal Department

20090068627 - Medical physiological simulator including a conductive elastomer layer: Conductive elastomeric circuits are used in various simulated physiological structures such as tissues and organs, enabling feedback to be provided indicating whether a simulated task is being performed correctly. For example, a surgical trainer has a simulated human tissue structure made of an elastomeric composition, at least one reinforcing layer... Agent: Law Offices Of Ronald M Anderson

20090068628 - Apparatus and method for cyber healthcare monitoring, with calibration using thin client communicating techniques: n

20090068629 - Dual output gradebook with rubrics: A system and method for assessing a student's performance in a course in an online course environment, the method comprising creating rubrics that correlate with course materials for an online course, the rubrics including a scoring schema which is stored in an educational management system, distributing the rubrics from the... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090068630 - Self-adjusting ventilation outlet with multiple flow rates: This invention is for a ventilation outlet (1) which is self-adjusting with multiple flow rates presenting a passageway for the ventilation air and equipped with an adjustable flap (6) and comprising a control flap (7) with one face (10) meant to channel air entering and presenting, on the one hand,... Agent: Mathews, Shepherd, Mckay, & Bruneau, P.A.

20090068631 - Web based educational system for collaborative learning: A method and apparatus is disclosed for facilitating collaborative learning in an educational community via a web based educational system. In one embodiment, the method allows one or more of the educational participants to generate educational content, upload it to a document depository and teach it to other participants with... Agent: Chris Halliwell

20090068632 - Mountable writing assembly: A mountable writing assembly includes a cover member, a visually transparent writing member, a replaceable sheet for displaying personalized information or images, and a backing member removably retained in the cover member. A method of allowing a user to create a customized dry-erase board is also disclosed.... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20090068633 - Hygiene training device and method: A training device for nasal hygiene comprises a facial tissue sheet; where the facial tissue sheet has a first side, and where the facial tissue sheet also has a second side having an opposing planar relationship to the first side. A first-side tissue graphic is visible on the first side... Agent: Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc. Catherine E. Wolf

20090061394 - Coloring sheet: A coloring sheet including a sheet of paper and a design formed on the sheet of paper. The design is at least partially formed by a pair of parallel, adjacent raised lines, wherein the adjacent raised lines are spaced apart by a distance of less than about ½ inch.... Agent: Thompson Hine L.L.P. Intellectual Property Group

20090061395 - Sequence dot connect sheets: A drawing sheet assembly including a drawing sheet and a plurality of dots printed on the sheet. The dots have a differing optical property relative to each other. The drawing sheet assembly further includes a sequence guide configured guide a user to connect the dots in a particular sequence such... Agent: Thompson Hine L.L.P. Intellectual Property Group

20090061396 - Crochet stitch/pattern: The present invention relates to a new method for creating crocheted items using a classical crochet hook to form stitches in a new pattern. The pattern produces a visually very attractive surface (on both front and back side) and leads to a specific thickness and density of the produced items... Agent: Ulrike Fischer

20090061397 - Educational card game for enhancing counting skills: A method for playing a game, involving the steps of determining a combination number; dealing to at least one player at least three cards from a deck to make a hand, the deck having at least one group of cards sequentially numbered from one to thirteen; and providing a reward... Agent: Gearhart Law, LLC

20090061399 - Educational software with embedded sheltered instruction: A system, method and a computer readable medium for providing virtual learning of academic topic unrelated to languages in a non-native language of a student. The system includes an input device, which receives user input, a datastore, which stores the academic topic. At least a portion of the academic topic... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090061398 - Language teaching method and apparatus: A student is taught a language through the introduction of target expressions including features, such as specific words or phrases and language structure. The student is presented one or more reference expressions made up of target expression with one or more of its features altered, while maintaining semantic meaningfulness, and... Agent: Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20090061401 - Apparatus to enhance enjoyment from reading printed subject matter: A handheld apparatus to enhance reading enjoyment of printed subject matter includes a housing member having a predetermined shape and a predetermined size. A micro-processing unit is disposed in the housing member. There is a power source disposed within the housing member. Such power source is connected to the micro-processing... Agent: James Ray & Associates

20090061400 - Unknown: The Ross Tutoring System (RTS) for reading is based on phonetic popularity. Its uniqueness comes from the grouping of sounds in a fashion that is easy for kids to learn by, and by various other methods detailed in my attached description. Along with these groupings of sounds are various support... Agent: Ross Rosenfeld

20090061402 - Methods and systems for providing interactive educational training: The present invention provides computer implemented and interactive educational platforms for training professionals, such as healthcare workers. In particular, the present invention provides learning modules for professionals for implementing an interactive curriculum that is designed to ensure thorough coverage of core and advanced competencies.... Agent: Casimir Jones, S.c.

20090061403 - Rating method and system for early childhood educational programs: The invention describes a method for evaluating educational programs which, firstly, develops criteria which will address the strengths and weaknesses of the educational program. The second step of the method is to observe the criteria, chosen in step one, in the educational program. The third step is to assign a... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20090061404 - Medical training simulator including contact-less sensors: A medical training simulator includes contact-less sensors and corresponding detection objects, configured to enable sensor data collected during a training exercise to be used to evaluate the performance of the training exercise. The simulator includes a simulated anatomical structure, at least one contact-less sensor, and at least one detection object.... Agent: Law Offices Of Ronald M Anderson

20090061405 - Doll with revolving abdominal chamber to simulate pregnancy: An abdominal torso element for a doll incorporates a receiving cavity with a first rotational element mounted in the torso element having an enlarged abdominal surface representing a pregnant abdomen and incorporating an associated fetal cavity. The first rotational element is positionable in a first closed position with the enlarged... Agent: Felix L. Fischer, Attorney At Law

20090061407 - Adaptive recall: The invention relates to a system and methods for determining user knowledge of information, calculating and employing “lag”, i.e., adaptive recall, time for delaying review and testing of the information depending on a user's progress, and/or selecting additional information to be reviewed and tested during the lag time. The present... Agent: Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20090061406 - Constructing a profile using self-descriptive images for use in a social environment: Methods and apparatus are described in which a plurality of sensory stimuli are presented to a user. A response from the user to each of selected ones of the sensory stimuli is recorded where the response is given within a period of time from the presentation of the corresponding sensory... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/yahoo

20090061408 - Device and method for evaluating learning: A device and method for evaluating learning including a level examining module, a course planning module and a course evaluation module are provided. The level examining module provides a level examination for a user to determine a current capability level of the user. The course planning module plans a learning... Agent: Apex Juris, PLLC

20090061409 - Device and method for arranging learning courses: A device and method is provided for a user to arrange learning courses. The device comprises: a course database, a capability examining module and a course arranging module. The course database stores multiple learning courses, each including multiple learning quizzes. The capability examining module provides capability examination(s) for the user... Agent: Apex Juris, PLLC