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It might not mean a lot to many people but for as long as I can remember I’ve had ideas and inventions floating around in my head. A couple years ago I decided to start patenting my ideas…

This was the first of what I hope will be many more to come. So far I am working on three other patents with over a dozen other ideas just waiting for the time and money to be able to file.

For those that are interested I originally filed this patent application back in mid 2005, It was published one year later. It took almost two full years before it worked its way through the queue to a patent examiner. It was returned to me for some minor corrections late last year and approved early this year. After paying the fee to have it issued about two months ago, it was finnally issued today. The whole process took about 3 1/2 years and cost about $8000.

Here is a pdf of the patent.

http://justinohms.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/uspatent007380665.pdf

The patent is available for license.

For my programming blog: http://blog.flexuous.com/

For my personal blog: http://blog.justinohms.com/

In one of my future posts I plan to include my methodology for moving my blog over including redirects for search engines so that I don’t loose my page rankings and any other links that are out there.