Inventor(s): Benjamin M. Green (Fort Worth, TX), Donald W. Axley (Keller, TX), George R. Decker (Fort Worth, TX), Jimmy Charles Narramore (Austin, TX) Assignee(s): Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. (Fort Worth, TX) Law Firm: Baker Botts L.L.P. (Local + 8 other metros) Application No., Date, Speed: 13356821 on 01/24/2012 (2716 days app to issue)

Under optimum conditions, commercial ultrasonic gages can achieve accuracies as high as±0.001 millimeter (mm,±0.00004 inch), with a possibility of±0.025 mm (±0.001 inch) or better in most common engineering materials. Factors affecting accuracy include the uniformity of the sound velocity in the test material, the degree of sound scattering or absorption, the surface condition, and the level of precision and care with which the instrument has been calibrated for the application at hand.

As for that all-wheel-drive, the handling is biased toward the rear, which makes it feel like a proper sports car. That is, it’s superbly responsive and agile, with in-your-face levels of torque. Choose Track Mode—denoted by a racing helmet logo on the center console—and proceed with caution.

Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) comprises an output and a voltage regulator. The voltage regulator comprises an amplifier having a first input coupled to a reference voltage source and a second input coupled to the output, a first resistor coupled to the output and coupled to a ground terminal, a metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) having a gate coupled to an output of the amplifier and a drain coupled to the output, and a second resistor coupled to a source of the MOSFET and coupled to the ground terminal.

In the before-and-after visuals below, using imagery from the EU’s Sentinel-2 satellite, you can see whole Nebraska towns fall victim to the floods.

Germans, who had been suffering from a disastrous economic depression in 1929-30, begin to embrace the ideas of the Nationalist Socialist Workers Party – the Nazi Party. It becomes the largest party after the 1932 elections. In 1933, Adolf Hitler is appointed chancellor of Germany. After President Paul von Hindenburg dies in 1934, Hitler then purges members of his own party – the bloody Night of the Long Knives – with the help of Nazi storm troopers and becomes the unquestioned leader of Germany.

– Christopher Steele, the author of the dossier, was interviewed for 16 hours last month as part of the investigation by Michael Horowitz, the Justice Department’s inspector general. Politico’s Natasha Bertrand reports: “The extensive, two-day interview took place in London while Trump was in Britain for a state visit, [two] sources said, and delved into Steele’s extensive work on Russian interference efforts globally, his intelligence-collection methods and his findings about Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, who the FBI ultimately surveilled. … The interview was contentious at first, the sources added, but investigators ultimately found Steele’s testimony credible and even surprising. The takeaway has irked some U.S. officials interviewed as part of the probe — they argue that it shouldn’t have taken a foreign national to convince the inspector general that the FBI acted properly in 2016.”

On April 14, 1945, Dole’s company launched an attack, but a stone wall and a field of land mines trapped them in an exposed area, according to an excerpt on his 1996 presidential campaign website.

“Thank you all for being who you are and what you stand for,” Dole told the crowd, “and that you love America and you’re willing to fight for America, regardless of the consequences.”

Expect to see the R8 LMS GT2 battling it out in the GT2 category across Europe and North America next year.

Inventor(s): Gabriel Keita (Dallas, TX), Philip Miller (Dallas, TX) Assignee(s): ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (Charenton-le-Pont, , FR) Law Firm: Young Thompson (32 non-local offices) Application No., Date, Speed: 15540671 on 12/30/2015 (1280 days app to issue)

[A63B] APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT (apparatus for passive exercising, massage A61H)