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International Business Machines Corporation

Ray S Anderson

Madhu Pavan Kothapally

Narinder Kaur

Namrata Kumari

A stylus, in accordance with one embodiment, includes an elongated body having an input mechanism for receiving user selection of a color to be output upon interaction of the stylus with a computing device. The stylus also includes a nib functional as a transmitting unit to publish the selected color to a receiver of the computing device when the nib is in contact and/or near contact with the receiver. A computer-implemented method for synchronizing a stylus having color selection to a computing device, in accordance with one embodiment, includes outputting a request to a user to select a color on the stylus and touch the stylus to a receiver of the computing device. Touch of the stylus to the receiver of the computing device is detected. A capacitance of the stylus is calculated. The capacitance of the stylus is stored in association with the color.

Multi-color stylus for mutual capacitance touch screen devices

A lawnmower blade includes an elongated flat bar having a central aperture for attachment of the flat bar to a rotary drive shaft for rotation of the blade in a predetermined direction in concert with rotation of the rotary drive shaft. The flat bar has a pair of opposite portions, extending in opposite directions from the aperture. A pair of first cutting edges are defined along outer sections of leading sides of the opposite portions of the flat bar and extend substantially perpendicular to the tangential direction of the path of rotation of the blade. A pair of second cutting edges are defined along outer ends of opposite portions of the flat bar and extend angularly outwardly from the outer leading side cutting edges to the outer trailing sides of the flat bar relative to the direction of rotation of the blade. The pair of straight outer leading side cutting edges also can have a plurality of crescent-shaped serrations or sawtooth-shaped serrations formed therein.

Lawnmower blade with outer leading side and angled end cutting edges

A lawnmower blade includes a center blade section having an opening for mounting and fastening the blade to the lower end of a mower drive shaft and a pair of opposite outer blade sections containing cutting edges. The outer blade sections are substantially equal in length to one another. Also, the blade includes a pair of assemblies defining yieldable articulating joints attaching one end portion of each outer blade section to one of the opposite end portions of the center blade section such that each outer blade section can both pivot upwardly and rotate backwardly relative to the forward direction of blade rotation and to the respective one opposite end portion of the center blade section so as to yield upon striking an object and thereby prevent damage to the engine crankshaft or the cutting edges. The outer blade sections are capable of restoring to straightened longitudinal alignment with the center blade section, after passing the object, due to response to centrifugal force imposed on the outer blade sections by their rotation with the center blade section.

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Bell Buckle, TN, United States of America

Ray S Anderson