...that the Band-Aid Bandage was invented by a Johnson & Johnson employee whose wife had cut herself? Earl Dickson's wife was rather accident prone, so he set out to develop a bandage that she could apply without help. He placed a small piece of gauze in the center of a small piece of surgical tape, and what we know today as the Band Aid bandage was born!
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20080320315 | Method for Creating a Secure Counter on an On-Board Computer System Comprising a Chip Card According to the inventive method, the chip card, a counting function (FC), a counter (Cpt) and a private key (Cf) stored in the write-only part of the memory region are stored in a persistent memory, the counter and the private key (Cf) being accessible only by the cou... | 12/25/2008 |