Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5434412 | Non-spectrophotometric measurement of analyte concentrations and optical properties of objects Improvements in non-invasive detection methods for glucose and other constituents of interest in a sample have been developed. The apparatus and methods of the invention provide an analog of color perception of human vision, preferably in the near infrare... | 07/18/1995 |
| 5424545 | Non-invasive non-spectrophotometric infrared measurement of blood analyte concentrations A new non-invasive non-spectrophotometric method for measuring the blood concentration of analytes such as glucose has been developed. The apparatus and methods of the invention exploit analogies with colorimetry and color perception to extract concentrat... | 06/13/1995 |
| 5242797 | Nucleic acid assay method An assay for polynucleotides employing total internal reflection of excitation radiation at a coating bonded to the surface of an optically conductive glass cell. The coating initially includes single-stranded polynucleotides coupled to individual attachm... | 09/07/1993 |
| 4909990 | Immunoassay apparatus An assay apparatus employing total internal reflection of excitation radiation at the interface between a replaceable optically conductive rod or fiber and a surrounding liquid phase of lower index of refraction. Immobilized on the surface of the fiber is... | 03/20/1990 |
| 4582809 | Apparatus including optical fiber for fluorescence immunoassay A method and apparatus for fluorescent immunoassay utilizes total internal reflection at the interface between a solid phase and a liquid phase of lower index of refraction to produce an evanescent wave in the liquid phase. The solid phase is arranged and... | 04/15/1986 |
| 4558014 | Assay apparatus and methods An assay apparatus and methods employing total internal fluorescence to define a thin observed volume of a multi-phase suspension from which the suspended phase, because of its size and shape, is substantially excluded. Observations of the fluorescence of... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4447546 | Fluorescent immunoassay employing optical fiber in capillary tube Fluorescent immunoassay apparatus and method employing a disposable consisting, in a preferred embodiment, of a short length of precise diameter capillary tubing having an axially disposed optical fiber to which is immobilized a monolayer of a component o... | 05/08/1984 |
