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...that to encourage use of his new invention, the shopping cart, market owner Sylvan Goldman hired fake shoppers to push the carts around his store in Oklahoma City? Seems his customers were reluctant to give up their hand-carried baskets.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5856785 | Computer system having capslock ON audible warning signal An apparatus and method for generating an audible indication during the time that a computer system has been toggled into a mode wherein all the letters of the alphabet a displayed in the upper case or the so-called capslock "ON" mode.... | 01/05/1999 |
| 5832488 | Computer system and method for storing medical histories using a smartcard to store data A computer system and method for programming it for storage of individual medical histories on a storage device, preferably about the size of a credit card, for adding new medical data about the individual to the device and for communicating with other co... | 11/03/1998 |
