Did You Know...
...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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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5379054 | Pointing device When keyboard 1 is set on the upper side, ball 10 is inserted between stopper 8 and the coordinate converting unit 4. As a result, the coordinate converting unit 4 is fixed by ball 10. When the user moves the pointing device on the flat surface, the ball ... | 01/03/1995 |
| 5133002 | Radiotelephone system that maintains synchronization between base and subordinate units while shifting carrier frequencies A radiotelephone system having a base unit and a plurality of subordinate units for carrying out radiocommunication between the base unit and the subordinate units. The base unit sends transmitting carriers to the subordinate units and gets receiving carr... | 07/21/1992 |
| 5073926 | Picture communication apparatus In a two-way communication system having first and second communication terminals, a telephone apparatus at each terminal for two-way telephone service and a picture communication apparatus at each terminal for providing users with visual images of each o... | 12/17/1991 |
