Did You Know...
...that while attempting to develop a super strong glue, 3M employee Spencer Silver accidentally developed a glue that was so weak it would barely hold two pieces of paper together? However, his colleague Art Fry needed the glue. Fry sang with his church choir and marked the pages of his hymnal with small scraps of paper that often fell out. He used Silver's glue to hold the papers in place. Today we call this invention Post-it Notes.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8172170 | Modular creel A portable creel for organizing yarn packages and directing yarn to a tufting machine. A portable creel provides flexibility for carpet manufactures in that operators can pre-load portable creels with yarn packages for future runs and move them into position when ne... | 05/08/2012 |
| D657121 | Upper for a shoe | 04/10/2012 |
| D656725 | Upper for a shoe | 04/03/2012 |
| 8141271 | Shoe with improved construction A shoe construction wherein the upper is secured to the outsole by a stitch, and the upper folds inwardly in a first portion of the shoe and outwardly in a second portion of the shoe. The stitch allows an upper row of the stitching to be visible on the outside of th... | 03/27/2012 |
| D655907 | Upper for a shoe | 03/20/2012 |
| D655906 | Upper for a shoe | 03/20/2012 |
| D655905 | Upper for a shoe | 03/20/2012 |
| D655904 | Upper for a shoe | 03/20/2012 |
| RE43214 | Metatarsal protector Footwear for protecting a wearer's foot includes an upper an upper that defines an opening for receiving a wearer's foot and an outsole attached to the upper, the upper further including a vamp having a proximal and a distal region, an elastic instep guard positione... | 02/28/2012 |
| D654677 | Shoe | 02/28/2012 |
| D654676 | Shoe | 02/28/2012 |
| D654675 | Shoe | 02/28/2012 |
| D654674 | Shoe | 02/28/2012 |
| D654673 | Shoe | 02/28/2012 |
| D654672 | Shoe | 02/28/2012 |
| D654258 | Shoe | 02/21/2012 |
| D654257 | Shoe | 02/21/2012 |
| D654256 | Shoe | 02/21/2012 |
| D653436 | Shoe | 02/07/2012 |
| D653435 | Shoe | 02/07/2012 |
| D653434 | Shoe | 02/07/2012 |
| D653433 | Shoe | 02/07/2012 |
| D653075 | Small baker | 01/31/2012 |
| D653023 | Shoe | 01/31/2012 |
| D653022 | Shoe | 01/31/2012 |
| D653021 | Shoe | 01/31/2012 |
| 8092909 | Color foundation coat and color top coat paint system A paint system is provided that includes a foundation base component combined with a tinted, opaque top coat component and that hides any colors on all types of substrates and maintains the brightness and cleanness for all colors. The foundation base component is a ... | 01/10/2012 |
| D651871 | Manual food processor | 01/10/2012 |
| D650247 | Food slicer | 12/13/2011 |
| D650246 | Food slicer | 12/13/2011 |
| D650163 | Upper for a shoe | 12/13/2011 |
| D650162 | Upper for a shoe | 12/13/2011 |
| D650160 | Upper for a shoe | 12/13/2011 |
| D649413 | Food wedger | 11/29/2011 |
| 8060995 | Closing system A closing system having an item to be closed and opened, a clasp, and a receiver. The clasp has an anchoring end and a lace end, where the lace end is adapted to hold a part of the item and the anchoring end includes a first part and a second part that are movable a... | 11/22/2011 |
| D648989 | Food wedger | 11/22/2011 |
| 8034871 | Latex based open-time extenders for low VOC paints The present invention relates to paint extenders or open-time extenders, which are mixed with an architectural coating, such as aqueous latex paints, to increase the coating's open time. The open-time extender comprises acrylic or vinyl latex particles having a mean... | 10/11/2011 |
| D645767 | Measuring spoon | 09/27/2011 |
| D645650 | Shoe | 09/27/2011 |
| D645649 | Shoe | 09/27/2011 |
