William F. Semple, a dentist, was awarded the first US Patent on chewing gum in 1869. His recipe contained powdered chalk.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6110226 | Java development environment using optimizing ahead-of-time compiler The present invention, generally speaking, provides a machine-independent solution suitable for high-performance systems development. In a preferred embodiment, the solution is Java-based, providing machine independence. The requirements of high-performan... | 08/29/2000 |