...that Thomas Edison's patent application on his phonograph was approved by the Patent Office in just seven weeks? In contrast, it took Gordon Gould, the inventor of the laser, 30 years to obtain his patent -- finally awarded in 1988!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7501003 | Composite filter media The invention provides a renewable composite filter media for removal of particles from a fluid stream. The filter media includes a membrane filtration layer comprising a porous polymeric membrane having an upstream side and a downstream side relative to the directi... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7498385 | Polyester compositions, methods of manufacturing said compositions, and articles made therefrom Crosslinked polymer compositions have backbones with first and second divalent saturated aliphatic moieties, a divalent saturated aliphatic secondary alcohol moiety, and a trivalent saturated aliphatic moiety. Hydrolytically labile ester bonds joined together these ... | 03/03/2009 |
| D576948 | Cover for mechanical cable termination | 09/16/2008 |
| 7357709 | Metal vent A metal vent having an aperture for the passage of a fluid, a porous membrane sealing the aperture, wherein the components of the vent are assembled by an interference fit. ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7318859 | Modular adsorbent filters A compact sorbent filter for selectively sorbing contaminants and method of removing contamination from an enclosure with a filter is disclosed. Filters of the present invention comprise two or more modular adsorbent units that can be foldably connected and possibly... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7306659 | Adsorbent breather filter The invention relates to a device for filtering contaminants, such as particulates and vapor phase contaminants, from a confined environment such as electronic or optical devices susceptible to contamination (e.g. computer disk drives) by improving performance and p... | 12/11/2007 |