Felix Hoffmann, a German chemist, was searching for something to relieve his father's arthritis. In doing so, he "rediscovered" acetylsalicylic acid and in 1900, patented a stable process for developing it. Hence, we have aspirin.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7602822 | Fiber laser based production of laser drilled microvias for multi-layer drilling, dicing, trimming of milling applications Fiber lasers and methods for constructing and using fiber lasers for micro-/nano-machining with output beams including stacked pulses and combinations of continuous wave, pseudo-continuous wave and pulse sequence components. ... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7548323 | Displacement and flatness measurements by use of a laser with diffractive optic beam shaping and a multiple point sensor array using the back reflection of an illuminating laser beam A laser beam system for measuring an aspect of a surface wherein a laser beam is reshaped into a corrected shaped laser beam having a corrected energy profile and subsequently reshaped into a measurement shaped laser beam having an measurement energy profile shaped ... | 06/16/2009 |