...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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| 7452812 | Method to create super secondary grain growth in narrow trenches The present invention relates to a method for obtaining enlarged Cu grains in small trenches. More specifically it related to a method for creating enlarged copper grains or inducing super secondary grain growth in electrochemically deposited copper in narrow trench... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7232722 | Method of making a multibit non-volatile memory The present invention relates to a method of making a multibit non-volatile memory and especially to a method of making a flash memory such as a fast-programmable Flash EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory) device relying on hot-electron injec... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7196018 | Semiconductor etching paste and the use thereof for localized etching of semiconductor substrates A method of etching a semiconductor substrate is described, the method comprising the steps of applying a paste containing an etchant to the substrate, and carrying out a thermal processing step to etch a part or a layer of the substrate where the paste has been app... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7183604 | High dielectric constant device Dielectric material compositions comprising HfO2 and a second compound are disclosed. The compositions are characterized by at least a part of the compositions being in a cubic crystallographic phase. Further, semiconductor based devices comprising such d... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7124377 | Design method for essentially digital systems and components thereof and essentially digital systems made in accordance with the method The present invention relates to the design of essentially digital systems and components. In one embodiment, a parameterized model of a sub-component of an essentially digital system is provided. This sub-component is used in components of the system, e.g. intercon... | 10/17/2006 |
| 6576151 | Etching of silicon nitride by anhydrous halogen gas The present invention discloses a method for removing silicon nitride from a substrate, characterised in that it comprises contacting said substrate with a molten halogen salt.... | 06/10/2003 |