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3M employee and church chorister Art Fry needed something to temporarily mark pages in his hymnal. He was in luck because his colleague, Spencer Silver, accidentally developed a glue that was too weak for other purposes. After initially discouraging consumer response, Post-it Notes became a hit in 1979.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7387515 | Printed circuit board connection An improved printed circuit board connection for connecting a first printed circuit board to a second printed circuit board in a manner that permits physical engagement at a different position than the electrical engagement, and a method for making the improved prin... | 06/17/2008 |
| 6914429 | MR imaging system and data acquisition method Magnetic resonance imaging uses a pulse sequence formed to include a pre-pulse, an RF excitation pulse, an encoding gradient pulse, and a reading gradient pulse. The encoding gradient pulse has an encoding amount determined to allow a data acquisition position in a ... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6797551 | Semiconductor device having contact electrode to semiconductor substrate An isolation region is embedded in a semiconductor substrate. The height of the upper face of the isolation region is substantially equal to the height of the surface of the semiconductor substrate. A gate electrode is formed on a gate insulating film and over the i... | 09/28/2004 |
