Did You Know...
...that the Eveready Battery began as an invention called the "electric flowerpot," which was a tube with a battery and light bulb inside? The idea was to fasten this gizmo to the side of a flowerpot so it would illuminate the flowers from the bottom. The idea died on the vine and the businessman who licensed the flower pot, Conrad Huber, was left with a pile of useless tubes -- until he found a way to market them as batteries to light the world!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8046251 | Electronic employee selection systems and methods An automated employee selection system can use a variety of techniques to provide information for assisting in selection of employees. For example, pre-hire and post-hire information can be collected electronically and used to build an artificial-intelligence based ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7562059 | Development of electronic employee selection systems and methods An automated employee selection system can use a variety of techniques to provide information for assisting in selection of employees. For example, pre-hire and post-hire information can be collected electronically and used to build an artificial-intelligence based ... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7558767 | Development of electronic employee selection systems and methods An automated employee selection system can use a variety of techniques to provide information for assisting in selection of employees. For example, pre-hire and post-hire information can be collected electronically and used to build an artificial-intelligence based ... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7555441 | Conceptualization of job candidate information A variety of technologies are applied to conceptualization of job candidate information. For example, concepts can be extracted from a job candidate's resume via an ontology. Concepts can be arranged hierarchically within the ontology, and parent concepts can be ext... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7472097 | Employee selection via multiple neural networks A plurality of neural networks or other models can be used in employee selection technologies. A hiring recommendation can be based at least on processing performed by a plurality of neural networks. For example, parallel or series processing by neural networks can ... | 12/30/2008 |
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