Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7439264 | Therapeutic compounds This invention to antagonists that inhibit transporters and receptors. The invention also relates to partial inhibitors of transporters and receptors that allow partial transport or partial binding of a compound to the transporter or receptor. The invention also rel... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7285687 | Cannabinoids Compounds of the formula: wherein R, R1 and R4 are defined in the specification, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters and tautomers thereof, having activity at peripheral cannabinoid receptors, commonly designated the CB2 receptor class. The compounds are u... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7199132 | Tropane analogs and methods for inhibition of monoamine transport New tropane analogs that bind to monoamine transporters are described, particularly, 8-aza, 8carbo and 8-oxo tropanes having 6- or 7-hydroxyl or ketone substituents. The compounds of the present invention can be racemic, pure R-enantiomers, or pure S-enantiomers. Ce... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7109245 | Vasoconstrictor cannabinoid analogs Methods and compounds for reversing pathological vasodilation of blood vessels, for example vasodilation caused by activation of CB1-like receptors, by administering to a subject a therapeutically effective amount of a compound sufficient to induce vasoconstriction,... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7026516 | Compounds with high monoamine transporter affinity Featured compounds have high monoamine transport affinity and are characterized by one of the following two general formulas set out above. The compounds bind selectively or non-selectively to monoamine transporters. The compounds are useful to treat various medical... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6171576 | Dopamine transporter imaging agent Radiopharmaceutical compounds are disclosed. A tropane compound is linked through the N atom at the 8-position to a chelating ligand capable of complexing technetium or rhenium to produce a neutral labeled complex that selectively binds to the dopamine tr... | 01/09/2001 |
