Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5134157 | Amino acid of cycloaliphatic alcohols, process for their preparation and use as drugs Amino acid esters of cycloaliphatic alcohols of the formula: ##STR1## wherein A is cyclohexyl, cyclohexenyl, cyclopentyl and cyclopentenyl, substituted with from one to three radicals which are methyl, ethyl, and/or ethenyl. These amino acid esters h... | 07/28/1992 |
| 5023358 | Vanadyl organo-mineral compound, method for obtaining such a compound, pharmaceutical composition containing this organo-mineral compound The present invention concerns a vanadyl organo-mineral compound which is in the form of a complex of vanadyl and of cystein, having the following general formula: ##STR1## wherein, either x is 1 and y is 0, or x is 0 and y is 1, and wherein n, p ... | 06/11/1991 |
| 4804684 | Symmetrical O-substituted dioximes of benzo-fused ଲ-diketocyclo-alkylenes, the processes for their preparation and their application as drugs Drugs with high anticonvulsant and analgesic activities constituted by symmetrical ଲ-dialkoxyiminocycloalklene derivatives in which the imine double bonds are conjugated with the cyclic double bond or bonds belonging to one or more fused benzene rin... | 02/14/1989 |
| 4472387 | Pharmaceutical compositions capable of increasing cerebral serotonin concentration A pharmaceutical composition suitable for increasing cerebral serotonin concentration, comprising a serotonin precursor selected from the group consisting of 5-hydroxytryptophan and derivatives of 5-hydroxytryptophan having the formula: ##STR1## ... | 09/18/1984 |