Did You Know...
...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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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4677366 | Unity power factor power supply A unity power factor power supply which includes a boost converter connected to the alternating current line which is controlled to draw sinusoidal current from the line by operating as a current regulator having a current reference control signal which t... | 06/30/1987 |
| 4584619 | Programmable servo pattern generator A programmable servo pattern generator for use in a magnetic disc drive servowriter system. The servo pattern generator of the present invention stores a multiplicity of different servo patterns in a convenient user-oriented format, and it provides high f... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4531167 | Servowriter system for magnetic disc drives A portable servowriter system for writing a closed clock track and servo tracks on one or more of the fixed discs of a fixed disc magnetic disc drive without the aid of a mechanical head positioner; and which is also capable of writing a closed clock trac... | 07/23/1985 |
| 4348761 | Portable field test unit for computer data and program storage disc drive A portable, programmable, microprocessor-controlled, universal field test unit is provided which is capable of performing functional tests on most, if not all, of the better known present-day disc drives, including the 80, 160 and 300 megabyte types. The ... | 09/07/1982 |
