Did You Know...
...that while attempting to develop a super strong glue, 3M employee Spencer Silver accidentally developed a glue that was so weak it would barely hold two pieces of paper together? However, his colleague Art Fry needed the glue. Fry sang with his church choir and marked the pages of his hymnal with small scraps of paper that often fell out. He used Silver's glue to hold the papers in place. Today we call this invention Post-it Notes.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8085991 | Face normalization for recognition and enrollment The present invention is an iterative method for normalization of a probe image against the Eigenspace learned from a database of images. The invention is also an iterative method for normalizing the n images in a database, wherein the normalization is carried out w... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8063930 | Automatic conversion from monoscopic video to stereoscopic video The invention is a method for converting a monoscopic video movie passively acquired using a single camera to a stereoscopic video movie. The method comprises generating stereoscopic pairs comprising, for each frame in the original sequence, a transformed original f... | 11/22/2011 |
| 7777672 | Radar system and method The invention relates to a radar system which comprises: (a) at least two transmitting units for simultaneously, and in synchronization transmitting electromagnetic radiation in distinct frequencies f1, f2, f3 . . . towards a space o... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7707922 | Mobile carrier for a projectile launcher A mobile projectile launcher is disclosed having a tiltable launching platform for supporting a plurality of canisters in each of which projectiles to be launched are stored and fired, a support plate pivotally connected to a horizontal cargo bed, and at least one l... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7679037 | Personal rifle-launched reconnaisance system A reconnaissance system includes a projectile having an opening through which images of a target area are acquired, a portable launcher having a mechanism for affixing the launcher to a rifle for launching the projectile to fly along and above the target area, an im... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7620483 | Method for guiding a remote vehicle via lagged communication channel The invention relates to a method for guiding from a remote control center a vehicle towards a target object, said remote control center communicating with the vehicle by means of a lagged communication channel, comprising: At the ... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7593160 | Method of compacting optical systems comprising multiple optical channels into confined spaces The present invention is a method of compacting an optical system comprising multiple optical channels. The method comprises providing one or more beam splitters and a plane mirror located one after the other along the principal ray in order to divert split-off beam... | 09/22/2009 |
