Did You Know...
...Chester Carlson was a patent agent who tired of having to make multiple copies of patent applications using the only duplication method available at the time: carbon paper. In 1959 he came up with a new copying system and took it to IBM for evaluation. The "experts" at IBM determined potential sales to be only 5,000 units because people wouldn't want to use a bulky machine when they had carbon paper. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, the company founded on the system is Xerox.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5858401 | Pharmaceutical composition for cyclosporines The invention comprises a stable solution of cyclosporine forming a polar lipid self-emulsifying drug delivery system ("PLSEDDS"). The composition typically consists of cyclosporine dissolved in a polar lipid, such as a medium chain monoglyceride of C | 01/12/1999 |
| 5407686 | Sustained release composition for oral administration of active ingredient A sustained release tablet adapted to provide an initial immediate release of an active agent, a period of no release of the active agent, followed by a substantially constant, rate of release of the active agent. The tablet includes (a) a compressed tabl... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5043168 | Solid choline magnesium salicylate composition and method of preparing same A stable, solid choline magnesium salicylte inclusion complex composition which comprises choline salicylate, magnesium salicylate and magnesium aluminum silicate, and granulation method for preparing the solid inclusion complex composition utilizing liqu... | 08/27/1991 |
