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 |
| 8017090 | Apparatus and method for rapid and continuous generation of phosphine gas Phosphine gas is generated by agitating a reaction mixture of a metal phosphide and water with agitation air in a reaction pot of a phosphine gas generator. The resulting phosphine gas is then diluted with dilution air to produce a fumigant phosphine gas which is di... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7445791 | Synergistic insecticidal composition containing Chloronicotynyle and Organosphosphorus compounds A synergistic insecticidal composition is prepared by combining a Chloronicotynyle compound and an Organophosphorus (OP) compound. The preferred synergistically effective amount of the Chloronicotynyle compounds is an amount preferably ranging from 0.1 to 5% by weig... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7229949 | Safe delivery system for agriculturally active material A safe delivery system of agriculturally active material is formed using an encapsulation process. A microencapsulated suspension of agriculturally active material includes an encapsulating agent formed from a graft copolymer of starch and at least one vinyl monomer... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7074355 | Process for dry granulation by agitative balling for the preparation of chemically stable, dry-flow, low compact, dust free, soluble spherical granules of phosphoroamidothioate Chemically stable, dry-flow, low compact, dust free, soluble granules of phosphoroamidothioate are prepared using a substantially dry granulation process including an agitative balling process. In a preferred embodiment, spherically shaped acephate granules are prod... | 07/11/2006 |