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...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 |
| 7790379 | Mapping of proteins along chromatin by chromatin cleavage The present invention is directed to a method for localizing, in chromatin or DNA, the binding loci of a chromatin or DNA binding protein comprising the following steps: a) tethering, directly or indirectly, an enzyme with regulata... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7727540 | Endosseous implant Endosseous implant to be applied to a human or animal bone, wherein the surface of the implant is made from titanium or a titanium alloy, said implant having a smooth or rough surface texture, which is characterized in that said surface has been treated with at leas... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7664288 | Digital watermarking method robust against local and global geometric distortions and projective transforms A method of digital watermarking which can resist against local geometrical distortions such as random bending attack, global geometrical distortions as well as projective transforms, but does not necessary require the recovering of global affine transform or even t... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7644281 | Character and vector graphics watermark for structured electronic documents security The present invention is a method and apparatus for watermarking text or vector graphics documents. It is based on character-wise or vector graphics element-wise grayscale or color modulation. At high resolution, halftone or dither modulation can also be used in add... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7580524 | Method and apparatus for synchronizing the emitter and the receiver in an autocompensating quantum cryptography system In a method and apparatus for synchronizing the receiver and the emitter in an autocompensating quantum cryptography system it is allowed to one of the stations (for example the emitter) to define the timing of all its operations (for example the application of a si... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7368247 | Diagnostic assay for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies Heart and brain fatty acid binding proteins (H-FABP, B-FABP) are markers for TSEs, especially CJD. The invention provides a diagnostic assay for either of these markers, preferably by enzyme immunoassay using a specific antibody thereto. Since H-FABP is also a marke... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7359513 | Quantum cryptography protocol An apparatus and method for implementing a quantum cryptography system encoding bit values on approximations of elementary quantum systems with provable and absolute security against photon number splitting attacks. The emitter encodes the bit values onto pairs of n... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7211564 | Methods and construction and screening of libraries of chemokine variants The present invention provides a method for the design and/or the selection of agonist or antagonist chemokine variants combining a phage display technology and a screening on living cells expressing the receptor of the corresponding native chemokine. It also provid... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7090496 | Endosseous implant Endosseous implant to be applied to human or animal bone, said implant having a surface made from a selected metal or a selected metal alloy or a ceramic, whereby said metal resp. metal alloy is selected from chromium, niobium, tantalum, vanadium, zirconium, alumini... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7033794 | Basolateral sorting signal and inhibitors thereof Mono-leucine dependent basolateral sorting signal consisting of the amino acid sequence X1h2X3h4Lp5p6, wherein: X1 represents a polar amino acid residue or alanine, h2 rep... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6677629 | Electric or electronic component and application as non volatile memory and device with surface acoustic waves The invention concerns a component of composite structure (10) consisting of a layer of ferroelectric material (11) and at least a thin film of semiconductor material or of a thin metal or supraconducting film (12) in close contact with the layer of ferro... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6376982 | Electric discharge lamp and luminescent material and compound An electric discharge lamp comprises a case with a transparent wall wherein the inner surface is coated with a luminescent material layer. The luminscent material is at least partially made up of a luminescent compound of general formula: Ba7-x-y | 04/23/2002 |
| 5865972 | Integrated electrochemical microsensors and microsystems for direct reliable chemical analysis of compounds in complex aqueous solutions A microsensor for electrochemical measurements allowing the determination of concentration or concentration profile of at least one chemical compound with small size or molecular weight, under organic, inorganic, neutral or ionic form in an aqueous enviro... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5852496 | Method and device for measuring polarization dispersion of an optical fiber The present invention concerns a method and a device for measuring polarization dispersion of an optical fiber which is particularly useful in telecommunications, and which has a finer resolution of this measurement in comparison to methods and devices kn... | 12/22/1998 |
