...that "patent leather" got its name because the process of applying the polished black finish to leather was once patented?
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7853412 | Estimation of wheel rail interaction forces A method of estimating contact forces between the wheels of a railway wagon and a rail track, for use in determining information such as the likelihood of derailment. Accelerations of the body of the wagon are measured using motion sensors located at suitable points... | 12/14/2010 |
| 6882748 | Method for image texture analysis A method and apparatus for image texture analysis in which the image is mapped into a first set of binary representation by a monotonically varying operator, such as a threshold operator. Each binary representation in the first set of binary representations is mappe... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6800370 | Photoresponsive surfaces The invention relates to an article having a photoresponsive surface, said article comprising a substrate having photoionisable moieties capable of undergoing dimerization attached to at least a portion of a surface thereof, the proximity of said moieties to one ano... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6354442 | Filter with counter flow clearing A filter system (10) comprising a filter medium (11) for filtering contaminants from a process fluid, having a filtration side on which contaminants collect and a filtrate side from which filtrate flows; a counter-flow generator (20) located on the filtra... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6017738 | Solid phase amplification process A method for detecting a target nucleic acid sequence comprises: (a) providing a first primer hybridizing to the target nucleic acid sequence, wherein the primer is immobilized on an immobile solid phase support by a direct chemical linkage between the pr... | 01/25/2000 |