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...that the Band-Aid Bandage was invented by a Johnson & Johnson employee whose wife had cut herself? Earl Dickson's wife was rather accident prone, so he set out to develop a bandage that she could apply without help. He placed a small piece of gauze in the center of a small piece of surgical tape, and what we know today as the Band Aid bandage was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6317059 | Method and apparatus for display of flight guidance information A process and system are disclosed for representing flight guiding information for an aircraft. A spatial representation of the air space with at least one horizon and the previously calculated flight path of the aircraft is represented by means of video ... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6054994 | Process for depicting objects using an image reproduction device In a process for depicting objects using an image reproduction device, data that describe the form and position of objects are fed into at least one image memory. The data are read out line by line and, along with other data describing the other propertie... | 04/25/2000 |
| 6054937 | Method for representing flight guidance information According to a method for representing information for guiding the flight of an aircraft, the airspace with at least one horizon and the precalculated flight path of the aircraft are three-dimensionally represented by means of an image display device and ... | 04/25/2000 |
| 5798713 | Process for representing flight guidance information According to a process for representing information for guiding the flight of an aircraft, the airspace with at least one horizon and the precalculated flight path of the aircraft are three-dimensionally represented by means of animage display device and ... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5420582 | Method and apparatus for displaying flight-management information In a method and an apparatus for displaying flight management information for an aircraft, a three-dimensional display of the flight space with at least one horizon and the predicted flight path of the aircraft is effected by means of an image reproductio... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5283519 | Operation of inductive distance sensor by scaling output signal by vectorially obtained factor A method of operating an induction distance sensor employs a sensor having a vane or tongue of magnetic material disposed movably between two inductive coils for changing their inductances in the opposite sense upon movement of the tongue. With respect to... | 02/01/1994 |
