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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 |
| 8169381 | Method and apparatus for spatial display using a rasterized imaging device and an array of filter elements The invention relates to arrangements for spatial display, and in particular to such arrangements that, by means of wavelength or gray level filter arrays, present an image visible in three dimensions to one or several observers without the use of auxiliary aids suc... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166430 | Method for determining the quality of a quantity of properties, to be employed for verifying and specifying circuits A method is specified for determining the quality of a quantity of properties describing a machine, including a step for determining the existence of at least one sub-quantity of interrelated properties (P0, P1, . . . Pn) of the form Pi=(forall t. Ai(t)=>... | 04/24/2012 |
| D658327 | Ceiling lamp | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159492 | Method for simulating optical components for the stereoscopic production of spatial impressions The invention relates to a simulation method, especially to a method for simulating spatial impressions which are produced by means of an image generator and one or several filter arrays. The method according to the invention essentially comprises the followi... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155935 | System and method of sub-surface system design and installation The system and method of the present invention provides comprehensive design and installation management for agricultural water management systems. Maps and grade profiles are created from data collected by Global Positioning devices in the field. Latitude, longitud... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8142333 | Ropeless jump rope having replaceable tip In a preferred embodiment, the present invention is a ropeless jump rope having a pair of handles wherein each handle comprises a housing having a removable rotatable tip at one end to which a flexible elongated member such as a rope, or string is secure to the tip ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8142020 | Autostereoscopic projection system The invention relates to an autostereoscopic projection arrangement, comprising at least one projector (4) and at least one filter array (F1, F2), which has a multitude of filter elements arranged in columns and rows, in which arrangemen... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8120646 | Spatial representation assembly The invention relates to arrangements for spatially displaying a scene or object, in which a great number of individual pixels αij in a grid of rows (j) and columns (i) are made visible simultaneously, with the pixels (αij) presenting bits of... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8110190 | Anti-idiotypic antibodies neutralizing the inhibitory activity of an inhibitory antibody directed against the C1 domain of Factor VIII The present invention is related to a monoclonal anti-idiotypic antibody directed against a Factor VIII inhibitor antibody binding to the C1 domain of Factor VIII, as well as to a cell line producing this monoclonal anti-idiotypic antibody, to the use of this monocl... | 02/07/2012 |
| D651537 | Figurine | 01/03/2012 |
| 8046557 | Apparatus and method for on-demand in-memory database management platform A method and apparatus for constructing a memory-based database service platform, in which database can be on-loaded and off-loaded or unloaded as needed, and can reserve schedule and size of memory and other resources, including CPUs, network, backup, mirroring and... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8033463 | System and method for machine-assisted election auditing A method for auditing ballots cast in an election, wherein each ballot is associated with a group. A subset of groups from which sample ballots will be chosen is identified. An identifier is printed on each ballot in the subset. Each ballot has a different identifie... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7979666 | System and method for context-independent codes for off-chip interconnects A system and method for context-independent coding using frequency-based mapping schemes, sequence-based mapping schemes, memory trace-based mapping schemes, and/or transition statistics-based mapping schemes in order to reduce off-chip interconnect power consumptio... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7966327 | Similarity search system with compact data structures A content-addressable and -searchable storage system for managing and exploring massive amounts of feature-rich data such as images, audio or scientific data, is shown. A segmentation and feature extraction unit segments data corresponding to an object into a plural... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7961318 | Circular birefringence refractometer: method and apparatus for measuring optical activity A system and method for detection and measurement of circular birefringences in materials that exhibit the Faraday effect. The method and apparatus permit detection of optical activities via the difference in the directions of propagation the left- and the right-cir... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7957617 | Methods, materials and devices for light manipulation with oriented molecular assemblies in micronscale photonic circuit elements with High-Q or slow light An optical device that comprises an input waveguide, an output waveguide, a high-Q resonant or photonic structure that generate slow light connected to the input waveguide and the output waveguide, and an interface, surface or mode volume modified with at least one ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7928893 | Apparatus and method for compressive sensing radar imaging Method and apparatus for developing radar scene and target profiles based on Compressive Sensing concept. An outgoing radar waveform is transmitted in the direction of a radar target and the radar reflectivity profile is recovered from the received radar wave sequen... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7916741 | System and method for preventing count-to-infinity problems in ethernet networks A system and method for preventing a count-to-infinity problem in a network using epochs of sequence numbers in protocol messages to eliminate stale protocol information in the network and to allow the forwarding topology to recover in merely one round trip time acr... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7826509 | Broadly tunable single-mode quantum cascade laser sources and sensors A broadly tunable single-mode infrared laser source based on semiconductor lasers. The laser source has two parts: an array of closely-spaced DFB QCLs (or other semiconductor lasers) and a controller that can switch each of the individual lasers in the array on and ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7821363 | Method and apparatus for bending electrostatic switch An electronic circuit is formed by closely spacing metallic gate and drain interconnects to a flexible portion of a source interconnect. A gate voltage results in electrostatic attraction and lateral mechanical movement of the flexible source interconnect portion an... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7818700 | System and method for verification and generation of timing exceptions The invention relates to a method for verifying one or more exceptions in a logic circuit comprising the steps of: a first step of providing an initial representation of a logic circuit; a second step of indicating at least one exception for the logic circuit; a thi... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7817826 | Apparatus and method for partial component facial recognition A method and system for identifying a human being or verifying two human beings by partial component(s) of their face. A probe human face image is identified from the gallery database by detecting and segmenting a plurality of partial face components from the probe ... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7817821 | Integrated portable identification and verification device An portable integrated identification and verification system is disclosed. The station includes multiple devices integrated for identifying or verifying the identity of a person. The multiple devices, which may include a camera, a document scanner, and a fingerprin... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7771384 | Trocar with integral irrigation and suction tube A trocar tube incorporating integral irrigation and aspiration capabilities with positioning control. These capabilities can be used in conjunction with endoscopic tools which can be fed through the trocar housing. Specifically, the invention can be used to clean th... | 08/10/2010 |
| D617666 | Interface test adapter | 06/15/2010 |
| 7712897 | Varifocal lens A method for constructing a progressive varifocal lens having a far vision area, a near vision area and an intermediate progression area. the method comprises the steps of a) determining the x- and y-coordinates of a first point in the closed interval between the fa... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7689005 | Apparatus and method for biometric database management system A method and system for constructing a database management system for managing biometric data is disclosed. The disclosed system receives data from another database or from and enrollment process, encodes the data with an encoding plug-in, and stores the encoded dat... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7677798 | System including a portable device for receiving dental images The system for taking images includes a portable base (2) for managing an image sensor (1) used to take the image of a tooth, providing an electronic image which is transmitted to display circuits (80), and it includes sequencing circuits, which... | 03/16/2010 |
| D611034 | Set of speakers | 03/02/2010 |
| 7667497 | Process variation tolerant circuit with voltage interpolation and variable latency A circuit having dynamically controllable power. The circuit comprises a plurality of pipelined stages, each of the pipelined stages comprising two clocking domains, a plurality of switching circuits, each switching circuit being connected to one of the pipelined st... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7621853 | Ropeless jump rope A ropeless jump rope for simulating the jumping of rope and for calculating, recording, and displaying a variety of data relating to the use of the ropeless jump rope. A preferred embodiment comprises a housing having a grip on at least a portion thereof and a displ... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7611510 | APC dual mode LEEP apparatus and method A multi-mode LLETZ or LEEP device for performing LLETZ surgery and argon plasma coagulation using a single device is disclosed. The disclosed device has a body with a channel therein and movable arms having a wire therebetween at a distal end of the body such that t... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7579965 | Vehicle data collection and processing system A system for collecting, storing, linking and processing license plate data to provide compilations of information and displays of such compiled information. The system has a license plate reading system that may record time and location data in addition to license ... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7578817 | Combination argon plasma coagulation and electrocautery device and method A combination argon plasma coagulation (APC) and monopolar electrosurgical device and method are shown. An electrosurgical tool such as a spatula, hook, ball, or the like has a neck and a plurality of members biased to an open position. The electrosurgical tool is c... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7571398 | Method for the determination of the quality of a set of properties, usable for the verification and specification of circuits A method is specified for determining the quality of a quantity of properties describing a machine, including a step for determining the existence of at least one sub-quantity of interrelated properties (P0, P1, . . . Pn) of the form Pi=(forall t. A | 08/04/2009 |
| 7549990 | Surgical scissors with argon plasma coagulation capability Surgical scissors having argon plasma coagulation capability are shown. The surgical scissors include in their body a channel for receiving a flexible tube having a wire within it. The flexible tubing and wire within it are connected to a generator that provides ele... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7546517 | Error-correcting circuit for high density memory This invention relates to a circuit technique for rapidly and efficiently correcting for read and write data errors in a digital semiconductor memory. More generally, this can also be in any type of digital memory or digital communication channel. As semiconductor m... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7511643 | Method and apparatus for distributed compressed sensing A method for approximating a plurality of digital signals or images using compressed sensing. In a scheme where a common component xc of said plurality of digital signals or images an innovative component xi of each of said plurality of digital... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7506937 | Lateral honeycomb support for seat A seating element for an automobile vehicle with a cushion formed from a central portion (10) with an exterior face for supporting a user seated on the seat and at least a lateral portion (20) on the door side, the lateral portion (20) being pro... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7505610 | Integrated portable identification and verification device An portable integrated identification and verification system is disclosed. The station includes multiple devices integrated for identifying or verifying the identity of a person. The multiple devices, which may include a camera, a document scanner, and a fingerprin... | 03/17/2009 |
