Did You Know...
...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 |
| RE42073 | Micro electrochemical energy storage cells Thin-film micro-electrochemical energy storage cells (MEESC) such as microbatteries and double-layer capacitors (DLC) are provided. The MEESC comprises two thin layer electrodes, an intermediate thin layer of a solid electrolyte and optionally, a fourth thin current... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7538830 | Light-emitting apparatus A light-emitting apparatus, comprising at least one LED element, and at least one liquid crystal lens disposed to face the LED element and positioned at a distance from the LED element, a focal length of light, broadening and narrowing directions of light, and chang... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7374912 | Nucleic acids encoding chimeric interleukin-6 soluble receptor/ligand protein, analogs thereof and uses thereof Chimeric proteins constructed from the fusion of the naturally occurring form of the soluble IL-6 receptor and IL-6 which are useful for treatment of cancer and liver disorders, enhancement of bone marrow transplantation, and treatment of other IL-6 related conditio... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7368722 | Method and apparatus for detecting ionizing radiation A method for detecting ionizing radiation with the aid of a scintillation counter and a photomultiplier using an inorganic solid-matter scintillator that incorporates at least one decay time component greater than 100 ns and measures the photons emitted by the scint... | 05/06/2008 |
| 6704920 | Process control for micro-lithography A method is presented for controlling a process to be applied to a patterned structure in a production run. Reference data is provided being representative of diffraction signatures corresponding to a group of different fields in a structure similar to th... | 03/09/2004 |
