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 |
| 7168208 | Vehicle door guards This invention relates to a safety guard designed and adapted for use on the corners of vehicle doors to protect passengers from accidental contact with the sharp corner of a vehicle door. The door guard is particularly well suited to cars with a “bubble-wrap” d... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7532945 | Data model for supply chain planning A data model for a supply chain is provided whereby individual working steps in a production process are defined as activities, and organized groups of such activities are defined as orders. Activities are allocated to no more than one resource and contain informati... | 05/12/2009 |
| 6970852 | Methods and apparatus for conducting secure, online monetary transactions A system, method, and apparatus for conducting secure monetary transactions over a communications network is provided. The invention facilitates secure monetary and financial transactions over the Internet and other public networks for various purposes, including au... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6363791 | Pressure sensor A capacitance pressure sensor that prevents leakage from outside the sensor to the reference pressure cavity, has a structure that can decrease defects due to leakage compared to conventional technology. An electrode comprising a thin metallic layer is fo... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6355218 | Crystallizer with cooling element and sweeping element with sweeping parts, and sweeping element and sweeping part for such a crystallizer A crystallizer comprising an elongate housing with a drivable shaft extending in the longitudinal direction of the housing, at least one cooling element being placed astride on the shaft, which cooling element to that end has a slotted recess, the cooling... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6308166 | Methodology for advanced quantity-oriented cost assignment using various information sources A process template is provided to enhance the evaluation and control of an organization's costs, utilizing three layers. The first layer provides a user interface that accepts language-dependent function names and descriptions utilizing different editors ... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6194084 | Thermal spray powder of dicalcium silicate and coating thereof and manufacture thereof A powder of dicalcium silicate is made by spray drying calcia and silica with incorporation of sodium and phosphorus or stabilized zirconia. The spray dried powder is sintered to form a thermal spray powder. Sprayed coatings have a web of interconnected, ... | 02/27/2001 |
