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...that while attempting to develop a super strong glue, 3M employee Spencer Silver accidentally developed a glue that was so weak it would barely hold two pieces of paper together? However, his colleague Art Fry needed the glue. Fry sang with his church choir and marked the pages of his hymnal with small scraps of paper that often fell out. He used Silver's glue to hold the papers in place. Today we call this invention Post-it Notes.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7596598 | Multi-media tool for creating and transmitting artistic works A system for collaboratively producing artwork includes a server and a plurality of user computers coupled to a network. The server transmits a request for submissions to collaborators and who prepare portions of the artwork using multimedia tools provided by the se... | 09/29/2009 |
| 6975345 | Polarizing modulator for an electronic stereoscopic display A polarizing modulator for use in an electronic stereoscopic display system having a sequentially scanning display includes a plurality of liquid crystal segments arranged contiguously in a direction of the sequential scan. The liquid crystal material used in each s... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6934743 | Method and apparatus for displaying intermediate content messages in the unused portion of a web browser display space A system for displaying intermediate message content over the unused area of a web browser is described. An intermediate message display process is linked to the web browser program executed on a client computer. The process monitors user activity on the client comp... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6930254 | Chemically-doped composite insulator for early detection of potential failures due to exposure of the fiberglass rod A composite insulator containing means for providing early warning of impending failure due to stress corrosion cracking, flashunder, or destruction of the rod by discharge activity conditions is described. A composite insulator comprising a fiberglass rod surrounde... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6919823 | Image recording apparatus and method An image recording apparatus is disclosed for recording traffic signal violations such as a traffic light signal changing to a red light. The apparatus includes a capturing unit for capturing a first image substantially at an instant of time that a control signal ch... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6913819 | Cementitious veneer and laminate material A cementitious veneer and laminate composition is provided. The cementitious laminate composition includes a substrate, a primer layer applied to the substrate, the primer layer comprising a mixture of polyvinyl alcohol catalyst, Portland cement, and sand; and a cem... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6867965 | Compound portable computing device with dual portion keyboard coupled over a wireless link A compound portable computing device comprising two or more separate portable devices coupled over a wireless link is described. A first portable computing device contains a first portion of a full-size conventional QWERTY keyboard. A second portable computing devic... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6851850 | Electronic fever thermometer An electronic fever thermometer includes a housing made of a transparent material, for example, transparent plastic. The housing includes a temperature sensor to measure the temperature, and a display element to display the measured temperature. The housing has a tr... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6850210 | Parallax panoramagram having improved depth and sharpness A parallax panoramagram has increased depth and sharpness when a sharpness filter is applied after interdigitation of multiple image portions. An optical path of wave train (204) (on-axis) and wave train (205) (off-axis) intersect a single lenticle ( | 02/01/2005 |
| 6823294 | Method and system for measuring circuit design capability A method is provided for quantifying circuit design complexity. Conclusions regarding the time and effort to implement a circuit design are thereby derived and historical and predictive analyses prepared. Common circuit design parameters are determined using a compu... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6746128 | Ultra-high resolution imaging devices The invention provides an ultra-high numerical aperture imaging device (1) comprising two rotationally symmetric curved mirrors (11h, 12b), which can be used to achieve very high concentrations of light or other sorts of wave (or o... | 06/08/2004 |
| 5901368 | Radiolysis-assisted decontamination process A method for minimizing the radioactive waste produced by decontamination processes for water-cooled nuclear reactors. The method exposes the decontamination chemicals to the ionizing radiation emitted from the reactor fuel under controlled conditions to ... | 05/04/1999 |
