...that to encourage use of his new invention, the shopping cart, market owner Sylvan Goldman hired fake shoppers to push the carts around his store in Oklahoma City? Seems his customers were reluctant to give up their hand-carried baskets.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8020343 | Enhanced shelf life and on seed stabilization of liquid bacterium inoculants The present invention includes a method for producing a liquid inoculant containing a desiccant. The method can improve survival and stability of bacteria in liquid inoculants in pack and on seeds. The method includes providing a liquid inoculant of a bacterium grow... | 09/20/2011 |
| D611519 | Digital camera | 03/09/2010 |
| 7112021 | Tool coupling for rotating tool A tool assembly includes first and second tool bodies, a tool coupling interconnecting the tool bodies, and a drawing member for drawing the tool bodies together along a common longitudinal axis. The tool coupling includes a male portion disposed on one of the first... | 09/26/2006 |
| D524391 | V-shaped central section defined by grooves on a face of a golf club head | 07/04/2006 |
| 6599932 | Alpha, beta-unsaturated sulfones for treating proliferative disorders Sulfones of formula I are useful as antiproliferative agents, including, for example, anticancer agents: ##STR1## wherein: Q1 is selected from the group consisting of (a) a phenyl radical according to formula II ##STR2## wherein R1,... | 07/29/2003 |