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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 |
| 8184896 | Methods of determining quality of a light source Methods for determining a quality of a light source applied to a photolithographic process are provided. An image sensor array is exposed to a light from a light source. Addresses and respective intensities corresponding to a plurality of locations on a pupil map re... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183933 | High-voltage impulse amplifier A circuit includes a first transistor in a common-collector configuration and a heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) in a common-emitter configuration. The first transistor has a base coupled to an input node for receiving a pulsed signal. A collector of the firs... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182479 | Surgical glove system A surgical system including a surgical glove having support systems such as, but not limited to, lights, electrical cautery, suction, and irrigation. The surgical glove may include one or more lights, electrical cautery, suction, and irrigation positioned on distal ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181877 | Aiming device An aiming device for an image acquisition apparatus includes light emitting means and a light guide arranged for receiving a luminous radiation generated by the light emitting means and for providing reference image means in an aiming zone, the light guide including... | 05/22/2012 |
| D660222 | Tire for automobile | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181208 | Media server and network for coaxial cable supporting legacy set top boxes A media server located in the home has video processing and storage capability. The media server receives video programming and control data from the cable plant head-end and receives status and control data from set top boxes (STBs). The media server can also recei... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179920 | High efficiency preambles for communications systems over pseudo-stationary communication channels A method includes appending a preamble to a data packet and transmitting the preamble and data packet over a communication channel in the network. The preamble may be a Beacon, Admission, Broadcast, or High-Throughput Preamble. The Beacon Preamble includes the follo... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179011 | Brushless motor A brushless motor including a stator having teeth and a rotor having magnetic pole portions is disclosed. The magnetic pole portions are arranged to have the same polarities as each other. The rotor includes gaps that function as magnetic resistance at circumferenti... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8174868 | Embedded SRAM structure and chip An embedded SRAM chip in a 32 nm or smaller technology generation includes a first SRAM array of first SRAM unit cells. Each first SRAM unit cell includes a data latch for data storage and at least two pass gates for data reading and writing access. The cell area is... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8173147 | Gentle, non-irritating, non-alcoholic skin disinfectant The present invention relates to leave-on antimicrobial compositions that provide a substantial reduction in Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria without the use of alcohol as either a vehicle or a secondary active ingredient. ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172398 | Unit for obtaining and displaying fundus image Unit for obtaining and displaying fundus image is comprised of a memory that stores a plurality of fundus images wherein a positional relation between an optical axis of an eye ball being examined and an optical axis of an objective is different, an image playback p... | 05/08/2012 |
| D659094 | Portable battery charger | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170809 | Guided waves for nondestructive testing of pipes A method for the nondestructive testing of pipeline, and internal or external coatings, using guided ultrasonic waves excited from the inside or outside diameter, wherein at least two transducers are employed to send and receive ultrasound, wherein a data normalizat... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169854 | System and method for wireless data transmission The invention relates to a system and method for wireless data transmission in an open process regime, for example a producing (or injecting) well associated with oil and gas production, the system comprising means for data acquisition, means for en data conversion,... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8167192 | Manufacturing method for ceramic heater Disclosed herein is a manufacturing method for a ceramic heater. The manufacturing method includes the step of manufacturing a sintered ceramic substrate using a ceramic material and forming a conductive through hole in the ceramic substrate, the step of screen prin... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8161864 | Firearm gas piston operating system A gas piston operating system for an autoloading firearm. The gas piston system may include a barrel having a longitudinally-extending bullet pathway, a gas block defining a piston bore, a passageway fluidly connecting the bore with the bullet pathway for diverting ... | 04/24/2012 |
| D658174 | Portable computer with barcode reader | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160609 | System and method for multiple range estimation location A system and method of determining the location of a mobile station by determining the time of transmission of a signal by a mobile station and determining range rings at a plurality of reference stations receiving the transmitted signal, where the range rings repre... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8158306 | Method and system for combining photomasks to form semiconductor devices A photomask set includes at least two masks that combine to form a device pattern in a semiconductor device. Orthogonal corners may be produced in a semiconductor device pattern to include one edge defined by a first mask and an orthogonal edge defined by a second m... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8157379 | Perimeter and method of controlling perimeter In a perimeter, luminance judging means measures a sensitivity of an examinee, sensitivity deviation computing means obtains a sensitivity deviation, means for computing ratio to p value obtains a ratio to p value, and means for adding ratios to p value adds ratios ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8157304 | Lifting sling system There is disclosed a lifting sling system for connecting various loads to a lifting hook (1), comprising a small number of combinable lifting sling units (10, 20), each consisting of a number of pre-assembled parts (11, 12, 13; 21, 22, 23). Thes... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156715 | Method of storing and dispensing paper in a ream wrap A packaging for reams of cut paper involving tear tapes made of plastic or paper maternal inserted into the ream wrap. The tear tapes may be pulled to tear off and open one end of the wrapped ream, leaving the remaining packaging intact to serve as a storage and dis... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154733 | Method and system for the optical measurement of large radii of curvature of optical functional surfaces The system and the method of the present invention differ from the prior art in that radii of curvature of any length of spherical and cylindrical test surfaces can be optically measured, with only a supplementary dual-focus lens being required in addition to an int... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8153492 | Self-aligned V-channel MOSFET Forming a high-κ/metal gate field effect transistor using a gate last process in which the channel region has a curved profile thus increasing the effective channel length improves the short channel effect. During the high-κ/metal gate process, after the sacrifici... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8153254 | Methods for modifying the surfaces of a solid and microstructured surfaces with increased adherence produced with said methods Described are methods for surface modification of an object (10) in order to increase the adhesive power of the object, wherein the surface (11) is subjected to structuring so that a multitude of projections (12) are formed, each comprising a fo... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8152815 | Constrained acetabular trialing system A trial head and shell for use in trial reduction of hip implants, and particularly bipolar implants, having locking features that prevent the head from dissociating from the shell during trialing, yet which allow the head and shell to be readily assembled and disas... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151938 | Tool case for engaging a ladder A tool case for engaging a ladder comprises a skeleton, having a horizontal top surface and a vertical surface, extending from the horizontal top surface, the vertical surface and the horizontal top surface defining a compartment. The tool case also comprises a hori... | 04/10/2012 |
| D657282 | Heart jewelry | 04/10/2012 |
| D657136 | Cell phone case | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151038 | SSD with a channel multiplier An integrated circuit includes a first serial advanced technology attachment (SATA) channel, a plurality of second SATA channels, and a channel multiplier. The first SATA channel is configured to be coupled to a corresponding serial data bus of a host device. Each o... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149562 | System for decharging a wafer or substrate after dechucking from an electrostatic chuck A system for decharging a wafer or substrate disposed on an electrostatic chuck, includes a capacitance detector for measuring a capacitance between the electrostatic chuck and the wafer or substrate, and a decharging voltage calculator for calculating a decharging ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8148463 | Alkaline resol phenol-aldehyde resin binder compositions This invention relates to alkaline resol phenol-aldehyde binder compositions and their use in the production of articles of bonded particulate material such as foundry moulds, foundry cores, or feeders. ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8148270 | Low K dielectric surface damage control A method of removing a silicon nitride or a nitride-based bottom etch stop layer in a copper damascene structure by etching the bottom etch stop layer is disclosed, with the method using a high density, high radical concentration plasma containing fluorine and oxyge... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8147687 | Ballast water treatment apparatus The present invention provides a ballast water treatment system including a reaction tank in which raw water and ozone are imported and made to react each other for a predetermined period of time to kill microorganisms existing in raw water, an ozone decomposer in w... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8147686 | Ballast water treatment apparatus The present invention provides a ballast water treatment system including a reaction tank in which raw water and ozone are imported and made to react each other for a predetermined period of time to kill microorganisms existing in raw water, an ozone decomposer in w... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8146245 | Method for assembling a wafer level test probe card A method for assembling a probe card for wafer level testing of a plurality of semiconductor devices simultaneously is disclosed. The probe card may include a circuit board including wafer level testing circuitry, a partially flexible silicon substrate, a plurality ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8142616 | Papermaking method using one or more quaternized dialkanolamine fatty acid ester compounds to control opacity and paper product made thereby A method for making an opacity relevant grade paper or paperboard product, such as a communication type paper used for printing and writing applications, utilizes an effective amount of quaternized alkanolamine fatty acid ester compounds as an opacification aid to c... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8142584 | Insulation product having bicomponent fiber facing layer and method of manufacturing the same An insulation product is provided comprising an insulation sheet containing randomly oriented fibers bonded together. The sheet has first and second major surfaces and a pair of side portions. A nonwoven facing layer is bonded to at least one of the major surfaces. ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8141781 | Laser light beam scanning device for reading coded information and scanning optical element for such device A laser light beam scanning device for reading coded information includes an emission source of a laser light beam, an optical element for scanning the laser light beam on a support containing coded information, an optical element for collecting the light coming fro... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140626 | Apparatus of playing casino game An apparatus of playing casino game has presentation means for presenting an affiliate advertisement, control means for transmitting personal information of users to a sever of the affiliate advertisement and obtaining a point which is compensation, execution means ... | 03/20/2012 |
