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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 |
| 7536330 | Fixed rate financing instrument offering a dividend or partially guaranteed by third party to issuance, method for establishing a market for the same, method for directly public-offering the same on-line A fixed rate financing instrument issued by a corporation, government, or other organization which pays a fixed interest rate and/or dividend as secured by an issuing entity's promise to pay and partially guaranteed by a third party to issuance. An operation financi... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7533049 | Method and system for rating securities, method and system for evaluating price of securities, method for establishing a market with the system A rating method for securities or fixed rate financing instruments includes calculating a rating value for each one of the securities or fixed rate financing instruments based upon a formula involving grading numbers and weighting factors corresponding to risk and r... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7526592 | Interrupt control system and storage control system using the same An interrupt control system is provided where a signal-line-based interrupt system can be incorporated into interrupt control using MSIs (Message Signal Interrupts). The interrupt control system includes a first PCI interface, a second PCI interface, a PCI bridge se... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7520615 | Display apparatus and image pickup apparatus A display apparatus is provided which can display different text/image information depending on the viewing angle and the viewer, display a high reality three-dimensional image viewable from any direction and realize stereoscopic viewing without glasses or the like.... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7519786 | Storage system, storage access restriction method and computer program product Provided is a storage system having one or more logical devices mapped to a virtual device provided in a mapping destination storage system, and a storage controller for controlling the reading and writing of data from and to the logical devices. Upon receiving a re... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7509467 | Storage controller and data management method Upon receiving a primary/secondary switching command from a secondary host system, a secondary storage control device interrogates a primary storage control device as to whether or not yet to be transferred data that has not been remote copied from the primary stora... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7507507 | Liquid crystal display device The invention provides a liquid crystal display device in which incorporation of an organic compound into liquid crystal due to a display defect can be reduced to a great extent. In the liquid crystal display device, a film containing a hydrocarbon represented by th... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7502189 | Apparatus, signal-processing circuit and device for magnetic recording system To effectively suppress a signal in a low frequency region in which the medium noise and the signal distortion are concentrated, and in order to effectively utilize a detected component of the reproduced signal in the low frequency region, a target of partial respon... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7495432 | Angle detecting apparatus An angle detection apparatus includes a rotation member including at least one north magnetic polar region and at least one south magnetic polar region alternately arranged around a rotation center, a magnetic field detecting portion having a magnetic plate and dete... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7493432 | Storage system with memories each having DIMMs daisy-chain connected to one another and control method thereof A storage system with excellent failure tolerance is provided. The storage system has redundant controllers. A first controller has a first memory for storing the data read/written from/to a storage device and control information concerning the reading/writing of da... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7489378 | Liquid crystal display device In a liquid crystal display device using a photodecomposition type light orientation film, the deterioration of display performance due to an impurity resulting from a light orientation treatment of the orientation film is suppressed to enable high-quality image dis... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7489372 | Display device and method of assembling the display device A display device includes: a reflection plate; plural light sources disposed above the reflection plate; an optical member disposed above the plural light sources; a support member disposed standing on a bottom surface of the reflection plate; a frame member that ho... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7463663 | Semiconductor laser diode and integrated semiconductor optical waveguide device A conventional semiconductor laser diode is small in optical power at a constant operating current and limited in ridge width when integrated with an optical device, which forces the integration to be performed by lowering the original characteristic and makes it di... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7464233 | Data input/output method in information processing system, and information processing system An input/output method is provided which assures data consistency of a file spreading over a plurality of logically significant volumes or files distributed among a plurality of volumes. A storage subsystem at a main site handles as one group those input/output requ... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7463662 | Optical semiconductor device, manufacturing method therefor, and optical semiconductor apparatus A highly reliable optical semiconductor device insusceptible to degradation in the characteristics thereof. An n-type buffer layer, n-type first cladding layer, active layer, a p-type first layer of the second cladding layer, p-type etch-stop layer, p-type second la... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7463325 | Liquid crystal display device The present invention aims at the miniaturization and the reduction of thickness of a liquid crystal display device. In a liquid crystal display device which includes: a liquid crystal display panel; a backlight which is arranged on a back-surface side of the liquid... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7463182 | Radar apparatus An inexpensive surveillance radar apparatus capable of identifying the kind of an object by using a monopulse radar that performs wide-angle two-dimensional surveillance. The radar apparatus receives reflected waves from a plurality of points on a moving object with... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7464235 | Storage system and control method thereof, and computer program product Provided is a storage system having a host system, a first storage controller and a second storage controller. The first storage controller has a primary logical volume formed from an actual volume, and a secondary logical volume formed from a virtual volume capable... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7464210 | Data processing system having a data transfer unit for converting an integer into a floating-point number when tranferring data from a peripheral circuit to a memory This invention provides a data processing system capable of performing an interrupt exception handling routine as many times as the number of times of occurrence of a request event for the same interrupt exception handling routine if the request event occurs a plura... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7464236 | Storage system and storage management method The storage system of the present invention has a simple configuration and ensures redundancy of the system. The primary storage control device and the first secondary storage control device are connected by a synchronous read method, and the primary storage control... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7464232 | Data migration and copying in a storage system with dynamically expansible volumes When migrating data stored in a storage region assigned to a volume to another storage region, the connection status of the host computer and volume is confirmed. When the host computer and volume are connected, the maximum capacity of the volume requested by the ho... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7464204 | Disk-array device having storage-device recognition and identification of a storage area network link environment A disk-array device includes an information managing database for acquiring link information among a server device, a switch device, and a storage device via the switch device so as to manage the link information in a combined manner, and a collection analysis unit ... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7459031 | Method for producing NbSn superconductive wire material using powder process A method for producing an Nb3Sn superconductive wire material using a powder process is provided, in which a powdered raw material is filled in a sheath made of Nb or an Nb-based alloy, and the above sheath is subjected to diameter reduction to form a wir... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7459030 | Manufacturing method of NbSn superconductive wire using powder technique Disclosed is a manufacturing method of an Nb3Sn superconductive wire using a powder technique, the method including the steps of: filling, as a raw powder, an intermetallic compound powder obtained from a metallic powder containing at least one metallic p... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7459025 | Methods for transferring a layer onto a substrate Systems and methods for transferring a thin film from a substrate onto another substrate, a layer of the same area as the substrate, of a thickness from sub-micron to tens of micron, and of the thickness and flatness required by VLSI and MEMS applications, and with ... | 12/02/2008 |
| D581932 | Memory card | 12/02/2008 |
| 7459347 | Manufacturing method of a semiconductor device A non-leaded resin-sealed semiconductor device is manufactured by the steps of providing a conductive flat substrate (metal plate) of copper plate or the like, fixing semiconductor elements respectively to predetermined positions on the principal surface of the subs... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7459345 | Packaging method for an electronic element A packaging method for an electronic element has: etching portions of a top surface of a metal board to form recesses between raised unetched segments and filling the recesses with a dielectric material of high density polymer; forming multiple solder balls respecti... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7461293 | Apparatus and storage system for controlling acquisition of snapshot A DBMS performs a checkpoint process for maintaining consistency of data. A snapshot acquisition control program detects the checkpoint process externally to the DBMS and creates a snapshot in an external storage according to the timing of the checkpoint. Correspond... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7461201 | Storage control method and system for performing backup and/or restoration A second storage system (SS2) comprises a plurality of tapes, a first storage device capable of performing random access at a rate higher than the tapes, and a virtual storage device emulating the first storage device. A first storage system (SS1) comprises a second... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7461132 | System and method for managing devices A device which is subject to management by the management unit comprises a storage region for storing device status information, which is information indicating a status relating to the device, and control sections for sending the device status information stored in... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7460189 | Manufacturing method of a display device using a two-layered resist The present invention realizes the two-layered resist structure for obtaining a half exposure pattern of high sensitivity and high accuracy and a manufacturing method of a display device which includes thin film transistors which are formed using the two-layered res... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7459187 | Surface-treatment method and equipment An object of the present invention is to make it possible to uniformly supply of a gas onto a base material in a way simpler and lower in cost, and thus, to realize a high-quality surface treatment. For that purpose, in surface treatment of a base material (12 | 12/02/2008 |
| 7456433 | Display device and fabrication method thereof The present invention provides a display device which forms thin film transistor circuits differing in characteristics from each other on a substrate in mixture and a fabrication method of the display device. On a glass substrate having a background layer which is f... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7457929 | Data processing system having a plurality of storage systems It is an object of the present invention to conduct data transfer or data copying between a plurality of storage systems, without affecting the host computer of the storage systems. Two or more auxiliary storage systems 100B, 100C are connected to a pr... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7457583 | Watching method of baseball using mobile communication means of motion picture A baseball game spectating method is composed of input means (score maker system) such as a mobile terminal capable of electronically inputting states of a baseball game successively, the step of successively inputting motions of players and the other information us... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7457548 | Quantum optical transmission device and quantum optical generator device therefor A squeezed light generator comprises an arbitrary optical fiber, a means for temporally separating two linearly polarized components, two Faraday rotators and a high-reflection mirror. Pulse lights that are temporally separated into two orthogonally polarized compon... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7457542 | Optical access network system An optical access network system having a function of correcting upstream signal waveform distortions occurring in the PON section, wherein a central office side apparatus comprises a main controller to notify each subscriber connection apparatus of a transmission g... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7457449 | Figure moving method A method of moving figures whereby a number of aligned figures can be efficiently moved while maintaining the alignment. The method includes a figure group generating step of generating a plurality of figure groups arranged in a matrix by grouping a plurality of fig... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7457339 | Semiconductor laser apparatus Arrayed DBR (Distributed Bragg Reflector) laser shows a problem that spectrum purity is deteriorated when a current is flowed in a semiconductor optical amplifier for attaining a sufficient optical output. In addition, the arrayed waveguide grating laser shows a pro... | 11/25/2008 |
