...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 |
| 7966258 | System for effecting the payment of paper and electronic financial instruments received at a payment facility A system for expediting the deposit, settlement and submission into the payment system for collection of funds represented of commingled paper and electronic financial instruments that are received by a payee at a location remote from the payee's collecting and clea... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7677074 | Method for the production of hollow elements, hollow element, assembly piece, and follow-on composite tool for carrying out said method Disclosed is a method for producing hollow elements (200), such as nut elements, which are to be mounted on parts generally made of sheet metal, particularly for producing hollow elements having an at least substantially square or rectangular outer contour ( | 03/16/2010 |