Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5856120 | Method of preparing a biological material for use in ophthalmology A collagen containing substrate comprising cattle basal membrane is conditioned by incubating the membranes in a mixture of pepsin, hyaluronidase and acetic acid and separating the collagen from the mixture. The mixture can include pepsin, hyaluronidase a... | 01/05/1999 |
| 5832393 | Method of treating chelating agent solution containing radioactive contaminants Although a chelating agent solution having radioactive contaminants is solidified by mixing with cement and then stored, a vast storage place is required for storing an enormous amount of chelating agent solution. When such a chelating agent solution is t... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5830192 | Irrigation sleeve for phacoemulsification apparatus An irrigation sleeve for use with a hand held portion of a phacoemulsification apparatus. The irrigation sleeve includes a base portion configured for removable attachment to the hand held portion of the phacoemulsification apparatus, an extending portion... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5819893 | Electrical cord retraction device, and method of making A telephone apparatus comprises a telephone cord retraction device positioned between a base unit and a handset of the telephone apparatus. The retraction device includes a housing enclosing a length of telephone cord and a spring assembly, and a male tel... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5807400 | Deformable intraocular lens insertion system A deformable intraocular lens insertion system comprising a lens injecting device and a lens cartridge with a rotary connecting arrangement between the lens injecting device and the lens cartridge. The invention includes preloading the deformable intraocu... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5800442 | Deformable intraocular lens injecting system A surgical implantation device for insertion of a deformable intraocular lens into the eye through a relatively small incision made in the ocular tissue comprising a lens injecting device having a plunger with a plunger tip configured to provide a side cl... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5797522 | Aerosol spray dispenser with swinging downtube An aerosol dispenser having a swinging downtube. Further, the aerosol dispenser is preferably provided with a concave bottom when viewing the bottom from inside the container.... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5772666 | Deformable intraocular lens injecting apparatus with deformable tip plunger A deformable intraocular lens injecting apparatus having a movable plunger with a deformable plunger tip, preferably a resiliently deformable plunger tip. In a preferred embodiment, the plunger tip is made of soft resiliently deformable material to preven... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5766245 | Intraocular lens for correcting moderate to severe hypermetropia The present intraocular lens includes a body portion and an optic portion. A thickness of the body portion is between 0.3 to 0.98% of a thickness of the intraocular lens itself which lens includes the body portion and the optic portion, and from 0.011 and... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5728102 | Disposable intraocular lens insertion system An intraocular lens injection system comprising an injecting device and cartridge. The cartridge comprises a lens holding portion and an outer sleeve portion. The invention includes a method of pre-loading the injecting system, particularly the cartridge,... | 03/17/1998 |
