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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 |
| 8183941 | Electronic device for generating a local oscillator signal having a frequency equal to a fractional part of a fundamental frequency An electronic device (ED) is intended for generating a local oscillator signal having a chosen frequency FLO from a main signal outputted by a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) and having a fundamental frequency FVCO and harmonics thereof. Th... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183893 | Driver comparator circuit A first resistor is arranged such that a first voltage is applied to a first terminal thereof, and a second terminal thereof is connected to an input/output terminal. The first voltage is applied to a first terminal of a second resistor. A tail current source genera... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8178882 | Buffer layer for promoting electron mobility and thin film transistor having the same A buffer layer for promoting electron mobility. The buffer layer comprises amorphous silicon layer (a-Si) and an oxide-containing layer. The a-Si has high enough density that the particles in the substrate are prevented by the a-Si buffer layer from diffusing into t... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8174275 | Storage battery inspecting system A storage battery inspecting system includes a power supply unit and an inspecting unit. The inspecting unit includes two inspecting terminals to be connected to a battery soldering spot so as to detect response of the soldering spot to application of a test power s... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170726 | System and method for road angle estimation A system and method for estimating road angles of a road on which a moving body is traveling are disclosed. The road angle estimation system includes: a sensing module adapted to be mounted on the moving body to detect a plurality of pieces of measurement informatio... | 05/01/2012 |
| D658073 | Portable perfume container | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160260 | Circuit and program for processing multichannel audio signals and apparatus for reproducing same A circuit for processing multichannel audio signals, comprises a frequency characteristics correction device and an output device. The frequency characteristics correction device corrects frequency characteristics of an audio signal of a channel including an audio s... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154813 | Embedded servo on track for bit-patterned device A method of making a disc for a computer disc drive and a disc made in accordance with the same. The disc includes a deposited magnetic layer of a thin film medium over a disc-shaped substrate. A master pattern having a plurality of tracks is recorded on the disc. E... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8147995 | Patterned media bits with cladding shell A bit patterned media (BPM) includes many magnetic dots arranged in tracks on a substrate. The magnetic dots each have a hard magnetic core, a soft magnetic cladding surrounding the core and a thin non-magnetic layer that separates the hard magnetic core from the so... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144609 | Network monitoring system and method thereof A packet processing engine is disclosed which comprises (a) packet processor for sniffing the packets and for analyzing traffic, and (b) core engine for packet processing. The core engine comprises means for extraction of protocols to build protocol analysis data an... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139065 | Machine-implemented method and electronic device for presenting a dual-axis graph A machine-implemented method for presenting a dual-axis graph for a pair of data sets includes: reading the data sets; setting first and second boundaries of a first reference axis using first coordinates of data points of one data set having maximum and minimum val... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8137703 | Ozone water and production method therefor The present invention relates to an ozone water that has the potential to find useful applications in a wide variety of technical fields and is capable of maintaining the effects of wiping out microorganisms such as bacteria, viruses and the like and inhibiting the ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8137527 | Carbon dioxide isolation and generation Methods and apparatus for collecting/concentrating carbon dioxide are disclosed. In addition, methods and apparatus for utilizing collected carbon dioxide in biofuel production and biomass cultivation are disclosed. ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134796 | Embedded track information for patterned media A bit-patterned magnetic media (BPM) includes with respect to each data track a first sub-track and a second sub-track, each sub-track comprised of a plurality of bit-islands. A transducer head placed over a data track generates a readback signal. Channel response c... | 03/13/2012 |
| D655772 | Casterboard | 03/13/2012 |
| 8117305 | Communication management system, communication management method, and communication control device The present invention provides a technique for managing P2P communication appropriately. Each P2P node constituting a P2P network in a communication management system conducts P2P communication with another P2P node. A P2P node has a P2P connection to communi... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111082 | Test apparatus A test apparatus is configured such that two adjacent channels form a pair. Timing comparators determine the level of first output data fed from a DUT, respectively, timed in accordance with strobe signals, respectively. Clock envelope extractors extract envelopes o... | 02/07/2012 |
| D652654 | Dining table | 01/24/2012 |
| D652556 | Dome lighting assembly | 01/17/2012 |
| 8090742 | Patient directed system and method for managing medical information A system and method is provided for the management of a patient's medical records by a central data repository under the direction of the patient and enabled by an entity managing records on behalf of the patient. Medical records from a plurality of the patient's he... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8080904 | Power supply and night vision device using the power supply Disclosed is a power supply (40) and a night vision device using the power supply (40). The power supply (40) comprises a battery (41), a power switch (42), a booster (43) for boosting a battery voltage provided by the batte... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8077424 | Transducer design with a sensor close to write pole A magnetic device includes a read sensor, a writer and a synchronization sensor. The magnetic device is configured for writing information to and reading information from a magnetic medium that includes a plurality of discrete magnetic bits. The writer includes a wr... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077267 | TFT LCD array substrate wherein an air gap is formed between the insulating layer and the active layer and method of manufacturing thereof Provided are a thin film transistor liquid crystal array substrate and a method of manufacturing the same. The thin film transistor liquid crystal display array substrate includes: a substrate, a gate scanning line and a signal scanning line formed on the substrate ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8076904 | Circuit for detecting remaining battery capacity A disclosed circuit for detecting remaining battery capacity includes: a current detection unit detecting a charge and discharge current of a battery; a remaining capacity measurement unit measuring remaining capacity of the battery by integrating the charge and dis... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8074689 | Method for making an artificial rattan web A method for making an artificial rattan web, includes: (a) providing a guiding body having a curved surface, and a threading block that is disposed downstream of the guiding body and that is formed with a rattan hole and a thread hole; (b) passing an artificial rat... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8074134 | Pattern generator and memory testing device using the same An address operation circuit generates a row address which indicates an address in memory under test to be accessed. The row address memory stores the row addresses generated by the address operation circuit in increments of banks. A memory control signal that inclu... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073855 | Communication control device and communication control system The present invention provides a technique for enabling a high-speed communication control apparatus. A packet processing circuit of a communication control apparatus includes a user database, a virus list, a whitelist, a blacklist and a common category list.... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8065337 | Shared-memory multiprocessor system and method for processing information Large-scale table data stored in a shared memory are sorted by a plurality of processors in parallel. According to the present invention, the records subjected to processing are first divided for allocation to the plurality of processors. Then, each processor counts... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8065322 | Binary search circuit and method The present invention provides a technique for enabling high-speed binary search. A binary search circuit 36 searches a database 50, which stores pieces of data aligned in ascending or descending order, for comparison target data by binary searc... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8047658 | Methods and systems for multiple primary color display Methods and systems for multiple primary color display are provided. Methods and systems of the present invention improve the spectrum efficiency of a color display system, and provide enhanced brightness and color gamut. In an embodiment, methods and systems of the... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8043396 | Integrated plastic liner for propellant tanks for micro G conditions The present invention relates to propellant tanks for space platforms, launchers and every sort of space transport craft. ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8036369 | Method and system for realizing direct dialing to an extension across PBXs Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for realizing direct dialing to an extension across Private Branch Exchanges (PBXs), in witch firstly a calling terminal of a PBX seizes a PBX circuit; secondly the calling terminal initiates a call to a called ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8033516 | Device suitable for tiltably mounting a display screen on a wall, as well as such a method A device suitable for tiltably mounting a display screen on a wall. The device comprises a wall member to be mounted on a wall, as well as a support member, to which the display screen is to be connected. The support member is connected to the wall member, being til... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8030965 | Level shifter using SR-flip flop A level shifter receives an input signal of either a first lower voltage or a first upper voltage which form a voltage pair, and level-shifts the input signal to output an output signal of either a second lower voltage or a second upper voltage. An SR flip-flop gene... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8029157 | Light refraction illumination device In an embodiment, a light refraction illumination device is disclosed. The light refraction illumination device may comprise or include a support member, and a plurality of lenses associated with the support member, wherein each lens from among the plurality of lens... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8029145 | Peripheral projection display system A peripheral projection, display screen system including (a) a display screen having a rear side and a diagonal dimension, (b) an image-projection source coupled to a peripheral of the system and disposed at a defined, image-projection system depth rearwardly of the... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8025543 | Method of manufacturing a partition wall structure on a plasma display panel A plasma display panel and the manufacturing method thereof. Forming partition wall structures on the back substrate of the paste display panel and forming the column-shaped protrusions at the positions corresponding to the cuts on the rib on the front substrate of ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8021967 | Nanoscale wicking methods and devices A fluid transport method and fluid transport device are disclosed. Nanoscale fibers disposed in a patterned configuration allow transport of a fluid in absence of an external power source. The device may include two or more fluid transport components having differen... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8019776 | Determining device and determining method for determining processing to be performed based on acquired data The present invention provides a technique for determining processing to be performed at high speed. When processing to be performed is determined through multiple condition judgments and branches, a comparison target extraction circuit extracts from acquired data m... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8019290 | Two-step channel selection for wireless transmitter front-ends A reconfigurable multimode transmitter is disclosed, operating in accordance with a two-step channel selection. The first step provides for a fine channel selection and upconversion of a desired channel to either positive or negative IF. The second step is a coarse ... | 09/13/2011 |
