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 |
| 6382975 | Manufacturing a dental implant drill guide and a dental implant superstructure Dental implant drill holes and the shape of a dental implant superstructure are chosen by creating a computer model giving jawbone structural details, gum surface shape information and proposed teeth or dental prosthesis shape information. The computer mo... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6327032 | Method and apparatus for imaging a cartridge case ejector markings The invention provides an apparatus and method for imaging markings on cartridge cases. It provides for the taking of two images of the cartridge case with light for illumination projected at the cartridge case from two different predetermined angles. In ... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6236331 | LED traffic light intensity controller The LED traffic light electronic controller stabilizes the total output light intensity of the traffic light in order to ensure a constant light intensity of each traffic light color throughout the entire traffic light lifetime. The controller detects the... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6139324 | Multi-sense home entertainment chair transducer system The system produces movements in a home entertainment chair. It has a motor controller and a plurality of movement generator units for generating small amplitude and low frequency movements in the viewer's chair. The system is intended for home use and ca... | 10/31/2000 |
| 5762390 | Underactuated mechanical finger with return actuation This invention provides a finger with three phalanges and three degrees of freedom for a flexible and versatile mechanical gripper which uses only a limited number of actuators. The finger is robust, can provide large grasping forces and can perform power... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5732961 | Baby walker training vehicle with floor engaging frame A baby walker training vehicle is comprised of a seat secured elevated by a circumferential frame assembly which is supported on casters secured at predetermined positions thereunder. The frame assembly has a top, an intermediate and a lower rigid circumf... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5687857 | Wall mounted holder for articles The wall mounted holder has a two-piece base member with an inner back plate cooperating with the outer main base member to provide two halves of a pair of shaft receiving sleeves to facilitate assembly of the wall mounted holder. Using a three-piece cons... | 11/18/1997 |
