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...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 |
| 8131575 | Transaction tracking, managing, assessment, and auditing data processing system and network An improved processing system for tracking commerce on the Internet provides for subvariable processing and includes web page scanning to discern fraud or improper content to insure proper promotion of select products within the network environment. ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8074024 | Electronic flash memory external storage method and device An electronic flash memory external storage method and device for data processing system includes firmware which directly controls the access of electronic storage media and implements standard interface functions, adopts particular reading and writing formats of th... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8064412 | Systems and methods for monitoring conditions Systems and methods for monitoring conditions are provided. A system can comprise a plurality of wireless transmitters and a plurality of repeaters. At least one wireless transmitter can be integrated into an alarm. The repeaters can be dispersed throughout a region... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8031650 | System and method for monitoring remote devices with a dual-mode wireless communication protocol The present invention is generally directed to systems and device for monitoring remote device with a wireless, dual-mode communication protocol. As such, a representative embodiment is a system for monitoring and controlling remote devices. The system includes a fi... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8024976 | Combined wet-wet differential and gage transducer employing a common housing A combined wet-wet differential transducer and a gage pressure transducer located in the same housing, comprising a semiconductor chip which comprises a gage sensor chip on one section and a differential sensor chip on a second section. Each sensor chip has a Wheats... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8018281 | Method and device for performing offset cancellation in an amplifier using floating-gate transistors An operational amplifier including: a differential pair of transistors coupled to a pair of input signals; and a pair of floating-gate transistors coupled to the differential pair of transistors, wherein the pair of floating-gate transistors are operable for reducin... | 09/13/2011 |
| D641169 | Double door crate cover | 07/12/2011 |
| 7965559 | Systems and methods for improved floating-gate transistor programming The present invention describes systems and methods for improving the programming of floating-gate transistors. An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a floating-gate transistor programming system including an array of floating-gate transistors an... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7964063 | Methods and compositions for papermaking The present invention relates to methods for making modified fillers for use in a papermaking process, methods for making a paper using the modified fillers, and modified fillers and paper produced therewith. In one aspect, the present invention provides a method fo... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7959551 | Blood pump bearings with separated contact surfaces Rotary hydrodynamic blood pumps have been used to treat over a thousand patients. The Jarvik 2000 has supported a patient for seven years and uses blood immersed bearings washed by high flow to avoid excessive thrombus formation. This permits the pump to be very sim... | 06/14/2011 |
| D639363 | Wood-type golf club | 06/07/2011 |
| 7933763 | Method and software for extracting chemical data Preferred embodiments of the present invention comprise methods and software for processing text documents and extracting chemical data therein. Preferred method embodiments comprise: (a) identifying and tagging one or more chemical compounds within a text document;... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7930295 | Methods and software for analysis of research publications In one aspect, the invention comprises a computer system for searching databases and displaying search results, comprising databases storing information regarding publications and authors comprising author, title, date of publication, cited references, and citing re... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7927558 | System and apparatus for detecting breach of exposure protection equipment A method, system, and apparatus are provided for use with exposure protection systems or equipment such as respiratory protection devices. One system is provided for detecting a breach of an exposure protection device by an amount of a target substance. The system i... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7906255 | Photo-masks and methods of fabricating periodic optical structures Improved photo-masks for use in fabricating periodic structures are disclosed herein. Methods of making periodic structures, as well as the periodic structures fabricated therefrom, are also disclosed. The photo-mask can include a body element and one or more sets o... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7900968 | Electrical isolation connector for electromagnetic gap sub A gap sub assembly can be used to form an electrical isolation in a drill string, across which a voltage is applied to generate a carrier signal for an electromagnetic (EM) telemetry system. The assembly comprises two conductive generally cylindrical components fash... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7900445 | Hydraulic supply systems Disclosed is a hydraulic system for supplying primary and auxiliary pressure medium consumers with different system pressures, which exceed the load pressure by a pre-determined control pressure differential. Primary load pressure is used to produce a first control ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7882003 | System and method for remote deposit capture A system includes one or more remote check deposit locations, and one or more treasury receipt servers to receive check information captured from the one or more remote check deposit locations, and to receive transaction data from an originating depository financial... | 02/01/2011 |
| D628057 | Hooking system | 11/30/2010 |
| 7750074 | Copolymer surfactants The present invention relates to copolymer surfactants and their use in, e.g., coatings such as latex paint and solvent-based paint, and to a method of dispersing colored pigments using the copolymer surfactant, colorant compositions in which at least one pigment is... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7716964 | Leak detector for a pressurized cylinder A leak detector apparatus for a pressurized cylinder having a cylinder of a radius (r) with a slidable piston in the cylinder with a gas filled chamber positioned between a cylinder end and the piston face. The length (L) of the chamber is calculated according to lo... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7714591 | Apparatus and methods for linearizing piezoresistive wheatstone bridges A pressure sensing apparatus including: at least one deflectable diaphragm having a center, wherein each diaphragm supports: at least one positive piezoresistive gauge and at least one negative piezoresistive gauge coupled in series across a voltage differential in ... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7685880 | Signal transmission system A single wire interface for a transducer transmits the transducer output as a frequency modulated signal over one single wire during one interval. During a second interval a reference signal is transmitted as a frequency modulated signal. Both the transducer output ... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7632035 | Folding baby stroller A baby stroller for transporting a child is disclosed. This baby stroller has a folding mechanism to facilitate folding for easier stowing and transporting. The folding mechanism, a unique feature of the design is directed toward compactness, ease of use, reliabilit... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7491360 | Mounting enclosure for burners and particle injectors on an electric arc furnace An enclosure for mounting burners and particle injection equipment in an EAF is described. The enclosures are mounted on the sidewalls of an EAF and include passages in which burners or injectors are mounted so that the discharge ends of the burners and injectors ar... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7375288 | Apparatuses and methods for improving ball-grid-array solder joint reliability In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods for improving ball-grid-array solder joint reliability in printed circuit boards. Such apparatuses may comprise, in an exemplary embodiment, a stiffened printed circuit board defining one or more cavities therein and incl... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7370368 | Catching tool for baseball or softball In a catching tool for baseball or softball, a lining leather including at least a back-side leather and a palm-side leather is inserted into a surface leather including at least a back leather and a ball-receiving leather, and the lining leather has inner-side fing... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7356494 | Robust wireless communications system architecture and asset management applications performed thereon A robust wireless communications system operable to provide communications for mobile wireless devices. The wireless communications system generally includes a management computing system, wireless infrastructure, and mobile wireless devices. The wireless infrastruc... | 04/08/2008 |
| D561284 | Golf club wood head | 02/05/2008 |
| D561285 | Back design for a golf club iron head | 02/05/2008 |
| 7275402 | Lock A lock, such as a mortise lock, for a door. The lock comprises a locking cylinder that can be inserted into a door leaf and a shaft having two sections, each section of the shaft having a handle at the end, preferably a rotary knob or a standard door handle and bein... | 10/02/2007 |
| D550796 | Lower back portion of a golf iron | 09/11/2007 |
| 7198836 | Vacuum formed topsheets having a silky tactile impression An apertured vacuum formed film for use as a topsheet in an absorbent article has raised lands in a stroking direction to impart a silky tactile impression. The stroking direction lands are raised between 15 μ and 145 μ relative to the transverse lands. The stroki... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7171381 | System architecture and communications for an asset management system A robust wireless communications system operable to provide communications for mobile wireless devices. The wireless communications system generally includes a management computing system, wireless infrastructure, and mobile wireless devices. The wireless infrastruc... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7166049 | Vehicle drive and a control method for a vehicle drive A drive and a method to control the drive of an agricultural vehicle, especially of a tractor, is described. The drive includes a combustion engine (M) and an infinitely variable electro-mechanical torque split gear. To avoid dissipation of reactive power the... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7148490 | Method for determining the concentration of hydrogen peroxide in a process stream and a spectrophotometric system for the same The present invention is directed to a method for determining the concentration of hydrogen peroxide in a chemical process stream which may include interfering components. Still further, this invention is directed to a method and apparatus for the on-line, automated... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7139205 | Apparatuses and methods for pre-charging intermediate nodes for high-speed wordline An apparatus and method for pre-charging an intermediate node for high-speed wordlines for accessing memory cells in high-speed memory arrays. The apparatus pre-charges a local capacitance located between a wordline supply voltage and the wordline to a voltage level... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7077409 | Vehicle suspension A commercial vehicle with a technically simple single wheel suspension for the wheels mounted in wheel supports, guaranteeing safe protection of the cardan shaft driving the wheels from harmful influences, includes a wheel support (8; 33), which ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7074442 | Ground meat products including meat from spent egg-laying hens A consumable ground poultry product is obtained from spent laying hens using a mechanical deboning machine equipped with a filter and temperature and pressure controls. The leghorn is produced to have an appearance and texture similar to ground beef. ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7029707 | Method of producing a processed kava product having an altered kavalactone distribution and processed kava products produced using the same A method of producing a processed kava product involves using an extraction solvent, such as liquid CO2, to preferentially extract different kavalactones from the source material at different rates. By controlling the extraction parameters and stopping th... | 04/18/2006 |
