Did You Know...
...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 |
| 5506993 | Message packet transmitter A message packet transmitter for transmitting a packet of electronic data signals onto a communication network without interruption. A first-in, first-out electronic memory has a transmit state in which an electronic data signal stored therein is output. ... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5506457 | Electronic switch for decoupling capacitor An electronic switch circuit switches out bad decoupling capacitors on a high speed integrated circuit chip. The circuit comprises a control device that operates in the subthreshold or off device state to detect leakage in a decoupling capacitor. This con... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5497447 | Speech coding apparatus having acoustic prototype vectors generated by tying to elementary models and clustering around reference vectors A speech coding apparatus in which measured acoustic feature vectors are each represented by the best matched prototype vector. The prototype vectors are generated by storing a model of a training script comprising a series of elementary models. The value... | 03/05/1996 |
| 5485575 | Automatic analysis of a computer virus structure and means of attachment to its hosts Information pertaining to the verification of the identity of, and reversal of, a transformation of computer data is derived automatically based on a set of samples. The most important class of transformations is computer viruses. The process extracts thi... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5446311 | High-Q inductors in silicon technology without expensive metalization A monolithic high-Q inductor structure is formed with multiple metalization levels in a conventional integrated circuit technology in which inductor turns utilize these multiple levels to reduce the inductor resistance. Inductors with Q values above five ... | 08/29/1995 |
