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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 |
| 7791503 | Vehicle to infrastructure information conveyance system and method System and method for conveying information from a vehicle to a fixed structure includes a data generating system arranged on the vehicle to obtain and/or generate information about conditions around the vehicle, one or more data processing facilities each arranged ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7436324 | Maritime port inspection and ingress control A marine port monitoring system including an inspection apparatus, either fixed or mobile, for intercepting cargo vessels entering the port. The system includes sensors placed in a shipping channel for examination of a hull of a passing vessel to detect externally m... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7418261 | Status reporting system and method A status reporting system for components used in a mobile platform includes a fault manager within the mobile platform for assigning a state indicator to each component. Each state indicator indicates the operational current state of the component. A management syst... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7417559 | Method and system for vehicular communications and information reporting A method for vehicular communications and information reporting. First and second wireless Internet connections between respective first and second vehicles and a web-server are provided. First and second event information is transmitted, to the web-server, from the... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7394405 | Location-based notifications A method for location-based notifications, the method including receiving a request for a notification from an input device. A current location of the input device is determined in response to the receiving. A reminder location is set responsive to the current locat... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7383122 | Navigation system, user terminal, navigation device, and information recording method A navigation system includes a controller that compresses at least one of a plurality of information portions, each one of the plurality of information portions having a priority, wherein each of the at least one of the plurality of information portions is compresse... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7370283 | Systems and methods for populating a ticker using multiple data transmission modes Content to be presented on a ticker of a communication device is conveyed by being transmitted using one or more transmission modes that are intelligently selected according to various criteria. The mode is chosen from among a plurality of transmission modes availab... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369845 | Managing features available on a portable communication device based on a travel speed detected by the portable communication device A portable communication device detects a current speed of travel of the portable communication device independent of any vehicle temporarily transporting the portable communication device. A speed based setting controller of the portable communication device compar... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366608 | G.P.S. management system A management system using Global Positioning System receivers for tracking remote units from a central office and quickly and conveniently determining if those remote units have varied from a set of predetermined parameters of operation. The system also includes pro... | 04/29/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7343243 | Fully automated vehicle dispatching, monitoring and billing A system for controlling vehicles (20) to provide transportation services without need for human intervention. A database (10) stores records each documenting needed transportation services. Processing circuitry (which may be one or several networked c... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7327250 | System for providing a virtual vehicle boundary System for providing a virtual vehicle boundary. The system includes a method for activating a virtual fence for use with a delivery vehicle. The method comprises steps of detecting a protection event, determining that the protection event is an activation event, an... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7292935 | Apparatus and method for guiding location of the other party in navigation system There is provided an apparatus and method capable of providing location information of the other party's moving object in a form of map information. The method for guiding the location of the other party's moving object in the navigation system includes the steps of... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292938 | Position locating system, terminal device, control method for terminal device, control program for terminal device, and computer readable record medium storing control program for terminal device therein A terminal device 50 includes aid-information acquisition device to acquire aid information 154 from an information providing apparatus, an information-providing-apparatus-sort judgment device to judge the type of information providing apparatus on the... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7277028 | Method and system for inter-vehicular communications and information reporting A method for inter-vehicular communications and information reporting. A visual observation is made from a first vehicle. First information is associated with the observation and transmitted from the first vehicle to a network server over a network. The network serv... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7265663 | Multimedia racing experience system A multimedia racing experience system is provided including a plurality of input devices, such as cameras, microphones, and telemetry sensors. All input devices communicate with an on-vehicle processing unit for multiplexing the input data into a data stream. The da... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7259694 | Wireless communication system and method to provide geo-spatial related event data A system and method for communication of information that has particular significance to a specific location only to those individuals that are at or near that geo-spatial location. In particular, providing safety factor data and alerts is a preferred use of the inv... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7254481 | Action support method and apparatus An action support apparatus displays a destination specification screen for specifying a destination, and receives from the user a specification of a general destination. If a general destination is specified, then the apparatus determines a detailed destination, re... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7236878 | Method and apparatus for peripheral vehicle position calculation A signal processing unit of a radio communication section of a vehicle-mounted device mounted on a vehicle broadcasts first sets of data, each set of data including a vehicle speed and a traveling direction of the vehicle at a predetermined period when the vehicle c... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7228199 | Bulk inventory network system A system and method for remote monitoring of material storage levels for dry bulk goods, wherein an independent entity, such as a transportation carrier, can continuously monitor raw material supply levels at a remote manufacturing plant, and, based on projected usa... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7212989 | Vehicle-mounted communication device and road-to-vehicle communication device A vehicle-mounted communication device and a road-to-vehicle communication device are provided which each allow communication of information using a simple structure by making leakage of information difficult. Information including encryption information is communic... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7198227 | Aircraft cargo locating system An aircraft cargo locating system determines the location and weight of aircraft cargo placed in unit loading devices. A wireless tag, such as an Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag is affixed to each of the loading devices. The system receives information fro... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7196636 | Railroad crossing warning system A highway/railroad crossing detection and warning system which uses sets of Doppler radar transmitters and receivers to detect the approach of a train coming from either direction toward a highway crossing. The Doppler radar sets are located an extended distance fro... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7188026 | Hierarchical floating car data network A hierarchical floating car data network comprises a central server, an egress point network, and a participating vehicle network. The egress point network is in communication with the central server. The egress point network comprises a plurality of egress points. ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7181195 | Method and system for tracing missing network devices using hardware fingerprints When a piece of network equipment is determined to be stolen or missing, a hardware tracing tool mounted within the network detects the distinctive hardware fingerprints of the missing hardware within Internet traffic and extracts the device's IP address to trace th... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7164892 | Dual-mode transmitter for railroad crossings A transmitter receivable by broadcast band receivers in nearby vehicles, comprising a first signal generator for simultaneously providing a plurality of selectively spaced carriers having frequency spacings corresponding to the individual channels of the band to be ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7155321 | System, method and computer program product for remote vehicle diagnostics, monitoring, configuring and reprogramming A remote vehicle diagnostics, monitoring, configuration and reprogramming tool is provided. The system includes a fleet of vehicles equipped with wireless mobile communications means that enable fleet managers to remotely diagnose, monitor and reprogram vehicles in ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7148791 | Wireless danger proximity warning system and method A danger proximity warning system and method are disclosed that utilize ultra wideband (UWB) technology to effectively warn a person when there is a potentially dangerous situation in their vicinity. In one embodiment, the danger proximity warning system includes a ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7145485 | Vehicle identification code storing device and method for storing vehicle identification code A device stores a vehicle identification code that includes a character string of a plurality of digits. The device includes a writing request detection section that detects a request for writing the vehicle identification code. An encoding section compresses and en... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7142959 | Providing status data for vehicle maintenance The current invention provides a system and method for providing status data for vehicle maintenance. A GPS location trigger is monitored for at a telematics unit. Communication between the telematics unit and a call center is initiated responsive to the GPS locatio... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7139662 | Device and method for determining the position of a working part A device and method for determining the position for a working part of a machine with a position-determining apparatus is disclosed. A detector is placed at a defined place on the machine to determine the position in a fixed coordinate system. A positional relations... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7119832 | Wireless microphone for use with an in-car video system An in-car video system and method is provided where a wireless microphone is configured with bi-directional communications capability. In response to a received RF activation signal, the wireless microphone is automatically switched on to capture (and transmit back ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7113864 | Fully automated vehicle dispatching, monitoring and billing A system for controlling vehicles to provide transportation services without need for human intervention. A database stores records each documenting needed transportation services. Processing circuitry (which may be one or several networked computers) reviews these ... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7113110 | Stop list generation systems and methods based upon tracked PCD's and responses from notified PCD's Systems and methods are disclosed for automated notification systems. A representative method, among others, can be summarized by the following steps: monitoring travel data associated with a first personal communications device (PCD); initiating a notification comm... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7102493 | Asset monitoring and tracking system An apparatus and method for monitoring and reporting the status of a mobile asset are described, where the mobile asset may be moved by a transport vehicle from a starting location to a destination location. The method includes providing destination information to a... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7102508 | Method and apparatus for locating and tracking persons The invention relates to a method and apparatus for locating and tracking persons by use of an implantable device. The described invention is an implant able device composed of biocompatible materials in all areas where contact with organic tissue occurs. The gross ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7098806 | Traffic preemption system A traffic preemption system is described that includes onboard equipment located on a vehicle and a fleet management center in communication with the onboard equipment. The fleet management center is also in communication with a traffic management center that is in ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7088219 | Method for remote vehicle ignition enablement and disablement via broadband enabled security mechanisms A method, apparatus, and computer program are provided for remotely controlling the ignition of a vehicle. A variety of conditions can be placed on the vehicle for operation, such as time or geography, from a variety of remote wireless technologies. The ignition con... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7082366 | Communication terminal apparatus, connection control method for the apparatus and program for the method In the case of connecting a line for making connection between communication unit 12 mounted in a vehicle-mounted terminal 10 and center communication unit 21 of an information center 20 and acquiring information accumulated in storage un... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7072789 | Systems for assessing athletic performance Sensors detects loft time, speed, power and/or drop distance of a vehicle and/or person. The sensors couple with multiple persons during athletic activity. Data from the sensors downloads to a database so that users may compare athletic performances (e.g., speed) be... | 07/04/2006 |
