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3M employee and church chorister Art Fry needed something to temporarily mark pages in his hymnal. He was in luck because his colleague, Spencer Silver, accidentally developed a glue that was too weak for other purposes. After initially discouraging consumer response, Post-it Notes became a hit in 1979.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5222205 | Method for generating addresses to textured graphics primitives stored in rip maps Methods for texture mapping graphics primitives in a graphics pipeline architecture system. The methods utilize rectangular box filters to down-sample original texture maps thereby optimizing aliasing and blurring when graphics primitives have a two-dimen... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5097427 | Texture mapping for computer graphics display controller system Texture mapping apparatus includes a memory for storing input texture values, interpolators for generating illumination values for sets of display pixels, elements for addressing the memory to generate output texture values, and logic elements for combini... | 03/17/1992 |
| 4692880 | Memory efficient cell texturing for advanced video object generator An improved advanced video object generator with a more efficient cell texturing memory is disclosed. The advanced video object generator includes a data memory for storing cell-by-cell object data for a plurality of objects for retrieval and processing f... | 09/08/1987 |
| 4543645 | Point memory graphic terminal An image memory graphic terminal comprising an image memory constituted by memory planes, each plane incorporating a matrix system of memory points, a sequencer, a graphic display processor, a video signal generator, a video display receiver, a management... | 09/24/1985 |
