Did You Know...
...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 |
| 7120800 | Systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection The present invention provides systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection. Electronic appliances such as computers equipped in accordance with the present invention help to ensure that information is accessed and used only... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7058871 | Circuit with expected data memory coupled to serial input lead A digital bus monitor used to observe data on a bus (14, 16, 18) connecting multiple integrated circuits (10, 12) comprises a memory buffer (30), bypass register (34), test port (38) and output control circuits (42, 46) cont... | 06/06/2006 |
| 4589297 | Adjusting transmission in a motor vehicle An adjusting transmission of a motor vehicle for a motorized seat adjustment with a transmission housing and a worm arranged on a bearing shaft which is supported at the transmission housing in two shaft bearing parts retaining the shaft and inserted into... | 05/20/1986 |
| 4350911 | Tandem connected submersible oil well pump motors Submersible electric motors for pumping fluid from wells are assembled together in tandem relationship for increasing total output horsepower. Means are provided to make electrical connections just prior to assembly and interconnect the oil flow corridors... | 09/21/1982 |
| 4002378 | Vertically supported rotary body A rotary body supported at one or both ends by bearing means, either the body or a bearing means being resilient. An extension is located between each end of the rotary body and its respective bearing means, the extension having a smaller diameter than th... | 01/11/1977 |
| 3953088 | Device comprising an automatically aligning body of revolution The invention relates to a device comprising an automatically aligning body of revolution supported from a damped pivot bearing, a housing rigidly connected with the body of revolution and filled with a damping fluid being arranged between the body of rev... | 04/27/1976 |
