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 |
| 7122544 | Anilinopyrimidine derivatives as IKK inhibitors and compositions and methods related thereto Compounds having activity as inhibitors of IKK are disclosed, particularly IKK-2. The compounds of this invention are anilinopyrimidine derivatives having the following structure: wherein R1 and R6 | 10/17/2006 |
| 6916601 | Image-forming method using a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material, and silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material An image-forming method comprising: employing a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material, comprising, on a support, at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow dye-forming coupler, at least one si... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6875562 | Silver halide photographic emulsion and silver halide photographic material containing said silver halide photographic emulsion A silver halide photographic emulsion which contains silver halide grains having light absorption strength of 100 or more. ... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6780577 | Silver halide photographic material A silver halide photographic material containing silver halide grains onto which a sensitizing dye in the first layer and a sensitizing dye or dyes in the second or after layers are multilayer-adsorbed, wherein the fluorescence life time of the dye or dyes in the se... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6566044 | Silver halide photographic material The present invention provides a silver halide photographic material that is excellent in photographic speed as well as image graininess and exhibits low residual color even after rapid processing. The silver halide photographic material contains a compou... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6498001 | Photographic silver halide emulsion A spectrally sensitized photographic silver halide emulsion, characterized in that after precipitation at least one compound of formula ##STR1## is added to the emulsion, wherein R1 denotes alkyl, aryl, aralkyl, alkenyl or heterocyclyl; R2 | 12/24/2002 |
| 6498002 | Photographic silver halide material A photographic material comprising a support and at least one at least one layer which comprises at least one spectrally sensitized silver halide emulsion, characterized in that the material contains at least one compound of formula ##STR1## wherein ... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6498003 | Photographic silver halide material A photographic material comprising a support and at least one layer which comprises at least one spectrally sensitised silver halide emulsion, characterised in that the material contains at least one compound of formula ##STR1## and/or ##STR2## ... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6492102 | Silver halide emulsion and silver halide light sensitive photographic material A red or infrared sensitive silver halide emulsion is disclosed, comprising at least a compound represented by the following formula. A photographic material containing the emulsion is also disclosed. ##STR1##... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6444392 | Black and white graphic arts film A black and white graphic arts film comprising a support having thereon at least one emulsion layer, said emulsion layer comprising: a trinuclear merocyanine spectral sensitising dye; 2-methylthio-4-hydroxy-6-methyl-1,3,3a,7-tetraazaindene (SMe-TAI); and a photosen... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6338941 | Silver halide light sensitive photographic material and image forming method by the use thereof A silver halide light sensitive photographic material is disclosed, comprising a support and at least one hydrophilic colloid layer including a silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the hydrophilic colloid layer comprises a compound represented by the fol... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6333146 | Methine compound and silver halide photographic material containing the same Disclosed is a compound represented by the following formula (I): ##STR1## wherein Z1 represents an atomic group necessary to form a 5- or 6-membered nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring; Z2 represents an atomic group necessary to f... | 12/25/2001 |
| 6218096 | Silver halide color photosensitive material A silver halide (AgX) color photosensitive material comprises, on a support, a AgX emulsion layer (BL) containing a yellow coupler and spectrally sensitized such that a spectral sensitivity region is 400 to 520 nm, a AgX emulsion layer (GL) containing a m... | 04/17/2001 |
| 5965345 | Co-dispersion of sensitizing dyes A method of sensitizing a silver halide emulsion comprises the steps of: a) forming a co-dispersion of a first sensitizing dye and a second sensitizing dye in an aqueous medium, wherein the peak absorptance of the second dye is at least 10 nm different from th... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5958667 | Photothermographic recording material comprising IR-sensitizing dyes A photothermographic recording material comprising a support and a photo-addressable thermally developable element containing a substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent therefor in thermal working relationship therewith, photo... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5928854 | Silver halide photosensitive material A silver halide photosensitive material is described, which comprises at least one of the compounds represented by the following formula (I) ##STR1## wherein Z1 and Z2 each represents an atomic group necessary for forming a five... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5863714 | Silver halide light-sensitive material There is disclosed a silver halide light-sensitive material which contains a methine compound represented by general formula (1): General formula (1) ##STR1## wherein A1, A2, and A3 each represent a streptocyanine dye; L1, L2, L3, and L4 each represe... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5851752 | Silver halide photographic material comprising hole-injection-type sensitizing dye(s) and supersensitizing compound(s) Disclosed is a silver halide photographic material comprising a support having provided thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer comprising a substantially surface-latent-image-type silver halide emulsion which comprises hole-injection-type sensi... | 12/22/1998 |
| 5851755 | Photothermographic material comprising at least one dye absorbing electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range 700 to 1100NM A photothermographic recording material comprising a photo-addressable thermally developable element containing a substantially light-insensitive organic silver salt, photosensitive silver halide in catalytic association with the substantially light-insen... | 12/22/1998 |
| 5821044 | Photographic silver halide emulsions A spectrally sensitised photographic silver halide emulsion which is super-sensitised with an aromatic complex having a central transition metal atom which is present in a valence state which is not the highest possible for the metal concerned and which c... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5804362 | Silver halide photographic material A silver halide photographic material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide photographic emulsion layer of a silver halide emulsion, wherein the emulsion layer comprises monodisperse cubic silver halide grains which ... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5580711 | Silver halide photographic light-sensitive material Disclosed is silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support and thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein at least one layer of said light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer contains silver ha... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5518876 | Red sensitizers for high silver chloride emulsions A photographic materials with a high silver chloride red sensitive layer which has a high sensitivity and exhibits reduced thermal sensitivity. In particular the material has a silver halide emulsion of at least 90% silver chloride and compounds of formul... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5514533 | Silver halide photographic photosensitive materials and a method for their processing A silver halide photographic photosensitive material comprises a silver halide photographic emulsion layer and a compound represented by general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein V1 and V2 each represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl ... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5501946 | Pre-fogged direct reversal silver halide photographic material A pre-fogged direct reversal silver halide photographic material comprises on a support at least an emulsion layer comprising a previously fogged silver halide emulsion for forming a direct positive image. The emulsion layer comprises at least one compoun... | 03/26/1996 |
| 5489505 | Silver halide photographic material A silver halide photographic material which contains methine dyes represented by formula (I) to obtain high sensitivity and excellent storage stability: ##STR1## wherein Z1 and Z2 each represents atoms necessary to complete a ... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5478719 | Silver halide photographic material The present invention provides a high sensitivity silver halide photographic material which minimizes the formation of fog and exhibits a small sensitivity drop during storage. A silver halide photographic material is provided comprising a compound having... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5453353 | Light-sensitive silver halide photographic material Disclosed is a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support and thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein said silver halide emulsion layer contains a compound represented by Formula S-I and a c... | 09/26/1995 |
| 5348850 | Silver halide photographic material and method of processing the same A silver halide photographic material has on a support at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer which comprises silver halide emulsion grains having a chloride content: of at least 50 mol % and containing a metal selected from rhodium, ru... | 09/20/1994 |
| 5298192 | Subbing composition for polyester Disclosed is a subbing composition for polyesters, comprising a dye, a hydrophilic colloid, and a latex, wherein said dye is dispersed in the form of fine solid grains which are substantially insoluble in water at a pH of 6 or less, and are substantially ... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5288738 | Dye compound and photographic element containing same A novel red-sensitizing dye compound has a structure which contains a pentamethine oxonol chromophore linked to one or two cyanine chromophores. A photographic element comprises a support upon which is coated a silver halide emulsion layer comprising cubi... | 02/22/1994 |
| 5260183 | Silver halide photographic material A novel silver halide photographic material comprising at least one silver halide emulsion layer on a support is provided, characterized in that said emulsion layer comprises (i) silver halide grains which are at least 80 mol % silver chloride, (ii) at le... | 11/09/1993 |
| 5234806 | Silver halide photographic light-sensitive materials The present invention provides dyes markedly excellent as sensitizing dyes for silver halide photographic light-sensitive materials. Said dyes are represented by the following formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R1 and R2 may be ident... | 08/10/1993 |
| 5192653 | Method for spectrally sensitizing silver halide photographic emulsions A method for spectrally sensitizing silver halide emulsions is disclosed, comprising the step of adding a cyanine dye, which provides a J-band when added to silver halide emulsions, to a silver halide emulsion followed by ripening with such conditions tha... | 03/09/1993 |
| 5185236 | Full color recording materials and a method of forming colored images A full color recording material which has, on a support, at least three silver halide photosensitive emulsion layers which have different color sensitivities and which contain a yellow coupler, magenta coupler and cyan coupler, respectively, and in which ... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5166047 | Methine compounds Silver halide photographic materials containing methine compounds of general formulas Ia, Ib, Ic, IIa, and IIb are disclosed. The variables are as defined in the present specification. ##STR1##... | 11/24/1992 |
| 5112731 | Silver halide photographic material A silver halide photographic material is disclosed, which comprises a support having coated thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the emulsion layer comprises tabular grains of silver chloride, silver bromide, silver chlorobromide or ... | 05/12/1992 |
| 5093222 | Silver halide photographic materials A negative silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein said silver halide emulsion layer or another hydrophilic colloid layer provided on the support contains (... | 03/03/1992 |
| 5091293 | Color negative photographic material A high-speed color negative photographic material which comprises, a support having provided thereon, at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and at least one blue-sensitive emulsi... | 02/25/1992 |
| 5061618 | Infrared-sensitive photographic element A photographic element is described comprising a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer where the silver halide is sensitized with a dye having the formula: ##STR1## wherein where Z1, Z2, Z3, R1 | 10/29/1991 |