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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 |
| 8181511 | Method and system of imaging electrons in the near earth space environment A method and system of globally monitoring space weather conditions, use an imager, including one or more telescopic instruments and one or more processors, containing computer program code. The imager is configured on a platform; and positioned in the near Earth sp... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8100004 | Weather prediction system The invention consists of a barometric pressure sensor, coupled to a processor for recording changes in the pressure over time, this is coupled to a GPS device providing an accurate measurement of the altitude which allows for the barometric pressure measurements to... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8037749 | Network monitoring method, network monitoring apparatus, line failure prevention system and computer program of network monitoring apparatus Disclosed is a network monitoring method including: a predicted amount of rainfall obtaining step of obtaining a predicted amount of rainfall generated in a predetermined time in a current line route; a prediction step of predicting whether or not a line failure occ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 7950278 | Atmosphere control device The present invention provides elimination of atmosphere that is not suitable to a space concerned by controlling atmosphere. The present invention is characterized that atmosphere in space is analyzed based on voice, and if atmosphere that is not suitable to... | 05/31/2011 |
| RE42057 | Weather station A weather station with at least one element mounted on bearings on a housing or rack on a vertical axis for alignment with the direction of the wind and with a measuring device, which depending on the angle position of the element aligning in the direction of the wi... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7861584 | Probe tips for airborne instruments used to measure cloud microphysical parameters An instrument for obtaining airborne measurements of cloud microphysical parameters. The instrument comprises supporting arms mounted thereon, optics and a detector for measuring the cloud microphysical parameters The supporting arms define an optical path of the in... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7765864 | Device and method for detecting lightning strikes on a structure made of electrically insulating material A device for detecting lightning strikes (9) on an electrically insulating structure (11) likely to be subjected to a lightning strike, for example an aircraft radome, includes on an external surface (12) one or more lightning arrester strips ( | 08/03/2010 |
| 7685873 | Method for path-averaged cross-wind measurement A method for crosswind velocity measurement including using a correlation between the atmosphere turbulence strength and the spatial scale spectrum of turbulence eddies in the atmosphere to calculate wind velocity. ... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7530266 | Acoustic profiler for wind, temperature, and turbulence Characterizing atmospheric conditions is accomplished by measuring at least one varying spectral characteristic of sound at a plurality of intervals from a sound source with the point of measurement and the sound source in relative motion and separated by altitude. ... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7475594 | Vehicle weather forecaster and navigation device with integrated power generator A weather forecasting and navigation device for vehicles is provided that generates local or specific weather forecast information while generating its own power. In one example, the device may include an integrated wind turbine that is turned by the wind flow creat... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7472590 | Autonomous continuous atmospheric present weather, nowcasting, and forecasting system Apparatus and methods for passively and remotely and continuously locating, monitoring, and measuring present weather and nowcasting and forecasting weather and meteorological phenomena and parameters by utilizing observations of infrared emissions and reflections a... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7437923 | Wind and water speed and direction measurement device A device for measuring fluid flow, in particular, but not exclusively, wind and/or water speed and direction. The device includes magnetic measuring means having a core and first and second orthogonal windings arranged over the core, and deflector means adapted to b... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7430458 | Calculating an ET value for an irrigation area A method of method of calculating an ET value for an irrigation area is disclosed. The method includes a weather parameter measurement system collecting at least one weather parameter of a weather parameter area, the at least one weather parameter of the weather par... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7417577 | Methods of estimating precipitation characteristics A method of estimating precipitation characteristics including acquiring a radar image including at least a vertical plane of a precipitation zone; processing a vertical profile to generate digital signals representative of reflectivity in vertical direction z; inte... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7391358 | Weather radar echo tops forecast generation Described are a method and a system for generating a short-term forecast of echo tops as defined by weather radar measurements. The method includes receiving echo tops images for different times. An echo tops growth rate and an echo tops maximum value are determined... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7359799 | Method and system for automated location dependent probabilistic tropical cyclone forecast A method for automated location dependent probabilistic tropical cyclone forecast. A plurality of new data records representative of alternative tracks are generated based on historical tracks by a first MonteCarlo-module. Points of the new data records are generate... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7347091 | Integrated fog free mirror and weather station A system for planning wardrobe and activities includes a weather sensing unit configured to wirelessly transmit weather conditions, a weather condition display module configured to receive the transmitted weather conditions, and a reflective surface integrally coupl... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7318672 | Specimen heater and control system for accelerated weathering test apparatus An accelerated weathering test apparatus of the type used to concentrate solar radiation upon test specimens including a heating element that transfers energy to the test specimens. A temperature sensor is operatively coupled to one of the test specimens for generat... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7305876 | Integrated mirror and weather station A system for planning wardrobe and activities includes a weather sensing unit configured to wirelessly transmit weather conditions, a weather condition display module configured to receive the transmitted weather conditions, and a reflective surface integrally coupl... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7304472 | Rotary position sensor A rotary position sensor is disclosed having a magnetic element having a cavity therein. A flux concentrator is arranged to substantially surround the magnetic element, and a magnetic field sensor located within the cavity. The magnetic element may have rectilinear ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7284421 | Detection of wake vortices and the like in the lower atmosphere Two SODAR systems (12a and 12r) for detecting and characterizing vortices (16) shed from landing or departing aircraft (14) as at an airport (10) are positioned so that one, the active system (12a) is lo... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7273456 | Method for analyzing an event such as a surgical intervention on a blood vessel A method of analyzing an event comprises the steps consisting in: gathering at least one series of measurements of a physical phenomenon associated with the event or likely to be associated therewith; from a predet... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7258073 | Pictorial thermometer A thermometer comprising a base sheet adapted to be secured to a window or other surface, the sheet includes distinct thermally actuated latent images thereon and each of which is adapted to reversibly depict a different article of clothing once a pre-determined tem... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7249502 | Precipitation/hail sensor and method for precipitation rate measurement The invention relates to a precipitation detector (1) and method for measurement of precipitation parameters. The detector (1) includes a frame (5), a surface (2) mounted on the frame (5) and adapted to receive hydrometeors, and de... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7219015 | Methods for generating data set A computer method of generating a probabilistic dataset relating to a weather event includes inputting data representative of an historical weather event, and generating data representative of a plurality of alternative events. The data for the alternative events ar... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7216020 | Method and system for controlling an irrigation scheduling engine using computed evapotranspiration values A system for providing irrigation control is provided. The system includes a number of non-local data sources for providing data, a processor and an irrigation system. The processor is configured to receive data from one or more of the non-local data sources and cal... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7200491 | System for producing high-resolution, real-time synthetic meteorological conditions for a specified location Methods and articles of manufacture for estimating or deriving weather observations/conditions for any given location using observed weather conditions from neighboring locations, radar data, lightning data, satellite imagery, etc. An initial estimate of weather con... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7184890 | Cloud shadow detection: VNIR-SWIR Systems, computer-readable media, and systems are provided for determining whether a data point indicates a presence of a shadow-covered ground point. A data point from top of atmosphere data from an imaging study of an area potentially covered by a cloud shadow is ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7174781 | Temperature reduction fixture for accelerated weathering test apparatus An accelerated weathering test apparatus of the type used to concentrate solar radiation upon test specimens including a fixture connected to a target board including a frame spaced from the target board a predetermined distance by a plurality of stand-offs and havi... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7164335 | Switch assembly employing magnetic reed switches A three-position push-pull switch assembly is disclosed that includes two magnetic reed switches mounted to a circuit board located within the switch housing. A magnet is mounted to an actuator that extends into the switch housing and is axially translatable from a ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7156586 | Wind turbine with floating foundation A floating foundation for wind turbines is disclosed, where the foundation essentially comprises at least three submerged buoyancy bodies connected to the lower end of the tower of the wind turbine at a common node member situated well above the surface of the sea. ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7114388 | Geographically distributed environmental sensor system The present invention is directed to a sensor network that includes a number of sensor units and a base unit. The base station operates in a network discovery mode (in which network topology information is collected) in a data polling mode (in which sensed informati... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7100438 | Method and apparatus for determining a site for an offshore wind turbine A method for determining a site for an offshore wind turbine includes determining a plurality of possible site locations, and positioning an offshore assembly at at least one of the possible site locations, wherein the assembly includes a floating support structure,... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7066020 | Personal severe weather warning microchip and pressure sensor A small, portable device for detecting impending severe weather. The device measures change in barometric pressure and sounds a buzzer when changes in pressure indicate that severe weather, including tornadoes, are likely to occur. Homes and businesses are therefore... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7049971 | System for selective notification of severe weather events A system for sending an effective warning signal to receivers in a predetermined area. A transmitter, activated by a local authority, sends a severe weather warning signal to a plurality of receivers. Cities or counties within the predetermined area are divided into... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7043977 | Device and method for measuring parameters during flight tests of an aircraft A sensor support includes a rigid insert, on which a sensor is installed, and a flexible envelope fitted at a bottom face thereof with a double-sided adhesive to bond the sensor support to an aircraft structure Assembly and disassembly of the sensor are easy and the... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7015713 | Method and apparatus for evaluating a set of electronic components A method is disclosed of monitoring an environmental condition associated with a container with a set of electronic components including attaching a moisture recorder to the container, the moisture recorder comprising a sensing element responsive to atmospheric mois... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6956300 | Gimbal-mounted hydroelectric turbine A power plant extracts energy from a free flowing motive fluid by means of a turbine mounted on a gimbal. The shroud element of the fluid intake has external rudders, in conjunction with the gimbal mounting, enabling the enclosed turbine to instantaneously respond t... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6920233 | Method and apparatus for short-term prediction of convective weather A method and apparatus for forecasting the likely occurrence of convective weather events, such as thunderstorms. An image filter is used to identify areas of interest within a meteorological image that are likely to contain convective weather. The image filter and ... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6829536 | System and method for processing weather information Weather information provided to a system for processing is converted from a weather information source coordinate system to a three-dimensional XYZ coordinate system. Processing of the weather information, e.g., to determine a current location and predicted path of ... | 12/07/2004 |
