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...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 |
| D659693 | Electronic writing tablet | 05/15/2012 |
| D658172 | Tablet personal computer | 04/24/2012 |
| D602489 | Portable wireless restaurant order device | 10/20/2009 |
| D579931 | Modem | 11/04/2008 |
| D577720 | Electronic tablet | 09/30/2008 |
| D575777 | Combined electronic business card and stylus | 08/26/2008 |
| 7356361 | Hand-held device A hand-held device that provides communication services and symbol processing is described. The device includes a case having a front side comprising a display and a lid having a transparent portion through which the display can be seen in a lid-closed state. In one... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7313477 | Vehicle dash-mounted navigation device A GPS system (10) which may be mounted on a dashboard (12) of any vehicle (14) after the vehicle has been manufactured yet appears to be integral with the dashboard. The GPS system (10) includes a GPS device (16), a hood (18... | 12/25/2007 |
| D554637 | Hand-held computer | 11/06/2007 |
| 7142980 | Vehicle dash-mounted navigation device A GPS system (10) which may be mounted on a dashboard (12) of any vehicle (14) after the vehicle has been manufactured yet appears to be integral with the dashboard. The GPS system (10) includes a GPS device (16), a hood (18... | 11/28/2006 |
| D532009 | Integrated signature pad and fingerprint reader | 11/14/2006 |
| D529943 | Machine for point of sale | 10/10/2006 |
| D529491 | Hand-held computer | 10/03/2006 |
| 7061762 | Housing for a computing apparatus A handheld computer having a housing with a midframe construction is described. The housing includes a front shell and a back shell coupled to a midframe. The handheld computer also includes two accessory slots for a stylus or other devices on the left and right sid... | 06/13/2006 |
| D512058 | Hand-held computer | 11/29/2005 |
| D499401 | Screen assembly for a hand-held electronic drawing device | 12/07/2004 |
| D491155 | Portable wireless telephone | 06/08/2004 |
| D490421 | Portable delivery information acquisition device | 05/25/2004 |
| 6388877 | Handheld computer with open accessory slot A handheld computer having a housing with a midframe construction is described. The housing includes a front shell and a back shell coupled to a midframe. The handheld computer also includes two accessory slots for a stylus or other devices on the left an... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6167376 | Computer system with integrated telephony, handwriting and speech recognition functions A computer system with speech recognition systems and handwriting recognition systems are disclosed that work closely together to improve the total recognition accuracy of each system alone. Handwriting recognition system may include a pen/stylus input de... | 12/26/2000 |
| 5555157 | Enclosure for electronic apparatus having a cover catch member engageable with two different housing catch members An enclosure for an electrical apparatus includes a housing having top and bottom surfaces and a plurality of side surfaces, and an electrical apparatus, such as a pen-based computer, disposed within the housing such that the housing and the apparatus pre... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5250929 | Interactive overlay-driven computer display system An interactive overlay-driven computer display system wherein the selective activation of a software "switch" by the operator each time the digitizer stylus is contiguous to the overlay, causes a visual image of the overlay (which normally has selectable ... | 10/05/1993 |
| 4927986 | Conductive stylus storage for a portable computer A hand held computer having a display screen which accepts writing from an electronic pen-type stylus has a cord which tethers the stylus to the computer. At the periphery of the computer is a flange or ledge forming a peripheral groove within which the c... | 05/22/1990 |
