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 |
| 7108233 | Wire ring net for rocky wall barriers and method for making it A wire ring net, particularly for providing barriers for rocky walls and the like comprises a plurality of braided wire rings, each wire ring comprising, at a starting end of its wire, a first curled portion wound about the wire of the first turn and, at the termina... | 09/19/2006 |
| 5597017 | Method and apparatus for producing a retaining net A retaining net is made of wire rings which are interlooped when producing at least some of the rings while other rings that participate in the interlooping are prefabricated. Such nets are used for protection against falling rocks, avalanches, and mud sl... | 01/28/1997 |