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 |
| 7931190 | Circuit and method for correlated inputs to a population count circuit A circuit includes a plurality of selection circuits. Each of the plurality of selection circuits has a first input, a second input, a control input, and an output. Each of the first inputs receives one of a plurality of correlated signals. Each of the second inputs... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7304914 | Golf watch A golf watch, which keeps time and allows a player to keep score of a person's golf game and records the clubs that were used during that game. ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7188760 | Counting apparatus A counting apparatus for counting the number of persons in an establishment. The counting apparatus includes a housing being designed for being held in a hand of a user. An intake assembly is coupled to the housing. The intake assembly is designed for being actuated... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7057976 | Electronic timepiece able to be worn on the wrist for counting golf score The present invention concerns a portable electronic timepiece including analogue display means. Preferably, the analogue display means include hour (9), minute (10) and second (11) hands and two concentric date display rings (15, 16) vis... | 06/06/2006 |
| 6912180 | Timepiece with calendar The invention relates to a timepiece comprising a time train, a 31-toothed wheel, a wheel of units of 30 teeth plus a space corresponding to a tooth which is used to drive a star-wheel of units and a four-toothed wheel for driving a star-wheel of tens, a year cam wh... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6543681 | Mechanical golf counter A golf counter has an entirely mechanical mechanism which includes a first lever actuated by a first pushbutton provided at its end with a nose coacting with a first star wheel carrying the movable member of the counter of the number of strokes per hole a... | 04/08/2003 |
