Did You Know...
...Chester Carlson was a patent agent who tired of having to make multiple copies of patent applications using the only duplication method available at the time: carbon paper. In 1959 he came up with a new copying system and took it to IBM for evaluation. The "experts" at IBM determined potential sales to be only 5,000 units because people wouldn't want to use a bulky machine when they had carbon paper. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, the company founded on the system is Xerox.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8169882 | High density data storage medium, method and device A composition of matter for the recording medium of nanometer scale thermo-mechanical information storage devices and a nanometer scale thermo-mechanical information storage device. The composition includes: one or more polyaryletherketone copolymers, each of the on... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8102753 | Method for forming deformed regions in a resin layer An approach is presented for designing a polymeric layer for nanometer scale thermo-mechanical storage devices. Cross-linked polyimide oligomers are used as the recording layers in atomic force data storage device, giving significantly improved performance when comp... | 01/24/2012 |
| 7268348 | Scanning probe for data storage and microscopy A cantilever device for scanning a surface comprises a support, a tip platform and a flexible arm arrangement. The tip platform has a plurality of tips. These comprise at least two contact tips providing points of contact with a surface to be scanned, and a scanning... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7215633 | Storage device having a probe with a tip to form a groove in a storage medium A storage device comprises a probe having a tip. The storage device also comprises a storage medium, with the tip of the probe to form the groove in the storage medium. The probe tip interacts with a surface of the groove to store and read data. ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7038996 | Method and apparatus for reading an array of thermal resistance sensors Described is a method for reading an array of sensors having a set of row conductors each connected to the sensors in a corresponding row of the array and a set of column conductors each connected to the sensors in a corresponding column of the array such that each ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 4059827 | Molecular information storage systems A thermoplastic film is used to record data in the form of variations in molecular orientation of the polar molecules. The film is softened by heating and the data recorded, after which the film is cooled to retain the recorded molecular orientation.... | 11/22/1977 |
| 4033592 | Record disc cutting stylus A record disc cutting stylus comprises a cutting stylus body which is held at its upper end by a shank. At its lower end, there is a stylus tip portion which has a mirror surface, a relief surface with a relief angle γ, and a burnishing facet with a burn... | 07/05/1977 |
| 4015248 | Process for recording low-frequency wide-band signals on a thermoplastic storage medium A process for recording low-frequency, wide-band signals on a thermoplastic storage medium to obtain an improved signal-to-noise ratio characterized by exposing the thermoplastic storage medium with the information to be recorded and either simultaneously... | 03/29/1977 |
| 3965461 | Thermoplastic image recording system Erasable thermoplastic image recording systems having extended useful lifetimes are provided by subjecting the thermoplastic recording medium to a sequence of erasure, exposure to incident radiation cooling and projection in an inert atmosphere while appl... | 06/22/1976 |
