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 |
| 7331725 | System and method for monitoring unauthorized dissemination of documents and portable media A method for enforcing a distribution policy associated with an electronic document comprising the steps of: sending the document to an output device; determining said distribution policy associated with said document; instructing a marking module to embed a marking... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7255434 | Sheet feeding device and ink-jet recording apparatus incorporating the same A sheet feeding device is adapted to feed a recording medium including a first medium provided as a cut-sheet form and a second medium provided as a rolled-sheet form to a recording section at which a recording operation is performed with respect to the recording me... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7233930 | Postage metering system including a printer having dual print heads A postage metering system includes a computer, an authentication unit, a printer and a control system. The control system is in operative communication with the computer, the authentication unit and the printer. The authentication unit and the printer are both in op... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7013024 | Method for reading information that has been embedded in an image A method for detecting a copy of a composite image that includes a first image and a second image that has information embedded in the second image that will change in appearance when the first and second images are scanned or photocopied. The foregoing is accomplis... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6995853 | Method and system for modifying print stream data to allow printing over a single I/O port The invention is a method and system of modifying print stream data. The method begins by sending a print stream from an application through a graphical device interface to a print spooler. A print stream monitor determines whether or not the print stream comprises ... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6895395 | Postal printing device with facilitated reading This invention relates to an inkjet printing device of a franking machine intended to print postal indicia on a mail piece to be franked, displaced with respect to this device in a direction of displacement, the postal indicia comprising at least an amount of franki... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6283647 | Bar code printer that automatically sets one bar color in response to another bar color There is provided an image printing method and device which is capable of easily printing a bar code image having colors conforming to a bar code print quality standard. A bar code pattern defining the arrangement of bars of two kinds in a bar code is set... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6102592 | Method and apparatus for printing and prevention of copying of postage indicia Postage indicia are printed on mail items using an ink having a characteristic such that the ink is rendered invisible when subjected to light or light and heat of sufficient intensity. When an attempt is made to copy the imprint of a postage indicia on a... | 08/15/2000 |
| 5937762 | Apparatus for printing postal impressions and method of identifying origin of postal impression A method of identifying a franking machine used to print franking impressions is disclosed. Ink used by the franking machine contains an identification tag unique to each franking machine, or to a group of franking machines, and the impression printed by ... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5660111 | Franking machine and method of identifying franking machine A method of identifying a franking machine used to print franking impressions is disclosed. Ink used by the franking machine contains a chemical tag unique to each franking machine, or to a group of franking machines, and the impression printed by the fra... | 08/26/1997 |
| 4752684 | Method of marking substantially flat paper articles A substantially flat paper article or product is marked by applying thereto a luminophore. In order for the thus produced markings to remain discernible even if the paper article constitutes a component or part in a collation or composite of such paper ar... | 06/21/1988 |
| 4739377 | Confidential document reproduction method and apparatus A reproduction method and apparatus provides for the secure reproduction of confidential documents that include a machine readable code or indicia that is preferably invisible. The reproductions are also provided with a machine readable code to provide se... | 04/19/1988 |
| 3938088 | Character coding and recognition system Coding of a group of characters for recognition by a machine and by a human viewer is provided by coloring each character with a predetermined plurality of colors arranged in predetermined locations within a character configuration. Each character configu... | 02/10/1976 |
