...that to encourage use of his new invention, the shopping cart, market owner Sylvan Goldman hired fake shoppers to push the carts around his store in Oklahoma City? Seems his customers were reluctant to give up their hand-carried baskets.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7294875 | Nanoscale programmable structures and methods of forming and using same A programmable structure and device and methods of forming and using the structure and device are disclosed. The structure includes a soluble electrode, an ion conductor, and an inert electrode. Upon application of a sufficient voltage, a conductive region forms wit... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7189417 | Nanometer-sized carrier medium The present invention relates to a colloidal dispersion of amine-terminated silica particles having a narrowly controlled size range in an aqueous phase for use in diagnostic imaging, drug delivery and gene therapy, as well as methods for preparing surface-modified ... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7173313 | Semiconductor device with insulating layer having ion-coated nanoparticles A semiconductor device, which is arranged in a semiconductor body (1), and which comprises at least one source region (4) and at least one drain region (5), each being of the first conductivity type, and at least one body (8) of the secon... | 02/06/2007 |
| 6656641 | Methods of enhancing conductivity of a polymer-ceramic composite electrolyte Methods for enhancing conductivity of polymer-ceramic composite electrolytes are provided which include forming a polymer-ceramic composite electrolyte film by a melt casting technique and uniaxially stretching the film from about 5 to 15% in length. The ... | 12/02/2003 |