...that Thomas Edison's patent application on his phonograph was approved by the Patent Office in just seven weeks? In contrast, it took Gordon Gould, the inventor of the laser, 30 years to obtain his patent -- finally awarded in 1988!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7073937 | Heat emitting probe and heat emitting probe apparatus A heat emitting probe including a conductive nanotube probe needle with its base end fastened to a holder and its tip end protruded, a heat emitting body formed on the probe needle, a conductive nanotube lead wire fastened to the heat emitting body, and an electric ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 6702186 | Assembly comprising a plurality of media probes for writing/reading high density magnetic data The invention discloses in one embodiment a parallel probe array (N×M) incorporating thermal near-field heaters (or writers) as well as magnetic sensors (or readers), which can be moved en bloc as well as independently of each other. To this end, the pre... | 03/09/2004 |
| 4747698 | Scanning thermal profiler Apparatus is provided for investigating surface structures irrespective of the materials involved. A fine scanning tip is heated to a steady state temperature at a location remote from the structure to be investigated. Thereupon, the scanning tip is moved... | 05/31/1988 |