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...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 |
| 5170347 | System to reformat images for three-dimensional display using unique spatial encoding and non-planar bisectioning A system for three-dimensional diagnostic imaging generates a plurality of slice images of a specimen. A region of interest is selected from within a slice and is extrapolated to subsequent slices. A boundary indicative of a surface of interest is selecte... | 12/08/1992 |
| 5157604 | Heart rate monitoring system for plural persons using radio telemetry An apparatus for simultaneously monitoring the heart rate of each of a plurality of subjects comprises a main circuit for transmitting a predetermined signal of predetermined frequency and duration and at predetermined time intervals to cause each of a pl... | 10/20/1992 |
| 5153825 | Paint formula retrieval and management system and method A formula retrieval and management system (200) for retrieving paint formulas, creating paint formulas, updating paint inventory, and providing miscellaneous reports. The system presents a ruled scale representation of actual sizes on a display, including... | 10/06/1992 |
| 5119294 | POS terminal group management device with memory for pre-storing different collection data ranges for each POS terminal In a transaction processing system including a plurality of POS terminal devices (cash registers), a POS terminal group management device (cluster controller) and a sales management device (store controller), only necessary totalized data are transmitted ... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5113340 | Search improvements for electronic spelling machine Improvements in a hand-held spelling machine increase the speed with which a query word is compared against the words in memory. One technique is to provide a look up table to encode all character sets of one or two letters into a coded string. Where the ... | 05/12/1992 |
| 5101354 | Multi-lane bowling system with remote operator control A bowling center system includes a plurality of lane pair control systems each including a pin setting device for each lane, a pin setter control unit, a game control unit, a bowler input station and a pair of overhead display monitors. The game control u... | 03/31/1992 |
| 5095432 | Data processing system implemented process and compiling technique for performing context-free parsing algorithm based on register vector grammar A context-free parsing algorithm employing register vector grammars provides fast parsing of natural languages. A compiler for register vector grammars accepts input grammars as standard phase structure rules and generates strongly equivalent grammars in ... | 03/10/1992 |
| 5093787 | Electronic checkbook with automatic reconciliation An apparatus for reconciling checking account and other transaction data including first and second data reconciliation control units, each including associated memory, data transference/communication channels for facilitating two-way data communication b... | 03/03/1992 |
| 5086391 | Remote controller for activating speech messages and for contacting emergency services A medical alert system for domestic use wherein the system is comprised of two major components, a device worn about the neck and a home computer. The device worn about the neck and the home computer reciprocally communicate with one another to provide th... | 02/04/1992 |
| 5083271 | Tournament data system with game score communication between remote player terminal and central computer A tournament system for electronic games in which scores achieved on the games are transmitted to one or a hierarchy of computers in which a winner is determined. At least one computer stores a player code associated with player credits. The players inser... | 01/21/1992 |
| 5081581 | Correction for Compton scattering by analysis of energy spectra A system for removing the effects of Compton scattering in systems such as tomographic scanning and radioisotope imaging arrangements, which detect gamma rays, utilizes the smoothness of the Compton component over the image to reduce computing time. Data ... | 01/14/1992 |
| 5079701 | System for registering new words by using linguistically comparable reference words A computer, in particular a word processor, is structured to enter and store Japanese symbols and character strings. The word processor includes an operator defined dictionary. To enter the new words in particular Japanese words into the operator defined ... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5079697 | Distortion reduction in projection imaging by manipulation of fourier transform of projection sample Distortion is reduced in images derived by Fourier transform methods from projection samples by manipulating the Fourier transformed values by a predetermined procedure of a kind that subjects the image values to unwanted distortion, and then applying to ... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5075856 | System for modelling low resolution atmospheric propagation LOWTRAN 7 is a low-resolution propagation model and computer code for predicting atmospheric transmittance and background radiance from 0 to 50,000 cm- at a resolution of 20 cm-. The code is based on the LOWTRAN 6 (1983) model with a... | 12/24/1991 |
| 5070454 | Reference marker orientation system for a radiographic film-based computerized tomography system An object is exposed to penetrating radiation at each of a plurality of partial rotations of the object. Radiation transmitted through the object strikes a separate sheet of radiographic film for each exposure to record an entire radiographic image of the... | 12/03/1991 |
| 5070502 | Defect tolerant set associative cache It is desirable to bypass the defects within a cache memory so that a high percentage of the cache is usable; otherwise the entire chip containing the cache memory must be scrapped. Since VLSI chips with a small number of defects form a large proportion o... | 12/03/1991 |
| 5070503 | Digital information transmitting and receiving system A digital information transmitting and receiving system constructed of a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter includes a high efficiency encoding circuit for compressing digital information codes using correlativity among the digital information co... | 12/03/1991 |
| 5070455 | Imaging system and method using scattered and diffused radiation An imaging system generates images of the interior of an object using radiation which is attenuated and scattered by the interior of the object. The object is radiated at a number of points near the exterior of the object, and the radiation emerging from ... | 12/03/1991 |
| 5067079 | Interactive audio baseball game In a microprocessor based interactive audio game for two users to play against one another, or for one user to play against the computer, the game having the ability to store and retrieve sets of statistical data corresponding to the performance of actual... | 11/19/1991 |
| 5063507 | Goods database employing electronic title or documentary-type title A commodity trading system having a centralized computer and data base. Each commodity, such as a bale of cotton, is represented in the data base as a file having all the information unique to such bale, including a title flag. The title flag field of the... | 11/05/1991 |
| 5060153 | Teller machine with mode for continuously sending off-line collected transaction data to a host while ignoring incomplete data response signals A transaction system where at least one teller machine, operating in an on-line mode and an off-line mode, is connected to a host computer. The teller machine can be set during the off-line mode into either of two key wait states for responding to a key w... | 10/22/1991 |
| 5058012 | Method of extrapolating reservoir performance A method of determining a numerical index from a cored well that corresponds to the performance data of a portion of a reservoir and a method of extrapolating the performance of such portion of a reservoir to the entire reservoir through use of the numeri... | 10/15/1991 |
| 5058011 | Radiant ray CT with view data interpolation A radiant ray CT for reconstructing an image at a high effective rate, high resolution, and high picture quality with a shortened scan time and thus with less exposure. The apparatus comprises a source of radiant ray, such as an X-ray, and a group of dete... | 10/15/1991 |
| 5056021 | Method and apparatus for abstracting concepts from natural language A method and apparatus for abstracting meanings from natural language words. Each word is analyzed for its semantic content by mapping into its category of meanings within each of four levels of abstraction. The preferred embodiment uses Roget's Thesaurus... | 10/08/1991 |
| 5053955 | Process and apparatus for administering promotional mailings A process is disclosed for merging promotional information, based on multiple requests and relating to different promotions, into a single stream for the printing and mailing of coupons, checks or other promotional items. The requests relating to a partic... | 10/01/1991 |
| 5053606 | Credit authorization terminal with circuitry to service plural customers in parallel A credit authorization terminal (CAT), when communication processing is performed between the CAT and a host computer to perform settlement processing for one customer, performs input processing of information concerning settlement for the next customer i... | 10/01/1991 |
| 5051999 | Programmable error correcting apparatus within a paging receiver A paging receiver receiving message information having one of a plurality of (BCH) code word structures has a programmable error correcting apparatus for correcting bit errors within the message information. The programmable error correcting apparatus may... | 09/24/1991 |
| 5050077 | Meeting scheduler with alternative listing An improved method of scheduling a meeting among terminal users who are provided with calendaring applications for storing and retrieving times and dated events. A prompting screen is presented to a meeting scheduler with blanks for keying in desired time... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5047932 | Method for coding the input of Chinese characters from a keyboard according to the first phonetic symbols and tones thereof A method for coding the input of Chinese characters from a keyboard according to the first phonetic symbols and tones thereof includes the steps of making a dictionary; establishing a conversion table which converts each of Chinese phonetic symbols to an ... | 09/10/1991 |
| 5047933 | Full wave form restoration of optically digitized seismic traces A method for digitizing seismic traces comprising optically digitizing the seismic sections to produce a digitized image, normalizing the digitized image for brightness to produce a normalized digitized image, geometrically straightening the digitized ima... | 09/10/1991 |
| 5047748 | Dock monitoring system A remote monitoring system for a multi-position loading dock facility having a vehicle restraint lock at each loading/unloading position is disclosed. The monitoring system includes a data processor, and a keyboard and monitor associated therewith, which ... | 09/10/1991 |
| 5041975 | Borehole correction system for an array induction well-logging apparatus A new borehole correction software, for use in a well logging truck computer, obtains an accurate measurement of the true conductivity of a formation in a borehole by subtracting a correction term, which is a function of the mud conductivity, the borehole... | 08/20/1991 |
| 5036461 | Two-way authentication system between user's smart card and issuer-specific plug-in application modules in multi-issued transaction device A transaction terminal for use with diverse credit or other transaction cards is provided with an interface unit for receiving a plurality of modules, wherein each module contains programming information corresponding to transactions that may be carried o... | 07/30/1991 |
| 5036462 | Interactive patient assistance and medication delivery systems responsive to the physical environment of the patient A medication delivery device measures a preselected physical parameter of a patient as well measures at least one preselected parameter in the patient's immediate environment that relates to the physical parameter. A control element compares the preselect... | 07/30/1991 |
| 5034888 | Electronic endoscope apparatus having different image processing characteristics for a moving image and a still image An endoscope apparatus is arranged to convert the image signal output from an imaging device into a standard video signal, effect image processing, such as outline emphasis, of the image signal, and display a reproduced image on a display. The endoscope a... | 07/23/1991 |
| 5029083 | Energy subtraction processing method using weighted average of plural stacked sheets for creating high energy image In an energy subtraction processing for radiation images, a plurality of stimulable phosphor sheets laid one upon the other are simultaneously exposed to a radiation of high energy passing through an object, and then a different stimulable phosphor sheet ... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5029082 | Correlative analysis in multi-domain processing of cardiac signals An apparatus and method for detecting and processing bioelectric signals, such as ECG, VCG, EEG, etc, comprising: a plurality of electrodes for detecting electric signals from different locations on a human or animal body; a signal collecting device for s... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5029081 | Computer analysis system for accessing computations on an individual basis, particularly for bioenergy analysis A bioenergy control system in which bioenergy numbers are calculated based on the date-of-birth information inputted by an input keyboard. The information such as personality information corresponding to the bioenergy numbers is retrieved from a first mem... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5025376 | Radiation teletherapy imaging system having plural ionization chambers An apparatus and method are provided for imaging an object undergoing high energy irradiation, such as a patient being treated by radiation teletherapy, the apparatus employing an array of ion chambers in a detector, the detector being rotatable with resp... | 06/18/1991 |
| 5023781 | Electric cash register An electronic cash register is provided which an operator can operate by inserting a card therein on which at least an operable period of time for which said register is operable has been recorded. The register can be operated when the present time is wit... | 06/11/1991 |
