...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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| 7152205 | System for multimedia document and file processing and format conversion An adaptive transformation and User Interface system enables transformation of a file or document (e.g. an SGML, XML, HTML or other multimedia file or document) from one format to another format. The transformation supports error correction, filtering and collation ... | 12/19/2006 |
| 6462754 | Method and apparatus for authoring and linking video documents A method for authoring video documents includes the steps of inputting video data to be processed, segmenting the video data into shots by identifying breaks between the shots, subdividing the shots into subshots using motion analysis to provide location ... | 10/08/2002 |