Orcutt man hoping invention will help regrout the world – Santa Maria Times

Orcutt man hoping invention will help regrout the world
Santa Maria Times
This week the Orcutt resident will unveil his invention at the National Hardware Show in Las Vegas. Michael Taylor has been regrouting ceramic tile surfaces from Los Angeles to the Bay Area for 19 years. And for most of that time he's been looking for

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Seven New IBM Fellows Named as Company Celebrates Heritage of Innovation – Yahoo Finance

His key inventions include extendible hashing … affording clients more time to make decisions and react to changing situations more rapidly. This new breed of “context aware computing” holds big promise for organizations across a variety …
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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in New Jersey (April 26) – TMCnet

(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 — The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in New Jersey. *** International Business Machines Assigned …
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Tim Cook on Samsung patent litigation: ‘I highly prefer to settle’ (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Tim Cook on Samsung patent litigation: ‘I highly prefer to settle’  —  It sounds like those court-ordered settlement talks between Apple and Samsung are going pretty well — Tim Cook just told analysts on Apple’s Q2 2012 financial call that he’s “always hated litigation, and I continue to hate it.”

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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Georgia (April 25) – TMCnet

April 25 — The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Georgia … of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A new and distinct cultivar of Echinacea plant named `Jacob Lewis`, characterized …
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Magic Glass – Anti-fogging, Self-cleaning and Free of Glare

One of the most instantly recognizable features of glass is the way it reflects light. But a new way of creating surface textures on glass, developed by researchers at MIT, virtually eliminates reflections, producing glass that is almost unrecognizable because of its absence of glare — and whose surface causes water droplets to bounce right off, like tiny rubber balls.

The new “multifunctional” glass, based on surface nanotextures that produce an array of conical features, is self-cleaning and resists fogging and glare, the researchers say. Ultimately, they hope it can be made using an inexpensive manufacturing process that could be applied to optical devices, the screens of smartphones and televisions, solar panels, car windshields and even windows in buildings.

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