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Smoker’s hat

U.S. patent 4,858,627

Abstract: “A portable hat system enables the smoking of tobacco type products without affecting the environment includes a hat …, an integral fan for intaking ambient air …into the hat …, a filtration, purification and deionization system…, and an exhaust system …”



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National Inventors Hall of Fame

“We claim:
A method for removing selected areas of a biological layer comprised of organic material, including the steps of:
selecting a desired area of said biological layer, and irradiating said desired area with a plurality of pulses of pulse ultraviolet radiation ….“

U.S.Patent 4,784,135 to Samuel E. Blum, Rangaswamy Srinivasan, and Wayne J. Wynne, 2002 inductees, for invention commercialized as LASIK surgery.