“Devices and implements for deterring monsters, specters, demons, and the like,” is the title of a US patent application 13364587, Filed February 2, 2012 by Kevin M. Crucs of sparsely populated Copley, Ohio, USA. The patent document contains copious details. Among them: “Devices and implements for staving off monsters, specters, demons and the like as imagined by a […]
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Q: what, exactly, did Orville Wright invent? A: a mailbox
Many people associate the name Orville Wright with the invention of the airplane. However, Orville Wright invented — and patented — a combined mailbox and lamp:
Prof. Nunna’s graduation mortarboard display holder (New Patent)
Professor Ramakrishna Nunna, [pictured left] who is Dean of the Lyles College of Engineering, US, and Walter Mizuno M.S. [pictured right] who is a lecturer at the college, are the inventors of the world’s first (and newly patented) Graduation mortarboard display holder. (United States Patent 9,468,247, October 18, 2016, assigned to California State University, Fresno […]
Chinese nuclear-reactor-and-flying-saucer invention
It is possible to build a combination nuclear reactor and flying saucer, in the view of inventor Jiubin Chen, who filed this patent application, in the year 2008: “Nuclear reactor and flying saucer manufactured thereby,” Chinese patent application 101162005 (A), 2008-04-16. Inventor(s): JIUBIN CHEN. “The invention relates to a nuclear reactor and a flying disk manufactured […]