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The Post-It Note, an ubiquitous office supply found on desks, refrigerators, and everywhere in between, has become an essential tool for quick reminders, organizing tasks, and leaving messages. But, behind its simple design and everyday use lies an interesting history of invention and a groundbreaking patent that changed the way people organize and communicate. The [...]
On this day, in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was granted U.S. Patent No. 174,465 for his invention of the telephone. The patent described a device for transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically. In essence, Bell’s invention was designed to convert the vibrations of the human voice into electrical signals, which could then be transmitted along [...]
On this day, in 1906, Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright, better known as the "Wright Brothers," obtained a patent (US821393) for their incredibly innovative "Flying-Machine." After building and testing several different versions, their first powered airplane flew at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 17, 1903, about 9 months after the patent application was filed. [...]
Today, the Kellogg Company is one the top breakfast cereal companies in the World with over $14 billion in revenue last year, and as the recipient of several annual awards and recognitions. Did all of this success start with a patent over 120 years ago? Perhaps. On April 14, 1896, John Harvey Kellogg received a [...]
On this day in history, several design patents were issued giving us a glimpse of what technology used to look like, more than twenty years ago. Did you own any of these first generation or classic communication devices, laptops or monitors? U.S. Patent No. D405,083 Communication Device by Motorola, Inc. February 2, 1999 U.S. Patent [...]
On this day in 2001, Lucent Technologies Inc. received a patent for a method of training a text-to-speech (TTS) system to assign intonational features -- U.S. Patent No. 6,173,262. Intonation can drastically change the meaning of a spoken phrase, which can obviously cause severe problems in TTS automation. For example, as provided in this patent, with [...]
