Question from Heidi T.:
Hello Invention Geek,
In what state have the most patents been issued?
Heidi T.

Question from Carrie:
I was listening to Jimmy Buffet’s song “This Hotel Room” and one of the lines is- “Feel alright, feel alright. Magic Fingers makes you feel alright.” I remember hearing that Magic Fingers was popular in motels a while back. Who invented it?
Hey Carrie,
John Houghtaling invented Magic Fingers in his New Jersey Home in [...]

John Hetrick’s invention was the first prototype of today’s modern air bags and derived from an accident on a Sunday afternoon drive. In the spring of 1952, Hetrick, his wife and daughter went for a car ride in their 1948 Chrysler Windsor.  The car veered into a ditch on the side of the road to [...]

In part one of this series, we talked about utility patents and how they are the oldest and most common in the United States. American inventors have been able to patent their new, functional ideas and objects since 1790.
Now, if utility patents require an object to have some unique and different functionality, what do you [...]

Did you know intellectual property protection in America is about as old as America itself?
It’s true.
In 1787, the Constitution empowered Congress to “promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.” Less than three years later, with the [...]