Posts Tagged: national inventors hall of fame
Other Barks & Bites for Friday, February 22
This week in Other Barks & Bites: the Chinese and U.S. governments hash out intellectual property issues; a prominent New York City politician joins the effort to …
2018 HoF Inductee Jacqueline Quinn Invents EZVI Environmental Remediation Technology to Cleanup Groundwater Contaminants
Clean sources of groundwater are incredibly important to the general population of the United States. More than 50 percent of the U.S. population relies on groundwater sources …
Stan Honey, Inventor of the 1st & 10 Yellow Line First Down Marker
Stan Honey’s advances in sports graphics technology are outlined in the patent for which he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. U.S. …
Gamestatix Develops a Blockchain Platform to Correct Inequalities in Booming Gaming Market
Gamestatix intends to release an ERC-20 token that can be deployed on an Ethereum blockchain. Launched in 2014, this technology makes it possible for Gamestatix to pay in …
Dr. Arogyaswami Paulraj Inducted into National Inventors HoF for MIMO Wireless Transmission
Thursday, September 6th, marks the 24th anniversary of the issue of a seminal patent in the field of MIMO wireless communications. Its inventor, Dr. Arogyaswami Paulraj, is …
Tang and Van Slyke Inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame for Development of OLED Display Technology
Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) are semiconductor films composed of an organic compound having electroluminescent properties which utilize an electrical current to emit light. The technology has wide …
Warren Johnson, The Father of Thermostats and Automated Room Temperature Control
Warren Johnson one of the 2018 inductees into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his invention of automatic room temperature control. July marks the anniversary of two …
Paul Terasaki Revolutions Organ Donor-Recipient Matching With the Terasaki Tray
This July 8th marks the 32nd anniversary of the issue of a seminal patent in the field of organ donation and it protected a technology which became …
Patent Subject Matter Eligibility 101
The patents discussed below are all landmark inventions and were conceived by inventors inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF). Would these ground-breaking inventions, that …
Camp Invention Sparks Students’ Interest to Explore STEM
Camp Invention® introduces young innovators to invention and innovation in a way that makes them relatable and fun. In the new 2018 program, campers will design a vehicle …
Mary Engle Pennington: The Mother of Modern Food Preservation
The preservation of food and beverage products for safe consumption despite extended shelf lives at grocery stores is a major global industry. Both consumers and companies have …
Howard S. Jones, Jr., Revolutionizes Long-Range Air Communications with Conformal Antennas
Thanks to the work of Howard S. Jones, Jr., one of the 2018 inductees into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, the United States was able to advance …
Spandex Patent Lands Inventor Joseph Shivers in the HOF
The synthetic elastic fiber known as spandex, a name which comes from an anagram of 'expands,' is used in a wide range of clothing and apparel …
Earle Dickson Invents Band-Aid® Bandages to Promote Healing
December 28 marks the anniversary of the issuance of a patent covering a bandage technology commonly known as the Band-Aid®, invented at Johnson & Johnson... In order to speed …
Don Arney’s Bambi Bucket, a major contribution to aerial firefighting tech from the 1980s
Helicopters and other aircraft are often used to combat fires which cannot be controlled by personnel on the ground and the practice is a fairly expensive one. …
