The Inventors
Name all 3 patent inventors!
Saumya Tiwari
Mohit Jain
Jeramie Watrous
True or False: the patents includes a description of how a computer mouse can be used to click on stuff.
True
This scientist famously worked in a patent office
Albert Einstein
This quacky bathtime toy was patented in 1947
Rubber duck
Nissin Food Products currently owns this 1976 patent for a hyper-convenient food item
Cup noodles
This inventor attended graduate school at Boston University
Mo
For how many years are the patents enforceable?
20
Which was patented first - the dishwasher or the flying machine?
Dishwasher (1886) - 1906 for flying machine (Wright Brothers) - dishwasher was hand-cranked though!
That Titan submersible gets recent attention for being an invention that killed its own inventor - which other seagoing vessel also famously killed its designer about a hundred years before?
The Titanic
The patent for the iPhone is titled:
A) Electronic device
B) Smart telephone
C) A handheld device with integrated telephonic and informational functionalities
A) Electronic device
This inventor apparently got a 3.7 GPA in their MS degree at UCSD
Jeramie
How many drawing sheets are in the main patent?
A) 5
B) 10
C) 20
D) 30
D) 30
The first US Patent was granted on July 31, 1790, for a method of making potash. What is potash?
Any water-soluble potassium salt (useful as fertilizer or in many industrial processes, like soap-making)
There is a 1991 patent for a special type of watch which, instead of telling the current time, tells you:
A) the time until Christmas
B) how much longer you have to live
C) whether any dogs are near you
B) impending doom (based on actuarial tables)
The common debate of rolling "over" or "under" is arguably answered by the figure accompanying the patent for this simple hygiene product
Toilet paper (over!)
The 3 inventors have appeared on many publications together - name both UCSD Departments to which the inventors are often listed as affilitated.
Medicine and Pharamcology
Which (non-trivial*) word appears most frequently in the full text of the patents?
*i.e. not "the", "and", "but", "to", etc
Signal(s)
The concept of the patent is generally accepted to have been first codified into law in this onetime maritime republic in the 15th century
Republic of Venice (they should have patented the idea to make a patent patent)
A 1908 patent attempted to make a "more ethical rodent trap" by inventing a device to do what?
A) snap a bell around a rat's neck so it runs home and scares its buddies
B) put a coat on the rat so it gets too hot and wants to go outside
C) cover the rat's feet in flour so its paths can be traced
A) neck bell
Philo Farnsworth patented this world-changing household device for "far-seeing" in 1927
Television
The first publication co-authored by all 3 inventors was published in 2019 - name the first author of that paper!
Edward Kantz
What is the title of one of the patents?
Adjustments of Mass Spectrometry Signals OR
Mass Spectrometry Retrieving of Stray Samples
Raytheon received US Patent No. 10,000,000 for a LADAR system - what does LADAR stand for?
Laser detection and ranging (radio detection and ranging is radar!)
British Railways in 1973 stepped a bit outside of their transportation comfort zone with a patent for this type of vehicle, typically reserved for ETs
A flying saucer/UFO (with a thermonuclear fusion reactor no less!)
This common household appliance was first patented in 1945 under the title "Method of treating foodstuffs"
Microwave