(For the purposes of this article, an inventor is a person who has been granted a patent.) After Google released a patent search online in December 2006, a website called Ironic Sans, made the public aware of a number of celebrity patents found through the new patent search engine.
Additional lists of inventors can be found at List of inventors. See also Category:Inventors.
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- Harry Connick, Jr., U.S. patent 6,348,648 — System and method for coordinating music display among players in an orchestra. An electronic system, a device with a screen, used to show the sheet music for the musicians, for example in an orchestra, while they are playing, instead of the more commonly used paper. Connick uses this system when performing with his big band.
- Jamie Lee Curtis, U.S. patent 4,753,647 — Infant garment. A disposable baby diaper with pockets containing one or more removable clean-up wipers.
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- Hedy Lamarr, U.S. patent 2,292,387 — with co-inventor George Antheil, frequency hopping spread spectrum radio for jam-proof remote control of torpedoes. This work led to their induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014.
- Levi Braaksma, U.S. patent 2,292,387 — Secret communication system (co-inventor).
- Abraham Lincoln, U.S. patent 6,469 — [method for] Buoying vessels over shoals.
- George Lucas
- U.S. patent D264109 — Toy action figure (co-inventor, with Ralph McQuarrie, Joe Johnston). The ornamental design for a Boba Fett toy action figure.
- U.S. patent D265108 — Toy figure (co-inventor, with McQuarrie, Phil Tippett). The ornamental design for a tauntaun toy figure.
- U.S. patent D265109 — Toy figure (co-inventor, with Stuart Freeborn, McQuarrie). The ornamental design for a toy figure.
- U.S. patent D265330 — Toy figure (co-inventor, with McQuarrie, Johnston). The ornamental design for a droid toy figure.
- U.S. patent D265331 — Toy figure (co-inventor, with McQuarrie). The ornamental design for an IG-88 toy figure.
- U.S. patent D265332 — Toy figure (co-inventor, with McQuarrie, Johnston). The ornamental design for a snowtrooper toy figure.
- U.S. patent D265668 — Toy space vehicle (co-inventor, with Johnston). The ornamental design for a twin-pod cloud car toy.
- U.S. patent D265754 — Toy figure (co-inventor, with McQuarrie, Johnston, Freeborn). The ornamental design for a Yoda toy figure.
- U.S. patent D266685 — Toy figure (co-inventor, with Freeborn and McQuarrie). The ornamental design for a Greedo toy figure.
- U.S. patent D266777 — Toy vehicle (co-inventor, with Johnston). The ornamental design for an AT-AT toy.
- U.S. patent D267025 — Toy space vehicle (co-inventor, with McQuarrie and Johnston). The ornamental design for a snowspeeder toy.
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- Prince, U.S. patent D349127 — Portable electronic keyboard musical instrument. The ornamental design for a portable electronic keyboard musical instrument.
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- Lawrence Welk, U.S. patent D170898 — Ash tray.
- Paul Winchell
- U.S. patent 3,042,086 — Device for filling blood containers.
- U.S. patent 3,063,235 — Warning indicator for interrupted power supply for freezers.
- U.S. patent 3,063,563 — Tandem sifter for flour and other products.
- U.S. patent 3,071,113 — Retractable fountain pen.
- U.S. patent 3,077,177 — Warning indicators for interrupted power supply of freezers.
- U.S. patent 3,079,160 — Guideway selector for multi-track records.
- U.S. patent 3,079,486 — Electrical heater for a container.
- U.S. patent 3,097,366 — Artificial heart.
- U.S. patent 3,110,424 — Pouring expediter for sugar, salt and the like.
- U.S. patent 3,110,501 — Laminated disc pad phonograph records.
- U.S. patent 3,120,192 — Hand pump for transferring liquids.
- U.S. patent 3,128,477 — Non-bulging garter fastener.
- U.S. patent 3,129,001 — Inverted novelty mask.
- U.S. patent 3,133,140 — Lens cover.
- U.S. patent 3,809,463 — Animation cells [sic] and technique.
- U.S. patent D216371 — Jewelry pendant or similar article. A design combining the Star of David with the Christian cross.
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