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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100120003 | Holistic Approach to Learning to Type The present invention is directed to a method of teaching typing wherein the student associates the keys on the keyboard with a person, place, thing or emotion and is able to more readily learn the position of each key. Further, the method of the present invention provi... | 05/13/2010 |
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| 20060257831 | Typing game apparatus The invention relates to a typing game apparatus on which is executed a typing game in which a character string displayed on a display is input, and more particularly to a typing game apparatus on which even a typing game beginner can fully enjoy the typing game. On a t... | 11/16/2006 |
| 20060204941 | Typing-game machine and database system A typing-game machine has a storage unit for storing a set of a video data item and a song data item for each song, a music playing unit for playing a song based on a song data item, a first image display unit for sequentially displaying a character string which is a pa... | 09/14/2006 |
| 20060199156 | Typing game apparatus If the portion of the lyrics of a song which is being reproduced is not the first verse and when the evaluation related to typing is in an unfavorable state, screen division is performed, and the display state of the image of a PV which is being displayed on a second li... | 09/07/2006 |
| 20060188856 | Typing game machine There is provided a typing game machine which may increase a player's desire to play a game and an advertisement effect by displaying character arrays in various display manners, the character array being referred to as a determination reference for the true/false deter... | 08/24/2006 |
| 20060188855 | Gaming system and typing game apparatus To provide a typing game apparatus which can attract public interest in the typing game apparatus and which enables the display of a commercial advertisement and can thus increase spectator's willingness to buy a commercial product related to the commercial advertisemen... | 08/24/2006 |
| 20060183093 | Typing-game machine and game system A typing-game machine has a display unit for displaying a character string, a sound output unit for outputting a sound, an input unit having keys respectively associated with characters, a judgment unit, a game control unit, and a presentation-effect limitation unit. Th... | 08/17/2006 |
| 20060183092 | Typing game machine There is provided a typing game machine which may change a display mode of a predetermined character array to be displayed. For example, the predetermined character array is partially or totally non-displayed upon satisfaction of a predetermined condition such that the ... | 08/17/2006 |
| 20060147883 | Method for teaching typing The present invention is directed to a method of teaching typing wherein the student associates the keys on the keyboard with a person, place, thing or emotion and is able to more readily learn the position of each key. Further, the method of the present invention provi... | 07/06/2006 |
| 20060029914 | Keyboarding glove and method to teach keyboarding skills A device for and a method of teaching keyboarding skills, called a KEYBOARD RIGHT GLOVE AND METHOD are disclosed that relate to the field of educational and teaching devices and methods. More particularly the disclosure relates to a glove-like device used with other vis... | 02/09/2006 |
