Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20080016140 | Binary Coded Decimal Addition The binary coded decimal (BCD) adder circuit adds two BCD encoded operands, with an input carry bit, and produces a BCD encoded sum. The adder has three stages. The first stage receives two BCD encoded operands as inputs, groups the inputs into contiguous blocks of 4-bi... | 01/17/2008 |