Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6929133 | Display system and methods A retail display system and related methods. A plastic strut is unitarily-formed with and depends from a header. The strut has a vertical array of engagement features. A plurality of product-holding elements are each engaged to an associated feature of the engagemen... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6883671 | Merchandise shipping and display system A system and method for shipping and displaying merchandise items includes a shipping display container having a front, back, and two side walls, a bottom, and dividers between the front and back walls for aligning merchandise items in rows. The container includes n... | 04/26/2005 |
| 5513745 | Shipment and display fixture for greeting cards A shipping and display fixture suitable for greeting cards and other similar flat merchandise, which not only holds the greeting cards during shipment, but can be readily converted from a shipping container to a visually pleasing and functional display fi... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5493491 | Method of ordering, shipping and merchandizing goods and shipping/display assembly therefor Goods which come in different sizes, shapes, numbers, etc. are packed in assemblies which comprise a tray and a plurality of open-top box-like modules which sit snugly side-by-side in the tray. Each module is prepacked and contains only one size, shape et... | 02/20/1996 |
| 5372273 | Inclinable compartmented storage container An inclinable compartmented storage container including a flat, generally trapezoidally-shaped bottom portion having two parallel peripheral edges of non-equal length, and two non-parallel peripheral edges of equal length. The parallel edges are relativel... | 12/13/1994 |
