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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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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8186680 | Stacking discs removal game A strategy dice game that incorporates a game platform that includes four color-coded pegs inserted into holes formed on the platform with an equal same number of twenty matching color discs placed thereon. The game also includes at least one numbered die and three ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 6511067 | Row-forming marble board game A row-forming marble board game for entertainment and for being the first player to line up one's marbles in a particular row. The row-forming marble board game includes a board member having a top side and a grid being disposed upon the top side and divi... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6155566 | Board game and method of play therefor A board game for two players, including the apparatus and method of play, is described. The playing board is comprised of two substantially identical playing areas. Play comprises picking up playing pieces from one playing area and distributing them onto ... | 12/05/2000 |
| 5816573 | Give and take card game A new Give and Take Card Game for offering an entertaining and exciting game wherein players attempt to accumulate a winning number of tokens. The inventive device includes a plurality of playing pieces, a plurality of tokens, and a plurality of playing c... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5490669 | Laminated ball bat A laminated ball bat is provided having a handle end and a barrel end. The laminated ball bat includes first and second laminae cut from an elongate wood block. The elongate wood block has first and second spaced ends with the ends spaced lengthwise of th... | 02/13/1996 |
| 5088733 | Baseball bat with oval handle A baseball bat is provided with an oval handle to better fit the players grip and reduce breakage. Orientation of the grain relative to the major dimension of the oval permits compensation for rollover and rollunder swings.... | 02/18/1992 |
| 4640513 | Super memory educational game of skill and chance A super memory educational game of skill and chance is provided and consists of a board game for ages eight years old thru adult ages and is played in seven basic ways. Players take turns trying to spell, pronounce and define words correctly, remember num... | 02/03/1987 |
| 4200298 | Game board and game pieces useable therewith A game board comprises a plurality of adjacent irregularly shaped playing areas, each area having sides in common with at least three other areas. Each of two players, in alternate turns, places chips into areas which are unoccupied and which do not have ... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4018446 | Board game A board game consisting of a planar bottom base having upwardly extending sidewalls and end walls. A plurality of strip members extend upwardly from a top surface of the bottom base and communicate between the end walls and are evenly spaced between the s... | 04/19/1977 |
