"Invent Help" Invention Newsletter - November 2009

InventHelp Client Makes a Splash with Pool Invention

One hot, summer day, while watching kids play dive games in her backyard pool, Merry Jane Kusz, an InventHelp client, found her inventive spirit take hold. After much thought, she decided on the features of a dive game that would provide kids hours of fun. Later, her invention was licensed by Swimways Corporation, and the Submergency™ was born!

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New Inventions to Pamper Your Pet

There are more pets in the United States than there are people, and Americans spend $41 billion on our four-legged companions. According to a Businessweek article titled "The Pet Economy," the money spent on our pets is more than the total of the gross domestic product of "all but 64 countries in the world." For our fellow technology and pet lovers out there, here's the latest in pet gadgetry from your two-legged friends at InventHelp!

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How did one resourceful inventor find use for 270 tons of leftover Thanksgiving turkey?

Gerald Thomas, an executive with the C.A. Swanson & Sons company, was presented with a challenge. Swanson had 10 refrigerated railroad cars, each holding more than 500,000 pounds of unsold turkey, traveling back and forth across the country because warehouse storage space was scarce. Thomas, inspired by the trays used for airline foods, had a revolutionary invention idea. In 1954, the first TV dinner, featuring turkey, corn bread dressing and gravy, buttered peas and sweet potatoes, was created. Coasting off the growing public fascination with television, Swanson sold an estimated 10 million dinners at a price of 98 cents each.

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