Welcome to our Gallery Celebrating American Ingenuity

Our Gallery of Patented Items pays tribute to the Americans that invented and persevered through the process of acquiring a US Patent for their Inventions. These are inventors you may never had heard of, but may in fact, may have made tasks you do around the home, office & shop easier, safer, and faster.

A US Utility Patent essentially grants a monopoly to an inventor to manufacture and sell their Invented Items without competition for 17 years. That, in addition to the personal pride is the incentive that drives an Inventor to persevere through the years of time and monetary expenditures that the Inventors in this Gallery achieved.

The Items on display in the Gallery are a random selection of Patented Items I have collected and researched over the years.

If you have Patented Items, we would be pleased to accept your donation and do the research and framing of your contribution and attribute same to you.

"About the US Patent System"

The United States came into being as a nation during the industrial revolution. The founding fathers, in recognition of the importance of technology and industrialization to the young country, provided for the possibility of a patent system in our Constitution. The first patent law was adopted by Congress shortly thereafter in 1790.

Thomas Jefferson, who was instrumental in administering the patent law, sought a change in 1793 which defined that which was patentable as being "any new and useful art, machine,manufacture or composition of matter and any new and useful improvement on any art,machine, manufacture or composition of matter." That definition of invention can still be found in our latest patent statute in only slightly modified form.

Today the United States Patent and Trademark Office grants over 180,000 patents a year and the United States is the most economically and technologically advanced nation in the world. The patent system established by the nation's founding fathers has served the nation well.

Allan Diamanti

Engines of Ingenuity

al@smarthomeusa.com

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