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Jerome Lemelson's Patents

Original Patent #2,818,678 - Drawing for Lemelson Crying Baby Doll 1954

With more than six hundred patents to his name and others still pending, Jerome Lemelson was one of the most prolific American inventors of all time. Lemelson's patents span a broad range of innovations including bar code readers, machine eye vision, and toys like the crying baby doll. Additionally Lemelson's patents made their way into many products we take for granted in every day life like computer hard drives, fax machines, Bank ATM Machines the tape mechanisms found in Sony® Walkmans®. The Lemelson Center web site offers a complete list of Jerry's patents.

Crying Baby Drawing: Patent #2,818,678

Early in Jerome Lemelson's career as an independent inventor, he filed and received a handful of patents on ideas he had for toys. One of them was an invention for a crying baby doll, pictured at right.