Oh, those “inventive” folks over at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office! To capture the imaginations of young inventors (and future patent holders), the office has created its inaugural series of USPTO Trading Cards. The cards feature caricatures, bios and the inventions of nine notable inventors.
There is Luther Burbank, who developed the Burbank potato, and George Washington Carver, who invented a crop-rotation method and 325 different uses for extra peanuts, from cooking oil to printer’s ink.
