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As an inventor holding over 100 U.S. patents – including the Super Soaker water gun, Nerf dart guns, clean energy technologies and many more – I know firsthand the vital role that patents play in ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Picture this: It's summer 1998, and it's the dog days of summer. You and your friends are tired of watching TV, so you decide to ...

Lonnie Johnson, 67, invented one of the most successful toys of all time, the Super Soaker water gun. Introduced in 1990, it has racked up retail sales of more than $1 billion. He developed the toy ...

The patent would evolve in further filings into a "pinch trigger hand pump water gun with nondetachable tank." Every kid knows it today as the Super Soaker. It marked a quantum leap forward in water ...

A NASA engineer testing a homemade heat pump in his bathroom stumbled onto an invention worth a billion dollars in retail ...

Last year, Mark Rober introduced us to the world's largest Nerf gun to provide a leg up in those Nerf battles against friends. This year, he brought us yet another enormous classic toy gun. Mark, ...