17 Historic Patents That Made Winter Olympic Sports Possible — gizmodo.com

You might not expect the United States Patent and Trademark Office to be as excited about the Winter Olympics as it is. But this month, office is releasing historic patents that reveal how winter sports emerged. So, who invented the snowboard? The USPTO's Winter Games Intellectual Protection madness will continue until the Olympics end later this month. But in the meantime, I went digging through its archives for other patents involving winter sports—and begged the USPTO's Paul Fucito to send us a few more.

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