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stoney

Part of the unwashed, middle-American horde
Jul 26, 2006
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True story (not related whatsoever): My grandfather designed and drafted the first VTOL planes for McDonnell Douglas.
True story: My Dad and his team (3 total, he was mgr) designed the first constellation of GPS satellites to go into orbit.

True story 2: For my Dad's senior thesis, he took a series of LED bulbs (circa 1975) and put them into a 10x100 matrix. He then wrote code so that he could enter text and have the text scroll across. He saw tem for sale about a year later and pulled the patent. It was under his thesis Professor's name.



tl;dr - My Dad invented the scrolling LED light board and his professor stole the idea, patented it, and sold a ton of them.