Patents by Inventor Shirley I. Schnettler

Shirley I. Schnettler has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Educational aid and method of using same
    Patent number: 4437837
    Abstract: An educational method uses an ordered group of instructional elements having a series of sentence indicia thereon. A first sentence indicia includes first alphabetic indicia representing a first single high-frequency word to be learned and at least a first rebus indicia representing a word equivalent cooperating with the high-frequency word to help form a first sentence. The first sentence facilitates the decoding of the first alphabetic indicia. A second sentence indicia includes second alphabetic indicia representing the single high-frequency word to be learned, and at least a second rebus indicia representing a word equivalent cooperating with the high-frequency word to help form a second sentence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 20, 1984
    Inventors: Shirley I. Schnettler, Elinor Gilloon