LeapFrog

LeapFrog LeapPad

The number one toy in the United States, U.K., and Australia for years running, the LeapPad has helped over 100 million kids learn to read. In 2005, the LeapPad was in over 77% of American households with children between the ages of four and seven.

"Jim Marggraff has helped make learning easier for millions of children. Armed with MIT bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering and computer science, Marggraff tackled geography education in the 1990s with a talking globe that pronounced the names of countries when the student tapped them. The business was acquired by LeapFrog Enterprises Inc., where Marggraff developed the popular LeapPad, which could read text from specially printed books, helping children learn to read."

2015

MIT 150

Landmark patents

US 9520069

Method and system for providing content for learning appliances over an electronic communication medium

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Method and system for invoking computer functionality by interaction with dynamically generated interface regions of a writing surface

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Method and device for audibly instructing a user to interact with a function

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Method and system for implementing a user interface for a device employing written graphical elements

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Decoupled applications for printed materials

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Print media information systems and methods

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Interactive apparatus with recording and playback capability usable with encoded writing medium

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Print media information systems and methods

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Write on interactive apparatus and method

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Interactive apparatus using print media

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Interactive learning appliance

US 6750978 B1

Print Media Information System With A Portable Print Media Receiving Unit Assembly

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Print media receiving unit including platform and print media