Comments on: Jerry Lewis and the elusive Video Assist patent

The entertainer is widely credited with a patent on Video Assist, a technology widely used in motion-picture production. But does such a patent actually exist?

[ewelch]

I'm sure the patent will show up in time. Professor Frink always come through in the end with just the right Flavin...

[hawkeyeaz1]

Perhaps it was started as a joke, since Jerry Lewis does like to make harmless jokes?

[videomurph]

I suspect that because Jerry Lewis only mounted a video camera next to the lens of the film camera and approxmated the lens settings of the film camera lens, that the idea was not patentable. He didn't ask the video camera to do anything it wasn't already designed to do and no patent was ever issued.

[Peter N. Glaskowsky]

Oh, that would be patentable, I assure you, at least by whomever was actually first to do it. It's a specific combination of elements that achieves a new purpose. Most patents follow that model.

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[Morrisdog]

Wonder if these might be along the same line.
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No mention of Jerry though.

[Peter N. Glaskowsky]

Hey, thanks! Those are excellent. I don't know why they didn't come up in my searches, though. I'm preparing a followup post on this subject; I'll be sure to mention these. Thanks again.