Mommy Biz: Pacimals
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Monica Williams, a medical doctor, can now add to her accomplishments a pending patent for an invention called Pacimals — stuffed animals with built-in pacifiers.
Her invention came about less than two years ago, when her then-2-month-old daughter, Mackenzie Smith, gave her an idea.
Monica had first noticed in the hospital that nurses would tape a pacifier to a small thin blanket that sat on babies’ chests in the nursery.
Monica tried sewing a pacifier onto plush toys, and Mackenzie decided she liked it.
“It anatomically laid on the chest well,” she said.
The idea has become Pacimals.
The process proved long, but eventually, Monica wrote her own provisional, which is a placeholder document filed with the U.S. Patent Office before an actual patent is published.
She researched similar inventions to make sure her idea was unique.
“I wrote my patent based on what I read and saw,” she said.
Over the next year, she did work in project […]
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